18. Do we have a throw-away society?
What does it mean throw-away? It's something new for me and I have a real difficulty to lighting this to topic. Vocabulary gives us explanation about throw-away that when something was used and afterwards was thrown to the dustbin.
Mankind always throw result of its living outside. Because of this we can find out how people live many years ago.
When I was outdoors with my parents they taught me to gather all our lunch remains and dug the hole with the spade and bury it there. Thus we try to show for another hikes, or rather to conceal from them that we was there. But essence of this small story that even at that age I noticed how many things remains after us and how it is not easy to hide them from another people and thereby preserve nature from contamination.
I remember time when we used small, transparent, polyethylene bags for different domestic purpose and wash it after using. They were very strong in comparison with the modern one which is totally disposable and so thin that it is impossible to use it twice. We throw them away after first utilisation. I even don't bother to unbind it up and pounce it severely and without regret. Why I should be, this tiny bag have just fulfilled its role and will be thrown anyway.
Nature of economic is that if it doesn't produce and sell it doesn't develop. On the other hand of producing is consumption. If you don't consume your producing became weak and economic fail. I the previous time when there was another way of relationship was lucrative to produce eternal thing big, gross, heavy and so on. On that technology was weak that was another way why people produced rough and reliable things.
Now-a-day technology have changed all, our production, selling and consumption. Technology developed so quickly that if you produce something ground and expensive after some time it will be no modern and out-of-date even if their appearance would be like brand new. Such technology development to my mind was the cause of that reason why our mankind slowly but with confidence appears throw-away society.
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Saturday 26 May 2012
Thursday 10 May 2012
17. Are test scores a good indication of a school’s competency?
Are test scores a good indication of a school's competency?
Competency is a base of knowledge which pupil take from school programme. Of course we can check pupil or student in a different way. Today is very modern TEST, when on the one question is given four or five version and examinee should choose the correct one amidst them. It is very useful to use such way of test, because it's quit, it's could be computerized, it could be un-personal, where person is covered under the number, it could eliminate corruption and bribery, it's easy to test zillions of student during the same period of time.
My experience of test.
To be honest fate have never given my opportunity to pass the tests like described about. Once at the middle of the ninetieth I prepared for the exam called TOEFL, before this I had been studied English grammar during the year, not regularly and not successfully, to my present point of view. One of my friend who was proficiency in English offered my to pass TOEFL and explained how this test used to be built. It was something new for me because I had just finished university and all of the test and exam I had been passed was student-to-teacher or answer-the-question-on-the-paper.
Exam was only student-to-teacher like procedure. What main inconvenience I remember was waiting for your turn behind the door in the live queue. Because how well you had been preparing for exam you depend on luck, on the mood of teacher and your ability to cope with stress. We came into the class one by one and take ticket from the table from the hundred or so tickets. More over we knew contents of every ticket beforehand. In every ticket used to be two theoretical question and one practical, as I studied on the physics-mathematical area practical task was to resolve some problem, put it on the paper and explained teacher afterwards. We had some time for preparation. This subject don't give me possibility to explain how we was deft and show dexterity during this half an hour, and how we prepared for the exam by using different tricks in order to cheat and mislead the teacher.
This way of exam to my mind is obsolete. I could compare it with ancient way of education in Greece when way of education comprise walking with teacher along the street during which teacher transfer his knowledge from him to the pupil and they discuss that knowledge afterwards somewhere in the public bath or on the square. Our society develop and now that developing is very quick so that claim for exams and test changed. Modern demand for quick and efficient and effective education. Of course such a test is not all-embracing. For example my daughter isn't good at writing and don't remember correctly how to write English words. So that such way of test would be godsend to her.
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Competency is a base of knowledge which pupil take from school programme. Of course we can check pupil or student in a different way. Today is very modern TEST, when on the one question is given four or five version and examinee should choose the correct one amidst them. It is very useful to use such way of test, because it's quit, it's could be computerized, it could be un-personal, where person is covered under the number, it could eliminate corruption and bribery, it's easy to test zillions of student during the same period of time.
My experience of test.
To be honest fate have never given my opportunity to pass the tests like described about. Once at the middle of the ninetieth I prepared for the exam called TOEFL, before this I had been studied English grammar during the year, not regularly and not successfully, to my present point of view. One of my friend who was proficiency in English offered my to pass TOEFL and explained how this test used to be built. It was something new for me because I had just finished university and all of the test and exam I had been passed was student-to-teacher or answer-the-question-on-the-paper.
Exam was only student-to-teacher like procedure. What main inconvenience I remember was waiting for your turn behind the door in the live queue. Because how well you had been preparing for exam you depend on luck, on the mood of teacher and your ability to cope with stress. We came into the class one by one and take ticket from the table from the hundred or so tickets. More over we knew contents of every ticket beforehand. In every ticket used to be two theoretical question and one practical, as I studied on the physics-mathematical area practical task was to resolve some problem, put it on the paper and explained teacher afterwards. We had some time for preparation. This subject don't give me possibility to explain how we was deft and show dexterity during this half an hour, and how we prepared for the exam by using different tricks in order to cheat and mislead the teacher.
This way of exam to my mind is obsolete. I could compare it with ancient way of education in Greece when way of education comprise walking with teacher along the street during which teacher transfer his knowledge from him to the pupil and they discuss that knowledge afterwards somewhere in the public bath or on the square. Our society develop and now that developing is very quick so that claim for exams and test changed. Modern demand for quick and efficient and effective education. Of course such a test is not all-embracing. For example my daughter isn't good at writing and don't remember correctly how to write English words. So that such way of test would be godsend to her.
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Friday 4 May 2012
Are law enforcement cameras an invasion of privacy? (480)
Are law enforcement cameras an invasion of privacy?
Pro
Law enforcement cameras placed everywhere. In the supermarkets and in the small shops, in the public place and in the automobile. It helps owner to control the business and even help police to register committed crime.
Contra.
Sometimes cameras can picture you in the unattractive situation. The movie about you can be placed on the youtube without your permission.
Like every things in our life the law enforcement cameras could be as evil as good. Now low enforcement camera could be placed not only in the premises or around it but in the automobile as well. In my country in named "Registrators". Useful things I must admit. And amusing. I have seen several youtube movies on the topic: "How to speak with National police". Amusing thing but not for all. For policemen who were pictured by camera it was not amusing and sort of intrusion in their life. Not personal one but intrusion.
Law enforcement camera placed everywhere and sometime the information that you can be recorded is not placed on the right place so that you can be weakly informed about that fact you are on the spotlight. Once in the past I have read about rule, it was psychologistic rule or likely an advice to behave yourself like very world looking at you, like you are on the camera or camera placed everywhere. I tried to lead this rule for some time and frankly speaking admitted at that time that it was not easy. I got caught myself that if I was pictured by camera I would not be a hero. At that time, that was 20 years ago and we didn't hear about enforcement camera at all. Now this camera situated everywhere.
But if we contemplate rigorously on the topic law enforcement cameras are useful thing and only partially intrude in your personal life. In this case they are not intrusion in your life. When you go outside of your private apartment your declare to the world that you are public person and from this point of view all you doing is public affair and picturing you is not intrusion in your life. More over owner of the camera do this not for spotlighting your personally, because for his you are only part of his business, but to lead properly his own business. In that case you are not a person you are average person. And as said in one proverb when died one person it is tragedy, but when one million of people it is statistic. Statistic is impersonal thing like is recording the situation around proper spot. More over it is forbidden to place camera at the really personal places like WC or bath. In this case if some pervert owner do this it is intrusion in person personal life and moreover it is a crime.
480 words
Pro
Law enforcement cameras placed everywhere. In the supermarkets and in the small shops, in the public place and in the automobile. It helps owner to control the business and even help police to register committed crime.
Contra.
Sometimes cameras can picture you in the unattractive situation. The movie about you can be placed on the youtube without your permission.
Like every things in our life the law enforcement cameras could be as evil as good. Now low enforcement camera could be placed not only in the premises or around it but in the automobile as well. In my country in named "Registrators". Useful things I must admit. And amusing. I have seen several youtube movies on the topic: "How to speak with National police". Amusing thing but not for all. For policemen who were pictured by camera it was not amusing and sort of intrusion in their life. Not personal one but intrusion.
Law enforcement camera placed everywhere and sometime the information that you can be recorded is not placed on the right place so that you can be weakly informed about that fact you are on the spotlight. Once in the past I have read about rule, it was psychologistic rule or likely an advice to behave yourself like very world looking at you, like you are on the camera or camera placed everywhere. I tried to lead this rule for some time and frankly speaking admitted at that time that it was not easy. I got caught myself that if I was pictured by camera I would not be a hero. At that time, that was 20 years ago and we didn't hear about enforcement camera at all. Now this camera situated everywhere.
But if we contemplate rigorously on the topic law enforcement cameras are useful thing and only partially intrude in your personal life. In this case they are not intrusion in your life. When you go outside of your private apartment your declare to the world that you are public person and from this point of view all you doing is public affair and picturing you is not intrusion in your life. More over owner of the camera do this not for spotlighting your personally, because for his you are only part of his business, but to lead properly his own business. In that case you are not a person you are average person. And as said in one proverb when died one person it is tragedy, but when one million of people it is statistic. Statistic is impersonal thing like is recording the situation around proper spot. More over it is forbidden to place camera at the really personal places like WC or bath. In this case if some pervert owner do this it is intrusion in person personal life and moreover it is a crime.
480 words
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