Tuesday, April 27, 2010

US Farms & Farm Workers

The graph compares the number of farms and all farms workers in the 20th century in U.S. overall, all farms workers are near to the number of farms now than at the start of the period.

The biggest change was the sharp drop in all farm workers. It fell from about 12 million in 1950 to only around 5 million two decades later. The second major change was in number of farms in the first 20 years, the number of the farms plateau around 6 million farms. By the end of the period, number of farms and all farms workers both fell. The number of farms fell by more than half and the number of workers from over 13 million to 3 million.

To sum up, the workers and farms decreased year by year. But the decrease of farm workers was more dramatic over the years.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Mobile Phones

20 years ago, education was very simple and there were no electric devices in the classrooms. These days, however, every student has at least one if not two or more of these disruptive devices.

Mobiles are one of the most important things in our life and banning them from the classrooms is not necessary. The students have to be in touch with their friends and family because some of them may be in problem or sick or even have something important they want to tell you about. In addition the mobiles these days have a nice programes that will help the student in the class like the calculator and the dictionary.

On the other hand, the mobiles can be not useful and a bad device sometimes in the class rooms. Firstly, students can’t focus on their studies. If students’ mobiles are turned on, they will receive calls and text messages and their sound will disturb the other students. What’s more, if your teacher was explaining some point for the class and you are playing in your mobile, the teacher will feel disrespected and become annoyed and that will deteriorate the relationship between teacher and student.

In summary, I see that it is not necessary to stop students bringing their mobiles in their classes. What the staff can do is to make a rule that the students have to put their mobiles to silent at the beginning of the lesson. That will help the teacher and the students and lastly I suggest letting students answer the important calls to let them feel comfortable in their classes.

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