Autumn Part 3 (2014 Korea)
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K. Song
Autumn Part 3
Posted by Focus Pacific on March 25th, 2025
Off the menu: China moves to protect endangered species
Posted by Focus Pacific on March 24th, 2025
Off the menu: China moves to protect endangered species
Curbing China’s hunger for wild game is just the starting point of the battle against illegal poaching according to the people who advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) explained the laws of the country on the unauthorized wildlife trade. Person who is proven guilty of eating endangered species or buys them for other intentions is sentenced by up to ten years imprisonment according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
China has four hundred twenty animals which were listed on the official preserved endangered species such as giant panda and golden monkey.
Most species on the list were market illegally for their meat and organs and considered expensive food and valued extremely for their generally assumed medicinal properties.
Domestic to China, the seriously at risk of extinction pangolin can be found on the list of dishes available in a restaurant selling it for as much as three hundred twenty four dollars per dish.
The high price connected in consuming on endangered species means the menus are possessions that is taken to indicate high social or professional status..
Today, those craving for a taste of the endangered wildlife will have to consider a course of action carefully before taking a bite.
Z. Li
Our Little Helpers
Posted by Focus Pacific on March 22nd, 2025
Guess it’s not enough that we spend the whole day, coop in our room and is online on either our desktop or laptop. The big companies thought that wasn’t enough that they finally decided to release a series of smart phones. These amazing little guys lets you stay online anywhere and anytime. Why would you bother carry your laptop with you when you have this little things you can put in your pocket? Yes, pocket. These gadgets are the size of your palm. Salute to the guy who first made smart phones.
With this, you are basically carrying your addiction with you. Get access to your favorite website in a second. Who doesn’t want that? Not only that these guys lets you access the internet, it also provides entertainment without internet. Smart phones nowadays gives you a HD camera. You can take pictures and videos wherever and whatever you want and it gives a closer similarity to what a digital camera can do. You can download games on it which can also means that you are carrying your Xbox with you. Complete with instant messaging and other typical features that you can find in your normal phone. If you are someone who deeply relies on the internet and entertainment a lot, you literally have your life in your hands. In a palm-sized gadget.
(Source: http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/demand-for-smartphones-have-soared-as-all-generations-adapt-to-the-technology-telstra-reserach-shows/story-e6frg2rc-1225934214474)
Okay, that’s enough. You have your life in your hands now. But the thing is, the companies who makes these smart phones are in the middle of competitive rage. They keep on manufacturing phones. And they get better and better and even more better in every product they release. And they even get bigger which gives you the luxury of a bigger screen with a higher resolution. But, not big enough compare to your desktop or laptop. They are just the right size for your bag. We call these guys tablets. They are in between the smart phones and desktop/laptop and they are amazing too.
The main point in all of this is that our generation is fully capable in making all of this and is able to release products every other month that we get all confuse as to what to buy and which is better. Of course, two thumbs up for these companies who manufactures these amazing little things which kinda makes our lives the easiest of all lives. They might be costly but, judging how effective and helpful it is, it might be worth it.
Jessica Frost
The Art of Bonsai
Posted by Focus Pacific on March 19th, 2025
The Art of Bonsai
Bonsai is a form of art originating in China during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–690). Its elements include the plant, stone, water, and soil, among others, to display its color and beauty.
Growing a bonsai is not easy.
Each plant requires careful planning based on sunlight, moisture, and pest care. It shows its artistic beauty through long-term care and dedication. A good bonsai plant can be very expensive because it reflects huge amounts of time and effort dedicated to it by the artist. Bonsai attempts to miniaturize the real world, and through it, the plant allows the artist to express his or her emotions, moods, and dreams.
Bonsai can be found everywhere across China as well as the world. What makes bonsi so popular and endearing is its ability to give people a sense of peace and visual satisfaction.
It is good for both pleasure and metal health.
Charles Yan
Single-sex schools in decline
Posted by Focus Pacific on March 14th, 2025
Single-sex schools in decline
People that support single sex schools assert that classrooms that set apart from the rest or from each other take away interruptions and permits boys and girls, who grow at moderately various ages, to study in particular gender ways. The separation strategy is considered a path to obtain quality education and help women to acquire equality in status, rights, and opportunities. Competition, application and various measure of growth are significant problems that must be resolved in every school.
Exclusive schools for girls are becoming more numerous than schools for boys. Most of these single sex schools may be children of those who successfully complete an academic degree or course of training or directly searching for high education they are seeking. However, more parents choose coed schools as a way to merge young children and allowing them learn from each other. Studying inside the classroom together with opposite sex helps them to return to a normal condition when it comes to influencing their opposite sexes.
The challenge to all educational institutions is to discover ways to develop education regardless of who‘s studying in the classroom. The surroundings in which students study greatly influence their personal achievements and strong belief that something will happen in the future. Whatever system a school implements, it is important to build significant set of circumstances that makes it possible maintain their interaction, coordination and common respect.
C. Quan
