Tuesday, July 17, 2007

HOMEWORK!!

SCIENCE

Asteroid is generally used to indicate a diverse group of small celestial bodies in the solar system that orbit around the Sun. 65 million years ago, a rock the size of Mt. Everest hit the earth. That’s the wonder that demise of Dinosaurs. Earth has a long history of getting in the way of asteroid. Asteroid can destroy 80~90% of the species that are on Earth, though it depends on size. Asteroid, the Apophis passes through the earth in 2029, but it’s like predicting a hurricane. If that asteroid passes though the keyhole, 7years later, 2036 will hit the earth. It will pass 10 times closer to us than the moon.

When I watched this program, I felt so scary, because I had never heard about that.
Always I forget that Earth is the one of planets, and someday it does disappear, though it’s hard to imagine. I don’t have much knowledge about solar system that I can’t understand that situation well, but now we have known about Apophis which is going to hit Earth in 2036, so we do need to know more details correctly.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

HOMEWORK!!

Pursing the Topic

The interesting topic I found on the Web site is Child Welfare, because I had studied early child education for two years in my country. In the information of Child Welfare,

I read an article about a case of child abuse and caseworker.

In my country, child abuse is getting bigger problem day by day like America. The case I saw was about neglect that means parents stop taking care of their children. I know taking care children is really hard, but I don’t know how hard it is, because I have never had that experience yet, but I think people should not do that by themselves. Seeing growth of child is a big pleasure for parent, but they need a lot of work to do it. I mean they may have much stress. When parents have much stress, if they don’t have any way to ease it, their condition is getting worse I think. Taking care of child being lonely and without any help is one of the reasons that child abuse can happen I guess.

That’s why I really hope that bad case is getting fewer by cooperation and connection between people and people. Also, people who have children already or are having should have chance to know about child welfare more.