Reading Reaction Journal 1

Reading Reaction Journal #1

Link: http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/22/real_estate/december_home_prices/index.htm

Reference:

Christie, Les (February 22, 2011) Home prices near 2009 lows and may fall more  CNN News

Summary:

        The house price was fall down at the end of 2010. It fell 4.1% compared with 12 months earlier and 1.9% compared with 3months earlier, and it will be continue get lower in the future. The government wants to take away Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the housing market. Without the loan guarantees for mortgages, the private mortgage will hurt home price. The 18 of 20 large cities in the U.S lost housing price for the year; Washington and San Diego posted the only gains. S&P reported that Detroit, Cleveland and Las Vegas, home prices have dropped below their 10 years ago.

Reaction:

        Actually I think the housing price falling down is not an evil thing at all. The high housing price caused the Real Estate Bubble, and finally leaded Subprime crisis. So the housing price is suppose to cool down anyway. I just consider the house price in China. The home price in China already extremely expensive, the average incomes need to work over 150 years to buy an apartment, which is incredible. The home price in Beijing is almost 7000 dollar for a square meter. For most people, to buy a apartment is impossible. 

Reading Reaction Journal 2

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04/04/2011

Reading Reaction Journal＃2

Reference:

University of Rochester (2009, November) Baby Einstein Controversy: Professor offers healthy language alternatives for young children

Medicine and health / psychology and psychiatry

Summery:

        This article talks about the way to develops babies’ language ability. The specialist says that the best occasion babies to learn language is when they are infants, and the best way is to interaction with them. The most important point is to communicate with baby. Strong language skills can helps babies’ success in their academy. Also, parents need to be positive, look out what the babies are interested in, and find things that can attract babies.

Reaction:

        The news about Walt Disney Company refunded the Baby Einstein videos, and acknowledged that these product were not intended to be educational or promote better brain development among young children, which is shocked me. This short preface tells me how much responsibility should a big company have!  Many years ago people used to think the videos could help baby promote their intelligence, but now people realized it cannot. It is make sense to me. If just let a baby sits in front of a TV, and let him watches videos all the time, it is not good for his personality; he will become autistic, and loss the ability to connect with other people and living in his own world. This is an information age, we need to communicate with each other; like this article tells to us, and it is really helpful to training a person to positive and easy to communicate.

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