Television; the Family Gadget

In this ever-changing technological era, television still used as a common mean of entertainment in many families. Some people think that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television, or in other words, television limits our social life. Personally, I do not agree with that opinion, because television has many advantages if we can use it wisely. In fact, it even can develop our social skills as well as broaden our way of thinking.

If you choose the right channel, you can find many beneficial educational programs. National geographic or CNN, for example, is two of the leading educational TV channels that give us knowledge of the current event that happens in the international life. It keeps us updated and conscious about the things that happens around the world. Also, many of the TV channels educate children. They give children positive moral messages as well as creative ways of thinking.

However, many people in the society have totally different thought. They think that television program makes their viewers become addicted. Housewives neglect their children; children don’t pay attention in school; workers become lazy and sleepy because they watch midnight TV programs.

On the contrary, I think TV unite family member together. Some families spend their time together in front if the TV watching inspiring family programs. They can share their thought about the issue in the TV (for example, talkshow, news, documentary, etc), laugh together, talk about their problems or simply chat with the other family member. That is the clear evidence that TV tightens the bonds between family members

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What is Biotechnology?

In its broadest sense, biotechnology is anything but novel. One accepted definition of the word is ‘any technique that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses.’ Defined this way, biotechnology is thousands of years old. For millennia, humanity has used micro-organisms for the production of food: fermenting wine, leavening bread, and making cheese and yoghurt. Centuries before the principles of genetics were discerned, farmers were purposefully breeding more desirable strains of domestic animals.

Humanity’s ability to harness biological processes accelerated with Mendelian genetics. Employing an understanding of the rules by which genetic traits were transmitted, researchers became increasingly successful in producing new hybrids, cultivars, and even, on occasion, new species. Scientists also developed methods for deliberately accelerating the rate of mutation, such as radiation and the use of chemicals. Similarly, by artificially creating stressful environments, researchers could create pressures that would favor the development and expression of a particular genetic trait.

Last century, bacteria produced antibiotics and pesticides, and were purposefully used in manufacturing processes. The first major bacterial strain improvements began after the Second World War, as researchers sought to create higher yielding penicillin-producing molds. Subsequently, hundreds of other strains of micro-organisms have been deliberately modified for commercial purposes.

Since 1970, molecular biology, molecular genetics, and other basic sciences have advanced exponentially. The structure of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule was discovered only thirty years ago. The ability to select and transfer a single gene from one organism to another is barely two decades old. Hybridoma technology, too, is another recent innovation. The first commercial products of these new techniques are relatively new. New techniques and methodological refinements continue to be developed.

Recombinant DNA, hybridomas, and other new methods offer several significant advantages over traditional methods. For example, conventional chemical-induced mutagenesis changes the genotype in random, unpredictable, and unascertainable ways. Through recombinant DNA technology, scientists can cause precise, known genetic changes. Moreover, novel genetic compositions can be established for an organism.

Collectively, these new methods are commonly called ‘biotechnology’. However, although the term is widely employed, the meaning is imprecise. A recent survey of United States government agencies showed that the Cooperative State Research Service of the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration each defined the term differently. The definition can and will vary widely from country to country.

Citing the imprecision of the term, some commentators have suggested that the word be abandoned but the term seems too well entrenched for this to happen. Usually, whenever the term ‘biotechnology’ is used, we ordinarily mean “new wave biotechnology”, for instance innovative molecular biology, such as recombinant DNA and hybridomas.

TV and Children : Best Friend or Enemy in The Blanket

Television has become one of inseparable things in human life. Statistic says about 8 from 10 ten houses in Indonesia has a TV. But, do you know that this little electronic box could bring a lot of trouble to human life? In my opinion, I definitely agree that television is dangerous and could destroy family life and any aspect of socialize because of its programs. My main concern is the television effects for children and teenager. This little box alone can cause a violent and moral less and aggressive behavior, poor school performance, obesity, early sexual activity, and drug or alcohol use. I’m going to explain you these effects one by one so you all can understand why those things can happen.
Firstly, nowadays television has become children best friend in the house while the parents busy with their job. Children could spend about 3-5 hours a day just to watch television without parent’s guidance. They do a lot of things with TV as their friends. For example, they eat in front of TV, because of some show, they forget to take a bath, take a nap, forget to study and forget to do a lot of things beside watching TV. This things show that a lot of children are addicted to television.
Addicted to television will give bad impacts to the children. Because they addicted to TV, they forget to study, in the end they show poor school performance. Because they addicted to TV, they forget to take a bath or to do other activities, they eat a lot in front of the TV, in the end they will grow as lazy children, who prefer to watch TV than do other productive activities. Because they addicted to TV, family social life ruined. Communication between parents and the children limited. Parents hard to know their children development, and the children know their TV better than their parents.
Television is not 100% bad. It also gives some educative entertainment that our children need and like. For example cartoon like Teletubbies, Spongebob, and many more. They can learn a lot about friendship, family and many more from that show. Then, it will develop their ability and knowledge about life.
The problem is not all TV’s programs are cartoon. There are still a lot of TV’s programs that are not for children consume. Such as, WWF, adult drama, reality show like Fear Factor, criminal news and many more.
As children, they hard to filter what is wrong and what is right from what they see. But, they learn really fast in their age. If they find something really interesting, they will try to do the same thing alone. Without parent’s guidance, children could do violent action just because watching television. In 2007, some kids in Indonesia died because they saw WWF and Naruto in TV and tried to do the same action in the real life with their friends. They hit one to another exactly like what they saw in TV. They didn’t know that Naruto and WWF are not real. Other TV show such as adult drama could make children have early sexual activity just because find it really interesting.

From those arguments above, we can conclude that addicted to Television will give a lot of bad impact to the children. They become lazy, forget to study, their parents-children communication ruined, and also could make them do violent action and have early sexual activity. In my opinion, the solutions for this problem are the parents have to limit their children time to watch TV, and always guide the children while the children are watching TV and teach them what is wrong and what is right.

Center Library at ITB

In my opinion, the center library at ITB is not comfortable. It is so dusty as it has never been cleaned. There is no good window as bad as no good ventilation so that there is no good air circulation. Every I come in it, I feel hot; my breath be short-winded; my head be dizzy even I have not read any book yet. If you love clean and fresh, you will hate this place at all.

Television: Dangerous or Useful ?

Television is one of the great invention of technology in recent centuries. It is a sophisticated machine which can be both of electronic mass media and entertainment source, including film and music. For those who really understand about the advantages of television, surely agree that television is important.

Television is a kind of mass media. By its news program, it gives you much information about events that happened in this country, or even in around the world. It is an alternative mass media for people who hate: reading newspaper, listening radio, or browsing internet. However, when you watch news on television, you can hear the voice of newsreader and see (motion picture) the real event. It is much better than reading newspaper which you can merely see the photo (no motion picture) of the event and must read the news by yourself. It is also much better than listening radio which you just can hear the voice of newsreader but you can not see the event at all. Then, for those who hate waiting for download some news on internet, watching news on television is the best alternative solution.

Moreover, television can be good entertainment provider. It can entertain you by its music program, film program, quiz program, etc. It gives you entertainment easily and freely. You do not pay any cost to the television program provider. When you need entertainment to refresh your mind, watching television is a wise choice since it is easy and free.

Yet, some people believe that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community; instead of visiting people or talking with the family, the people just watch television. In my opinion, it is just a bad effect of television that you, surely, can avoid. Just like one of the general principle in pharmacy said that whether a thing is poison or medicine is depend on the dose. You should manage the dose; you should manage the time for watching television and for other activity including for visiting people and talking with the family. Besides that, in many cases, people like to discuss, about television program that they have watched, with their family and friends. Hence, if you like to watch television and like to discuss about it in your community, so television can not destroy your family life. Television, even, can build sense of community.

In conclusion, about television is dangerous or useful is not depend of the television itself, but it is certainly depend on how we use it in our daily life. You just avoid the bad effect of it and take the advantages of it, therefore it is useful in your daily life.

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Negative Impact of Television

Nowadays, television is an electronic tool that most looked for everyone. Television was not like formerly where to get television we must have money quite a lot. Now, television has reached more than 90% citizen in developing countries. Television gives variation and communicative shows so that people always try to make themself can watching television. But, unconsciously it destroys family life and interaction with communities around us.

In one day, willing somebody spends time for hours to watch television show. A survey mention that more than half children at united states have a television at their room. They spend more many times to watch television at room than learn, even willing lets to have dinner with family just for watch a soap opera. This matter of course will make their parents worry because they have no chance to communicate with their child. No wonder with television existence, a family life crashed.

Too much watch television can estrange social interaction with community around us. Various television shows that interesting make us lazy to visit neighbour or hold race between family. Some family think with watch television them get all informations and fun whom they require.

Initially television functioneds to give entertainment and knowledge to the beholders. Television present music, film, infotainment and others shows that very useful to throw away the saturation after strive all day long. But now television has changed the function to commercial centre. All shows designed so that can be sold.

We can't thoroughly impute television. Anyway, we can get assorted knowledge with watching television. We can decrease impact negative from watch television by decrease time to watch television, increase more outdoors activities or go picnic with family.

M. Yogaswara\\16107024

Television, a Threat of Community Sense

In the recent time, almost every household all over the world at least have one of the most common electronic machine product, called television. Televisions are watched by almost 90 percent of the population each week and overall have 27 per cent share of total viewing. Among the findings cited in the I.B.M survey in the United States, 9 percent said they spent time watching TV, while 66 percent reported viewing between one to four hours of TV per day. This percentage increased as well as the development of the function it has, not to mention video recording, plus watching DVD, listen to the music or playing video game. Summary, television has been treated as one of formal need which has the function of both education and entertain. In my opinion, I believe that television is responsible for the lack of communication with the family or socialize with other people.

Firstly, television usually takes much of our daily time. Normally, it would take at least one or two hours for short to watch television. With nowadays feature and many worldwide channels for cabels, a lot of interesting tv programmes is shown in order. This would attract us to watch tv for long period of time, more than it needs. Because of that, main activities that we should finish first are put aside, leave behind and cause such catasthrope later. Soon we realize that we don't have much time to do our actual job, and have done it in hurry. After that work, it is expected that our stamina had already drained and we just too tired to do anything else, not to mentioned talking with our family. If this happened frequently, lack communication within the member of the family would cause a gap distant in mind for each other. This distant is dangerous, it could cause miscommunication and small or even serious fight. This happened because we couldn't manage time wisely to barely listen to our own family problems and though.

Yet, some people believe that television could be used as a gathering event with the family member. It has double advantage factor, one is for educate, to know interesting information or important news that happened. The other is just to have some fun, release tension after work and have light little chat with our family.

However, while watching television, we hardly would have a conversation with other people. This is because we concentrate in watching the programme the television shown, so we don't pay too much attention of what the other people might say. If there's a slight chance of the conversation happened, it would just revolve around about comment of the television programme that had been watched.

The other factor, television could cause negative effect that makes greater distance to parents-children relationship. As for case for visiting people, like relatives, friends or have a conversation with the family, most of children found that it is kind of boring activities compared to watching TV. It is true that television could give many entertaiment for children. Not only basic television programme, but it also could be used to watching DVD or VCD movie, playing many game console, even connect to the internet. Many cases, showed that children prefer to watch television rather than have a talk with their parents. The worst, children feel easier to be alone enjoying themselves in front of the television, and become lazy to interact with other people and socialize with them. This could destroy sense of community with both friends and parents.

The conclusion is, although television is in fact one of the useful and entertaining eletronic item, it could give us trouble if we don't know how to manage our time wisely, the worst outcome is it could destroy family life and any sense of community. However, it trully depends on our personality and judges, whether we choose to spend time wisely or just do as we pleased.

Television and Its Benefits - Chastity Emmanuelle / 16207065

There is an opinion saying that television was dangerous because it destroyed family life and any sense of community. Some say that people preferred watching television than visiting other people or talking to their family nowadays. Personally, i disagree with this opinion. I think television can bring advantages to both our personal and family life.

First of all, there are a lot of television programs which provide us with educational informations and also entertainment. By watching programs such as those on TVRI, news programs available on nearly every channels, cooking shows, talkshows, or simply programs like "After School" on RCTI, people may receive extra knowledge which can be useful for their studies or jobs. People can also keep up with what is happening around the world by simply tuning in those television shows. If you are tired of everyday's routine and just want to have a break, watching television is definitely a good option to refresh yourself. Tuning on entertainment programs is definitely relaxing. Take cartoons, gossip shows, quiz shows, sitcoms, and music and lifestyle channels for examples.

Secondly, it is possible to spend some quality time with your beloved family by simply watching television together in the living room. You don't have to spend too much energy or money, yet you can still have fun with your loved ones by simply tuning on television shows. You and your family can have discussions over whatever it is you watch together on television or simply laugh out loud at the funny parts of a television show. By simply watching television, you can manage a good relationship with your family without even having to leave home.

In conclusion, i believe television is not dangerous at all as long as people are responsible enough to use it wisely, such as for educational and legal entertainment purposes and also for connecting with your family and loved ones.

Television : Dangerous or Beneficial?

Topic: Television is dangerous because it destroys family life and anysense of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Personally, I do not agree with that statement. Nowadays, television, which has become one of inseparable parts in life, has a lot of advantages.

First, some television programmes, for instance news programmes, provide us latest news and information about national and international events. Some other television programmes also tell us about reality in everyday life, for example “Reportase”, which often expose crime in society. Moreover, television programme such as science and animal life programme, could expand our knowledge and mind about scientific processes or wild animal’s life in their habitat.

Second, watching television enables us to get the information we needed faster than by newspapers or magazines, because television uses satellite to send information, so it is such an effective way to get information, together with sounds and pictures.

Third, by watching television with interesting and enlightening programmes, we could discuss some topics with our family members, for example we could ask for opinion about a political or social issues, government, art, music, and so forth. Thus, variety of those television programmes could enrich us with other people’s opinion. We could talk with our close relatives and that make sense of a small but very essential part of community, that is, a family.

Although some argue that television is dangerous, bad for children, and so forth, in fact, because of those advantages, television still play an inevitable role in our world society today. If we use this electronic appliance wisely and properly, we could get more benefits than disadvantages in watching TV. In accordance with children’s purpose, parents could choose and switch suitable programmes for their children, based on their age.

Finally, because of the above reasons, I conclude that television has a lot of advantages, so I do not agree with the statement.

Television, Friend or Foe?

Like other things that has two side of view and lots of people thought, so does television. Television gives good and bad side in the same time. It is important to underlined that the good and bad effect i'm writing about is not the television, but its programmes. If you turn on your television, i'm sure that you will find some ridiculous, nonsense television series, entertainment that show nudity, or news that reports violent. Instead of good side, those things can give bad effects to audience, especially children.

Series (we called it 'sinetron' in Indonesian) shows nothing but nonsense and ridiculous thing. It's like tell the story of bad person, who really really cruel in the series, who underestimate the good person, this person often told very very nice and his/her life is full of unfortunate events. The scene also put violent, such as slap, hitting, or pulling other's hair. Those scene can be adopted by children to their friend. Even about a year ago, there is a child who did a suicide because can't afford his school fee. How he know about suicide? I believe he didn't learn 'how to do suicide' in his school. Nudity also influences children's mind. They might be dress like their idol in television, while the idol wears tank top with hot pants, for example. Something romance, like hugging, kissing, which is should be only adults who watch, children now can watch. It may be kept in their mind that they should be like that too. As a result, lot of kids in elementary school have boy/girlfriend.
Beside, television makes children--and common people--not active, lazy, decrease their desire to read, and even decrease their imagination. According to an article in Courrier International newspaper 811 edition, too many spend time watching television can decrease child's natural abililty to imagine a picture. Here are the picture.

First image is drawn by a child with less than three hours watching television a day. While the second one drawn by a child who watch television more than three hours a day. Child number 1 can draw man and woman well, but child number 2 cannot draw the difference. He maybe can draw a human, but with no variation.


Television programmes not just give bad effects, yet we can still get knowledge and information from programme like news, leisure information, food recipes, talkshow (Oprah or Kick Andy, for example), and science channel (National Geographic, Discovery Channel). But too much spend time in front of television is not a good thing to do. There are other activities that make us move, use our brain to think and solve, such as playing lego, read a novel, doing sport, playing bridge or arrange a puzzle. With the right portion of watching television--and right choice of its programmes-- we can make television in our home as a friend.

Television and Community: Friend or Foe?

When I was second grader at elementary school, I learned that television is one of tertiary needs of people (the needs that not too urgent to be fulfilled and is associated with luxury). Now, television became one of secondary needs. Nearly every house in Indonesia has one TV-set; some of them even have more than one. Almost everyone from every kind of age--even the youngest child who was just able to see--is watching them. They have no idea that television, when used to an extent, could destroy family life and sense of community, at least in my opinion.

It’s not impossible for television to destroy family life. Television is a rapidly data-giver in form of visual images. It’s too rapid that its users are unable to sort and filter those data into “acceptable”, “unacceptable”, and “dangerous”. They are forced to accept those data bluntly. And, kids are the greatest data-keeper; they could accept every data from everywhere. If “dangerous”, false beliefs were planted on those data and a kid watched it, he/she would accept those beliefs and practice it in his/her life. This could lead to destroying family life if that kid chose to defend those beliefs and fight his/her own parents.

Television also can destroy sense of community. The effort to watch television is not big at all; we just have to turn it on and watch, and it happens inside our house too. The effort to socialize, however, is not as small as that. We must go somewhere and meet persons, then attempt to converse with them. Even kids know that watching TV is simpler than socialize, and people tend to choose simpler things for them. For example, there are children in a family I know that don’t socialize very much. They seldom want to go outside to meet their relatives. When their parents ask them why, they replied that they want to catch some TV shows. If all kids these days behave like this, it’s possible that any sense of community will soon be destroyed.

Despite its bad effect, people don’t need to banish it completely. Those bad effects can be countered by good influence and filtering from parents, such as showing them what’s right and what’s wrong and keeping them company while watching TV. And also, there are good programs that could be useful for people, such as documentary and news.

In conclusion, despite the fact that it contains some good program, television has some bad effects when it comes to community, and it needs to be countered by good influence from one’s surroundings such as parents and friends. In the future, people behind TV shows should create lots more of good program, and the government should support it.

Muhammad Ferdyansyah Sechan 16107056

Television, Unite a Family

Nowadays, television is one of primary needs for people. Almost 80% peoples in the world use more than 6 hours of their time to watching television every day. There are so many reasons for people to watch television. Television broadcast a lot of programs to fulfill what people need, for example news, entertainment and sport programs. But, the main reason why people need television is to assemble with their family.

Watching television can gather members of a family. Many peoples use their leisure time to watching television, include peoples in a family. Each member of a family laid their activity aside for a moment to watch an interesting television program. Indirectly, watching television makes a family to come together in a place.

Television gives more than an interesting program for a family. When people and their family watch television, they not only enjoy the television program but also use that time to talk with their family. They can share each other about their activities, experiences and also their feelings. Even, a television program can inspire a family to plan a vacation together. So, Television can unite and improve the quality of a family.

Television, a Hazardous Social Inhibitor

Since the first creation of television (TV), people all over the world are so amazed with its wide audiovisual information broadcasting capability. And now, where almost everyone can afford it, television has become somewhat a primary need for a family. Information and news spreading is indeed important for a society, but the question is, what if the people spend most of their time with this so-called television? In the scope of a global family and neighboring community, I believe that television dangerous, because it is a destructive force towards family life and community. I will explain that first, television create a sense of individualism in common. Secondly, television also restrains social skill growth, particularly in the children.

First, on the point in which television promote sense of individualism in family and community life. Communication and relationship between family member and neighbor is vital for the continuity of life, but television addiction constricts it hardly. Each family member would rather watch their own favorite TV program on certain channel rather than to talk with each other. In other word, television has become a replacement for family interaction. It is a relaxation media indeed, but somehow for parents, TV can be a way of getting away from the kids. And the kids also may think the same, to be free from their parents awhile. But for how long will they do that? An executive director of public health states that “Americans (for comparison because I did not find the data for Indonesians) watch TV the equivalent of 56 days-nonstop- per year or almost as much as 4 hours a day.” Some may say that it could be a time when the whole family watches the same TV program in an occasion, so they can chat and share. Indeed it may, but the frequency is doubted because children and parents have a different choice of TV programs that they could watch together. The children and the parents are more likely to dominate the TV for their own. Furthermore even if in some cases the family often watch TV together, it is still creating a collective individualism. Families prefer watching TV to socializing with their neighbors. Spare time can be a useful time to interact with each other in the community to share and obtain between each other. But the fact, according to the article- Warning: too much TV is Hazardous - in the April 2001 edition of Running and FitNews- “Americans spend 40% of leisure time watching TV.” It is clear that TV has taken over most of the family and community life and form a nonconformist spirit amongst the people.

Secondly, television is also hinder social skill growth, especially in children and adolescents. At their age, it should be the time for them to socialize with their peers and other people. However, as long as the TV exists in their home, children prefer watching TV to meeting people in their neighborhood. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), kids in the United States watch about 4 hours of TV a day, or equivalent to as much as 62 days a year. The children as a result will grow up being less able to be alone and will not learn about social interaction with real people in the real world. They will also loose their sense of solidarity and their ability communicates friendly and politely. This will result to an egoistic and ignorant young generation that if it is not fixed in time, the characteristic will be perpetuated as the generation change, thus creating a cycle of individualistic generation. Some could say that a good communication guideline may exist in TV. But in the television, not all of the contents are good, and in fact there are many violence and brutality in it. Furthermore, even if there are good examples of communicating in television, according to Neil Sutherland in his book Growing Up, “TV, by its very nature offers brief and intense forms of communication which is perhaps the exact opposite of what ideal family interaction should be.” In other words, real and tangible communication in the family and neighborhood is important for the children’s social growth. Yoyok Arseno, the manager of Gapura Seni who held a special art exhibition due to the extreme effect of television to Indonesian children stated boldly that “the children nowadays are growing as an individualist human because of the television.” So, aside of creating individualism, television also hampers the children social development.

From the facts and argumentation above, it is clear that television is a machine of great social destruction towards this global society. It is proven by the point in which firstly it produces an individualistic soul and secondly it impedes social ability growth, chiefly to the children.

Demi Tristan Djajadi - 16107081