Sunday, April 22, 2012

Why Some Women Choose the Wrong Man Time and Time and Time Again-Norment L

The excerpt ‘Why Some Women Choose the Wrong Man Time and Time and Time Again’ is an exhilarating exposition on the reasons of women who are repeatedly fall for wrong man. These women are probably not realize that they always get attracted for same kind of man, which are similar types of man from their previous relationships. Apparently, these women have been in distress relationships in the past even some of them refuse to realize it.

The author believes that females who are constantly choosing the wrong man are possibly to have not very good family history. This problem may relate to the females’ childhood or their relationship with their father. Women also tend to believe that they have power in the relationship. They feel they can change the man and have the ability to control the relationships and others’ behavior. As the society believe women are responsible in maintaining the harmony on the relationship or marriage, women only see their priorities which mean, they lean to constantly search for the wrong quality of man. These weak sex seems to get confuse in searching on what quality they should look for in a relationship. Moreover, some females who are fear of being alone also make this problem occur. Females seem to not achieve what they want in a relationship thus they are afraid to lose the bad relationship.


In conclusion, in order to choose the fit partner, women themselves also must know explicitly about what they really want in a relationship, as a woman and as a person. Even some of the women may experience different hardship during relationship, they must assess and make an effort to be better so women will have the ability to correct their mistakes from previous relationships and directly appreciate their capabilities and accept their own weakness. Apparently, both women and men have to learn from their past and achieve mutual understanding and concern to work out in a relationship.



Saturday, April 21, 2012

Euthanasia-Mercy Killing

Euthanasia is the intentional termination of a very sick person to ease them from their illness. It also can be define as mercy killing or good death to relieve ones suffering. Euthanasia may ease the process of patient’s death but there are more disadvantages of euthanasia for the sufferer. 

This mercy killing may help to reduce the pain suffered by patients who undergo both mental and physical pain but it also will make patients feel euthanasia is the best way to end up their suffer thus against God’s will and undermines society’s respect towards the purity of human life. In addition, the patients may rely too much to doctors to end up their life. 


In Al-Quran, Surah An-Nisaa’ verse 29 stated that all forms of suicide and any action to kill another is forbidden. Thus, ones should evaluate the pro and contra of euthanasia in religion teaching and towards our society not only for the sanctity of life but also because we are valuable for ourselves.                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Its Not How Good You Are,Its How Good You Want To Be-Paul Arden

Paul Arden, a former creative director for Saatchi and Saatchi who was responsible for some of the great campaigns of British advertising has wrote a topic on how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life in his first book, ‘Its Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be’. This review will explain those who not perform well in their study also can success in life.


What people learn at school?
School is the medium for people to learn new knowledge and language with variety of learning methods. Schools tend to focus on academic subjects for the students such as learning known facts and searching answers for variety of unknown mathematical problems. Apparently, the more they can remember and solve, the better they will perform at their school. These make the people must have full understanding and expert in all the academic subjects in order to pass the grades and of course, to not make their parents angry.

From Arden’s opinion, those who fail at school are not interested in facts; or the facts itself are not put to them in a way they find interesting. Its does not mean that these people are stupid, they maybe do not have a great faculty for memory, do not have the ability to remember too many facts and their imagination has not been fired up by academic tuition.  

Can people who not perform better in their school or college success in their life?
People assumed that those who are not perform well in their study will not success in their life afterwards but, there are some famous people who did not go and performed well in their study success in their life.

Henry Ford, who started one of the largest automotive manufacturing companies in world which is Ford Motor Company has never graduated high school. Ford was listed as one of the most influential people of the 20th century as being car manufacturer.

Bill Gates, the richest person in the world that has been listed 27 times by Forbes magazine is a college dropout. Then he devotes his energies to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his friend, Allen.


Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful-Paul Arden

Monday, April 2, 2012

The Sunny Side of Smut-Moyer M.W

Melinda Wenner Moyer, a freelance science writer based in Brooklyn, New York and frequent contributor to Scientific American Mind has wrote her opinion on the good effects of pornography as it prevent from violence acts. This review is based on her article The Sunny Side of Smut.



Smut or pornography can be defined as the visualization of erotic behavior such as animation, picture, sound, book or body gestures to cause sexual reaction. Apparently, pornography gives negative influences to humans’ relationship with others, society and within human itself. Pornography addiction seems to cause relationship problems (Arkowitz and Lilienfeld, 2010). Besides, some people worry that pornography addiction might cause violence against women. A study shows that terms relating to porn are by far the most commonly search-for terms in the internet search engines; which millions of people do searches related to porn industry everyday.



But, believe it or not a recent research shows that moderate pornography consumption does not make users more aggressive, harm relationships and people might less likely to commit sexual crimes. Dr. Neil Malamuth and Milton Diamond who conducted separate studies on the possible effects of pornography on both males and females found evidence contrary to their study. Malamuth indicated that the respondents who viewing pornography give benefits to their sex lives, attitudes towards sex, their perceptions and attitudes towards opposite sex and towards life in general. In fact, it is proven that there is no link between pornography in a culture or a society with the rate of sex crimes as it seems that when pornography is readily available sex crimes either it remain steady, or decrease.



In a nutshell, wheather pornography brings positive or negative effects to the viewers, it have little to do with the medium itself and everything to do with the person viewing it. Thus, people have to make their own decision to give the best for themselves. 

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Are you a Romantic or a Libertine?-Peck M. S

Dr. Morgan Scott Peck was born on 23 May 1936 in New York City was an American psychiatrist who focused his work on reassessing certain human conduct in social interaction. From the excerpt Are you a Romantic or a Libertine from his best-known book, The Road Less Traveled, Peck wrote his opinion on the feeling of love between human being and is this mutual attraction a real love and romance or just for manipulating the romantic code.


Love and romantic


Love is not something that can be simply defined as everyone has their own believe on how to define love. Based on the excerpt, love is a feeling of affection, fondness towards an individual. As love is hard to define, people can only feel love as a symptom and feeling of fondness and affection, with strong longing to be with someone or something that they loved. Yet, love also may come based on unexpected and insensible feelings that one has over another person.  

Romantic can be defined as a common sense of attraction in the love affair. Romantic is necessary to begin the feeling of affection between lovers. Romantic is something that the lovers can give to convince and attract their beloved to be mutually attracted. Romantic is needed in one relationship to show appreciation, to impress and definitely, to establish a relationship.


Libertine
This type of person use love to attain their needs and personal delight. The Libertine totally has no concern about their beloved’s feeling and they only put their personal feeling first. Libertines have the ability to manipulate and trick their target, and have effective strategies and tricks to persuade and exploit them. 



Eventually, people will experience being in love and they will decide whether it is meaningful or a bad luck for them.

We do not have to love. We choose to love-M. Scott Peck




Monday, March 12, 2012

The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew-Goodell J

Jeff Goodell who was born and raised in Silicon Valley is an American author, an editor at Russian literary journal and a technical writer at Apple. He graduated from University of California in English and has MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. From the article The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew, he wrote his opinion about the inside look of Steve Jobs, a technology visionary. 



The inside look of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was remembered as the man who brought the greatest invention to human’s digital world and he turn out to be one of the greatest visionaries of our time. However, did he become a great human in his personal life similar to his professional life?



Those who worked with him and knew him closely would described him as harsh, unapologetic person and he had a cruel management of driving his employees to satisfied is own needs and satisfactions in works.  

As the Apple ascended, Jobs fully changed. He became more hot tempered and he treating people around him badly. Jobs denied his paternity when his longtime lover, Chrisann Brennan gave birth to his daughter, Lisa. He refused to provide any financial help to Chrisann and he became a distant father to Lisa. He continued to be stubborn and deny paternity until it was confirmed by a DNA test.

Jobs was a perfectionist and demanded perfection and originality in every detail. He only believed in himself and he was the only one who was right in all situation and decision. Consequently, he was fired in 1985 because he hijacked a team that was working on another project to create the first Macintosh computer.



Because of the company's own desperation, he was brought back to the company even he was still felt indignation with what happened at Apple. Eventually, he felt even bitter when his old enemy, Bill Gates was on his way to becoming the richest man in the world because of the operating system that Microsoft has modeled on the Macintosh.




We may not know the real Steve Jobs before reading the Goodell’s article and even after reading it. But, even how bad he was before, he was the one who recognized as the charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and electronics fields, that benefits the mankind.