Monday, March 29, 2010

Porsche 911 Turbo VS Bugatti






Nowadays several wealthy high classed people prefer having sports cars such as Ferrari, Porsche, and Bugatti. There are a lot of differences between each car mentioned. There are differences in power, size, and design and in the price itself. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences between the Bugatti and the Porsche 911 Turbo.

There are a couple of similarities between the Bugatti and the Porsche 911 Turbo. The first similarity is that both of them are popular and fashionable cars which high classed people prefer to buy. The second similarity is both of them are sport cars. Thirdly, the Bugatti and Porsche 911 were both manufactured in Europe and have only 2 seats.

Although there are similarities, there are many differences between these two cars as well. The first difference is that the Bugatti is more expensive. It costs $1.6 million. On the other hand the Porsche costs $143,800 (http://www.porsche.com/international/models/911/911-turbo/). Secondly, the Bugatti can reach from 0 - 60 in 2.5 seconds but the Porsche can reach it in 3.6 seconds (http://Autoblog.com/category/porsche). The third difference is that the torque of the Bugatti is 952 pound feet (http://Bugatti-configurator.com) and the Porsche torque is 457 pound feet.

From the information provided above, the Bugatti is more powerful than the Porsche 911 as well as in the design it is superior, but from my own point of view most of the people who are willing to get one of those two cars will go for the Porsche 911 because of the high price of the Bugatti and since Porsche 911 has the features and requirements that any will require to purchase such cars.

Reference:

1. http://Bugatti-configurator.com
2. http:// Porsche.com/international/models/911/911-turbo
3. http://Autoblog.com/category/porsche

Monday, March 15, 2010

Child abuse

Bibliography


Dawson, Katherine.
"Children's House Begins Building Springdale Center.(NW Journal)."
Arkansas Business. 21 Dec. 2009: 9.


Lithwick, Dahlia. "What Makes a Bad Parent?(The Take; Justice)." Newsweek. 2 Nov. 2009: 22.


"Abuse and Counterabuse; German Church Scandals." The Economist (US). 13 Mar. 2010: 32.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Referencing questions

Part 1 – Referencing questions
Watch the podcast that is linked under Referencing Links on the LCES N100 webpage.
Answer the following questions from the presentation.



1) What is plagiarism?
- The unauthorized use of thoughts of another author and representing them as your own work.

2) What must you do to avoid plagiarizing?
- List all the items you have used in the project.

3) What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?
- MLA style referencing.

4) What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
- Name, title, place published, publisher, date published.


5) When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
- Authors name.

6) What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?
- Title from the article of the magazine.

7) What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?
- Number of the pages used.

8) What is the third item of information when referencing a website?
- The name of the website.

9) What is last item of information when referencing a website?
- The URL.

10) In the case of a database source, what is the third item of information?
- The magazine that it originally came from.

11) What cones before the URL in a database reference?
- The date you accessed it.

12) Where is the bibliography?
- At the end.

13) What is in the bibliography?
- The list of all resources you have accessed.

14) When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?
- Family name.

15) How do you order items in the bibliography ?
- List them alphabetically according to their names.

16) Besides quotation, where do you use an inline citation?
- It is used in a reported speech.

17) What information goes in an inline citation?
- a) Name
b) Date
c) Page number



18) Name one citation machine that can help you?
- www.easybib.com

19) Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
- Librarians at the college library.

20) In Google type, ‘HCT plagiarism.’ Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.
- Immediate dismissal from HCT.

Reading Summary Assessment

Summary

An upsetting condition is facing China, where the rate of women who commit suicide is one in every 4 minutes. The most common areas where women commit suicide are the rural areas because of the poisons available there, as approximately 150,000 women succeed in committing suicide and most of them are from the rural areas.
Head of the suicide prevention project, Xu Rong is in charge for such conditions ands she’s working for these suicides is the arranged marriage where women are forced to marry men that they don’t like.
Divorce isn’t the best solution for people who are married with arranged marriage because it causes economical problems to the family itself, so eventually they commit suicide because they wont be able to solve their problems. As a consequence the rate of women committing suicide will reduce slowly, and men wont have enough women as a percentage to be equivalent and that will cause many problems in the country such as prostitution and abduction.
A couple of courses were arranged for women by Xu Rong to determine the future of china’s women, such as cooking, marriage laws and other personal life experiences courses have been arranged as well to give them confidence in themselves.


Main idea

The article is mainly talking about committing suicide in China and how it is seriously increasing with high numbers and most of these women are from rural areas and their main reason for such suicide is to advertise their sense of irritation.


Comment

From my point of view, it’s bad to know that the Republic of China, one of greatest nations world wide, is losing 150,000 of their women yearly, and since women are having alternative positions with men they have to solve this problem as soon as they can by managing some jobs for women and by that the rate of committing suicide will decrease and the life style of china will be developed.