Exercise 6 - 10

Exercise 6

a.     With the traditional life-time employment system starting to crumble and the economy still in the doldrums after a prolonged recession, the focus of this year’s wage discussion is whether workers will be able to win bigger paychecks and sill keep their jobs, many foreign companies have run away and moved their investments to other Asian countries, like Chinese and Vietnam..

b.     As evidence by our signature(s) below, we do hereby irrevocably understand and agree to comply and abide in good faith with the terms, conditions and requirements of this agreement.  Essentially the spirit behind this agreement is one of mutual trust and confidence and the reliance on each party to police themselves and their associated and further to do what is fair equitable and that all signatories hereto warrant that they have full and complete authority to execute this document for and in that name of the party for which they have given their signature.

Exercise 7

Heritage

Country Houses

Japanese folk houses have their origins in the tropical climate of Southeast Asia, and they have changed remarkably little despite the inhospitable climate of Japan. This architecture is effective during Japan’s humid summers; it makes little provision for keeping warm in winter, or for privacy. The post and beam construction provides shelter against rains, earthquakes and typhoons.  It can accommodate movable walls and thick roofs of thatch and can take the weight of heavy snow. A veranda (engawa) under the wide overhang of the roof provides a natural transition between the rooms within and nature without.

Houses were made of what the land offered, largely wood and straw, earth, bamboo, and paper. Roofs were always covered in the materials available in that area-thatch, shingles, grasses, bark, even stone in certain regions. Floors and walls were usually constructed of earth. In houses in northern Japan, it was not uncommon to find the family animals sheltered along with the rest of the household. Walking into a Japanese farmhouse, the immediate reaction is visceral rather than cerebral. First impressions are of dark, of clutter, of jumble. Here is something of the earth, organic, alive, an extension of the land. The smells, the sights, the sound, are a meeting point between man and his environment. The Japanese farmhouse does not exclude nature, it is not a fortress. It is part of nature, and embraces it at every juncture.

Source: Straitstimes magazine

Exercise 8

Miscellaneous

The normal social convention what we operates with in the English-speaking world be that writing, particularly writing intended for publication, should be done in Standard English. This here book ain’t no exception – it be writ in Standard English. This, however, be a matter of social convention. There ain’t nothing what you can say nor write in Standard English what can’t be said nor writ in other dialects. That’s why we’s writ this here paragraph in a nonstandard dialects, just to make the point.

Source: Teknik Membaca Texbook & Terjemahan

  

Just a worrying to the US government were developments in East Asia. The Japanese invasion of China had threatened US trade with that country. The US government was also more and more concerned about the threat from Japan to its own territories in the Philippines and elsewhere. Relations between the USA and Japan, which had not been good for sometimes, got worse and worse. At the end of 1940, the US government forbade the sale to Japan of goods such as iron, steel, and aeroplane fuel, which Japan might use in the event of war. In 1941 it took over, for the time being. Japanese investments in the USA.

Source: History Explorer

The condyles of the mandible form a hinge joint with the temporal bone and form the tempo-mandibular joints, which allow for opening and closing the jaw. A limited side-to-side movement is also possible. The articulating surfaces are lined with hyaline cartilage and a capsule surrounds each joint and is lined with synoval membrane which secretes a fluid called synovia this fluid lubricates the joint.

Source: Teknik Membaca Texbook & Terjemahan

I’ve lost my pal, ‘e’s the best in all the than,

But don’t you fink ‘im dead, becos ‘e ain’t.

But since he’s wed, ‘e’ as ter nuckle dahn,

It’s enough ter vex the temper of a saint.

E’s a brewer’s drayman, wiv a leg of mutton fist,

An’ as strong as a bullick or an horse.

Yet in ‘er’ ands ‘e’s like a little kid,

Oh! I wish as I could get him a divorce.   

              

Source: Socio Linguistics

Exercise 9

a.     Instant messaging (IM) in the workplace has become an important topic for research as IM applications have proliferated in the corporate context. However, much of the work done to date has examined IM use from the consumer perspective, leaving us with little guidance as to its use in the office. This special section addresses this shortcoming in the literature, providing several important studies on workplace IM use. One paper examines the use of IM in resolving differing points of view among coworkers. Another paper studies workplace communications costs and the role IM has in contributing to them by increasing communication volume. Two papers in the section examine workplace IM in an international context, considering both cross-cultural and demographic issues that impact IM use.

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Exercise 10

Beyond the Pap

What you should know about a new gene test

that could someday replace the Pap smear

By Christine Gorman

FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, A REGULAR PAP TEST HAS BEEN A WOMAN’S BEST, defense against cervical cancer. By taking tissue samples from the cervix-the “neck,” or outer opening, of the uterus-a doctor can usually tell that something is wrong before the cancer has a chance to fully develop or spread. Now researchers are eyeing a new gene-based test that they believe is better than the Pap test at identifying precancerous and malignant changes in the cervix-and could even replace it. But don’t cancel your next gynecologic exam just yet. A lot more work needs to be done before the new test is ready for widespread use.

            Scientists have known for some time that virtually all cases of cervical cancer are triggered by a family of viruses called human papillomavirus, or HPV. Most woman who become infected with HPV are able to shake off the virus and suffer no apparent long-term consequences to their health. But a few women develop a persistent infection that can, for reasons that are not entirely clear, eventually lead to cancerous changes in the cervix. (One thing we do know: the risk of developing cervical cancer increases dramatically for women who have HPV and smoke.)

            Now researchers at the Digene Corp. of Beltsville, Maryland, have developed a test that detects an active HPV infection by looking for its genetic by products in the vagina. The HPV test was better than the standard Pap test at finding cervical cancer at any stage, according to two studies published this month in the journal of the American Medical Association. So far, so good. Unfortunately, the test’s false-positive rate-how often it indicated that there was a problem when none existed-was almost twice as high as that for Pap smear. In these cases, a biopsy of the woman’s cervix showed no sign of disease.

            And that’s the crux of the problem. How many women should undergo what is, when it comes right down to it, unnecessary treatment to find a few more cases of cervical cancer? Shouldn’t health officials focus instead on making sure that more women undergo regular Pap-smear examinations? After all, Pap smears, though far from perfect, have helped dramatically lower the death toll from cervical cancer-taking it from the No. 1 cause of death due to cancer in American women to the 10^th.

            Complicating matters is the fact that HPV is a very common infection. In some parts of the U.S. as many as half of all women under age 35 have an active case. Yet 99 out of 100 women who are HPV-positive will never get cervical cancer, estimates Dr. Joanna Cain, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.