Entry #11: Experience about blogging

Writing is always a hard subject for me. Actually, when I was in secondary school, I used to be a good student at writing, I even got the second prize at literature competition. But when I went to high school, writing is not my strange anymore and believe me, I don’t know why neither. I know this could be a weakness because in the future, I must write a lot, I have to write for applying scholarship, I have to write for applying a job. So, I know that I should improve this situation. If I’m not good at writing, I can be fallen behind. At first time when I tried to blogging, I was so annoyed and really want to give up, two blog a week plus one essay every two weeks consumed almost my time. But, I still have to write, unless I’ll be failed the course, and that is not good at all. Moreover, I want to bring back my “glory”. So, I just keep writing. People said that sometimes the unexpectable lines make a work of art. The importance is you have to make a move, give an effort, don’t just stand at the same place. Gradually, I realized that writing is not that bad, otherwise, it is interesting. Blogging is learning. Albert Einstein used to say: “If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. So, when you write about any random topic, you make yourself learn, research to have a certain knowledge about that topic, thus you have information to talk and share that information to the other people. By this, you will learn more things while you are blogging. Besides, writing helps me improve my writing skill and grammar. This also expand my relationship, encourage me meeting and talking to people who has the similar idea about something.

As an assignment, I think blog is a good way to help students practice their writing. Because this is considered another platform of social media, it uses for sharing users’ thinking and pictures of daily life or any other topic that users want to talk about or share. So, in this environment where is similar to what they are using for entertainment, students will feel more comfortable to write about a topic that is given. And somehow, this will make their writing better. 

Entry #9: Farming crisis

          Even though in America, there’re plenty of food which are cheap and good spread throughout the country for people’s consumption, but the truth is the country which has the economy leads the world is facing farming crisis and suffering the unsecure food. How can it be possible? Well the reasons lead to this consequence is numerous. Firstly, as the circumstance, the increasing number of crisis of US now is because of the overly reliance to foreign sources of food. The trade deal like North American Trade Deal Agreement has removed almost the tax on goods coming to US from Canada And Mexico. Therefore, American obviously choose the source of food which is not only good but also cheaper than domestic foods. This is understandable that American farmers will gradually give up farming because they have no benefits anymore, maybe only older generation who has sticking with farming for long time could stay, but this is very rear. According to “Is America Facing farming crisis?”, there are only 6% of farmers are under the age of 35.

          Secondly, the condition for young people who wants to develop in agriculture is still limited. According to Ackoff, the national field director, young people who wants to develop a farm facing to a lot of obstacle, such as lacking farmland, money to succeed. Moreover, the agriculture graduated student yearly is more than the labor that the industries needed. And if the government is not doing anything to attract them, these student will not stay with this major. Comparable to China, the number of their farmer is almost equal to the the population of US. 

          Finally, if there's no one who replaces the retire-generation, the US could probably fall into the farming crisis in the recent years. 

Entry #7: Animals’ life inside industries

I’m always so censorious with what I eat daily because I’ve seen many videos and read a lot of information about how the foods are made such as the farmer put a plenty of pesticides to make their vegetables look good with a beautiful color to fool the customers’ visual, make them believe those veggies are good, but actually it’s not, at all. Or to make livestock fatten and to be more benefited, they could cruelly inject chemical into animal and don’t care either about animals’ or consumers’ health. I don’t mean that all farmers or industries is doing that, but the truth is the number of people who risks their customers’ health to make money is not small. After watching video “Fresh”, I certainly sure about those. The tone of the video is kind of going to the negative side of the issue but we must admit that is the true and it is happening. The way farmers treat animals which are customer’s foods is not carefully, this is sympathetic, because they have numerous animals to take care of, it would not be like taking care of our pets, that is of course. But too negligent like what’s shown in the video is unacceptable. They could even feed living cows by unclean food like dead cows just to save money and putting aside the safety of the consumer. This video also tells the audiences the consequences of doing and eating those. I think the purpose of this video is warning people who doesn’t care about what they eat or just eat whatever convenient that what they’ve eaten could be a pathogen of some serious diseases and affects directly to their health to think carefully before they eat something. Or how significant of knowing the origin of food they are going to consume. Personally, it impacts me a lot, it makes me thinking more about what I’ve eaten, moreover, it encourages me to grow everything by myself J that is the safest way.

Entry #10: Cheating

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/cheating-in-high-school

            Nowadays, studying is the significant issue for individual and country because that is the foundation of a develop country. A good score always is the advantaged in many circumstances such as making a good impress for the first interview or be under pressure of parents, teacher. Therefore, student chose cheating to satisfy those, but besides, forget the real knowledge that they need to learn. There are many reason cause cheating, but majority is the conscious of student. Anyway, no matter what reason cause cheating, it should be criticized and eliminated.

              The very first reason is students are under pressure of getting high points, which is caused by their parents’ expectation and their teachers’ evaluation. Almost parents are putting a huge expectation on their children as schooling is an only way to help them have a better life. It is responsible burden that causes students depend on cheating. In my country, almost student go study with teacher outside school. It means they have to do homework from school, homework of extra study class, this could easily drive students go crazy and don’t have enough time for materials from school. This indirectly lead to cheating.

Secondly, the competition between them and their classmates frequently happening that make them behave morally wrong in their tests. They compete seriously point by point to each other and cheating such as plagiarism and using documents is a common way that helps them escape from being dumb in others’ eyes. People always have a thinking is make self be better than others, that is a good motivation if students understand clearly this purpose. But some students just want to get high score by any cost.

Finally, both of top students and low score students put a huge effort on their studies to get a high score which put them under pressure. When high academic performance students try to maintain their scores, other students having low scores put all their effort on improving their results. This is a common pressure that many students suffer; Therefore, they use cheating as an ideal equipment. Moreover, self-confidence deficits play an important role in causing students try their best to cheat. High score is not only important with their parents’ perspective, but also their teachers and society. When they did not prepare for their test themselves, they feel it safe to have supports from other trustworthy resources like documents and classmates.

Dishonest in testing is very dangerous. This could lead to serious consequences. Once caught cheating, students could probably fail the test, the course, even expelled of school. Then that will be a dirty in transcript. Moreover, as cheating happens frequently, it becomes a bad habit that they could not complete the test without cheating.

https://medicalhumour.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/cheating-in-school-college-days/

  

Cheating is completely not good. Students sometime just try to focus on how to cheating and not being caught then forget about another easier way to get high score, that is study! We should concern if we too depend on the achievement and ignore the knowledge we could absorb then decide cheating, the result will be meaningless. To eliminated this issue is not easy. The only way to do that is the attempt awareness of each student. Trying not to cheat to have a better education, a better life. 

 Entry #8: Long distance relationship

          A relationship is said to be a connection, as in thought, concerning or regarding something or someone. Long distance relationship is similar to normal relationship but differs in terms of geographic. If anyone ever tries to tell you that long-distance relationships are easy, they are lying. It obviously hard. I know and understand because I’m experiencing long-distance relationship right now.

          Communication is an important element of all relationships. Especially so, in the case of long distance relationships, where you can’t see the expression on your partner’s face or establish some form of physical contact as a communicative gesture, say, a comforting hug or holding hands as a token of reassurance. However, communication in a long-distance relationship has its own unique set of problems that are difficult to tackle. Nowadays with the development of technology, we can see each other, we can talk, we can hear partner’s voice, but think about it, is that enough? Absolutely not. Imagine like this, once something bad happen to you and all we can do is look to the screen and say something to make partner feel better while the important thing you need right there is a hug, hand holding and something like that. This is thing that no matter how develop of the technology is, it cannot help.

          Second isn’t less important is the impact of environment. What is the environment here? They are new jobs, new relationships, new friends and new interesting things in the new environment. When we are together, we hang out, talk, eat, work and do favorite things together. But how about when now you got a 1000 miles apart? There is nothing else than the screen, it will be so boring. Then we find out in the new environment, we still can hang out, study, and spread our relationship, we will temporary forget about our little baby. Maybe at the first time, the original thinking is you can make your relationship works, but time by time, under the impact of friends, family, and new environment, you cannot keep your mind still. “The environment can facilitate or discourage interaction among people”. This quote is the most suitable for this case.

          The problems appear over times, because we cannot see each other frequently, we lose trust to each other. Sometime, you also see some pictures that there is a girl show off, you will wonder some question like who she is, why do they take picture together, are they cheating on you, you know, girl’s imagination is endless. Then the connection will be faded, obviously, the relationship cannot get better, otherwise, get worst. Misunderstanding, fighting, ignoring each other. 1 day, 2 days, misunderstanding gradually increasing, the gap make you feel tired and don’t even want to talk because you know that the problem cannot be solved thoroughly. Over time, the relationship will go to a dead end.

          There is a sentence, “out of sight, out of mind”. That sentence is absolutely right, there is must have reason why they said so. Not all people feel like me about long distance relationship, maybe they can make it, overcome the difficulty. I tend to be a pessimist, I always perceive everything in bad way. So, I don’t know how long can I keep my relationship. They’re said that if the love is big enough, it will defeat any impediment.

The distance is nothing if we really have each other!

          Entry #5: The real value of "like"

These clips “Prologue” and “Act one: Finding the self in selfie” just reflect what is happening with teenagers, especially second or high school students. Because at that age, having the attention of other people is really important. They want to be cared about, want to be the central of the world and others compliments. I know that because I used to be like that. I used to check Instagram or Facebook every single minute to see if anyone liked or comment on my post. I used to be so happy when my post got more than 150 likes including my crush. So, I completely understand if the same thing happens to high school girls. Maybe at this moment they don’t know or even don’t think about why people like their photo. It doesn’t mean people really like it or engaging with the post, some of people who likes and who is their close friend will but not the majority, they just see the post and probably “like” it even though they don’t really know or be close with person who post it.

There’s a detail that I feel so funny in the “This American Life’s episode” is before posting something on social media, a girl said that they usually send it to their friends to judge and comment, if it is good, then it can be posted. This totally go the opposite way of the purpose of social media, that is sharing and saving moment. How that moment could be meaningful if it is prepared? For me, a meaningful moment should be taken with friends, not a selfie or be taken when I don’t even know when was that is taken. Moreover, the number of “like” will not really affects me in anyway. Otherwise, my close’s friend’s concern about the post is more important. Because the purpose is sharing and saving the moment so that is for years later, when I look back, I could see those memorable memories.

When I listened to those clips, I felt like they are talking about me a year ago, but then, thank to Michelle Obama’s speech in 2015, I realized that there are more things more significant should be don’t than sitting on furniture and checking Instagram or Facebook. She said, “If I had worried about who liked me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn’t be married to the president of the United State.” She advised girls should better focus on study than care about what people think about us. If teenagers just waste time in concerning how many likes or who comment on their post, they wouldn’t be success in the future

Entry #6: Negative Affects of Travelling

As a lot of people perspective, traveling is kind of enjoying. Whenever people have time and money, they plan for a trip to relax after a working hard time. There is no greater feeling than having bags packaged and knowing that you are going to travel. People will get experience and knowledge about things that they have not had change to interact. However, traveling is not all fun. Otherwise, make people in trouble, even serious one. Those troubles could be terrorism, murderers, plane crash or even getting potential of infecting diseases while traveling. Moreover, it is also cost time and money which are two of the most value things nowadays. In short, people should not frequently travel because of negatively effects to travelers’ health, safety of self, and saving time as well as money.

Traveling demanding a large amount of money and time that should be invested in others more useful things. No one can deny that traveling help people in raising life skill and have some good rest after busy time but it is not necessary for people to spend time and money in traveling. Time is perceived one of the most significant material that is always lack for people who has far-sight vision or considered succeed people. At the same amount of time which are we use for travel; those people can make a lot of money and learn a lot of things. In addition, traveling also “stale” money in easy way. Obviously, people cannot travel without money. There are so many things people must pay for the trip such as flight tickets, hotels, foods, and vehicle. There are also unexpected things come at unexpected times, for instance, fines, exceeding expectation in shopping and even hospital fee. Therefore, instead of taking a trip and wasting money, people should concern about something else more useful.

People should not travel is traveling in others country, it means people accept to put themselves in risk of traffic accidents, crash plane, terrorism, murdered or even diseases. Danger is everywhere. People can get hurt even though they are not supposed to be, because they are in dangerous area. There are numerous cases that people died while they are on trip because of plane crash. For example, the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared nearly 3 years ago with 239 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean at high speed rather than gliding down gently, an analysis of debris found. Until 2 years later, whereabouts of this plane and passengers still are mysterious.  How about if you were on that plane, how pitiful your family will be. This shows that traveling can kill travelers anytime. In short, people should not risk their life for traveling.

Traveling is not all good because it affects travelers’ health negatively. Health is very important to people. It said that even though you are rich, you cannot buy health. Traveling to a place far away from where you live, different climate and soil plus unfamiliar dishes, tourist potentially to get sick or more important, and for who travel abroad, jet lag and time zone different are common if tourist did not travel frequently. Moreover, travelers get high risk of becoming ill while traveling because of the outside affects such as weather, food, drink, even water allergy. This is not only makes the trip worse, it also affects to traveler’s health negatively. So, to protect health and life, be careful when you want to have a trip to another country. 

            

          Traveling is not always fun and happy as what people usually think because of several consequences. It might take away from tourist many valuable things. Dangers lurk anywhere that people cannot know and expect. Basing on negative affects about health, time and money budget and self’s safety, people must think carefully before making the decision to have a trip to somewhere. Traveling is not necessary for people to risk many things on it. It could become worst trip ever because the negative effects can affect directly to people.