Tan afraid of worm

I'm afraid of worm since I was young. I can remember that when I was young my sister afraid of them too. My house has a lot of tree. In summer, there were spate of kind of worm. She told me "that is a disgusting animal" all the time. First I did have same feeling with her. I though it just a small animal and it weak. Human is enormous body when we stand beside it. until one day, I claimed a mango tree and was hit by pileous worm which has a lot of amount on the tree. I had a prickly heat in many point of my body. After that, I walked on barefoot on concrete floor in front of my house and crushed down a worm, I hurt again. Since then, I started to fear with it and look them as a dangerous disgusting animal. Nowadays, if I find a worm in my house I will ask someone to take them out, or stay away from that area. I think my sister was right. It is a disgusting animal.

My Wife’s Insect Phobia

I know someone who suffers from insect phobia especially cockroach. As I am entomologist, I am not only love insects but also I watch, collect, and sometimes rear them such as silkworms, butterflies, beetles, and crickets. It is surprise me that my wife extremely fears insects. I did not know it before. She fears all of insects because they have many legs and they can fly. In my opinion, I think that they just have six legs and I wonder why she does not fear the birds which can fly too. When the insects fly to her she scream and escape from them. Moreover, she disgusts cockroach because when she was a child she felt down into the concrete block where has a lot of cockroaches around one thousand. She felt so scare and fear that she can not get up. She just cries and cries for along time until her mother help her to get out from the concrete block. After that she always suffers from insect phobia. Moreover, I have experiences about her phobia when she saw a cockroach in the living room we could not go to bed until I kill it. I spent much more times to find and kill it, about 4 hours. Besides she can injure me if she has a weapon. For example, I am injured by her knife when I feign her with the cockroach in my hand. According to the information, I try to do every thing to protect her from the insects which made her suffer by get rid of all insect away from her.

Kate’s afraid of all kinds of lizard including cockroach

I’m afraid of all kinds of lizard and cockroach since I was young. I think the reason that I’m afraid of these animals because of my parents. When I was child, my parents didn’t allow me to touch these animals because they thought these animals were carriers that could bring germs to me. They’re afraid I will get dirty and sick. They always told me that if I caught them, they would bite or hurt me. So, I’m afraid them and never touched them from that time because I think they are terrible, disgusting and dirty.

However, at the first time I’ve just afraid to touch them. I can see or stay with them in the same room if they don’t come to near me. After since a swift dropped on my head when I opened my house door, I’ve been more afraid of them. For the question that “How do you deal with this fear?” I’ve just stay away from them. If I see them in my room or place that I stay, I will call other people to help me get rid of them. But if I cannot find anyone to help me, I will go away from that place.

Aor's phobia

I have got a phobia about extremely high places. I have never known this my mental disorder until I travelled to Japan with my friends two years ago. I went to Tokyo Tower where all visitors usually see the town around on the 125 floor. This floor had long square areas which were made of strong glass. People could stand and look at the lowest ground floor as bird eye view. I observed that there were many different manners with this area. For example, someone could walk passing through, others only poked their head or did not walk. Moreover, some persons had screamed and open their mouth when trying to walk. I wondered their behaviors. So, I think that they were very coward. After that, I bent down and tried to walk on that. Surprisingly, I was not different feelings from these coward persons but more violent manners than others. I illustrated that my legs shivered; my heart rates were upper than my regular base line-120 times/minute; my breath were hyperventilation; my face was pale. Including, I could not keep walking to the ending part and decided to sit on the glass. I looked like unconscious life. After five minutes, my full conscious come back my body. This happening is my good reason I have promised myself that I must not do risk activity- stand on extremely high places -since I may be died.

Ploy’s fear of high places

I’m afraid of high places. I could remember the first time that I had this fear. It was happened in the orientation of fire drill which is a compulsory practice of my elementary school. The practice was evaluated by the authorities of Ministry of Public Health. So that, my school had to meet the minimum point. The practice also needed to train the students to help themselves from a fire. The practice was many copying fire situations. So that, I had to practice many ways to survive from those bad situations. I think, the worst situation was a fire drills in a high building. In the practice, I had to climb down from the third floor. I was afraid of the situation where everything was a chaos; everybody got panic because they didn’t know what to do.
When I looked down at the ground, I felt slightly faint and tremble. My hand was wet by my sweat. And then I started cry. I couldn’t stop crying. So that my teacher had to come to help me out. In the end, everybody pressed the practice, expected me. That was a horrible and shame situation.

Earth's opinion about a phobia, a fear ,and healthy fears

In my opinion, the difference between a phobia and a normal fear is the feedback when we cope with fear. When we cope with the phobia, sometimes we cannot control ourselves. However, we can deal with normal fear. We can avoid or control ourselves when we face with this. As for healthy fears, I think this is the positive feedback of the fears. This positive feedback will make us more concern about our health.

Keng Opinion On The Difference of A Phobia and Normal Fear

Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational fear of something that little or no actual danger. For example, some children suffer from school phobia or some people suffer from insect phobia. It seems to be a little thing for other people, but It interferes with their daily life. Many people wonder that why they suffer from usual things. The main symptom of this disorder is unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. It occurs without any external threat. I also understand what they feel because I m one of the phobic people about water. Due to the past experience about the accident. I no need to traveling by boat. I prefer to take time by bus and feel more comfortable.

Fear is an emotional response to somethings or some situations. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain, emergency accident. Fear includes such emotions as happyness, sadness and anger. Fear is not a type of disorder. It is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance or the future events. Everyone can fear but It occurs with external treat and in different sources. who can avoid from fear ?

Alina's opinion in ahobic and normal fear

After I read 'What is Abnormal.' I know that Abnormal has three disorders(Anxiety-Based disorder,Mood disorder and Schizophrenia). In Anxiety-Based disorder we know something about phobia. But what is the different between phobia and normal fear? Do you know? In my opinion I think phobia is a very strong unresonable fear. But normal fear is just a feeling about distrees. They are different because phobia is more serious than normal fear. Fear just something that happend suddenly make you feel afraid. But ahobia can be afraid for a long time. So I think every have normal fear when something happend or something that they worry about.

Pin's fear versus my favorite football player's fear

I’m afraid of cockroaches. When I was 10 years old, I saw a cockroach in a bathroom in my house while I was taking a bath. It was disgusting because it is a large brown dirty insect which can fly. It flew around the bathroom and tried to come to me, then I yelled out, and I was hurry to get out off. After this happening, if I see a cockroach in the house, I’m often nervous and have a nightmare. However, This fear is a normal fear and different from a phobia because a phobia is an abnormal response that somebody very afraid of something which could have a major impact on how they live their lives. One of my favorite Arsenal football player, Dennis Bergkamp, is a case of aerophobia– fear of flying. I used to read his story that he was so severely affected which it meant missing a number of football matches that would have required air travel. Moreover, he also has caught the train or driven to distant matches rather than fly.

Peter on Frogs and Fears

Since primary school, I have been terrified of frogs. I can't remember when or why this batrachophobia started. Maybe there was some event that started it, but I don't remember anything. I don't think this is a healthy fear. It was really embarrassing for me because I knew that frogs were small, harmless animals. They could not hurt me, but I was really scared of them. It also caused some problems for me. My family lived on a farm in the country, in a warm, sub-tropical area, and there were a lot of frogs around. I used to walk around to avoid them. If there was a frog on the path, I wouldn't be able to walk that way, and that really did interfere with my life. It was particularly scary at night when the frogs came out to feed on insects.

After about the age of 18, it improved a bit, but only because I made an effort to overcome this irrational fear of small animals that could not hurt me. I did something like slowly force myself to get closer to frogs whilst trying to relax. This worked a bit, but even today, my instinctive reaction to a frog, even on the screen, is to shiver and get goose bumps.

Thankfully, there are not many frogs on Silom Road, and none in my condo.

I'm also afraid of heights, but that's not a problem, and I think it's not an unhealthy fear. If I'm inside or behind a wall, I'm not afraid; it's only when I'm near a high edge that I feel fear, and I think that's natural for most people. I do sometimes get goose bumps when I see construction workers on high buildings. I don't think I could ever do that. I wonder how they feel when they first start working on high construction sites.

But spiders and snakes don't worry me very much. If I know they are not poisonous, I can pick up snakes and play with them, even very large ones. There were also snakes on my parents' farm. I used to kill the poisonous ones and play with the safe ones. They only scared me if they were eating frogs!

Euy's explanation about a phobia, a fear ,and healthy fears

In my opinion, the difference between a phobia and a normal fear is what makes our lifes unuseful. A fear may make our lives better, but a phobia disable us to do somethings. For example, we may fear of heights and this fear prevents us from falling the cliffs and make us more careful. However, if this fear of height prevents us from going above to 3rd floor then this is a phobia.
"The healthy fears" means that we concern much about our health ,so this makes me us fear for doing something. For example, when someone gives up smoking because they are afraid of developing lung cancer, this is a healthy fear because the danger is real and there are constructive steps they can take to avoid it.

Near afraid of cockroach

When i was a child, i'm not afraid with a cockroach. I alway persecute it by touch it antenna and throw it away. But when i was about 9 years old, i saw the cockroach climbing on the toilet wall and then i use the broomstick to remove it away because i hope it to fall down but it flew around the toilet. This is the first time that i know about cockroach can fly. Then it stop on my body, i felt very frightened and disgusting and then i had started to scream. After that, i never touch it again and it make me really afraid of cockroach until now. This fear is a normal fear. The different between normal fear and phobia is phobia has an extreamly severe syptoms but normal fear is just a normally syptoms not severe.

Ann's fear of a high place

I'm afraid of high places. I know this when I went to Phukradueng and I had to climb up. It's very high and has a deep slope. I scared when I looked down to the ground. I told my friends that it's easy to climb up but it's hard to climb down because I had to look down. My friend told me that you didn't fear but you just never done it. This is my first fear of a high place. After that my fear occurs many times but in other cases. I found that I scared but I still be able to do it. However, I still have a situation that I cannot do. It's a jump into water from five-metre high place. I know that it's safe but I cannot do it. I think my fear happens because of my thinking and I want to get rid of my fear, so I try to do it when I have a chance.

Keng Disagree with Stephen Law On Eating Meat

In the issue about the morality of eating meat, I disagree with him in many aspects. In term of discrimination between human and other animals. He has no good reasons for deserving of concern and respect human than other animal such as they are human, they are a highly intelligent creature, or they have language. That are just bias. Secondly, he stated that many people live healthy lives without meat. I strongly disagree with a simple question “how do you think when pregnant woman is vegetarian?” I m sure that eating behaviors will change. In addition, a newborn baby needs sufficient nourishment from breast feeding. That means mothers must eat high protein from meat for their babies. Behaviors that we do for the new life as a baby. Is you concern about an immorality? In my opinion, morality or immorality is depends on the situations and reasons. Although I disagree with this topic, I respect someone who is vegetarian.

Tan agree with Stephen Law that eating meat is wrong

In my opinion, I agree with Law that is morally wrong to eat meat. According to Law argument, the strongest reason which is convinces me, it is not necessity for eating meat to stay healthy. There are millions of people in the world who are vegetarians living healthy lives without eat meat. I think, it just human selfishness that always tries to seek their best welfare, and ignore other pain. I’m quite sure that there is no reasonable argument why we have right to eat them. However, most people still eating meat although they know that is wrong, because they got use to it. I think it is a good idea to try to adapt our behavior, by reduce eating meat, quit eating animals sometimes

Kriss disagree Stephen Law's idea

From the main idea of Stephen Law about morally wrong when we eat meat and we should be vegetarian after I read the essay I think that it is not wrong to eat meat. If we not consume animal meat because of morality, Our body would not get some nutrient because human body can not synthesise nutrient. Anyways, There are 3 groups of animal lives on earth. First of all is herbivorous. The second group is carnivorous. The last group of them is both plant and animal consumer. The humans are the third group because we need some nutrient from plants and animals. If we lack nutrient, our body would be not healthy. Furthermore, I don't thinking about morally wrong when I ate meat or other animal because I believe that I eat for healthy life. For the Question " Where is he wrong?" I think that he is not wrong whre he decide to be vegetarian but he should find other source of essential nutrient for life if he want to be strong. According to Stephen Law's main idea I disagree with him because he doesn't wrote about necessary nutrient but he said only morality. He should show the idea how we get good thing when we are vegetarian. Moreover, he over think about morality (he compare between baby and animal). Therefore, we kill animal not for fun but for food. In contrast, who are killing animals for the game I think that is strongly wrong in morality. However, if we have another source of nutrient same as animal we should select that food because every animal loves its life.

Aor's agree eating meat really is immoral

The writer of the article in the philosopher Stephen law tries to convince people to stop ating animal's meat and change to consume vegetatios instead of them. He provides many argument issues that eating meat really is immoral. After reading, I obviously agree that turkey's life are not enjoyable. Besides, Gemma's data, turkeys must be debeaked because of protecting injure in fighting each other in the limited areas. After trimming their beak, They will get pain all their life as same as phantom pain in amputated men. It is not justified to them. This uncomfortable symptom in human is important treatment for health care providers to be concerned when they take care patients. On the other hand, miserable pain in animals is not realized which nobody pay attention to relieve this to animals. Although, Mrs Wilson argue this issue that slaughter can help them not cruel. But if human can avoid to eat poultry, feeding animals in farms will not occur, animals will have natural lives which not get miserable from acting of human. This issue make me unhappy to eat meats but I cannot do it because I am un comfortable to cook or buy vegetarion meals instead of general meals.

Kate disagree with Law about eating meat

According to the reading about eating meat, I disagree with Law’s opinion in this story in many aspects.

First of all, on page 138 about “Health and design”, Gemma said that “There are millions of people across the world living healthy lives without meat.” I don’t agree with this statement because I believe that no one can grow up and has a good health without eating any animal flesh. As the supporting data that Euy searched for us in the last topic about "Food Pyramid of the Month", people need to consume animal flesh because it provides us many essential proteins, which our bodies cannot synthesize by themselves, for growing up and having a good health. So, everybody needs these proteins for growing up when they were young. It means that we all used to consume animal flesh before.

Moreover, in accordance with Mr. Wilson said on page 138 that “We’re designed to eat meat, aren’t we? We have canine teeth.” I agree with this statement because each organ in all kinds of animals is designed to be suitable for their living. For example, stomachs of the cattle are parted to be four compartments because they can help the cattle digest their food and provide those essential fatty acids and protein from plants while stomachs of other animal are not like these. Like canine teeth of human, they are provided to help us rip animal meat. I believe the natural already creates the suitable features of each organ for each kind of animal including human. So, having canine teeth of human means we are designed to eat meat.

According to the reasons and the examples that I say above, I totally disagree with Law’s opinion.

Alina agree with Stephen Law on eating meat

I agree with Law’s essay on eating meat. First of all I don’t like eating meat, I agree that eating meat is morally wrong. Some people think that we need to eat meat, because meat can produce proteins. But I think we can eat other things to instead, like egg and legume. I don’t agree that animal’s life is different from the human’s. All of the living things have their own life. We don’t have power to deprivation their life. I think we don’t need meat. Because in the pass our ancestors didn’t eat meat. But later they began to eat meat because there was no food. So I think we can live without meat if we didn’t eat meat before. So I agree that eating meat is morally wrong.

Alina agree with Stephen Law on eating meat

I agree with Law’s essay on eating meat. First of all I don’t like eating meat, I agree that eating meat is morally wrong. Some people think that we need to eat meat, because meat can produce proteins. But I think we can eat other things to instead, like egg and legume. I don’t agree that animal’s life is different from the human’s. All of the living things have their own life. We don’t have power to deprivation their life. I think we don’t need meat. Because in the pass our ancestors didn’t eat meat. But later they began to eat meat because there was no food. So I think we can live without meat if we didn’t eat meat before. So I agree that eating meat is morally wrong.

euy disagrees with Law in many reasons

I disagee with Law 's idea because he stated many flaws in his essay. First, he is certainly wrong about discrimination between turkeys and humans. In fact, turkeys are a slaughter too because they eat small insects to maintain their lifes. This means that they are not different from us so, why we do not ask them to stop eating meat too. Moreover, he explains serious fault about the choices of their meals because he focuses on only groups of people who can choose their foods. From my experience, I have ever met the villagers in scarce area who have only chicken to maintain their life because it is hardly to grow the plant in that area. Therefore, there are still many places in the world which people have to eat meat inevitably. The last idea is the same idea that I mentioned before about health. We can see the pages that I bring to you about "Food Pyramid of the Month" which stated that we should eat meat.

all of my further information came from this pages
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_turkeys_eat_all_year_around

Ann disagrees with Law in eating meat topic

I disagree with him about morality of eating meat because I have many arguments while I'm reading his opinion. First, I think a turkey will die within one or two years. It has a very short life, so if we have to kill for survival, we should kill the animal that has a short life more than a long life.
For example, we don't want to kill tortoise because it has a very long life. A short-lived animal will die within a few years although we don't kill it. Second, in a society that has a social bond, he cannot convince me. He talked about one race that we don't have social bonds with them. We shouldn't kill them because they have a complex social bond in their society. If we have a social bond with an animal, we won't kill it because we love it. For example, we look after a cat or dog as a pet. Surely we don't want to kill it. If we take care a pig or chicken for months and we love it, we will protect it from other people and won't let it die. This is like a impaired person. Although he has not a sophisticated emotion but his parent still love him, so his parent won't let him die. Third, I think we don't eat a trainable animal such as dolphin, monkey and bird. If we can teach pig, fish, duck and chicken, I think we won't kill them. From my above reasons, I still think eating meat isn't morally wrong.

Earth stongly disagree with the immorality of eating meat in Law’s essay

I disagree with Law’s essay about the immorality of eating meat. This is because the reason that Law try to convience me to believe is nonsense. We are living in ine diversification of the species. Each of them has difference functions in the ecology system. In the food chain,turkey are human food. They was born for our to eat. And this is the natural selection.Moreover,Law did not support his claim. For example,he said “we don’t need to eat meat to stay healthy”. However,there are many researches supported that animal proteins contained important nutritions which are essential for our health. Therefore,I am disagree with him.

Pin’s opinion about the morality of eating meat in Law’s essay

I disagree with Law’s essay about the immorality of eating meat. He has many strong points which can demonstrate obviously by using an example of mental impaired humans. However, there are two points which are still unclear.

First of all, in the topic of health and design, he says “we don’t need to eat meat to stay healthy”. It is wrong because a human being needs protein to survive and get healthy. Proteins are the most important nutrition. They are essential in the diet of humans for the growth and repair of tissue, especially when you get sick. Furthermore, in a basic of sciences, there is a food chain in the ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and in turn is preyed by a higher member. Therefore, it is morally acceptable that people who are the largest members of the world can eat meat.

The second point is that Law discusses the idea about animals which have no sense of right or wrong, so we cannot blame them for they kill and eat each other, not like humans. I do not think so, because animals have sense; such as dogs. They know who are their owners, so they will not kill people to eat, and they have sense of what species they can eat. On the other hand, tigers and other cruel animals hurt and eat humans; thus, why humans should not eat them.

All of these reasons; hence, it is morally acceptable that a human being cans eat meat.

Near disagree with Stephen Law on eating meat

His arguement is not convince me because i'm still believe in my mind that eating meat is not immoral. Most people can grow up and stay healthy because they had eat meat when they were child. Do you think if babies eat only vegetables and nuts or another kind of protein except meat, is it enough for grow up? Exactly no because children need a lot of protein to develop their brain and meat is full of protein that why people should eat meat. And do u think when Gemma was a child, is she eat meat? You can be a vegetarian if you are over 40 years but if you just 20, it's not good to be a vegetarian because you are too young. You still need meat to grow. Another point to consider is Priest also eat meat too. You know, Priest can't do anything that morally wrong that why they can eat meat? Just one answer because eat meat is not immoral.

Peter Disagrees with Stephen Law on Eating Meat

My first title for this post was "Why Peter disagrees with Stephen Law," but I wasn't happy with that because I don't actually want to tell you my reasons yet. The current title is the third one I thought of. I think it's a good title because it includes my name, it includes what I'm responding to, and it tells you my main idea about it.

But this is not an academic writing, so I think it's OK not to present my supporting reasons. In his essay, Law makes a very strong argument to support his main idea, that it is morally wrong to eat meat (2003). If you disagree with him, then you need a strong reason to support your idea that Law is wrong. I'll tell you mine later. I want to see what your ideas are first.

In the last blog, when we just shared ideas responding to the introduction, one argument that got a lot of attention, including the citation of a some sources, was that it's acceptable to eat meat because we need it to be healthy. As you will have realised when you read pages 138 - 9, Law discusses this idea, and concludes that it is wrong: we do not need to eat meat to be healthy, so it cannot be morally right to eat meat because we need it: we don't.

So, if you disagree with Law, what's your reason? Where is Law wrong?

If you do agree with him, how do you feel about that? Are going to change your eating habits?

Respond to the ideas in Law's essay in a new post of your own.

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References

Law, S. (2003). Carving the roast beast. In The Xmas Files, p. 124 - 140. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Pin's Academic Interests

I am a pharmacist. I am interested in Pharmaceutical Sciences because I would like to study about medicines and illness. After my graduation, I planned to have my own drug store, but I changed my mind to work at Pharmaceutical company in order to gain some experience. The three years working in the company has been giving me more rounded experience because apart from a regular updating the pharmaceutical knowledge to the medical practitioners, I was required to be responsible in work administration and management also. After sometimes in the work function, I feel that there is something that I’m eagerly to know and learn more. That is Cosmetic Sciences which I am interested in every aspects starting from production, quality evaluation as well as product formulation research and development. Thus, I plan to study Master degree in Cosmetic Sciences next year in Europe where is a famous place in this field. Ultimately, my dream is that I will research and develop new cosmetic products in my own business.

Carving up roast animals: What do you think?

Read the following introduction to "Carving the Roast Beast", a sixteen page essay and dialogue by Stephen Law.

Every year in the UK, more than 25 million turkeys are killed for our Christmas dinner. Is this mass slaughter justifiable merely to satisfy our preference for a certain kind of meat? Shouldn't we be carving nut cutlets instead?

The Wilson family are sat around the Christmas dinner table. Dad is carving the turkey when he glances a little apprehensively at his eldest daughter, Gemma.

Mr. Wilson: Some turkey, Gemma?

Gemma: Of course not. You know I'm a vegetarian.

Mrs Wilson: Only since last week. And it's Christmas. Can't you join in just this once?

Gemma: No. It's morally wrong to eat meat. I'm not going to do something morally wrong just to make you happy.

Much the same conversation will be familiar to parents around the world. Teenagers are increasingly becoming vegetarians, often on moral grounds. It can be irksome for the parents: special meals have to be cooked and time and effort put into making sure that their offspring get a balanced diet.

Still, while Gemma's views might be inconvenient, that doesn't make them mistaken. And in fact Gemma does have some rather good arguments up her sleeve. (Law, 2003, pp. 124 - 5)

Now, in a comment below, write your response to the topic and main idea of Law's sixteen page essay. Although I've asked you to respond to Law's topic and main idea, this is a response writing, so we can be pretty flexible. The important thing is to respond to the reading in sentences that clearly state your ideas.

I suggest you write for five to ten minutes without stopping, and then publish your comment.

You can also respond to a classmate's comments if you thought it was interesting. You might think it was interesting because you agree or because you disagree with your classmate, or for any other reason.

You can leave as many comments as you like.

You do not have the next fifteen pages of Law's essay: that is not a problem. Don't worry: I'll give you the full essay tomorrow, after everyone has written their response to the introduction above.

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References

Law, S. (2003). Carving the roast beast. In The Xmas Files: The Philosophy of Christmas (pp. 124 - 140). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Euy's Academic Interest

What areas of study are you interested in?
What have you studied? Why? How did you like it?
In what academic areas do you read for pleasure, because you want to know about the subject of for some other reason?
What do you read? Listen to? What else do you do?
What areas of study would you like to know more about? Why?
What aren't you interested in? Why not?
and anything else related to your academic interests.


First of all, I interested in an Engineering area.According to my interest, I finished the bachalor degree of Industrial Engineering.Moreover, I planned to learn engineering since I was young because my father is an engineer.Therefore, I wished to be a good working person like him.However,To study in engineering was not an easy way because I had to work very hard.Therefore, I cannot get good scores in my university's life.From this reason, I realized that I have to plan for other fields that I can do better than this.

Ann's Academic Interests

I have graduated from Kasetsart University in Computer Engineering and I want to study master degree at Asian Institute Technology in MBA. I want to change my academic field because I want to know the other field. I am interested in MBA because I like Mathematics and would like to know about market and finance.
I like to read psychology and technology articles and love to see beautiful graphic pictures and new invention things. I don't like article about law because it is hard to understand.

Kate's Academic Interests

I graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University, major in Banking and Finance. For the reasons why I choose to study this major, firstly I was interested in investment in stock market but I had no idea about how to choose a good stock to invest. Secondly, I think financial background is necessary to run my own business into the future. I think finance is more difficult than other areas if I have to study it by myself. So, I decided to study in this field.

After I graduated, I also worked in finance and accounting departments because I want to know do I really like this field? But after I worked, I can realize that I don't want to work in this field anymore. But I'm interested in marketing job. So, for my master's degree, I will not certainly choose to focus on finance.

Alina's Academic Interests

I am interesting study language.Now I am a high school school student. I am Chinese and sine I finished Grade 9 I came to Thailand for study.I study English and Thai and I enjoy do this, because I want to communicat with people in other country.When I study language I find it's amazing.

Earth's Academic Interest

My name is Warat. You can call me in short "Earth". I graduated form faculty of commerce and accountancy,Thammasat University. I intersted in fianancial and economics issues. I love to read about technology magazines such as computers and getgets. My favourite TV'series are 24 and CSI. In my leisure time, I like to find a fine food to eat and travelling around. Now I am praparing myself for the further education in business administration or related fields.

Near's Acadamic Interests

I'm graduated from Bangkok University with major is Public Ralation because i think Public relation is suit my personality as i like to meet a lot of people and now i've plan to go to Australia to study about Hospitality Management commercial cookery bacause i think it can relate with major that i had studied and cookery is just plus option that i like. for this reason that lead me to choose this major.

After I graduated, i had apply in a cabin crew but I failed on it because I think my english is too weak that led me to changed my plan to go abroad and study English more.

Golf's Academic Interests

I am interesting in studying Economy and Culinary. I graduated from Chulalongkorn University major in accounting and auditing. I have ever worked as audit assistance for about two years at Ernst and Young. I enjoy working their. In my leisure time, I usually read about music history and some kind of science such as physiology. Thus, I also enjoy listen to many music for study. Jazz music is the one I like most because it is a freedom music which players can play what they want. It like express ideas. Last week, I watch some academic talk about Einstein theory, quantum physic was amazing.

Due to, I graduated from business school. I also interested in reading economic news.

Keng's Academic Interests

I come here to improve my english skill for stydying next year. I graduated in master degree in pediatric nursing from Mahidol University. I work as a nursing instructor for 14 years. I work with my students in college and also work with the young patient in hospital. Eventhough i do not work as a full time nurse there but i can see many problems occuring them. My research area is about school age children both in well beings and sick children. In healthy children i concern about the sexual behavious and sexual risk that is the big problem for today. In addition, in the hospital i focus on the children who have some problems about the components of blood: white blood cell, red blood cell, and pletelet. I need to prepare not only the knowledge in my field but also all skills in enlish for studying and living there.

Tan's Academic interests

In the present, My academic interests is International Marketing.

I have studies in marketing major, because My family have fruits business and I want to learn about how can fruit products make profit. Nowsday, I think, the way to make more profit of fruits business is export them

Kriss's Academic Interests

Entomology is the most interesting for me because insect is very beautiful especially butterfly. I am collecting a lot of insects. I use this collection to teach my student that how you collect the insects. The method of insect collecting are 4 steps. First of all is catch the insect and then knock them. The second is setting them on the foam and fix it by pin. Third of them is put them in the incubater about 60 degree celcius. Finally, collect them in the box with naptaline.

Aor'sAcademic Interest

Today, my academic interest is Pediatric nursing science including parents who have their ill child. I am happy when I take care these group because they are cute and trend to progressive healthy. In the past time,when I styudied in Nursing college, I was confuse which group I was interested. But, when graduating, I must select field to take care patients. I decided Pediatric ward because it was clean place and few numbers. After working, I can find my interest field that is Heamotology.
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Peter's Academic Interests

Today, my main areas of academic interests are philosophy and science. Actually, I loved science from high school when I first started to study it at school. At first, I was mainly interested in biology: I read my school science books, got books from the library on plants, fungi, and other topics in biology, and grew trees and other plants at home. This was when I was 12 years of age. I also liked mathematics because it was so sure. Subjects like English seemed vague and mysterious to me, but in mathematics, we knew things 100%, and it was amazing how it started with a little bit and built complex theorems on it. I had some problems in geometry because my teachers didn't like my drawings, but that was their problem. I think they were bad teachers because they worried about things that were not important, like looking neat and pretty.
At university, I began a science degree with majors in physics and mathematics, but at teh end of high school, I had already started to read philosophy and study languages, so I changed my degree, and majored in philosophy and mathematics, with a couple of dead languages. These were not very useful subjects to study for getting a job, but I'm glad I studied them. Today, I still read a lot in philosophy and I also like to keep up with progress in science, as you can see from some of the magazines I recommend: New Scientist, and Scientific American, for example.
In philosophy, my main areas of interest are moral philosophy, but at the moment I'm also reading a lot in philosophy of mind, which is about questions like teh nature of human consciousness, whether we have minds, how could free will exist, and things like that.

Welcome to Reading and Writing 4, term 6, 2009

Welcome to Reading and Writing Level 4 in AUA's Academic English Program.

As we've discussed in class, Quest has both formal academic writing exercises and less formal response writing exercises in every chapter (Hartmann, 2007). During this six week term, we will regularly be doing both kinds of writing.

We will also be reading: both the readings in Quest and a variety of outside readings.

Blogging is a valuable tool for both reading and writing, and we will be blogging every week. Most of the blogging you do will be less academic than the academic writing assignments I give you: it will often be a written response to something you have read, rather than a carefully planned piece of work. However, on some issues, you might want to think a little more, and even cite supporting sources for points you make in a blog post or in a comment on a classmate's post.

If you've never blogged before, don't worry. After the first time or two, it will be easy and you can start playing around with the tools on offer.

It's also OK to have fun with your blogging.

When you are looking around, you might be interested in some of the tools I've put on the right:

• Recent Topics gives links to information and notes about blog topics on which to write
• What's on at AUA is a calendar with term dates and other timely information
• Daily Updates gives links to feeds from some newspapers and magazines
• Useful Links for AEP students are links to some online dictionaries and other resources
• Looking for Something to Read takes you to a range of quality international newspapers and magazines (there are many more - those selected are just a few that I regularly read)
• Members is the list of current AEP students who can post to this blog. After you join, you're name will be there.
• and the archive of posts, and so on

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References

Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Are Britain's Doctors right or wrong?

The British Medical Association, the largest organisation of doctors in Britain, has today called for a total ban on the advertising of all alcohol products ("Doctors want booze", 2009). This would be similar to the total ban on advertising cigarettes that now exists in many countries.

• Do you agree with the British Medical Association and the 141,000 doctors that it represents in Britain?
• Should your country impose a similar ban on the advertising of alcoholic drinks?
• Do you agree with the current total ban on cigarette advertising?
• How did you decide whether or not you agree? What are important issues here?

Please share your ideas in a comment, or several comments, below.

As you read your classmates' commments, you are welcome to support opinions you agree with, and to oppose opinions that you think are wrong.

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References

Doctors want booze marketing ban. (2009, September 8). BBC News. Retrieved on September 8, 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8242385.stm

Is the Supreme Court right or wrong?

Argentina's Supreme Court has recently ruled that personal marijuana use must be legal in many cases under the Argentine constitution ("Argentina rules", 2009). This means that laws made the Argentine government which make such personal use illegal are themselves illegal and must not be enforced. Effectively, this ruling legalizes most personal use of marijuana in Argentina.

• Do you agree with the Supreme Court judges? Should they have made marijuana use legal?
• Should Thailand's Supreme Court do the same for Thai citizens who personally wish to use marijuana?

Please share your ideas on this in a comment below.

You are welcome to argue for or against the opinions of classmates.

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References

Argentina rules on marijuana use. (2009, August 26). BBC News. Retrieved on September 8, 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8221599.stm