Final Exam Questions

1. Should government be responsible for keeping consumers safe?

I beleive that everybody is able to take care about itself, which means that everybody is aware about the different dangers of consuming. In fact, the government maight not have the hundred percent responsability for taking consumers safe, because it (the government) cannot control everything.. But on the other hand, I agree with fact that too often, some mad businessmen, abuse their consumers, rising the prices too much, and killing the market ! This is why, this is for me an real "ethical" question!!

4. Should individuals be free to choose risky behaviour if they want to ? Explain.

As I said in my previous question, each individual is able to be responsible, and by this fact, to take some risks ! Risks are a part of the "sale game", which means that if people don't take risks, the business will be died ! Actually, it's thanks to people that the business is still present, because more you take risks, more you make the economy growing !

Lecture project

On May 2nd, I went to the public lecture presented to the Architecture Museum, about the Urbanization in the Coutryside of China. I went there with Zihy (I don'yt know if the spelling is correct), and I really enjoy to attend there. This lecture was very interested, ad very easy to follow.. The note taking was also not too difficult thanks to the different trainings did in class. I learnt a lot, and I think that everybody saw that during my own presentation in front of you. This exercise was very useful for now, but I'm sure for the rest of my student life also !

Improving Academic Performance

For me, the best ways to improve the academic performances are "the night", and to plan everything by advance. For some people (like me), the night is very useful to find my concentration and my peace, in order to come up with a good work.. I don't know why, but even if I finish school early, I cannot go on my desk, and start to work. This is why, I always start my homework very late, and during long hours ! My concentration during this period is to the maximum, compared during the afternoon, when I have the sensation that I am loosing my time !!

The other tip for improving academic skills is to plan everything the eve or couple of days before. This method is very useful to manage your work and all the tasks that you have to do.. Even though, I have some troubles with this kind of managment with myself, I always try to plan when I will do this or that thing for the next couple of days !!

Research Paper:
1. Do you think your writing has improved overall by doing this paper ? Explain.

Well, of course my english has improve a lot !! I am very happy and quite proud of me, because I really see the evolution in my writting, and I'm sure it will help me for my future studies.

2. What are some of the skills you improved in while doing the paper ?

Many skills ! First of all, the research in itself was a real learning, and trought the "research time", my ability to search and focus on my main ideas evolved ! As the 1st question, my writting has really improved, leading the work easier to do.

3. How do you feel about your paper ?

I think that my paper wasn't too bad, simply because I was interested in it ! Usually, when you are interested in something, you are able to do some good things, and I think I did it !

Presentations:
1. Did you enjoy listening to the presentations ?

Well, it was very interesting to listen others, and especially to see how many different topics people choose, which really shows that all the tastes of topics are different.

2. What did you learn about presentation techniques while listening to them ?

A lot ! I mean, each presentation technique is different, depending of the country, the culture, the personality of the speaker.. Also, the utilisation of Power Point was a big help for some people, even if it was a trick sometimes, pushing the speaker to read his/her screen, avoiding the presence of the audience..

3. What did you learn during the process of preparing for your presentations ?

To be honest, I couldn't say that I leant a lot, simply because it's not the 1st one presentation. In fact, in this level, the real advantage is the amount of presentations that we make, leading us more confidence and comfortable in oral.

4. Were you satisfied with you own presentation ?

Well, I think I did well even if I made some mistakes, the overall was not too bad. If I could critic myself, I would say that the fact to go over my notes, and to make more explainations during my presentation that there is on my paper drove me crazy, because I had some trouble to focus on my speech after that, being scared to go out from the topic !!!

ABOUT POPULATION...

The population growth is a real problem actually, and a lot of people don't think about that. In fact, the population is still growing, and in some countries, the governments don't succeed to manage it. In China, for instance, government has instaured the "one child policy", letting to the country to be able to breath !! Because of the big amount of population, some pessimistic people talk about the "over crowded", leading some problems in te world, such as famine.. In Africa too, where the desease of HIV AIDS is a real real problem !! In this continent, the popultation keep growing but the middle age has desappear because of the desease, letting the place for young people and few eldery people saved from the AIDS...

Paradoxally to this growth, some country are decreasing in population, having a old population and few children.. For my country, France, with a population of about 60 million of inhabitants, I don't think that we are really concernered about this problem of population growth, inside the country .. I mean that in my country, they should encourage people to have children instead of preventing them.. This unit was very interesting and especially one idea during the video, which was that nowadays in some of the countries, governments keep focusing on the fact to protect ourself with all the contraception staff (and spend a lot of money for it ), instead of encourage people to have children..

POPULATION

1. My grandparents have 9 children. Actually, from my father's side there is only him (he is a unique child), and from my mother's side, they are 8, including my mom. About my family, we are 3 children: me, my young brother, and my sister, who is the youngest in our family. For my part, I would like to have 2 or 3 children like my parents did, in order to keep the family going !

2. France population is about 61,528 inhabitans, and including the "DOM-TOM", which are the Islands such as Guadeloupe, Guyana, La Reunion, and La Martinique, belonging to France, the population is about 64,100 people.

The french population is not as big as others like China or other big counrties, but has a real impact among the European countries. The quality of life, with the Euro, has really increased, and on the other hand, the incomes didn't. So France stays really expensive, and especially for people who use to pay in dollars, leading to a waist of market slices..

3. The earth's population is around 6.7 billion ..

4. Nowadays the population of animal species is regulate or control thanks to the reserves or different parks which are used to preserve the species from extinction.. Or also, some laws have been voted to limit the hunting during the years giving a chance to animals to reproduce ..

I think that these kind of methods could not be taken for human, simply because human being is unpredictable ! Nobody can control humans..

5. Governments can not control population growth too much.. Some actions have been taken in China, for instance, encouraging people to have only one child because of the huge amount of the population in this counrty.. Except that, nothing can really been made by governments..

Happiness feedback !!!

Happiness... an emotion which is still debating by people, because through the unit, we've seen that it's a really subjective emotion, depending of multiple factors ! Money, personality, religion, genetic .... so many factors for a feeling that everybody seems to have, without wondering where does it really come from ??!!

Honestly, this unit was very interesting because I didn't know that so many studies have been done, and still doing, to find the different roots of happiness.. Through this unit, we learnt new technic to extract informations from the articles, such as the Map !! To conclude, because I have to finish the other things to do for tomorrow, I'll say that it was really interesting, with really good teachers !!! see you tomorrow..