Archive for February 6th, 2008
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Feb
NEET
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Feb
north africa
About 2200 years ago, there was very large country “Carthage” in North Africa.
Carthage had the most advanced economy in North Africa and Europe.
Carthage had two main industries, trade and agriculture.
So North Africa was green land.
However, after culture of North Africa declined much of the land desertified.
Now almost of all land of North Africa became desert.
06
Feb
the death penalty
1 The death penalty is the penalty that take convicts’ lives.
2 In Japan, convicts who killed three or more people got the death penalty.
3 It takes about 7 years to execute the death penalty.
4 In some countries, the death penalty is administrated by lethal injection,
some is by hanging ,electric execution, shooting or by stones.
5 There is a lot of discussion about the right and wrong of death penalty system
from human rights organizations.
Source
Wikipedia & はてなダイアリー
The main agreement opinion is useful for control of crimes.
Against the main contrary opinion is no turning back at the false charge.
Death penalty by stones seems to carry out in Islam or Africa nowadays.
The Nation Hazard Maps show the calculations of the level of US ground’s shaking by certain earthquakes in the future.
To make these maps needs geologic information, data of earthquakes in the past, and so on.
New geodetic, faults, or data of earthquakes update the maps.
They are useful for building highway bridges, planning how to develop some areas
The judgment on safety of a building depends on information from these maps.
Source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/hazmaps/haz101/haz101.php
06
Feb
panda’s crisis
IUCN （International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources） researched wild animals facing extinction and edited the “red list”,which identifies endangered animals.
Giant Panda and lesser panda are endangered animals and they are ranked 4th.
So, in 2005, the Chinese government had established about 720 pandas to live in a protected habitat.
However, habitat destruction and poaching poses a threat to the many pandas living outside these areas.
Today, only around 980 pandas are under protection in reserves.
Now, the Chinese government works to increase panda’s population by increasing panda’s habitat and decreasing many threats to pandas.
Sources
http://www.panda.org/index.cfm
http://www.panda-panda.com/gekkan/index.html
06
Feb
space debris
Space Debris
1. Space debris are artificial objects which goes around the earth without any purpose
2. For example, there is the piece of broken rocket or satellite.
3. They are increasing year by year.
4. The contact with space debris is very dangerous, because they move at about 5 kilometers per second.
5. Space debris have become the environmental problem of space.
6. The environmental problem is serious not only on the earth but in space as well.
Source:http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/スペースデブリ
06
Feb
Antarctica
1. Antarctica is the second smallest continent in the world. It includes the South Pole.
2. 98% of the land is covered with ice. The land is gradually sinking for the weight of the vast ice.
3. The climate is severe. Few species can live there, only penguins and seals.
4. But, these days, because of global warming, the environment is changing rapidly.
5. The temperature is rising in Antarctica more than any other part of the world. The ice is melting, and animals are dying because they can’t bear the heat.
Source
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E6%A5%B5%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%B8
http://www.asahi.com/science/update/0526/TKY200705260233.html
http://www.wwf.or.jp/activity/climate/news/2007/20071211.htm
06
Feb
All Priority Seats
“All priority seats” is the concept for more people such as elderly and handicapped passengers; however, Hankyu Railway already did away with it, because of ineffectiveness to give up a seat.
Yokohama Subway still continue it, carried out a customers survey, some opinion is, “I think I don’t need to give up my seat.” or “Sitting is difficult for younger.”
Each people should know the concept, and should improve their consciousness, I think.
http://frisco.livedoor.biz/archives/51158059.html
http://mytown.asahi.com/kanagawa/news.php?k_id=15000000712060005
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/優先席
06
Feb
Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are organized by many corals, which are groups of similar types of very small animals.
Coral reefs live in tropical areas of clean oceans. Because of that we can see them in Okinawa in Japan.
Coral reefs are very beautiful. It is one of the reasons of beauty of the ocean on the earth.
But global warming and pollution of the oceans are threatening coral reefs. Destruction is increasing.
We must stop global warming and pollution of the ocean to save beautiful lives on the earth.
We can reduce the amount of CO2 exhausted by power saving or by decreasing automobile use to control global warming. Let’s start from today!
1. Capital punishment was executed in Japan recently.
2. There are many arguments for and against about this punishment.
3. The abolition group insists that this penalty is infringing on a prisoner’s human right
4. The retainment group claims that it is required as a criminal deterrent.
5. I agree to abolition theory, because people mustn’t be executed by wrong judgment.
6. And in the US research, capital punishment hasn’t enough deterrent effect to all crime.
Yujiro Murata
source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_debate
