Thứ Hai, 22 tháng 12, 2014

CORRUPTION

What is corruption? According to what i found on the internet, this is the abuse of  public resources to enrich or give unfair advantages to people, corruption is a serious crime that undermine social, economic development and weakens the  fabric of modern-day society.There are 3 types of corruption: Petty corruption, Grand corruption, systematic corruption.
Nowadays, corruption happens everywhere. For example, in Vietnam, when you go outside, and the police catch you, just give them money, then you can go. Even when you go to jail, with money, you can go, too. At the judicial assembly, if a victim have money, they can free from their crime.You can see that, everywhere we go, corruption are there. With money, you can do, have everything you want. So, what is the causes of corruption? In my opinion, people are greedy in their own, that is their basic character, from nature. Everybody want to have money, fame, power, respects, etc. That's why they don't mind step on other people to take for their own. Some people accept to do EVERYTHING to get what they want, even crimes, or abuse other people.
According to http://smallbusiness.chron.com/ and www.transparency.org, the effects of corruption are :lost resources, weakened development, increases crime, affects inequality, income distributions and the orverall governmance,business environment, etc.
What is the solution? In my opinion, people should change the government system, change people thinking about getting their own advantages, send more messages about corruption to the people, also collaboration with other countries to develop the society and decrease the amount of corrupts, make more rules to the police or some small companies to prevent corruptions, always check and follow the document or the figures of the companies in the country, etc.

Thứ Sáu, 5 tháng 12, 2014

Natural Disaster

Natural Disaster is nature's action that opposed people with big power. These kind of disasters lead to big losses and kill a lot of people. There are many kind of disasters : earthquakes, windstorms , floods, tsunami, volcanic eruption,.. These disasters usually happens without warning. That's why after the disaster, many cities have been destroyed and led to the death of thousands of people.

 Earthquakes:
An earthquake is caused by the sudden breaking and movement of large sections (tectonic plates) of the earth's rocky outermost crust. At the Earth’s surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. Due to the australiangeographic.com, the 10 biggest earthquakes in the history (until now) are : valdivia, chile,1960; Prince Willian Sound, Alaska,1964; Sumatra, Indonesia, 2004; Sendai, Japan, 2011; Kamchatka, Russia, 1952; Bio-bio, Chile, 2010;Ecuador coast,1906; Rat Islands, Alaska, 1965; Sumatra, Indonesia, 2005; Assam, Tibet, 2005. These earthquakes above are all have the magnitude more than 8.5, and they all caused a very big amount of the destruction after that. The deadliest earthquakes was seem to be in egypt and syria (1201), this disaster killed over 1.1 million people, destroying countless homes, and almost every major city within the near east had been affected by this quake
 This is the link for the earthquake in japan in 2011 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhGvs4Rnic

Drought:
A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region suffers a severe deficiency in its water supply.Drought is caused by not only lack of precipitation and high temperatures but by overuse and overpopulation.  Although droughts can persist for several years, even a short, intense drought can cause significant damage and harm the local economy. The most popular drought was seem to be in china (1876-1879) ,there were no food production because the rivers ran dry killing them, these disaster killed over 9 million people. Next one is in Africa (1981-1984), just like in china, the rivers and lakes dried up leads to livestock died, these caused about 20,000 people starving to death each month. In the end , there were over 1 million had succumbed to death.