Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Chinexe population problem

You can see the population density in the picture.
Chian has the third largest territory, but at same time, almost 1/4 world population is in China. Most of populaitin are living in the eastron of China.
Chinese government is using family planning to control to population booming. Only a child is allow to be born in every family, or you need pay a lot of extra taxation.
With the development of Chinese socitey and medicine, people living much longer than before. To support retired people is becoming a big problem for Chinese, because the population of retired people is huge and most of them didn't have their pension.

The Book Review of The Godfather


I think that The Godfather is one of the best novels I read. This book really shocked me at first, because the plot in this novel is full by violence and sex. The way they fixed the problem in their “business” made me to come out the goose bumps. But the more I read, the more I was attracted to it. The story of novel itself was organized in a flashback style. I think that the start of the novel rang true, and it helps reader to get a feeling that all the things in the book are real. I like the Climax of the novel, which is Michael went to a restaurant and killed Sollozzo. But I don’t like the ending of the story. If I were Michael, I would choose to leave and go with Kay to a place where nobody knows me. I know it is impossible, because there is no safe place in the Mafia world. Personally, I got thinking from the novel, which is about the environment changing us. In the story, at first, Michael didn’t want touch his family “business”, at the end, he became a new Godfather. His father was shot; His brother was murdered; Even if he run away back to Italy, he still saw that his wife was died by a boom. Everything happened was made him changing. Unfortunately, what we can get from our parents is just physical characteristics, so we need learn our environment (society) from zero. In some situations, we cannot choose “fight of flight”, so what we can do?

Different goals of communication between men and women


The goals of communication are different between men and women because there are different ways to talk. Generally, men’s communication is more like individuals in a hierarchical social order in which they are either one-up or one-down (Deborah Tannen’s book). In other words, the men are dominant and want to be more independent than women. For men, they try to use conversation to achieve their goals and protect themselves. So they put the others down and push them around. Men’s communication is like a contest to put them in high position and avoid failure. For women, their communication is like individuals in a network of connections. Women’s goals of communication are try to seek and give confirmation and get help from the others, and to reach consensus. They want to get a good relationship between each other. So they use the close way to talk with each other that we call intimacy. They always share their feelings for each other and avoid isolation.Women achieve the high position and avoid failure, but there are not their goals that they always focus, they tend to guise themselves. For men also, to achieve involvement and to avoid isolation is the goal, but they are not focused on them, and they will use direct way to express their opinion. For example, women usually use “we, and apologize words” during their conversation, but men usually use “I or in my opinion” and they never apologize. So everyone needs both intimacy and independence whoever she or he is, but women tend to focus on intimacy and men on the independence and domination. That’s the goals of communication differ between men and women.