LSEC N100

Reflection

Academic Composition is a course about how to write research skills , develop essay writing with professional citations and references ( bibliography) , and learn some new words in vocabulary quizzes.
Research skills are about how to get the information and the ideas from the articles, websites and books, and then summarize them.

After getting the information, we learn how to write the inline citations  and the references (bibliography) professionally in two ways, that is APA and MLA; also how to write essays with citations and references.
And the vocabulary quizzes are important for us, because we had some new words that we didn't know  before.

Finally, academic composition is a very important course for us before we take the IELTS test, improve our writing and reading skills , and the other thing that helps us and makes this course simple is our teacher, because he gives to each student the simple methods to overcome the errors.

 

LSEC N100 ( Essay )

LSEC N100 -Essay

Climate Changing 

There are many problems facing the environment and one of those problems is called global warming or climate change. In the following, I will discuss the causes of the climate changing, the consequences of the changing in the climate and the solutions for this issue.

Let us first turn our attention to the causes of this issue. For starters, one very important cause to take note of is the greenhouse gases. To illustrate, those gases are continuously increasing day by day. As a result of increased concentration of these gases more and more heat is reflected back to the earth, thus increasing its temperature. There are both natural and human made causes of climate change. Let us describe some of the natural causes. For instance, the volcanic eruptions are one of many. Another natural cause is the glaciers. To clarify, the permafrost and glaciers in the southern and the north poles are melting because of the increasing in the temperature of the world. According to the report of the Panel on Climate Change the temperature of earth increased about .75 °C during the 20th century and is further expected to rise by 1.1 to 6.4 °C by the end of the 21st century (Global climate model). Additional causes are manmade. For example, the carbon dioxide is one of the manmade causes which comes from the automobiles and power plants.

Let us turn to the consequences of climate change. For starters, there are many results and effects which happened like a rise in water levels. For example, the level of water in seas and oceans is continuously increasing due to the melting of ice caps. And that is also one of the effects that happen by the climate changing. To clarify, the ice caps melt when the temperature increases and that increase will be canceled by the greenhouse gases. Let us move to another consequence which is oxygen depletion. The level of oxygen in the atmosphere and water is continuously decreasing due to an increase in the concentration of other gases . Although factors other than climate may have intensified the severity of some of the events on the map, scientists predict such problems will increase if emissions of heat-trapping gases are not brought under control (Global Warming ,ClimateHotMap) .

As we know for sure, every problem should have its solution except getting old. We can be cured only when collective steps will be taken by the people all over the world. For starters, the most important factor for dealing with global warming is to create the awareness among the people. For example, many of the factory owners don’t know about this huge problem and some of them don’t care. The website says that the factory owner only thinks about the income of his factory and he doesn’t look at the greenhouse gases that are produced from his factory which may make people suffer in the future (Global Warming , Thinkquest ). Another solution that we can take into consideration is planting trees. That’s because the trees could use the carbon dioxide to provide their food and by that operation the tree produces the oxygen.

All in all, we have considered the reasons that led to this problem, the effects on the environment that are caused by the climate changing and finally we mentioned some solutions that may help in solving our issue. I think that if we don’t look at this problem, try to think about it and do something to stop it, we will be in a really worrying situation.

Bibliography

•        Wikipedia .Global- climate-model. Retrieved July,8, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_climate_model

•        ClimateHotMap. Global Warming. Retrieved January, 31, 2011, from http://www.climatehotmap.org/

•        Thinkquest.  Global Warming. Retrieved January, 31, 2011, from http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm

LSEC N100

LSEC N100 - Subject Related Research (Technology) Report 

World Wide Web

Introduction:

There are many inventions in the world. One of the most important inventions is the World Wide Web. In the following, I will discuss the history and uses of the World Wide Web and how it has an effect on my area of study which is Network Engineering .

History: 

Let us first turn our attention to the history of this invention. For starters, one very important date to take note of is 1980. To illustrate, in that year, Tim Berners-Lee built ENQUIRE which is a personal database of people and software. An additional significant year was 1977. For example, that year marked the time when Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf introduced Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) for cross-network connections. Yet another relevant date in the history of this innovation was 1978. To clarify, at this point in time, they added to the Transfer Control Protocol something called the Internet Protocol (IP) and it was responsible to make the routes for the messages while the TCP is used for cross-network connections. In 1989 Berners-Lee wrote a huge text with many typed links to build a new system. He did this by encouraging Mike Sendall (his boss) in CERN. Moving along to 1990, we see the first web page was built by CERN. After that year, other companies started building websites. By that time World Wide Web technology had a huge popularity. The last date worth looking at was 1993. During that year, CERN allowed people to have their own websites known as personal websites. (History of the Web. 2011) .

The World Wide Web is used for several purposes. First of all, it helps the human race to use the time better in business. For instance, the stock market was well known after the internet boom was known and that market had a huge popularity when it was used on the internet. Another thing to show that the World Wide Web is helpful in doing business is the online shops. Let us move to the uses in education. To illustrate, “the internet should not be disregarded when conducting academic research. It is a major source for scholarly journals, current news, books, credible magazines, general information and other relevant content”. (Top Ten Reviews Contributor) .

This invention has affected my area of study in several ways. For starters, one interesting point to take note of is with regard to virtual facilities.  (Overstreet, J. W., & Tzes, A, 2002). The virtual laboratory allows continuous access to experimental setups and is fast becoming possible due to the progress in internet-based networking technology . (Overstreet, J. W., & Tzes, A, 2002).

Yet another relevant point is regarding hardware.  To clarify, an example of hardware is monitoring cameras that broadcast what is happening around the website which are used by police for monitoring the cities. For example, the officer or the monitor could see what is happening and he also could control the cameras from his computer using the internet.   

To sum up, taking into account all I have mentioned regarding the World Wide Web, we can see that it is a very useful invention that helped the humans to improve their lives .

Bibliography

·         History of the Web – World Wide Web Foundation. (n.d.). World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved January 31, 2011, from http://www.webfoundation.org/vision/history-of-the-web/  .

·         Overstreet, J. W., & Tzes, A. (2002). An Internet-based real-time control engineering laboratory. Control Systems Magazine, IEEE, 19(5), 19 - 34.

·         Contributor. (n.d.). How to Effectively Use the Internet for Research – Top Ten REVIEWS. Internet Browser Software Review 2011 – Top Ten REVIEWS. Retrieved January 31, 2011, from http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/how-to-effectively-use-the-internet-for-research.html  .