Nowadays, there's a lot of modern devices invented and published due to the developing of global technology such as hand phone, laptop, PDA and so on. The advancement of the technology were giving both good and bad effect to our self, family and also to friends. Goodness of progressing technology are its facilitate people to contacting each other with the existence of the latest device. Moreover, technology also makes life easier, work smarter and faster in need of hurry. It is also no need a lot of procedures to use unlike pos office as a traditional communication method. However, the innovation of technology also have it's negative effects such as it is too advance for our future children and exposing them to outside danger and negative element contain in the internet if they weren't monitor well . Furthemore, the headway of technology often make us careless and forgot what we're suppose to do. Besides, it is also wasting time because it was used for unnecessary thing. So, we must have own inisiative on how to balance the user of technology so it would not effect us for the negative side. It is depends on the individual wether to use this centurious advantage for the dark side or the bright side.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Effects of media technology
Emotions and Negotiation
Emotion can give a good and also bad effect. It is depends on the individual on how to manage emotion so that it won't effect the way you negotiate. However, negotiating without emotion also cannot be used often because it will never always the better choice you've choose. So, you need both emotion and negotiation to get the best answer in any problem you facing to. Well, accepting that feeling and emotions are natural as human being, we often unaware of our feeling which means we were unaware to others feeling too. The way to aware of our emotion is by notice the way your body behave. We not only aware of what we feel but also can discover the onset of the emotional states. In case it is involving an extreme emotion, it can be growing out of control and make us act before thinking and take decision in certain case. It can be worst if emotion takes place. So, the best way to deal with this problem is take some time to think the best solution. However, hot feelings can be changed to cool feeling by changing the belief and information that underline our thoughts.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMERICA
Indigenous People of America
The indigenous people of Americas are the pre-columbian inhabitants of the America, their descendants, and many ethnic gropup who identify with those peoples. They are referred to as native american, first nation, amergine. Geographical and historical mistake, Indians, now disambiguated as the American Indian race, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Red Indians.
history.
-Scholars who follow the Bering Strait theory agree that most indigenous peoples of the Americas descend from people who probably migrated from siberia across the Bering straits, anywhere between 9,000 and 50,000 years ago
- A 2006 study reported that DNA-based research had linked DNA retrieved from a 10,000-year-old fossil tooth from the Prince of Wales island in Alaska.Unique DNA markers found in the fossil tooth found only in these specific coastal tribes and were not compare to markers found in any other indigenous peoples in the Americas.
music and art.
-Indigenous peoples of Central Mexico and Central America music are often was pentatonic. Before the arrival of the Spaniards it was inseperate from religious festivities and include a large variety of percussion and wind instrument such as drums, flutes, sea snail shells (used as a kind of trumpet) and "rain" tubes
Traditional Instrument
Art is the process or product deliberately arranging elements in way that appeals to the senses or emotions. The traditional instruments that my family use is Sape. The Sape is a traditional instrument of many of the Orang Ulu or people who live in the longhouses. Previously, Sape is only play by Orang Ulu and just in the longhouses, but now, Sape is growing in popularity. Nowadays, there are many modern instruments. Compare with Sape, modern instruments more to use electric but not to Sape. Musically, the Sape is simple instrument. One string carries the melody. In practice, the music is quite complex, with many ornamentions, and thematic variations. Besides that, Sape is unique instrument compare to modern instrument, that too common. Recently, our Sarawakian, Jerry Kamit was representing Malaysia to Hollywood in competition. He is playing Sape. In addition, my family traditional art is Pua Kumbu.
MEGACITIES-HOW TO PROVIDE FOR THE POOR CLASSES
how to provide for the poor classes in megacity:
-give scholarship to kids to help them study.
government should help poor people in megacity by giving scholarship to poor kids to help them buy material to study.
-teach them to make a bussiness.
government should make a class for teaching poor classes how to make a bussiness that can earned money.
-collect donate to poor people.
community also have to help poor people by donate some money to poor people.
-idividual person also can help poor kids in their study.
i classify individual person as university student. when they have time, they should help poor kids around them by make a class for poor kids around him or her place.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
In communication listening and speaking are equally important. Sometimes in communication there is different understanding. The listeners understand one thing from the speaker but the speaker actually wanted to express a very different meaning. Besides, we can communicate well with others with the help of non-verbal communication which is implicate body language and facial expression. Another important thing in communication is accuracy. Communication should in good time, good place and good situation. Almost all situations using the technique called active listening that state above. In conclusion, good communication is important to avoid misunderstanding information from the speaker.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Demographic
Population evolution in different continents The vertical axis is logarithmic and is millions of people.
In the 20th century, the world saw the biggest increase in its population in human history due to lessening of the mortality rate in many countries due to medical advance and massive increase in agricultural productivity attributed to the Green Revolution
In year 2000, the United Nation estimated that the world's population was growing at the rate of 1.14% (or about 75 million people) per year, down from a peak of 88 million per year in 1989. In the last few centuries, the number of people living on Earth has increased many times over. By the year 2000, there were 10 times as many people on Earth as there were 300 years ago. According to data from the CIA's 2005–2006 World Factbook the world human population increased by 203,800 every day.The CIA Factbook increased this to 211,090 people every day in 2007, and again to 220,980 people every day in 2009.
Map of countries and territories by fertility rate
Globally, the population growth rate has been steadily declining from its peak of 2.19% in 1963, but growth remains high in Latin America, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
In some countries there is negative population growth (i.e. net decrease in population over time), especially in Central and Eastern Europe (mainly due to low fertility rates) and Southern Africa (due to the high number of HIV-related deaths). Within the next decade, Japan and some countries in Western Europe are also expected to encounter negative population growth due to sub-replacement fertility rates.
In 2006, the United Nations stated that population growth is rapidly declining due to the demographic transition. The world population is expected to peak at 9.2 billion in 2050. However, this is only one of many estimates published by the UN. In 2009, UN projections for 2050 range from about 8 billion to 10.5 billion.
Gasing and Top Spinning(culture)
Gasing or top spinning is split into two categories. One is for ornamental purposes and while the other is for playing.
A Gasing or top spinning contest as far that I know basically a friendly games. The event that follow are normally have two kinds of matches. T he first is the "spinning contest" and the second one is called the "striking match". The "Spinning contest", the one who can spin his top for the longest time wins the match. Once the top has been launched, the top is carefully scooped off the ground using a thin wooden bat. It will then be transferred to a little wooden surface and left to spin for as long as possible. The trick here is to ensure that the top doesn't topple during the transit. Tough as it may seem and unbelievably so, the current record stands at two hours. The "striking match" is far more exciting that the first. At least you won't need to stand there for hours watching a top spin and spin and spin. The "striking match" is as the name suggests. Each contestant must try to hit their opponent's tops so that the already spinning tops will topple and loses its balance and speed.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
YOUTH
Youth is the period between childhood and adulthood, described as the period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity and early adulthood. Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual’s actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals exist at all ages. Youth is those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years.
Around the world the terms “youth”, “adolescent”, “teenager”, and “young person” are interchanged, often meaning the same thing. Youth generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but rather somewhere in-between. The term youth is also related to being young.
Youth is alternative word to the scientifically-oriented adolescent and the common terms of teen and teenager. Another common title for youth is young person of young people.
PROBLEMS AFFECTING YOUTH.
Essentially, these youth fall into the period of life from the beginning of puberty to the attainment of adulthood. This period is usually concomitant with problems as they struggle to fit themselves into society. Nevertheless difficult decisions and adjustments face young people in today's society.
Given that many youths may not be sufficiently mature to cope with such problems, they go in the undesirable direction of delinquency, drugs, vandalism, stealing, etc. Moreover, they compensate for their feelings by striking out against society, revolting against adult authority. These problems are invariably compounded by peer pressure whereby young people are forced either consciously or unconsciously to become involved in those antisocial activities by people of their own age group.
Another problem facing young people today is the tension which exist between parents and children. It is usually common for strained relationships to develop between parents and young people. In their eagerness to achieve adult status, young people may or rather usually resent any restrictions placed upon them. Often times young people may not be willing to admit that they have doubts and fears about taking on adult responsibilities and freedom. They invariably believe that their parents are overanxious and overprotective. This usually creates tension between parents and young people. To correct this problem, psychologist emphasize the significance of psychological weaning. This is the process of outgrowing family domination and working towards the time when the young person establishes his or her own home. Similarly, parents should exercise control over young people, but with sympathy and understanding.
An area of immense concern, and which poses a problem for young people and their parents is sex and dating. Some parents today are prepared to give their children some latitude as far as dating and sex are concerned. In contrast, some parents are very overprotective, restricting their children from going out with the opposite sex, thus, many young people today are debarred from learning the valuable experience of adjusting to other persons. They also show deficiency in the development of social poise, which might not be available otherwise and this deprives them of their privilege. Therefore, parents, school, and the church can and should do more to promote wholesome relationships.
What can be done to address these problems? First, many of the sexually related problems of young people can be lessened if young people were given sufficient and suitable instruction well in advance of the time when sex is an immediate concern for them. Some surveys have shown that the primary source of information most children, regarding sex, is their peers, not from their parents. Secondly, the postponement of sex prior to marriage can go a long way to reduce the incidence of AIDS. And thirdly, the church can reinforce the Christian teaching of monogamy.
