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Name Webb
Reflection to “At the Bridge Table, Clues to a Lucid Old Age”
It is an article about how to keep the aged brains from aging and it the article it provides us one way of the methods. It is the bridge card game. There are so many researches on it. The researches keep working on this subject. They find that by the constant playing on this game for the elder, it can prolong the sharpness of their mind and thought.
A research begun by University of Southern California called the 90+ Study. And the result of the study shows that concentrating on the card games can decrease the risk of dementia that always known as Alzheimer’s disease.
There is little evidence that diet or exercise affects the risk of dementia in people over 90 but there is too few of the evidences to support this idea. The general idea that is accepted by the public is that only by the more and more active using of the brain and then the terrible disease will be postponed or even never appear until they die.
Another possible way to deal with the aging problem of the brain is to interact with people regularly, even strangers, uses easily as much brain power as doing puzzles. It seems to be another efficient manner to deal with the gradual deteriorating memory of the elder and it is really helpful because we can see its effect on the village that is created foe those people who have a deep fear to lose their memory.

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Name webb
Number 49712054
Blog 5
At first, I answer the question that was raised at the beginning of the whole article. I think it is Portugal instead of Holland has the most liberal drug laws. However, there are still a lot of controversial issues that exists.
They could be separated into two categories. The one is the socially conservative and largely Catholic nation say if the decriminalization is prevalent in the world and then the world will become a drug abusing world. They do not believe people will discipline themselves.
Nevertheless, the others insist that now that there are there are apparent evidences that show before us, it is the Portugal successful example. This group of people has a belief in person’s dignity. There is a paper, published by Cato show us that after the drug possessing was canceled, not only the drug users among teens in Portugal has decreased but the rate of HIV infections which were also called as AIDS has declined nowadays.
In my opinion, the stance of the Portugal government is very clear. They think the treatments are more important than putting the addicts in jails. And what is good news to the government is the money used to enforce the addicts to quit their bad habits.
If the policy in Portugal government policy on this part is right, I think the time will prove.

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Name: Webb
Number:49712054
Reaction Article#04
Facebook, it was noun that I was introduced by my friend on the msn, a kind of on-line interaction. It is the same kind of communication as msn or skype or something like that. Facebook soon caught on among the young, especially in the university. Out of the founder’s surprise, the members of the users grew so fast that almost surpassed the old devices like Face Time or Enhance It. With the increasing of the users, the extent of the users had expanded from the students to the social people. I think even the full-time mother can involve in the new kind of activity, Facebook. The up-to-date technology enables people who have no time to keep in regular touch with their most intimate friends.
The most significant function of that is to let people know what’s going on of their friends and it provides us the chance not to give someone a visit on purpose, we just have t sit in front the computer for two or even three hours, we will know how and what my confidant is doing. Because of its great power, It's not surprising to me that it's replacing other forms of communication. Though we are home not going any where and we will not become a social hermit.
I think even if the Facebook is not a new idea on the internet for the communication, it really supply us the most not convenient way to reach someone and it also strengthen the social-networking system in our life.

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Name: Webb
Number:49712054
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It is deeply conservative that the Muslim wanted to change little by little not only in the way for life but the way the deal with their religion. There was a woman in the Islam world that she would like to pop up an idea which to lift the social value to another level. She was a movie maker but the film she made to bring in the mid-east was rejected.
It's a nonviolent revolution trying to mix modernity and religion. Before the terrorist attack for the so called 911 accident happened, the Muslim dislikes the way that the Mr. Sam treated the world. The situation had something different since the death toll was far away from the people who thought they did great deed for their Allah. They collected their thoughts for if what they did was right? It was a mixture problem of politics and religion.
However, Politics is not the only focus of the soft revolution but faith itself. Now that the people called it, soft revolution, as it literally means. It should be neither violent nor blood-shedding.
The West is no longer the only worldview to look up to but the Islam too. Maybe the new members in the Islam world would absorb what they think is good form both sides and forsake what is bad.

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Name webb
Number 49712054
Date 2009/3/25

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The action in India had raised a lot of criticism and praises. If this time the Nano car company did a successful decision, everyone waited to see what would happen in the end. Under the world economic depression, the car company decided to release this new kind of car. Is it can called a car? At least there are four tires of every wheel. As Tata Motors struggles with production problems and a huge debt load, Tata might take a great risk to produce this innovative car. Another attractive point was the four-seater Nano's fuel efficiency is 5 liters per 100 kilometer. In the skyrocketing oil price world, that was how a big deadly lure for the consumer to purchase this one. Consumer behavior can be stimulated simply by the economic issues we're facing todayBut there were also some drawbacks, one of those was If you hit a deer with the Nano, joked one commentator on the site, "you have to ride the deer to work." It seemed ridiculous but it would actually happened if the safety function was not practicing well
If the Nano is successful, it will open the market for others, Mr. Sinharoy aman who always criticized the car on the market. If so, Nano really operate a new field for other car manufacturers to battle but Nano could sat and rest because they stepped in the market earlier.

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Name: Webb
Number:49712054
Reaction Article#01
Date:11/03/2009
From: New York times
This kind of article in nowadays and it appears so often that we people are scared by those so called professional scholars have talked a lot about the economic recession. They always warn us that the worst condition has not come yet. Before this terrible trend, there was also a phenomenon called subprimemortage. It had caused a horrible job-losing trend and it had led to a huge crowd of people lost job and however nowadays we are in an economic storm, which we used to see it as the most terrible economic recession that it is the most worst situation that after world war two.
We people now may can not bear the pressure from our daily life and it may cause over drink over domestic abuse or something hurt themselves or the people who love them. In America, someone will abandon themselves in drinking.
We read an article about the campaigning and commerce about the vodka. The authority has put their power on banning the manufacturer of the liquor has to warn their customers not to drink too much. However, there still someone hold the different idea toward this object.
Maybe it is good to drink to make ourselves relax for a while but if it is get over the regulation it will become terrible and not for fun.

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Name: Webb
Number:49712054
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Date:09/01/2009
From: Guardian
According to Elliott's “Ireland orders new probe into Catholic sex abuse”, he roughly portrayed the complex relation in the religious areas where there was especially pious in Europe. He let us know the problem had existed long in the religion.
The news started with the bishop mishandling the scandal happening in his diocese. The two priests who were accused of molesting young girls and grown women. The bishop once thought he could hide the truth from the masses but his judgement
was absolutely wrong then. And this scandal in the church seemed to have existed for a long time. The first time the investigator looked into this event and the Roman Catholic bishop did not say the truth to them. It is not until last summer the whole scandal finally broke out and because of his misleading of the whole event the bishop was finally pressed to resign his position by the Children's Minister.
The entire affair exposed the prolonged contradiction in the Catholic.
Maybe it is right in the Ireland where there has been plenty of confrontation between the Christian and the Catholic, the two hostile organization, so that this causes a lot of problem. (196)