Course reflection

First of all when I pass the foundation I think all my courses will be easy and simple as foundation level. However when I reach the level one I feel that there is big hole between this level and foundation. The first problem in level one is the listening because I fill in it. Our teacher you will not improve because you have to stop talking in Arabic. In the level 2 I try my best to improve and was improve in reading and writing but it still my problem is the listening. I try my best to improve my listening skills and I am very happy because I do it I got 73 in my last assessment and that mean I could improve. Now I am happy with some result. And I hope to pass the course. Also I think I am a good student I attend every period and I do all my work. The good things are the balloon debate and the presentation because we have fun in these classes. The bad thing is talking Arabic to much in our English class but our teacher help us and trying very hard to ban the Arabic in the class. Furthermore we can improve by working hard and help each other. Also try to speak English as much as you can. In my opinion our teacher could improve by correct our mistakes and give us chance to talk and gives us the confident to talk and discuss any thing in English and make us love her language. Finally the course was very good. However I think it is big jump from foundation level to reach this level.

The points from the project

The main points of this project to have a good knowledge about the worlds threat which is (Global warming). Another thing we learned that the main causes of the global warming such as CO2 and the green houses. Also I measure my footprints and I get 2.65 planets we need to support this people. Furthermore, we try to find some solutions for this issue because if we leave it our planet may destroy. In addition to this we saw the film "An Inconvenient Truth" it talks about the global warming and it has some solutions by the director Al Gore. Finally we have the UAE initiative by building the first in the world zero-carbon city called (Masdar).



In my opinion this project is very important and useful in the same time because we talk about on of the most important issues for the worlds. However, no one find the good solution for global warming because we can't quit everything suddenly because some one said the world will destroy in the next 20 years.

Masdar City

Masdar is the green city. It is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. Masdar located near to the Abu Dhabi International Airport. The masdar city will cost about $ 22 billion. It will save almost 2 billion dollar in oil in the next 25 years. Masdar city will take eight years to build and it is home to 50,000 people. Some professors try to make new solution for the world's growing by the fossil fuels. Masdar city will divided to 30% for the housing, 24% for the business, 13% for commercial purposes and left 33% parted in transportation and cultural pursuits. Masdar rely on the renewable energy like solar power so it is the zero wastes city. The goal from the masdar city is to develop clean energy.

Masdar green dream not for all

Key words:

1_ carbon-neutral

2_sustainable.

3_efficiency.

4_swathes.

5_resources.

6_intention.

7_comfortably.

8_ alternative energy

9_recyclable.

10_process.

Bites:

1_ you will have to walk to get around.

2_ the city will not appeal to everyone.

3_ living without using too much energy.

4_ they actually live it day in and day out.

5_ energy used to cool them is dissipated into atmosphere.

6_ electricity and water do nothing to change behavior patterns.

7_ the resources are extremely cheap.

8_ you really can walk outside and doesn't feel as hot.

9_ city that uses every bit of its available resources.

10_ recyclable rubbish will be run through a gasification machine.

Ahmed Hassan Zewail

Introduction:

My Name is Ahmed Hassan Zewail and I was born on Fubruary 26, 1946 in Damanhur,Egypt. I am an Egyptian American scientist. Also I won the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

I think I am the best one to stay in the balloon because I have done much to help this world with my inventions

I believe that we should spread peace all over the world and to be like brothers on this planet. Also we must protect our planet from threats.

I feel I can do more for Chemistry and invent new things that may help our beautiful planet

I have done many things in my life. My main achievements are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999. I also invented the fastest camera in the world it could get image in 0.000000000000001 seconds (10-15 s). This camera is used to record chemical reactions. Further more I work very hard to solve the Alzheimer's disease by very small telescope to watch the brain cells.

The world needs me because I have done much to this world by my inventions that I mentioned above.

There are so many reasons why I should be allowed to stay in this balloon basket and not be thrown into the sea the first reason is that I work In my new treatment to solve the problem of the Alzheimer's disease.

The second reason is that I discovered way to treat from the cancers.

Now I will turn to my traveling companions, the other celebrities in this disastrous trip. They have argued well and I tend to agree with them on some pointes However, I disagree with others like the wealthy person who said" I donate to poor people some of my money" I think any one have a lot of money could do the same thing. In addition to this the football player or any sport guy can not influence us because he didn’t do thing for the world only to make money and the fame.

Finally, I would like to say if you think I argued well and I deserve to stay on the balloon please don’t throw me into the sea.

Cool cities

The cool cities are the city with carbon free and it must be zero waste. For example they use the solar energy and winds instead of the oil to produce the electricity.also the water they recycle it for agriculture uses.

Green vehicle solutions:

Green vehicle solutions are method used to decrease the global warming. It has some solutions the first one is green fleets. The people should grow more plants and trees to help the environments. Another solution is hybrid vehicle incentives. We should use the hybrid engines because it is environment friends. Also we have to change any vehicle produce a lot of carbon like diesel buses with hybrid engines.

Energy efficiency solutions:

Energy efficiency means using less energy. It has several solutions like making new buildings more energy efficient. Another solution is use the light emitting diode (LED) because it turns off if there enough lights so it save the energy. Finally, we can use the combined heat and power (CHP) systems because it use heating and cooling from a single power.

Renewable Energy Solutions:

We can do that by harnessing natural sources of energy like the sun and the wind. The first solution is Renewable Energy Standards. Another solution is Solar and Wind Installations by use this energy to produce our electricity and water.

line graph

This line graph shows the number of the population aged under 35. Overall, the population fluctuated but it still in increased in India and it went down in Italy.

In 1940 the percentage of population under 35 slightly fell and it was almost 30%. After that the percentage started to increase in 1945. Then the percentage of Indians remains steady but it still rose in Italy. In 1970 the percentage slowly fell for both countries. Then the percentage bounced up again for both countries and almost hit 40%. After that the percentage increased until 1990. Finally the Indian percentage had sharp increase until 2005 but, the Italian decrease again and hit 30 %

In conclusion, the young population fluctuated but still in increased in India. In the last 15 years the Italian percentage fell sharply until 2005.