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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Television in Our Life

Television maybe one of the best invention that human ever make. With this technology, human can watch all movies or news they like. Beside that, television also influenced in spreading any news or rumors about important events such as natural disaster, death of important person, and also prediction about something that will happening in the future. Without television, human life became very boring and not entertaining. Not only that, with this great invention, human can study about general science since television have discovery channel. This has made television not only for entertainment but also for education and information.

But some people think that television can destroy our life, we become more arrogant to talk to the other, we become very addicted to television program and don't care about what happening to our family, and we also become more individualist and rarely talk to the others. But in my personal opinion, I don't agree with that statement. I think television have more advantages than just become a vandal of human life.

In my opinion, television has made our bond with our family become closer and closer. We can spend all day watching television with both of our parents and discuss the film with them. Also with television, we become more relaxed to talk to somebody, as television has funny entertainment that can make us laugh. If we are stressed out about our problems, television can become our stress reliever.

Television can also become our window for us to look all over the world. With television, we can watch any important news from all over the world. Watching television make our eyes opened about important-important events that happening in the world.

With all those advantage, I'm sure that television has a lot of advantages, and not only become a vandal of human life.

The Controversial of Eavesdropping Program

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a part of the United States government, with goal to protect the United State people, by making codes and breaking codes. They collect information by eavesdropping, by listen to what people are saying in other countries, without letting the people know that they are listening. The NSA is also in charge of making sure that other countries do not eavesdrop on the United States. My opinion, the controversial eavesdropping program is not really useful for the country. In fact, there are many disadvantages factors by using this kind of program.
First, the eavesdropping program took the privacy of citizens in all country, including United States itself. The NSA's eavesdropping mission includes radio broadcasting, the internet, telephone calls, and other forms of communication. In other words, all of the activity based to communication technology is distributed to NSA. With recent technonolgy development, most of the communication within people is done through the telephone or internet. It means that most of the conversation is eavesdropped by the program. It conflicts with basic human right, because communication is linked to internal problems of daily life.
The advantage factor, eavesdropping program helps to detect terrorist and avert their plot. By eavesdrop people's conversation, NSA could predict the terrorist step and prevent it to happened. This way, NSA could secure the safety of the country. It means a lot, because the terrorist action could destroy the country balance in every aspect: economy, politic social and so on.
However, it is not easy to get the information of terrorist activity. By eavesdropping citizens of all country, the NSA would need a lot of time to analyze the information that related to the terrorist action. The reason, most of the information is circled around unimportant issues of people daily conversation. Even if it found, the information ussualy appears as codes that need to be solved in order to get the actual meaning behind it. It sure needs much time and hardwork, not to mention that the information the program is get might be fake as well.
Moreover, the country needs high budget to operate the eavesdropping machine program. NSA's budget for electricity exceeds US$31 million per year, making it the second largest electricity consumer in the entire state. Beside for using the budget for the eavesdropping program, it could be used for any other useful way, such as to increase the economic system, help poor people and so on. It also could be used to help other country that has financial problem, due to natural accident or maybe bacause of war. This would develop social relationship with other country, as well as economic and politic relationship. With good relationship, the country doesn't need to be afraid to the terrorist anymore, because the country has good mutual perspective among the world.
To conclude, the eavesdropping program is not really useful for the country. Even though it could help to detect terrorist, it conflicts with human rights because it takes people privacy. Top of that it needs high budget that could be used for other purpose instead.

Television’s Bad Effects in Family’s Life

Nowadays, watching television is already become a common habit in the families. It happens because television has provided a lot of entertainment programs (besides news and education programs) that attract many people to watch television more often than they used to. Unfortunately, some families do not realize that this habit also gives bad effects, especially to the children. In my opinion, sometimes watching television can cause a lack of communication between the children and the parents. Moreover, some programs also give bad effects to children’s life style and their way of thinking.

In some families, watching television habit can cause a lack of communication between the children and the parents. The main factors that causes this problem is that both the children and the parents prefer watching television to having a chat together. In some other cases, some children have their own televisions in their rooms. This situation allows them to come out rarely of their privacy rooms and only have little time to communicate with their parents. If this situation is not change, the family will have a lot of argumentations that will disrupt the family’s harmony.

In fact, some programs in television also give bad effects to the children’s life style. There are some programs that effect children’s fashion style. They are often influenced by western or Japanese styles which are not fit to Indonesia n culture. In other situation, many programs set glamour life as main aspect in the scene. Those kinds of programs increase their desire to change their life style into the style which is shown on television. To fulfill this desire, they are willing to spend a lot of money. This condition is likely the same to consumerism and will endanger family’s finance.

Besides that, watching television also give bad effects in children’s way of thinking. It happens because there are some programs in television which is broadcasted in unsuitable time or do not have morality aspects. For example, there are films that show criminal or pornography actions. If many children watch those films without guidance from their parents, they will think that those criminal actions are legal to do. This problem becomes more serious because some children also try to resemble those bad actions.

According to the argumentations above, it can be concluded that besides gives many advantages, watching television also give bad effects to family’s life especially the children. Some bad programs in television can drive their way of thinking and life style into worse condition. Watching television habit also causes a lack of communication among the family.

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Television, An Important Rules In Our Daily Lives

Television has such an important place in our holdings because it has been a key tool in the creation and expression of cultural change in our lives. It plays significant rules that make our lives has no longer same with our past lives. It also plays important rules in creating a life style and changing cultural orientation. Television gives so many advantages for our lives. It gives so many information and even entertainment to support our daily lives. Television has really become an important household in our lives.

Even though there some statement says that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any senses of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television, I’m not really agree with that. Personally I think that television exactly bring us a lot of benefits. Television has been provided with a reservoir of manufactured common experience in the form of share images, languages and references, even fictional acquaintances that extends to a national, continental, and global scale.

There are so many television advantages. For instance, nowadays almost everybody in developing countries watch television. Even though they have so many busy activities, they still make a time just for watching television. It’s so needed because they require so many input information that television provides. Television gives a lot of information from all over the world. The news programs tell us what happening in the other parts of world. We can know what occur on the world, from the accident, disaster, political situation, economic expansion till cultural alteration. As entertainment resources, television also gives us with full of entertainment. We can see motion pictures or films with our families and relations to increase our relationship. We can listen to some music programs in order to calm our bad feelings. With sport programs, we can increase our adrenaline. It can release our stress after a full day of activities. Quiz and gossip also some of entertainment that television provides to us. And there are still so many advantages that television provides which make our lives better than before.

In conclusion, television has become an important thing in our lives. By stimulating total engagement of the senses, by fracturing reality into multiple points of views and by restoring type value of oral communications, I believe that television plays significant rules that make the world and our lives enhanced.

TV, bad or good

Now days television (TV) becomes primary needs to people. Television becomes one of the fastest communication media in the world. Almost people in the world can waste their time to watch TV, many people has different opinion about television, in my opinion I disagree if TV is dangerous

Firstly, Now days some TV program comes back to their function, to inform, to entertain and to educate. For example, TV give us the latest information not only national events, but also international events, TV is one of the fastest communication media in the world. All news comes from all the world can be informed to people in the world as soon as possible. Some TV program tell us about science for example “National Geographic”, thi8s TV program tell us about life sciences, animals and applied sciences

Secondly TV is one of the ways to relax together. Many people can relax from their activities with watch their favorite program or their favorite film in television with their family. This is also the way to make the family together in one place. They can spend their leisure time to watch TV program or Film with their son, or his wife/her husband, they can discuss about the TV program or they can teach their son together. So this is the way to keep communication between family members

TV also has bad sides, for example TV program expose crime society. it can be watched be childern and make the children do as the crime. TV can make children loose sense of solidarity and their ability communication

In conclusion, although TV has some bad sides but I think television gives us a lot of advantages if we can keep the function of TV.

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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Tanggal 7 April 2008. Tidak ada kelas Academic Writing.

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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.

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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

The Talented Miss Johansson.

In my opinion, Scarlett Johansson is the perfect young actress to be idolized. At the tender age of 23 she has been nominated for four Golden Globe awards and won one BAFTA award. Even though she was still young and the roles she played in her movies are mostly grown-up characters, she was able to act brilliantly. She is a talented actress and she always chose graceful and interesting characters for her roles such as Charlotte in Lost in Translation, that is why her acting career rose up quickly. Besides having a natural acting talent and a pretty face, Johansson also has a good fashion sense compared to actresses nowadays. She rarely received any negative comment regarding her outfits and she has this classic Hollywood style every time she appears on the red carpet, this is why Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, and L’Oreal chose her to be the face of their advertisements. The thing I like about her is this opinion she has about body image, she thought that every girl should love their body whatever shape it is, and that skinny is not necessarily sexy. She also actively supports Barrack Obama far the next United States president which reflects her concern for the future of her country. It is because of all those reasons mentioned above I really like her, she is the perfect example of Hollywood actress having her own views, values, talent, and style, not just another skinny stereotype girl.

Glass Making Process.

Glass, the material we see everyday and has unnumbered uses, is formed by a mix of melted chemicals which will be rapidly cooled later and turn into a solid material. The most common main ingredient in glass-making is silica (SiO₂). Soda (sodium carbonate, Na₂CO₃) and lime (calcium oxide, CaO) are the additional ingredients added to make the glass-making process easier. Soda lowers the melting temperature of the silica from 2300 ˚C to 1500 ˚C and lime was added to improve the glass’ endurance, because soda can make the glass becomes water soluble. These three ingredients are melted inside a furnace at temperatures up to 1675°C to form a molten glass. The process of shaping the molten glass into the final product of glass can be done in several ways. For example the in the process to make plate glass, the molten glass is put on an iron bed and rolled into sheets by an iron roller, then trimmed to remove any dirt or spoilt glass. Another example is the making of bottle glass which uses a bottle-shaped template and removable mould to give shape to the bottle.

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Water tap facility

ITB has facility which called water tap that provides ready to drink water. This facility can be found on every side of campus. Therefore, it can be used by all of the campus community. In my opinion, although water tap is easy to be found, it has several problems related to the usage and composition of the water. Though the water tap can be found on every side of campus, water tap is not available to provide water everytime. Sometimes water is available and sometimes not. Some people don’t care about prohibition in water tap utility beside for drinking, it can’t be avoided that most people use water tap to wash their hands, and in conclusion is wet around the water tap. It’s not good enough for the environment view. Another problem of water tap is the composition of the water. Although the water is ready to drink, many of the students realize that the concentration of metal in the water is considered to be high. It becomes issue that make lots of people prefer not to drink from water tap.

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Audrey Hepburn

To me, Audrey Hepburn is one of the most memorable actress of all time. Who doesn't remember her performance, wearing a black dress standing in front of jewelry store while eating hot dog, in Breakfast at Tiffany's? She's got the look that elegant and sophisticated. Her beauty is timeless. She changed the definition of class and elegance for a generation and the effects can still be seen today. Besides a pretty face, she was a terrific actress. She's been in numbers of successful movies. Her acting talent was amazing. She can play many different roles. A socialite, a nun, a widower, a writer, a princess are some of her roles that she played in her movies. In the early years of her career, Audrey impressed audiences with her performance as Princess Anne in William Wyler's Roman Holiday starring opposite Gregory Peck. Audrey's film debut gave her the Oscar that year for best actress. Soon, other Oscar nominations came to her for best actress in a leading role.

Although she was born to a Dutch Baroness and a wealthy English banker, she never affected. In her later years, acting took a back seat to her work on behalf of children. She became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in the late 1980s. Traveling the world, Hepburn tried to raise awareness about children in need. She understood too well what it was like to go hungry from her days in The Netherlands during the German Occupation. Making more than 50 trips, Hepburn visited UNICEF projects in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. She won a special Academy Award for her humanitarian work in 1993, but she did not live long enough to receive it. Hepburn died on January 20, 1993, at her home in Tolochenaz, Switzerland after a battle with colon cancer. With all the talent and awareness towards children all over the world, I think Audrey Hepburn is a real beauty that not only appears on the outside, but also comes from the inside.

AMERICAN IDIOT

In my opinion, "American Idiot" is one of the best albums ever. This one of legendary punk band from California, Greenday, albums is not only unique but also brings the new idea of making an album in music industry. "American Idiot" is an album that lashes out against the American Government and media, and I think it’s a brave and kind of rebel album that shown they are concern about what happen in their country. Not like the other punk rock bands that usually wrote about love songs in their album. "American Idiot" brings a very interesting album concept by telling a story about a guy named St.Jimmy from the beginning of his aim to took over the world until in the last day in his life that represents American government so that from one song to another song is related to each other. The first single that has same title, American Idiot, was the first Green Day record ever to debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts, and other music charts around the world. "American Idiot" was nominated for seven Grammy awards, and took home one, "Best Rock Album". In August of 2005, Green Day took home 7 Video Music Awards from MTV. So that is why I said "American Idiot" is the best album ever.

The Benefit of Internet in Education

The problem of education in all over the world is the difficultness of access to information sources. Conventional library as an information source is very hard to reach because the number of library is limited. Besides, the quantity of books in the library also limited. We cannot always find the information that we need in library because every conventional library has its own specification.

I think internet can be one of solution to get information easier and cheaper. With internet, we can access information easily in unlimited amount. We can find every topic that we want, like politic, economic, religion, entertain, education, and so on. We can also find information in many types like scripts, pictures, videos, and photos.

Internet can be used in education system especially in university. With this high technology of internet, a lecture doesn’t have to come to the class to give materials. Just by internet, the task or materials will be transferred by blog or email, for example.

The other benefit of internet in education is neglected the distance. When we need the information from expertise in other countries, we can get it soon and easily. We can get in touch with them by all facilities in internet.

Cloning

Although many people give negative opinion in cloning, as long as its purpose is not for “creating” human, I agree with cloning. In my view, cloning plays important rules in human’s life. By cloning, we can produce stem cells which are cells that in the early animal or human embryo differentiate to give rise to all the cell types in the body. Stem cells can be used for medical treatment. Some of human cells like nervous cells, can’t regenerate anymore if it has damaged. But stem cell can differentiate to be a nervous cell. Beside stem cells, cloning also can produce many plants with its superior quality in a short period.