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| Hallo, my friends and Mr. Ismail?! Hope we're doing well. I just want to say that I hope we all can pass the exam in LIA... And finally ot the masterpiece |
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Euthanasia is Not Different from Murdering
by: Piasti Sopandani
The ill people whom the family can not control emotions because of the ill’s people pity look, choose to do euthanasia. Euthanasia comes from the Greek "eu" meaning good or well, and "thana" meaning death. It isn't a new issue, in 1516 Thomas More proposed a system called euthanasia in which patients dealing with incurable diseases were offered a choice of a good and easy death. It is very important to clarify the values of today. In recent times, euthanasia is frequently called "mercy killing." Nowadays, as high technology environments are developing, a "natural" death is almost impossible. Euthanasia is a way of relieving ill people’s pain and save them from the turtores of their illness. Euthanasia is just same as a murder, because it’s not appreciate human life, make ill persons hopeless, and sins.
First, euthanasia is not appreciate human life. Life is the greatest thing that given to us from the God. Although in worst situation, or in any pity look of anybody, we another humans are doesn’t have any belonging to end anybody’s life, because it’s all on God’s Hand. Besides, every people have the same right to life that have been ruled in regulation. Nobody can pay someone’s life, because life only given once and nothing can exchange it.
Second, euthanasia make the ill person’s hopeless. The ill people still have spirit for recover from the illness, it shown by they’re still alive untill they get euthanasia. Even the people know that they were not had a long lifespin anymore, they still consume the medicine given by the doctor. Although the family doesn’t know, i’m sure that every night, every hour, and every time the ill people always pray to the God hoping some miracle happen to recover him. Every people have to struggle for survive, and people around them should appreciate or better help them from their problem with the best way.
Last, about sins. Not only the family who choose to use euthanasia as the way to end the ill people from their pain will get sins, but also many people will get this effect. The medical team will also get this effect too, because they use their hands and ability to end someone’s life. The age of every people is on God’s hand. We don’t have entitled to determine when the people die.
As pity as anything somebody was, it doesn’t mean we should release them from their pain with end their life, but, we have to give them another better way for help. If we see from those three points of view we can infer that euthanasia isn’t the best way. Euthanasia is not different with murdering, because euthanasia doesn’t have any humanity life.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Making References and Bibliographies
This posting is taken from http://folk.uio.no/hhasselg/Metode/references.htm
References
When you write an academic paper, it is common courtesy to acknowledge your sources. There are various ways of doing this, and here we give you one system. The list of references at the end of your paper must contain all the works you have quoted or made reference to or used in any other way in your paper. It is important that the reference is correct, because it should be possible for an interested reader to find the text you are referring to.
Quotations
A short quotation of up to 2-3 lines is put in quotation marks and integrated in the running text. The quotation is followed by a short reference to where it was taken from. This is an example of how you give a short quotation: “grammatical labels are very rarely appropriate for all instances of a category” (Halliday 2004: 199). The full reference of the book/article you are quoting from must be given in the reference list.
Longer quotations are written like this, with indentation. You do not use quotation marks, since the quotation is marked by the indentation. The reference to the work the quotation is taken from has to follow the quotation, as with shorter quotations. (author, year of publication, page number)
If you highlight a part of the quotation, you should state that the emphasis is your own, and did not appear in the original text. Example:
The theme extends from the beginning of the clause up to (and including) the first element that has a function in transitivity. This element is called the 'topical Theme'; so we can say that the Theme of the clause consists of the topical Theme together with anything else that comes before it. (Halliday 1994:53, my emphasis)
If there is a mistake in the text that you are copying from, you write a [sic!] immediately after the mistake.
If you need to add anything to a quotation (e.g. full noun phrase instead of pronoun) you do so in square brackets.
Making references
When you refer to other people's work without quoting them directly, you insert a reference in brackets. Here are some examples of how you can do it:
The theme is a 'containing inferable' (cf. Prince 1981:236) which is related to the hypertheme of the text, thus preserving the thematic progression of the original. (The reference is given because the term is introduced and explained in that paper.)
However, as has been pointed out in a number of studies (Thompson 1987, Matthiessen and Thompson 1988, Ford 1993), the syntactic subordination entails a backgrounding of an initial clause in relation to the main (or matrix) clause. (The reference is given in order to give examples of writers who have this view, and point the readers to where they can find it.)
Syntactically, one of the most conspicuous differences between English and Norwegian sentence openings is that English has an even greater preference than Norwegian for subjects in initial position, and conversely, that Norwegian has a wider variety of sentence elements in initial position (Hasselgård 1997). (The reference is given because these things are explored in greater detail in that paper.)
Reference list
Referring to books:
Author. Year of publication. Title of book in italics. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example: Halliday, M.A.K. 1994. An introduction to functional grammar, 2nd ed.
Referring to articles:
Author. Year of publication. "Title of the article with or without quotation marks, but in normal type". In Italicized title of book/journal. Year of publication. pp. x.-x.
Example: Ventola, Eija. 1995. Thematic development and translation. In Ghadessy, Mohsen, (ed.), Thematic development in English texts.
Referring to websites:
Author (if known/relevant). Name of website in italics. Date (if known)
The Internet Grammar of English.< http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm>. Accessed August 2006.
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Capitalization in titles
It is relatively common, but not obligatory, to capitalize the content words in titles of books and periodicals, less often in titles of articles in books or journals. Whatever you choose, be consistent!
Examples:
The Internet Grammar of English,
Connectors and Sentence Openings in English and Swedish.
NB This is not standard practice with Norwegian titles, which are in lower case.
Example of reference list
Aijmer, Karin. 2002. English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a Corpus.
Baker, Mona. 1992. In other Words. A Coursebook on Translation.
Davidsen-Nielsen, Niels. 1996. “Discourse Particles in Danish”. In Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen et al (eds.). Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 283-314.
Fretheim, Thorstein. 1981. “‘Ego’-dempere og ‘alter’-dempere”. Maal og Minne, 86-100.
Fretheim, Thorstein. 1983. “Perfektum og det temporale ‘DA’ og ‘NÅ’”. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 2, 97-113.
Guttu, Tor (ed.). 1995. Aschehoug og Gyldendals store norske ordbok. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget.
Halliday, M.A.K. 1994. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Edward Arnold.
Hasselgård, Hilde. 1996. Where and When: Positional and Functional Conventions for Sequences of Time and Space Adverbials in Present-Day English. Acta Humaniora (Doctoral thesis).
Hasselgård, Hilde. 1997 “Time and space adverbials in English and in Norwegian, with special reference to initial position.” Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 15, 165–189.
Johansson, Stig. 1998. “On the role of corpora in cross-linguistic research”. In Stig Johansson and Signe Oksefjell (eds.). Corpora and Cross-linguistic Research.
Johansson, Stig and Berit Løken. 1997. “Some Norwegian discourse particles and their English correspondences.” In Carl Bache and Alex Klinge (eds.), Sounds, Structures and Senses. Essays Presented to Niels Davidsen-Nielsen on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday.
Landrø, Marit Ingebjørg and Boye Wangensteen (eds.). 1993. Bokmålsordboka.
Oxford English Dictionary, OED Online
Quirk,
Schiffrin, Deborah. 1987. Discourse Markers.
Solberg, Torgerd Kristin. 1990. Modalpartikler i norsk. Hovedoppgave (MA thesis),
Stenström, Anna-Brita. 1994. An Introduction to Spoken Interaction.
Woodford, Kate and Guy Jackson. 2003. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary on CD -ROM, Version 1.0.
Sources of material:
The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus: <www.hf.uio.no/iba/prosjekt/> Accessed October 2004.
The British National Corpus: <www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/> Accessed October 2004.
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Monday, June 2, 2008
VEGETARIANISM IS VERY GOOD AND NEEDED
Vegetarian is the name of the people that only eat vegetables and do not eat the food that made of meat, bird, ducks, chickens, seafood, and eggs. Vegetarianism is the life and the eat-style. Now, vegetarianism has become a life style of lots of people around the world. There are some types of vegetarianism, there are semi vegetarianism that consumed only vegetables and ‘white meat’ (fowls, eggs, and less of seafood), the second one is vegetarianism with egg, and the last is pure vegetarianism that only consumed vegetables. Vegetarianism is very good and we need to be vegetarian, at least we can learn not to eat ‘red meat’ (cows, sheep, goat and pigs), and why it is so important to do? Well, there are so many reasons about that. The biggest reasons are vegetarianism gives us many benefits more than the disadvantages one. The benefits are; vegetarianism is healthy for physically and mentally, cheaper than non-vegetarian one, and even more, vegetarianism can reduce global warming also.
Vegetarianism is very healthy not only physically but also mentally. Many people think that vegetarianism is not healthy enough because people think that we will get lack of nutrients like protein, vitamins, and get sick because of that. Well, those perceptions are wrong. In fact, protein that needed for child 0-6 age is just 10gr, for a man is 25gr, and for a woman 48gr per day, and those protein can fulfilled by vegetables, like soybean, tempe, and tofu. One slice of
People know that vegetarianism is cheaper than non-vegetarian one. We can see that when we buy 500gr of meat, we can buy more vegetables in the same cost. To eat three times a day, vegetarians spend less of money than non-vegetarian one, because vegetarians just eat vegetables and add some eggs, they do not need meat as their first food. We also know that 1
Many people do not realize that become vegetarian can help to reduce global warming. Now, many vegetarian associations persuade people to become vegetarian because they concern about global warming. FAO said that 1/5 gasses of green house effect are come from breeding animals’ fesses. The fesses contain NO2, CO2, and other gasses that may harm our earth and can increase global warming, it is more then the pollution from cars and motorcycles. Vegetarian can reduce those gasses effect until 50% (more ore less 1.2 ton of CO2 a year), it is more effective than to reduce the use of cars and motorcycle. More over, based on the research, 1ham (hamburger) uses 1.5-7.2 m² rainforest. The forests are cutting down to make a barn field. So, imagine if one man eats 1kg ham a week, how many forests will be cutting down? Slowly but sure, our rainforest will be end.
In short, based on the fact above, I can say that vegetarianism is very good for us, because vegetarianism not only make us healthy but also can reduce global warming and save our earth. So, why don’t we try to be vegetarian? At least we can eat more vegetables and less of meat, we can try from not eat meet and we can change it with eggs and fish.
Diet is not a Better Choice
by: Dian Wahyuningsih
Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. Proper nutrition requires the proper ingestion and equally important, the absorption of vitamins, minerals, and fuel in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. A particular diet may be chosen to seek weight gain, weight loss, sports training, cardio-vascular health, avoidance of cancers, food allergies and for other reasons. Diet causes many illness, not so good for teenager, and there`s other choice than diet.
Firstly, diet was causes many illness. Having a diet addict increases your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, breathing problems, arthritis, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea (breathing problems while sleeping), osteoarthritis, and some cancers. Other horrifying illness caused by unhealthy diet are anorexia nervousa which is make you look so pale although you aren`t sick. Your health care provider can help you figure out your body mass.
Secondly, diet is not so good for teenager. It is tempting to eat less healthy foods because they might be easier to get or prepare, or they satisfy a craving. Between family and work or school, you are probably balancing a hundred things at once. As a student need some energy for studying. How they can concentrate at school if they`re hungry. And teenager is a time for growth for girl, limit for growth is 17 years old and for boy is 21 years old. Sometime, for girls they doing diet in order to be as perfect as they can do for their boyfriends. But, if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend which love you wholehearthedly, he/she will accpect your negative sides especially your physical appearance.
Thirdly, there`s many way become healthy than diet. Exercise is the best way for healthy when you do it regularly. You can make sense of the mounds of nutrition information there. A little learning and planning can help you find a healthy body to fit your lifestyle, don’t be alcoholic, smoked and drug addict. Always smiles for healing stress can be the next answer become healthy. Think positive although in bad situation.
Can you imagine that? The bad sides if you`re unhealthy diet person. You`ll got the horrifying illness caused by uncontrolled diet. And also remember that exercise, eat nutrician food, think positive, always smile in every condition are the example that there`re many way become healthy.
The Rain Forest Destruction Must Be Prohibited
by: Hengky
Rain forest has important role of human life. Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750-2000 mm (68-78 inches).Rainforests are home to two-thirds of all the living animal and plant species on Earth. It has been estimated that many hundreds of millions of species of plants, insects and microorganisms are still undiscovered.
Tropical rainforests are rainforests in the tropics, found near the Equator (between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and present in southeast Asia (Myanmar to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia), sub-Saharan Africa from Cameroon to the Congo, (Congo Rainforest), South America (the Amazon Rainforest) Central America (Bosawás, southern Yucatán Peninsula-El Peten-Belize-Calakmul), and on many of the Pacific Islands(such as Hawaii).
Tropical rainforests have been called the "Earth's lungs," although it is now known that rainforests contribute little net oxygen additions to the atmosphere through photosynthesis. More than half of the world's species of plants and animals are found in the rainforest.
Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna including mammals, reptiles, birds and invertebrates. Mammals may include primates, felids and other families. Reptiles include snakes, turtles, chameleons and other families while birds include such families as vangidae and Cuculidae. Dozens of families of invertebrates are found in rainforests. Fungi are also very common in rainforest areas as they can feed on the decomposing remains of plant and animal life.
Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth," and the "world's largest pharmacy," because of the large number of natural medicines discovered there. People can’t live perfectly without forest.
They cutting the trees, take out the trash in the forest, exploitation the forest and many more.They don’t care the effect of rain forest destruction, they just priority their want.
The rain forest destruction must be prohibited. The bad effect of rain forest destruction can damage an animal habitats, temperature of earth can be hotter than now, water sea level can raising, island sinking, and flooding.
First, rainforest destruction can damage animal habitats. Many animals were extinct. Animal extinct happened because of human activity, for example exploitations the forest and animal didn’t have house, cant live so that they dead. ”badak bercula satu” is one of example of animal extinct, it cause by the forest destruction. And now the government of
Secondly, the rainforest destruction can cause temperature of earth can be hotter than now. Nowadays temperature on our earth is hotter than past. Why it can be happened? People cutting trees or exploitations the forest is the first factor. One of the function of rain forest are rain forest can circulate the CO2 in our earth and change it into 02 that human need for respirations. However if the number of trees just a little, it can interfere with the circulation of CO2 into O2.
Thirdly, the rainforest destruction can make
Finally, flood. Flooding can happened because of increasing of water sea level. High water sea level gets into the land and makes flooding. Example is street aim to bandara internasional soekarno hatta has flooding because of water sea level get into cengkareng street (08may08).
As a conclusion, the rain forest has an important role in human life. If we are not care about our forest earth will be messy. We must supported many program which to care, to protect, and to converse our environment. We must prohibit the rain forest destruction, if we are no stop that, it can cause many problems in human life.
Cheaper Doesn’t Always Mean Happier
by: Oki Haryo N.
Thesis statement:
- Increasing human resource’s quality, maintaining and improving the system are three things to make a good transportation system that consider as difficult and expensive projects.
First body paragraph
- First, good system ran by good workers
- Good quality is marked by good education while good education needs higher fee.
- Better payment, better worker.
- Bad payment may cause lack of attitude which can trigger deviance by the workers.
- ex. of deviance:
- Corruption
- Rule disobeying
- Crime
- Etc.
- Conclusion: Increasing the quality of human resource means to educate and pay the workers well which consider highly cost.
Second body paragraph
- To make a good system of transportation, Don't forget to improve all the infrastructures.
- Improving the road to be a better road
- Bad quality of the road may cause disasters such as:
- Traffic jam
- Car Accident
- Car hijacking
- Providing better vehicles.
- Expanding the route.
- Conclusion: Although highly cost, improving all aspects that need to be improved will make our journey to home or workplace safe and comfort.
Third body paragraph.
· The last but not least, maintaining the infrastructure of transportation yet become very important if we want to always feel safe and comfort while we are traveling although it cost a lot.
- Keeping the road and the vehicle in good condition are cost.
- Ignoring the maintenance of transportation infrastructure is the same as ignoring our safety.
Concluding Paragraph:
- There is always a cost when we want to create a good transportation system.
Cheaper Doesn’t Always Mean Happier
How do you go to your office or to your school everyday? Using public transportations or your own ride? Well, for those who traveling in Jakarta by your own car or motorbike, it seems to be safer and more comfortable, isn’t it? But, those who use public transportation may also have something different. You will feel something that personal vehicle rider will never feel. You also pay lesser price than those who use their personal vehicle. But in developing country like Indonesia, especially in a crowded city such as Jakarta, sometimes we found that “cheap doesn’t guarantee happiness”. Why? It is because we are still a developing country. We are still developing in many aspects until now, including develops our transportation system. Sometimes we find several cheaper ideas that still doubtful. In my opinion, I’d prefer paying more than using uncertain choice. It also happens when choosing public transportation. There are a lot of choice that offering cheaper price but still uncertain, we don’t know whether it safe or not. This condition actually depends on how good our transportation system is. How to make a good transportation system? It is what we will discuss in this passage. Increasing human resource’s quality, maintaining and improving the system are three things to make a good transportation system that consider as difficult and expensive jobs.
First, a good system comes from good quality of people who run the system. Transportation workers are the main human resources to run a transportation system. Their quality depends on their education and payment. But, most of transportation workers in Indonesia are still in bad quality. Their educational background and payment are still below the par. Their bad quality brings to lack of attitude that may triggers deviance. For example, one of the deviances that happened is corruption that happened among DLLAJR officer. The simplest one is ineffectively wasting working time. We often see it. The other example is when we found a driver of public transportation disobeying the rules. They often cause traffic jam and risking many people. The bad payment will tend them to be criminals as well. Fixing them by educating and paying them well will consider highly cost.
Secondly, to make a good system of transportation, our government, (or even) we must improve all aspects that need improvement. For example are the road and the vehicle. Broken road that has not being fixed may cause disasters such as traffic jam, traffic accident, and car jacking. The last seems to be the most dangerous. Vehicle usually walks slower when it through a broken road. This condition makes carjacker’s job getting easier. Low quality of vehicle also causes bad things. Based on research, low quality vehicle including old vehicle has more tendency to crush than a vehicle with better quality. A vehicle also must passed emission test which is done periodically. According to the statistics, fixing broken roads and providing good vehicle for public transportation take a high cost. But, it is one example of public transportation improvement. It takes Rp. 720.000.000,-/unit to provide vehicle for “busway” project in Jakarta. I’m sure to fix a unit also has a price. Although highly cost, improving all aspects of transportation that need to be improved will make our journey to home or to workplace safe and comfort.
The last but not least, don’t forget to maintain all things that we consider as good things although it cost. “Transportation is a precise business”, ( The Transporter). This quotation is true. All aspects related to transportation and must precisely calculate. One missed calculation means death. That’s why it is very important to maintain a vehicle in a good condition. Ignoring the maintenance of transportation infrastructure is the same as ignoring our safety. But once again, maintain something good also has a cost. Although cost, maintaining the infrastructure of transportation yet become very important if we want to always feel safe and comfort while we are traveling.
There is always a cost when we want to create a good transportation system. People that choose safety and comfort as priority in traveling are happier people than the people who only demand for the cheaper one although they must pay more for the cost.
Movie Censorship Institution
Movie censorship institution (LSF) is made on government regulation no. 8, 1992 about movies. Every movie or advertisement which will be turned in television or cinemas has to exceed censor. Movie censorship institution has duty to censor movie and advertisement which will be showed in front of society, determine themes, pictures, scenes, sounds or texts, and give opinion about it. Truthly, to say that movie censorship institution is important or not is not easy. In one said, communication is human right and it is protected by government. But in other side, if there were no movie censorship institution, there will be violence. In this situation, our country is demanded to take an important role to protect their society from negative influences which is caused by cinematography opus, including movie. To prevent those things, I think movie censorship is important because of its benefits like reduce porno action, violence, and avoid fights among the elements of society.
First is reduce porno action. One of many terrified things that we worried now is pornography and porno action which become trend in this era. May be it happens because of globalization. The expansion of globalization has negative effects in the development of our movies. Our culture moved and changed. We never prepared for it like another countries which had prepared their self before to face pornography and porno action. They can maintain their culture and able to absorb the benefits from it. May be they do not need an institution like movie censorship institution because their way of think more than us. Can you imagine if there are coitus scenes which are showed in Indonesian society? Is it proper for them? Are we realize with its effects? It can go to free sex, which is not proper for our moral and culture.
Second is reduce violence in our society. May be we still remember with the death of elementary children because of watching wrestling scenes. It is pity to know that those movie is stopped after any victims and got the protest from many people. Violence act phenomenon which develops faster in our society may be is influenced by violence scenes in movie. As the effect, it can make an impression that violence in real life is corrected.
The last is avoid fights among the elements of society. Do you know with “Long Road to Heaven” movie? It is movie about
For the conclusion, I think movie censorship institution is important because of its benefits. They do their function and duty based on censor criteria to protect our society from negative effect which is caused by movie and not proper with our principal and aim of Indonesian movie. To build and to expand Indonesian movie in the future is our willingness as Indonesian society. We can do it without making controversial movies. We can do it with expanding the quality of the movie. For example are Ayat-ayat Cinta, Naga Bonar, and Harry Potter. Those movies are famous because of its quality. If every movie has quality like that, I think we don’t need movie censorship institution again.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Computer Roles in Our Life
by: Rizqi Fadillah
In this global era, technology has improved faster than any other knowledge in this world. One of those technology is computer which is has influence our live. In 2007, 72 % of homes in the world had own computer. From that fact, we can know that computer was a part of our live that can be separated. Computer is not only helping us for write but also for any other work. However, computer has disadvantages if we work in front of it in a long time such as eyes sick or mutation in our cell. In other hand, although computer has some disadvantages, I still use it because not only the knowledge and the practical it gives, but also the thing it can do.
First of all, computer might have some disadvantages. The disadvantages usually come out when the computer’s worker work with computer in long time. Computer’s disadvantages such as eyes sick, mutation, and forget of time because focusing in work or game are come after four until five hours work in front of computer. Eyes sick come to us because of the emission of radiation from computer. That emission makes our eyes red and acute for several minute but it is still okay if we put some eye drop into our eyes. The mutation in our cell actually took several years to change our body into something such as minus eyes or else. For forget of the time usually come for the computer maniac or gamer who play for a whole day. This disadvantage can make bad attitude for the future and that attitude only make disaster.
From other side, computer is more practical than other machine. We can know it if we compare computer with other machine. Computer is faster than typewriter in order to typing something. If we use computer, we mustn’t retyped when we have something wrong or false. So, computer is more efficient than typewriter. Typewriter can’t save writing that we had done but computer can do that. That make computer more practical than other machine.
Not only that but also computer gives a lot of information for us. Computer can give news from past and present. With it we can know what happen in another country in this time or 50000 years ago at any places in this world. Computer also contains knowledge about various subjects such as economic, politic, religion or many others. That happens when computer connected with internet which it contains any subject in this world from news, knowledge, movies, etc. but in order to connect with internet computer might have something such as wireless or telephone connection in that computer.
Finally, computer is a machine that can do a lot of thing. Computer with it is connection in internet make us can communicate with other in long range. For example is e-mail and chatting. Computer is can save our data in its memory such as music, picture, video, writing, and other. At least, computer can refresh our mind from daily activities. With computer we can play a game or an online game that connected with internet. So, we can enjoy and forget daily activities for some minute or hour.
In short, computer is amazing machine that human have made. And computer is a machine that practical than other machine, gives a lot of information from around the world, and can do a lot of thing. So, computer is the best technology this day. although the best technology still had some disadvantages, I still prefer to use it than other technology for this day.
The Obstacle of the Current Curriculum Operation for Elementary School
by: Indria Hapsari
Education is a vital point in country development. If the education quality increases, country development will increase as well. The government uses curriculum to support education operation. Curriculum is used as a guide for teachers in operating the education. The Indonesian government still raises the education quality by making the curriculum which is suitable for students and teachers. At this moment, the Indonesian government uses Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) as their guide in education operation. The government uses this curriculum expecting the education quality, which is left far behind comparing to other countries, will increase, but to operate the education using this curriculum is difficult, especially for the curriculum operator in elementary school level. The former curriculum, the inconsistency of the government in making curriculum, and lack of socialization to teachers makes the curriculum operators hard to reach the goal of the current curriculum.
The former curriculum makes the curriculum operators difficult to reach the goal of the current curriculum. In the previous curriculum, the 1994 Curriculum, students considered teachers and textbooks as their learning sources. Students just attended school and accepted lessons which were given by their teachers and textbooks. This kind of learning method made elementary school students, which is supposed to be active and creative, being passive. When government changed the 1994 Curriculum to Kurikulum Berbasis Kompetensi (KBK), students had to change their learning habits. The goal of KBK is to make students being more active, creative, and independent in learning, but students had the difficulties in adapting the new curriculum because of using the 1994 Curriculum for a long time.
The next obstacle is the government changes the curriculum continuously. The government changes the KBK into KTSP in a short time. KBK was arranged in 2004 and still in progress of development when suddenly the government changed it to KTSP in 2007, although KBK had not reached its goal yet. The sudden change made students and teachers, who were still not getting used to KBK, had to adapt the new curriculum once again from the beginning.
The current curriculum may be effective if there is enough socialization to teachers and other curriculum operators. There are teachers who still don't know the curriculum well. In KTSP, the government just provides the guide which contains competency standards and contents of the curriculum. Teachers have freedom in developing and deciding their own targets and standards in teaching. The government uses KTSP expecting teachers to develop and make the curriculum is more suitable with their condition and environment, but this curriculum only makes some teachers confused. Some of them still use the old curriculum, the 1994 Curriculum, which is easier to understand.
The current curriculum, KTSP, actually is really good and promising. It supports elementary school students to be more active, creative, and more independent in learning. Although the operation is still not effective because of the former curriculum, the inconsistency of the government in making curriculum, and lack of socialization to teachers, I think the problems still can be fixed. The government should observe the current curriculum operation, which is very suitable to students at this time; in order to make the curriculum gets the maximum results.
Friday, May 23, 2008
The Importance of National Exam
by: Yessica Gloria
In the second half of the twentieth century, education has come to be viewed as a key to equality and equity in all societies. It is an essential social-human capital for the advancement of individual and country existences. Based on a recent report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), that in the global education rankings, Indonesia ranked lower than Malaysia (56) and Brunei Darussalam (43), but higher than some other Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam (79), the Philippines (82), and Cambodia (103) (The Jakarta Post Daily, May 12, 2008). Therefore, National Exam is carried out by National Education Standard Committee (NESC) as an effort to increase Indonesian rank based on Government Law no.19/ 2005 concerned National Education Standard. Unfortunately, The Education Ministry reported that around 9 percent of High School students failed The National Exam. Ironically, some of them had already been admitted to universities through special admissions programs for bright and talented students. This caused many polemics in
National Exam is a pure examination which is given by government to the pupils. There is no interference from the school directions. The National Exam is levied under government supervision. According to Regulation of National Education Minister no.34 / 2007, National Exam in
The result of National Exam can be a basic material to map whole Indonesian educational quality. We can use various methods to make it such as, collecting the valid and invalid data, using polygon representation based on color as parameter differentiation, computing the average of scores in each district, and so on. This statistics can also help the government in making new policy concerned Indonesian educational. So that our educational system will experience an improvement from year to year.
National Exam had been held in each area in
National Exam results are the only measurement to decide whether students graduate or not. Every student exactly wants to enter the next higher education, but they have to pass National Exam first. Beside, socially, having good scores in National Exam can give the students a good prestige. It brings the students a desire to reach a high score. In other conditions, some institutions using National Exam result as one of terms to enter them. They will of course ashamed to their friends and families if they were failed in National Exam. So directly, National Exam can give a strong motivation to the students to study hard and hard everyday.
In conclusion, National Exam can strengthen our National education quality. Its results present the statistic of our educational grade periodically. It also has a strict regulation which can certify the completion of secondary education. The implementation of National Exam reveals the justice in passing the pupils. It could be an instrument to create a fair competition among students, schools, and provinces. It is also able to motivate the students study more seriously.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
My england not very good...CHINA PREPARING FOR BEIJING OLYMPICS
I give my life and my company, but
they just keep demanding more...
New in this section: 'Bowling with Bilbo'
I'll keep a look out....
Press it because you want to....
No crack?
How do you do?
One lump or two?
Thank you for open!
I wouldn't dare...
Ouch!
Got too many kids?
Falling should be planned...
That would explain the beer cubs outside...
Are you smiling?
Start with the big toe...
Other children are OK...
A difficult meal...
And if you're dead, please get to a hospital...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
List of Persuasive Essay Topics
Here is the list of persuasive essay topics, which you can use for your reference.
- Human cloning and family values.
- Greenhouse affect as a result of deforesting.
- Pollution is a consistent demolition of the earth.
- Anorexia is a cause of weight loss.
NB! Pick a persuasive essay topic that will be interesting both to your mates and to your tutor. This is absolutely critical in case of topics for persuasive speeches essays.
- Abuse at home and domestic violence should be punished.
- Abortion should be encouraged.
- Media violence has a negative effect.
- Single parent families - children which are devoid from full-fledged care.
- The negative effect of divorce parents on child physics.
- Unnecessary curfew for children under the age of fifteen.
NB! Your topic can have a form of the alternative choice, where you'll have to select one of the alternative positions and to uphold it in your work, supporting it with strong, convincing arguments.
You should be consistent with this point and head to it in your work, as your total-lot confidence in the chosen position is the best tool to convince the reader in your position. You must argue in such a persuasive manner that others will agree with you.
- The influence of the Internet: More harm than good or vice versa.
- Abortion. Another name for murder or a desperate necessity.
- Sexual abuse and incest should be banned or have a right to exist.
- Free public transport for everybody: for or against.
- School uniform. Good tradition or outdated habit.
Use these examples to write your own list of persuasive essay topics and good luck with your work!
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