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Solutions for Russia’s population decline

2009-02-26T14:44:00.002-08:00

With all the talk about the overpopulation in the world and its effects on our environment, you find that the experts in Russia are occupied by its population decline. Russia's population is shrinking. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), in the early 1990’s at the time of the end of the Soviet Union, Russia’s population was 148 million. Today, Russia's population is 143 million. "The Russian Federation today is in the grip of a steadily tightening mesh of serious demographic problems, for which the term ‘crisis’ is no overstatement. This crisis is altering the realm of the possible for the country and its people--continuously, directly, and adversely. Russian social conditions, economic potential, military power, and international influence are today all subject to negative demographic constraints--and these constraints stand only to worsen over the years immediately ahead" (Eberstadt, 2005, para.1). “Russia's population of 143 million people is expected to decrease by 22 percent between now and the year 2050. If this expectation happens, Russia could lose 42 percent of its active working population” (Mcadams, 2006, para. 2). The causes of this decline are the dilapidating health care system, the low birth rate, the high consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes and the high abortion rate. Russia should make solutions in order to end its population decline. The best solutions are that Russia should provide an enduring health care system, decrease the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, and stop abortion.

First, Russia has a free but a very poor health care system. It should revamp it in order to increase its people’s life expectancy and stop its population from decreasing. According to A. Rodriguez (2008), the big reason for Russia's population decline by 7,000,000 people a year is that its death rate is very high and the average life expectancy for Russian men is 59. In the U.S. it is 75; in Japan it is 79. In the existent health care system there are few professional doctors, rife corruption, and poor equipment. “Medical care in Russia is among the worst in the industrialized world. A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked Russia's health system 130th out of 191 countries, on a par with such nations as Peru and Honduras” (Danilova, 2007, para. 6). Therefore, Russia should spend more money on its health care system. This spending should contain three goals. First, it should make the salaries of the nurses and doctors higher in order to diminish the corruption. It should provide new equipment to its hospitals, and it should train its workers who work in the health care system. If Russia does that, the life expectancy of its people will be higher and its population decrease will stop. According to A. Rodriguez (2008), In Russia there are many 30 to 59-year-old men who die from heart diseases. If Russia provides a better health care system, it can reverse that trend. Russia's health care system needs to be changed as soon as possible.

Second, Russia should decrease the consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. The drug use, alcoholism and cigarettes are leading reasons for the decline in Russia's population (BBC News, 2002). Also, “Rates of alcoholism and drug addiction have increased, especially among young people. Two-thirds of Russian males currently smoke, more than twice the proportion in the USA, and one third of Russian females also smoke. Lung cancer has increased by almost 63% since the mid-1990s” (de Rooy, 2002, para. 4). Therefore, Russia should cope with this problem by doing three things. First, Russia should put high taxes on buying alcohol or cigarettes in order to stop its people from drinking or smoking too much. Second, it should effectively prevent smuggling drugs into its borders. Finally, Russia should use media in order to warn its people of the dangers of drug use, alcoholism and cigarettes. According to A. Smolchenko (2005, para. 7) “there is an urgent need to raise awareness about leading healthier lifestyles to reverse trends”. She also doesn’t believe that the average Russian wants to die. But she believes that Russians don’t know what to do to stay healthy. Russia should stop its people from doing these habits.

Third, Russia should stop allowing abortion. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), during the Soviet time, abortion was very common as a method of birth control. That technique is still common today, which makes the country's mortality rate high. Also, "there are more abortions than births in Russia. The most recent available figures, for 2006, show 1.6 million abortions compared to 1.5 million live births" (Huliq news, 2007, p. 1). In 2003, the BBC reported that Russia had "13 abortions for every 10 live births. Furthermore, a total of 1.582 million abortions accrued in Russia in 2006 (As cited in M. Rosenberg’ article, 2006). If Russia did not allow abortion, it would not lose this number of children that could grow and have children, which could keep Russia's population from decline. Russia should do three things in order to stop abortion. First, it should stop the pharmacies from selling abortion drugs. Second, it should penalize women who use abortion to lose their infants without strong reasons. Finally, it should offer money to the new parents who think about abortion because their financial positions are bad in order to stop them from doing that.

Some people may feel that by promoting immigration and increasing birth rate, Russia can stop its population from decline; however, if Russia does that its population will not stop from decreasing, because the actual problem in Russia is that the death rate is very high. Therefore, there is one solution for Russian population decline, which is decreasing its death rate, because if it decreases its death rate, its population will stop decreasing and its population will go back to increasing. Also, birth rates in many developed countries are declining or stagnant because women in these countries are working outside or getting their education. Therefore, in this time it is hard to persuade women to have more children. Furthermore, the ethnic Russian group will not allow immigration, because they don’t want any group in Russia like the Islamic group to be stronger than them. Because the number of people that die annually in Russia is very high, Russia should decrease it. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), Russia has a very high death rate of 15 deaths per 1000 people per year. This is far higher than the world's average death rate of just under 9. The death rate in the U.S. is 8 per 1000 and in the United Kingdom it's 10 per 1000. Therefore, it should decrease the consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. Also according to M. Rosenberg (2006), because of the high rate of alcoholism women don’t have children. Second, according to R. Kupchinsky (2006), it is clear that making the birth rate higher and increasing immigration is not going to be enough. Huge barriers will remain, including deteriorating health-care system, alcohol dependency and tremendous abortion rate.

In conclusion, Russia should repair its health care system, make alcohol, drug and cigarette consumption lower, and make abortion illegal. Russia is a very rich country. Its land is full of miners, oil and gas. In the current time Russia's economy is growing. Therefore, the Russian government has a lot to do in order to cope with its population declines to cover the gap between its economic growth and its population decline. Also, its huge land needs more people to build it and to get the benefit from it. If Russia gets over this issue, it will be back to its old position in the world with all of the oil and gas wealth that it has. Russians should come together and work hard to overcome this issue. Russian men should stop smoking, drinking and using illicit drugs. Russian women should stop having abortions. Russian doctors and nurses should stop the corruption. Russia's future will be better after it overcomes this issue. Being a developed country with oil wealth would lead Russia to get back on its feet strongly.

References:

BBC News. (2000, October 24). Russian population in steep decline.bbc.com. Retrieved February 3, 2009, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/988723.stm

Danilova, M. (2007, June 28). Despite oil wealth, Russia faces huge health care problems. Herald Tribune. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/business/russhealth.php?page=1

De Rooy, C. (2008, March 26). Life expectancy as a government performance measure in Russia. Russian Federation. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from http://www.unicef.org/russia/Article_Life_Expectancy_12_March_Eng-final.pdf

Eberstadt, N. (2005, May 12). Russia, the sick man of Europe. findarticles.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0377/is_158/ai_n8680968

Huliq news. (2005, August 23). More abortions than births in Russia. huliq.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.huliq.com/63124/russia-records-more-abortions-births

Kupchinsky, R. (2006, May 19). Russia: tackling the demographic crisis. RadioFreeEurope. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1068526.html

Mcadams, L. (2006, March 08). Russia losing battle in population growth to disease, low birth rates. VOANews.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-03/2006-03-08-voa29.cfm

Rodriguez, A. (2008, February 26). Russian health-care system badly ailing: graft is rife, staffing short in the nation’s poorly equipped hospitals, and it shows in death rates. Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved February 15, 2009, from http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/feb/26/news/chi-russia_side_tuesdayfeb26

Rosenberg, M. (2006, May 31). Population decline in Russia. About.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/russiapop.htm

Smolcheko, A. (2005, October 18). UN pleads for a change in behavior. Themoscowtimes.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/852/49/209188.htm

Solutions for Russia’s population decline

2009-02-26T14:44:00.001-08:00

With all the talk about the overpopulation in the world and its effects on our environment, you find that the experts in Russia are occupied by its population decline. Russia's population is shrinking. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), in the early 1990’s at the time of the end of the Soviet Union, Russia’s population was 148 million. Today, Russia's population is 143 million. "The Russian Federation today is in the grip of a steadily tightening mesh of serious demographic problems, for which the term ‘crisis’ is no overstatement. This crisis is altering the realm of the possible for the country and its people--continuously, directly, and adversely. Russian social conditions, economic potential, military power, and international influence are today all subject to negative demographic constraints--and these constraints stand only to worsen over the years immediately ahead" (Eberstadt, 2005, para.1). “Russia's population of 143 million people is expected to decrease by 22 percent between now and the year 2050. If this expectation happens, Russia could lose 42 percent of its active working population” (Mcadams, 2006, para. 2). The causes of this decline are the dilapidating health care system, the low birth rate, the high consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes and the high abortion rate. Russia should make solutions in order to end its population decline. The best solutions are that Russia should provide an enduring health care system, decrease the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, and stop abortion.

First, Russia has a free but a very poor health care system. It should revamp it in order to increase its people’s life expectancy and stop its population from decreasing. According to A. Rodriguez (2008), the big reason for Russia's population decline by 7,000,000 people a year is that its death rate is very high and the average life expectancy for Russian men is 59. In the U.S. it is 75; in Japan it is 79. In the existent health care system there are few professional doctors, rife corruption, and poor equipment. “Medical care in Russia is among the worst in the industrialized world. A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked Russia's health system 130th out of 191 countries, on a par with such nations as Peru and Honduras” (Danilova, 2007, para. 6). Therefore, Russia should spend more money on its health care system. This spending should contain three goals. First, it should make the salaries of the nurses and doctors higher in order to diminish the corruption. It should provide new equipment to its hospitals, and it should train its workers who work in the health care system. If Russia does that, the life expectancy of its people will be higher and its population decrease will stop. According to A. Rodriguez (2008), In Russia there are many 30 to 59-year-old men who die from heart diseases. If Russia provides a better health care system, it can reverse that trend. Russia's health care system needs to be changed as soon as possible.

Second, Russia should decrease the consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. The drug use, alcoholism and cigarettes are leading reasons for the decline in Russia's population (BBC News, 2002). Also, “Rates of alcoholism and drug addiction have increased, especially among young people. Two-thirds of Russian males currently smoke, more than twice the proportion in the USA, and one third of Russian females also smoke. Lung cancer has increased by almost 63% since the mid-1990s” (de Rooy, 2002, para. 4). Therefore, Russia should cope with this problem by doing three things. First, Russia should put high taxes on buying alcohol or cigarettes in order to stop its people from drinking or smoking too much. Second, it should effectively prevent smuggling drugs into its borders. Finally, Russia should use media in order to warn its people of the dangers of drug use, alcoholism and cigarettes. According to A. Smolchenko (2005, para. 7) “there is an urgent need to raise awareness about leading healthier lifestyles to reverse trends”. She also doesn’t believe that the average Russian wants to die. But she believes that Russians don’t know what to do to stay healthy. Russia should stop its people from doing these habits.

Third, Russia should stop allowing abortion. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), during the Soviet time, abortion was very common as a method of birth control. That technique is still common today, which makes the country's mortality rate high. Also, "there are more abortions than births in Russia. The most recent available figures, for 2006, show 1.6 million abortions compared to 1.5 million live births" (Huliq news, 2007, p. 1). In 2003, the BBC reported that Russia had "13 abortions for every 10 live births. Furthermore, a total of 1.582 million abortions accrued in Russia in 2006 (As cited in M. Rosenberg’ article, 2006). If Russia did not allow abortion, it would not lose this number of children that could grow and have children, which could keep Russia's population from decline. Russia should do three things in order to stop abortion. First, it should stop the pharmacies from selling abortion drugs. Second, it should penalize women who use abortion to lose their infants without strong reasons. Finally, it should offer money to the new parents who think about abortion because their financial positions are bad in order to stop them from doing that.

Some people may feel that by promoting immigration and increasing birth rate, Russia can stop its population from decline; however, if Russia does that its population will not stop from decreasing, because the actual problem in Russia is that the death rate is very high. Therefore, there is one solution for Russian population decline, which is decreasing its death rate, because if it decreases its death rate, its population will stop decreasing and its population will go back to increasing. Also, birth rates in many developed countries are declining or stagnant because women in these countries are working outside or getting their education. Therefore, in this time it is hard to persuade women to have more children. Furthermore, the ethnic Russian group will not allow immigration, because they don’t want any group in Russia like the Islamic group to be stronger than them. Because the number of people that die annually in Russia is very high, Russia should decrease it. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), Russia has a very high death rate of 15 deaths per 1000 people per year. This is far higher than the world's average death rate of just under 9. The death rate in the U.S. is 8 per 1000 and in the United Kingdom it's 10 per 1000. Therefore, it should decrease the consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. Also according to M. Rosenberg (2006), because of the high rate of alcoholism women don’t have children. Second, according to R. Kupchinsky (2006), it is clear that making the birth rate higher and increasing immigration is not going to be enough. Huge barriers will remain, including deteriorating health-care system, alcohol dependency and tremendous abortion rate.

In conclusion, Russia should repair its health care system, make alcohol, drug and cigarette consumption lower, and make abortion illegal. Russia is a very rich country. Its land is full of miners, oil and gas. In the current time Russia's economy is growing. Therefore, the Russian government has a lot to do in order to cope with its population declines to cover the gap between its economic growth and its population decline. Also, its huge land needs more people to build it and to get the benefit from it. If Russia gets over this issue, it will be back to its old position in the world with all of the oil and gas wealth that it has. Russians should come together and work hard to overcome this issue. Russian men should stop smoking, drinking and using illicit drugs. Russian women should stop having abortions. Russian doctors and nurses should stop the corruption. Russia's future will be better after it overcomes this issue. Being a developed country with oil wealth would lead Russia to get back on its feet strongly.

References:

BBC News. (2000, October 24). Russian population in steep decline.bbc.com. Retrieved February 3, 2009, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/988723.stm

Danilova, M. (2007, June 28). Despite oil wealth, Russia faces huge health care problems. Herald Tribune. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/business/russhealth.php?page=1

De Rooy, C. (2008, March 26). Life expectancy as a government performance measure in Russia. Russian Federation. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from http://www.unicef.org/russia/Article_Life_Expectancy_12_March_Eng-final.pdf

Eberstadt, N. (2005, May 12). Russia, the sick man of Europe. findarticles.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0377/is_158/ai_n8680968

Huliq news. (2005, August 23). More abortions than births in Russia. huliq.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.huliq.com/63124/russia-records-more-abortions-births

Kupchinsky, R. (2006, May 19). Russia: tackling the demographic crisis. RadioFreeEurope. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1068526.html

Mcadams, L. (2006, March 08). Russia losing battle in population growth to disease, low birth rates. VOANews.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-03/2006-03-08-voa29.cfm

Rodriguez, A. (2008, February 26). Russian health-care system badly ailing: graft is rife, staffing short in the nation’s poorly equipped hospitals, and it shows in death rates. Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved February 15, 2009, from http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/feb/26/news/chi-russia_side_tuesdayfeb26

Rosenberg, M. (2006, May 31). Population decline in Russia. About.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/russiapop.htm
Smolcheko, A. (2005, October 18). UN pleads for a change in behavior. Themoscowtimes.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/852/49/209188.htm

Solutions for Russia’s population decline

2009-02-26T14:44:00.000-08:00

With all the talk about the overpopulation in the world and its effects on our environment, you find that the experts in Russia are occupied by its population decline. Russia's population is shrinking. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), in the early 1990’s at the time of the end of the Soviet Union, Russia’s population was 148 million. Today, Russia's population is 143 million. "The Russian Federation today is in the grip of a steadily tightening mesh of serious demographic problems, for which the term ‘crisis’ is no overstatement. This crisis is altering the realm of the possible for the country and its people--continuously, directly, and adversely. Russian social conditions, economic potential, military power, and international influence are today all subject to negative demographic constraints--and these constraints stand only to worsen over the years immediately ahead" (Eberstadt, 2005, para.1). “Russia's population of 143 million people is expected to decrease by 22 percent between now and the year 2050. If this expectation happens, Russia could lose 42 percent of its active working population” (Mcadams, 2006, para. 2). The causes of this decline are the dilapidating health care system, the low birth rate, the high consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes and the high abortion rate. Russia should make solutions in order to end its population decline. The best solutions are that Russia should provide an enduring health care system, decrease the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, and stop abortion.

First, Russia has a free but a very poor health care system. It should revamp it in order to increase its people’s life expectancy and stop its population from decreasing. According to A. Rodriguez (2008), the big reason for Russia's population decline by 7,000,000 people a year is that its death rate is very high and the average life expectancy for Russian men is 59. In the U.S. it is 75; in Japan it is 79. In the existent health care system there are few professional doctors, rife corruption, and poor equipment. “Medical care in Russia is among the worst in the industrialized world. A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked Russia's health system 130th out of 191 countries, on a par with such nations as Peru and Honduras” (Danilova, 2007, para. 6). Therefore, Russia should spend more money on its health care system. This spending should contain three goals. First, it should make the salaries of the nurses and doctors higher in order to diminish the corruption. It should provide new equipment to its hospitals, and it should train its workers who work in the health care system. If Russia does that, the life expectancy of its people will be higher and its population decrease will stop. According to A. Rodriguez (2008), In Russia there are many 30 to 59-year-old men who die from heart diseases. If Russia provides a better health care system, it can reverse that trend. Russia's health care system needs to be changed as soon as possible.

Second, Russia should decrease the consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. The drug use, alcoholism and cigarettes are leading reasons for the decline in Russia's population (BBC News, 2002). Also, “Rates of alcoholism and drug addiction have increased, especially among young people. Two-thirds of Russian males currently smoke, more than twice the proportion in the USA, and one third of Russian females also smoke. Lung cancer has increased by almost 63% since the mid-1990s” (de Rooy, 2002, para. 4). Therefore, Russia should cope with this problem by doing three things. First, Russia should put high taxes on buying alcohol or cigarettes in order to stop its people from drinking or smoking too much. Second, it should effectively prevent smuggling drugs into its borders. Finally, Russia should use media in order to warn its people of the dangers of drug use, alcoholism and cigarettes. According to A. Smolchenko (2005, para. 7) “there is an urgent need to raise awareness about leading healthier lifestyles to reverse trends”. She also doesn’t believe that the average Russian wants to die. But she believes that Russians don’t know what to do to stay healthy. Russia should stop its people from doing these habits.

Third, Russia should stop allowing abortion. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), during the Soviet time, abortion was very common as a method of birth control. That technique is still common today, which makes the country's mortality rate high. Also, "there are more abortions than births in Russia. The most recent available figures, for 2006, show 1.6 million abortions compared to 1.5 million live births" (Huliq news, 2007, p. 1). In 2003, the BBC reported that Russia had "13 abortions for every 10 live births. Furthermore, a total of 1.582 million abortions accrued in Russia in 2006 (As cited in M. Rosenberg’ article, 2006). If Russia did not allow abortion, it would not lose this number of children that could grow and have children, which could keep Russia's population from decline. Russia should do three things in order to stop abortion. First, it should stop the pharmacies from selling abortion drugs. Second, it should penalize women who use abortion to lose their infants without strong reasons. Finally, it should offer money to the new parents who think about abortion because their financial positions are bad in order to stop them from doing that.

Some people may feel that by promoting immigration and increasing birth rate, Russia can stop its population from decline; however, if Russia does that its population will not stop from decreasing, because the actual problem in Russia is that the death rate is very high. Therefore, there is one solution for Russian population decline, which is decreasing its death rate, because if it decreases its death rate, its population will stop decreasing and its population will go back to increasing. Also, birth rates in many developed countries are declining or stagnant because women in these countries are working outside or getting their education. Therefore, in this time it is hard to persuade women to have more children. Furthermore, the ethnic Russian group will not allow immigration, because they don’t want any group in Russia like the Islamic group to be stronger than them. Because the number of people that die annually in Russia is very high, Russia should decrease it. According to M. Rosenberg (2006), Russia has a very high death rate of 15 deaths per 1000 people per year. This is far higher than the world's average death rate of just under 9. The death rate in the U.S. is 8 per 1000 and in the United Kingdom it's 10 per 1000. Therefore, it should decrease the consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. Also according to M. Rosenberg (2006), because of the high rate of alcoholism women don’t have children. Second, according to R. Kupchinsky (2006), it is clear that making the birth rate higher and increasing immigration is not going to be enough. Huge barriers will remain, including deteriorating health-care system, alcohol dependency and tremendous abortion rate.

In conclusion, Russia should repair its health care system, make alcohol, drug and cigarette consumption lower, and make abortion illegal. Russia is a very rich country. Its land is full of miners, oil and gas. In the current time Russia's economy is growing. Therefore, the Russian government has a lot to do in order to cope with its population declines to cover the gap between its economic growth and its population decline. Also, its huge land needs more people to build it and to get the benefit from it. If Russia gets over this issue, it will be back to its old position in the world with all of the oil and gas wealth that it has. Russians should come together and work hard to overcome this issue. Russian men should stop smoking, drinking and using illicit drugs. Russian women should stop having abortions. Russian doctors and nurses should stop the corruption. Russia's future will be better after it overcomes this issue. Being a developed country with oil wealth would lead Russia to get back on its feet strongly.

References:

BBC News. (2000, October 24). Russian population in steep decline.bbc.com. Retrieved February 3, 2009, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/988723.stm

Danilova, M. (2007, June 28). Despite oil wealth, Russia faces huge health care problems. Herald Tribune. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/business/russhealth.php?page=1

De Rooy, C. (2008, March 26). Life expectancy as a government performance measure in Russia. Russian Federation. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from http://www.unicef.org/russia/Article_Life_Expectancy_12_March_Eng-final.pdf
Eberstadt, N. (2005, May 12). Russia, the sick man of Europe. findarticles.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0377/is_158/ai_n8680968

Huliq news. (2005, August 23). More abortions than births in Russia. huliq.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.huliq.com/63124/russia-records-more-abortions-births

Kupchinsky, R. (2006, May 19). Russia: tackling the demographic crisis. RadioFreeEurope. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1068526.html

Mcadams, L. (2006, March 08). Russia losing battle in population growth to disease, low birth rates. VOANews.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-03/2006-03-08-voa29.cfm

Rodriguez, A. (2008, February 26). Russian health-care system badly ailing: graft is rife, staffing short in the nation’s poorly equipped hospitals, and it shows in death rates. Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved February 15, 2009, from http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/feb/26/news/chi-russia_side_tuesdayfeb26

Rosenberg, M. (2006, May 31). Population decline in Russia. About.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/russiapop.htm
Smolcheko, A. (2005, October 18). UN pleads for a change in behavior. Themoscowtimes.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/852/49/209188.htm

Mnsho is nervous

2009-02-23T11:53:00.001-08:00

In Carbondale I am always nervous. My life in Carbondale makes me nervous because of several things. First, the food in Carbondale is very different from the food in my country. Therefore, some time I feel that I am starving and I need to eat real food. The idea of that I can’t eat some kind of food, because I am in the United States makes me nervous. Second, the U.S collage requirements make me nervous. When I think about the collage requirements, I feel disappointed, sad, and nervous because it needs a lot of hard work to get them. Third, when I think about my parents, I feel nervous, because they are very old and they like me to be around. Furthermore, the way of teaching that Cesl is using makes me nervous because it is a very stressful way. In my classes every day there are quizzes and everything is graded. Therefore, I feel very nervous. In addition, the weather in Carbondale makes me nervous because it is not expectable. Every day the weather is changing in Carbondale. Weather in one day is cold another day is hot. Then I feel nervous when I have a lot of homework. Also, I feel nervous when I feel that the classes in Cesl are not useful and I am wasting my time when I attend them. I am very nervous because the live in Cesl is hard. I hope I finish Cesl as soon as possible because I started to be tired. When I finish Cesl I will quet smoking because I smoked very much in last year because of cesl.

Facebook, The Way Of The Future

2009-02-19T13:46:00.001-08:00

Hussein Mansho
EAP 2 A

In the past people used to live in tribes or groups to be connected to each other. Conation is very important in every period of the time. In these days people with all the world's new Technology don’t need to live in Tribe or group anymore, because the technology make the conation easy in any place in the world. Facebook is a new way of conation that the advanced technology provided to us. It is a very popular website, which people from all over the world use in order to connect with each other. Facebook is a very useful website because of three things. First, it is the one of the best ways for Friends' connection. Second, it is a very helpful website for collage’s students. Finally, it is a practical website for business.

Facebook is a very good way for friends' connection. First, by it users can find their old friend whom they lose conation with them. For example, in it a person can find some friends who he or she had studied with them in elementary school, middle school, high school and collage. Second, it is one of the cheapest ways that a person can keep in touch with his or her friends by it even if he or he is far away from them. For example, by it I can contact with my friends and their new friends In Saudi Arabia while I am studying her in America and I pay nothing. Third, by it a person can know about all his Friends activities and participate with them if they are interested in that. Finally, by it a person can know more or new information about his or her friends that could make him or make her understands them better.

Facebook is a beneficial website for students. First, students can know the answer of the hard questions in certain class by a certain group that they make in it. For example, if some students were attending a chemistry class and the teacher of this class gave them 10 questions as homework, a student who didn't know the answer of a question or more could post the question or the questions in Facebook and ask if anyone know how to do it or them and hopefully he would get the answer or answers. Second, students who are about to graduate from high schools can make groups or inter groups in it, in older to collect information about universities from their future class mates. Finally, students who attend classes with a certain professor can exchange their notes by it or by their group in it. For example, by it an absent student could get other students notes and hopefully would understand the lecture that he or she missed.

Facebook is a good website for business. First, because of its huge number of participators companies can advertise their products by it. "Facebook has hit the 175,000,000 active user mark, just 5 weeks after it hit 150 million users in January. At this rate, Facebook has been growing by well over 600,000 users per day over the last several weeks." (Inside Facebook, 2009, P. 1-1). Second, managers and workers in the same company can make close relations by it and know more about each other by it. Every body knows that the good relationship between manger and his workers make workers work more effectively. Third, by it companies can stay in touch with its ex-employees had get benefits from their experiences. Finally, companies can get feed back from its consumers if they build good relationships with them in it.

Facebook is a great website for Friends’ conation, a useful website for students, and a practical website for business. The revolution of connection make the connection between people easer and cheaper. In these days a person can connect and make relationships with people even if he or she hasn’t mated in the regular life. Also, the connections in these days sometime cost no money because of Internet. People should use the new ways of connection wisely and effectively. They should make them an enduring land for the next generations.

Reference:

Inside Facebook. (2009, February, 14). Facebook surpasses 175 million users, continuing to grow by 600k. insidefacebook.com. Retriened February 17, 2009, from http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/14/facebook-surpasses-175-million-users-continuing-to-grow-by-600k-

Facebook, The Way Of The Future

2009-02-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

Hussein Mansho
EAP 2 A
Facebook, The Way Of The Future

In the past people used to live in tribes or groups to be connected to each other. Conation is very important in every period of the time. In these days people with all the world's new Technology don’t need to live in Tribe or group anymore, because the technology make the conation easy in any place in the world. Facebook is a new way of conation that the advanced technology provided to us. It is a very popular website, which people from all over the world use in order to connect with each other. Facebook is a very useful website because of three things. First, it is the one of the best ways for Friends' connection. Second, it is a very helpful website for collage’s students. Finally, it is a practical website for business.

Facebook is a very good way for friends' connection. First, by it users can find their old friend whom they lose conation with them. For example, in it a person can find some friends who he or she had studied with them in elementary school, middle school, high school and collage. Second, it is one of the cheapest ways that a person can keep in touch with his or her friends by it even if he or he is far away from them. For example, by it I can contact with my friends and their new friends In Saudi Arabia while I am studying her in America and I pay nothing. Third, by it a person can know about all his Friends activities and participate with them if they are interested in that. Finally, by it a person can know more or new information about his or her friends that could make him or make her understands them better.

Facebook is a beneficial website for students. First, students can know the answer of the hard questions in certain class by a certain group that they make in it. For example, if some students were attending a chemistry class and the teacher of this class gave them 10 questions as homework, a student who didn't know the answer of a question or more could post the question or the questions in Facebook and ask if anyone know how to do it or them and hopefully he would get the answer or answers. Second, students who are about to graduate from high schools can make groups or inter groups in it, in older to collect information about universities from their future class mates. Finally, students who attend classes with a certain professor can exchange their notes by it or by their group in it. For example, by it an absent student could get other students notes and hopefully would understand the lecture that he or she missed.

Facebook is a good website for business. First, because of its huge number of participators companies can advertise their products by it. "Facebook has hit the 175,000,000 active user mark, just 5 weeks after it hit 150 million users in January. At this rate, Facebook has been growing by well over 600,000 users per day over the last several weeks." (Inside Facebook, 2009, P. 1-1). Second, managers and workers in the same company can make close relations by it and know more about each other by it. Every body knows that the good relationship between manger and his workers make workers work more effectively. Third, by it companies can stay in touch with its ex-employees had get benefits from their experiences. Finally, companies can get feed back from its consumers if they build good relationships with them in it.

Facebook is a great website for Friends’ conation, a useful website for students, and a practical website for business. The revolution of connection make the connection between people easer and cheaper. In these days a person can connect and make relationships with people even if he or she hasn’t mated in the regular life. Also, the connections in these days sometime cost no money because of Internet. People should use the new ways of connection wisely and effectively. They should make them an enduring land for the next generations.

Reference:

Inside Facebook. (2009, February, 14). Facebook surpasses 175 million users, continuing to grow by 600k. insidefacebook.com. Retriened February 17, 2009, from http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/14/facebook-surpasses-175-million-users-continuing-to-grow-by-600k-

Love

2009-02-16T11:54:00.001-08:00

In Saudi Arabia to party in Valentine’s Day is forbidden. In my country there are only two holidays that our prophet told us to party, but I always have a problem in Valentine’s Day. The problem is that my love is from Syria, which is not a religious country. Therefore, she always wants me to speak with her or send to her card or any thing in this day, but I always refuse to do so. In last Sunday I did not send to her any massage, I didn’t speak with her, because of the Valentine’s Day. Therefore, she sent massages to me today to complain that why I didn’t speak with her, or why I didn’t sent to her massage. Some time men cannot understand women. I always tell her that the love is in the heart. Therefore, we don’t need to have an especial day to party or show our love. I know that she is angry with me, but I will handle that. Also, in my opinion men should give rose always to girls in any time because girls are the most beautiful creatures in our world. I know that men always show their emotion by doing things but girls love to hear some worm words and get some beautiful roses. Therefore, we should treat them nicer not only in Valentine’s Day but also in every day. I love a girl that I love, because she is a great person. She always tries to make me happy and I have never felt angry because of her. She is a great person. I wish I were with her now.

The over population In India

2009-02-10T12:40:00.000-08:00

In the article, “overpopulation,” by Wahidah, she mentions that India will become the most populated country in the world if it keeps its current population growth rate. Therefore, Wahidah suggests three solutions that India should do in order to cope with its overpopulation and control it. It should increase awareness of the public and of women, it should control the population in several ways, Media can play one of the most important roles in education the public. She thinks that the media such as movies, magazines, newspapers, television, conferences, books, lectures and radio can make the people aware. Also, she thinks that family planning services and programs should be improved to solve the overpopulation problems. Finally, government can play the most important role in the birth control process and in solving the overpopulation problems.

I don’t agree with Wahidah, because she thinks that India is an ordinary country. I feel that she forgets that India is a very poor country, and more than half of its population lives in rural areas. Also, most of them are illiterate. Therefore, the media can not play a strong role to decrease the overpopulation in India. Furthermore, I don’t think that family planning services and programs can do them their work effectively, because it is hard for them to reach some rural areas with many people in India. Also, the government can not reach them, because they are located in Indian mountains. I think that India should keep its population growth rate, because that could help it with growth economy, and it needs high population, especially in agriculture.

Vacation is good

2009-02-08T20:30:00.000-08:00

I think too much. I always think in important stuffs, and I don’t pay any attention to the small things or unimportant things. Therefore, I always make mistakes in unimportant things. For example, some time when I am driving, I don’t make turn when I should do it, I keep going until I realize that I missed the turn. Also, last week I did two mistakes. The first one was ordering pizza from Marion. I was very hungry and tired that I picked up the Yellow book and I called Papa John's Pizza in Marion and ordered a pizza. The waiter who answered was new. He made my order and called me back to ask me again about my place. After I told him about my place he told me that we are in Marion and he gave me the Carbondale Papa John' number. Also In this weekend I was trying to find a new an apartment for only three months. I was calling the numbers on Dally Egyptian. One woman of whom I spook to told me that she has one in Murphysboro. I told her that can I see it? She told me yes at 2 clock .After I finished the call, my friend was about to day from laughing. He told me that Murphysboro is another city that closes to Carbondale. I called the women again and told her that I was confused and I thought that Murphysboro is a name of building in Carbondale. I love to stop doing these mistakes, but sometime you cant manage your doing. I slould stop thinking too much.

The Population Decline In Russia

2009-02-04T13:21:00.000-08:00

Hussein Mansho
AEPT 2 A

In the article," Russian decline; Population and health woes, and alcoholism", by Helle Dale, he discusses Russia’s population decline and its current economy resurgence. First, Russian ambition is back with its oil wealth and its leader Putin, but it is facing a population decline. Russian population is expected to decline to 99 million by 2050 and some expect it to be 77 million. Therefore, the author believes that the US will be stronger to lead the 21st century with the 419 million that its population is expected to be. Second, the author believes that Russia should deal with this population decline; because it is continually losing 700,000 people per year and that will be losing 31 percent between 2005 and 2050. This decline is because of the declining birthrates and the low life expectancy of its population. The birth rates in Russia are 1.2 to 1.3. Also, Russian men's life expectancy is 20 years less than Japanese men and 3 years less than Bangladeshi men that because of the bad healthcare system and alcohol consumption. The author thinks that the population decline is the worst issue that Russian is facing, but at the same time it looks strong because of its oil wealth. Furthermore, Russian's population structure is going to change because the number of Islamic group is growing and the Muslims might be the majority in 2050. That would affect the ethnic group. Finally, the author thinks that with the Russian disorder and European declines, the US will have stable population growth because of the fertility rates and immigration. Therefore, its effect on the developed world will rise.

I disagree with the author in three points. First, the decline in population that Russia is facing is good because this decline will make many things easer for the government. Second, the gap between the growing economy and the population decline is not a bad aspect because Russia can deal with that by several approaches. Finally, the future in Russia will be more flourishing because of its birth rate and men’s life expectancy.

In the 21st century with all this development that the world is having, the high population represents hardships that the governments should handle for their Citizens. In the coming decades the people will need more services such as good healthcare programs, high education services, and durable transportation. That is very hard to get for the government in a country that has overpopulation or high population, but it is easier for the government with less population. The population’s prosperity depends on the level of services that the government establishes for its citizens. If the government demands only on its huge population to effect on other countries without giving its citizens the level of prosperity that the other countries give to their citizens, its policy will fail. Therefore, we can notice that Russian force is back to play a strong role in the world, because of the harmony that Putin has established between the force that Russia has and the good economy that offers Russia a good level of prosperity. On the other hand, if we look at the China foreign policy we notice a narrow role that China is playing in the world with its huge population, because of the low level of prosperity that Chinese people have. The technology advancement that the world has in the current century would let the industries less dependent on people and more dependent on computers and mechanization. Therefore, the high population will not help as it used to in the past in the manufacturing process. Also, the time that the people were helping in agricultural manufacturing societies has ended. The high population makes it hard for the government to establish good services that its citizens need in order to support it in its foreign policy in this century.

The gap between the growing Russian economy and the declining in population is not a problem because of several points. First, the globalization of business makes it easy to a have business overseas and to use cheaper works in order to have more profit. Therefore, Russian companies can do business in another country with overpopulation and cheaper labor and have more profit, which helps Russia’s small population to live a very rich life. On the other hand, the high population in any country whose people’s income is limited by the government like the US would drive the business from it to other countries that have cheaper labor; that creates a huge problem because the profit would not be enough to bring a good life to the country with high population. Second, Russia can have its growing economy work by short-term contracts that save it from the endless immigration. For example, in Saudi Arabia the foreign workers come to it by short-term visa, in order to issuer the government that they will not stay forever, and their children can't get the nationality, even though they were burn in it. Third, the immigration can cover the gap between the growing Russian economy and the decline in population. For example, it can make it legal for people from other countries to immigrate to it. The decline in population will not badly affect the growth of Russian’s economy.

The birth rate and the men’s life expectancy in Russia are features for Russia in the future. First, the men’s life expectancy in Russia is 59 years of age; that will not put any pressure on the Russian economy, because the Russian economy would not spent too much to take care of people who don’t effectively participate in the manufacturing process with many chronic diseases. Second, the birth rate in Russia is 1.2 to 1.3 that means the couple would not have more than two children. That indicates the good life that this new generation would have because every child would be well educated and have more opportunities than the people in countries with high population. Furthermore, the good life that the new generation would have would make the life expectancy for them higher because they would not have any anxiety ,which could lead to drink very much alcohol. Also, the heath care system in Russia would be better because of the small population that it will have in 2050 and the oil wealth it has. Third, with the nuclear weapons that Russia has, there is no need of a lager number of troops to protect it from its enemies, because nobody can bother it. Also, the measure of the strong in this century is by the kind of weapons that the country has not the number of armies that it has. The birth rate and the men’s life expectancy reflect a good life that the new generations would have.

The world’s advanced technology, declining birth rate, declining men’s life expectancy and the ability that Russia has to cover the gap between the growing economy and population make Russian new generation's future more thriving. The 77 million or the 99 million that is expected to be Russia's population will help Russia to play a strong role in the future. Russians should be happy with this expectation because their life will be better and their children would have a great future. Also Russia’s leader should develop its healthcare system and make its new generation of the dangers of alcohol on people’s lives. Being a developed country with oil wealth and less population would lead Russia to get back in its feet strongly. Russian leaders should work on these features in order to achieve this accomplishment. The world needs more than one county as a leader in order to be led in a balanced way, because the US as the powerful country and the only country as a leader of the world fails to lead it wisely.

Reference:
Dale, H. (2008, August 20). Russian decline; Population and health woes, and alcoholism. The Washington Times. Retrieved January 20, 2009, from Lexis Nexis database.

Russia’s Population Decline Solutions

2009-02-04T11:00:00.000-08:00

Hussein Mansho  
AEP 2 

In the unknown Author’s article,’ Russian Population in steep decline,” the author discusses the cusses of Russian population decline. First, the expectation of Russian population is about 134 million in 2015. The loss of people was 507,400 in the first eight months in 2000. Putin concerned about this problem. Second, the cusses of the population decline in Russia are drug use, alcoholism sexually transmitted diseases and psychological reasons. Furthermore, % 15 of Russian couples is infertile and 75% of women have medical problems during pregnancy. In Russia the fertility rate was 1. 7 in 1999.Also, in Russia the death rate is high while the birth rate is low. The life expectancy in Russia is 59 years for male while it is 72 years for female.

Russia can cope with its population decline by several ways. First, it should increase the birth rate. Second, it should decrease the death rate. Finally, it should allow immigration.

Russian government should make the birth rate increase in older to make its population grow by doing three things. First, it should provide Family- planning programs, which provide educational and clinical services that would help couples to take care of their children and make it easy for them to have more children. Second, the government should offer economic rewords to the couple which have more than two children or penalize the couples who their marriage last more than eight years with out having children. Finally, the government should make the average marriage age decrease because it is known that the couples tend to have more children if they get married earlier. Increasing the birth rate is the first step that Russia should do in older to make its population grow.  

Russia should make its death rate decrease in older to stop the sharp decline in its population by several ways. First, it should provide better health care system in order to make the life expectancy of its men higher and make its infant mortality rate lower. Second it should put high taxes on buying alcohol or cigarette in order to stop its people from drinking or smoking too much because alcohol and cigarette are the main cusses of the short men’s life expectancy in Russia. Also, it should effectively prevent it borders from smuggling drugs. Finally, it should not allow the abortion for pregnant women and it should stop the pharmacies from selling abortion drugs because the abortion percentage in Russia is high. Also the government should penalize women who use abortion to lose their infants. Decreasing the death rate is the second step that Russia should do in order to keep its population from declining.  

Migration is one of the most impotent factors that can play strong roles to decrease or increase the population. Therefore, the government in Russia should make it legal for foreign people to immigrate to it in order to increase its population. For example, it should allow for people who live in close countries such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China to immigrate to it. If the rule makers don’t want to change Russia's population structure, they can bring transitory workers by short-term contracts until its population back to grow again. For example, in Saudi Arabia the foreign workers come to it by short time visa in older to assure the governments that they will not stay forever, and their children can't get the nationally, even though they were born in it. Immigration is the second step that Russia should do in order to make its population grow.

Russian government has a lot to do in order to cope with its population declines. It should make its birth rate increase, make its death rate decrease and allow immigration. Russia economy is growing. Therefore, it should make its population grow in order to cover the gap between its economy growth and its population decline. Also, its huge land needs more people to build it and to get the benefit from it. Also, Russia should educate its people about alcoholism and smoking heath effects. If Russia gets over this issue, it will back to its old position in the world with all of the oil and gas wealth that it has.

Reference:
Russian population in steep decline. (2000, October 24). BBC NEWS. Retrieved
February 3, 2009, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/988723.stm

My hometown

2009-02-02T11:51:00.001-08:00

Jeddah is the second largest city after Riyadh, which is the capital city in Saudi Arabia. In Jeddah is the main port of the Kingdom on the Red Sea, which has unique coral reefs. People from all over the world come to Jeddah in order to see these unique coral reefs. The shore in Jeddah is one of the most wonderful things that you can enjoy if you visit it. It contains different barks and restaurants. People in Jeddah always go to the beach to fish, exercise, swim, set with the family, and eat special food. Another wonderful place in Jeddah is the downtown. In the downtown there are many ancient buildings that was build by Islamic old ways. Also, in the downtown there are many restaurants that make traditional dishes. The population in Jeddah is about 3.5 million people. Therefore, it is very crowded city. There are many malls and supermarkets in Jeddah. Therefore, you can find many international products. Al kabaian is another beautiful place in Jeddah. It has very luxury villas. These villas are close each one of them has a big pool. Furthermore, the people who leave in Jeddah are the kindest people in the world. Also, there is King Abedalazese University which its buildings have very advanced equipments. Jeddah is very old city it used to be before the discovering of America. I love every single place in Jeddah because it is my hometown.

2009-01-29T14:02:00.000-08:00

Hussein Mansho

AEP2 A

In the article “ Global Overpopulation” by Cara Swann she mentions the modern problems because of the overpopulation and the control of the population as a solution. First, the overpopulation problems such as traffic jam, high crime rate, extinction of animal species, environment damage, rapid climate changes, global warming, depletion of ozone, deprivation for the wild animals of natural habitats, soil erosion, deforestation, water pollution and people high consumption are threats that the people should be concerned about in order to save our human beings. If we look at the statistics, we find that the increase of the population is 3 humans every second and the loss of rainforest acres is 1,5 caters each second. Also, the U.S people are only 5% of the population in the world, but their consumption of the world energy is 25%. The worker women always have fewer children than the housewives. People should understand that the growth of population should be stopped by birth control or natural disasters. If the high birth rate does not decrease, poverty and homelessness will be very common in America. Finally, the author thinks that the birth-free is good gift that people should experience.

The world can deal with the overpopulation by several ways. First, limiting the number of children that every couple can have. Second, keeping the population growing with depending on different kind of energy instead of oil. Finally, the Governments should make more efforts to educate and aware people about the overpopulation and its effects on our world.

Limiting the number of children is a way that we can use in order to stop the fast birth rate. Fist, the government can put rules that don’t allow for couple to have more than two children because the tow children are enough to replace their parents. If the couple don’t fallow this rule they could pay more tax Second, the governments can promote having fewer children by create program that any couple can be in if they signs on that they would not have more than two children (the replacement fertility rate people). In this program the participated family can get many facilities. For example, they can get some money that can help them in raising their children; they can get free doctor’s instructions in order to treat their children in the right way. Finally, the government can let the third child who the couple would have serve in the army, so the couple would decide to not have more that two children in order to avoid having one member of their family serving in the army.

Depending on different kind of energy would decrease the damages in the environment because of the high using of oil and keep the population growing. First, the word economy these days is depending on oil and that create huge problems such as rapid climate changes, global warming, depletion of ozone. Therefore in order to stop the huge use of oil we should do several things. First, develop a certain type of energy that can be using instead of oil such as solar energy or nuclear energy. Second, create new cars that depend on other kinds of energy shush cars work by water, solar energy or electricity. Finally, stop using of plastic bags, spoons, plats and any thing that made of oil only if it was something that you will not throw away directly after one time using.

Governments should play strong roles to treat with the overpopulation problems. First, they should teach the students in school about the expected dangers that we would face if the population still growing. Second, they should make the companies pay higher taxes if the use of their products would damage the environment. Finally, use the media to inform people about the damages that we have done in the environment and aware them about the damages that we will cause in the environment if the population still growing.

By limiting the number of children, depending in another energy resource and more effort from the government we cane wisely deal with the overpopulation and ease its effects in the environment. The government should start work in order to stop the overpopulation before any disaster happen. The people should start to plane threes instead of use its wood to build houses.

Reference

Swann, C. (2005, September 1). Global Overpopulation. Suite101. Retrieved on January 20, 2009, from http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/child

My Guide

2009-01-26T11:33:00.000-08:00

The person who has the most influence on my life is my father. My Father is a businessman. He has a restaurant chain in Saudi Arabia. He studied only to the fifth grad. He started his business while his brothers and sisters were attainting schools. My grandfather was against his business because he wanted hem to continues his studying in school ,but he refused to do so and continued to do what he likes. He is a good father. He always advises me and my brothers and sisters to continue our studding because the life is harder these days. He is so hard working person that he works 12 hours a day. He always travels in order to look at his business. Some thing in my father that impact me very mush is that he is very tolerant, and all the people who he knows respect him. Also, he is a religious person. He has not missed any pray in his live. He is so helpful that he always help his brothers and sisters i. For him the brotherhood is the most important thing. I want to be like him because I love business and I love to lead. I don't like to be a worker in any company because I love freedom. I love to do what I wont when I wont and I do not like someone telling me what I have to do. When I was 16, I started to work with him in his business. Be working with hem I learned how to deal with the workers in order to gain their respect and their hard working. Also, I learned how to motivate the workers by my relationship with them. He is a successful person. I hop I could succeed like him.

Indirect Saying

2008-11-30T21:54:00.000-08:00

In my country we have a lot of sayings that the people use in their live to tell their opinion in something or to give advice in an indirect way. My father always use two of my country old people saying. The first saying is," the door of the cabinetmaker is broken. The people use this saying to advice or aware others who works in certain industry to let them pay attention of their broking stuffs. For example, if the person is a mechanic, and he has a broken car, his friends or family will tell him this saying to aware him because he is a mechanic and he know how to fix cars. Therefore, he is supposed to fix his car as soon as possible.The second saying is, "nothing can scratch your skin like your nail. This saying means that nobody can do the work that you are responsible to do better than you. The people use this saying to advice the person to do his work by himself and don’t rely on other people. Sometime the person who is responsible to do the work tell this saying to others who he or she asked them to do something and they did it in wrong way, Or they didn’t do it completely.In Saudi Arabia hearing indirect saying is bart of our life. my father always use these two saying. there fore when I here anyone say anyone of these saying that remind me in my father.

hussain_mansho@hotmail.com

2008-11-30T18:51:00.001-08:00

Alone or Lonely

2008-11-17T11:49:00.001-08:00

The life today is very fast and complicated. Therefore, a person sometime needs to be alone to think or relax. I spend most of my time with my friends but sometime I prefer being alone than being with them to think or relax, I love my home because it is the place where I can stay by myself without people that could disturb my relaxing or thinking. I think that it is not strange If a person spends only sometime by himself, but it is strange that if the person spend most of the time by himself, Because being alone most of the time is probably reflects a mental problem that the person may have. People are sometime forced by some situations that make them lonely. Fore example, If you went to new place to study or to work you would find yourself alone because of the differences between you and the people who live in new place that you went to. I used to work in the capital city in Saudi Arabia before I came here. I worked 9 month there. The first four months I felt very lonely because I was thinking about my family and my friend, but after the first four months I was very busy with my new life and my new friends. Before 2 weeks I was with my friends in one friend apartment we had a good time but suddenly I felt that I needed to be home, Therefore. I drove to my apartment. After I arrived I felt so happy that I stay by myself with nobody to annoy me.I cant live lonely but sometime I love to be alone.

Be successful Dreamer

2008-11-10T01:42:00.000-08:00

Dreams are the first step to succeed. If we seek about the beginning of any successful person, we find out that he was dreaming about success before succeeding, but dreams are not enough to succeed .you should believe in yourself , and fight to bring your dream from the imaginary to the real life. My dream is to have a restaurant chain in Saudi Arabia. I started to think about that when I was in the high school. I decided to study business to accomplish my dream. While I was studding business in Saudi Arabia, I started the first restaurant with my younger brother. In the beginning we worked by ourselves and some workers. We worked hard until our profit became better. I came to U.S to continue my studding in business and my brother now is managing our business. We will start the next restaurant after a month. When I finish my master dgree I well go back to Saudi Arabia to teach business and continue my dreams in having a big restaurant chain. Dreams are your way to succeed, so don’t keep them only in the imaginary.

Halloween For Americans Not For Saudi Stusents

2008-11-03T11:10:00.000-08:00

Some people celebrate in Halloween holidays but others do not. In Saudi Arabia we only have two holidays. The first one is al-feter holiday and another one is al-hajj holiday. Both of them are about the happiness. We don’t celebrate in respect of dead people because the celebrations in respect of dead people are forbidden in Islam. We celebrate in al-feter holiday and al-hajj holiday after we finish with our worships in special times in the years. I used to work during these two holidays when I was in Saudi Arabia because their times are the best times in the year for my family trade. The people in Saudi Arabia including my fimily members always have fun in these holidays. They invite each others, eat special food, and prepare special cookies. Halloween is a good holiday for American trade because it refreshes the demands on some products. I have never celebrated in any Halloween holiday, and I will not. Because I think dressing up in costumes is silly and some of my American friends think that, too. I don’t believe in ghost and I think the respect of dead people in the people hearts not by the celebrations. I am not a religious person but I don’t celebrate in Halloween holyday.Although Halloween Is a big holiday In Amirica, the SaudI students who study in U.S do not celebrate it.

Love Enhances Life

2008-10-27T03:13:00.000-07:00

I am falling in love. I used to love one girl from Syria when I was 16 years old. She was my way to see life, but we gave up because her Family didn’t want her to be far away with me in Saudi Arabia .After that I tried to forget her by using many different ways to find a new love who can recover her place. I tried online dating sites, chatting rooms, and meeting new girls but I failed. Therefore, I decided to continue my life without love. After I made this decision, my love came back to me. Now we make all the decisions together.And we are on our way to secsess. I hope to finish my studding quickly and go back home to get married with her. I think love happen only one time in the life. Therefore, my advice to who fell in love to maintain their relationship and to not give up.

Mansho's Last Vacation

2008-10-17T12:43:00.000-07:00

In my last vacation CESl gave me only five days for rest. In the beginning I thought that the five days were not enough to rest and enjoy, but after I went through this short time vacation I have had a good time. In the first day of my vacation after I finished the TOFAL test I went to my friend Apartment, which I haven’t been in for two months. We drank and spoke about our doing when I used to be his next-door neighbor. He reminded me the first four months, That I have lived in Carbondale, How my language was very poor,and how it has been improved ;Therefore, it was a good day after a long test.The next two days in my vacation were good, too. I cooked, rememorize some wards, listened to some music of my best singer's New CD, and spoke with my family members. Next, in the fourth day in my vacation I invited all my American friends who asked me to cook for them to eat Arabic food. We ate, drank, and spoke. Finally, the last day in my vacation I went to Illinois driver license office, took the test, got my driver license and drove the first time in Carbondale safely without being concerned by the police to not pull me over. It was a short vacation, but I enjoyed it.

Lucid dreaming

2008-10-06T08:47:00.000-07:00

According to Pamela Hartmann (n.d.) in her article, "Lucid dreaming", lucid dreaming means consciously aware while a person is dreaming. At that time, they can participate in the events and emotions of the dream by character experiencing , observing and watching, directing and creating. Patricia Garfield, who wrote "Creative Dreaming", said that a lucid dreamer would have unbelievable freedom through the lucid dream. Also Stephen LaBerge, at the Standford University Sleep Lab, has developed a method called the MILD technique. MILD technique is waking up from a dream, imaging yourself, seeing yourself, and telling yourself. He claims that by using the MILD technique, he was able to have lucid dream on any night he wished. The way to gain access to your dream is to place a notebook or diary on your nightstand or under your pillow. Secondly, don't open your eyes immediately when you wake up. Third, lie and try to recall any imagery. Next, think about its ABCD order, ABCD means that D is any specific image, C is the event or activity that preceded it, B is what preceded that, and A is what preceded that. Lastly, describe the dream. Pamela Hartmann says that as we begin to experience this, our dream journal will achieve a special place in our life.

Making Dreams Work For Us

2008-10-06T08:45:00.000-07:00

In the article "Dreams: making them work for us," the author states how to make dreams work for dreamers. First, Joseph dreams bad dream for a long time. He was exhausted in the morning by this dream. Second, Milton Kramer considers that people should pay attention to their dreams and try to change the bad dreams. Third, changing our dream requires recalling the dream by using several steps. Next, Dr. Rosalind Cartwright has created another approach that can help people to change their dreams. Finally, Joseph could change his bad dream by using dream therapy.

what is a dream

2008-10-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

In the article "What is a Dream?" the author mentions what the people think about dreams in the past, and the scientists' attempts to interpret what the dreams are. First, our ancestors didn’t pay attention to what the dreams were, but they thought that they were important to the individual's feeling and bodily contentment. Not only that, but they thought that god had sent to them message by dreams. Second, in the twentieth century was the beginning of dream studies that made people believes that the dreams illustrated something in their personality. Third, Freud was the first person studied dreams by his wish-fulfillment theory and his book The Interpretation of Dreams. He assumed that the person expressed his wishes and frights in dreams because they were improper in actual life. Third, in balance theory" To Become Popular" by Carl Jung's. Jung viewed that the person contacted with his wishes by dreams. Next, William Domhoff assumed that there were relationships between the dreams and the person's age, sex, society, waking activities, and believes, compared the dreams between the adults with the children and the women with the men, and noted the similarity and the difference between people from 11 cultures. Finally, the author mentions that it is very hard to know the meaning of dreams and the agreement between who study.

using computer for shopping is better

2008-09-19T10:12:00.000-07:00

The computer makes us do many things more easily. These days, you can buy almost every things by the computer. First, you can buy books from sites like Amazon cheaper than in book stores. Second, if you want to buy clothing you could go shopping in your home without changing your regular day, and without spending a lot of time walking from one store to another store. Also, by the computer you can buy electronic products before they start to be in the electronic stores. Not only that , but you could buy video games from the internet before they would be in video game stores. Finally, you can choose the cheapest travel agency to travel with by the internet. These days the smartest way to buy things is by using computer.

The Differences between Saudi Society and American Society

2008-09-13T22:26:00.000-07:00

There are many differences between the societies all over the world. These differences are consequence of religions, old customs, the value of freedom and development in the societies. Therefore, people's behavior in certain societies is different than other people's behavior in other societies. Saudi people's methods are bonded by Islamic religion instructions and very old customs. Therefore, Saudi people's methods are different than American people methods, which depend completely on development and freedom. These differences contain three results. Saudi society is more collectivist than the American society, Saudi society has higher power distance than American society and the Saudi society has stronger uncertainty avoidance than American society.

Collectivism in Saudi society is more important than it is in the American society. First, Saudi people prefer group activities; they prefer doing work in the companies with a group to doing it alone. In contrast, American people prefer doing their activities alone. For example, they prefer financing a business instead of getting other people to invest in it. Second, Saudi people think of themselves as "members of a group" so that all people in Saudi Arabia work together to make things happen for each other; they wouldn’t be jealous if another person were more successful than them; they help each other even if they are in competition. This is something that you rarely observe in American society. Finally, Saudi people base decisions on the needs of the group. They never have made decisions based on the benefits of only few in the group, but American people base decisions individually. American people are more individual than Saudi people.

The lack of the development which Saudi Arabia has, and the consideration to keep the old customs has made Saudi society have higher power distance than American society. First, in the Saudi house the man has the first and the final words. The woman cannot make any decision without the approval from the man, and the man always makes the important decisions without sharing them with the women. On the other hand, the man and the woman share with each other to make the important decisions in the American house. Second, at work, Saudi people expect the boss to make all the decisions, and all they do is the achieving. In contrast, at work in American companies there is not as much difference between people of high and low status. The boss listens to people at all levels in the company too. Finally, in the Saudi society the relationship between the old generation and the new generation is strong, so if you were 40 years old and your father asked you to do something you would do it, even if it were without benefit. On the other hand, the relationship between the old generation and the new generation is weak; therefore, the people in the new generation make their decision without taking advice from the old generation. American society eliminates the buffer of the hierarchy, but Saudi society still has it.

Saudi society is close minded; therefore, their uncertainty avoidance is stronger than American society which is open minded. First, Saudi people try to avoid the unknown. For example, the employees in the company are always against any change in the company procedures which they work in, while American company employees are more open to changes. Second, Saudi people are more emotional than American people. For example, the emotions are the most important things at work in Saudi society, so Saudi people never work devotedly without having good relations exist between them and the mangers in their work. However, in American society the most important thing at work is the work itself. They never let the relationship between them and their mangers affect strongly on their work. Finally, Saudi people tend to like having many rules. For example, at work if there were not many rules, they would not achieve, come to work on time and leave on time, so the employer could put a lot of rules to actualizing his work. In the other hand, American employees prefer less rules and more freedom in their work to achieve efficiently. American people have weaker uncertainty avoidance than Saudi people do.

Collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance are higher in Saudi society than they are in American society. That exhibits the disadvantages which Saudi organizations should start to get rid of, and exhibits the advantages which Saudi organizations should keep and develop. With The development of the global economy and the advances in the technology Saudi Arabia cannot afford to resist change and America must come together and work as one. If there were more collaboration and understanding between the societies of the world, and there were even plans for countries throughout the world to share their experiences, the people would be much happier.

Bargain before buying

2008-09-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

In my country people always negotiate. Houses, cars, and lands are the first things we negotiate for. Food and clothes are the second thing we negotiate for. In my country I used to bargain to buy some land for may father, and buy some used cars for my family's restaurant chain. Not only that, but when I was working in my family's restaurant chain, I have faced many customers bargaining with me. Therefore, I am good in bargaining because of my special strategies. Frst, do not show your craving or desiring of the products. second, before deciding to buy any products go around and observe the costs of the similar products. third, decide how much you want to pay. Next, offer a price which is as much below what you have decided to pay, as the seller's price is above it. Finally, go back and forth with the sellers until they accept your price. you should bargain in my country to have a good price.

some time business is a gamble

2008-09-09T11:54:00.000-07:00

People always try to start in business to increase their incomes; some of them take loans to start, and others spend all the money which they have saved through of their live. Therefore, they should choose good cities to start a strong business in. Carbondale is one of the cities which some people have started a small business in. They may forget that starting business in Carbondale contains three dangers. The number of Carbondale people is not comforting; the geographic location of Carbondale is not strategic, and the competition with the big store in Carbondale would be difficult.

The people who live in Carbondale are about 40,000, and this number of people is not encouraging at all. First of all, this number of people in Carbondale makes the people close to each other. Therefore, if you make mistake with one customer, a lot of people in Carbondale would likely know about it; therefore, this would negatively affect you in your trade by losing more than one customer. Second, 20,000 of Carbondale people are students, and the students never have much money to buy from the stores. Finally, the people who are not students in Carbondale have simple jobs, so they have small mount incomes which they use some of them for the important products. The number of people in Carbondale is not enough to start your business in it.

Carbondale, which is located in southern Illinois, has a bad geographic location to start a new business in. First, it is not a tourist city, so your dependence would be on local people. Therefore, you could lose the opportunity of tourist customers. Second, the weather in Carbondale is bad for business. The winter in Carbondale is seven months, so the sky is still snowing for five months, which could have negative effects on your trade. Not only that, but in the summer, which is three months in Carbondale, all the students could leave because of the high temperature, so almost half of your customers would have left during these three summer months. Finally, Carbondale is next to big cities like Chicago, St.Louis and Memphis. Therefore, your potential customers would prefer traveling to them one or two times a year to buy long term products for the year instead of buying from your store. Carbondale's geographic location makes it bad for starting a business in it.

Starting business in Carbondale requires strong competition. First, big stores like Wal-Mart and Kroger will be your competitors. The big stores like them have more ability in the product discounts than small stores, by using their big warehouses to store plenty of products after buying them with cheaper prices because of the big amount. Second, Carbondale is very small so the good business would be noticed; therefore, you would have many potential competitors with a small number of people. Finally, people always trust big stores more than small stores. They sometimes prefer buying products, which the small stores have, from big stores at same price than buying them from small stores next to them because they think they are cheaper. The competition in Carbondale would put you in a critical position.

Business in Carbondale is not a good idea, because of the number of the people, the geographic location and the strong competition. If you want to take a gamble do it. Some people in the world love the adventures, but they try to study them well before will have started, so if they are would be unsuccessful they, avoid them. And business in Carbondale is an unsuccessful adventure; so think about your luck.