Critical Reflection

At the beginning of the course, grammar errors such as the misuse of the article often happened in my writings and my essays also contained some informal vocabulary usages such as verb phrase "point put". Due to the grammar errors and limitations of expressions, my passages were not very academic and sometimes I could not clearly and accurately explain my meanings, which caused readers' misunderstandings. Because I often made the same mistakes like misuse of the articles, I mainly focused on improving my grammar by referring to the documents in IVLE and doing some online grammar exercises. When some important grammar points were mentioned in class, I usually paid more attention to them and usually noted them down. After one semester, I have a better understanding of some grammar points and now I can figure out how to avoid informal expressions when writing, which means my essays become more academic. Though I made progress in academic essay writing, I still need to put more effort in improving article structure and content because writing skills and ideas are more important than grammar in essay writing. In order to improve my writing skills, I still need to read more academic and professional articles and I should find out and refer to the good methods that other people use to organize the passages and express their ideas properly.

Final draft-Zheng Weirui

Globalization threatens human health

Human society has rapidly changed in science technology and the quality of people’s life has greatly improved, which represent two main positive outcomes of globalization. However, can these good features of globalization represent its whole characteristics? Fatal viruses such as AIDS, which cause disastrous damage to human society, have rapidly spread throughout the world during the process of globalization (Pillai, 2011). What globalization can bring to human society are not only booming economy and advanced technology, but also virus and death, which implies globalization can even threaten human health. However, if governments take effective action including strengthening sanitation construction and quarantine inspection, the risk of plague’s spreading can be greatly reduced.

Government should focus on domestic sanitation construction to reduce the chance of the spreading of global epidemics. Though deadly viruses such as black death and smallpox can hardly threaten human society any more, some other diseases like AIDS and bird flu, which now have spread all over the world, are still threatening people’s health. According to Henry (2013), sanitation can keep people away from waste and slow down the spreading of diseases. Henry (2013) emphasized that after the Haiti earthquake in 2010, about 500000 people suffered from Cholera due to the lack of sanitation system. Without sanitation system, people become more likely to be infected with viruses due to the unclean environment. The typical example is that the lack of sanitation system contributes to 1.5 million child deaths in Africa every year.(Henry, 2013). The article Water, Sanitation& Hygiene (2000) suggests that new technologies such as waterless technologies should be applied to reduce the costs of setting up base sanitation system especially in poor areas. In conclusion, it is urgent and necessary for governments to build enough sanitation construction to reduce the risk of diseases’ spreading.

Strengthening quarantine inspection and avoiding smuggling are also useful for preventing global epidemics for governments. Due to the improvement of technologies, well-developed transportation now allows people to travel abroad easily. However in history the spreading of plague, which caused disastrous damage to human society, resulted from frequent exchange activities of human civilization. Black death was a typical example for that globalization could drive diseases to spread worldwide. Nowadays strict quarantine inspection plays the most important role in keeping one country away from the global epidemics and governments should also make quarantine management thorough and practical because the price of professional equipment is high and process of quarantine will take a long time. My suggestion is that quarantine should be specific to different individuals, which means people from different places should be operated different quarantine. It is waste of time and money to treat all types of quarantine to every people. According to Seelke(2000), illegal drug and people smuggling also make diseases like AIDS spread more rapidly in Latin America and Caribbean, which reflects that preventing smuggling is very important for controlling the spreading of infectious diseases. By setting up strict quarantine inspections and avoiding smuggling, people’s health can be well protected from global epidemics.

Due to globalization, new technologies and frequent exchange activities let travels become more convenient, but some global epidemics become out of control because of the developed transportation, which have already threatened human society. In order to solve this problem, governments should focus on setting up clean and safe sanitation systems. Also strengthening quarantine and avoiding smuggling are very meaningful for avoiding the spreading of diseases. This article has shown that globalization may cause global epidemics and what other outcomes of globalization can also threaten human's health? What about high rate of obesity in some countries such as Mexico resulted from popular junk food?(Romo, 2011)

Reference

Pillia , p. (2011). Negative effects of globalization. Retrieved Nov 3,2013 from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/negative-effects-of-globalization.html

Henry, p. (2013). Importance of Sanitation after SHTF. Retrieved Nov 3,2013 from :http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2013/03/17/importance-of-sanitation-after-shtf/

Water, Sanitation& Hygiene. (2000). Water, Sanitation& Hygiene. Retrieved Nov 3,2013 from:http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Water-Sanitation-and-Hygiene

Seelke, C.R. (2013). Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean. Retrieved    Nov 3,2013 from: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33200.pdf

Romo, R. (2011). Mexico's other enemy: Obesity rates triple in last 3 decades. Retrieved      Nov 3,2013 from: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/01/04/mexico.obesity/

Globalization threats human health

Human society has rapidly changed in both science technology and community economy and the quality of people’s life has greatly improved, which represent two main positive outcomes of globalization. However, can these good features of globalization represent its whole characteristics? Fatal viruses such as AIDS and the plague, which cause disastrous damage to human society, have rapidly spread throughout the world during the process of globalization (Pillai, 2011). What globalization can bring to human society are not only booming economy and advanced technology, but also pain and death, which indicts globalization can threat human health. However, if governments take effective actions including strengthening sanitation construction and quarantine inspection, the risk of plague’s spreading can be greatly reduced.

Government should focus on domestic sanitation construction to reduce the chance of the spreading of global epidemic. Though deadly virus such as plague and smallpox can hardly threat human society any more, however some other diseases like AIDS and bird flu, which now have spread all over the world, are still menacing people’s health. According to Henry (2013), sanitation can keep people away from waste and slow down the spreading of diseases. Henry (2013) point out that after Hati earthquake in 2010, about 500000 people suffered from Cholera due to the lack of sanitation system. Without qualified sanitation system, society is easy to break down after disaster and diseases spreading because people become more likely to get in touch with viruses and unclean environment helps diseases to reproduce. In my view, new technologies such as waterless technologies should be applied to reduce the costs of setting up base sanitation system especially in poor areas because the lack of sanitation system contributes to 1.5 million child deaths in Africa every year. It is urgent and necessary for government to build enough qualified sanitation construction to reduce the risk of diseases’ spreading.

To strengthen quarantine inspection and avoid smuggling are also useful for preventing global epidemic for government. Due to the improvement of technologies, well-developed transportation now makes people travel abroad easily. However in history the spreading of plague, which caused disastrous damage to human society, resulted from frequent exchange activities of human civilization. Plague is a typical example for that globalization would drive diseases to spread worldwide and rapidly among whole human society. Strict quarantine inspection plays the most important role in keeping one country away from global epidemic attack. Government should make quarantine management thorough and reasonable because too strict inspection will waste travelers’ time and price of professional equipment is not low. My suggestion is that quarantine should be specific to different individual, of which the principles are where traveler comes from and where he has been to. It is meaningless to operate all types of quarantine to one individual and this method helps to know which type of disease this individual is most likely to catch. According to Jennifer (2000), smuggling makes diseases like AIDS spread more rapidly in America, which means preventing smuggling is also very important for controlling spreading of infectious diseases. By setting up strict quarantine inspection and avoiding smuggling, people’s health can be well protected from global epidemic.

Due to the globalization, new technologies and frequent exchange activities make people travel more easily, however, some global epidemic also become out of control, which threat human society. In order to solve this problem, government should firstly focus on building qualified sanitation construction. Also strengthening quarantine and avoiding smuggling are also very meaningful for controlling the diseases spreading. Global epidemic threats people’s life and what else outcomes of globalization can also cause side effects to human health? What about junk food and industrial pollution.

Reference

      Pillia, p. (2011). Negative effects of globalization. Retrieved from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/negative-effects-of-globalization.html

      Henry, p. (2013). Importance of Sanitation after SHTF. Retrieved from: http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2013/03/17/importance-of-sanitation-after-shtf/

      Jennifer (2000). Water, Sanitation& Hygiene. Retrieved from: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Water-Sanitation-and-Hygiene

Reader response

In article "The Double edge of Globalization", Chanda(2007) declares though globalization

influences environment by causing pollution and deforestation, however it brings economic

growth and urbanization and raises public awareness on longstanding trend. When explaining

the benefits and disadvantages of globalization, author mentions one typical example of

globalization's outcome, which is global warming. Chanda(2007) presents that globalization

results in global warming, but it also helps to deal with global warming problem, which I strongly

agree. In this article, author shows that globalization causes increasing market demands

and rapid industrialization, which causes deforestation and pollution in developing countries

with poor technologies and environment regulations. However due to the globalization, social

media develops quickly and gradually governments and people realize how serious the global

warming is and importance of protecting environment by various types of social media. I believe

the change in my hometown is a good proof for this theory. I do remember when I was young,

the roads were full of giants trucks, which transported construction material, and air quality was

not that good. Also famous leather shoes company 'Senda" and Korean car corporation "Yueda

KIA" have factories in my hometown. However these years, because my hometown is a seaside
city and has some famous historic sites, government focuses on urban beautification including

reducing emission of pollution and sewage purification, which aims to make my hometown

an international scenic spot. So in my opinion, though globalization may do damage to

environment, however globalization finally will lead countries or cities to develop sustainably.

Final Draft-----Globalization of Culture Through the Media

Kraidy(2002) declares that globalization of culture will not completely homogenize and some parts will coexist in article "Globalization of Culture Through The Media". Firstly, author presents the theory "cultural imperialism" that mass media has great effects on culture. Though most mass media come from developed and industrialized countries, which makes western countries lead the flows of information, however, cultural imperialism has been replaced by globalization  because after Cold War subnational, national and supernational levels appear and cultural imperialism lacks coherence and direction. Also how mass media influence the globalization of culture is flexible. Then authors shows three perspectives on the globalization of culture. First one is the media increases homogenization of cultural differences. However this theory is limited because objects chosen for researches are unrepresentative and global is privileged over the local. Second one is cultural hybridization, which shows that globalization and localization are the products of mixed tradition. Third theory shows three features of hybridization including mixing individual cultural systems. Finally Kraidy(2007) suggests that globalization of culture is the process for different elements to coexist.

 

    

 

Reference:

    

    Kraidy, M. M. (‎2002). Globalization of Culture Through the Media - ScholarlyCommons...

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The double edge of Globalization

In article "The Double edge of Globalization", Chanda(2007) declares though globalization influences environment by causing pollution and deforestation, however it brings economic growth and urbanization and raises public awareness on longstanding trend. At first, Chanda(2007)  presents that globalization will expand international trade, whose objects are developing countries with poor environmental regulations, but deforestation has little relationship with international trade. Secondly globalization indirectly accelerates deforestation, caused by increasing demand due to globalization. Next, globalization makes the world closely connected and fastens dissemination of information, which makes people aware of natural disasters and worry about global warming. Then author points out though global warming causes damage to environment and there still exists divergences between different countries on global warming, however, effective actions have been taken to deal with global warming and more countries have raised awareness on longstanding trend because of globalization. Finally, Chanda(2007) presents that globalization can be prevented by political power.    

 

 

 

Reference:

    Chanda, N. (2007, June 28). The Double Edge of Globalization.In YaleGlobal Online Magazine. Retrieved from

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/double-edge-globalization