The clock is ticking to IELTS time. We need to brush up on our reading and writing skills more than ever. Of course we know listening and speaking are also important - but the literacy skills are the main areas of challenge here at the college.
This will be a fun way to communicate what we are reading and writing in our free time to support this program.
OK - who is first? What is something interesting you have been reading about?
Steve
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hi Mr. Steve
ReplyDeletefirst let me thank you for this great idea and opportunity. I am glad to be the 1st. I've read about the "Logic Gates" due to the MATRX class's needs.
It was nice to read because there where a lot of new words and information.
The link for the site I've read is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate
I got it from the Google search engine. As you guys will find there is a lot of information and new words to learn.
As Mr. Joseva said before" You are engineering students you have to keep reading all the new stuff to increase your knowledge to be better engineer and human been".
So I guess from my point of view it would be better if we connect our engineering study to our English reading studies, because there is a lot of new hard words to read. Also the engineering notes would be more difficult to read.
So I don't know what is your opinion.
Khalid Habib Al-Attar
H00099356
thanks sir for this account
ReplyDeleteThe Summary:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate
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The article I’ve read before was about the logic gates as I said before. I can summaries it when I said that there are seven logic gates. They are AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR. They are almost unlike each other.
The site talked about the Truth table, Background, Symbols, De Morgan equivalent symbols, Storage of bits, Three-state logic gates, Miscellaneous, History and development, Implementations and References
Some of the logic gates are the opposite of the others. The is also a truth table where you can find when the circuit will be on or off by using the binary code (0\1) method. Also there are the distinctive shapes, rectangular shapes, Boolean algebra between two points for each gate.
This was my summary for today.
Khalid Habib Al-Attar
H00099356
Moreover, as the following guys said, I'm so happy too. This activity is one of your different activities and I think you have more for us.
ReplyDeletefirstly, I looked for the Binory codes when I was 16 years old.. I made a sentence " I Love you " by using this code, so I'm familiar with it.
and for now, I'm going to find something different to read.
maybe about the Malaria in Mozambique and Africa
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
ReplyDeleteIran had launched what it described as its first satellite produced domestically as part of an effort to build a space industry. It also came soon after President Obama struck a conciliatory tone toward Iran, conditionally offering dialogue after years of increasing tension over fears that Tehran wants to develop nuclear missiles — which Iran’s leaders deny. IRNA said, and was sent into space as a “data-processing satellite project” that began in March 2005 as “the first practical step toward acquiring national space technology.” They have also been waiting to see how the new American president will pursue his overtures, designed to halt Iran’s uranium enrichment program. On Wednesday, the group of nations dealing with the Iran issue meet in Frankfurt, Germany, for its first talks since Mr. Obama took office.
Logic gates
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/gates.htm
logic gates are the circuits which have two or more input and one output signals. This logic gates can be found in the integrated circuits (IC). We have 8 types of the logic gates:
• Not ( Inverter)
• And
• Or
• Nand
• Nor
• Xor
• Xnor
• Buffer
Logic gates process a true and false signal with +v which it represent the true and it process a false signal with 0v. The logic gates can be combined in so different types of gates combined to consist on gate that produces different signals
The ecological foot print is a measure of human demand on the Earth. It represents the amount of biologically productive land & sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint
"The Shortest man in the world"3
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468172/Worlds-apart-The-moment-tallest-man-met-shortest.html
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I have read an artical about the shortest man in the world his name is He Pingping how met with the tallest man in the world.
Mr He Pingping is 2.4 ft high and he is 19 years old.
hello Mr.steve,
ReplyDeletefirst of all thanks...
I read about Korea in genral and it was an intresting subject becuse am very intrested in korea and their geographic, language and culture. As lot know thats korea is sepate to two contrey North korea and South Korea. well i just intrest in South Korea. (:P)
By The Way Korea was called The Hermit Kingdom (:D)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea
thx alot :)
History is study of past.
ReplyDeleteKnow how people live in the past.
History is facilitated by the formation of a 'true discourse of past
Historians debate the nature of history and the lessons history teaches
study of history has sometimes been classified as part of the humanities
The differnce between Anlog and digital way of function. Analog job is to take and translate signals from video or human voice into electronic pluses. Digital job is to break signals into a binary code of "1" and "0" to understand (represnt) sinals.
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http://telecom.hellodirect.com/docs/Tutorials/AnalogVsDigital.1.051501.asp
"Mozambique Malaria"
ReplyDeletethere are four species of humand malaria ( Plasmoduim Falciparum, Plasmodium Vivax, Plasmodium Ovale, and Plasmodium Malariae).
It causes an estimated 2.7 million deaths per yer,in the world.
there is 90% of malaria in Frica.
something interesting;
A* How do we get malaria?..
we as a human get malaria from the bite of a malaria-infected mosquito.
The effects of malaria appear like, fevor and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches and tiredness. On the other hand, the sickness appears usual after 10 days to 4 weeks.
After all, we can be cured with prescription drugs.
There was a big match in one of the four biggest tournaments in tennis world which is grand slam between the first two players in the world On Sunday.
ReplyDeleteNadal beated federer again in Australian open which is play on hard courts after a long match which was spending four hours and fifteen minutes in five sets by 7-5 3-6 7-6 3-6 6-2.
The dreams of Roger was broken to win his forteen grand slam and to reach to the record number of Sampras.On the other way, Nadal got his first title in Australian Open and increase his titles in grand slam to six titles.
Horse is an old animal which evolved 55 millions ago. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4500 BC. In the past humans used horse for carry things and in war.
ReplyDeletetoday I read about the culture of Europe and I have summarizing of that. I will taik about the religien in Europe countries especially the most popular religien in that countries. Islam countries in Europe are many such as Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Serbia(especially in kosovo, France, etc...
ReplyDeleteChristianity consists of three doctrines:
* Roman catholicism: countries which have many catholic population are Portugal, Spain, France, Luxemburg, Belgium, South Netherland, etc....
* Orthodox Christianity: countries are Greece, Romania, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, etc....
* Protestantism: countries are Germany, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Iceland, etc......
You will see most of countries has many religien and thats mean no body can control what kind of religien should be followed with the government.
that's simple information about the culture in Europe.
The ministary of economic in UAE did a survey on residents how much did they spend on housing and food so they found about they spend 53% of their income each month. Plans of develop a consumer price index (CPI). The average income for each family in uae about thirty six thousand four hundred and thirty eight. Blew shows survey out come.
ReplyDeleteUAE household survey
Parameter Value
Average size of the UAE household
5.1
UAE National households
19.10%
Non-national households
61.90%
Sharing accommodation
19%
Average monthly expenditure on housing and utility
39.40%
Average monthly expenditure on food and beverage
14.20%
Average monthly expenditure of total households
Dh11,241.20
Average monthly expenditure of national household
Dh22,989
Average monthly expenditure of non-national household
Dh9,579
Average monthly expenditure of total households on food and beverage
Dh1,595.80
Average monthly expenditure of national household on food and beverage
Dh3,429
Household income
Dh18,248.60
National household income
Dh36,438.10
Non-national household income
Dh15,074.30
Sharing household income
Dh10,260.90
Reference Gulf News february 3, 2009 Tuesday
today i read about study links TV and depression and its say that the longer time that teenageers spend time in watch TV it's efct them more in depressed as adults.Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School looked at the media habits of 4142 healty adolescents and they spend about one hour of wacth TV per day boosted the adds of becoming depressed by 8%.
ReplyDeletehello..
ReplyDeletei read about Awafi Fistival 2009 and it was interestig because i was there allmost every day.
Sheikh Faisal bin Saqr Al Qasimi was there in the first day and about 10000 person to watsh the adrenaline- pumping motor racing event. the cars that joining the event was a designed 4- wheel drives to the extreme to overcome the steep sand dune. 40 vehicle participated in hte event and they was in 3 categories, one for 8-sylinder cars and two for 6-sylinder cars.
The Awafi festival held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi. this year the festival had a lot of outdoor sports, arts and cultural events.
thi is the URL link (http://www.ameinfo.com/181485.html)
Day Two Reflection (fr Steve)
Have you been to the festival?
If so do you like it?
What other festivals do you like?
The essay:
Awafi festival is one the most famous festevals here in Ras Al khaimah and about 10000 person attend in the first day. As for me i was there almost every day especially during the weekends. I realy liked the activities and i like most is that they organized a play for the famous actors Tareq Al Ali and Abdulrahman Al Aqel.
I also like Dubai shopping Fistival, it is a very different kind of festivals and it is internatiollay famous also.
This is a summary of an article talked about an icon of Nazi war criminals is Dr. Aribert Heim.
ReplyDeleteDr. Aribert Heim or doctor death earned this nickname due to the biggest crimes against humanity. He was born in 1914 (28th of June) in Radkersburg, Austria.
Heim considered as one of the biggest offenders in the World War II. Aribert was accused of murder hundreds of inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp as well as killing Jews using exceptionally cruel methods.
Recording to revelation come from investigation by German's ZDF television, Heim died in capital of Egypt, Cairo in 1992 (10th of August) after he had a cancer disease. Heim was converting to Islam before his death.
URL: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7871121.stm).