Compromise can avoid conflicts and ensure stability within the country. There have been many compromises in American political history, and these compromises have played a major role in the development of the United States. For example, the Great Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Commerce Compromise.

The Great Compromise was appointed during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. There was a contradiction between the large population states and the small population states. Each state wanted the policy which benefit its own in the constitution. Therefore, the large population states required a population-based representation of the Congress. Small population states hoped that each state has equality votes.  The great compromise combined two plans and it decided to set up two houses to safeguard the interests of both parties. One of them was the Senate, every state has equal representatives in the Senate. The other one was the House of Representatives, which is based on the population from state, so each state has different numbers of representatives in the House of Representatives.

The Three-Fifths compromise was appointed because the conflict over slavery between the southern states and the northern states. Because the southern states have a large number of slaves, the southern states required slaves to be counted as part of the population representatives, but not be counted as tax populations. The northern states have a small population, so they demanded that slaves should be counted as part of the tax population, but not counted as population representatives. In order to solve the problem, the three-fifths compromise was proposed. This compromise decided that every five slaves were counted as three people involved in the population representatives, also every five slaves were counted as three people to pay taxes to the nation.

Commerce compromise was also one of the important compromises. Commerce compromise was raised because of the dissatisfaction of the North and South states in business development. The northern states were dominated by industrialized, while the southern states were dominated by agriculture. The northern states produced a lot of goods, but the southern states import goods from the British, which causes the goods produced in the north could not be sold. The northern states required the government to impose import tariffs to ensure that the South purchases goods manufactured in the North, and also tariffs on export raw materials. The South did not agree to an increase in tariffs on export raw materials which harms their interests. According to the ideas of both parties, the compromise proposed to tariff only on imports from foreign countries, but did not tariff on exports from the United States.

I agree with the use of compromise. Under these situations, if no compromise is made, it will undermine the unity and stability within the states. In order to keep the country united, a compromise must be reached. Just as the great compromise, the Great Compromise ensured the continuance of the Constitutional Convention and the unity of states. The three-fifths compromise stopped the dispute between the large population states and the small population states on slave computing. And the Commerce Compromise, the representatives of the North and the South reached a compromise and promoted solidarity among the states.

R. Liu

It’s On: Asia’s New Space Race

Some might be surprised about China’s strategies when it comes to space explorations which have come a long way. Since 1980s, Beijing has slowly creating a scope of scientific, business and martial space power that presently give way to participate in other Asian countries even with the technological advancements of Japan, and at the same time showing an asymmetric warning to the United States. For the past ten years, China has introduced a spacecraft that plot the moon, organized a lunar traveller expedition and move around a little space camp. It is constructing a new starter location in Hainan Island with plans for a huge –left lifter.

At the geographical degree, China and Japan have contributed competitor groups to “organize” other small nations in this extensive competition and tie them to their side. China already established Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), which include Bangladesh, Thailand, and Mongolia. There are advantages that APSCO holds like entry to Chines space orientation, ground camps and satellite improvement projects.

In a national level, the technological pioneer in Asia like Japan has also different new projects. During 2008 the Japanese Diet rebellious laws that stops the foregoing prohibition on military activities in space. Although Japan got high market price of returning to normal state after they encountered the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster, Tokyo has multiple loss on its space projects with a new strategies in high-standing science and human space travel.  The H-II Transfer Vehicle space vehicle of Japan is currently available to give only non-U.S. and non-Russian assistance

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in traduce the aspiring Hayabusa 2 operation, which has a goal to place spacecraft design on an asteroid by 2018 and then bring back the soil samples here on Earth. The Japanese leaders see an impact between their space projects and the economic capacity to send improved technologies.  They are also threatened by China’s space exploration achievements that it might place their technological status into uncertainty. Therefore, they accept the fact that the space exploration activities of China cannot strike them.

J. Moltz

Mar H.

Let’s face it—we all have that impulse to stand in front of the camera and start clicking away. It’s human nature to want to look our best. With summer to look forward to, when else could be the best time to have a photo opportunity?

But, how do you create the perfect summer snapshots to remember after the summer is over? SUNBURN teaches you how to be a summer shutterbug in five easy steps.

1. You’ll need a good quality camera.

Phone cameras may come in handy—but not all the time. Some may even cause your pictures to become pixilated. To take the perfect snapshot, you may want to use a digital camera. When you want to go pro, you may want to consider using a DSLR.

1. Choose the perfect backdrop.

Yes, sometimes having your bedroom as a backdrop can get a bit boring. Why not try bringing it up a notch? Take your camera with you when you’re going off to the beach or on a family outing. After all, your pictures will reflect what you have been doing during the summer.

1. Don’t hesitate to look your best.

It really isn’t that necessary—but you wouldn’t want to remember your vacation as the time you took pictures looking like a bed head, would you?

1. Smile!

Summer is the perfect time to go all out and be happy—so why not take your snapshots with a mile? That way, you would remember your vacation as one of the happiest.

1. Put it all in an album.

Or, when you want to save time and money—upload it to a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr and share your shutterbug moments with your friends and family.

With all of these, what could possibly go wrong? Now, all you need to do is to take a camera, and start clicking away!

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Ocean trash problem ‘far from being solved

Based on the report from U.N., the garbage in the world ocean is causing enormous destruction on coastal life resulting to water pollution that destroys the living organism in the ocean.  According to their report entitled “Marine Litter: A Global Challenge,” the ocean will keep on saving trash from old materials like metals, papers or rags that come from the cities and boats if this issue will not be given serious attention. They also added that the present plan of action to solve the problem is unsuccessful.

Within half of the century, scientists have been observing the ocean trash collision when plastic materials became rampant in the world. These plastics do not decomposed or slowly decomposed, thus, the garbage are stocked in the ocean where circling flow of water absorbed the trash materials in particular marine “garbage patches.”

The ocean trash is harmful and gives trouble for those people living near the seashore because it destroys the tourism and prevents them from the improvement of their area. Aside from that, ocean trash also destroys living organisms in the water and threatens the health of the people.

Report gives some suggestions to resolve this kind of problem about ocean trash. These include plan of actions in proper littering of garbage, watching ocean waste using international methods, implementation of fishing boats and fish nets in seaports and investing funds to prevent or lessen ocean trash.

J. Sutter