Friday, May 28, 2010

The Values of Natural Resources and The Benefit of Economic Goods

Study about the efficiency of natural resources such as the net benefit of forest, quality of fresh water, quality of air, quality of land, and the benefit of fossil fuel and other renewable energy resources in terms of natural resource economics is more complicated than study about the efficiency of other economic goods although both of them are the same purpose, efficiency. Study in economic goods is considered only a value based on whether it should produce or not at that time by using the market mechanism. Its system is relied upon the significant cost called opportunity cost. In other word, a production of economic goods will happen whether or not depended upon opportunity cost. Therefore, Efficiency of economic goods relies on both an economic value and an opportunity cost at that period of time.

Regarding to natural resources, although they use the same tool, opportunity cost, to consider efficiency, a form of its consideration is different from a form of economic goods as the benefit happened in natural resources did not have only a value at that time. When you consider the value of natural resources, you have to consider various aspects. As a result, you can categorize the value of natural resources into three vital groups. As follow:

1.Use Value: it is the consideration of a tangible value of the natural resource benefit. It can divide into two kinds of benefits: direct use(the benefit is directly to use such a natural resources) and indirect use(the indirect benefit from the use of natural resources)

2.Nonuse value: it is the consideration of a benefit from good feeling when you knew that natural resources is well even though you didn’t receive both a direct benefit and a indirect benefit at that time. You can group into two groups: existence value(the benefit of people who aware that natural resource is well.) and bequest value(the benefit of people when you aware that they are well enough to put aside for next generations.)

3.Option value: it is the consideration of a value which didn’t happen right now both use value and nonuse value, but it is likely to use such a resources in the foreseeable future.

In sum, the consideration of entire benefit of natural resources in term of natural resource economics is a combination among use value, nonuse value, and option value. Pertaining to entire cost of natural resources, you have to consider the whole opportunity cost from each of value mentioned above.

Total Benefit(Total Willingness to Pay) = Use Value+Nonuse Value+Option Value

Thursday, May 27, 2010

CCS: Carbon Capture and Storage Technology


Today I searched for information of policy act in Department of Environmental Protection, WV State of Government. I found idea of CCS technology that this department will comprise it to be one of the projects in “Clean Coal Plan”. This project funds from the state government budget about $37 million of dollar. However, only the CCS development plan is approximately 40% of the whole project budget.

Therefore, I think that CCS technology in WV energy industries such as coal industry, oil industry, and other renewable energy industries is more vital importance. Studying of CCS technology is necessary for entrepreneur related to those sectors to prepare themselves with changing circumstances.

First of all, I will explain concept of CCS technology. Actually CCS technology has been a role in energy sector for two decades. Since people around the world have paid attention to aftermath of a climate change and a global warming problem, intellectuals have tried to devise new technology to militate this problem continuously. One of the important technologies is CCS model. CCS technology is a mean of mitigating the contribution of fossil fuel emission to global warming, based on capturing carbon dioxide from large point sources such as fossil fuel power plants, and storing it away from the atmosphere by different means.(World Coal Institute)
CCS technology is directly relevant to geo-engineering. I didn’t study in this field at all. However, this paper would like to explain the concept of CCS. The key point of this technology is the method to capture carbon dioxide during production process. At this time we have three methods to capture it and one methods operating to develop. First method is post-combustion capture, the method that carbon dioxide is removed after combustion of the fossil-fuel and this method is well understood and is currently used in other kinds of energy industrial applications even though not the same scale as might be required in a commercial scale power station.
Second, pre-combustion capture applied in fertilizer, chemical, gas fuel, and power production. Its result of this method is that carbon dioxide can be captured from a relatively pure exhaust stream. The hydrogen dioxide can now be used as fuel and the carbon dioxide is removed before combustion takes place. Third, oxy-fuel combustion is burned in oxygen instead of in air. The carbon dioxide stored is not a fraction removed from the flue gas steam but the flue gas stream itself. Moreover, a certain fraction of the carbon dioxide generated during combustion will inevitably end up in the condensed water called zero emission. However, this method has to use advanced knowledge of chemical elements for understanding and studying it. Another method that is operating and developing called chemical-looping combustion, this method uses a metal oxide as a solid oxygen carrier to support burning fuel production. All of them are the fundamental concept of CCS technology. Next time I will explain the importance of this technology in term of energy economics.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Foreign Language as Second Language in Kindergarten Children


Foreign Language As Second Language In Kindergarten Children

A foreign-language study for kindergarten students in several Asian countries is occurred for a long time particularly in Thailand. Since St. Pere Emile Colombet extended the Roman-Catholic Sect into Bangkok Thailand and established a Christ College in Thailand called St.Gabriel Foundation Network, a foreign-language study especially English language for children in Kindergarten came into fashion and their parents gave more significance to this second language for their child although it is more expensive than other public kindergartens. (Martin De Tu) Nevertheless, schools in controlled by St. Gabriel Foundation Network also branch out and almost all alumni are renowned persons and gain national reputation from public such as members of Privy Councilor, Prime Minister, Ministers, Ambassadors, director-general, millionaires.(www.assumption.ac.th) From this success, nowadays most of kindergartens in Thailand about 50% add English language as a basic requirement into their curricular, and some schools also add a Mandarin language as fundamental requirement.(Bhichit Ratthagul)However, a few education intellectuals disagree with boards of school administration about adding second language being basic requirement in public kindergartens because there are numerous reasons; studying several language in the same time destroys an elementary pronunciation system and a basic hearing system in children, it is not necessary condition for kindergarten students, and it pressures children to become stress and leads them into Generalized Anxiety Disorder.(Surajit Jamornman)

Pertaining to studying every language, learners will get an access to four basic skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They are able to handle language proficiency when they take a lot of time to practice such a skills. For example, if learners want to understand what speakers talk, they have to often practice a listening skill like a reading and writing skill. With respect to speaking skill, they should practice speaking all the time and speak it clearly. It is not difficult if they study only one language. On the other hand, if they have to study more one language, it is difficult to practice and handle it while they study in a kindergarten level because children in this level are improving his language skill into order. Their teachers have to take heed of them in that time because if they did not get good advice from their teachers, they are unable to put their language skill into order and this problem have an adverse impact on them when they reach into mature. Moreover, if they study two languages or more two languages, they have to be taken care from teachers and their parents every step about systematizing their language skill into order; otherwise, they will face a serious problem such as the destruction of their pronunciation system and their basic hearing system. (Srisak Jamornman)Therefore, studying second language is disadvantage if starting to study in kindergarten is without taking care closely from teachers every step to study.

A language study is a main purpose that it is able to apply to communicate with other people around you properly and correctly. Regarding to children in kindergarten level, they are essential for communication with a few people such as their parents and relations, their neighbor, their classmates, and their teachers. A language used by them is only their mother tongues that enough. (Srisak Jamornman) As a result, studying foreign language as a second language is not necessary condition about children in kindergarten level. Furthermore, children in this level should spend time devise their imagination and begin to learn their likely stuffs by themselves rather than take time to study stuffs which their parent impose on them. Additionally, pressuring children to study whatever their parents want is forcing them to undergo tension. (Pawith Thongroth)Nonetheless, studying second language is probably suitable for children who are fond of language because it is able to supplement between what they want to do and what they should do.

Mourning extremely pressure on children in every approach including compelling them to study second language destroys their development and they have propensity for undergoing stress since they are merely children. (Udompong Punnakan) Stress makes a rippling effect on them in term of the child development such as a brain system, a blood-circulatory system, and a respiratory system. According to an illness report from Siriraj Hospital and Mahidol university, Thailand, children suffered from tension when they are young are faced with other inflections such as heart attack, hypertension three times as easy as children who did not undergo tension. Studying second language has to practice a lot and do it for a long time. For children in this level, paying attention in only one activity is difficult and unusual, and if they are exceedingly forced to do that, not only they undergo tension but they also may insist and continuously hate to do such an activity like study second language. Accordingly, their parents should make a suitable decision that children are appreciative to study second language whether or not. If they did not want to study, parents should not force them to do.(Srisak)

In conclusion, whereas studying foreign language as second language in kindergarten level is beneficial, parents should make a good decision that it is suitable for children whether or not because if it is inappropriate for children, studying second language becomes serious penalty for them in numerous aspects mentioned above. Parents want children to be happy or want them to be in trouble depending on their parent decision.

Work Cited

Aril 2010, www.assumption.ac.th
April 2010, www.city.bangkok.go.th
April 2010, www.si.mahidol.ac.th
Thongroth, Prawith “Thailand Looks Out For Degree” Chulalongkorn University Press, 2008 Bangkok, Thailand
Jamornman, Srisak “Thailand Seen Dire Need Of Educational Strategies” Srinakarin University, 2005 Bangkok, Thailand
Punnakan, Udompong “Dangerous Situation in Child” Siriraj Hospital and Mahidol University, 2006 Bangkok, Thailand

Saturday, April 17, 2010

The Three Crucially Important Conditions for Using the Internet System on Business Sectors

The Three Crucially Important Conditions for Using the Internet System on Business Sectors



The increasing of population growth after the World War II was the significant factor to develop a business administration and to extend business opportunity as it brought about the increasing demand for merchandize and service. When the demand was met, businesses are necessary to respond to such a demand by meeting customers’ satisfaction and extending a new group of clients. However, if businesses want to pursue their customers’ need, they have to develop the new system and the new business device which is potential and powerful in order to support their jobs. It is inevitably “the Internet System”. Therefore, maybe it mentions that the appearance of Internet results from the enlarging of demand for merchandize steaming from the increasing of population growth. Moreover, it cannot appear and adopt into business if it has not had the potential computer technology and computer software. For example, Bill Gates cannot develop the browser called Internet Explorer or develop other software to support it if he did not initiate the specific software called Microsoft previously. This is merely one example of computer’s technology contributing to the development into Internet system.

Nowadays, everybody have accepted the contribution of Internet system and exploited this system to support his jobs both individual level and business level particularly the latter. You can notice from every web page on the Internet implicated the fundamental of a business matter. Why do entrepreneurs use Internet to support their business? It is not difficult to reflect this question. It is basically assumed that Internet takes numerous advantages to entrepreneurs; otherwise, they do not want to use it. From searching for information from several credible sources, I can summarize that entrepreneurs have three crucially positive effects of using Internet to buttress their businesses as follows: making the concept “Economy of Speed” to businesses(Pine, the New-Narco Capitalism) , increasing the competitive environment and competitiveness(Krugman, National Economic Productivity), and taking the availability to network with other businesses and organizations(Olrin, the Many available Network Marketing Business Opportunities) although in reality there are plenty of effects of using Internet system on business. In this paper, it mentions only three crucially important effects.

The first crucially important effect for using Internet system is that it can lead entrepreneurs to the concept of Economy of Speed. In 2002, the gigantic business sectors had to face the significant change in the production process when the big corporation, Toyota Motor Cooperation, theorized the new way of production process called “the Toyota Way”. In another word, it means the swifter businesses are, the more their benefits have. This theory emphasizes on the speed of production process and presently it is applied for other business sectors by using the Internet system to increase the speed of production process (Porter E, Strategy and Internet). For example, when customers send product orders to corporation through the corporation software on the Internet system, the employees in the part of production process acknowledge instantaneously about these orders, and then they can arrange raw material to produce. They cannot wait for these orders from selling co-workers. In the same time company may not cost the surpass wages for the workers in the extra time because they work in the normal time and economize for some raw materials which can share with other loops of product chain. For this reason, the products can produce and send to customers rapidly, and company can also reduce the total production cost from cutting cost of some raw materials. This principle applied from the Toyota Way Theory. In 2005 the business intellectuals and professors from several organizations and universities concoct a partial part of theory called “The Economy of Speed”

With the second advantage of using Internet System on Business sector, the Internet System can help small entrepreneurs to widen a new group of customer so as to increase their competitive power and competitive environment in their marketplace.(Porter, Competitive Strategy) It is intricate for small company particularly new small entrepreneurs to enlarge a group of customers and present their product to the public. If they want to extend a new group of client and present their product to the public, they have to spend a lot of money to do that such as making advertisement. Nevertheless, they can do it if they have only the Internet systems to support. It helps them to pay under a quite lower cost but sometimes it is more potential than hiring advertising company to propose products to customers. When small companies cut cost of advertisement, they are able to compete to bigger company in order to usurp market power, increase competitive environment, and enlarge a new niche of customer into their marketplace. Additionally, the consequence of increasing competitive power to small business makes directly the benefits of customers regarding more various product choices to consume both the part of a product quantity and product quality. (Porter E, Competitive Advantage)

From the repercussion of increasing competitive power and environment to small businesses, it leads to the enhancing of business opportunities with each other between big companies and big companies as much as big corporations and small corporations with regarding to having the availability to business networking. Amazon Company, Amazon.com, is the appropriate example in this case. The small businesses can use Amazon website to propose their products in the same time Amazon having large categories of products to sell till its website is one of ten world websites which are the larger Internet users. In this case it indicates that Amazon and small companies come into win-win situation and I can hypothesized that small businesses still depend on Amazon continuously, in the same solution, Amazon also exploits the benefit from them to enlarge his business more.(Johnson Mark, Amazon’s Smart Innovation Strategy) In addition to, other companies like Sony-Music Entertainment and Nokia Corporation is one of the proper case about business networking. Nokia links its system to the software of Sony-Music Entertainment via the Internet system when customers want to download mobile music or mobile ringtones. After customers completed to download them, Nokia will add these expenses to customers’ bill. Nokia did not devise its own software to support music service. It can exploit the benefits from the network connection with Sony-Music Entertainment via the Internet system and both of them take advantages with each other. (Temporal Paul, Hi-Tech and Hi-Touch)

In sum, the appearance of the Internet system is the significance stuff for business sectors in every level both big potent businesses and small powerful businesses including other Internet users because it gives them the benefits in several dimensions. For instance, they exploit the advantages of the Internet system for changing the level of speed in their production chains in order to lead to “Economy of Speed”. Moreover, they can take benefits from it for increasing the competitive power and competitive environment, and fostering the availability of their business networks with each other. From this information, I assume that the important role in the Internet system is probably more pivotal and more significant in the near future especially the significance of business sector.
Work Cited
Pine, Jason "New-Narco Capitalism" Duke University, 2007
Krugman, Paul "National Economic Productivity" Magazine Foreign Affair, March 1994
Olrin, Jam "The Many Availability Network Marketing Business Opportunity" April 2010. http://jorin.mit.edu/Working_Pages.html
Porter, Michale E "Strategy and Internet" April 2010. www.cis.gsu.edu/-emclean/R0103Dp2.pdf
Temporal, Paul "Hi-tech Hi-touch" April 2010. www.brandlogic.com

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Advantages between the Day Students and the Night Students

What do you think about the advantages between the day students and the night students in traditional school system for reaching the purpose of education?

People time after time have given a signification of education especially school traditional system. You are able to prove from the governmental budgets of almost all countries in part of educational and human development expenditure increasing every year and the typical proportion of such a expenditure to the entire budget in several countries is more 35-40 % because the crucial purposes of education both traditional day school and traditional night school are enhancing social mobility of the student and generating high income to the student so as to propel national development in several aspects such as economy, sociality, and politic. Regarding traditional day school, whereas there are plenty of advantages: a lot of period of time to study, more activities to do both extracurricular activities and curriculum activities, and only concentration on study, the student of day school program is unable to be guaranteed that they will be accomplish to the purposes of education. On the other hand, the benefits of being night student as follows: ability to learn together with work, proficiency to making money, and potential to insight into their disciplines can probably reach the purposes of education more than the advantages of being day student.

Day students have a lot of time to study about eight hours a day, forty hours a week. If they have much time like that, I assume they can handle their disciplines unquestionably. However, according to research of educational study of University of Michigan, it report that in the present time nearly all day students take time to study less from maximum time to study about eight hours a day to most time to study approximately four hours and a half a day. For the less time, this report indicates they take time to entertain their life more than spend time out of class supporting their study. This cause makes adverse impact on the achievement of day students. Moreover, this repercussion causes the difficulties of day students to find their jobs in the near future. From this report, it also indicates that the advantage of current day students, more period of time to study, cannot guarantee they will be able to reach the purposes of education. On the contrary, night students who are able to learn together with work can spend their time supporting their bright life in the foreseeable future more because most of their time is taken to initiate constructive things even if they have less time to study in the traditional school than day students. According to the statement of Henry Ford, every time in his life is a work time and a study time though he spent a bit time studying in school. For this reason, time to work of night students is time to study of them, too even if it does not happen in the school. Plenty of time to study in school of almost all day students cannot guarantee that they can reach the purposes of education, in contrast, plenty of time to study together with work of nearly all night students are able to assure that they can reach the purposed of education.

Although all day students allow to attaining a lot of school activities both extracurricular activities and curriculum activities owing to having the suitable time, in reality they are option for a little bit students to do such a activities. From the report of one of the student affair organization, a number of students who attain to do extracurricular activities are less. This report mentions that current students turn attention to entertain activities from the accessible Internet more than attain to do extracurricular activities. Therefore, the advantage of day students to night student in the part of a lot of school activities becomes the thing that is no use making advantage to them at all. Contrastingly, night students turn to take advantage from taking day time which time is out of study to make a job and make money. Moreover, from address of Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, he said that whoever knows how to make a job becomes no matter who knows the knowledge of appropriating well money in their lives, too.

Most of the day students take only one important responsibility, study in their school system although some day students might make a bit job approximately less twenty hours per week. If it is true, I assume day students can probably soak their mind into their subject and master them easily. From research of educational study, University of Michigan, the achievements of current day students are less inappropriately than former achievements of previous day students. Furthermore, the report also indicates that the causes of fewer achievements of day students are the less intention of them and spending time to do other things such as watching television, playing game online on the Internet which do not buttress their future lives. It is different from almost all night students who do not have enough time to do activities like them because most of the night students have to take time to work in day time and study in night time. Therefore, most of their time loses with activities which can help them to master their lives and their study. Additionally, study together with work can help them to gain insight into their major and help them to reach a purpose of education as well. For example, sixty-five percent of the master business administration program (MBA) students who can handle and have an insight on business administration and marketing are students who have work experience more three years according to the article of Harvard Business Review.

In sum, from these reasons mentioned above, most of the day students can reach the purposes of education: enhancement of their social mobility and generating their high income to propel economic development on condition that they execute and exactly exploit advantages of day students as follows: plenty period of time to study, more school activities both extracurricular and curriculum activities owing to more proper time, and only one responsibility. However, presently almost all day students cannot exploit such a advantages to support their study according to research and report mentioned above. On the other hand, night students can exploit advantages from equal life time. Therefore, nearly all night students can reach the purpose of education more than almost all day students.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Introduction

Nowadays I have studied writing class at WVU. Today teacher has already tought about argumentative essay. Argumentative essay have two patterns that you can choose for writing. today he talks about merely one pattern, point by point.