Sunday, February 22, 2009

Amazing Water Hole


http://www.worldamazinginformation.com/2007/06/great-water-hole-amazing-scene.html

This scene is really amazing that can catch anybody attention.Imagine that the water surface is seduce deep into the water and it also looks scary and dangerous.Located in northern California, the Monticello Dam's is the largest morning glory spillway all over the world. This funnel-shaped outlet, allows water to bypass the dam when it reaches capacity, as it swallows a rate of 48,400 cubic feet per second.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Effects Of Video Game Playing On Children

http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_effect.shtml

I have found a common topic about the impact of playing game to a person especially children.This topic thoroughly described about the advantages and disadvantages of games to us.This quite important as children play a lot of role to our future country.Check this out..

Positives

  • Video game playing introduces children to computer technology.
  • Games can give practice in following directions.
  • Some games provide practice in problem solving and logic.
  • Games can provide practice in use of fine motor and spatial skills.
  • Games can provide occasions for parent and child to play together.
  • Players are introduced to information technology.
  • Some games have therapeutic applications with patients.
  • Games are entertaining and fun.

Negatives

  • Over-dependence on video games could foster social isolation, as they are often played alone.
  • Practicing violent acts may contribute more to aggressive behavior than passive television watching. Studies do find a relationship between violent television watching and behavior.
  • Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless or sexually provocative.
  • Game environments are often based on plots of violence, aggression and gender bias.
  • Many games only offer an arena of weapons, killings, kicking, stabbing and shooting.
  • Playing violent video games may be related to aggressive behavior (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004). Questions have been raised about early exposure to violent video games.
  • Many games do not offer action that requires independent thought or creativity.
  • Games can confuse reality and fantasy.
  • In many violent games, players must become more violent to win. In "1st person" violent video games the player may be more affected because he or she controls the game and experiences the action through the eyes of his or her character.
  • Academic achievement may be negatively related to over-all time spent playing video games. (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004)

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Compare And Contrast

Radio has progressed a lot just in short time.In fact, it's function also has multiplied. In addition, there are not only features improvement but also the quality of the radio also has upgraded. There are several similarities and differences between the old version radio and the new version radio.We will discuss them brightly but instead of their functions.

The first similarity is both still use electricity especially alkaline battery as primary source of energy to functioning the device.Related to the old version of radio which certainly used battery but nowadays, the production of latest radios can be seen which they still use of battery.In fact, there are so many other sources of energy that can be used such as solar energy instead of chemistry energy source.

Second one is both has become one of the important devices in their own time.For example, if we turning back to previous time, radio has become an interesting device in side of fitting people's free time after television.So, it is proved that how it can developed or advanced so fast.So this is the best answer for this.

Besides that, there are also some differences between both of them.The first one is the antique radio is made of wood while the latest one is made of plastic.This must be caused of the progressiveness of the radio itself which means technology today has invented so many new things that use of advance chemistry knowledge or so forth.

The other difference is the size of the latest radio is smaller than the old version radio.This due to the electronic things in the antique radio is too many so that they need to build it larger than the latest version radio which electronic circuit in the radio has become smaller.

For conclusion,latest radio is the best one as it has progressed a lot and much better than the antique radio.In some cases, old version radio also has their own special features that latest radio don't have.That's make them special.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

What is make a good PowerPoint presentation?

  1. slide structure must be properly manages

    -basically use of point is better than a sentence.so, audience will just not read the slide but they rather hear your elaboration
    -show only a point at a time
    -do not show to much animation

  2. fonts

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    use different fonts for main points or secondary point
    -use common font such as Times New Roman
  3. colour
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    using a font colour that contrast with the background colour is hard to read
    -try to use different colour for different point for example to differentiate between main point and second point
  4. Background
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    use a background that has light colour
    -background that is attractive but simple
  5. graph
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    always name your graph
  6. spelling and grammar
    -always has someone to check for your language if you are weak at that
  7. Simply provide a question for your audience

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    don't ever end your slide abruptly
  8. void using flashy transition such as text fly-ins.

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    these features may be impressive at first but
    may also distracting
  9. use the limit of slides

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    more slides will make audience boring
    -a good one is one slide per minutes
  10. use proper sentence headlines on presentation slides

    -this could ensure audience clears about the topic that you had chosen to elaborate about

History of swordsman

http://www.trueswords.com/samurai_history.php

A swordsman is the warrior that was trained in variety of fighting skills.Including the skill of fighting with arm , fighting unarmed,using horse, and so on.They were called "bushido" which in Japanese word, "bushi" means warrior while "do" means the way.
The elite Samurai warrior trained for many years in the art "Bujutsu". The Samurai were experts in a wide variety of combat skills including ground fighting, fighting unarmed, fighting with arms and fighting from horseback. Early Samurai used bow and arrows, and swords. Later Samurai used swords, spears and naginata ="halberds". They also believed that their warrior spirit was contained within their swords. They dedicated their lives to the combat arts of Bujutsu.
The samurai also always used two swords which were wakizashi and a katana.These sword commonly made by their master and were tested well.

What's make a good presenter?

  • Have a clear outcome in mind before presenting
- A presenter must has a bright ideas of what he or she will presenting about.Especially about the topic that is more to fact.

  • Practice a lot
- Practice make perfect.That is one of the important elements that a presenter need to has.

  • speak clearly and loudly
-Voice must be loud enough as audience can hears him/her and also the word pronounced must be clear.

  • Use suitable body language
-Body language also can be used as addition the point that related, this is more to make the presenting look attractive and not too boring.

  • know how to attract the audience
-a presenter must also know how to use some kind of simple jokes to attract audience focuses to him/her presentation

  • good appearance
-how are we clothing is also important which people will judge us on how are we wearing.Smart casual is most common appearance that a presenter will choose

  • Confidence
-Confidence in speech is also important part in presenting ideas to ensure the audience believe in us.In fact, they will more attract to our presentation

  • make the first word is most attractive
- audience first capture is the most important part before continuing the speech.In fact, audience will follow our presentation until the end as they are excited from the beginning.So, first attention gather is the best choice to grab audience interests.

  • always has plan B as a backup
-Unexpected things could be happened.so, being prepared is the wisely one.As an example, your documents are all in a bag but you leave it at the airport, so has backup plan is helpful.

  • a picture tells the story
-Keep the audience's attention with pictures rather than the slides. Often one effective picture says it all.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Great Katana


http://www.trueswords.com/hot+list-sx.html

This web page describes about the usage and features of katana or in the other word is swords.The word is came from Japanese word which is 'Kah-Tah-Nah'.These swords are used by samurai in paired.And these swords have two types which are the long one is used by long -range fighter and the short one is suitable for short-quarter combat.
In battle, katana was paired with the wakizashi or tanto, a similarly made but shorter sword. Both were worn by members of the Japanese warrior. The two weapons together were called the daisho.