Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Personal Reflection #1

Personal Reflection #1

 
                In the Academic reading and writing 1 I have learned many skills that will help in my academic and general life. There are many skills helped me in my English reading and writing such as, making a short summary for an article and that will help me in doing research in the future. One of the skills that I have learned is making an outline to help me doing a research organized. My teacher Gregory showed us a great way to make the bibliographies to give a credit to authors and not to get plagiarism witch is not allowed by the rules of HCT. Gregory is helping us very hard to improve ourselves in English and to prepared for the next steps witch are more difficult than what we are doing and for sure if we worked hard now everything forward will be much easier than if we didn’t. Gregory got a great way of teaching witch not stress us on doing our work and he is always positive to me and I don’t find any difficulties on doing hard works and I can say that he is the best teacher in the HCT. This is my first semester in the college and I study in the afternoon section and most of my classmates are working in the morning, so sometimes we got challenges and difficulties on doing our work so we try to help each other and work as a group when it's allowed. To sum up, I think this course is very helpful for new entry students and it develop their skills in English witch will make their next courses easier.   
 
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CEP 1103 Fareis Almenhali

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Graded Summary #2


 

Houbara bustards
 
The Houbara bustards number's decreased last few years for several reasons as over-hunting. A program supported by UAE government is ongoing to maintain the Houbara from extinction in Morocco. The program schemes to conserve Houbara by offer breeding facilities and well cared for chicks. The author explains this point thusly, "Even petting the newly hatched birds has a purpose. Birds that are destined to be used for breeding are trained to be familiar with humans" (Todorova, V. 2011). After vaccinating females and hatching their eggs, Houbara will be released twice in the year into the wild. The program has succeeded in increasing the number of Houbara and saving them from extinction.
 
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References
 
Todorova, V. (2011, May 27). UAE-funded centre revives endangered bird population - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved October 9, 2012, from http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/uae-funded-centre-revives-endangered-bird-population#page1
 

 


 
CEP 1103 Fareis Almenhali

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Graded Summary #1






Masdar plans for a $200m wind farm
 


Abu Dhabi is seeking to gain independence through clean sources through Masdar. The government in the UAE seeks to reach 7% of their electricity sources green. Masdar Company is developing a wind power which is a challenge for them. The farm was chosen to be near to the Saudi border for strong wind. They assume that wind farm would start creating power after two years. Solar power is a great source in the GCC area. This project has gathered interests from around the world.
 
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References
 
Yee, A. (2011, April 27). Masdar plan for $200m pioneering wind farm - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved September 30, 2012, from http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/masdar-plan-for-200m-pioneering-wind-farm



 CEP 1103 Fareis Almenhali