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Question 2

zheniran — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:23:36 +0000

In this picture.There were too many European people came to the United States. l think that those immigrants wanted to find new lives in the United Stated. However, it was a long trip on the sea, and it was so crowed. I mean that there were too many people on this ship, and I think this ship was not enough to take them. So, they had to share places and washroom and meals and everything else. Generally speaking, the environment of this trip was too bad, I guess that for a lot of those immigrants, they were suffering the bad environment. That’s whay I think this is a really bad trip, they were on the way which approach to the war.

Reading 4 Summary, Edited

zheniran — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:01:42 +0000

The article “ AIDS – Not Someone Else’s Problem” which published in Making Connections by Kenneth J. Parkenham writes that in the end of 1970s, AIDS was just appeared in United States. And all the treatments were unuseful. At the very beginning, AIDS was not common, but the government tried to make it as a secret. There are three ways which people could get AIDS, medical institutions were starting doing research on AIDS. Between 1984 and 1989, more and more people in United States got AIDS. However, the rate of infection fell, AIDS spreaded so fast in United States. What’s worse, AIDS became a global problem within few years, so many countries and people were suffering from it, especially in Africa. Though, many medical institutions has begun to do research on AIDS since it just appeared, because of AIDS virus could change so quick that there is no way to make people who has AIDS get well. As we all knew, everyone could prevent themselves from AIDS in someway, and those researchs are keep doing.

Charts

zheniran — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:27:49 +0000

Charts on 43
According to the chart, from 1950 to 2000, the United States is facing the aging problem, the percentage of older people increased and 3 percent, so that these old people could live longer because of health care. However, as the percentage of teens decreased, I think, more or less, the population of America is decreased. As this rate, in 2050, more old people will have health care.

chart on 45
According to this chart, the difference between wealthier and poorer countries is obvious. It all depends on money, in wealthier countries, the people have better health care, so that they can live better, longer and healthier. However, just because the poorer countries do not have so much money to make their health care system better, the people there could not get a good health care, maybe they even do not have any health care systems.

Feb. 24th- Answers

zheniran — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:56 +0000

1. What are the effects of rising health care costs in richer countries?
First of all, to support health care system, those wealthier countries have to spend lots of money on it. Moreover, the insurance became more expensive, this is the most important problem, so that it is hard to buy for many people who have lower income.
2. What are the factors that contribute to rising health care costs?
More and more old people need to get health care, as the research and this system costs more, people has to spend more money on it.

summary : Better Health for Everyone: Health Care in Two Worlds

zheniran — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:40:16 +0000

The article ” Better Health for Everyone: Health Care in Two Worlds” found in Making connections by Kenneth J. Pakenham writes Every country in the world, they all have healthe care for their people. However, because some of them are rich, some are not, so, their heath care system are different. But they all want to make it better. Ang these countries are two worlds.

Answer

zheniran — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:07:56 +0000

1. how do people pay for their health care?
As I know, most of people have health guarantees from governments. Depends on what kinds of jobs the people have, they could get different kinds of guarntees.

2. What are the strengths and weakness of the health care system?
I think it is really helpful to everyone for yheir health. However, this system is designed by government. I think more or less, some people would think it is unfair.

Summary Reading 4:

zheniran — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:59:21 +0000

The article “ AIDS – Not Someone Else’s Problem” which published in Making Connections by Kenneth J. Parkenham writes in the end of 1970s, AIDS was appeared in United States. And all the treatments were unuseful. At the very beginning, AIDS was not common, but the government tried to make it as a secret. There are three ways which people could get AIDS, medical institutions were starting doing research on AIDS. Between 1984 and 1989, more and more people in United States got AIDS. However, the rate of infection fell, AIDS spreaded so fast in United States. What’s worse, AIDS became a global problem within few years, so many countries and people were suffering from it. Though, many medical institutions has begun to do research on AIDS since it just appeared, because of AIDS virus could change so quick that there is no way to make people who has AIDS get well. Everyone could prevent themselves from AIDS in someway, and those researchs are keep doing.

Summary and Response 2

zheniran — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:29:15 +0000

Summary: In the article “ Living Longer And Happier”. The author has given us the news about the development of gene therapy. The researchers from the University of Missouri have issued the result of a new study which might be useful to humans. This new study is going to help people with aging, the new study is to make old people live longer and have more activities. They have already tested it on mice, and it worked well. However, it haven’t workeds on humans so far.

Response: The title of this article is “Living Longer And Happier”, this is a piece of news about gene therapy from the University of Mussouri. A new study of gene just had a test on mice, this study is to resolve the aging problems of the world, it mignt be work in the future to make old people live longer and get more activities. The test on mice was successful and gave the researchers more information about it. In the article, Dongsheng Duan said that their results suggest similar therapy may one day improve the life quality of the elderly and this could have important implications for many diseases. This is what they hope, I think as the develoment of teconology progresses, all these kinds of gene therapy which are helpful to human will be successful.

Summary and Response

zheniran — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:26:54 +0000

Summary: In the article “ Living Longer And Happier”. The author has given us the news about the development of gene therapy. The researchers from the University of Missouri have issued a result of a new study which might be useful to humans. This new study is going to help people with aging, the new study is to make old people live longer and get more activities. They have already tested it on mice, and it worked well. However, it would not work on humans so far.

Response: The tile of this article is “Living Longer And Happier”, this is a piece of news about gene therapy from the University of Mussouri. A new study of gene has just tested on mice, this study is to remit the aging problems of the world, it mignt be work in the future to make old people live longer and get more activities. The test on mice was successful and gave the researchers more information about it. In the article, Dongsheng Duan said that their results suggest similar therapy may one day improve the life quality of the elderly and this could have important implications for many diseases. This is what they hope, I think as the develoment of teconology develops, all these kinds of gene therapy which are helpful o human would be successful.

URL

zheniran — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:49:02 +0000

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819164321.htm