Sunday, October 28, 2007
Listening (2)
Listening (1)
It is a speech of a native speaker. I have listened to this speech twice.
Vocabulary wasn't very difficult because the topic is about the words we use for naming body parts. However, the speaker sometimes talked too fast.
Conditions in Lithuanian prisons
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Cases on fraud
- academic fraud - the falsifying of research findings
- intellectual fraud - signifies falsification
- journalistic fraud - implies a similar notion, the falsification of journalistic findings.
Almost as soon as e-mail became used widely, it began to be used to defraud people. A naive individuals put their confidence in get-rich-quick schemes and lose their property. Fraudsters are sending e-mail messages or posting Web site information that is accessible from anywhere in the world.
How to avoid this? Don't be so trustful.
All institutions of justice , including police department are trying to fight with this. Don't be indifferent - report such crimes to the police.
Fears
- be strong-minded
- relax psychological
- stop obsessing thoughts about the feared objects or events.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Guns control
- 10 000 of 15 000 murderes were commited with firearms in the USA
- 49% of adults are owning a gun in the USA
- a gun can get into criminals, juveniles, and in the "high-risk" individuals hands.
Individuals who have weaker nervous system and are carrying a gun can use it without any reason.
So, should a government regulate guns? The government claims that gun holding is for protection.
In the Bill of Rights the second amandment to the Constitution reads:
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
However, fewer guns means fewer deaths, homicide or suicide.