Archive for the ‘Humanity’ Category

Inadequate Sleep, Bad Health

Friday, August 20th, 2010

In the ancient times, people get up when the Sun rises and go to sleep when it is going to sunset. However, lifestyle is quite different in modern times. People are very busy nowadays and they do not have enough time to enjoy entertainments. They even cannot spare time to have dinners and get enough sleep, especially in developed regions. According to some report, people ought to get 6 to 8 hours for sleep in a day. Actually, many people cannot sleep 6 to 8 hours during the 24 hours. In addition, different people have different hours for sleep. Elderly people, children should get about 10 hours’ sleep and baby sleep longer. Young people’ sleeping hours should be up to 6 to 8 hours. Inadequate sleep which will cause decreased ability to think, immune dysfunction, endocrine imbalance etc. has been a problem in the modern world. Many people who work in the office always ignore sleeping hours and they think that if they sleep less, they can work more hours. In fact, they do not pay attention to low efficiency of work and the harm to health caused by inadequate sleep. If somebody sleeps less today and he sleeps more tomorrow, he will be ok. If he has lost 100 hours’ sleeping, it is very difficult for him to be healthy.
According to some statistics, people all over the world have different sleeping hours. Compared with people in other developed countries, the French people sleep longer and they spend about 9 hours sleeping on average. People in Korea and Japan spend the least time sleeping in the world. American people are listed in the second place and they sleep more than 8.5 hours every day. Spanish people are considered as the third place. As for Chinese people, they also spend less and less time sleeping. Many people adjust sleeping hours according to work schedule and the more education they get, the fewer hours sleeping they obtain. It is estimated that about 30% people go to bed after the midnight. A part of people suffer from insomnia because of great pressure from work, so we can imagine that they can sleep less. Of course, that is a kind of disease.
Scientists have made some survey from people with different sleeping hours. As for young people, if they are lack of enough sleeping hours in a week, they will suffer from early diabetes. As for middle-age people, they will suffer from endocrine imbalance if lack of enough sleep. Inadequate sleep also restrains kids’ healthy growth. Therefore, experts strongly suggest people that they should sleep with enough hours because they could get great benefits for doing so. Firstly, enough sleeping will make people’s skin and hair become more beautiful. We can often find that people lack of sleep seems to be no good. Secondly, adequate sleep can bring normal endocrine. On the contrary, endocrine imbalance will come to people. Fertility may be even badly affected. Thirdly, adequate sleep can help people become stronger. People even do not need to go to the doctor when they catch cold if they always have enough hours for sleeping.

Disadvantages of Star-adoration

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

People of each generation have their own idols. In 1970s, most students considered revolutionary martyrs as idols such as Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang etc. In 1980s, some great scientists such as Einstein, Edison etc were idols in students’ mind. However, the situation in modern world is quite different. Star seems to have been the symbol of fashion and success and they have great outlook, perfect figure and wonderful voice. As for revolutionary martyrs and scientists, students can learn Great Spirit and achievement from them. But what can they learn from those so-called super stars? But star-adoration seems to have become a trend.
According to some survey from 256 students investigated, we can clearly know the trend of star-adoration. Most of students’ idols are stars but few are artists or writers. Half students said that they liked stars but not very much but many students liked them very much. Some students’ has been badly affected because of star-adoration. Most students just liked stars’ beautiful outlook and great voice but they know little about their characters. Some students dye hair, smoke, fight etc to imitate those stars. What is worse, they think it is very cool. Students also spend much on star-adoration though they cannot earn money. They buy many discs, the items which are used by stars, etc. Students’ star-adoration is blindness and they should be lead in a right way to set up right life value.
How can we help students to establish right value? We should know why they are addict to star-adoration first. There are mainly two reasons. First, in the modern world, media technology develops rapidly and stars looks more beautiful on various Media after embellishment by media. Second, star-adoration is also related with their psychology. In order to fill the emotional vacuum, meet the herd mentality and pursue fashion, they adore those stars too much. In such case, parents and teachers should take the following pressures to help students set up right life value and live a healthy life style. Middle and high school students are rebellious so parents and teachers cannot force them to do what they do not want to do. Otherwise, expected results cannot be obtained. Firstly, teachers and parents should analyze problems from the standpoint of students then they can know more about students’ psychology. A mother went for shopping with her kid. She was very happy but her kid was always crying. When she bent down, she found that the kid could just see the legs of different people. Naturally, it was very boring from the standpoint of her kid. Secondly, many teachers and parents wish to get good instant results. Actually, they ought to lead kids in a right way gradually. Most students adore stars irrationally so adults cannot criticize their idols directly and they can consider give suggestions to students about star-adoration. Thirdly, everyone has the right to have idols. Students can consider stars as idols. If they are not addict to star-adoration, that is ok. Adults can help them analyze the advantages and advantages of star-adoration. In addition, teachers can organize some activities in the class to discuss the topic of star-adoration then students can become rational through communication.

Usury

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

When people need money, they always to turn to relatives and friends for help and borrow money from them. And some can borrow money from banks through some ways. However, some other people have to choose usurious loan if they cannot get money by the two methods above. Although, they have known that they have to take great risks. Usurious loan nearly can be found in all countries.
In recent years, usurious loan has become a terrible social problem in Japan especially when the financial system entered into a vicious circle. In the year 2002, the police uncovered more than 222 companies and shops which provided usurious loan without license and they found that about 158.48 billion Yen of interest which was forcedly paid and 140 thousand people who suffered from usury. In the first half year of 2003, more than 1660 thousand people were involved in usury. A housewife from Osaka borrowed 15000 Yen from a shop which provided usury and the shop asked her to pay the interest of 100000 Yen. Afterwards, the interest became more and more and she was unable to repay it. Then the shop always sent people to her house and imposed threat on them for money. Finally, the elderly housewife could not bear the pressure and threat and committed suicide, leaving the testament of the crimes committed by the shop. Another man, who wanted to set up a company and he borrowed money from a company providing usury could not repay the money because various reasons. At last, his house was taken always by the company.
Economic depression has lashed all aspects of the society in America including people’s normal life especially those who make payments for their houses by installments. More and more American people cannot repay the house loan then they turn to payday loans with very high interest. Some experts said that such kind of loans would bring more risks and some criminal cases therefore occurred.
In China, usurious loan is also common. Many people have lost families even their life because of usurious loans. Usury can be found in many rural regions and in recent years, it has become more and more. According to some survey, usury and commercial capital operators and local evil people combined and they bullied the poor people together. During the spring time, farmers do not have enough money then they have to purchase fertilizers on credit. In such case, the suppliers would raise the price. For example, a bag of fertilizer was sold up to 200 RMB but the real price is just 80 RMB. When farmers cannot repay the money on time, they would take away farmers’ property but the latter cannot do anything. In addition, some bad people lure people to take drugs. In order to get drugs, those people have to borrow usurious loans and tragedy occurs consequently.
As for usurious loan, governments in all countries also have taken some pressures but usurious loan could not disappear. Instead, it seems to become more and more. How to solve the problem? Who knows? But we can just try our best to persuade people not to borrow usurious loans.

Road Rage

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

When more and more vehicles, especially cars provide great convenience to human beings, road rage also appear secretly. So what is the meaning of road rage? It refers people’s anger caused by stress and frustration when people are driving cars. People suffer from road rage can attack other people’s cars and passengers sometimes also can be attacked by drivers. As more and more people possess their own cars, more and more people will suffer from road rage which is a kind of mental illness. When you are driving a car, you can hear people behind you whistle until your car moves. Maybe you think the man is not educated and polite. Actually, he can suffer from road rage. As more cars appear in street, more conflicts due to sentiment occur and drivers always attack others or other people’s cars to release their anger. Neil from New York said that he was ever attacked by a man who suffered from road rage. He said that when he took a taxi and they encountered the terrible traffic jam, suddenly, the driver turned to him and slapped him. He also found that the driver seemed to be another man and violence occupied his eyes.
People suffer from road rage have some typical features. When they are driving, they become fretful and always can not control the anger. In addition, they have other obvious features. When they broke traffic rules and are found by traffic police, they will become very angry and they often argue with the traffic police. As some pedestrians do not abide by traffic rules, they are also very angry and give curse to pedestrians. Some even want to knock people down when they are in extreme anger. Some other people who suffer from road rage start to curse when they drive cars. A man was ever very gentle and steady but after he had a car, his wife found that his temper became very bad, especially when he was driving.
The groups of people who suffer from road rage are considered as the by-product in the automobile society. It is said that a traffic policewomen cursed a taxi driver about half an hour because her car was scratched. According to some survey in the year 2006, 59.8% drivers suffered from road rage and 80% people are long-distance truck drivers and 44.4% people are those who possess their own cars. In addition, 76.1% people are very angry when they encounter traffic jam, 64.1% start to curse when they start to drive cars and 63.4% people are very angry when they other cars surpass them or they find other cars are not in queue. Some days ago, a bus driver beat a passenger with a heavy stick. Some experts say that people suffer from road rage are those who have strong desire to control and cars are very good tools to be controlled. Once some interruption occurs in the street, drivers can not control cars at random. Therefore, they become very angry. In addition, people in the street do not know each other and therefore, drivers are prone to show their anger to strangers.
Road rage not only hurts drivers’ mentality but also causes accidents. Therefore, people who drive cars should adjust themselves as often as possible. They can also do sports to release the nervous and anxious sentiment and reduce stress.

Cross-dressing

Monday, August 16th, 2010

As the society moves advanced day by day, people also have changed their ideas towards various phenomenons. Diversification is the sign of the social progress. However, as for some phenomena, people still can not consider them as natural things; for example, cross-dressing is a topic dispute in our society. The Chinese public is abuzz about the recent cross-dressing contestant, Liuzhu, on the Super Boy reality show.
What is cross-dressing? The word originates from Japan and it refers that some men who are similar with women in outlook, voice, behavior and clothes etc. It also means newhalf which describes a man who has made the mental or physical transition to being a woman. Cross-dressing runs significantly counter to social norms and ,therefore, can be considered as a type of transgender behavior. However, it does not necessarily indicate transgender identity, a person who cross-dresses does not always identify as being of the opposite gender. Referring to a person as a cross-dresser suggests that their cross-dressing behavior is habitual. There many different kinds of cross-dressing and many different reasons why an individual might engage in cross-dressing behavior. Some people cross-dress as a matter of comfort or style. They prefer clothing associated with opposite sex.
Liuzhu, a student in Sichuan Music school, caught people’s attention because of his cosmetics, high-heel sandal and blue stockings. Even the judge asked he was a boy or a girl. When journalists interviewed Liu Zhu, he said that he was a boy physically but a girl mentally. His father also told journalists that when he was young, he did not like short hair and as he went to middle school, he started to remain his long hair. People like Liu Zhu do not like their physical body and wear women’s clothes. They have the awareness to change the gender. Journalists found that although Liu Zhu said that he did not want to accept sex change operations, he just worried about the risk of the operation. Actually, he wanted to become a girl. Some people say that Liu Zhu should go to the psychiatrist and a professor says that at present, cross-dressing is considered as psychological illness in China but in western countries, cross-dressing is normal in people’s mind. In February, cross-dressing has been deleted from psychological illness list in France. Generally speaking, cross-dressing is not a kind of psychological illness and those people also rarely turn to psychiatrists for help. At present, sex change operation is the only way to cure cross-dressing. However, experts also point out that cross-dressing is quite different from homosexual love and they just want to meet the mental need.
As for reasons of cross-dressing occurrence, people can not get accurate answers. But people think it is related with experience when they are young. Some parents provide girls’ clothes for their boys when they are young and their kids may become cross-dressers gradually. Some expert abroad also thinks that cross-dressing is congenital. Anyhow, cross-dressing is still considered abnormal in people’s mind. Therefore, people should pay much attention to kids’ growth. In addition, people should not discriminate cross-dressers because they are also human beings and they have basic human rights.

Harassment for “Knowledge Is Useless”

Monday, August 16th, 2010

In recent years, the idea of “knowledge is useless” has started to gain ground in some rural areas of China. As there are more and more university students in the society, competition for job hunting becomes fiercer and fiercer. It goes without saying that parents who are farmers in rural areas are very proud of children who are university students. However, situation has changed. A university student said that he was the model for other children about study when he was young, but his younger brother who just graduated from middle school was his model after he graduated from his university. Difficult job hunting and expensive tuition can not offer university students good return in short time and many university students are not confident in themselves. Many students start to doubt or even regret why they went to universities for study at first. In addition, their parents also regret that they borrow money from others for children’s tuition because they can not obtain expected return. Such idea has overspread in the society. Actually, a part of people have been enchanted by the bad idea.
A businessman from a village told the journalist that people went to school just for the diploma and they had to spend 17 to 18 years obtaining the diploma so they just wasted the time. When the man graduated from middle school, he started to learn from his father for business. When he was 23 years old, he started to have his own business and earned much money. On the contrary, some people who have entered famous universities but they could just get job with monthly salary no more than 2000RMB. Some even could not find a job. Such phenomenon has changed parents’ idea about university students in the village and they are no longer proud of their children who are university students. A principal from a middle school said that rich people went to school for the diploma and poor people went to school to support the family in future. In recent years, farmer’s income has increased but the tuition has increased more. Therefore, many students have dropped out. Higher tuition is just one reason and another important reason is that many parents think even children could go to university, they can not earn much money in future so they want children to work and earn money as soon as possible. As for university students, they also feel upset because they just get less salary than their fellow townsmen who just graduated from middle school and they do not dare to face parents and relatives.
A professor said that the idea of “knowledge is useless” not only reflects the social problem but also disadvantages of education. Actually, knowledge itself is not a mistake. On the contrary knowledge can make people wise. The problem is that education offered by school detaches production and practice but enterprises always prefer people who have knowledge of practice. In addition, people often have high expectation on education which in fact, has its own disadvantages. Many university students do not work hard at universities so it is hard for them to get good job after graduation. Therefore, people should not monotonously think knowledge is useless because hard job hunting is caused by various factors.

Rich Second Generation

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

As the gap between rich people and poor people becomes larger and larger, the life of rich people’s children and poor people’s children are quite different. The formal is called rich second generation and the latter is called poor second generation in the society. When new semester starts, students from rich families wear expensive clothes, carry laptop and drive excellent cars to school. Some students even carry safety deposit boxes to go to school. However, poor second generation can show people another scene. Many poor students even never see 100RMB with 10 pieces at a time. As for such phenomenon, people think what rich students do is to show off. Therefore, various criticism towards rich second generation can be often found. In fact, what rich second generation do is not reasonable in many times because they are born in rich families and spoiled by parents. Therefore, profligacy and extravagance are always associated with them.
However, some wise rich people do not offer much material comfort to children. On the contrary, they ask their children to hunt for job by themselves and undergo distress. As for education for children, Bill Gates and Buffett undoubtedly show an great example for people. In April of this year, when Bill Gates made speech in Stanford University, he said he would tell his children that they could not get much money from him and he would donate most money to poor people. In addition, he also encouraged his children to go to poverty regions to help poor people. Buffet has two sons and both of them do not inherit their father’s cause. One son is engaging farming and he even went to Africa to teach local people how to make use of high technology of farming. The other son also has his own career and he has made great achievements on music. Actually, many rich people abroad often encourage kids to work or become volunteers.
In China, many rich people obviously do not have such good awareness and they just offer children luxurious material life. However, a small part of rich people are still very wise. A man called Peter from Guangdong, completely depends on himself after he graduated from a university in England. Peter’s parents who start from scratch are very rich but their son just gets the salary of 1200RMB every month. Peter goes to work at 8:00am, have lunch near to his company and goes home at 5:30pm every day. He is working in a small technology company and his duty is to find buyers. If he can find more buyers, her can get higher salary. Peter said that his parents were very strict with him when he was young and he hoped that he could have his own business without his parents’ help.
If all children from rich families are independent and have right life value , resentment of the rich may not be so terrible in the world and our society will be much more harmonious. However, the reality always shows its ugly side.

Competition for Natural Gas

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Natural gas which can be obtained more easily has become the more environmental-friendly and cheaper petroleum alternative. In India, a barrel of petroleum is about 60$ but the same quantity of natural gas just costs about 20$. Experts have estimated that natural gas will be the most important fossil fuel in the world in future. In the past, people considered it as negligible by-product when they exploited petroleum. However, situation has completely changed nowadays and many countries are struggle for natural gas, especially for those countries which can consume a large quantity of energy and resource every year.
America, India, Japan and countries belonging to European Union are far from those countries which can produce abundant natural gas. In addition, those countries are not stable and natural gas sometimes has to be transported via some unstable and dangerous regions. China and India always establish close relationship with those countries which are rich in natural gas such as Iran, Qatar, Russia and some countries located in Middle Asia to meet the demand in future. America tries to realize the balance of demand for natural gas between Asian countries and itself so USA strongly opposes the construction of gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan. After long-time and difficult negotiation, India and Iran have signed the gas contract with the value up to 220 billion dollars. However, the competition for natural gas will become fiercer. As those countries which are major energy consumers need much more natural gas than what they have and import from other countries, the global energy crisis is likely to occur. It is predicted that by the year 2025, the demand for petroleum every day on the earth will be up to 1210 billion barrels to 1300 billion barrels. At present, people’s demand for petroleum every day all over the world is 840 billion barrels. America is the largest energy consumer in the world. China and India also have to import much petroleum to meet the need for increasing cars and 70% raw petroleum in India has to be imported from other countries. New Delhi also tries to establish another pipeline from Burma through Bangladesh and the agreement has passed.
As for competition for natural gas, India does not want to infuriate America so, like other countries, India always develops its nuclear energy. In the past, American president Bush said that they would help India and China improve the utilization of petroleum. However, such friendly diplomatic words rarely appear again when all countries start to struggle for natural gas. In addition, European Union has to face up to intense competition from China on the natural gas in Middle Asian countries. Economic crisis in Europe also has reduced European countries’ demand for natural gas. Therefore, two projects for natural gas pipeline establishment called Nabucco and South Stream are hampered. At the end of last year, China and Middle Asian countries have opened up the first cross-border gas pipeline which can transport 400 billion cubic meters gas to China every year from 2013. However, Nabucco pipeline for European countries has delayed. Russia is the largest gas supplier for European countries but they are also political rivals so it is not an easy job to establish pipeline between Russia and European countries. Therefore, European countries can have more challenges for gas competition.
In recent days, natural gas competition is becoming fiercer and there will be intense disputes on the earth.

Pursuit of Thrift

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

In the modern world, people have different ideas for consumption compared those of people in the past. Nowadays, excessive consumption and profligacy are very common all over the world. Many young people consider profligacy as natural behavior and they even look upon those who pursue thrift. As for such phenomenon, we can just worry about the distorted life value of young people and that is indeed a big social problem.
However, being gratified, in some countries, pursuit of thrift can be found in various aspects of social life. Holland is famous for its “closeness” and there is a joke which can fully give the evidence. A passenger asked the stewardess when the plane flied across Holland, “what are the white belts on the ground?” “people dry the used white tissue in order to reuse it.” It is very funny but it can show that people in Holland do not like to waste and squander. The joke is a kind of exaggeration but people in Holland are proud of their “closeness”. They call themselves as “miser” and they have also organized clubs for miser. They pursue thrift all their life. When they purchase cars, they first consider the fuel-efficiency and practical functions. They use the remained water which is saved from cooking water to wash plates. Each family has plan for daily expenditure every month and they seldom spend more than the family budget. Actually, those “misers” just want to send items which they do not use any more to those who need them and they pursue the society with enough equality. In Swiss, pursuit of thrift can be also easily found everywhere. It is estimated that people in Swiss can obtain 30,000$ annually on average and their income ranks the first place in European countries. They have careful calculation and strict budgeting in all aspects of life. In Swiss, a large number of people own cars but luxury cars are rarely found and most are common cars. Swiss is also a kingdom for watches and many famous watches are made in the country such as Rolex, Omega and Radar etc. However, most people in Swiss just wear very common watches. We can also find that houses in Swiss are very simple, clean and elegant instead of luxury. Housewives like to buy simple cleaning products and they also collect rain to clean bathroom and toilet. Japan is another country which also pursue thrift. As we all know, Japan is an island nation and Japanese people do not have abundant resources. In such case, the awareness of thrift even seeps into their bones and blood. Japanese people like use water repeatedly and they use the water which has been used to clean plates to clean floor. They also use the water which has been used to clean vegetables to water flowers or clean toilet. Power companies, gas companies and water bureau etc also teach people how to reduce the expenditure. In some public places, lift can be found but if no one uses it, the lift can not work. Japanese people also prefer small cars which can save steel and petrol.
If all countries can follow the awareness of thrift all the time, maybe people today do not need to worry about the dilemma of energy and environment so much.

Hacker

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

In ordinary people’s mind, hacker is very mysterious and they are young people who are very cute and energetic. They can crack various passwords to intrude computer systems of government, enterprises and individuals. So what is the meaning of hacker? Hacker comes from the word “hack” and among the school slangs of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “hacker” was considered as trick with skillful methods in early times. At that time, the word “hacker” did not contain derogatory sense. People generally consider that hacker came from the laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950s and hackers are energetic and keen on solving difficulties. In 1960s and 1970s, the word “hacker” contains complimentary sense and hackers meant those people who abided by laws and put all hearts to computer research. They were heroes for computer technology development. Password cracking, trapdoor, backdoor and Trojan gorse etc are worked out at that time. In 1960s, computer was not very popular but in 1980s and 1990s, computer started to play an important role in the society and there was more and more large database. At the same time, information was also grasped by a small number of people. Therefore, hackers thought it was not equal because they thought that information should be shared by all people. Then they started to pay attention to various databases. In such case, their behavior was also restricted by related laws.
As for hackers, people nowadays always think that they are bad men who steal privacy of others. Actually, an excellent hacker will not steal others’ information at random. But people still have the awareness to prevent the refraction from some hackers. At present, hackers mainly have the following methods to get others’ information. First, they obtain the password of others and the method is the most harmful among all methods. They can get the passwords of those account s with low safety within some seconds. Second, they make use of Trojan gorse to intrude others’ computers and the virus pretends as tool program or game. When users follow the steps, the virus starts to work. Hackers then can get all information of users’ computers and control computers. Third, hackers make use of “www” technology to cheat users. When users browse some websites or pages which have been revised by hackers, hackers can easily achieve their goals. Fourth, hackers send thousands of emails to users with counterfeit IP addresses or pretend as the administrator and send email to users to ask them change passwords then they can send users virus at the same time. However, if users are very careful, they can avoid the cheating. Fifth, hackers use some monitoring tools to intrude users’ computers such as Netxray for windows95/98/nt, sniffit for linux and solaries etc which can easily get users’ information of account and password. Sixth, many systems have various bugs which always attach to operation system or software so it is very easy for hackers’ invasion. There are some other methods for hackers’ invasion and they always look for more advanced ways.
As users, we should not dislike all hackers because some of them are good people. Meanwhile, we have to learn how to protect our computers and prevent some hackers’ intruding.

Counterfeit Mineral Water

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

As it gets hotter and hotter, people have more demand for water and mineral water has strong market in hot summer. Therefore, mineral water with various brands has appeared in the market. However, some people also produce counterfeit mineral water and sell it to consumers at cheaper price. The counterfeit mineral water is harmful to people’s health, especially to children, elder people and pregnant women. In such circumstance, related department also has taken some pressures to punish those criminals who could be found in many regions of China.
In Lanzhou city, Gansu province, the Trade and Industry Bureau got report from citizens and they were told that some people put running water into the bottles of mineral water as real mineral water without any purification and sterilization and they sold the water to consumers to get great profits. The plant for counterfeit mineral water production is hidden secretly and even local people do not know it. When law enforcement officers reached the place, they found that several people were carrying the counterfeit mineral water in barrel. Then officers started to knocked the door but no one opened the door. Finally, with the help of local police station, they entered the plant successfully. Officers found that those criminals directly put the running water into some barrels with labels of some famous brands but a criminal said that they were the agent for those famous brand. In fact, they could not show the contracts with companies of famous brands. Officers have also found several hundred barrels with logo of famous brands. In Wenchang county, Hainan province, the Trade and Industry Bureau also have seized some criminals who produced counterfeit mineral water of a famous brand and told the details to the famous company which was very appreciated. In Shenzhen city, with the help of local people, the police station and Trade and Industry Bureau found a counterfeit mineral water production den. Criminals have finished the production of hundreds of cartons of counterfeit mineral water. Unfortunately, criminals have successfully escaped and officers could just ruin the counterfeit mineral water. In Henan province, some criminals not only produced counterfeit mineral water but also produced counterfeit drinks. When law enforcement officers entered a den, the person in charge immediately asked workers to dismiss. The person told officers that they had sold more than 70,000 bottles of counterfeit mineral water to the market and their customers were mainly small shop owners. Officers have found a large number of abandoned bottles in the warehouse. In Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province, some criminals just filtered the running water simply and put it into bottles to sell at low price. Some bosses who have factories thought the price was very good and purchased the water to their workers for drinking. In Xi’an city of Shanxi province, officers have found that criminals produced counterfeit mineral water in a small rented house and they could sell much water every day.
According to examples above, consumers should pay more attention to mineral water quality. People should go to big supermarket or shops to buy mineral water. In addition, consumers ought to learn how to distinguish real mineral water and counterfeit mineral water.

Trafficking of Women

Monday, August 9th, 2010

In order to pursue wealth or benefit, people can rack their brain to obtain it and they even ignore the laws. People can get benefit from various legal ways of trade but some people show more interest in illegal activities because they can get much more benefit. Trafficking of women is a terrible illegal trade since ancient times and the illegal activity can be found in all countries all over the world.
According to some report, in some villages located in Asia, few young ladies can be found because they have been decoyed, kidnapped or sold by bad people. Some of them have been sold to brothels, some have been sold and they are forced to be some men’s wives and some others have been sold like slaves who have to engage in hard work. Trafficking of women can be not only found in Asia, it can be also found in other countries. It is estimated that about 700,000 women are trafficked as slaves in modern world and 50,000 of them are sold to America. Trafficking of women often happens at the junction of borders between two countries due to open policy. In recent years, trafficking of women has flourished secretly at the border between China and Vietnam. Many women from Vietnam have been trafficked into interior area of China and they are forced to become prostitute or wives of local men. A journalist pretended as a buyer and a female seller told him that if he spent 10,000 RMB, he could take a lady. In addition, the journalist also found that it was very easy to find sells who engage in the trafficking of women. When the journalist enter into a hotel, a naked lady from Vietnam pat her and said repeatedly, “30RMB”. A person told the journalist that more than 100 women from Vietnam were forced to be prostitute there and the lowest price for a sexual activity was about 13RMB. When the police in local area intended to destroy the brothel and send those women back to their country, they came back again.
In the border between China and Vietnam, people started to intermarry since ancient times. Continuous wars in Vietnam have taken a large number of men’s lives away so local women were ready to marry men in Guangxi which is closely next to Vietnam. However, in the middle of 1990s, women from Vietnam was in short supply and trafficking of women therefore bloomed. Some experts have found that in every villages of Guangxi province. Women from Vietnam are very hard-working and have good ability for language learning. Therefore, men have much interest on them. In addition, as the domestic situation becomes stable in Vietnam, many women so not want to marry men in other regions. In such circumstance, trafficking of women occurs more. Apart from the women from Vietnam are trafficked into China, women from Burma which is next to China are often sold to China. They have the same trouble as that of women from Vietnam. When they are young, they are forced to become prostitutes and as they become older, they are sold to poor men as wives. So venereal disease is not rare in those villages.
Trafficking of women has violated human rights and also belongs to transnational crime. The international community has paid much attention to the problem but it seems to be useless.

Mental Illness for People in Modern World

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

According to a report recently, the number of people who suffer from mental illness has exceeded the number of people who suffer from cardiovascular disease and mental illness has ranked first among all illnesses with rate up to 20%. Experts have estimated that the people with mental illness will occupy 25% of the total population with diseases at the beginning of the 21st century.
As the modernization develops rapidly and the pace of people’s life moves faster and faster, the number of people who suffer form mental illness has correspondingly increased. So what kind of factors which cause mental illness for people in the modern world? Reasons are as follows, first, so-called white-collar staff work under great pressure and intensive atmosphere. They can not adjust themselves properly so over some time, they will suffer from anxiety, depression and other mental disease. In addition, spirit with high-tension for a long time will cause endocrine disorder, decreased immunity and other physical illness. Sometimes, people die of over work. Second, in modern world, more and more couples divorce and break up. In such circumstance, people can be very sad when their lovers leave. If they can not led by proper help, they may have some unexpected behavior. According to a report in China, more than 70% people who have lost marriage need psychological help. Third, many people, especially teenagers are addicted in internet. It is good for people to make use of internet properly, but when they spend most on it, they will be badly influenced by unhealthy ideas. Consequently, they may have bad behavior or detach the society. Fourth, poverty life can make people suffer from mental disorders. Two groups of people suffer from metal illness too much and they are laid-off workers and poor students in universities and colleges. Laid-off workers have to bear much pressure because they do not have job and money. In all universities and colleges, the number of poor students takes up 15% to 20% and 60% of them have mental illness. Fifth, many young people pursue success on career within a short time and they also can not bear the failure. When they encounter great failure, they can give up themselves and are addicted into drinking, smoking and other bad behaviors. In addition, some students can not get good results on study but their parents and teachers impose much expectation on them, then they have to face up with much pressure. Some student can not bear the pressure so they may have extreme behaviors. Sixth, some children do not have sisters and brothers and they are also spoiled by parents. When they have failure on relationship with others, they can suffer from autism and other diseases about interrelationship. Seventh, some people engage in speculation suffer from metal illness when they can not get profit after they have spent too much. They always feel anxious. Eighth, more and more elder people feel lonely when their kids grow up. Maybe they have good material life but they can not get enough care from children and the society. 50% to 80% elder people with diseases due to mental illness.

Harmful Effects of Staying up Late

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

In ancient times, when the Sun rises, people get up and start to work and people go to sleep when the Sun goes down. That is a regular lifestyle and people is used to accepting the daily schedule. Staying up late is harmful to people’s health because both ACTH and growth hormone in man’s body start to secrete when people are asleep. The ACTH secrete before daybreak and it promotes carbohydrate in the body to metabolize and protect muscle development. The latter is produced after people are in asleep and it can help teenagers grow up well and postpone senescence. Therefore, the best time for sleeping in a day is from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am.
Staying-up and pressure can badly affect people’s normal secretion and metabolism to cause the loss of water in skin. In addition, people will also have wrinkle, black eyes and acne etc. if people often stay up, they will often feel very tired and their immunity also becomes weak. If people stay up for a long time, they will suffer from insomnia, forgetfulness, irritability and anxiety. If people are over fatigued, their nervous system will suffer from dysfunction such as arrhythmia, endocrine disorders and other adverse reactions. People who are very tired have more chance to suffer from infectious disease then people with healthy lifestyle. Sleeping experts say that sleeping is the very important physiological process for metabolism and regular and reasonable sleeping lifestyle can help people enhance immunity. What kind of harmful effects of staying up late can be produced? First, people’s immunity will be weak and those who often stay up are prone to suffer from disease. In addition, people staying-up can not concentrate on the work or study next day. Second, people who often stay up also suffer from gastrointestinal crisis. When people stay up, they often eat some food late at night. In such case, the stomach can not rest well and they easily suffer from gastric mucosal erosion and ulcer. Third, people who often stay up have more chance to suffer from heart disease. Fourth, people are prone to be fat if they often stay up because they often eat food late at night. Fifth, people may be deaf when they stay up to play games and dance. Sleeping shortage can cause insufficient blood supply and it is easier for people to be deaf. Sixth, the skin will be aging very soon if people often stay up. Seventh, people’s memory will be bad if they often stay up. Actually, there are more harmful effects if people often stay up.
In modern times, people have to bear much pressure and they have to stay up sometimes. In such circumstance, people should pay much attention to how to keep themselves healthy. They should eat some fruit, vegetable and some food with protein such as meat and egg but it is bad to eat much. In addition, people should often take exercise to be strong or take small nap when necessary. Anyhow, people should try their best not to stay up late.

Hand-foot-and-mouth Disease

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is the infectious disease caused by intestinal virus and kids below 5 years old are the main sufferers. Kids suffering from the disease have herpes in mouth, oral cavity and on the feet. Some patients have other complications such as myocardities, pulmonary edema and aseptic meningoencephalitis etc and a small number of kids die of hand-foot-and-mouth disease. How is the fatal disease infected among people? Firstly, when people have intimate contact and the virus will be spread the infected towel, handkerchief and other small items. Public instrument can also transmission the virus. Secondly, secretions from the throat can transmission virus. Thirdly, people also can be infected by the disease when they use the water or food which is used by patients. Fourthly, people eat the food which is bitten by flies with virus.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is the global infectious disease and most countries all over the world ever have some report about the disease. In 1957, New Zealand first reported the disease. In 1958, coxsackie virus was separated and in 1959, the disease was named HMFD. The pathogens of hand-foot-and-mouth disease were Cox A16 after research in early times. In 1970s, EV71 was found related with hand-foot-and mouth disease and in 1972, EV71 was first confirmed in USA. Afterwards, Cox A16 and EV71 appeared alternately. In the year 1972,1973, 1986 and 1999, EV71 ever appeared in Australia. In the middle of 1970s, EV71 was popular in Bulgaria where 750 people suffered from the disease, 149 people were paralyzed and 44 people died and Hungary. in 1994, 952 patients who suffered from the disease were found in England. Japan is the country where people ever suffered from hand-foot-and-mouth disease many times. From the year 1969 to 1970, people are mainly infected by Cox A16. In 1973 and 1978, EV71 was popular. From 1997 to 2000, the disease came to Japan again and both Cox A16 and EV71 could be found. At the end of 1990s, the terrible disease started to arrive in east Asia countries. In 1997, people in Malaysia suffered from the disease and 2628 people from April to August were infected by the virus. In 1981, hand-foot-and-mouth disease was found in Shanghai, China and then it spread to other provinces. At present, hand-foot-and-mouth disease is found in Guangzhou, China. According to some survey, a doctor can receive 30 patients every day. The disease appears every two or three years and in 2008, it has already shown the peak and the spreading seems to continue. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease has obvious seasonal features. From April to July last year, it showed the peak and from October to November, it showed the peak again. In this year, the disease seems to arrive in advance.
As for the fatal disease, both people themselves and kindergartens and primary school should take some precaution pressures. Parents should help kids wash hands before and after dinner, keep all items of kids clean and deal with daily pollutants properly. Parents should not let kids drink raw water, take kids to crowed places and when they find kids not well, they should take kids to hospital as soon as possible. Kindergartens and primary school should also keep the environment clean and sterilize all instruments for kids. In addition, hospitals should also sterilize all items and make patients separate from healthy people.