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/