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(China Daily)
Updated: 2011-06-08 07:32

Topic: Care home abuse

Male nurse Zheng Huanming, 62, has been detained after Yangtze Evening News reported that he woke residents at his care home in Zhengzhou, Henan, every day at 4 am and made some of them drink urine.

Low salaries at nursing homes result in many nursing homes being understaffed, so they have to employ unqualified workers.

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Such institutions as nursing homes and kindergartens should all be State-owned. Children and elderly residents are incapable of protecting themselves. When private owners of these institutions reach the maximum profits, the rights of children and senior residents are not well protected.

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How a society treats its senior citizens is an important standard to measure its civilization. The urine case in Zhengzhou exposes some problems in the system of caring for the elderly. Maybe it's just an extreme case, but the fact is some elderly people are living without good care. The State should invest more to improve the welfare of the senior citizens.

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Topic: Kidney = iPad 2

Zheng, a 17-year-old in Huaishan, Anhui, agreed to sell a kidney to a black marketeer for just 20,000 yuan so he could buy an iPad 2. It was removed on April 28 at a hospital in Hunan province.

Commercials are controlling consumers by preaching fake values. Through promoting material worship and consumerism, commercials egg consumers on to buy products they don't need and are over-priced.

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This all looks like the result of the boy's ignorance, but essentially it indicates the existence of the black market for organ trading. It's even more horrible than child trafficking.

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Although they are both fueled by the desire to buy iPads, college students choose to donate their sperm while high school boys only think of selling their kidneys. How terrible it is to be ignorant.

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The boy's parents are also to blame. They should give their child more care and understanding, and teach him the right values for life.

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Topic: Web of confusion?

Zhou Hong, a language professor at East China Normal University, recently warned students that use of Web slang in answers for this year's gaokao, or national college entrance exam, will be marked as wrong and affect their final score.

The gaokao should move with the times. As along as students appropriately use Web terms that are widely accepted in daily communication, their marks shouldn't be affected. Just like some Chinese terms that originated directly from English, such as shafa (sofa), these terms have become part of the language.

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Web slang already confuses many children. The inappropriate use of vocabulary will have a negative effect on academic studies. We should stand against linguistic violence on the Internet.

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The attitude toward Web terms reflects a cultural difference between East and West. Although the Oxford Dictionary keeps introducing Web terms, the gaokao bans students from using them. Why? Isn't language ultimately a tool for communication?

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(China Daily 06/08/2011)