Kabsa

Faraj Aldossary
EAP2-B Mr. Leverett
Fluency # 4

Today I will talk about Kabsa as a kind of favorite food in my country, Saudi Arabia, and other Arabic countries. Kabsa is a popular and traditional meal for a lot of Arabic societies. Moreover, it is considered a main dish on the lunch table almost every day. On the other hand, it caught on in other foreign countries. It has many healthy benefits. It is made of rice cooked with red or white meat or chicken in a pot. To prepare kabsa cut the onion and put it in the pot; stir it with a little vegetable oil until it begins to brown. Then, add the meat pieces; fry it until it begins to brown, add tomato, spices, salt, pepper and water. Then, cover the pot, and cook it over medium heat about 25-30 minutes. You can add something else for tasting if you want. Then put it in one big dish to gather with your family around to share the meal. Serve it hot. I prefer kabsa with salad, hot and spicy, and with a cold soda. Hummmmmmmmmm

China Vows to Half Growing Gender Imbalance

Faraj Aldossary
S/R # 1

In the article ”China vows to half growing gender imbalance” by Xinhua General News Service, the author discusses growing gender imbalance. The author state that Chinese authorities have made measures and serious punishments to control two big problems affecting gender ratio imbalance; fetus gender testing and sex-selective abortions. The author says that the authorities pledged to protect girls from ill treatment that may reach killing. Then, he views that the authorities have made a statement containing those measures that will be reached nationwide. After that, the author shows some statistics to support his opinion. Moreover, the author states that the authorities have offered incentives to encourage families to have girls. Next, he states that the authorities made a policy to prevent the rising population and sex ratio imbalance. Then, the author states that the authorities are strict to apply laws, especially government officials. Finally, the author mentions that the authorities encourage enterprises support government programs of sex ratio imbalance and population. Therefore, Chinese authorities should make severe procedures to protect human rights, to make balance of gender, and to control their population
Chinese authorities should offer stimulus to families who have only a girl and make punishments for people who discard girls.

First, Chinese people were violating human rights when they were killing girls. They were murdering fetuses if they were female. For example, when a woman get pregnant they make gender testing; if the fetus was a boy they would keep him, but if it was female they would abort her. Also, they were thinking that only boys could help their parents to face life’s troubles, while girls couldn’t do anything useful, so Chinese people thought that girls just added an imposition. For example, parents depend on boys to share their own work more than girls even simple chores. Therefore, the authorities should try to make Chinese people avoid violation of the human rights.

Second, Chinese authorities made some policies to control their population. Each family is allowed to have just one child. These procedures made the people trying to have a boy rather than a girl. This behavior made sex ratio imbalance. Sex-selective abortions were spread among them. For example, they made fetus gender testing; if it was a girl they aborted her just because she was not a boy. Also, that behavior will put them in a big problem; they will reach a stage without enough women to be wives or mothers. For example, the natural average of any country is the number of men almost equals the number of women, but in China men are more than women, so they are barely able to find women to be wives. Therefore, the authorities had to control this problem before it is uncontrolled.

Third, China has a high population. Chinese authorities should make strict policies to curtail its population. China’s population has a large number, so if they have freedom to have children as they want, they will make a larger population. For example, if a couple has four children, that will be enough to double the population. Also, the high population will come with many serious economic, social, and security problems. For example, people can’t find functions or work to get food. Therefore, Chinese authorities should control this population problem as soon as they can.

In conclusion, Chinese authorities made policies to control population, but they don’t consider other sides. Then they get new problems such as gender imbalance. However, Chinese authorities have to solve population problem and save girls’ lives. China’s problem will affect a whole world because China has a largest population around the world.

Reference
Xinhua General News Service (2007). China vows to half growing gender imbalance. Retried Aug 02, 2007 from
http://web.lexis-nexis.com

The Best Size of Family

Faraj Aldossary
EAP2-B Mr.Leverett
Argument Essay

Every society consists of a lot of families. To have a good society, you should have good families with special characteristics, as you can, but how do you do that? Every society has a different culture and suppositions about marriage. In addition, your culture affects your decisions to build your family. You are demanded to build a good family to contribute in your society’s development. There are some kinds of family. I believe that a small family is better than a big family for the parents to be able to educate, control, and socialize children.

First, education is the main base to make your children contribute to their society. Parents must make their children good students in the school’s environment. Actually, they can’t do that unless their children are few to control them. For example, parents teach their children how to be polite and to respect their teachers and peers. But if their children are many, then the parents will be confused. Also, parents have to teach their children how to be effective in their society. For example, if their children will be teachers, officers, or doctors they will make their society develop. But if their children are many, their parents can’t make them as they want. To contribute to your society’s development you’d better have few children to focus on their education to affective members.

Second, to be able to educate your children to be good members you have to control them. If parents can control their children they will make them as they want. For example, if your child doesn’t want to go to school, you can’t force him if you can’t control him. Also, if parents have many children, they can’t
control their children to protect their children from drugs; besides, their children will be bad members in their society. For example, if you have ten children they will drive you crazy because they have different behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs that will make you to be incapable of controlling them. Therefore, to build a good family as you want, you should have a small family.

Third, to produce a good family to your society, you should give your family’s members a good life. You are demanded to guarantee a comfortable life for them to keep them away from crime’s causes. For example, if your child doesn’t get his/her needs, he/she will get them in the wrong way; that will add bad experiences to him/her to be bad member in his/her society. If a child doesn’t get money to buy a tracksuit, he will get it from someone else in any way. Also, to have autonomous members in your family, you should teach them their responsibilities in their childhood and teach them how they make own decisions among their peers. For example, you should let your child do his/her homework; don’t do it instead of him/her. Therefore, a small family allows parents to do their assignments toward their family members.

Opponents say to contribute in your society’s development you should have a big family. They believe that if you bring numerous children, they will work in different areas that will develop the society. Also, they believe that if you have many children that will increase society’s population to have effective society. In the end, they say that children learn good behaviors from each other. But I am at odds with this conviction; it depends on the big family, because the small family has many characteristics that make it better than the large one. The small family is easy to deal with, small enough to control, and flexible to socialize. For example, if you have two children, you can know where they go, who they go with, and when they go and come. Therefore, it is obvious that the small family size is better than the large family size.

In conclusion, to make a good family you should focus on making its members good individuals; if others make good families, we will have a perfectly produced society. After that, the society will be independent, persistent, contributing, and a useful brick among other societies in the sharing of world development.

A Folk in Arabic Island

Faraj Aldossary
EAP2-B Mr. Leverett
Fluency # 3

There is talk that a folk were in Arab Island before many years ago. They had a good job for other people. They had helped many people who needed assistance, such as travelers through the desert or people who looking for something that was lost. So, they had a good reputation and we are proud of them as Arab people. Also, they worked against evil people. At one time, they met a person who was exhausted, thirsty, hungry, desperate; then they helped him and saved his life. But he did not reciprocate. He was one of a gang group; he tried to steal from them during their sleep. While he was frisking their possessions, one of them woke up and caught him. Then the rest woke up to help their mate. Finally, they tied him up and delivered him to the police department. The police thanked them and asked them to work with the police as wild soldiers.

My Uncle's Family

Faraj Aldossary
EAP2-B Mr. Leverett
Fluency # 2

Today I will talk about my uncle's family. He has a very large family. They live in my country, Saudi Arabia. My uncle has twenty children; fourteen of them are boys and the rest are girls. The children were born from three women. They live in two houses; one wife lives alone with her children and two wives live together with their children. The first wives live because they are peaceful and cooperative. Their children are helpful and kind. They love each other and they like to be together daily, go to and from school together, study together, go to hang out together. On the other hand, the last wife who lives with her children doesn't like the other wives or their children; that affects her children. Her hildren don't like t play with their brothers or stay with them. One of them is a trouble maker. He always fights with other boys. Somwtimes he draws all his brothers with him into many problems, even his brothers from other mothers. Finally, they grew up enough to know what the right or wrong way is. They deal with, love, and help each other.

My Wisdom

Faraj Aldossary
EAP2-B Mr. Leverett
Fluency # 1

Everybody should have wisdom from his parents or grandparents. That wisdom comes from a long experience in their lives. They think it will be good wisdom for their children to have. My parents taught me important wisdom which is how I should deal with people who are older than me. My parents believe that if I know how to do that, I will be able to deal with others politely, whether they are older or smaller, and they will notice how my parents educated me. Moreover, the wisdom helps me in my special life; I can see that in people's eyes, treatment, and smiles. It makes me kind with children and respectful with peers. Therefore, I feel I am better than others with this wisdom. To avoid many troubles you should learn from your parents' experiences.

Violent Games

I visited www.sfgate.com. This website talks about the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech. Also, it mentions Thompson, when he was on Fox News where he said violent video games were to blame. This website expands to discuss violent games with contrapuntal persons. In addition, this website shows pictures of different forms of violent games. And this website contains some links which enable you to search about violent games. This website is simple and easy to use.

In my opinion, I agree that violent games are an important reason for the growth the violence in child characters. Also, I think if violent games are built according to scientific study, then they will be useful, interesting, and more popular. On the other hand, this website is designed to be fit and clear for anyone. It doesn’t conflict.