Archive for September 2012

Looks Fair, But Not Fair

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                Some countries have election in order to choose their next leader. In undergo the election, not all of them get a successful election.  Almost every year the election process become a hot topic, when the citizens are confuse about which one is a good and honest candidate.  But we need to know is our election process fair or not?

                As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests, said Gore Vidal at www.brainyquote.com .

                Actually, there is a long process before we do an election, but that process is not always fair. The things that the candidates have done is spreading money to the citizens, almost all of candidates do this because of they want the citizens choose them, and the citizens want is money. When the election process, the candidates not only spread the money, but also spread the false promises. We don’t know those promises come true or not, but probably when the candidate has chosen, the amount of contribution will be decrease even stopped.

                Beside that, the candidates give over promotion. We can see their big poster and campaign. Not only that we also can see their promotion in the television, radio, and everywhere they want. In the other side some people are prefer to be a neutral or don’t choose anyone, why? Because they don’t know well the vision, mission, and passion of each candidates. And they think it will be meaningless choice, so they are not interesting in choosing the candidate. It doesn’t mean that the other people choose the candidates well, but also some of them choose the candidates haphazardly.

                In a conclusion, the election process is not fair exactly. Some candidates use cunning way to persuade the people. And the one who have more opportunity is the candidate who has more fund. And the election will be success if all of the people join to vote.




GRADING THE TEACHER

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             Nowadays,  the learning system is more complicated than before, but not strict as before. The students thinking also more critical, it will be harmful for them if they use the critical thinking in a wrong field. For example is they use it for critic their teacher. Is it good or bad?
           
            The students right now is mostly a critical student. They can easily explore their mind, they can say anything and they also can comment everything that they see. Including their teacher, sometimes the student also comment and grade them. Usually they divide their teacher into some parts, kind teacher, strict teacher, funny teacher, modern teacher, traditional teacher, confusing teacher, and so on. When they do that thing in understandable teachers, it will be okay even the teachers will evaluate themselves. But if they comment their not understandable teachers, probably the student will get a problem by a conflict between the student and the teacher. Actually, comment and grade the teacher is okay, but we need consider and think before. If it is over, there will be no benefit for us,  instead of we get a problem with them. Mostly, if the people see us do that thing, they will think that we are very impolite.

            In the other side, we need to know why the student grade their teacher. Based on the survey that I have done, the student grade their teacher because of teacher performance when they are teaching. At that time they have point of view about their teacher. Their comment will evaluate their teacher style when they are teaching and the teacher will know the student want.

            The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp, said Dan Rather .
           
              As the conclusion, I think that students are allowed to grade their teachers. Why? Because the evaluation for the teachers are needed to increase the teaching performance. By this case, teachers can know what their students want, so there will be good relation between teachers and students.



The quote by Dan Rather is taken from www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/teacher.html

COMPUTER ADDICT

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As we know that nowadays the development of technology is greatly improve.  Almost all of people use it, especially computer. Is it better or worse? Which one is suitable for us, use computer or without computer?

            Usually the community use it to help them, sometimes it can make their work easily to finish. Usually the company uses it to run their machine. The user is not only company but also the people, they use it to finish their task, and if they are going to bored, they can play some games or browse if there is internet connection.  This facilities make them feel very comfort and it can makes them become lazy, because they think all of their task can be done instantly by computer.  Not only that, they will get some illness, such as eyestrain and cramps on your body. And if we use computer, the electricity cost will increase, it is equal with how long we use the computer.

            Actually, there is a lot of things that given by the computer, because of that the people prefer to work in front of computer. Some of them  become individual person because lack of socialization with the other person around them. The effect is that people will have a little of friend, and when they need  to share, probably there is no friend that want to share with them. In the other side, the social problem also appear. When the company use the computer, they will think they don’t need a labor. They use computer to do the job and dismissed the labor, so, there will be a lot of unemployment.

            In a conclusion, we can say that the people right now are dependent to computer. Because they use computer in every single activity that they do. In a fact, the improvement of computer production is increase every year. It means that mostly people use the computer, and sometimes they just hinge on the computer. So sad right? So, you can use the computer to make your task finished easily, but don’t be over or you will get disadvantages from it.

STUDENT’S FRIEND or STUDENT’S ENEMY ?

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                Homework. Most teacher give that thing to their students. They give it with a lot of reason,  just like to motivate students in learning, not forget and more understand about the material, and so on. Some of them can understand the student’s want, but not all teachers can understand the students, usually they give a lot of homework.
                The homework will give a lot of help if the time is appropriate and the total is not over. It means that the students can do their other activity. But if the homework is given at a wrong time and the total is too much, it will not help students anymore, but it can make students stress.
                Actually homework is just a rote and need extra time to do that without a great benefit. In the reality, sometimes most of the teachers will give a lot of homework for their students. If that reality happens, the students usually give a suggestion or maybe a criticism to their teacher. Unfortunately, not all teachers is open minded, most of them will say “just do it guys”, and the students try to find their lightness and say “but, our other homework and task is already too much”, then the teacher easily answer “it’s your business, if you can manage your time, everything gonna be okay”. Finally the students do the homework forcibly. And at that condition students will feel homework is like a monster for them.
                In some case, homework can be a best friend for the students, especially for a dilligent students. Some of them already falling in love with it. And usually it happens because they feel if they don’t do the homework, their day will uncomplete.
                So, the conclusion is the students see the role of homework based on their paradigm. If their paradigm is bad, so they will judge homework is harmful. But if their paradigm is good, they will feel happy with the homework. Everyone have their own style to find the meaning of homework.
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