In Shell CEO defends strong profits (2006), the author says that the surging price of oil will increase too much. He refers that to lack of security circumstances. Some big companies, Shell one of them, were warned about high prices, and they were worried. In Shell, they invest their profit? also they want to produce oil and gas. In this world, the big challenge is energy. He explains that Shell has big resources in energy. Therefore, Shell can permanent any project they want it. Shell can reserve millions of barrels. Shell can help the government with some projects by recovering what they need from oil, or it can give government money for a huge project. The author gives tow examples, first Shell trying to cover all worlds. They negotiated the government of Venezuela. After negotiation, Shell has a good platform. The second example is about any entrepreneur, Shell is concerned as a good entrepreneur.
The world is losing its oil? People need heating and air conditioning? People need energy and what shall they do? Be quiet, this will not happen now; this may happen in the future. Now people have oil and they have air conditioning for the hot part of the summer and they have heating for the cold of the winter. There are many big companies for oil. Shell is one of the biggest companies in the world. Shell should help to solve the problem of lack of energy in the world for many reasons; it can select projects, decrease the surging price, and construct a big factory for industry.
First, Shell can select many projects to help people and make more money from the income. Shell can perform the project quickly. Shell has more money since it has more profits. Therefore, Shell can help people by making some projects and taking many employees for these projects. Shell can make small works like tailors works. Shell can get many ideas from the people when Shell starts to do these projects. Shell can help the people by constructing many centers for health and it would be free for poor people.
The second reason that Shell can solve the problem of lack of energy is that Shell can help to decrease the price in the world. It can make some pressure to the countries that produce the oil to decrease the price and to increase the quantity of oil production. Shell can support the scientists by trying to find another resource for energy and by giving them more money for their research. Shell contract with scientists about these researches, its for Shell only. Its reserved for Shell. Shell is the only useful from researches.
Finally, Shell can construct many factories to help people and communities. Shell can help governments with many projects by giving them money to perform many things to help their population. Shell can give this money as loans or as contributions. It can make a good advertisement for good candidates for president or members of parliaments. Factories will give Shell more money since there are profits.
In conclusion, oil is very important in this world for many things. People need oil for traveling, heating, and air conditioning. Many people use oil from Shell many times for their cars. It has high quality oil. Even though Shell has an expensive price for oil, it is one of the best companies in the world for oil. People need help these days, especially in the poor countries. People hope to live in this life with good health. If they have a good job, they can interesting with their families.
Reference:
Shell CEO defends strong profits. (2006, May 4). CNN.com. Retrieved on March 26, 2008, from Lexis Nexis database.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The World Becomes Small Village
According to Twist (2005) in her article, "Controversy blight UN net summit there is some countries which want to put some restriction over freedom of speech. She says that the summit on the information will talk about closing the technology gap between the countries rich or poor. The author explains that some countries are suffering from lack of funding. The US delegation who attended the United Nation’s largest ever summit was disappointed by the government of Tunis. They started with a law for censorship. Also, Chinese police use the internet against criminals and they use it for economics. On cyber security, it is difficult for any government to tackle any person who wrote in any forum.
Look! There is a revolution? What is that? Is there blood? No, when people listen to the news and hear the word revolution, they directly imagine that there is blood and killing. This revolution is different; this revolution is in information technology. The free world want to open the technology for every one, but some countries put many barriers in front of their populations. These governments use martial law to ban anything against their personal benefits. Therefore, using internet should not be banned anyway for many reasons; it gives much information for scientific research, it helps the police to catch the criminals, and people do trading with the internet.
First, researchers, in any country, are looking for much information to support their research. They want to find some information faster and more easily. For example, if one researcher needs a new article in any subject; he can reach it easily by using internet. But if the government in his country abolishes the internet, what shall the researcher do? Using internet gives the researchers many benefits; they can find any article which they want easily and faster than using normal mail.
The second reason that internet should be allowed is that the internet will help the police to catch the criminals. For example, if one criminal tries to cross the border, they can catch him since the police put criminal’s name on the internet and this name is known by all police. Police can distribute the name of criminals to all security centers to protect the people from the criminals quickly and easier by using the internet.
Finally, internet helps the people to make international trading. For example, anyone can observe stock markets and he can sell and buy many shares by using internet. Dealers can buy and sell by internet. They can save time and more money from that. People use many websites for electronic trading. For example, there is a good website whose name is eBay which contain many things like books, cameras, cell phones, and more.
In conclusion, people hope to see and read everything without any restrictions. People want to see the world as a small village without any gap between rich and poor. They want equality in all things, like learning, health, and freedom. So, internet must be free to all people to take information, to help police, and to help dealers to do good trading.
Reference:
Twist, J. (2005, November 18). Controversy blights UN net summit. BBC News. Retrieved on March 19, 2008, from: http://news.bbc.uk/2/hi/technology/445474.stm
Look! There is a revolution? What is that? Is there blood? No, when people listen to the news and hear the word revolution, they directly imagine that there is blood and killing. This revolution is different; this revolution is in information technology. The free world want to open the technology for every one, but some countries put many barriers in front of their populations. These governments use martial law to ban anything against their personal benefits. Therefore, using internet should not be banned anyway for many reasons; it gives much information for scientific research, it helps the police to catch the criminals, and people do trading with the internet.
First, researchers, in any country, are looking for much information to support their research. They want to find some information faster and more easily. For example, if one researcher needs a new article in any subject; he can reach it easily by using internet. But if the government in his country abolishes the internet, what shall the researcher do? Using internet gives the researchers many benefits; they can find any article which they want easily and faster than using normal mail.
The second reason that internet should be allowed is that the internet will help the police to catch the criminals. For example, if one criminal tries to cross the border, they can catch him since the police put criminal’s name on the internet and this name is known by all police. Police can distribute the name of criminals to all security centers to protect the people from the criminals quickly and easier by using the internet.
Finally, internet helps the people to make international trading. For example, anyone can observe stock markets and he can sell and buy many shares by using internet. Dealers can buy and sell by internet. They can save time and more money from that. People use many websites for electronic trading. For example, there is a good website whose name is eBay which contain many things like books, cameras, cell phones, and more.
In conclusion, people hope to see and read everything without any restrictions. People want to see the world as a small village without any gap between rich and poor. They want equality in all things, like learning, health, and freedom. So, internet must be free to all people to take information, to help police, and to help dealers to do good trading.
Reference:
Twist, J. (2005, November 18). Controversy blights UN net summit. BBC News. Retrieved on March 19, 2008, from: http://news.bbc.uk/2/hi/technology/445474.stm
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The Green Prairies
Look! The land becomes green, no hungry people in the world? Good, what is happen? The world tends to sustainable agriculture. The green revolution extended in the world, this mean the land becomes green because the people return to agriculture. Actually, there are many hungry people in this world. Therefore, we need the solution. We must use the technology development to feed hundreds millions of hungry people. How we can use it? Sustainable agriculture is the best domain that we can use technology development to produce food. We need to product different kinds of food, especially corn, wheat, rice and beans. So many researchers requested from governments to support agriculture field. If any country uses sustainable agriculture, it wills independence and satisfaction by itself. In Rosenberg’s (2007) article, “Oil and Food Do Not Mix,” he says “agriculture’s effect on your every day lives and why it’s simply fun to eat” (para.7). Governments should be encourage and support the farmers in their countries to use sustainable agriculture for many reasons: sustainable agriculture gives people more good food for healthy, it is give them sufficient food, and more using sustainable agriculture will decreases the price of food.
In “Sustainable Agricul Ture” the author states “Sustainable agriculture is the successful management of resources for agriculture to satisfy changing human needs while maintaining or enhancing the quality of the environment and conserving the natural resources” (2006, para.1). This is the definition of sustainable agriculture. Sustainable agriculture produces abundant food without depleting the earth’s resources or polluting its environment. According to Bulletin (n.d.), “”Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture" defines sustainable agriculture by providing snapshots of different producers who apply sustainable principles on their farms and ranches” ("Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture", para.1). According to Dufour and Baier (2006) in their article, Organic Food Production, Consumption in United States Discussed; USINFO Webchat transcript, July 20, “Sustainable agriculture has three legs to stand up: 1) it is economically viable, so that a farmer can make enough money to make a decent living for he/she and their family, 2) it is environmentally sustainable—it must at least preserve the ecological assets, such as soil, clean water, air, plant and animal resources, that make farming possible, and 3) it should be socially just—meaning that workers on farms (including the farmer) can make a living, perhaps even have adequate health insurance” (p.3). Agriculture has changed since 1950; in the past, farmers used initial machines to plow the land. This kind of machines cannot accompany with the development in the world and the rapidly increasing of the population. Therefore, they replaced ancient tools with new machine to get those most, fastest, and easily product. Farmer used chemical materials to produce more food. In 20th century, farms are biological systems, not mechanical ones. Since population need high production, the industrial model has degraded soil and water, reduces the biodiversity that is a key element to food security.
The first reason for using sustainable agriculture creates good food for people to be healthy. There are many diseases are spread in the world now because bad food is eaten by people. Naturally delicious food is created with care from healthy plants and animals. Farmer who uses sustainable agriculture does not use chemical fertilizer to keep soil healthy. Leahy’s (2006) article “Development: Want to Save the World? Go Organic” says that “Organic and other forms of sustainable agro-ecology do not depend on chemical fertilizers, so they must find other ways to enrich soil and keep it that way. That also means there are more minerals and other nutrients in the soil so … food quality high” (para.9). In addition, farmer who uses sustainable agriculture does not use chemical pesticide. Miller (2004) claims, “killing of natural predators and parasites that keep pest species under control. With its natural enemies out of the way, a rapidly reproducing insect pest species can make a strong comeback only days or weeks after initially being controlled” (p.48). Farmers can uses good sources of water and lands to product good food for people. Using these sources, jobs are founded and poverty further decrease.
Second, sustainable agriculture give sufficient food to the people. Growth of population in the world increases very quickly, so we need sufficient food to protect them from hunger. Many countries have big land and natural sources, but they cannot use its very well. So these countries need help from some organization which are interested in agriculture. Unfortunately, there are many hunger and thirsty people in this world. We saw in television news many people are very hungry in Africa, South Asia, and in South America. According to Wood (2004) in his article, “Policies, investments, incentives and GM crops” “demand is growing, rapidly in some places, so farmers need to increase the amount they produce from a given area of land- otherwise we’ll expand agriculture land use and destroy more habitats and biodiversity” (p.3). More food to people, no hunger in the world and more equity between the people, all these things are very interesting. We need to protect people from starvations. According to “Community health responsibility of all” (2007) the author says “starvation is the greatest threat to children's survival. Even the number of children with these three diseases put together is still smaller than the number of starving children! It is this reality that has become of deep concern to many parties” (para.3). Starvation is very big problems and we need to stop it.
Finally, sustainable agriculture not only gives people good and sufficient food, but also it gives them food with low price, it is reduce the price of food. If the food is founded and the people cannot buy its, then the food will decay. So the governments must support the farmers to sell their products in low price. Indian people, as an example, cannot buy expensive food; in spite of India as an agriculture country. People in many different capacities, from farmers to consumers want to have economic profitability. When the governments give water, chemical material, and seeds to the farmers in low price, they can sell the crops in low price since the cost is very low. In Berntell’s (2004) article, “Food Production should not degrade water supply” he states “Production patterns tend to undermine their own resources base and threaten the resilience of ecosystems which support them. For example, river depletion hurts fisheries and biodiversity.” (p.3). Food price inflation allows increasing the number of poverty population.
An opponent of sustainable agriculture that gives the people good, sufficient, and cheaper food is sustainable agriculture needs many sources to produce food. Some people say the sources do not available in all countries. Fore example, Jordan has not sufficient water and the farmers depend on raining for water. People said that sustainable agriculture needs more workers, seeds, machines, and more and more technology and all of these things demand high costs. They claim that if we require equitable control of resources and full participation, then we reach to the top. That is right, but where we can apply that? We can do that that in only 8% to 10% in the world because the authorities in most countries refuse that for variant reasons; political, socially, or economically. They suggest all people must be able to participate in the essential decisions that determine their lives, especially in the field or market. In Earles 's article, "sustainable agriculture:An introduction" he says "off the farm, consumers and grassroots activities are working to create local markets and farms policies that support sustainable practices. They are working to raise consumers’ awareness about how their food is grown and processed and how plants, animals, the soil, and the water are treated. And they are working to forge stronger bonds between producers and consumers that will cement the foundations of locally and regionally self sufficient food system" (p.2).
In conclusion, sustainable agriculture is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Sustainable agriculture presents a positive response to the problems of both traditional and modern agriculture. It seeks to take the best aspects of both traditional wisdom and the latest scientist’s advances. Sustainable agriculture gives the population the highest value of natural food. Rural areas become very rich if the population in these areas looks after the land, crops, and water. Land is very necessary in order for a majority of the world’s population to escape poverty and grow the food it requires. We think that at the same time, the right of landless farm workers and the urban poor must be recognized. Sustainable agriculture has many benefits: it gives us the good, sufficient, and cheaper food. We need these benefits to stay alive in this life. People cannot live without wheat, corn, rice, and many crops. They need plants wealth as they need animal’s wealth. Sustainable agriculture is one that produces abundant food without depleting the earth’s resources or polluting its environment. It is the agriculture of social values. We think in the 21’s century, sustainable agriculture is still in its infancy more than any model farm economy.
References
Bulletin. (n.d.). Exploring sustainability in agriculture. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from http://www.sare.org/publications/exploring.htm
Sustainable agriculture: definitions and terms. (2008, January 9). Retrieved February 17, 2008, from http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/terms/srb9902.shtml#toc1
Dufour, R. & Baier, A. (July 21, 2006). Organic Food Production, Consumption
in United States Discussed; USINFO Webchat transcript, July 20. News From The Washington File. Retrieved February 18, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Wood, S. (November 27,2004).Policies, investments, incentives and GM crops. Viewpoints: Food and All?. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from bbc.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4038189.stm
Berntell, A. (November 27, 2004). Food production should not degrade water supply. Viewpoints: Food and All?. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from bbc.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4038189.stm
Leahy, S. (December 18, 2006). Development: want to save the world? Go organic. Retrieved February 18, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Rosenberg, E. (August 23, 2007). Oil and food do not mix. Retrieved February 18, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Sustainable Agricul Ture. (2006). Sustainagri.org. Retrieved February 26, 2008, from http://www.sustainagri.org
Community health responsibility of all” (November 21,2007). Retrieved February 28, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Miller, G. T. JR. (2004). Environment: Problems and solutions. Wadsworth the price of oil-in context. (2006, April 18). CBC News. Retrieved February 28, 2008, from http://www.cbc.ca
Earles, R.(2005). Sustainable agriculture: an introduction. Google.com. Retrieved February 28, 2008, from google.com
In “Sustainable Agricul Ture” the author states “Sustainable agriculture is the successful management of resources for agriculture to satisfy changing human needs while maintaining or enhancing the quality of the environment and conserving the natural resources” (2006, para.1). This is the definition of sustainable agriculture. Sustainable agriculture produces abundant food without depleting the earth’s resources or polluting its environment. According to Bulletin (n.d.), “”Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture" defines sustainable agriculture by providing snapshots of different producers who apply sustainable principles on their farms and ranches” ("Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture", para.1). According to Dufour and Baier (2006) in their article, Organic Food Production, Consumption in United States Discussed; USINFO Webchat transcript, July 20, “Sustainable agriculture has three legs to stand up: 1) it is economically viable, so that a farmer can make enough money to make a decent living for he/she and their family, 2) it is environmentally sustainable—it must at least preserve the ecological assets, such as soil, clean water, air, plant and animal resources, that make farming possible, and 3) it should be socially just—meaning that workers on farms (including the farmer) can make a living, perhaps even have adequate health insurance” (p.3). Agriculture has changed since 1950; in the past, farmers used initial machines to plow the land. This kind of machines cannot accompany with the development in the world and the rapidly increasing of the population. Therefore, they replaced ancient tools with new machine to get those most, fastest, and easily product. Farmer used chemical materials to produce more food. In 20th century, farms are biological systems, not mechanical ones. Since population need high production, the industrial model has degraded soil and water, reduces the biodiversity that is a key element to food security.
The first reason for using sustainable agriculture creates good food for people to be healthy. There are many diseases are spread in the world now because bad food is eaten by people. Naturally delicious food is created with care from healthy plants and animals. Farmer who uses sustainable agriculture does not use chemical fertilizer to keep soil healthy. Leahy’s (2006) article “Development: Want to Save the World? Go Organic” says that “Organic and other forms of sustainable agro-ecology do not depend on chemical fertilizers, so they must find other ways to enrich soil and keep it that way. That also means there are more minerals and other nutrients in the soil so … food quality high” (para.9). In addition, farmer who uses sustainable agriculture does not use chemical pesticide. Miller (2004) claims, “killing of natural predators and parasites that keep pest species under control. With its natural enemies out of the way, a rapidly reproducing insect pest species can make a strong comeback only days or weeks after initially being controlled” (p.48). Farmers can uses good sources of water and lands to product good food for people. Using these sources, jobs are founded and poverty further decrease.
Second, sustainable agriculture give sufficient food to the people. Growth of population in the world increases very quickly, so we need sufficient food to protect them from hunger. Many countries have big land and natural sources, but they cannot use its very well. So these countries need help from some organization which are interested in agriculture. Unfortunately, there are many hunger and thirsty people in this world. We saw in television news many people are very hungry in Africa, South Asia, and in South America. According to Wood (2004) in his article, “Policies, investments, incentives and GM crops” “demand is growing, rapidly in some places, so farmers need to increase the amount they produce from a given area of land- otherwise we’ll expand agriculture land use and destroy more habitats and biodiversity” (p.3). More food to people, no hunger in the world and more equity between the people, all these things are very interesting. We need to protect people from starvations. According to “Community health responsibility of all” (2007) the author says “starvation is the greatest threat to children's survival. Even the number of children with these three diseases put together is still smaller than the number of starving children! It is this reality that has become of deep concern to many parties” (para.3). Starvation is very big problems and we need to stop it.
Finally, sustainable agriculture not only gives people good and sufficient food, but also it gives them food with low price, it is reduce the price of food. If the food is founded and the people cannot buy its, then the food will decay. So the governments must support the farmers to sell their products in low price. Indian people, as an example, cannot buy expensive food; in spite of India as an agriculture country. People in many different capacities, from farmers to consumers want to have economic profitability. When the governments give water, chemical material, and seeds to the farmers in low price, they can sell the crops in low price since the cost is very low. In Berntell’s (2004) article, “Food Production should not degrade water supply” he states “Production patterns tend to undermine their own resources base and threaten the resilience of ecosystems which support them. For example, river depletion hurts fisheries and biodiversity.” (p.3). Food price inflation allows increasing the number of poverty population.
An opponent of sustainable agriculture that gives the people good, sufficient, and cheaper food is sustainable agriculture needs many sources to produce food. Some people say the sources do not available in all countries. Fore example, Jordan has not sufficient water and the farmers depend on raining for water. People said that sustainable agriculture needs more workers, seeds, machines, and more and more technology and all of these things demand high costs. They claim that if we require equitable control of resources and full participation, then we reach to the top. That is right, but where we can apply that? We can do that that in only 8% to 10% in the world because the authorities in most countries refuse that for variant reasons; political, socially, or economically. They suggest all people must be able to participate in the essential decisions that determine their lives, especially in the field or market. In Earles 's article, "sustainable agriculture:An introduction" he says "off the farm, consumers and grassroots activities are working to create local markets and farms policies that support sustainable practices. They are working to raise consumers’ awareness about how their food is grown and processed and how plants, animals, the soil, and the water are treated. And they are working to forge stronger bonds between producers and consumers that will cement the foundations of locally and regionally self sufficient food system" (p.2).
In conclusion, sustainable agriculture is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Sustainable agriculture presents a positive response to the problems of both traditional and modern agriculture. It seeks to take the best aspects of both traditional wisdom and the latest scientist’s advances. Sustainable agriculture gives the population the highest value of natural food. Rural areas become very rich if the population in these areas looks after the land, crops, and water. Land is very necessary in order for a majority of the world’s population to escape poverty and grow the food it requires. We think that at the same time, the right of landless farm workers and the urban poor must be recognized. Sustainable agriculture has many benefits: it gives us the good, sufficient, and cheaper food. We need these benefits to stay alive in this life. People cannot live without wheat, corn, rice, and many crops. They need plants wealth as they need animal’s wealth. Sustainable agriculture is one that produces abundant food without depleting the earth’s resources or polluting its environment. It is the agriculture of social values. We think in the 21’s century, sustainable agriculture is still in its infancy more than any model farm economy.
References
Bulletin. (n.d.). Exploring sustainability in agriculture. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from http://www.sare.org/publications/exploring.htm
Sustainable agriculture: definitions and terms. (2008, January 9). Retrieved February 17, 2008, from http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/terms/srb9902.shtml#toc1
Dufour, R. & Baier, A. (July 21, 2006). Organic Food Production, Consumption
in United States Discussed; USINFO Webchat transcript, July 20. News From The Washington File. Retrieved February 18, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Wood, S. (November 27,2004).Policies, investments, incentives and GM crops. Viewpoints: Food and All?. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from bbc.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4038189.stm
Berntell, A. (November 27, 2004). Food production should not degrade water supply. Viewpoints: Food and All?. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from bbc.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4038189.stm
Leahy, S. (December 18, 2006). Development: want to save the world? Go organic. Retrieved February 18, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Rosenberg, E. (August 23, 2007). Oil and food do not mix. Retrieved February 18, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Sustainable Agricul Ture. (2006). Sustainagri.org. Retrieved February 26, 2008, from http://www.sustainagri.org
Community health responsibility of all” (November 21,2007). Retrieved February 28, 2008, from LexisNexis Database
Miller, G. T. JR. (2004). Environment: Problems and solutions. Wadsworth the price of oil-in context. (2006, April 18). CBC News. Retrieved February 28, 2008, from http://www.cbc.ca
Earles, R.(2005). Sustainable agriculture: an introduction. Google.com. Retrieved February 28, 2008, from google.com
Dinner
My favorite dinner is meat with rice and yoghurt. I like Arabian food. I have liked this kind of food for many years because I have lived in Arab countries for 40 years. This kind of food gives me those proteins and carbohydrates that I need to stay alive. My favorite dinner name in my country, Jordan, is al mansef, an Arabic word. I prefer this food and I eat it with my hand, not with a spoon. In Jordan, this kind of food is the popular food. In any big party, especially in a marriage celebration, the people eat al mansef. Here in the USA, we can make this kind of food as much as we have time to make it. This kind of food requires at least two or three hours to be ready. If anyone asked, what is the most popular food in Jordan, the answer is easy, al mansef.
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