Arvonne Fraser's class

Las wedensday, we were given a great lecture by Arvonne Fraser. The lecture mainly talks about the women rights and the movment of women the United States. Arvonne talked about her expericane for many years with helping women to get their rights by starting many organaizations. She had a great carrer and she did a lot for women. Although she has six children, she was able to make a balance between her carrer and her family life. In addition, she worked in many high postions. Arvonne let us ask questions and she had good responses to all of the student questions after the lecture. It was intersting to me when she confidently said that she believs that one day a woman might be the president of the United States, and we almost there.

Two days later , we had a class with Lynne because our teacher Alyessa went to a conference in Denver. At the very beging of the class, we interduced ourselves by telling our names, where we come from and what is our best cities. Arvonne said that she is a retired ESL teacher but she come to teach sometimes because she loves teaching ESL students, which was intersting to me.

After interducing ourselves, we disscused in groups the Lecture, each one mantioned what did s/he like about the lecture. It was intersting to hear others opinion. After that, we took a quiz about the same lecture.

At the end of the class, Lynne said that she enjoyed bieng with us and we thanked her for spending some time with us.

Women, Education, and Development

Hello ! guess what? yesterday i had a big lecture in Rapson hall about women and education. it was difficult note-taking lecture because our speaker tried to focus on many points and jumped back and forth on those issues. any way our lecturer, Arvonne Fraser, was great; she is a patient woman who dedicate her life to creating equal right for women around the world. she began her lecture with interesting information that she has gained through her career in the U.N. she pointed out that there are 10 critical issues on women development. one good example that she gave us was a violence against women in 1995. she talked about many conventions that occurred in U.N, including the theme "equality, employment, and peace." she asserted that educated women have fewer children. to conclude her lecture, i think she still believe that there is a gap between men and women, many women are still facing illiterate.

Bill Gate: Focusing on philanthropy

hello very body! i really hope you know Bill Gate the richest man in the world. in this audio, it is about his charity, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates talked about the background of his foundation and the problem facing philanthropy. his friend, Warren Buffett, supported him to do a charity organization to help the poor. he was proud to be able to share his fortune with famine. He mentioned about AIDS and polio that are spreading in these day, so we need to help solving these issues. unfortunately, the currently financial crisis affects his ability to donate money for philanthropy. as well as his company, over 1,000 employee were laid off. so that financial factor might decline his budget of philanthropy next year.



more information click this link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99816984

Advice on Giving to Charities

I have listened to this audio “Advice on Giving to Charities”, you can find it at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17588744

This audio in general is talking about the best ways to choose a charity in order to donate. The host talked with Michelle Singletary to ask her to give some advice to many people who don’t know how to choose a charity. At the very begging, the host pointed out that Americans have donations have risen last year.
Michelle said that choosing something that you are concerned about is a good way to choose charity. Moreover, she said “direct donations are the best way to give”. Michelle also mentioned some websites that might help to decide where to donate.
According to Michelle, doing some good researches is a good way to spend your money in the right place. Those were some good suggestions to know how to donate.

2008 big buzzward in giving:micro

I just listened to the article about small donation, the audio like as following:

the guest is a philanthropy consultant Lucy Bernholz. The moderator is Kai Ryssdal.

they talked about trends afoot which designed to keep donation flowing. Under this tough economic times, some technique made donation easy and work well. In 2008, the buzzword expressed the ways of giving; micro philanthropy which is to chop big chunk money into small to assist self-sustaining entrepreneur; mobile gifting which is to donate small amount of money just by using mobile phone text message; good gifting which is small gift targeting to their favorite charity and satisfying the donator's charitable impulses.

I believe even in the downtime there are peoples want to help; the business market or charity make these good willing happen, this is the wonderful thing we can thanks the humanity and kindness.

Wal-Mart Still OK !

I have listened to this report. It’s a short one. “Wal-Mart still OK in economic slowdown”, you can listen to it at http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/17/walmart/ .

The reporter was talking about “Wal-Mart “which is huge store where you can find many
different things such as food, clothes and furniture. It’s located on many different states. The
reporter states that even though the economic is suffering “Wal-Mart” is still doing well and earning a lot of money. He said that one of the most important reasons is advertising because they spend about 300 million on advertising which is a small number comparing with what they are earning. Moreover, they sell tons of food and their prices are cheap. “Wal-Mart has been one bright spot”.

what is a green job

I just listened to a radio program names 'what kind of green jobs will stimulus spawn', the URL as below: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=100497752&m=100497716

New president promised bring new job opportunity to this country, revitalize the society. Some new idea? maybe this green job have be defined in a new way, or it is a new persepective.

The clip mentioned new energy technology like wind turbulence project which will creat jobs dispersing in whole energy produce, transmission and operation life cycle.

this definitely will bring some green consumer component into society. but I like the idea that weatherizing house which will save energy by wasting and consuming, and there is a huge market there waiting for money to put in to start.

I am very glad that information technology also counter in this evolution to improve efficience, even it would cause eliminating some traditional job. but we can really put money on the needs, and create better productivity.

family's financial issues and children

hi my blog fans! welcome to better life again. this week, the podcast is going to be about financial problems over the topic "telling children about financial problems" from this link http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100774287. the main idea of this broadcast is to do your best to deal financial issues with my children. don't panic children about outing of budget and don't try pull them involved in financial problems because they don't anything about that; it is adult world. Try to avoid those panic from children by explaining carefully to them, for example, " we're budgeting" kids; we have to save money for your collage. don't just say; " you can't have that" because i am fired or i don't have work now, so we can't buy it. moreover, even if we lost work and had to move to other settle because we can't afford to pay it; we still need to make it clear for our children. for instance, Hi kids, we "have financial difficulty, we've to move, we love you"; we don't want to do this because we know you love this house so much, but we have to go for a while to make sure we got money then we will come back again. we have to say something ensuring them instead of panic them like " they gonna take out all staff". anyway, the best way to avoid those panic are "being honest and positive to our children about financial problems"

Newspaper problem

Here is a topic i found interesting to listen to - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100256908. the news i listened to was about the issue of decreasing profits over many newspapers companies throughout the U.S. The reporter asked people how they got news and what they looked for when reading newspapers; he also had discussion over the newspaper problems. the companies he mentioned in this podcast are Courant, the Tribune, and the New York Time; but he focused only Courant. Many people believed that Courant will be close due to its loosing "circulation and advertising revenues"; and the way people get news in these day. he said, today, the stuff of this company was about half of the stuff it had "a decade ago"; however, as many big companies, Court is not going to be closed, but it might not report some unimportant news to save its budget. for example, the New York Time will stop report about "the local basketball teams or the local color stories". And Courant might use this solution too.

Dilemma in current budget

Government's job quality and policy seem a little bit far from individual life, and as my past experience, it seems irrelevant to my personal life, which I mean that their jobs impact my life but vice verse does not exist. Here Individual has more personal power I have ever see, so why we do not pay attention to the detail.


I just listened to this audio which is interesting to me, the URL is here:http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/02/revenue_raiser/

In general, it talked about budget, deficit and how to fill the hole.

The Movie Maven's take on Oscar nominations

I have listened to this article during my oral skills class on Tuesday 3.Feb.2009.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/22/midday2/

This article is talking about Oscar nominations for this year 2009. The host of the program was interviewing a guest who is called Maven Stephanie. They were discussing couple of movie which were nominated to be one of the Oscar winners for 2009. She said her opinions about those movies and whether she agrees or not that they deserve to be nominated.
According to Maven, there were not too many good movies for 2009 and most of the movies were not good.

One of the movies that she did not like at all is The Dark Knight which was one of the most popular movies on last year,however, she thinks that it was boring and too long and she hoped if it was shorter and more direct to the point. She said that she loved watching Slumdog Millionaire because it was interesting for her and very professional .

In my opinion, I think that The Dark Knight was one of the most interesting movie on 2009 because of its great story and great actors as well. Even though it was kind of long I don't think that can makes it boring.