Friday, 4 June 2010
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Globalisation-Nero
Nowadays, globalisation has changed our world hugely. Plenty of effects have been caused by globalization. These effects bring many benefits and costs. Therefore, people frequently ask that globalisation is good or bad. Most of them think globalisation has more advantages while the others argue that globalisation has caused many negative effects. This essay will attempt to discuss both the positive and negative effects of globalisation on the world today.
Convincing argument can show that globalisation has many positive influences. Firstly, it allows a vast number of information to be shared between individuals and corporations around the world. People can get plenty of information which come form different countries and regions through TV , internet and the others. Secondly, people that come from different countries could communicate with each other quite easily. For instance, a Chinese people can talk with a British people by using telephone, by using e-mail, by using MSN or Facebook. It IS quite convenient. Lastly, free trade between nations are increasing. People can buy different goods which they cannot get it in their own countries.
Given several positive effects, we should also consider negative aspect. Globalisation caused some negative effects as well. First of all, The greater risk of diseases were transported unintentionally between different countries. Some diseases exploded rapidly, they harmed local people seriously. Furthermore, globalisation has caused the disappearances of some local culture and traditional food. For example, in some regions, young people like eating KFC or Mcdonalds instead of their traditional food. Lastly, increasing global trade could caused more competition. Some countries have to protect their own products and own workers (Buckley, 1998).
In conclusion, globalisation has caused lots of effects in our world. Some of them are good effects, we can get many benefits from it, and some of them are negetive effects,we should understand them correctly. The government should give some new policies to solve these problem.
Reference: Buckley, r. (ed. ) ,’The Global Village: Challenges for a Shrinking Planet’ Understanding Global Issues, July 1998.
Analysis on Globalization---Sophie
Topic:
Discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization on the world today.
The phenomenon of Globalization has now been in the limelight. Definitely, globalization is the procedure of uniting diverse races or regions via the forms of economic, cultural, political and technological communication throughout the world.(Jagdish.B 2004 ) As a matter of fact, such trend of universal integration, to the certain degree, could be measured as a double-edged sword with advantageous and disadvantageous influences on mankind at large. In this essay, it is vital to take two elements into account as well as identify each of them due weight.
At the first glance, there are abundant benefits discerned out which is supposedly the great advances for global village by virtue of economic cooperation, cultural communication and authorities collaboration. Initially, in terms of merchandise globalization, the last decades have witness all sorts of goods and services within business which were dramatically international trading.(Buckley,R,1998) Furthermore, with the rapid advancement of industrialization and civilization, it is just diversified peoples even though the Australian Aborigines that presumably recognize the Great Wall of China and the fantastic custom by amazing computers or televisions.(Buckley,R,1998) Finally, owing to the establishment of international organizations particularly the United Nation organization and European Union et al, environmental containment or financial turmoil can be from some extend tackled efficiently.(Buckley,R,1998)
Nevertheless, globalization, more often than not, transcends the chain of domino effects oppositely. Firstly, due to the closing cooperation of multinational business, obviously, the circumstances of deteriorating economic competition probably exit, taking anti-dumping action of Chinese irons in the United States for instance. In that sense, the more affluent countries become, the poorer some undeveloped regions are.(Buckley,R,1998) Secondly, those who have assimilated into the same value or culture giving rise to the decadence of local unique quality or characteristic. Thirdly, globalization, politically, it is the intangible tool for powerful countries' authorities to control the sovereign nations or economic benefits, so to speak, it is conceivable that the global scale will cast light into the unbalanced side.
In the final analysis, I believe the veracity is far more complicated in the statement, mainly, than what is depicted. Therefore, we should adopt the dialectical methodology to view both effects on globalization.
References:
1.Buckley,R.(ed.), 'The Global Village: Challenges for a Shrinking Planet ' Understanding Global Issues( July 1998) Reading&Writing source book, Garnet education
2.Bhagwati, Jagdish (2004). In Defense of Globalization. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization on the world today.
The phenomenon of Globalization has now been in the limelight. Definitely, globalization is the procedure of uniting diverse races or regions via the forms of economic, cultural, political and technological communication throughout the world.(Jagdish.B 2004 ) As a matter of fact, such trend of universal integration, to the certain degree, could be measured as a double-edged sword with advantageous and disadvantageous influences on mankind at large. In this essay, it is vital to take two elements into account as well as identify each of them due weight.
At the first glance, there are abundant benefits discerned out which is supposedly the great advances for global village by virtue of economic cooperation, cultural communication and authorities collaboration. Initially, in terms of merchandise globalization, the last decades have witness all sorts of goods and services within business which were dramatically international trading.(Buckley,R,1998) Furthermore, with the rapid advancement of industrialization and civilization, it is just diversified peoples even though the Australian Aborigines that presumably recognize the Great Wall of China and the fantastic custom by amazing computers or televisions.(Buckley,R,1998) Finally, owing to the establishment of international organizations particularly the United Nation organization and European Union et al, environmental containment or financial turmoil can be from some extend tackled efficiently.(Buckley,R,1998)
Nevertheless, globalization, more often than not, transcends the chain of domino effects oppositely. Firstly, due to the closing cooperation of multinational business, obviously, the circumstances of deteriorating economic competition probably exit, taking anti-dumping action of Chinese irons in the United States for instance. In that sense, the more affluent countries become, the poorer some undeveloped regions are.(Buckley,R,1998) Secondly, those who have assimilated into the same value or culture giving rise to the decadence of local unique quality or characteristic. Thirdly, globalization, politically, it is the intangible tool for powerful countries' authorities to control the sovereign nations or economic benefits, so to speak, it is conceivable that the global scale will cast light into the unbalanced side.
In the final analysis, I believe the veracity is far more complicated in the statement, mainly, than what is depicted. Therefore, we should adopt the dialectical methodology to view both effects on globalization.
References:
1.Buckley,R.(ed.), 'The Global Village: Challenges for a Shrinking Planet ' Understanding Global Issues( July 1998) Reading&Writing source book, Garnet education
2.Bhagwati, Jagdish (2004). In Defense of Globalization. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Books needed for Fri 4th June
Please bring your Reading Course book and Source book to class on Friday.
Reminder: your essays are due on Friday too. Please post them on the blog by then. Good luck!
See you then.
Hannah
Reminder: your essays are due on Friday too. Please post them on the blog by then. Good luck!
See you then.
Hannah
Monday, 31 May 2010
Lucas 's whole essay
Topic: City life or rural life，which is better?
City life and rural life are distinguished by the area where people live in. Nowadays, as we know, life style choice relates to people’s destiny for whole life. More and more choose come back to village to continue their lives, but there are still a lot of people live in cities .So which life style is better, city life or rural life? This essay will divide four parts: introduction, reasons why city life is popular, negatives of city life, reasons why choose rural is better and conclusion .In the body of essay, I compare and discuss the advantage and disadvantage between city life and rural life, which including education, economic, medical and social problem. At last, in conclusion I will give some suggestion for people and government.
1. Why city life is popular
As we can see from the 2001 census about population distribution in North Ireland (Chart 1), there are more than 7000,000 people live in urban area but there is only less than 50,000 people live in rural. The serious non-regular population distribution show us the serious problem, why people choose life in cities but not in rural. City life has following obviously positives.
(1) City life can enjoy various entertainments
There are so many entertainment progresses in the city, like cinema, pub and bar. Citizens can have a good leisure time if they wanted to make relax or make friends. You can get a beer in the pub with your friends and the music company you.
(2) Live in city can get good education facilities
People who live in the cities can get a better education when they were young, because there have better schools in the town than in the rural. As we know, early education is very important for children. Some research shows that most of good student has already formed their way of thinking in primary schools. So good books and good teachers make good education facilities in urban.
(3)Information service in city is very comprehensive and immediate
Cities are also the financial center of the country. Most of newest business information usually starts from the city. So people can get the newest information immediately if they live in the city, and then maybe start their business with that important information, so there are more opportunities to progress.
(4)City life share advanced medical service
When a person gets disease, citizens can go to the government or private hospitals in the city to get best treatment. Because a lot of advanced medical equipment concentrate in urban hospitals
2. City life face to serious problems now
Although live in city have so many benefits, but the huge influx of population lead the city are not comfortable again. Because of traffic jam, crimes and environment pollution become more and more serious problems in cities.
(1) Citizen suffer traffic jam everyday
The statistics (reference 1) show us there are more than 32,001,477 cars drive on England road, and more than two thirds cars drive on city’s road. So you can imagine how busy the road is. Particularly London, drivers may cost two or more hours a day on waiting in the traffic jams. Do we want to continue waste our lives on those busy roads? Obviously is not.
(2)Lack of trust between citizens
Years ago in America, it was customary for families to leave their doors unlocked, day and night. In urban civilization, however, nowadays people can no longer trust each other and have to resort to elaborate security systems to protect themselves and their possessions. What’s more, statistics (chart 2) show that crime rate in urban areas is now rising faster and faster in the cities in the UK. The murder crime rate in Nottingham reaches 115 in 100,000 people, which mean every 1000 people have one murder. It is very dangerous percentage. No longer is it safe anywhere to go out leaving the door on the latch (there is nowhere to be left on the latch). We all feel vulnerable and seek to strengthen the barriers. We use to hold criminals at bay. These can range from old fashion bolts and bars to the latest electronic devices. A moment’s reflection, however, is enough to bring us face to face with the following puzzle: we may have locked the evils out. But in doing so, we have locked ourselves in. This hardly seems a civilized way of life.
(3)Serious environment pollution influence citizens
Because of the fast development of modern industry, more and more environment pollution is occurring to coming out in cities. Citizens have to face to noise, smoke, garbage and dioxide gases from industry factories. The air is not clean enough for people, especially in the downtown areas. The majority of citizens are tired of overcrowded conditions and bad environments. So it is very difficult to keep a healthy life in the city.
3. Why encourage people transfer from city to life
(1). Life is very simple in rural
Live in the rural can keep away from the stressful and blatant. People can get very simple life and live less competition with each other. They usually reach a good position and they have more sincere friends in the community since it is small. What is more, rural life provides you more free time to do what your interest and achieve people’s dream. This is very important for meaning of life, which better than money and vanity.
City life and rural life are distinguished by the area where people live in. Nowadays, as we know, life style choice relates to people’s destiny for whole life. More and more choose come back to village to continue their lives, but there are still a lot of people live in cities .So which life style is better, city life or rural life? This essay will divide four parts: introduction, reasons why city life is popular, negatives of city life, reasons why choose rural is better and conclusion .In the body of essay, I compare and discuss the advantage and disadvantage between city life and rural life, which including education, economic, medical and social problem. At last, in conclusion I will give some suggestion for people and government.
1. Why city life is popular
As we can see from the 2001 census about population distribution in North Ireland (Chart 1), there are more than 7000,000 people live in urban area but there is only less than 50,000 people live in rural. The serious non-regular population distribution show us the serious problem, why people choose life in cities but not in rural. City life has following obviously positives.
(1) City life can enjoy various entertainments
There are so many entertainment progresses in the city, like cinema, pub and bar. Citizens can have a good leisure time if they wanted to make relax or make friends. You can get a beer in the pub with your friends and the music company you.
(2) Live in city can get good education facilities
People who live in the cities can get a better education when they were young, because there have better schools in the town than in the rural. As we know, early education is very important for children. Some research shows that most of good student has already formed their way of thinking in primary schools. So good books and good teachers make good education facilities in urban.
(3)Information service in city is very comprehensive and immediate
Cities are also the financial center of the country. Most of newest business information usually starts from the city. So people can get the newest information immediately if they live in the city, and then maybe start their business with that important information, so there are more opportunities to progress.
(4)City life share advanced medical service
When a person gets disease, citizens can go to the government or private hospitals in the city to get best treatment. Because a lot of advanced medical equipment concentrate in urban hospitals
2. City life face to serious problems now
Although live in city have so many benefits, but the huge influx of population lead the city are not comfortable again. Because of traffic jam, crimes and environment pollution become more and more serious problems in cities.
(1) Citizen suffer traffic jam everyday
The statistics (reference 1) show us there are more than 32,001,477 cars drive on England road, and more than two thirds cars drive on city’s road. So you can imagine how busy the road is. Particularly London, drivers may cost two or more hours a day on waiting in the traffic jams. Do we want to continue waste our lives on those busy roads? Obviously is not.
(2)Lack of trust between citizens
Years ago in America, it was customary for families to leave their doors unlocked, day and night. In urban civilization, however, nowadays people can no longer trust each other and have to resort to elaborate security systems to protect themselves and their possessions. What’s more, statistics (chart 2) show that crime rate in urban areas is now rising faster and faster in the cities in the UK. The murder crime rate in Nottingham reaches 115 in 100,000 people, which mean every 1000 people have one murder. It is very dangerous percentage. No longer is it safe anywhere to go out leaving the door on the latch (there is nowhere to be left on the latch). We all feel vulnerable and seek to strengthen the barriers. We use to hold criminals at bay. These can range from old fashion bolts and bars to the latest electronic devices. A moment’s reflection, however, is enough to bring us face to face with the following puzzle: we may have locked the evils out. But in doing so, we have locked ourselves in. This hardly seems a civilized way of life.
(3)Serious environment pollution influence citizens
Because of the fast development of modern industry, more and more environment pollution is occurring to coming out in cities. Citizens have to face to noise, smoke, garbage and dioxide gases from industry factories. The air is not clean enough for people, especially in the downtown areas. The majority of citizens are tired of overcrowded conditions and bad environments. So it is very difficult to keep a healthy life in the city.
3. Why encourage people transfer from city to life
(1). Life is very simple in rural
Live in the rural can keep away from the stressful and blatant. People can get very simple life and live less competition with each other. They usually reach a good position and they have more sincere friends in the community since it is small. What is more, rural life provides you more free time to do what your interest and achieve people’s dream. This is very important for meaning of life, which better than money and vanity.
(2). Green environment brings healthy and happiness
Because of no human pollution, it is very beautiful and healthy in the rural. The natural environment has clean air and pure water. All people’s food and fruits are planted by themselves, so rural people can be away from chemistry pollution in food. What is more, you just only along with your lovely family, green plants and wild animals, which make your feel more happiness to enjoy your life in the village.
4. Conclusion
Although the life in the city is more comfortable than village, but the worse negatives in the city make urban life seems to not as good as before. More and more people are willing to live in the rural, which is the worldwide trend, including in UK, USA and China. But I still want to give my suggestions for government to focus on improving the serious problems in the city life and encourage more and more people change their life-style choose from urban to rural.
Chart 1
Resource: http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/urban_rural_reports
Chart 2
Resource: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5006852.stm
Reference
1. http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transstats/documents/page/dft_transstats_031690.pdf),
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5006852.stm
3. http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/429/1/115
4. http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zyR_Ui_YesoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=negative+of+urban+life&ots=VJXfR8G7A6&sig=Ve034kOiTYT37I9TGupmJcmaIu0#v=onepage&q=negative%20of%20urban%20life&f=true
5. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783763040&db=all
6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1048393
7. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783763040&db=all
8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/629471.stm
9. http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/content/83/2/352.abstract
10. http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/urban_rural_reports
Because of no human pollution, it is very beautiful and healthy in the rural. The natural environment has clean air and pure water. All people’s food and fruits are planted by themselves, so rural people can be away from chemistry pollution in food. What is more, you just only along with your lovely family, green plants and wild animals, which make your feel more happiness to enjoy your life in the village.
4. Conclusion
Although the life in the city is more comfortable than village, but the worse negatives in the city make urban life seems to not as good as before. More and more people are willing to live in the rural, which is the worldwide trend, including in UK, USA and China. But I still want to give my suggestions for government to focus on improving the serious problems in the city life and encourage more and more people change their life-style choose from urban to rural.
Chart 1
Resource: http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/urban_rural_reports
Chart 2
Resource: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5006852.stm
Reference
1. http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transstats/documents/page/dft_transstats_031690.pdf),
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5006852.stm
3. http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/429/1/115
4. http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zyR_Ui_YesoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=negative+of+urban+life&ots=VJXfR8G7A6&sig=Ve034kOiTYT37I9TGupmJcmaIu0#v=onepage&q=negative%20of%20urban%20life&f=true
5. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783763040&db=all
6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1048393
7. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783763040&db=all
8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/629471.stm
9. http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/content/83/2/352.abstract
10. http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/urban_rural_reports
Nick's full essay
Topic: Should a penalty for juvenile offenders be reduced?
Introduction
In recent years, the juvenile crime has become a social problem. The number of juvenile delinquency keeps increasing rapidly. In all the crimes of personnel, juvenile delinquency occupied the highest proportion. Especially, comparing with the past, there are some changes which contain the crime types, properties and damage degree. Obviously, this kind of phenomenon is very serious. In most of countries, the penalty for juvenile offenders should be reduced by law. The juvenile before age 18 is experiencing an important stage of physiological and psychological development. These juvenile offenders are allowed to get less punishment than adults. It leads to less scruple while crime. In fact, it is the main reason for the result. Therefore, it is a really serious issue considered how to balance the penalty for juvenile crime. In my essay I am going to talk about the point with agreement and disagreement of reducing a penalty for juvenile crime. And due to the impact of society about juvenile crime, I will support that the penalty for juvenile crime should be reduced.
The reason to support
Most of juvenile offenders are 14 to 18 years old. As juvenile is experiencing a stage of physiological and psychological development, it is not easy to distinguish what is good or bad for them. They have no enough independent ability to live in a society. In this stage, education acts an important role in juvenile’s life. And, it is mainly provided by family and school. When a juvenile commits a crime, his family and school have essential responsibilities. Maybe due to their negligence, an unpredicted crime will happen. For example, when a little boy was beaten by his classmates, they came back home and told his parents what happened. A dangerous result is that his parents may instigate him make reprisals with more violent methods. As lack of the basic judgment ability, and the trust for parents, it is hard to think about what will happen next. If the retaliation breaks the law, that is who will be responsible for this crime, a little boy? The answer is absolutely not. Because of the wrong way to educate, parents have more responsibility for it. Furthermore, in today’s society some phenomenon which is more serious than this example can be seen everywhere. For instance, school only focus on improving younger students’ knowledge level, but forget to concern about their psychological health. In fact, during this stage, school must be responsible for their psychological education. Therefore, if education is not enough for juvenile by family, school or society, it will cause that some juvenile who are lack of judgment ability may be close to crime. According to statistics, some juvenile who live in a split family, the crime rate is 4 times than others living in normal family. Obviously, in some case when a juvenile crimes, the environment where he lives also have an important responsibility. So it is really necessary to reduce the penalty of juvenile offenders.
The reason to against
In recent years, juvenile crime has become a serious issue. According a research, the crime rate has increased 60% which involves murder, robbery, rape and other serious offences. Due to lots of horrible affairs by juvenile, government has been asked whether it needs to amend the law for juvenile offenders. The awful situation has a close relation with lenient punishment for them. Furthermore let us consider a question, why the criminal circumstances by juvenile are more and more serious. Except for subjective factors, such as environment, education and personal qualities, the punishment for crime is also important. For an instance, before committing a crime, most of offenders will consider the result which contains their aim and a possible punishment after doing that. If they ignore the final punishment, they may decide to commit crime. So it is really necessary to aggravate penalty in order to warn every person at any time. Furthermore, keep the penalty as the same as adult is helpful to improve the present education. Family, school and society will pay more attention on this. The possibility of juvenile delinquency will decline. so the penalty for juvenile offenders could not be reduced.
Conclusion
To sum up, there are some benefits and disadvantages of reducing the penalty for juvenile offenders. In a short view, juvenile offenders should be responsible for their crime, especial for those with a serious circumstance. Severe punishment could remind people not to do something which are illegal. Sometimes that is efficiency. But as we all know, even if the death penalty exists in lots of countries, the crime rate never go down. Therefore in a long-term view, severe punishment could not change a lot. In my opinion, the penalty for juvenile offenders should be reduced. Using the penalty as the same as adults for juvenile means that their whole life will be impacted seriously. Their future is dark. There is no opportunity to contribute their family or society. In contrast, if the key is to focus on education, punishment just as a supplementary, these juvenile offenders may remorse and reform so that they could do some meaning things. So what the government should do is to balance the penalty and education for juvenile. A suitable punishment rules should be considered from now.
Reference:
http://www.cwla.org/programs/juvenilejustice/juveniledeathpenalty.pdf
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2846263/Child-crime-rate-reaches-crisis.html
http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/FO3020630074/
http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/juvenile-justice/when-minor-commits-crime.html
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/kjpp5&div=14&g_sent=1#137
Introduction
In recent years, the juvenile crime has become a social problem. The number of juvenile delinquency keeps increasing rapidly. In all the crimes of personnel, juvenile delinquency occupied the highest proportion. Especially, comparing with the past, there are some changes which contain the crime types, properties and damage degree. Obviously, this kind of phenomenon is very serious. In most of countries, the penalty for juvenile offenders should be reduced by law. The juvenile before age 18 is experiencing an important stage of physiological and psychological development. These juvenile offenders are allowed to get less punishment than adults. It leads to less scruple while crime. In fact, it is the main reason for the result. Therefore, it is a really serious issue considered how to balance the penalty for juvenile crime. In my essay I am going to talk about the point with agreement and disagreement of reducing a penalty for juvenile crime. And due to the impact of society about juvenile crime, I will support that the penalty for juvenile crime should be reduced.
The reason to support
Most of juvenile offenders are 14 to 18 years old. As juvenile is experiencing a stage of physiological and psychological development, it is not easy to distinguish what is good or bad for them. They have no enough independent ability to live in a society. In this stage, education acts an important role in juvenile’s life. And, it is mainly provided by family and school. When a juvenile commits a crime, his family and school have essential responsibilities. Maybe due to their negligence, an unpredicted crime will happen. For example, when a little boy was beaten by his classmates, they came back home and told his parents what happened. A dangerous result is that his parents may instigate him make reprisals with more violent methods. As lack of the basic judgment ability, and the trust for parents, it is hard to think about what will happen next. If the retaliation breaks the law, that is who will be responsible for this crime, a little boy? The answer is absolutely not. Because of the wrong way to educate, parents have more responsibility for it. Furthermore, in today’s society some phenomenon which is more serious than this example can be seen everywhere. For instance, school only focus on improving younger students’ knowledge level, but forget to concern about their psychological health. In fact, during this stage, school must be responsible for their psychological education. Therefore, if education is not enough for juvenile by family, school or society, it will cause that some juvenile who are lack of judgment ability may be close to crime. According to statistics, some juvenile who live in a split family, the crime rate is 4 times than others living in normal family. Obviously, in some case when a juvenile crimes, the environment where he lives also have an important responsibility. So it is really necessary to reduce the penalty of juvenile offenders.
The reason to against
In recent years, juvenile crime has become a serious issue. According a research, the crime rate has increased 60% which involves murder, robbery, rape and other serious offences. Due to lots of horrible affairs by juvenile, government has been asked whether it needs to amend the law for juvenile offenders. The awful situation has a close relation with lenient punishment for them. Furthermore let us consider a question, why the criminal circumstances by juvenile are more and more serious. Except for subjective factors, such as environment, education and personal qualities, the punishment for crime is also important. For an instance, before committing a crime, most of offenders will consider the result which contains their aim and a possible punishment after doing that. If they ignore the final punishment, they may decide to commit crime. So it is really necessary to aggravate penalty in order to warn every person at any time. Furthermore, keep the penalty as the same as adult is helpful to improve the present education. Family, school and society will pay more attention on this. The possibility of juvenile delinquency will decline. so the penalty for juvenile offenders could not be reduced.
Conclusion
To sum up, there are some benefits and disadvantages of reducing the penalty for juvenile offenders. In a short view, juvenile offenders should be responsible for their crime, especial for those with a serious circumstance. Severe punishment could remind people not to do something which are illegal. Sometimes that is efficiency. But as we all know, even if the death penalty exists in lots of countries, the crime rate never go down. Therefore in a long-term view, severe punishment could not change a lot. In my opinion, the penalty for juvenile offenders should be reduced. Using the penalty as the same as adults for juvenile means that their whole life will be impacted seriously. Their future is dark. There is no opportunity to contribute their family or society. In contrast, if the key is to focus on education, punishment just as a supplementary, these juvenile offenders may remorse and reform so that they could do some meaning things. So what the government should do is to balance the penalty and education for juvenile. A suitable punishment rules should be considered from now.
Reference:
http://www.cwla.org/programs/juvenilejustice/juveniledeathpenalty.pdf
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2846263/Child-crime-rate-reaches-crisis.html
http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/FO3020630074/
http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/juvenile-justice/when-minor-commits-crime.html
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/kjpp5&div=14&g_sent=1#137
FIRST DRAFT ---Sophie
Title: Does the mass media have good or bad effects on the growth of kids ?
As things stand, it is scientific growth that can benefits human beings; meanwhile, it may as well pose a potential threat to mankind, esp, concerning the youngsters' behaviours. Seemingly, there exits a contingent trend that an epidemic of "Television Children"(Maccoby,1951,P422) is under way within teenage population. According to the recent survey in UK, it is detrimental for toddles to sit tight before TV for more than three hours per day. Such babies are more likely to suffer vertigo, dim sight or backache, compared with those who are seldom exposed to TV bombards.(BBC News, May 2010) Notwithstanding, this issue presumably deserves thorough meditation in light of the physical, psycho biological development of young adults. Hence, the key purposes in this essay will unveil into three stages: Initially, equally important is multitudinous merits can be obviously found, mainly shown on diversion, knowledge and family-reunion; while some shortcomings should not yet be ignored, particularly with regards to the crisis of mete rial, mental and social communication. Thirdly, despite all of above, therefore, It is conceivable that the new mass media does have negative influence upon juvenile outweighing the benefits.
Admittedly, the TV box holds abundant benefits from some extend to the growing children as far as the positive functions of diversion, knowledge and family union. It may be, first of all, considered as the most economic "civilian pleasure"(G. T. Gentry, p57,2007), which means the young adults do not need to afford the high expenditures to tickets of the cinema and playhouse, only to find out, in all likelihood, that the programme is disappointing. Surely, with such small screen of moving pictures, these kids can be free to enjoy their amusement or even more. It is the best relief way that all they can do is just press the buttons as well as sitting in the sofa comfortably. Secondly, Television's various programmes are constantly playing the essential role to broaden the horizons and expand the outlooks of adolescence. On the average, the majority of young people regarded the television images as the most useful and interesting tools to gain the universal information or current events rather than the continuous indoctrination with these principles and precepts by teachers' direction. As for the family union, last but not least, some sociologists treasure it very significantly in terms of holding family together. A case in point goes to the American families especially the working-class families are often sit around the tables and enjoyed the funny TV shows since 1990s till now, which can fully manifest the merits of this new emerged technology in the United States. (Williams.M, 2009)
In spite of the above TV benefits of amusement, information and family user-friendly for teenagers, nevertheless, we should attach a lot more importance to profuse drawbacks of health, spirit and social relationship insofar as the physical and psychological aspects of juvenile. As anyone will attest, television goes with the sort of lifestyle which leaves the viewers nothing to spare just killing their precious time, to begin with, long term exposing in front of the twinkling screen, more often than not, do harm to kids' eye sights. Moreover, these "couch potatoes"(The Online Slang Dictionary ) may become TV addicts eventually. According to the recent national health survey in the United States: "The proportion of youth meeting the U.S. objective for TV viewing is less than the target of 75%. Time spent in sedentary behaviors such as viewing TV may contribute to overweight and obesity among U.S. Youth."(Fulton JE and Wang X ET AL, p2, 2009) Additionally, take the peer pressure as well as social communication into account, more centrally, one who keeps him fixed on the moving images all day long is likely to be less sociable between family members and friends. For instance, it seems that some television shows may give rise to false values because these immature kids usually do not acknowledge much about the real world. Finally, by virtue of the spiritual factor, if the younger generations are not so indulge in violent and pornographic pictures that they will rarely acquire the disorders of mentality or even will imitate the actions, more worryingly, embarking on the road of crime downright.
To crown it all, the drawbacks and advantages of the mass media for the juveniles' development, as mentioned above, which can be apparent with a prismatic comparison and contrast of the two opposite effects. By and large, we can not emphasize the importance of parenting and supervising too much via the great efforts of families, schools and authorities. "Yet a growing body of evidence is now causing governments and health authorities elsewhere to do just that, and we need to as well. "(Sigman.A, p1, 2010) Thus, for the sake of the physical and psychological wholesome of adolescence, the top priority is the encouragement of enlightening and high-quality programmes and inspiring kids' creation in a forthcoming era.
References:
1. ELEANOR E. MACCOBY, Television: Its Impact on School Children, 1951, P4222. Dr Aric Sigman, BBC NEWS, 'Long-term harm' of too much TV for toddlers,MondayMay2010,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8654963.stm, Page last updated at23:03 GMT, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:03 UK
3. G. T. Gentry,2007,A Bulletproof Life,p57,Xulon press
4. Melissa Drue Williams, February 2009,“Excuse the Mess, But We Live Here”:Class, Gender, and Identity in the Post-Cold War,Working-Class Family Sitcom
5. Fulton JE, Wang X, Yore MM, Carlson SA, Galuska DA, Caspersen CJ.2009;6 Suppl 1:S28-35.Television viewing, computer use, and BMI among U.S. children and adolescents.J Phys Act Health.Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.PMID: 9998847 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6. The Online Slang Dictionary(American, English and Urban slang)1996-2010 by Walter Rader, http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/couch+potato
As things stand, it is scientific growth that can benefits human beings; meanwhile, it may as well pose a potential threat to mankind, esp, concerning the youngsters' behaviours. Seemingly, there exits a contingent trend that an epidemic of "Television Children"(Maccoby,1951,P422) is under way within teenage population. According to the recent survey in UK, it is detrimental for toddles to sit tight before TV for more than three hours per day. Such babies are more likely to suffer vertigo, dim sight or backache, compared with those who are seldom exposed to TV bombards.(BBC News, May 2010) Notwithstanding, this issue presumably deserves thorough meditation in light of the physical, psycho biological development of young adults. Hence, the key purposes in this essay will unveil into three stages: Initially, equally important is multitudinous merits can be obviously found, mainly shown on diversion, knowledge and family-reunion; while some shortcomings should not yet be ignored, particularly with regards to the crisis of mete rial, mental and social communication. Thirdly, despite all of above, therefore, It is conceivable that the new mass media does have negative influence upon juvenile outweighing the benefits.
Admittedly, the TV box holds abundant benefits from some extend to the growing children as far as the positive functions of diversion, knowledge and family union. It may be, first of all, considered as the most economic "civilian pleasure"(G. T. Gentry, p57,2007), which means the young adults do not need to afford the high expenditures to tickets of the cinema and playhouse, only to find out, in all likelihood, that the programme is disappointing. Surely, with such small screen of moving pictures, these kids can be free to enjoy their amusement or even more. It is the best relief way that all they can do is just press the buttons as well as sitting in the sofa comfortably. Secondly, Television's various programmes are constantly playing the essential role to broaden the horizons and expand the outlooks of adolescence. On the average, the majority of young people regarded the television images as the most useful and interesting tools to gain the universal information or current events rather than the continuous indoctrination with these principles and precepts by teachers' direction. As for the family union, last but not least, some sociologists treasure it very significantly in terms of holding family together. A case in point goes to the American families especially the working-class families are often sit around the tables and enjoyed the funny TV shows since 1990s till now, which can fully manifest the merits of this new emerged technology in the United States. (Williams.M, 2009)
In spite of the above TV benefits of amusement, information and family user-friendly for teenagers, nevertheless, we should attach a lot more importance to profuse drawbacks of health, spirit and social relationship insofar as the physical and psychological aspects of juvenile. As anyone will attest, television goes with the sort of lifestyle which leaves the viewers nothing to spare just killing their precious time, to begin with, long term exposing in front of the twinkling screen, more often than not, do harm to kids' eye sights. Moreover, these "couch potatoes"(The Online Slang Dictionary ) may become TV addicts eventually. According to the recent national health survey in the United States: "The proportion of youth meeting the U.S. objective for TV viewing is less than the target of 75%. Time spent in sedentary behaviors such as viewing TV may contribute to overweight and obesity among U.S. Youth."(Fulton JE and Wang X ET AL, p2, 2009) Additionally, take the peer pressure as well as social communication into account, more centrally, one who keeps him fixed on the moving images all day long is likely to be less sociable between family members and friends. For instance, it seems that some television shows may give rise to false values because these immature kids usually do not acknowledge much about the real world. Finally, by virtue of the spiritual factor, if the younger generations are not so indulge in violent and pornographic pictures that they will rarely acquire the disorders of mentality or even will imitate the actions, more worryingly, embarking on the road of crime downright.
To crown it all, the drawbacks and advantages of the mass media for the juveniles' development, as mentioned above, which can be apparent with a prismatic comparison and contrast of the two opposite effects. By and large, we can not emphasize the importance of parenting and supervising too much via the great efforts of families, schools and authorities. "Yet a growing body of evidence is now causing governments and health authorities elsewhere to do just that, and we need to as well. "(Sigman.A, p1, 2010) Thus, for the sake of the physical and psychological wholesome of adolescence, the top priority is the encouragement of enlightening and high-quality programmes and inspiring kids' creation in a forthcoming era.
References:
1. ELEANOR E. MACCOBY, Television: Its Impact on School Children, 1951, P4222. Dr Aric Sigman, BBC NEWS, 'Long-term harm' of too much TV for toddlers,MondayMay2010,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8654963.stm, Page last updated at23:03 GMT, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:03 UK
3. G. T. Gentry,2007,A Bulletproof Life,p57,Xulon press
4. Melissa Drue Williams, February 2009,“Excuse the Mess, But We Live Here”:Class, Gender, and Identity in the Post-Cold War,Working-Class Family Sitcom
5. Fulton JE, Wang X, Yore MM, Carlson SA, Galuska DA, Caspersen CJ.2009;6 Suppl 1:S28-35.Television viewing, computer use, and BMI among U.S. children and adolescents.J Phys Act Health.Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.PMID: 9998847 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6. The Online Slang Dictionary(American, English and Urban slang)1996-2010 by Walter Rader, http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/couch+potato
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)