Trapped by son's DNA

Today we looked at a article from Metro which was related to Surveillance society as well as the study for modal verbs. Steve asked us to be one of the characters who appeared on the article and to write a paragraph about 'what happened and how you feel now.' So I have decided to pretend to be a murderer.

What happened when you murdered Vicky and how do you feel now?
The murder was completely carried out as planned. After I raped her only to satisfy my sexual desire, I killed her because she should not have been alive any more to keep it secret. I decided that it had to seem ilke a perfect crime, but there was the biggest mistake in my life that I left her purse by the front door which was close to my son's bed. It was when I was hiding her dead body in my garden. The purse on which my toddler's saliva was put might never have been forgotten. It could be said that I should have cared about his behaviour, though I could not imagine that the technology of DNA study would advance to this extent which we can use for solving criminals now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7690005.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4087380.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25essay.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=surveillance%20society&st=cse

1/Dec/08

Today for my self-study, I searched what I am going to study next semester, which is internship. I am planning to do internship for one of enterprise companies. As a preparation for this, I had a look at their web-page.

In the web-page, they offer a piece of information for their clients. According to this page, the company is a specialist business incubator and supports especially some kinds of business which are like information and communication technology, interactive media, e-learning and design.

The most important thing is that there is anything to do by myself for my internship. So I need to ask someone who is in charge of this programme something to do for this.


Thank you for your reading.

24/Nov/08 TED.com

Today for my self study I watched lecture on TED.com which is relevant to my subject 'business'. The lecturer was from Bangladesh and an advocate of humanitarian tool business. You can see the meaning of humanitarian tool business from my notes about the lecture below.

As you probably know, Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries. In the countries one five-hundredth has a mobile phone. One day when the lecturer was a child, he needed to get a medicine from a doctor for his mother without calling the doctor beforehand. Arriving at the hospital, there was not anyone and he waited for the doctor all the afternoon but the doctor did not appear. With this example, the lecturer wanted to explain about productivity. The more they have mobile phones, the less they tend to waste of time like that case above.

Well, why do not they have enough mobile phones?
That is because lack of the power to buy them in poor countries. The reason why they lack of the power is that they do not have infrastructures for mobile phones; no credit checks, a few bank branches to collect bills, a few contact points for customer services.

On the other hand, however, the impact of installing mobile phone system in less GNP countries is huger than in more GNP countries. Therefore it is seen by the lecturer as a valuable investment to spread mobile phone over the countries.

Self-study for the seminar about media

In order to prepare for the seminar about media, I have read following articles. And they also had a good to increase vocabulary and collocations for academic writings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/04/comment.pressandpublishing

to filter out falsehood
One of main purposes of media is to filter out falsehood.

a conduit for propaganda
Media have become a conduit for propaganda of the political party.

Fleet Street
Current Fleet Street are filling with three times as much editorial space as they were in 1985.

feral child bully
There is usually a feral child bully in a class of a primary school.

feel heresy
It feels heresy for strict Christians not to go to the church on Sundays

http://www.ppu.org.uk/education/media_violence_survey-c.html

be reinforced by media content
The trend of violent behavior among children is reinforced by media content.


be on the rise(increasing now)
People who want to live in urban areas are on the rise in Japan.


with the advent of something

Communication has become easier over the last ten years with the advent of mobile phones.

Homework and sel-study 20/Nov/08

''diligent janitor''

For today's homework, I read the article about habits of TV programmes from the textbook. That is also useful to study collocation. I found four unfamiliar collocations below.

take it for granted that...
I take it for granted that they will get married.
I do not take it for granted that you listen to me.


be conscious of/that
I am conscious that there are some necessities to work on my pronunciation.


lazy janitor
The lazy janitor of that huge building has really gorgeous office which is not reflected his actual work.



For 2nd homework today

In almost all something to read, there must be unfamiliar words. Then we do not need to be panicked because we can guess what the word mean from the rest of the sentence. In order to get this skill, we need some training for that. And I did it in the article which Steve gave us in the class and the title was 'Political Campaigns and the media.'

a specific protocol; a unique procedure

definition of protocol: rule

Fiber-optic cable; something new and advanced cable

definition of fiber-optic:the science of technology of light transmission

digital compression; saving something by digital technique

definition of compression:to make something smalle, especially by pressing it

to be a rarity;to become reality
definition:to be unusual

a presumption;a thing which should be done

definition:when you belive something is true without and proof

disparities;gaps/differences

definition:inequalities

extract rationalizations

definition:to improve the way a business is organized, usually by getting rid of people

discretion of the publisher;opinion of the publisher

definition:when someone is careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention,

especially by keeping something secret.

To obtain information for my essay about media, I read some articles below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2836157.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4403224.stm

My homework and self study

Today we also looked at how we can recognize better collocations in the new articles and how to increase my lists of new vocabulary with Steve. Here are four procedures to put new collocations in my brain: read through the article, use the dictionary to get the meaning, re-read the article twice or three times, have a chance to use them. These take long time to do but in total it is more meaningful to do four rules than just to read as many articles as I can.

Homework today is to do the exercise,which is 'In a paragraph of 50-100 words explain why television is seen as a medium of no importance', using collocations which we have studied in the morning class.

Here is my thought below.
Sheer quantity of people watch television for three or four hours a night. Watching television for those who spend their meaningful time sitting in front of their TVs is just two states; it turns on or off. Therefore TV programmes such as documentaries which seem better than other entertainment programmes also do not make any sense for them, even if gifted prople or diligent professionals make the programmes. They do not retain any information from what they watch on their televisions. This might be the reason why the media does not have any importance.


For my self study I watched some videos below which is connected to how to listen to lecture.
ABC news from podcasts.
Also I read articles on Daniel Trump watched the video about his success.