Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Is There a Boundary to Stop Working?

Nowadays, for some people, working have become the number one priority in their life. Age seems no longer become a problem that can stop their ability to make a career. For example, in our country, we can see a lot of politician that still exist in their old age, around 50 until 70. But are they still needed for their job?

In my opinion, there are no ideal age to stop working. Because if we have ability and strength to do one job, we must do it. The limit for someone to stop working when they have weakness in their health that cause them can’t walk their life by themselves. But one think that we must know, creativity is never die.

Erasmus (1516) said that whatever we are, wherever we stay, as far as we alive there still be a chance. That’s make me sure if we have a will and passion to do something, we can through our own limit. Like Shakespeare (1594) said, that willing and passion are the greatest power in this world and they are more precious than money or influence.

One thing that we must always remember, if we still alive, we must give our best to everybody in every activities we do. Washington (1977) ever made a statement that he would never ask about the time he died, but how much kindness he gave in his life. In the end, never ever think about the time, if you can do something now, just do it with your whole heart.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Task 5

Retirement


In general, retirement is the point where the people stops to be employment completely. This happens upon reaching a determined age, which is old enough to do several things. Every single jobs has each way to be retired. First, we quit our job by ourself (personal own). In other hand, some people will be retired by their company. The problem is ‘Which is better, the first or the second one?’

Many politicians, scientists, lawyers, television achors, and professors still work into their 70’s. Meanwhile, some actors, models, athletes, and musicians only work until 30’s. In some case, the same job has different ways. In hospital, doctors whose age are over 65 years old will be retired and replaced by young newcomer. However, if doctors work personally (not in hospital), there isn’t any rule about age retirement.

There are many people who enjoy their power until 80’s. I think the problem is on election and government system. It should be a rule that manage period of politic jobs such as president, governoor, minister and so on. In Indonesia, president who wins the election just has 4 years to be. He or she has to follow the next election if want to retain his or her position.

In the end, I think retirement is free and depends on the employee. Some people will feel better if retire earlier because have have enough money for life after retirement, and the others think different. Maybe they should work until the point that makes them proper and satisfied enough. Having different conditions and reasons , everybody has each rights to decide when they quit their jobs.

Friday, April 25, 2008

When People Should be Retired? (TASK 5)

To stop working and start relaxing and enjoying their life at home for some people is such a big dream to be realized as soon as possible. Others think that spending time at home is a terrible, they prefer working hard to get more and more money to doing anything at home, just watching television or listening to the radio. For the latter, retirement is a bad news as they have to stop working means stop earning money. Countries have tried many ways to solve the problem about age of retirement, but until now, there is little agreement about appropriate retirement age. As in some countries people can work until they reached 60 or 70, in others they can work only until 50 or 55. What should be the best age to retire? That’s a big question to be answered.

“Women should retire faster than men because they do not have strength as many as men have. (Kurniati, pers.comm.)” We cannot generalized all the people (workers) to retire from their job at one specific age, because each job has their specification and qualification themselves for the worker they want. Beside that, everyone have different physical condition and mental condition at one age. A 60-years-old man is able to work as a director of a factory or as a doctor but he cannot do a job as a farmer or porter as their health doesn’t support them.

For some jobs, for example doctor or engineer, the increasing age means the increasing of experiences and capabilities. The older you are, the more you have had. In the other hand, the others like athlete, singer, or driver cannot tolerate the effect of increasing age to your physical condition. You cannot run, sing or drive better at the age of 60 than at the age of 30. There must be some deflection as your age increases.

Some countries still on their own rules that a worker should retire from their job at 55 or 60. The reasons for this rule are “it will be more fair for all the people if they have to stop working at one time” and “it is the best way to open more employment for the next generation”. Indonesia, for example, has decided that the age of 55 is enough for their civil workers to work and they have to retire. But for the other job like a politician or lawyer, Indonesia doesn’t make one rule for the retirement age.

I think we cannot determine one age to be age of retirement, because every people has their own capabilities to work for one job and we cannot generalized them. It will be more fair for everyone if we give the problem about age of retirement to each employee because they are the one knows the best for their employers.

References:
Canfield, Jack et al. (1999). Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul. Deerfield Beach, USA: HEALT COMMUNICATION, INC.
Kurniati, L. (2008). Personal communication. (April 15)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

How To Making Glass Products

Have you ever wonder what the glasses are made of? Or how they are made?
Well, here is the process of making glass. Glasses are made of a mixture of sand, soda and limestone. First, the sand, soda and limestone are put into a big furnace to be heated and melted. Then, the melted liquid is separated into two ways. The first way is to make plate glasses. And the other way is to make bottle glass. In making plate glasses, the liquid is put into big tube with hole on the bottom of the tube. The function of the hole is to pass liquid through the rollers to make it thin and flat. In making bottle glass, the liquid is put into a mould of the bottle. This mould is removable, so after the bottle are cold enough; the mould can be removed to take the bottle. Beside the liquid, the mould of the bottle is also filled with air so the bottle will have a sphere there. That’s how the glasses are made.

Friday, April 18, 2008

a heterogen Jakarta (task1)

jakarta has a very heterogen citizen .for the ethnic and culture.
like as Sundanese from West Java and Javanese dominate.so we will often hear some people calling to his big brother "mas" or "a a".But, sumatrans,minangkabau,and ofcourse betawi are well represented.There is also a significant tionghoa population and arabic community.The tionghoa or chinese population divided into two groups: Peranakans who have indonesian anchestry and Totoks,only Chinese ancestry.
Most people in Jakarta are Muslims. However, Buddhism, Hinduism, and a variety of Christian faiths are also represented.

betawi is the original citizen for the jakarta.called betawi come from batavia, jakarta's name in the era of dutch colonial.But the betawi existence today in jakarta is very apprehensive.they are lost by the other citizen.the most worker in government, manufacturing, and services are not betawi.the businessman,or manager in company also not betawi. perhaps we'll only can see the betawi in the corner of jakarta. because Jakarta is a magnet for migrants from other areas of Indonesia.in my elementary school, from about 40 students in my class, only one person who is the original betawi.and the others is "colonialist".included me, because i am a javanese.

Futsal (task2)

futsal like as football. called futsal came from football and sala in spanyol or portugal.there is two team in one match, one ball,two goals,the field and referee.but it's played indoor,althought that also can be played outdoor but for the formal match is indoor playing.the field also not too wide,only about 40x25 meters.in one team there are about 5 players included one goal keeper.to get a score, the team must put the ball into a goal belong to another team but not by hand.by foot or another bodypart except hand.

the diference between football and futsal is that the futsal is simple.if the football played in 2x45 minutes plus extra time if the score yet shows the winner in several important match, the futsal just need 2x20 minutes.also in futsal, substituting player is no limit.the rule of substituting player like basket ball.the player can out and in for the second playing in one match.Not for football,if the player substituted by other player,he may not play for the second time in the match.and other diference that make futsal more interesting than football.

glass manufacturing (task3)

to make a glass, at least we need there materials.there are sand, soda and limestone.the rasio for these three is depended to the quality that needed.firstly the materials puted in a furnace and then begin to heating.prepare the mould for the glass shape to make a bottle and roller to make a plate. after the materials looked that being a liquid, bring it to the mould and roller appropriate to the measurement.inspect it untill there are not any mistake in the measure or other error.finally the material will be cold and the glass is accomplished.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

television doesn't make people become individualist (TASK 4)

The development of technology has made an invention named television. Television can make us know the news from all around the world within seconds. Besides, television gives us many entertainments such as movies and quizzes. As we all know, television has become very common household appliances in our life now. Almost every people have television in their home because it seems like primary needs. I personally disagree if television stated could make people become individualist.

Firstly, it is impossible for somebody to watch television alone for a long time. We will be tired and get bored as the time goes by. At least if we watch with some friends, we have somebody to discuss with and we will not get bored too fast.

Yet, some people think that television makes people become individualists. Many families have one television each in their own room. This case usually happened because different people means different channel.

However, in other way, television has the opposite effect; there are still families placed the television in their living room. The families can watch it together within sharing about the day they have done. Another example is in the dormitory; the television is placed in the living room too. In dormitory, we need to make a good relationship with others. Television can be the way out because movie or news in television can be something to chat.

In conclusion, television doesn’t make people become individualists. Even though we want to watch different channel with other people, but sure we can tolerate it. And I think there will be no fun at all watching television alone.

Monday, April 14, 2008

making glass (task 3)

Glass is one kind of material which generally used as utensil, for example; plate glass and bottle glass. Actually, making plate glass and bottle glass is not as hard as it seems because there are only several ways to produce them. First, we have to put some basic materials like sand, soda, and limestone into a furnace to melt them. Before we put them all in this apparatus, we need to make the materials in a perfect condition so we can make the best products. When the process in furnace is finish, the mixed material is flowed into two different pipes. The first pipe is to make plate glass and the second is to make bottle glass. For plate glass, we ought to roller it in order to make the shape of the glass is flat. On the other side, we need to mix the last mixture with air to make bottle glass. After that, we put that into removable mould until it hardened. Finally, the plate glass and bottle glass are ready to use.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

How to Make Glassware Product

There are several ways to make a glassware product. One of those processes is a using simple process which only needs several materials. This process called Simple Glassware Production. First, we have to prepare all the materials and equipment we need such as sand, soda, limestone, and furnace. Then, prepare the furnace with high temperature which can melt the materials. After the furnace gets its temperature, put all the materials into the furnace and wait until melting. After that, flow the melting material (liquid glass) troughs the pipeline to the moulding production. And then, put the liquid material to the grilling machine to make it flat. If you want to make a bottle, flow the liquid glass to the bottle moulding production. Flow the liquid glass to the mould and put air to the mould to make a hollow inside the bottle. And finally, wait until the temperature cool down and you can get your glassware product.

Jakarta’s Nice Places

As we know that Jakarta is the busiest and the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta always make people who work and life in, deal with many problems and get stress. Because of that, people who life in Jakarta need entertainment places to get away from their problems for a while. There are many kinds of entertainment places in Jakarta, such as malls, parks, beach, zoo, museums, and theme park. With those entertainment places, people who live in Jakarta can have recreation without going outside Jakarta. They can do the recreation with their family, friends, and also with their couple.

Here are the entertainment places in Jakarta that people can visit. First, there are many malls in Jakarta. Everyone can do shopping or just do the window shopping and there are many kinds of restaurants in a mall. Next is the parks, There are many city park in Jakarta. You can visit Surapati Park, Monas Park, etc. And then you can go to the only one beach in Jakarta, the Marina Beach in Ancol. There, you can do jogging in the morning and watch beautiful scenery of the sea. And, there are good restaurants near the beach. There is also a zoo in Jakarta, The Ragunan Zoo. Ragunan Zoo has many collections of animals and there is a Schmutzer Primate Center the biggest Primate Observatory in Indonesia. And there are many museums such as, Museum Gajah, Museum Fatahillah, etc. that can be visited on weekdays or weekend or you can go to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII). TMII has many museums and parks. It is the most favorite place in Jakarta. And it also has theme park. And the biggest theme park in Jakarta is Dunia Fantasi (Dufan). There are many kinds of games in Dufan. Those are all the entertainment places in Jakarta that can help the people who life in can get away from their problem for a while.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Television: the cursed “magic box”?

As the time passes by, technology has continually grown at exponential level as a result of mankind’s thirst of improvement. However, those sparks of glorious achievements have often blinded us from its dark-side effects. Television would be one of the best examples to describe this issue. As a vital source of information, television has an important role in distributing latest news about the world into your living room. It also helps releasing boredom from our brain with its various kinds of entertainment. Nevertheless, the addictive effect of television has created an imbalance between our needs of leisure and our needs of social interactions.

A television has made the bonds between family members deteriorates. This inevitable condition occurs due to a commonly found chain reactions. A child who just got home from school will automatically turn on the television and watch his favorite movie because he wants a relaxation from the boring school’s matter and needs something to replenish their spirit. Yet after the movie is over, he won’t get up from his seat . Instead, he will search another movie that he doesn’t plan to watch it in the first place. This habit will create a distance within the family since communication was rarely done. This situation seems negligible considering the fact that the family members meet each other everyday. But family isn’t just about the blood bond that connect us or the place that we lived in together. Family is mostly about the love that we share to each other. Obviously, we can’t share that love if we always have our eyes glued to the television. And if this issue doesn’t get a wise solution, the vanished bond between family members will be an unavoidable impact.

Television delivers all of the reality that is happening in all over the globe, including the bad ones. Hedonism, individualism, and materialism, are infamous behavior that is widely known as the ailments of healthy society. Nevertheless, television’s programmes lately exposed the ailments as manners that make a person acceptable in a society. The main effect of this misconduct will influence mainly to the young ones. Children are always wanted to be in the limelight. They will do everything it takes to make them always in that spot, including the bad ones which they’ve learned from the television. If they don’t get a proper explanation of what they have watch from television, they will take it as the suitable behavior to conduct in their life. Furthermore, the worse behavior they’ve learned from television, the worse habit they will perform in society, and the worse character of man they will have in their lifetime.

We all will agree that watching television for recreation is not the problem, considering the fact that we need to take a break from life’s boredom. But the problem lies in its addictive effect, where the television makes us believe that it always has another exciting programme to show. This crippling effect would ruin not only ourselves but also the people around us, especially our own family. For example, watching television while having a family dinner means that we waste our precious time to bond with our family. The other effect isn’t less destructive than the first. It will create an insensitive community which will lead to mistrust and dishonesty among the people. Furthermore, we even could end up in separation of the nation. That’s the reason why a good cooperation between government, community, and the television station should be performed in order to reduce the risk of enjoying entertainment from the magic box.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Television's Power

In this era, electronic devices is closer with our community, especially television. Television has now been our daily schedule that we can’t forget about. People usually never pass their day without watching television. But, does this habitual activity good? Or can bring destruction in social life?

In fact, there are many opinions about television effects, not only the good one, but also the bad one. In my opinion, I disagree to this statement, “television is dangerous because its destroy family life and any sense of community.” As human, we always consider one problem from the bad side and make a lot of criticism. Why don’t we think and see something from the good side and about the advantages? If we see further, television has been made a lot of changes and growth in our social life. From television, we can know a lot about the world, about what’s going on in our society. There are so many information that is very useful for us. We can know about news that is sometimes very important for us. From television, we know about the people that is popular and can inspire humanity. Television can also make unity in one family. At night, a lot of people usually watching programmes in television with their other family’s member and they can discuss anything about that. For children, television can also be one of the media to play and learn about. The parents can have topic to interact and communicate with their children too. For other relationship things, people can bring films or any television programmes into discussion or just chat about that.

Actually, television can make our world become one big family without we relize. Sometimes, we can know a lot about other people without they know about us. That’s one of the information’s power. But, we must remember, if we just receive anything without thinking first, we will stuck and never grow. So, everything, not only television, always have the bad side too. One thing that we must do is become careful and smart person. Well, in the end, it will back to ourselves again, how we see and face problem will determine the success of our life. We must see smart problem with smart thinking.


TV and Its Phenomena

Since it’s firstly establishment in the late 1930s, television has been a huge technological phenomenon. If before, people only can see those within them, now the can see those in other part of the world in live. When we only can hear voices through radio, by using television, moving pictures and sounds can be delivered in once. Despite, millions of television has been sold throughout the world. Almost every house has a television, moreover, in some areas television has been considered as a success symbol. That’s why in this essay, I would like to state some points related the good and bad things of television.

In modern lifestyle, almost every activity related with television. Years ago, before television is sold, children would spend their free time by playing in the garden with their friends and relatives. But now, they would prefer to watch cartoons or even movies. This is what parents considered as a problem. Their emotional relationship with their children has been decreasing since their children spent more time in front of TVs. Parents feel they don’t know their children well anymore. Moreover, parents couldn’t teach good life philosophies to their children. And this would bring a generation which is not based on attitude education.

In the conclusion, we have to realize that as every coins in this world has two sides, there are always be good and bad things towards an issue. In this television and family relationship issue, the best thing is to do is to give understanding to children that TVs are not always good. Also parents have to do their best to make their children emotionally connected with them.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

editted task 4 (Tely)

Television is massively used as an telecommunication system for broadcasting and presenting visual picture with its sound over a distance since 1930's. Technology and modernization have improved tely both of its physic and broadcasted information, including news, film, until reality show. However, some people worry about its progress that causes many bad effects to the audiences.

Generally, we have got so many adventages from invention of television. Important information can be communicated as soon as possible. We know everything happened in other country visually. A lots of advertising are coming one by one creatively. Game show and film entertain us when we feel bored and tired. Unfortunately, Those adventages are followed by dangerous effects nowadays.

I totally agree with that statement. There are so many bad effects especially from tv show. In last few years, TV shows are created creatively in commercial purpose. They are showed in “correct time” by means lots of people will watch it so that they can sell commercial brake with high price. As spectacular tv shows, each of them have unique style that make people who watch it interested and watch every second of that shows. Some people wants to watch their next episode impatiently.

However, many tv shows use bad ways to make people remain in that channel. They usually give rude jokes or sadism that will cause bad effects specially to children (under age). Consequently, children will remember all the stuff and do it someday unconsciously. For example, children or teenagers will leave home directly after have argument with their parents. It is definitely learned from tv shows.

Other bad effect is that we usually controlled by tv shows. For example, my mother like watching drama tv shows named “Cahaya”. It’s showed every day at 7 pm so she will stop doing activities in that time to watch it. Even she would ask my father to go home if my family was going somewhere just for watch that drama serial. Actually, i think this is very annoying. Tv shows are created for entertaining, not for controlling us. As an secondary need, Tv should be used wisely so all of dangerous effects can be prevented.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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Monday, April 7, 2008

Television : Thing That Will Ruin Your Day

In the past decades, television has known to be the part of modern day living since it was created by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884. It was becoming a popular entertainment for every kind of people, since it’s cheap and many things you can get from it. However, beside of the fun and the information you get, of course, it has the one that you won’t like to hear, the bad effects. The bad things I consider here is about the relation to other people, include our family. I believe the bad effects that television causes is important to handle because it may ruin your family if you decide to ignore it.

So let’s back to the past, to the time when television wasn’t existed. The community seemed good at this time. People chatting to others, children spend their days playing with their neighborhoods and sometimes visiting each other just to get a tea and do a chit-chat. Relation between family was out of our imagination, jokes around family, dinner together, talk about politics, going to camp together and other things you can’t get nowadays.

The let’s see our live nowadays, after we had television in our home. People often spend most of their time by watching their favorite program with a popcorn on their side. When they cornered to a decision : interact with others, for example going to a neighbor’s house or watching their favorites TV programs, they often choose the second option. That’s the fact we can get, a television is made you an individual person and destroy your sense of community. However, most people think that you can solve that problems by locating the television in the room that people can gather together, for example, the living room. Even a family had a television living room, it couldn’t solve the problem, because even you were together, your brain is focusing on the television, and because of that you won’t interact with others, especially in another nation (in Indonesia the commercial show time is long so maybe some people do a little chit-chat there) because if you do that, you can miss the storyline of that program you watch.

In conclusion, even though the television had positive effects to your live, you can’ ignore the bad effects, especially the effects to your social communities. Just don’t focusing too much attention in television and interact with other as much as you can is the best way. Do it too much, then wait till the television eat you alive and ruin everything.

Note : Sorry sir for my late post, because i don't know the deadline so I decide to post them all together in one day. Hope you still accept it.

The Glass Making Process

There are several steps must be done to make a glass based items, like plate glasses and bottles. First, we must gather the materials like sand, sodas and limestones then weighting them. After getting the proper weight, we mix and put them into the furnace for melting and refining process. It may take a long time to complete, depend on the type of glass we make and the heat that the furnace can produce. Then after the melting process completed, we begin the refining process. The melted materials then can be created either bottles or plate glasses. To make a bottle, we must put it in some kind of forming machine and blow some air through it, or we can use hand made mould that shaped like the bottle to create the bottle shape. To make the other form, the plate glasses, we will put the melting materials on a roller, which will make the glass flat. After that, we put the bottles or the plate glasses, on a cooling machine to strengthen and cool them down. Then the bottles or the plate glasses are ready to use.

Tablet PC

Tablet PC is a culmination of advances in shrinking notebook hardware and improvements in integrated digitizers as methods of input. It’s actually a book-sized laptop without a keyboard. Instead of keyboard, a digitizer is used to input the data. The digitizer is typically integrated with the screen, and correlates physical touch or digital pen interaction on the screen with the virtual information portrayed on it. A tablet's digitizer is an absolute pointing device rather than a relative pointing device like a mouse or touchpad. A target can be virtually interacted with directly at the point it appears on the screen. It offers portability, accessibility and more natural form of input rather than its brothers, the laptops. But the bad things are the cost is high and the risk to be broken is high too.

Officially, there are three kinds of model (or design) which has known by the world: thin-slates, convertibles and hybrid. Thin-client slates is the lightest, more secure (no data storage on the slate computer)and long life tablet PC (no processor to power) which consist of a touch screen and an integrated wireless connection device. The disadvantages of this model is the limited processing power which is chiefly involved with Input/Output data processing such as video display, network communications, audio encoding/decoding, and input capture (touch screen input, bar code reading, magnetic stripe reading (credit card swipe). Convertibles is just a mere decreased-size laptop (with a keyboard and touch screen), except that its screen can be rotated 180o. The last model, hybrid, share the features of the slate and convertible by using a detachable keyboard that can be rotated, which operates in a similar fashion to a convertible when attached.

Jakarta : The City of Dreams

Do you ever think want to live in a big, glamorous, overpopulated and can-get-everything city? Well, I think you could consider living in my hometown, Jakarta, is the best option. And every one else who came to this city might think the same as you, earn a living and get a better life.

Actually, it’s not bad for thinking that way, but many people who came to this town never get their own dream. Many had became unemployed or just having a lowlife job, such as beggar, maid, and street singer, when a little could be survived and being a rich people. The others just being a unused person, because of their lack of ability, which make the city overpopulated and more crowded in the past decades. Of course, this make another problems, pollution and poverty, which known to be the never-ending problems to the government.

Despite of that kind of trouble in this city, Jakarta is actually a nice city, for some people who had money. The big and tall buildings in the city make a good scenery at night, the living facilities is more than enough, and sure it offers many goodness to people who want to enjoy the living. Overall, I can say “A troubled city which had many good thing if you can survive”.

Does Television Only Entertain Us?

Nowadays, television has become one of the most important things in the society. Most of the family has minimum one television in their home. Even several families have television in each room of their home. But for some reasons, I personally believe that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community.

Television has the effect of making people drawn themselves from the society. Once a family member watches a TV show, he will have his full attention to the television and it will last until the TV show ends. This is encouraged by the fact that some family has one television for each of their family member. For example, if the mother in a family is watching a soap opera in the television, the mother will keep watching the television until the soap opera is finished. While she is watching the television, she doesn’t want to be disturbed by any other family member.

However, television is a cheap way to have an entertainment. In Indonesia, to watch television we only need to pay the electricity bill which is relatively cheap. Besides, there are so many free-public-access TV shows which are considerably good for many people.

In the other hand, this has made many people addicted to television. Their addiction makes them spent most of their time in front of the television, instead of spending time with the other family member. For example, a kid in the family who loves to watch cartoon will spend his time in front of the television every time cartoon is broadcasted on the television which nowadays has become so frequently. This kid chooses to spend his time by watching his favorite TV shows instead of playing with his parents or siblings.


We can conclude that television can be used to entertain a family, but unfortunately it has a bad impact, destroys our family life. It is so obvious that our family life is way more important than entertainment. Television maybe good for some family who already has a strong relationship between its members, but not all family has it. Besides, there are still many ways to have an entertainment which can include all the family members.


Sunday, April 6, 2008

Does Television Really Give Bad Impacts to Our Family Life?

I personally disagree with the statement saying that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community. Below I state the reason to support my opinion.

Television has been the number one entertainment since it was first invented. However, there are always arguments whether tv should be considered good or bad. Despite all the yelling parents do at their children for watching television for too long, it was actually their faults to provide the children that sort of entertainment. It can’t be avoided, the fact that almost everyone has at least one set of television in their houses. According to Federal Communication Commission statistic, 98.2% of American own a tv set. In advance, even another statistic done by Redwood Empire Public Television says that 99% of homes in the Unites States have a set of television, and 88% have more than one. From the fact above, we can say that television has been there, has always been there.

People love watching television for some reasons. Whatever are shown in the television pretty much satisfy their dreams of the unreal lives. Drama about the perfect guy meeting a perfect barbie – who can actually find those kind of stories in real life? It might give several bad impacts on the society, but it would not destroy family life or any sense of community. In this modern age, human kinds are no longer to be fooled by such things. If there were anyone to be blamed, it would be the audience. Humans are the ones with brains, senses, and choices. Everybody always has choices whether to do or not to do certain stuffs. After all, real life always calls back, waiting, and surely much more demanding than the television. A mother, however, can’t keep watching tv while her baby is crying. It might be a different case for kids, but they are kids. Kids are supposed to not care about what people say because they need to survive the peer pressure. Nevertheless, kids have no idea about the importance of family. In the end, as we always now, it has always been the real life. One cant choose to live in a story.

So, from the elaboration I wrote above, we can tell that television may raise many impacts, the good or the bad ones. But as human beings, the ones with the talent to think, it is our job to manage and to choose in life; is it us going to be controlled by life and its circumstances, or is it us who are going to be the controller of this life. Thus, family life and any sense of community won’t be destroyed unless we, the humans, want to.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Task3 Glassmaking Process

Glassmaking Process

Glass is one of many technologies that helps human throughout the times into the digital era. From lightbulbs to Hubble Space Telescope lens, the glass plays an important role in mankind history. Nobody really knows who invents it first. But traditional glassmaking process is a knowledge that has been widely spread nowadays.
The basic ingredient of glass is silica, a silicon based sand. After preparing the material, the next step would be heating it in the furnace until it turns liquid. You should note that because of its high melting point, melting silica would be a fuel consuming activity. Adding a proportional catalyst soda would be a solution in order to make it easier to melt. After the molten silica has formed, it will be distributed along a metal pipe to separate places, depending on what kind of glass you want to create.
If glass plate is the model that you want to create, then it would be transported into a pressing machine. This machine would convert its shape into a flat-shaped glass. On the other hand, if you want to create a glass bottle, then you’ll need a slightly more complicated steps. The molten silica is poured into a mould that has been designed depends on the shape of the bottle that we want, then you carefully blow air into the mould. And after a few moments, the bottle is ready to be filled with your favourite drinks.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

The Dangerous of Television

I am honestly agree with statement that said 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. I have many reasons for my agreement, from my experience in position as technology user and family or community member.

As technology user, I think television is one of the biggest inventions by human. It broke through the limit of time and space and started the information era by its capability of sending audiovisual information. Television is a public communication tools and it can be medium for culture trading. Thus, it can alter culture in a nation, generally in human life, slowly but sure and it has. It can be happen because of the television position and function now which is a politic, commerce, education, and of course communication tools. There are so much people with their own business in television existence because television is the best instrument to influent people in the way of think. For example, to make people respect to a man is easily can be done by showing the “fine” profile that maybe hide his original characteristic. It has done when our ex-president Mr. Soeharto past away. Furthermore, television is employing in commerce with biggest proportion. We can look that every 10 minutes or even just 5 minutes in every television channel, there are commercial breaks with many advertisements. It seldom when we find a television program with no commercial break. So to fulfill the company advertisements, all channels are competed to attract people to watch their program. They will show program even it will ruin people. As a result is people like television so much and there are a lot of television addicts.

In a family, at least there is one television in their house which is used to educate, inform, and entertain all family members. But, the television condition nowadays has raised many effects and problems. It never happen if it used properly in right time and in right proportion, but majority of television users don’t do it, included me. Sometimes in my leisure, I feel so lazy to go outside and do anything except to watch my favorite television shows and programs in my room or living room. Television has poisoned me and even I often forgot to do my task or job when watching television, it has really spent my time a lot. Now I’m trying to change my habit with making myself busy in any beneficial thing except watching television and I think it works, although sometimes I miss my television in my cozy time. Now I just watch several certain programs like news and events highlight because I need the information about the world and things that just happen, so I am up to date with this world condition.

So we can conclude that in many cases television is dangerous, but we still need it and if we use it properly, we can take benefit from television existence. Everything that will happen is depending to us as technology user and family member off course.

Television : A Multi-function Stuff

Nowadays, television is one of the most important electronic stuffs. Almost all of the houses have this thing in them. Television, which we also know as TV, in a house give a very big contributive to the community inside. Besides information that we get from, we can also learn many things from it.

Television can either entertain or give us many information. Some movies or serial movies are shown in television. Those who have interests in education can spoil themselves by watching quiz show. The sport mania can watch their favourite player or team play from the TV. As one of the communication media, we can know the latest hot news as soon as possible. No wonder if the location is very far away, we can get it also. What new technology is launch or will be launch can be known from television. Almost all of the information can we get through TV.

In a family, TV will be a multi-function media. Besides as an educational media, TV also can make a family become more intimate. The members of the family will discuss about the TV shows. For examples, when the mother is watching the Chinese Channel, the children will ask about the conversation. The language skill of the child will increase slowly and slowly. Besides, the relation between the mother and the children will be better from time to time.

However, some people claim that television will be harmful. People will spend all of their time watching TV. As a result, they will be individualist and have problem in comunicating with the people outside or even with their families themselves.

In conclusion, televison must be used wisely. TV have big advantages for its users. It is a very effective electronic stuff that have multi-function. TV can provide a harmonic family and even a disorderly family. The problem is that the users must devide their time well. Otherwise, they can be indivual people.

MAKING A PLATE GLASSES AND BOTTLES (Task 3)

The process of making bottles and plate glasses has several steps. Plate glasses and bottles have different shapes but they are made from the same materials. We need three materials to make bottles and plate glasses, they are sand, soda and limestone. The most important material in this process is sand. We also need tools like furnace, mould resemble bottle and plate glass, and roller. First, the materials were entered into the furnace. Then the furnace is set on fire in order to mix the materials. The furnace is set on high temperature to get a good result. This result is used for making bottles and plate. The process of making bottles and plate has a different method. To make plate glasses, the result that we get from first process is entered into roller. In this process, the materials were rolled like plate glasses. Then we wait the plate glasses until it becomes solid stated. To make bottles, the result that we get from first process is entered into the mould. The mould is made from wood or iron. The mould can’t be made from substance which can mix with the materials. The mould has the same shape like bottle. Then we wait until it becomes solid stated. Finally we can use them.

Is television really dangerous?

Television used to be one of the luxurious things that only can be had by several communities. But, nowadays, television is the common things that can be found in any community. The present of television has given a significant effect especially for social life. Unrecognizably, television destroys family life and any sense of community.

Television has taken almost all of the time we have. We usually only take our seat and enjoy television program along the day. We just watch and we rarely go outside our home to say “hi” or visit our neighbor. They lose their attention with their surroundings.

It’s not only about our relationship to another people. Even, television can harm our relation with our family. Every day, all of the family member spend their time with activities. Then, we only have very little time that can be spent with our family. Unfortunately, in that little time we just watch television without spend our time to visit people or talking with our family. As a result, family relationship became far apart. There is no warm family condition anymore. Even as, any quarrel that can happen cause of arguing about television channels.

Originally, how we use television decide how television affects our life. If we use television in a right way, we can avoid all the negative effects from television. For example, by watching television together with our family we can talk to each family member more intensive. We can enjoy our leisure time with our family. Isn’t it really worth? Furthermore, we can discuss each other then understand each other too. This can make our house full of warmth.

In conclusion, 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. But, we can minimize it if we really know how to use television wisely. Use television carefully, wisely, and effectively is the key to avoid any social damages that emerge from using television.

Football

FOOTBALL (task 2)

Football, which game played by two teams on a rectangular field, in which players attempt to knock the ball through the opponents’ goal, using any part of the body except the hands. Generally, players use their feet and heads as they kick, dribble, and pass the ball toward the goal. One player on each team guards the goal. This player, the goalkeeper, is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while it is in play. Each team has eleven players. The game lead by 3 referees, one of them lead in the field and the other become linesmen. The referees have rightful authority if a player make mistakes even referee can give a red card for player. It means the player must leave the game.

Football has few rules and requires little equipment. All that is needed to play is an area of open space and a ball. Much of the world's football is played informally, without field or real goals. In many places, the game is played barefoot using rolled-up rags or newspapers as a ball. Soccer is the world's most popular sport, played by people of all ages in about 200 countries. The sport has millions of fans throughout the world.

The Federation International Football Association (FIFA) is the worldwide governing body of soccer. FIFA governs all levels of soccer, including professional play, Olympic competitions, and youth leagues. The organization also governs the sport’s premier event, the World Cup, an international competition held every four years pitting national teams from 32 countries against one another.

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Television, Is It Good or Bad?

Nowadays, television is electrical media which is most liked by so many people almost all over the world, including in our country. To get television is not as difficult as in the past. But, the effect of television can not be neglected, both positive effect and negative one.
In my opinion, no matter how entertaining, television gives some bad influences for people for a number reasons. First, television takes our previous time. Based on Survey less than 25%, parents believe that their children waste more their time to watch television. Beside that, television spoil audience with programs which can make some people forget to do activities. For another reason, television frequently show which full of violence, crime, and hardness. Of course, It is not good for children at all. Television also reduce time for family, because some children and adults prefer watching television than gathering with family.
On the other hand, It can not be denied that television also gives positive side for us. Television can speed up communication among people. For example, there is tsunami happened in Aceh several years ago, almost all people in the world can know about it quickly. In addition, television can give us a great number of educations and knowledges. We can know many changes and development in other side of the world from watching television.
In conclusion, because of not all television program is good for us, we must be selective to choose the right show. It is much better to watch qualified and recommended programs which give advantages for us.

Does Television Create Individualist People?

Television is one of electronic media that give us both information and entertainment with audio-visual view. It broadcast a lot of types of programs from various television stations. Unfortunately, the completeness of programs that television station offer can make people spend their time to watch television rather than visiting people or talking with other family members. People will become more individualist. In other words, people will lack any sense of community.


Various television programs could give the viewers satisfaction in fulfilling their needs to know the recent news and relax their mind. By watching news programs, people will think that they have received all the recent issues and events that happening around the world. So they don’t need to ask anyone about how’s the world today. After that, by watching entertainment programs, such as television series, music show, etc., people are cheerful enough and find a way to make their selves happy and forget their problems. Accordingly, they will think they don’t need to chat with friends anymore to make them relax; turning on television is solving the problem. The satisfaction that television give make people feel that they could live alone.


Moreover, people have different taste of television programs they like. This difference also can make people argue with the others. For example, in a family, father choose news programs to watch in 6 pm, while his daughter wanted to watch television series that she have waited for a week ago. It’s possible that the daughter will plead for her parents to buy her a personal television. That case shows that people could become individualist, just because they want to have privacy in watching the programs they like most. They nearly don’t care about the others want. They only think about satisfying their selves.


On the other hand, watching television won’t form individualist people, if they just watching it occasionally and think that watching television just one of so many way to relax their mind. They also think that communicate with friends or other people is an important thing to do.


In conclusion, watching television occasionally and still keep in touch with other people won’t affect anything in our social communication. But, if we are too addicted to television, it’s not impossible that in a short time, we will become more individualist.


Whose Finger is on Today?

Who does not know television now? John Logie Baird must be so proud because his invention has changed the world totally in almost every aspect – as the sign of wealth, stylishness, showbiz and entertainment, port of news, and many more. But some people claim that this breakthrough has perils to us, its loyal watchers as it perverts us from our normal life – our daily activities and social life. Is it true?

On one hand, it might be true for houses which only have one set of television. Nowadays there are so many TV stations giving wide range of programmes. Thus, the feuds over who has the power to control which programme is going to be watched are usually inevitable among households. Besides, some people become virtual recluse and insolent that they squander all of their times with just sitting front of it.

On the other hand, several years ago television was actually a magnet which could gather people from a region to watch it together. This is because it was not so common those days. Whilst enjoying the show, in the break we can have a chit-chat, talk about the programme and get along with other people. Furthermore, the information contained in television, whether about film stars, soap operas, stop press news, and so on are also a great supply of our daily topic that make us become updated in our social life.

In conclusion, I believe television is not that insidious. This means that it really depends on us as watchers, do we choose to be a couch potato or regard it as just a kind of entertainment and source of news to refresh our minds from daily routines instead of making it our useless routines. We are the pilot of our planes, are not we?

The Process of Making Glass

Have you ever wonder how bottle glasses you used for drinking everyday are made? Or the glass in your window’s house is made? Well, it is not as complicated as you think. Firstly, the three main ingredients consisting of sand, soda, and limestone are mingled in a special heater called furnace. After that, this mixture is streamed into two different paths, one is going-to-be-bottle glass, and another is plate glass-to-be.

During the process of making bottle glasses, a small amount of the mixture is put into a replica of a bottle made of mould. Previously, the replica has been hollowed into a shape of a bottle. Subsequently, some air is pumped into it, so that the mix spreads evenly. After the mix becomes hard, the mould is removed and the bottle glass is ready to be used.

A bit different with making bottle glasses, in making plate glass the mixture is placed to a special place similar a box. It has a hole in its bottom in order to flow the mixture between some rollers located zigzag and facing each other. Beforehand they have been set in a distance which later becomes the thickness of the plate glass. Finally, the result of the plate glass arrives on the top of a special pad and ready to be delivered to shops.

My Beloved Hometown

You might ever hear about this proverb: out of sight, out of mind. But it doesn’t ring right for me. It doesn’t portray my feeling towards my hometown, Surabaya. On the contrary, the more distant I am from it, the more magnetic it is for me.

I have spent my whole life there – I was born and brought up there – yet I didn’t have any prudes about it. I always envisaged myself to live happily in another city, naming Medan or Singapore. I used to loathe Surabaya as its weather was immensely sunny and hot, as if it was going to burn your skin and made you become a skin cancer prone. Besides, I was so jaded with my surrounding because I was always sent to the same school with more or less the same peers since I was at kinder garden school. Therefore, I was so blissful when I knew I would move to Bandung to continue my education. It was like being released from behind bar.

I have been away for almost a year. But as the time flies and miles of distance separate us, I changed my opinion towards it gradually. Now I realize I do miss it much. I even yearn for going home at times. I notice it has imparted loads of lovely things to me – my thick Javanese accent, great education and other priceless memories and friends. So, now I love it as the way it is, including its frigging hotness!

The Process of Making Glass (task 2)


Glass is one thing that we can see everyday, we even use it in form of glass, plate and many more. But have you ever wondered how it is made? I haven’t either until I get this task. Now, let’s see the process, so we all know the process.
First of all, the main ingredient of glass that consist of sand, soda and limestone is mixed and put in the furnace. After that, the mixture is heated on 1500 °C until it become melted glass. Before the mixture is heated, pieces of glass can be added to make the process faster. After a couple time the melted glass will become cold slowly and form like thin sticky candy. Then that thin sticky glass could be procesed into two forms. The first one is processed to become plate glass. The thin sticky glass is put under roller so it become plate and thin enough.This kind of glass is like what we use for house and other building. The second one is processed into bottle glass. The thin sticky glass is poured into removeable mould. Then the air is blown into the removeable mould that formed the glass like the common bottle we always see. After it hard enough, the bottle is released from the mould. The last process is to make the bottle cold by watering it. Finally the bottle is ready to be used.

The Controversy of Television to A Family Life ( Task 4,Revision)

Television is the most popular mass media in social life. It influences many society included a family. The television can change a family’s habits and behavior. In my opinion, I agree 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.

Television can break the relationship among the family member. Family always has time to gather in. This activity is used to share many things that will build a good communication among the family member. Since television enters the family life, this condition changes. We like spending a lot of time to watch television better than talking to others. In fact, it makes less communications to family member. As a result , the family’s relationship is wide apart. For some people, it is more enjoying having dinner while watching television than gathering in dining room. Actually dinner time is an appropriate time to talk with family members. Another case that we often struggle with family member to watch our favorite program. This is the proof that television has consumed our attention from building a good family relations.

Some people sure that television have brought a lot of benefit to family life. Television is all in one media that provide many programs in one media called TV. In their hope, one of those programs become the most favorite, so they can stay together to watch. Beside that, they think television is useful to socialize positive norm in our community.

In fact, television also can change family’s personality. It might be true that television is a media of education, but are those programs educated especially to a family?. When we talk about television, we will also talk about its programs, because it is all one packaging. Instead, the television programs have reduced our moral. For example, nowadays sinetron is more focussed to the violence scene such as slapping or kicking parents. Without our awarness, those scenes will be acted by us. We become more rude to people notably to our parents. Beside that, television causes the consumptive pattern in family life. A family is easy influenced by the commercial break whose company over promoted their product.

In conclusion, although television become our primary need, we must concerned about its impact in our family life. The television’s impact is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community. It is wise way to lessen the frequency of watching television. The family ought to adjust the watching time of television. They must set the time for gathering with all of the family member to mend relations .

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Eclipse - An Astronomical Event

Many people have interest in talking about astronomy, and one of their conversation subject in astronomy is eclipse. An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when there is a linear arrangement between a star, such as the Sun and two celestial bodies, such as a planet and its moon. There are two kinds of eclipse divided by their arrangement position, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse.

Solar eclipse occurs at noon, when the Sun should be lighting up the Earth. Instead, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that some area of the Earth doesn't get light from the Sun because of the Moon. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth.

Lunar eclipse occurs at night, when the Moon should be reflecting light of the Sun to the Earth. Instead, the Moon passes through some area of the Earth's shadow so that the Moon doesn't get light of the Sun. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned with the Earth in the middle. Hence, there is always a full moon the night of a lunar eclipse.

Task 4 Opinion

I totally agree with that statement. In last few years, TV shows are created creatively in commercial purpose. They are showed in “correct time” by means lots of people will watch it so that they can sell commercial brake with high price. As spectacular tv shows, each of them have unique style that make people who watch it interested and watch every second of that shows. Some people wants to watch their next episode impatiently.

However, many tv shows use bad ways to make people remain in that channel. They usually give rude jokes or sadism that will cause bad effects specially to children (under age). Consequently, children will remember all the stuff and do it someday unconsciously. For example, children or teenagers will leave home directly after have argument with their parents. It is definitely learned from tv shows.

Other bad effect is that we usually controlled by tv shows. For example, my mother like watching drama tv shows named “Cahaya”. It’s showed every day at 7 pm so she will stop doing activities in that time to watch it. Even she would ask my father to go home if my family was going somewhere just for watch that drama serial. Actually, i think this is very annoying. Tv shows are created for entertaining, not for controlling us.

task4

I don’t agree with the statement which say that television can separated tehe family life or reduce the level of sociality. I think, relationship is all about ourself only. Even tough we have a thousand job that make us must love alone in twenty hour, we can use the four hour to socialize. If we destroy all the television in the world, soon we will get the new gadget that will make us far away from communication with other. About, our relationship and interaction with other always depend only to how we can manage it. A lot of family can only communicate about television program which they saw together before. Because all of the person has different world actually. And we know better that people on MAnchaster United Fans club can be solid after they saw the game on TV.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Succinct Way of Making Glasses

In fact, the process of making glass is simple enough. Some kinds of glasses are plate, bottle, mirror, aquarium and so on. We’ll explain the way of making two kinds of them. Plate glass and bottle glass are good examples. In a principle manner, the way of making plate and bottle glass is the same. The difference is their advance step. First, mix the sand, soda and limestone. Then, the mixture of these substances is put into the furnace. Wait till the substances reach a certain tempereture. After that, we’ll determine the products. If we want to make plate glass, we pour this mixture into a container. Then it will be stream through a roller in order to make the surface smooth. In the other hand, we pour the substance into a mound to make bottle glass. Wait until they become solid. Finally, remove the solid glass from the mold. The products are ready to be commercialized.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Glass Making - Task 3

Glass is an innovation that now has been a vital entity in our life. The glass making itself consists of some steps. Here are the steps that must be followed to make glass.

The compound that is used in glass making consists of sand as the main component, added with soda ash, limestone, and feldspar. Firstly, we have to make sure that the compound we are using is already in powder form. Secondly, we put all the compound into a furnace to be mixed and melted at temperature of 1700oC.

The third step is to mold the molten compound. From the furnace, the compound is distributed through two different channels to reach two different ends. The first one is ended at a temporary storage to temporary keep the molten compound for the later plate glass making, and the second one is ended at a removable mold to make bottle glass. These two ends use different glass making method. While plate glass making is simply done by pressing the mold with an automatic rolling pin to make it flat and thin, bottle glass making uses a merely more complicated method. Once the removable mold is filled with the glass compound, we have to blow it until we have the certain shape and size, and reheat the half-done bottle glass until it is hard and solid.

After that, we already can have some additional processes, such as coloring, polishing, and coating done to the bottle and plate glass we have. Finally, now the plate and bottle glass are officially ready to be marketed.

Saxophone - Task 2

Saxophone is a musical instrument that is part of woodwind family. However, nowadays it is usually made of brass instead of wood, and plated with gold or silver plating to protect the brass from corrosion. Saxophone basically consists of the reed, the body, the holes and the bell. It is played with a single-reed that is made of rubber, plastic, bamboo or metal. The body of saxophone is a conical tube with its bell flaring at the tip of the body. Along the body, there are 20 to 23 holes of varying size. These holes are covered with pads in order to airtight seal the holes when the player are playing certain notes. Saxophone’s bell is uniquely formed in U-shape and nowadays has been the icon of saxophone.

Basically, there are two designs of saxophone body; the straight one, which is used by the higher-pitched instruments, such as soprano saxophone that is played in B-flat key; and the bent one which is used by the lower-pitched instruments, such as alto, baritone, and contra-bass saxophone that are played in E-flat key.