According to demograghic statistics , China has been placed in a very interesting situation.
My maternal grandparents have five children and my paternal grandparents also have five children. But because of family plan policy that Chinese government implements, I am the only child my parents have . In my case, I hope that I can have two or three children of my own, it's better to have one boy and one girl. One kid in one family is not fair to children, in our generation, at least we have cousin, but next several generation whose parents effected by family plan will be alone after their parents pass away.
China have about 1.3 billion people (1,321,851,888 as of mid-2007) now, hugh population bring lots of problems such as environment can not afford whole demand of society, unbalance sex ratio and higher class polarizes with lower class. As a result, Chinese government implements famliy plan to control increasing population. So far from starting family plan, it helped effectively.
Generally, the population in rural areas is more than population in urban areas. That is because people who live in urban areas have more chances to get high education, they realize that having children means a lot of responsbility, so they tend to work hard for a higher level life condition and have less children. In contrast,people who live in rural areas have lower education so that they think in traditional way that big family with more offspring (especially male offspring) means happiness and successful life . But in fact, many rural family can not afford these children due to poor financial condition. In addition, choosing sex of babies artificially lead to unbalance sex ratio that result every 119 boys are born for 100 girls, it means that millions of men may live as frustrated bachelors by 2020. However, increasing transient population are changing this condition and creat many new problems.
China population is the most important part of total amount population in the world. We will see what will happen in the future.
The critical thinking lecture that was given by Amanda Strong showed us some general ideas about critical thinking.The main point that I got from the lecture is how to analyze the sources of information.Amanda introduced us about ordinary categories of information sources and prepared a lot of questions which are very useful to guide us finding out the importance of konwing that where does the information come from,who makes it,what's the purposes of making this information,what kind of information it is,what kind of ways that author uses to attract audience and is the information credibility ect.From all the works we did in the lecture,I got to konw what critically is and I'm trying to use cratical thinking when I do some reading.It's really useful.I don't konw that it's the first time Amanda give lecture like this or not,but I found that she was a little bit nervous,maybe because of the camera problem.To be very frank,I didn't enjoy the lecture very much,it's too long and a little bit boring.Or it may because that I didn't prepared well for listening this long lecture.( Altough I really enjoy the long lectures about health problems that was given by Owen.)But no matter what, still thanks Amanda Strong gave us a lot of useful information about critical thinking.
In artical 'Women in Power: Finding Wardrobe Balance' in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL,author focus on the dressing style of high-ranking women in policy and business.More and more female leaders play important role in society,due to unwritten rules,"their appearence at work should be attractive but not alluring,feminine but not girly,strong but not severe." Based on the premiss of doing busniess---look good,women leaders have to keep balance between their daily dress and working dress.As a result,female leaders are more difficult than male to find out suitable dress for working. Many business women consider to choose practical dress ,such as suits and jackets,and not wear make-up which is more convenient for working.Fashion designers also devote to find vaiously suitable designs for women leaders.
