Appreciation of Matters & Misfortune or Good Luck?

A monk and his novice were travelling. They came by a remote village. Two men, the elder monk perceived that one was a goldsmith and the other was a merchant, was standing at the store arguing about the thickness of a golden crown. Both wanted to take advantage on the selling price and its weight. The monks walked passed by and said,"the crown is useless without an empty arc to fit one's head, to appreciate wholeness of the dense golden crown entirely, you must appreciate absence and emptiness as well. Your pushcart's wheels have no use without a hole for the axle to go through just like you use your house from its emptiness." A farmer heard about two wise monks so he invited them to his place and asked, "My son just got a broken leg; is this a misfortune?" The elder monk said, "I'm not sure it's a misfortune."And the monks continued their journey. The next day, the emperor came through, gathering up young men for wars, they bypassed the farmer's son because he had a broken leg. 

The monks came by a ford for a high-speed steam that was running high the mountain. An old king mislaid the Four-leaves diamond up on the mountain.He sent his generals and their armies to search for it, but they came back empty-handed. He employed the sage of that mountain to search for it but that was a failure. Finally, in despair having tried everyone else, he met the monks. Had seen his sorrow, the elder monk offered the king a help as he called upon a laborer to the mountain, and the laborer found the diamond immediately. "How odd it is,"pondered the king,"that it was a low-class laborer who found it!" The elder monk said, "you should not judge ta man by the way he looks, it is what's inside that counts." At last the king appointed the laborer to be his satellite and gave away two horses to the monks in turn for their teachings. 

The monks' endless journey continues...

Egyptian Revolution 2011 Effected The Globe

Egyptians calling for an end to the arbitrary government of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule captured the world's attention from 25th January 2011. The media focused especially in Cario's Central Tahrir where the people from across the country gathered up to form a mass protests, which is currently inspired the change in North African regions.



Originally, the government blocked the Internet access and telephone communication to avoid dipersion of malicious messages. This autocritic action led Egypt to be obsolete of the world's situation. Mass media that shares or gains profits from the Egyptian faced an extremely difficult time due to the retarded economical movements. In some independent entities (e.g. online retailer, telephone company, etc.), losses of oppotunity in financing led to the end of the company persistence. The end of the many companies created an even more drastic crisis, losses of occupations. This downward trend in the economics and political field created  great impact on Africa-overall states of society, economics, and politics.

Since the fall of the old regime, Egyptians have been struggling to build a new democratic one. It has been a long time since Egypt ancient time that millions of citizens participated in a vote to put an end to the constitution they had during Mubarak's era, recovered them from the moribund situation. 



Consumerism Influence on Eastern European Populations

Since 1980, a new break has occurred in the demographic history of Europe. As Massimo Livie-Bacci suggests that five main important phenomena deserve special attention, but only two of these processes create enormous impacts on consumerism behaviors; the end of mass emigration and beginning of immigration and changes in solcial rules and behaviors (marriage,culture, family structure). These changes are the end of permanent demographic trends, which in turn, create new trends in consumer behaviors. Moreover, the improvement in communication, the change that brings each part of the world closer together, causing regional differences within Europe virtually disappeared.

Successful foreign retailer must become more service-oriented to achieve high brand-loyalty. The movement of population increase the rate of consumption of goods ,and therefore, expand the role of the outlandish sellers. Due to racism to foreign vendors and the rise of materialism, majority builds up greater protection of the benefits of consumers. On the other hand, consumerism refers to the theory which greater consumption is beneficial economically. Resulting formations of school, heath care, welfare, and goods production.When stability in economics appears to be consistent, human-magnet attracts foreigner from every directions ensuing demographic shift (for instance transtions in life expectancy, literacy rate, and brith rate statistics).

After the economic stabilized, vendors seek for opportunity to raise the price of in trend products. In accordance with the rise of materialism, consumers are confident in spending (investing) for convenience and opposition of matters. Over a period of time, expendtures keep rising continuously, inflation takes place. When general prices level rise, each unit of currency buys fewers goods and service. Consideration for worthwhile amount of salary plays great role in making decision to enroll the company. Majority calls for increment of wages, those who cannot acquiesce with the general payment rate quit their current job, resulting numerous unemployment that leads to the decrease in literacy rate and the depletion of labor force. Also, with population growth slowing, retailers are no longer able to sustain their long  term profit projections just by building new stores and gaining additional sales, as they did in the past. However, no experts are able to tell what will the future bring.

very useful resource: http://www.monitoringris.org/documents/tools_reg/agingdemochange.pdf

How It Came To Be Mongolia

In 1206 A.D., a single Mongolian state was formed based on the nomadic tribes under the leadership of Genghis Khan the ultimate conqueror who was able to possessed nearly all of Asia and European Russia and sent his troops to as far as the center of Europe and Southeast Asia.Although Mongol's alliances operated their political power over the conquered territories, their authority deteriorated suddenly after the Mongol was overthrown by China in 1368 A.D. Later in 1691 A.D., Mongolia was under controlled by the Manchus (a tribal group who conquered China in 1644 A.D.), they were given trust and swore the word of allegiance to the Manchu emperor. As Manchu's authority in China waned, and as Russia and japan confronted each other during the WWI, Russia gave arms and diplomatic support to nationalists among the Mongol religious leaders and nobles. The Mongols accepted Russian aid and proclaimed their independence of Chinese rule in 1911, shortly after a successful Chinese revolt against the Manchus. In the early 1960s, Mongolia attempted to maintain a neutral position a midst increasingly contentious Sino-Soviet polemics; this orientation changed in the middle of the decade.

Nowadays's nomadic mongol is still moving after

http://www.welcome2mongolia.com/archives/ancient-nomadic-tribes/

http://countrystudies.us/mongolia/26.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mongolia

Human and Environmental Impact on Thailand Flood (2011)

In Thailand, flood is the number-one natural disaster in terms of the number of lives lost and property damage. 2011 Thailand Flood  is the result of a multitude of naturally occurring and human-induced factors, but it can be defined as the accumulation of too much water in too little time in a specific area. It can occur at any time of the year, in any part of the country, and at any time of the day or night. Most lives are lost when people are swept away by flood currents, whereas most property damage results from sediment in the water. Flood currents also possess tremendous destructive power that can demolish buildings and erosion can wreck bridge foundations and footings leading to the collapse of structures. Seven major industrial estates have been inundated by as much as 3 meters for at least a month now. Although several factories having been building up to 6 meter blockage, the stronger currents are always interfering the reconstruction resulted the entire area to be non-operational. Not only the moving water that causes huge damage, but also the resting water that produce toxic gases and create hindrance to the transporting people. Human impact is one of the influences the lead to flood. Long time ago when the lands were mostly agricultural field, the naturally occurred waterways were a balance of nature (transferring water in and out). Since the development of city, those rice fields were adjusted to fit the modern lifestyle; in turn, that change led to the disappearances of many native waterways. After native waterways were gone, excessive water can no more sluice naturally (e.g. wharf creates bottleneck in river path). The current tap water comes from drawn underground water which alternately leads to the unbalanced pressure of sand, clay, and stone above the water source. After the ground is subsided, the whole area will change into basin inducing the body of water around it to gather and, then, confined until it is drained away. One notable error in communications between Thai medias and foreign companies was the lack of information in English (there is but it is not very accurate). It is important for the government to provide accurate information and execute long-term prevention standard. However, many international internet sites has provided free access to near-real-time flood information. There is still a lack in receiving enough and accurate information and some community cannot  emigrate and move critical equipment in time. I hope that the flood situation in Thailand will be relieved soon, thanks to the spirits of every Thai citizen. (Y)







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods
http://hilight.kapook.com/view/52961
http://ks.water.usgs.gov/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.024-00.html

Population changes and economic development in Zimbabwe

It is a commonly held theory that the population is related to levels of social and economic development. The annual work of www.census.gov gives much drive to study the relationship among birth and death, fertility, mortality, migration, and urbanization rates. The determinants of demographic transitions within the country setting are seen as economic, social, and mortality factors. Census data, on Zimbabwe, shows stability of population through a decline in the birth rate. In most rural areas the continuity decline in childhood death means that at some point parents realize they do not need so many children to be born to ensure a comfortable old age. As childhood death continues to fall and incomes increase, parents can become increasingly confident that fewer children will suffice to help in family business and care for them in old age. Increasing urbanization changes the traditional values placed upon fertility and the value of children in rural society. Urban living also raises the cost of dependent children to a family. A recent theory suggests that urbanization also contributes to reducing the birth rate because it disrupts normal mating ages. The cost of children to parents is worsen by the introduction of compulsory education acts and the increased need to educate children so they can take up a respected position in society. In some of the most undeveloped countries, children now need to be clothed and parents begin to consider buying their children toys and books. Wholly due to obligatory education and better quality of life, people begin to reassess their need for abundant children and the ability to raise them. As the world develop, woman right to work leads to the decline in birth rate since the mother need to work lesser children can help by relieving their duty. The resulting changes in the age structure of the population include a reduction in the youth dependency ratio. The population structure becomes less triangular and more like a prolonged balloon. During the period between the decline in youth dependency and rise in old age dependency there is an increasing opportunity that can potentially produce economic growth through an increase in the ratio of working age to dependent population. 

http://www.d-transition.info/countries-glance-3/zimbabwe-95/

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
http://geographyfieldwork.com/DemographicTransition.htm
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/pop_socio/pop_socio.html

Top 10 Important Reasons that Produce 7 Billions People

10. Modern medical care and technology enable people to have extended life span, indispensable factors such as plantation, food,  used up the scarce amount of freshwater which linked to ecosystem.
9. Most overpopulating regions are in the third world where education and basic knowledge of birth control are lacked.
8. As a country developed, the number of people in the lower society drops, which in turn causes the middle class to grow exponentially; the middle class, then, builds up mass consumption of agricultural products that will reduce resources in other developing countries.
7. In some cultures, governments encourage castration; on one hand, this impulsion jeopardizes the replacement of consecutive generation.
6. Women should be educated in order to secure the number of overpopulation by decreasing the number of children per family.

5. In poor countries such as Nigeria, harsh environment and extremely dense population force people to migrate to other regions causing overpopulation in other district.
4. Some historical evidences suggest that the increasing population leads to diffusion of local virulence.
3. Some organizations disputed that a large population creates wealth, which made it possible to create bigger markets and armies.
2. Mankind would outgrow until its available resources and amount of land are incapable of supporting an endlessly increasing population.
1. Rapid increase in world's population concerns that the planet may not be able to sustain present or larger numbers of inhabitants.