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[1]  HOUSEHOLD WASTE

[2]  Household waste is waste which is generated in the day to day operations of a
[3]  household. It can include everything from lawn clippings to burned out light bulbs.
[4]  Many movements designed to get people thinking about environmentally friendly
[5]  living have focused on household waste as something which can be easily
[6]  manipulated to make a difference in the environment. Management of household
[7]  waste is also a major issue, and it has been for hundreds of years.

[8]  A busy household can generate a great deal of waste, and the amount of household
[9]  waste can increase radically in developed nations which rely heavily on packaging
[10]  for a wide variety of products. Historically, people disposed of their household
[11]  waste by burying or burning it, but these methods became impractical once human
[12]  populations started exploding, resulting in the development of land fills, disposal
[13]  sites where collected waste from a large area is buried.

[14]  One of the issues with household waste is that not all of it is, in fact, waste, and people can radically reduce the
[15]  amount of stuff which gets thrown away by thinking before tossing something in the garbage. Many communities
[16]  have recycling programs which accept paper, glass, bottles, cans, and numerous other items which can be broken
[17]  down and reused. Other things considered “waste” may be useful to others, such as outmoded couches which get
[18]  tossed to the curb instead of being donated to organizations which could sell or use the furniture.

[19]  People are sometimes surprised when they start keeping track of the amount of waste they really generate. Even
[20]  people who think that they have a comparatively small amount of garbage can find that they create a lot of waste.
[21]  Logging household waste by weighing or charting it for several months can sometimes be an eye opening experience
[22]  and an interesting science fair project.
[23]  Source: Adapted from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-household-waste.htm

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[1]  HOUSEHOLD WASTE

[2]  Household waste is waste which is generated in the day to day operations of a
[3]  household. It can include everything from lawn clippings to burned out light bulbs.
[4]  Many movements designed to get people thinking about environmentally friendly
[5]  living have focused on household waste as something which can be easily
[6]  manipulated to make a difference in the environment. Management of household
[7]  waste is also a major issue, and it has been for hundreds of years.

[8]  A busy household can generate a great deal of waste, and the amount of household
[9]  waste can increase radically in developed nations which rely heavily on packaging
[10]  for a wide variety of products. Historically, people disposed of their household
[11]  waste by burying or burning it, but these methods became impractical once human
[12]  populations started exploding, resulting in the development of land fills, disposal
[13]  sites where collected waste from a large area is buried.

[14]  One of the issues with household waste is that not all of it is, in fact, waste, and people can radically reduce the
[15]  amount of stuff which gets thrown away by thinking before tossing something in the garbage. Many communities
[16]  have recycling programs which accept paper, glass, bottles, cans, and numerous other items which can be broken
[17]  down and reused. Other things considered “waste” may be useful to others, such as outmoded couches which get
[18]  tossed to the curb instead of being donated to organizations which could sell or use the furniture.

[19]  People are sometimes surprised when they start keeping track of the amount of waste they really generate. Even
[20]  people who think that they have a comparatively small amount of garbage can find that they create a lot of waste.
[21]  Logging household waste by weighing or charting it for several months can sometimes be an eye opening experience
[22]  and an interesting science fair project.
[23]  Source: Adapted from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-household-waste.htm

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[1]  WHY FRANCE IS PUSHING ITS STUDENTS TO MASTER ENGLISH

[2]  “A lot of things in France have changed under globalization in order to keep us competitive, but teaching people
[3]  English here has remained old-fashioned and inefficient”.
[4]  Earlier this month, French President Nicolas
[5]  Sarkozy unveiled an “emergency plan” for
[6]  teaching foreign languages in the nation’s schools
[7]  with the lofty objective that “all our high school
[8]  students must become bilingual, and some should
[9]  be trilingual.” Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy
[10]  noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual
[11]  GDP on education — the fifth highest percentage
[12]  in the world — simply must do better than its
[13]  current rank of 69th among 109 countries on
[14]  the standardized Test of English as a Foreign
[15]  Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has
[16]  proposed exposing students to more nativespeaking
[17]  English instructors, increasing contacts
[18]  between French and foreign high schools and shifting the focus in schools from written foreign-language instruction
[19]  to the more practical oral.
[20]  “A modern foreign language is meant to be spoken,” Sarkozy said in his latest assault on the kinds of tradition-bound
[21]  practices that he believes are holding the country back economically. “Pointing something that obvious out isn’t futile
[22]  in a country where Latin is an oral exam on the Baccalaureate while the leading modern language [English] is
[23]  evaluated in written form.”
[24]  Compelling teachers in France’s notoriously rigid education system to change their ways and encourage students to
[25]  speak more in foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction
[26]  that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France’s long-standing policies
[27]  aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its
[28]  mission of purging the French language of impurities — often words taken from other languages — way back in
[29]  1635. The key objective of the country’s 25-year-old exception culturelle is ensuring that French-language music,
[30]  film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports. And a law passed in 1994 requires
[31]  that French translations accompany any foreign phrases in state documents, business contracts and even advertising.
[32]  Becoming an Anglophone isn’t cheap — but that’s not stopping students from signing up. Laetitia Marcellesi says
[33]  she had to get a job to pay for the course, while her classmate, Justine Boussin, took out a loan to finance a study
[34]  abroad trip to London. Only time will tell if future French students will start getting this type of practical training for free
[35]  at school, or whether they’ll have to keep paying for it once they graduate.
[36]  By Bruce Crumley / Paris, Time magazine, 10/31/2009
[37]  Adapted from: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932422,00.html

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[1]  WHY FRANCE IS PUSHING ITS STUDENTS TO MASTER ENGLISH

[2]  “A lot of things in France have changed under globalization in order to keep us competitive, but teaching people
[3]  English here has remained old-fashioned and inefficient”.
[4]  Earlier this month, French President Nicolas
[5]  Sarkozy unveiled an “emergency plan” for
[6]  teaching foreign languages in the nation’s schools
[7]  with the lofty objective that “all our high school
[8]  students must become bilingual, and some should
[9]  be trilingual.” Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy
[10]  noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual
[11]  GDP on education — the fifth highest percentage
[12]  in the world — simply must do better than its
[13]  current rank of 69th among 109 countries on
[14]  the standardized Test of English as a Foreign
[15]  Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has
[16]  proposed exposing students to more nativespeaking
[17]  English instructors, increasing contacts
[18]  between French and foreign high schools and shifting the focus in schools from written foreign-language instruction
[19]  to the more practical oral.
[20]  “A modern foreign language is meant to be spoken,” Sarkozy said in his latest assault on the kinds of tradition-bound
[21]  practices that he believes are holding the country back economically. “Pointing something that obvious out isn’t futile
[22]  in a country where Latin is an oral exam on the Baccalaureate while the leading modern language [English] is
[23]  evaluated in written form.”
[24]  Compelling teachers in France’s notoriously rigid education system to change their ways and encourage students to
[25]  speak more in foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction
[26]  that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France’s long-standing policies
[27]  aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its
[28]  mission of purging the French language of impurities — often words taken from other languages — way back in
[29]  1635. The key objective of the country’s 25-year-old exception culturelle is ensuring that French-language music,
[30]  film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports. And a law passed in 1994 requires
[31]  that French translations accompany any foreign phrases in state documents, business contracts and even advertising.
[32]  Becoming an Anglophone isn’t cheap — but that’s not stopping students from signing up. Laetitia Marcellesi says
[33]  she had to get a job to pay for the course, while her classmate, Justine Boussin, took out a loan to finance a study
[34]  abroad trip to London. Only time will tell if future French students will start getting this type of practical training for free
[35]  at school, or whether they’ll have to keep paying for it once they graduate.
[36]  By Bruce Crumley / Paris, Time magazine, 10/31/2009
[37]  Adapted from: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932422,00.html

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[1]  WHY FRANCE IS PUSHING ITS STUDENTS TO MASTER ENGLISH

[2]  “A lot of things in France have changed under globalization in order to keep us competitive, but teaching people
[3]  English here has remained old-fashioned and inefficient”.
[4]  Earlier this month, French President Nicolas
[5]  Sarkozy unveiled an “emergency plan” for
[6]  teaching foreign languages in the nation’s schools
[7]  with the lofty objective that “all our high school
[8]  students must become bilingual, and some should
[9]  be trilingual.” Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy
[10]  noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual
[11]  GDP on education — the fifth highest percentage
[12]  in the world — simply must do better than its
[13]  current rank of 69th among 109 countries on
[14]  the standardized Test of English as a Foreign
[15]  Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has
[16]  proposed exposing students to more nativespeaking
[17]  English instructors, increasing contacts
[18]  between French and foreign high schools and shifting the focus in schools from written foreign-language instruction
[19]  to the more practical oral.
[20]  “A modern foreign language is meant to be spoken,” Sarkozy said in his latest assault on the kinds of tradition-bound
[21]  practices that he believes are holding the country back economically. “Pointing something that obvious out isn’t futile
[22]  in a country where Latin is an oral exam on the Baccalaureate while the leading modern language [English] is
[23]  evaluated in written form.”
[24]  Compelling teachers in France’s notoriously rigid education system to change their ways and encourage students to
[25]  speak more in foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction
[26]  that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France’s long-standing policies
[27]  aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its
[28]  mission of purging the French language of impurities — often words taken from other languages — way back in
[29]  1635. The key objective of the country’s 25-year-old exception culturelle is ensuring that French-language music,
[30]  film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports. And a law passed in 1994 requires
[31]  that French translations accompany any foreign phrases in state documents, business contracts and even advertising.
[32]  Becoming an Anglophone isn’t cheap — but that’s not stopping students from signing up. Laetitia Marcellesi says
[33]  she had to get a job to pay for the course, while her classmate, Justine Boussin, took out a loan to finance a study
[34]  abroad trip to London. Only time will tell if future French students will start getting this type of practical training for free
[35]  at school, or whether they’ll have to keep paying for it once they graduate.
[36]  By Bruce Crumley / Paris, Time magazine, 10/31/2009
[37]  Adapted from: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932422,00.html

[1] EFFECT OF STRESS ON TODAYS FAMILIES

[2]  Not many would disagree if one says that there is no such thing like
[3]  “perfect” families. Families that are happy, relieved, stress free and
[4]  united are very difficult to find nowadays. The stress level of today’s
[5]  families has increased tremendously. Since a family is an institution
[6]  that is closely bonded the problem of one member of the family
[7]  easily becomes the problem of each and every member of the family.
[8]  This results in increasing the stress level of the entire family.
[9]  Maximum families suffer stress because they have very busy schedules
[10]  and have so much to do in such a short span of time that they
[11] hardly get time to talk to each other or share their problems. There
[12]  are several effects of stress on the family. These include:

[13]  Family quarrels: One of the most common outcomes of stress is
[14]  quarrels. A stressed out person does not has the potential to remain
[15]  calm for a long time. He/she blames other person for his stress. This
[16]  results in a quarrel which is not at all healthy for the family. People
[17]  often lose their temper and end up damaging their entire family life.

[18]  Less or no communication amongst the family members: While some families quarrel and settle their differences there
[19]  are others in which family members just cut off the interaction amongst each other. This is even more harmful because
[20]  they do not try to settle their differences at all. Until and unless one doesn’t communicate he/she cannot understand
[21]  other person’s point of view.

[22]  Effect on health: Stress can ultimately lead to poor health of family members. Different people respond differently to
[23]  stress. While a few just stop eating food there are others who gulp food when stressed. But one thing is sure that both
[24]  the habits are harmful to their health. One must realize that being stressed isn’t a cardinal error. What he needs to
[25]  learn is the way in which one responds to it.

[26]  http://blog.tradetang.com/effect-of-stress-on-todays-families - March 10th, 2010.