Television as Inhibitor

Nowadays, television is the main media of communication for almost every people in our country. There is not other media that can equal television in the number of spectator. This condition is happened because television is an audio visual media. Television can show event, entertainment, news, or fantasy that is not reached by other media. Even though television offers lots of information, I believe that television gives bad influence to people especially for children and adolescent. This is because television can inhibit the socialization skill and makes intelligence and mentality of children and adolescent become less.

First, television can inhibit the socialization skill of children and adolescent. A research two years ago found that children and adolescent watch television 68 hours a week. This number means that children and adolescent would prefer to spend their time by watching television rather than playing with their friends. As a result, they will grow with lack of communication. Although some people say that television gives the way of communication, but the communication there is passive. Children need to practice the way of communication in a real world. They can do it by talking and socialize with other people. Because of television, their socialization time become less. This condition is bad for their characteristic growth. Children and adult can grow become individualism people because of lack socialization.

Second, television makes intelligence and mentality of children and adolescent become less. At this moment, almost 70 % television program in Indonesia is drama, not an educate program. Most of drama show sex exploitation, toughness, mystical, consumerism and hedonism culture, and sexual or profession insulting. This minim education quality programs give bad influence to people who don’t have strong principle, at this case are children and adolescent. At normal adolescence, more intensity of watching toughness make their activity of thinking, studying, making a judgment, and emotion control in brain become less. At childhood, the influence of television of children is more susceptible. Children have weak position of television program because they are difficult in differentiate the good or bad thing and don’t have value limited. So everything watched by them will be believed as a fittingness. This condition is very dangerous, consider that children spend 68 hours a week for watching television, the bad program in television will reduce their intelligent and mentality.

From the facts and argumentation above, it is clear that television gives bad influence to children and adolescent. Even though television is great media, television can inhibit the socialization skill of children and adolescent and makes their intelligence and mentality become less.

The Negative Side of Global Warming

Global warming, the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans, had already happened since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. During the hundred years ending in 2005, the average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F). This environmental change should have some impacts to the environment. In my opinion, global warming can causes some negative effects to the environment.
Firstly, there are some negative impacts influences by global warming. The average global surface temperature rise about 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century. Increasing global temperature will cause sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other negative effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.
Yet, global warming also has a positive impact. Theory predicts and observations confirm that human-induced warming takes place primarily in winter, lengthening the growing season. Satellite measurements now show that the planet is greener than it was before it warmed. There are literally thousands of experiments reported in the scientific literature demonstrating that higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, cause by human activity, dramatically increase food production.
Nevertheless, global warming gives another negative effect to the environment. Global warming changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, and glacier retreat. Even it can cause the certain species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.
In conclusion, global warming has a negative aspect to the environmental life. Global warming can change the environmental badly. The negative side of global warming had already felt by the world citizens.

Car,Should be Banned in Cities?

Car becomes one of important thing in human life. Many people can waste their money to buy a new released car. Car becomes prestige thing. in my opinion car should be banned in cities because some reasons.
Firstly, car can produce some dangerous material like SO2, CO2, NO, etc. those materials are very dangerous. For example, NO can compound with Haemoglobin (important substance in blood) faster than O2, it can make blood lack of O2 and can causes some serious diseases. SO2 and NO2, if those materials compound with vapour in the air, it can be a compound with low PH or acidic compound. If those acidic compound fall on to surface of the earth, it can make rain acid which can break some things
Secondly, car is wasted, as we know, now days the price of oil is increasing, now the price of oil is USD 106.60 per barrel. The more car, the more money must we waste to buy oil
Then, car can make a distance between rich man and poor man. Rich man can go everywhere by his car, so they rarely communicate with others
Then, car always make traffic jam, many car produced but there is a few car out, that caused populated of car in cities. so traffic jam will happen in cities .
Beside that car also has some good side. Car can bring something which people difficult to bring. Car can help us to distribute something in big number, or bring something in big size with a long distance
In conclusion, although car can help human, some reason can tell us that car gives many disadvantages for people in cities. So I thing car should be banned in cities. It’s better to use bicycle to go everywhere, it healthier, cheaper, and more enjoyable than go by car

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Children Playing Games ? It’s Okay!!

Nowadays, you can see children and teenager in every internet rental in Bandung playing games like Ragnarok Online, Counter Strike, and many other online games. It seems to be a common view now. They play games and spend a lot of time in internet rental.

Many parents are worried about this new habit which spread all around the world. They are worried because they children are playing games instead of studying. Parents as older people see games as a threat which would make their children failed academically.

I think many people should see games from a new different perspective. Children who play games, is stimulated to develop their soft skills. In games, children can learn how to find a solution to solve a problem. They can develop their competitiveness, leadership and communication skill. They also not afraid to have failure and do not easily give up.

For example, Ragnarok Online game is one kind of game which stimulate children develop their soft skills. Ragnarok Game is an adventure game in which a player become a warrior who has to fight against a monster to save a country. In this game, children learn that to win against the monster, they have to level up the ability of their character and level up the weapon they have. In this way, children are stimulated to learn strategy to win. And sometimes, in order to reach their goals, they have to trade things and fight the monsters with other player. In this way, children learn that they need to communicate with other people and learn to be part of teamwork.

The fact is children who play games will grow up into a better adult was proofed from a research. The next generation of gamer generation was proofed has better personality and more stabile emotion.

So, it is good for children having a few times playing games. What we adults have to do is giving them some times to play games and supervising the game they are playing.

Television destroy our culture

Indonesia, as an eastern country, is a very traditional country. We have the tradition to visit our neighbors, relatives and friends. In the past time, when a man goes home after work, he would have this comfortable chat with his wife and children. Sometimes this family visits their neighbors. While the parents have a little chat, children play together. And if someone or a family moves into the neighborhood, all of the neighbors must have come. They bring food or just come to say hello and be acquainted with the new faces.

When technology television was known in Indonesia, the tradition changed. All of the family is sitting in front of television as they are having meals. They do not have nice chat because when the children want to tell father story about how they spend time in school, father does not have time to listen because he feel that the latest news broadcasted on TV is more important than a story about how the kids find their first friend through a game. They do not visit their neighbors because the mother does not want to lose any series of Desperate Housewives. And now the problems brought by television are more complicated. Since the children have grown bigger, they have their own choice of television program. One television is not enough for the whole family. So the parents decide to give their children a television each in their rooms. And since then, they become more and more separated. They rarely gather and have chat. The same thing happened to neighborhood. The family knows what Carissa Putri’s hobby better than their neighbor’s hobby.

Actually, television is only one of mechanical thing created by human. But when it becomes one part of human lives, it will be so hard to separate with. It destroys family life and any sense of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television, because it has already become our part of lives.

A Little White to Hide

Naked truth always better than dressed lie. Classic proverb, isn’t it? For some people, any kind of lie is undoubtedly unforgiven. But sometimes we met some kind of special case. Sometimes we make an exception, and it called white lie. It is when you tell lie to make others feel better, or when you try to fix someone’s spirit, or when you prevent some kind of breakdown. But lie is still a lie. There’s a lot of reason why I can’t accept a white lie.

The first is white lie is a lie, what you tell is not the truth. So, when you want to make other feel better, maybe you would make them feel better, temporarily. For example, your friend asking you about his/her clothes for their job interview. You think their polo shirt is too casual for an interview. But you see your friend is being too nervous and you don’t want they think about details like clothes, so you tell a white lie to them, and said “Just wear what you feel comfort to wear!”. And then they go to their job interview, what would they hear? They would be get a harsh comment about their polo shirt. You know it would happen, but you don’t tell your friend.

The second is you can’t forever keep the lie, some time it would be discovered. For example, one of your friend is freshly broke up with her boyfriend, the boy said that he is kind of bored with the relationship. But you know the truth, he is cheated your friend. To prevent her from breakdown, you keep the truth for yourself (this is one of white lie). Hear the mouth-to-mouth-gossip your friend discover the truth, and also she knows that you know the truth from the first place, she would feel being cheated twice, from his boy and from you. She is still get hurts, worse.

The third is a lie would lead you to another lie. This is one of my experience with a white lie. My grandmother is fourth child from 5 siblings. Years ago, she still had her second sister in Australia. But, 4 years ago, her sister died. My big family decided to keep the truth away from her, so whenever she ask about her sister we would change the topic. At first everything was fine. But, my Grandma is getting worry and worry when her sister never called her. Then we said, maybe my Grandma’s sister is become more deaf. Then to make her feel better, we promised her to go to Australia, when she ask the promise, we would say another lie and another lie until we become confuse of our own lies. Until one day, I don’t know how, one of my cousin, slipped the truth. And my grandmother was sick than ever. She can’t wake from her bed, and thought that she was deceived by all the whole family. Fortunately, several months later, she could accept it. You need more than a little white to hide the black.

So I just totally agree with the proverb, sounds cliché, sounds classic, that naked truth is always better than dressed lie. (Adiajeng Warastuti. 16207003)

Television, Is It Really a Community Life’s Enemy?

Some people said that television is the community life’s enemy because sometimes we prefer to watch the tv than visiting or chatting with our own family or friend. But, in my opinion television has its own function for the community life. For example, television is one of the information’s source, and also the ‘agent of change’ for the public. And, don’t you realize that sometimes your best quality time with your family or friend is when you altogether watching the tv?

Everyday in our daily life, different things, big or simple, happen in the world, that’s why you need a newspaper, radio, internet, or television to get the latest news. it is easier to get the information from tv than from the other source, cause you could watch it and doing something else too. For example, you wake up in the morning, and all you need to do is just turn on the tv, and tadaa! By a blink you know what happen in the other side of the world, and in the same time you could also having your breakfast, or discuss the news with your family. See? you could even doing both of watching the television and chatting.

Television also has some kind of ‘power’ for changing the public’s level of life. As a source of information, tv could change public’s point of view by increasing the people’s awareness of their community. For example, people could be more paying attention of global warming’s problem because they watch the discovery channel that talk about it. Another example, people could know about poor people’s life and decide to do something to help another people.

However, realize it or not, our best quality time often we spend it by watching tv together. When I was a little child, after having the dinner, every night the entire family would sit in the livingroom to watch the tv. We could watch anything, from reality show or game or even tv series called “Tersanjung”. While we watch any program, we would gossiping the actress, laughing the scene, or just debating the quiz. And for me, that is one of the best quality time I had with my family.

Life is full of choices, you could always pick either to watching television or chatting with your familly or friend. It is depend on your own personality, if you love to being in community, how interesting the tv’s program, you would pick to visiting your relative. But if you are anti social, how boring the tv’s program you would prefer to watch it. For me, if I have to choose I would prefer to having a good conversation with anyone than watching my favorite tv series, “Aly McBeaL".(Adiajeng Warastuti. 16207003)

I Love Holidays! x) - Chastity Emmanuelle (16207065)

Life of college students, especially ITB students, is very hectic. Our daily routines include attending classes, doing laboratory activities, and taking exams. As long as we are dedicated college students, we might be extremely busy almost every day. Not just that, some of us are even stressed out. That is why, in my opinion, holidays are important to balance our lives and keep us sane.

First of all, I think holidays are important because during holidays, you can do whatever you want to do which does not need to relate to your studies. You can relax all day long, doing activities such as watching interesting television shows, listening to your favourite music, or reading your abandoned comic books or novels. You can also join crash courses to better yourself, such as cooking classes, driving lessons, or even going to the gym to stay fit. If you like adventures, you might want to spend your holidays by visiting interesting places you have not been to before. Basically, you can do anything you like to refresh your mind and relax your brain.

Secondly, during holidays, you can take a break and just sit back, relax, and enjoy yourself. Especially for the girls, you have been so busy working hard at campus you probably did not have enough time to get treatments for your body, such as creambath, spa, or massage. Most college students have also been sleeping late almost every night due to studying or doing assignments. Therefore, when they are on holidays, they can have enough sleep and get rid of their exhaustion. Holidays can provide you with all the rest and relaxation your body needs to remain healthy.

Last, but certainly not least, holiday is the perfect time to reconnect with your family, friends, and loved ones. You probably have been way too busy to spend some quality time with them due to your tight schedule. Therefore, you can spend your holiday by eating out with your family or hanging out with your friends at the mall, for example. Holiday can be a way to show your loved ones that you care and that you are grateful to have them in your life.

Holidays are very essential, especially for those who are busy and tired most of the time. Therefore, when you are on holidays, make the best out of them and it is guaranteed that they can make you feel brand new and get you ready for whatever you need to accomplish in the future :)

Evolution, Between Fact and Fiction

One of the very oldest theory that is still becoming the basic knowledge in Biology is evolution. There were so many theories coming from the biggest scientist. Darwin with the natural selection, a mechanism by which evolutionary change cloud occur, Mendel, the father of genetics with modern evolutionary synthesis and also Jay Gould with the mutation of segments of DNA. There were so many evidences that they have found, from morphological evidence, molecular evidence until theoretical evidence with the morphological similarities in the Homonidae family. In many centuries, evolution theories have been trusted as the mother of phylogenetic tree of life, the tree that shows the evolutionary history of the three domains of life, bacteria, and eukaryotes. But nowadays, many scientists have proved that evolution is one of the wrong theory that had ever been made. Now, we will try to research, is the evolution a fact or just a fiction? Evolution, the changing heritable traits of population through natural selection, development molecular genetics, morphological differentiate and physiographic changing.

There are so many theories of evolution, the best well known is the natural selection derived by Charles Darwin. The transmutation was accepted by many scientists before 1859, but Charles Darwin’s on The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection provided the first convincing exposition of a mechanism by which evolutionary change could occur; natural selection. The theory was explaining about the changing of the species by a kind of selection so that the survivors of the species were the best species that winning by selection. After many years of working, Darwin was motivated to publish his work on evolution when he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, the man who supported his new theory. The publication of Darwin 's book made a great social debate to many scientists. Other theory came from Gregory Mendel; he worked in inheritance of traits in pea plants laid the foundation for genetics. In 1930’s and 1940’s he synthesized Darwinian evolution with genetics, creating the modern evolutionary synthesis, the evolution that based on the mutation of molecular genes. Completing the theory based on Gregory Mendel, Stephen Jay Gould identified DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) as the “transforming principle”, the molecular that was responsible for every changing of the structure in a species.

The scientists have found the evidences that evolution happened and that's true. The first evidence was the morphological evidence. Fossils are critical evidence; the fossil of coelacanth from 520 million years ago shows us that it has undeveloped legs in their vestigial. They have made a conclusion that coelacanth was one of the transfer species, the meanwhile species between fish to become a mammal. Second, molecular evidence is also one of the significant proofs of the evolutions. The scientists have classified some group of species by the comparison of their DNA, the sequence similarity. They have made a statement that our ancient ancestors came from the ancient family of apes which were evolving. It was because the scientists have found the similarity of our DNA with the family of apes. We have only differences about 1.2% from chimpanzee, 1.6% different from gorillas and 6.6% from baboons. They still believed that evolution happened because of the changing and the improvement of the molecular substantial, and they have thought that we were the truly example as human evolutionary. The last is theoretical evidence; this evidence is based on the theory. Mathematical Models of evolution based on the fossil that they have found, they classified the fossil and arranged them with their similarity, after that they stuck them. They found that almost every species in the world were descended from common ancestors. Begin with the ancient ancestors as the pioneer until us, the modern and the developed species. This evidence is the closest evidence with the reality, because it combines the morphological evidence with the molecular evidence.

Evolution has it's mechanism itself. There are several mechanisms of evolution and how the evolution happens. Mutation, the deviation of molecular substantial by the copy errors has caused the new genetics variation and the impact is the different of morphological forms. Selection and adaptation just made only the superior species who survived. In the selection and adaptation, there are two kinds of basics selection; ecological selection that occurs when the survivor species can survive in a new safe ecology and make a new community and the sexual selection that occurs when the survivor selection breeds its species and makes a new community too.

In asexual organism, variants in genes have made the different organism. Although the first difference is just only in their chromosome but after some millions years, its can make a crucial different in the morphological form. Gene flow/ the migration and population structure have made a great deal of evolution. This is the exchange of genetics variation between populations, when geography and culture were not obstacles. When there were an isolated species, they would become more speciation among other species that have been migrated. We can see the fact in the Madagascar Island which has the most different species among other islands around the word. Genetics drift describes changes in allele frequency in DNA from one generation to other generation. Although it happened through some millions years, the effect of an allele was quite dominant, changing the ancient species to modern species. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the transfer’s genetic materials, was almost the same as a drift, but in the HGT, the changes happened not in the offspring species. HGT has been shown in bacterial populations and also has been a major mechanism for prokaryotic and eukaryotic evolution.

The last are speciation and extinction. Speciation is the process by which new biological species arise. Allopatric speciation occurs in populations that become isolated geographically, such as by migration. Sympatric speciation occurs when new species emerge in the same geographic area. Extinction, the disappearance of one kind of species, the moment of extinction generally occurs at the death of the last individual of that species so that no more species like that can be founded in the surface of the world. The most severe extinction ever was the extinction in the Permian-Triassic age. These phenomena rendering extinct 90% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrata species, it caused the extinction of dinosaur’s species from the world. Many scientists are still confused even how the dinosaur’s species can extinct from the world. Some scientists concluded that it was caused by one giant comet that made the surface of the world became colder so that they couldn’t survive for live. And some others concluded that it was by the biggest volcano eruption with caused the same condition, it happened by the dust of the volcano which covered the atmosphere of the world when the sun lights couldn’t go into earth.

Nowadays, many scientists believe that evolution doesn’t ever exist. They believe evolution is just a big lying coming from the biggest thinker. They have some new evidences that evolution never happened. First, the mistakes of evolutionary theories, if evolution truly happened, we could find so many fossils of transfer species. But none of the fossils of transfer species could ever be found. Coelacanth is just some different species of fish, the undeveloped legs is just sensitive bone, not the leg, as the scientists said before. Evolution is only a fiction, an old concept and a mite without any purposes that was created in the 19^th century. There are big differences between the evolution and the devolution. Scientists now believe that the true concept is devolution, the changes of species by the extinction of another species. It happened not because of the selection and adaptation but it happened because of one big power, the God Allah the Mighty. It’s because, none of every species in the world that was created without perfection. Everything is settling up in the best condition without any deformity or unnecessary false.

In summary, I think that evolution doesn’t exist anymore and the evolution theory is just a fiction, a mite that can’t be proved in a right way. All of the creatures and the species in the world are made by the God, Allah the mighty. With the devolution, the changing of species sometimes happened with unknown ways. We can conclude that evolution, the changing heritable traits of population through natural selection, development molecular genetics, morphological differentiate and physiographic changing are not true.

Smoking; an Inch Closer to Deadly Diseases

The habit of smoking has influenced the lifestyle of many people. Some society, in any type of social classes, includes cigarettes in their activities. Personally, I think smoking is hazardous to one’s health. The chemicals in one single cigarette are major causes of many deadly diseases such as lung cancer and heart attack.

Smoking habit shortens people’s life. The fact that smoking causes impotency, and pregnancy and womb disturbance have been widely known by the community. Even more, cigarette contains tar and nicotine, which has benzopyrene. Benzopyrene is, in short, the chemical substance that activates the p53 gene (the gene which causes lung cancer) in human body. Moreover, people who have smoking habit have a bigger tendency to suffer heart attack than the people who don’t.

But, some group of people say that smoking makes they feel more relaxed and motivated to do their daily activities. They say that without cigarette, their life feels so plain. They feel that cigarette in one of their basic needs.

On the contrary, smoking weakens their body. The work of the lungs becomes heavier because they have to filter the inhaled smoke of the cigarette. This automatically affects the amount of the air that they breathe. The fewer amount of air that is inhaled, the quicker people feel exhausted. Cigarette also triggers the heart to pump blood faster. It is a true fact that this makes people feel more awake and spirited. But the heart cannot always be forced. There are times when the heart fatigued. When this happens, usually people get a mild heart attack symptom such as dizziness and the loss of consciousness.

In conclusion, smoking decreases the degree of health in one’s body. The analogy is like putting poison in your own body by your own will. People should prevent smoking habit. And people who have this habit are suggested to quit right away, before it is too late.

Dormitory for University Student with More Ability

Dormitory is important facility for university students. Every university usually facilitates their students with a dormitory, because a dormitory has a lot of functions for their students. For example, every student can stay in a dormitory with a cheaper cost than if they rent room and board in other place. Beside of that, university students are able to go to their university quickly because their university is close from their dormitory. But, there are more important functions of a student dormitory those are developing individual and social skills of a university student.

University student can be an autonomous person by living in a dormitory. If we are living in a dormitory, it means that we stay far from our family. So, we must try to take care about ourselves. This situation accustoms us to do our assignment by ourselves, for a simple example we must do our daily assignments like wash our clothes and clean our room everyday by ourselves. But after we can do those simple assignments, we are going to accustoms to do more important things. Those important things are we can try to solve our problems by ourselves and be a mature person.

Living in a dormitory develops our social skills. In a student dormitory we are going to live with different peoples from different regions. It means that we live in a small social society. This small social society gives us a chance to learn about empathy and communication skill. Those two skills are main important social skills to live in a true social society after we graduate from our university. So, living in a dormitory makes us to be a university student with more ability.

PP No. 2 Year 2008: Sacrificing Forest to Mine?

Peraturan Pemerintah (PP) No.2 Year 2008 is probably the most ridiculous PP ever made. Briefly speaking, this PP permits acts of clearing for mining, telecommunication infrastructure, and toll road for just three hundred rupiahs per square meters per year. In my opinion, this PP will bring harm, to environment and eventually to us humans, if applied.

First, the act of clearing means sabotaging human life. Forest gives us many benefits: fresh air to breathe, pure water that flowing out from springs, woods and logs, and home for wild animals. People who can think clearly will agree that those benefits are too large to be compared with minerals that are buried under it. If clearing is commenced, there will be less water and fresh air, and those wild animals will attack villages and towns in search of food. In the end, our life is affected and—possibly—shortened by them.

Second, mining makes reforestation difficult. The rich and nutritious soil, called top soil, is only thirty centimeters deep from the surface, and—of course—those minerals lies deeper than that. In order to extract minerals, the earth must be dug up. Because of that, the top soil will be mixed with less nutritional soil, which is bad because trees won’t grow well there. Plus, it’s common knowledge that miners—especially illegal ones—don’t take all of mined minerals. Sometimes they leave behind those that are un-extract-able. This is bad because those minerals will poison water and plants, make them harder to grow.

Of course, we cannot forget that the PP isn’t fully about mining. It’s about transportation and telecommunication. Those two aspects are probably most important in this globalization era.

In conclusion, the government should inspect this PP more closely. It should be adjusted so the forest won’t be sacrificed for only one act of mining. After all, human wellbeing is more or less linked with forest wellbeing.

-M. Ferdyansyah Sechan 16107056-

Television : Good and Bad

Television, piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which people can watch moving pictures and sounds, is widely used by people all over the world. Since it has become an almost primary need for family, we easily can find it in everyplace. But, behind all the joy that it gives, there are also some negative effects of television which is dangerous for family life.

Nowadays, most of tv stations received many criticism from different kinds of societies. That happens because today tv stations rarely broadcast a programme which has a good quality. The programme which is shown in television is judged as a non educative show and make people become consumptive. Moreover, someone said a shocking statement in his blog : “When I have a family in the future and the television programmes are still the same, or even worse than today, I would rather bring my family and my children to my village and live there with them, so that they will not be influenced by the ‘trash’ television programme in Indonesia.” It can be understood if the blog writer really feds up with this kind of situation because today most of television programmes are still dominated by the fake drama called ‘sinetron’ and also infotainment, which is said by Mario Teguh -a human resources consultant- is a non sense programme.

Yet, television is still the cheapest source of audio-visual entertainment and information for family. Since almost all families have had this equipment, they don’t really need to read the newspaper to know the latest news. In addition, they can also get the entertaining show easily.

All in all, television has two different sides. But, above all the good things that it gives, it still has more negative impact for the viewers and really dangerous for family life. So, in my opinion, we should be selective in choosing the television programme in order to reduce its bad sides for our family.

Television, is a destroyer enough?

Television, as described by the wikipedia online dictionary, is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. Television is not an important thing that people must have actually, but as the technology advance, it has become a necessity in life. Most of people are need television for many reasons, yet the other side television has give affect to the society life. Personally, I agree with the opinion that says 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.
Firstly, television ruins the living of the family. When the television was first introduced, television was thought to bring the family closer together, by bringing the entire family member together in one room. In those days, most families had only one television. Nowadays, there is a television in almost every room of the house. Television has reduced the time spent with family. The family rituals, such as meals, bed time, and holidays, have been changed to television programs.
However, recent studies have suggested that some television programs might improve learning. Television can broaden the people’s horizon and enhance the people’s knowledge about the latest event in the world.
Nevertheless, other studies have proved that television has an effect on people as an individual and as a community, like violent behavior and obesity. Television often promotes violent acts as a fun and effective way to get what you want without consequences. The American psychological association reveals that children’s television programming alone contains about 20 violent acts an hour. The television violence can cause children to behave more aggressively. Besides the violence, television viewing can also contribute the obesity problem. People who watch too much television don’t get as much physical activity and tend to eat the unhealthy food during watching the television.
In conclusion, television has brought down the family life because of the family rituals that change to the television programs. Television also brings the new problems, such as violent behavior and obesity, to the community living.

Television, Good or Bad for Life

Television is the most mass media in the world. Statistics prove that almost every household have at least one TV. According to A.C. Nielsen Co. Media Research, about 60 percent people in the world watch TV more than 4 hours a day. This fact indicates that TV has become an important part of human’s life, not only for getting information but also for entertainment. To a certain extent, I believe that television destroys people’s sense of community. Television makes people lazy and ignoring their neighborhood. Instead of visiting neighbor, people just watch TV.

There are some reasons why people are becoming lazy and don’t care about their surroundings. Before television becoming the main source of information, people got news and other information from their neighbors or their friends. When TV could give more information that people need, people are becoming less frequent in visiting each other. Beside that, some television’s programs that attract people very much make them lazy to do other activities while those programs are showing. This makes them lazy and ignoring whatever is going on.

Yet, some people believe that the existence of television in their home can keep communication among the members of the family well. All of the members of the family gather in the living room and watch TV together. In this situation, parents can talk to their children about many things. The parents also can give advices to their children about the TV’s programs that they are watching.

However, watching television too much is not good at all. Beside it can destroy people’s sense of community, it also gives bad effect in people’s healthy. By sitting too much without doing other exercise, people are at high risk of having cardiovascular disease and obesity. Watching TV too long also can damages people’s eyes and makes them have near sighted.

In conclusion, television can destroy people’s sense of community and giving bad effect in people’s healthy if it is watched too much. By watching TV properly, like only watching news and family programs that can be watched together in a family, people can take the function of the television without getting its negative effects.

Judging the Invasion of Iraq

It has been five years since that dreadful day on Iraq at 20th March 2003. At that time, the United States of America send a massive invasion force in order to overthrow the reign of Saddam Hussein from Baath party. The President of the USA, George W. Bush, suspected that Saddam Hussein has a storage of mass destruction weapon and has a connection with a terrorist group known as Al Qaeda thus he thought it was important for him to launch a pre-emptive strike. Somewhat it is also done in order to retaliate the Al Qaeda attack on the USA which raze the WTC building to ground because Bush was certain that the Iraqi government was funding the Al Qaeda. Now, if you look at the situation on Iraq, it is clear that a total victory was never achieved or even will never be achieved. Based on the right point of view, cost point of view, and effect point of view, I heavily disagree with the invasion of Iraq by the USA and it has gone too far to be tolerated.

First, from the right point of view, the USA has violated so many rights and laws by invading Iraq. Since the day they first launched the invasion, they have already violated the boundary of Iraqi territory and their sovereignty as a nation. It is actually the very basic right that every nation have which is to have control of their region and to not to be intervened by other nation. Koffi Annan, ex-general secretary of the United Nations stated boldly that the invasion of Iraq done by the USA and their allies was illegal. The using of UN Security Council Resolution number 1441 was also a flaw done by the USA government and that justification was without a basis. But unfortunately, the UN seemed to be nothing but a toothless guard dog when facing the USA bold action to invade Iraq because the violation of international laws and rights done by the USA did not really taken care totally. The case of violation got worse when the American forces were trying to capture important Iraqi figures including Saddam Hussein himself. After he was captured, with inappropriate treatment and unfair trial he was sentenced to death in a rope. The analogy was just like you broke into your neighbor’s house because of reasons that you cannot proven yet, then you destroy a lot of his properties then kill the him, the owner of the house. It is almost the same as the case of the Iraq invasion and worst the blame and suspicion were proven wrong because there were no weapon of mass destruction and the Al Qaeda network was not revealed fully. By having a false blame, conducting an incursion, and overthrowing the incumbent leader on a nation, it was strictly breach the fundamental right of that nation.

Second, from the cost point of view, the invasion of Iraq has cost so many things. When a decision to commit an action is made and the amount of the cost is to be considered, the consideration must include the efficiency and ethicality scope, and these two were missed in the invasion of Iraq. As the invasion enter its 5th year, people around the world, especially in the USA itself, still relentlessly demonstrating, hoping for an end to the war that has cost approximately 4,000 lives of US Army and fund as much as 3 trillion US$ in total. Both the number of victims and the cost of war far exceed the number of victims and cost of Vietnam War. To sacrifice your own people and to spend so many budgets to obtain a goal which still unclear and far from achievable is really a fatal choice. The people, especially military forces, that were sent were not all commit to do the war and not all were ready. The consequence is that the invasion proved to be a gruesome slaughtering field of the USA people themselves, and this is why they are still protesting until now. And to expend such a cost was a total waste because it should be directed to another problem or maybe another nation that really needs it. According to US Center for Defense Information, USA has spend 396 billion US$ at 2003 for their military budget. That number is only about half of the world’s military budget at 2002 according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and is equal to 33 times of total military expenses spent by 7 raging countries. By looking at these numbers it is clear how expensive is this invasion.

Third, from the effect point of view, the invasion of Iraq brought a disastrous effect to its people. The aftermath of the invasion was not fully predicted by the US forces and their allies, and it proved to be fatal. Instead of getting better, the situation in Iraq is now becoming more violent and unstable. Unprecedented bomb explosions, street shootouts, riots, various terror actions, uprisings, and even an anytime imminent civil war ravage the cities of Iraq. The casualties were not only the troops of US, their allies or Iraqi, but also countless number of innocent souls. According to a report by ‘Just Foreign Policy’, around 1,001,000 Iraqi civilians were killed since the beginning of the invasion, this number is even greater than the number of Rwanda massacre at 1994. These victims were innocent people who know nothing of the politic intrigues and so on, some 60% are just children and 15-44 years old. Millions of other people were forced to refuge and the existing community now live in an agonizing fear. The condition in Iraq was far from safe, and the threat of violent actions that leads to death haunts everyone at any corner, about 100 people died each day because of the revolt. Even Koffi Annan admitted that the situation in Iraq is worse than at the Saddam’s reign. Although the plan for extra garrisoning of additional troopers is being considered, many predict that it will worsen the situation. Because now the situation is really in turmoil where everything is extremely difficult to be controlled and threats could emerge from anywhere or anyone. The invasion which was supposedly meant to be a liberation for the Iraqi people was turned out into a massive and gruesome slaughtering field.

From the argumentations above, it is clear that the invasion of Iraq has no basis of right to be committed, it also has a very high cost to be paid, and it has brought no development. Instead, it’s execution violates many laws and rights, wastes much fund, creates heavy casualties and disorders. I believe that we should put an end to this commotion by withdrawing all foreign military forces and start a new kind of approach. I always prefer negotiation and diplomacy to open conflict because such ways are not destructive and detrimental. If those can be carried out well, a win-win solution can be attained.

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Television for children

Television, internet, and radio has been great influences on our life. Although news gleaned from television, radio, or the Internet can be educational, problems can arise the usage of those media are over limited. Too much television can mean less face time with family members and friends. Beside that, what we get in watching television can’t always give us warrant that those information are important for our life. Sometimes it can changes people behaviour instead.

Nowadays, television has become a standard part of our environment in such a way that we hardly even think about it. TV is literally just a piece of furniture to us, and we forget it's there even when it's turned on. Yet, the background noise still distracts us and diminishes the quality of our communication. In family life, especially for parents who have children at home, research has shown that children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching TV are more likely to be overweight. They are doing activity rarely. Kids who view violent events, such as a kidnapping or murder, are also more likely to believe that the world is scary and that something bad will happen to them. Maybe it's better for parents to control the use of TV and to teach children that it's for occasional entertainment, not for constant escapism that can make a big effect of their sense of community when they are growing up.

In America, fifty-one students who were either very heavy soap opera viewers (more than 4 hours per week) or very light soap opera viewers (less than 1 hr. per week) provided different attitude judgments distrust of people. Students who often watch soap opera will have a great tendency in case of distrust people. That’s a big consequences affected by television. Whereas we know that sociality life is the most important thing in through this life, and one way to have a good relation with somebody else is trusting them, just the way they are.

TV, interactive video games, and the Internet can be excellent sources of education and entertainment, but too much plugged-in time can have unhealthy side effects. More or less, children behaviour affected by television. Maybe parents should try to forms their children not to over addicted in watching television in order to form their attitude when they are growing up.

The Dangerous of Television

Television is one of the greatest inventions of all time. That is why it has become a part of life for millions of people. As time goes by, people are more more addicted to television. As other gadgets do, television has it's good and bad effects to the viewer. Television served many choices of programs, such as news, drama, cartoon, and others. This has made television is watched by every family. Unfortunately, television can cause many dangerous effects for the viewer, especially families who watch television constantly everyday.

Science has shown that too much sedentary behavior -and especially television watching- puts people at higher risk for obesity and diabetes, a new study reports. Writing last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers calculated that for every two hours a day spent watching television, there is a 23 percent increase in obesity and a 14 percent increase in the risk of type 2 diabetes. People watching TV have a lower metabolic rate than people engaged in other activities like reading or playing board games, he said. Perhaps more significant, the study said, they are more likely to be eating as they watch.

The real dangers of television are that it is addictive and that it tends to stop social interaction in the home.Human beings are social creatures, and often evenings are a time for relaxation and sharing with friends and family. If an entire family is staring mindlessly at the television screen, the members are not communicating. They are together, yes, but physical proximity is not a substitute for conversation and stimulating dialog. Try this simple experiment. Keep the television set turned off and get a group of people together in the room where the television set is. Those people will start talking and interacting. Now turn the television on. You will soon find that the talking stops and people start watching the television, regardless of what is being telecast.

In conclusion, television is an addictive, non interactive media. It stops people doing other, far healthier, more life enhancing things. Activities such as exercise classes, continuing education, and even playing video games or chatting online require more energy and social skills than watching television.

Television, is it as good as our taught?

Nowadays, television is not a rare thinganymore. Television is very popular forms of mass media in the world. Almost all people are familiar with it and most of them at least own one in their house. So, everybody, children to adults, have watched television. But, I think there are some reasons that make television is a bad mass media.

There are many programs on television, which do not educate. For example, the drama serials on television (sinetron) are neither entertaining nor educational. These shows depict “real life” which is definetely not the same life as we walked on. The plot and the setting of drama serials are very unreasonable, such as a beggar who is very poor has her hair coloured and has a beautiful makeup but live in the shack under the bridge. Besides, there are a story about the girl whose boyfriend was died and then she found a man who is really look alike her old boyfriend. The “real life” in drama serials version are contains with both verbal and physical abuse which are can be followed by some uneducated people and make a crime level higher and higher.



Television can destroy family life and any sense of community. Television broadcast TV programes 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, nonstop. This condition make some people who are addicted to watch the television have no intention to do anything else beside stay in front of their TVs. It can be a dangerous situation, because those people who are TV’s addict prefer watch their television than visiting people or have a conversation with their family and friends. If this situation happened, no one will accompany them and be their friends.

But, some people think television is en excelent resource, even though it is not always used at full potential, it entertains and (sometimes) educates. They believe that television would be one of the most useful resources if some important changes were made.

In conclusion, eventhough television can be entertained, it can damage our real life. Because it can be a bad influence to our lifestyles, attitudes. It can change our way of think on the negative way. Besides, television can damage our social relationship because it can make us watch television all the time without go out and have a communication with the others.

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Indonesia Television Disturb Family Values

In my observation, Indonesian televisions are being used more for entertainment than to educate people. It shows from their types of broadcast. We could observe the Indonesian private TV broadcast more on entertainment program than news. Most programs are now made locally by Indonesian production houses, and many of them are of low quality.

Television entertainment program would certainly have unconstructive impact on the younger generation if it is not guided properly by their parents. For adult viewers with not enough education background the programs would also mislead. For example, the “sinetron” prefer to shows stories related to affluent which is unrealistic condition, especially for a nation which have millions of people below the poverty line. Music program now is dominated by instant talent seeking shows; imitate similar shows abroad like “American Idols”. Even children, by the ambition of their parents, will spend more of their time to be selected in the program to pursue their dreams as an Idol base on viewers’ selection through “short message service”. The worst but popular TV programs are the celebrity infotainment. Most of them gossiping celebrity’s marital and love problems.

We then hope that the news program would balance the situation. Unfortunately, the news program seem using Principe of Bad News is Good News. Therefore we would easily find information about conflict, crimes and disasters. Some of TV programmer even shows their creative to have a scary information show about crimes. Less news on success stories of common people.

Those above programs would certainly direct viewers, in this case family, on the way of having inappropriate values in this life. Wealth “sinetron” picture will give the wrong impression about life. Ideal life would only achieve with material goods. The idol type shows will give “idea” to viewers the shortcut to be popular despite of tough normal process. It will certainly have an impact on the parents and their children to struggle professionally to shape their talents.

Considering quality of the program in our television nowadays is inadequate to learn proper values since the programs are more entertain and less educated, i think television does disturb family life and any sense of community. People tends to watch various kinds of entertainment on television rather than to socialize more with their social environment, for instance their family and friends. Meanwhile, spending quality time like having family dinner together may have better and more educated values of life and strengthening family ties.

Siti Amalia Hasnida

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