Thursday, October 3, 2013
Unprotected Sex
Sex is when a male's private part and a female's private part are combined. Many people do it before they are married or even before they are 18. Unprotected sex can cause pregnancy when the male ejaculates inside the female's private part. The sperm will then travel to the ovum where it will fuse. There are many things that can happen when the female is pregnant.
The most common thing is, ABORTION. But during this money making era, aborting a baby is too costly and that is why many partners decide to just throw their newly born baby into places like rubbish bin, jungle, etc. There was this one case about a woman that threw her newly born baby from the fifth floor of her apartment. Exactly, imagine how that must have hurt. Even though protected sex can also cause pregnancy but the risk of pregnancy is way lower compared to unprotected sex. There are many ways to avoid pregnancy.
One of the most common ways is to use a condom which is sold in almost every mart such as 7-Eleven. But the chances of pregnancy will still be there as there can also be a tiny hole in the condom where the sperm might swim through. Condoms can be worn by males and females. The next method to avoid pregnancy is by inserting a diaphragm into the female's private part. A diaphragm will avoid the sperm to fuse with the ovum. But diaphragms cannot avoid the transmission of STD. Besides that, there is also birth control pills or also known as "the Pills". These pills will play around with the female's hormones and it will prevent the woman's eggs to be released in the ovaries. This method is useful but it has to be taken everyday because if it is not taken everyday then it will be less efficient and it also can cause side effects.
Poverty
Issue
Some people's opinion suggested that the hardship of one person has got nothing to do with another. Hey, get real people! Is it human to let others suffer while you just let it be and pretend nothing happened. Its true that some poverty are resulted from plain laziness and making the wrong decisions. However, what about those who are living in a country with weak government or a victim of a disaster. Should they be blamed for their predicament.
The major cause of poverty can be viewed by the cutbacks in health, education and other vital social services. It is a direct result from structural adjustment policies prescribed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. More over, developing countries compete with each other to gain stability in industry. They will tend to reduce wages and cheaper resources which can lead to inequality among people that can cause poverty.
Effects
1) Children
- Children are born physically and mentally disable and have low birth weight. Parents that bare the child are unable to provide sufficient nutrients to their infant so basically, a child born this way is not normal.
- They are also less educated compared to wealthy children. In fact, they can't even afford to go to a decent school. Furthermore, they often miss out on school because of their illness. Their disabilities also effects their learning capability. They are slower to understand in learning sessions and sometimes need special attention by teachers. All these factors disrupts them from learning.
- For those whom are not effected by disabilities, their major obstacle is financial support. They can't afford expensive learning tools like books and calculators which puts them at a disadvantage. Aside from that, they are unable to perform their furtheras education costs a lot. It's a shame because they have high desire to succeed but couldn't.


- In poor countries, job opportunity are very limited considering the low quantity of resources. Many that could not get a job remain jobless. So poor families will face financial problems. This causes high level of stress that may effect their health and their mentality
- can cause dispute among family members.
- increase crime rates because everyone are desperate for food and money. They are obligated to support their loved ones even if it means stealing.
3) Homelessness
- Children usually does not receive enough nutrients and immunization. They will receive health problems such as kwashiorkor due to lack of protein.
- Homeless women have problems in giving birth like higher risk of miscarriage due to unbalanced diet.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Censorship
For starters, censorship
is the banning of speech or other public communication that are considered
harmful, sensitive or politically incorrect which is determined by the people,
media or even government. Censorship is commonly used to avoid conflicts and
harmful influence towards other people.
There many examples
of censorship. One of the most common censorship we can see in our daily life
is in film. Some films may contain violent and sexual scene which is
inappropriate towards innocent children. So before movies are released onto the big screen, it must first be examine to categorise it into its category. It
is divided into 18>, 13> with the accompany of one adult and general. Did
you know that the popular movie, A Good Day to Die Hard was band in England. This
is due to the fact that the movie was going to be released in 13 above category
but it was banned because of inappropriate language use and physical violence
which should have been in 18 above.


Gun Control
Since ancient times, man uses weapons for self defence in
order to protect themselves from harm. Humans that lacked physical ability
compared to wild beast can protect their territories by killing them using
sharp wooden spears. When gun powder was discovered, weapon technology evolve
from simple spears and swords to guns and rockets.
Guns are important as it have may use and advantages.
Guns help people in so many ways in life and almost every country around the
world have them. So why is it that in some countries guns are
not legalised? Some have contradicted the use of guns as it also
brings problems with it. Arguments have been made between advocates and
protestors about the legalisation of guns. So lets discuss why
is it such a big issue nowadays.

me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. Safety assurance of owning a gun helps boost peoples confidence so they wont be easily subdue towards the attackers demands. In a way, guns reduces the need for physical violence. When you see hollywood movies, when a hero is attacked by a street gang, the worst possible outcome is only lip cut and minor bruises. However, real life situation is a completely different story. Victims usually come out with more severe damage such as broken bones or even death. Hence, most people would prefer owning a gun when they are going out especially at night were most crimes happened.

Basically, it is also fair to say that owning a gun is
an individual right. Polices are sometimes are overpowered by
criminals as they lack gun power. Instead, normal citizen owning a gun can give
contributions by helping the police to apprehend criminals. If we widen
our scoop of view, if every family in a country owns at least a gun, the
country will gain better protection from treats from other
countries. Government will not be distracted in protecting their
citizen and focus more on fighting of enemy attacks. Well armed citizen also
well
protected against government tyranny.

Guns are also deadly when in falls into the hand
of childrens. It is reported that American
schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their
victims. Dan Olweus, National School Safety Center. Victims of bullies
undergo tremendous pressure and constant fear of getting picked on.
Hence, they tend to make weak judgements when their mind are full of hatred
towards the bullies. There have been many reports that bullied students brought
firearms in school where they massacre the bullies and other students to
get even. Furthermore, young innocent children are to naive to compare right
or wrong. If guns are legalized, chances are, accidents are more likely to
happen if it fall in to the children's hands.

gun is available. Guns are used in about half of U.S. suicides, compared with 64 percent in Kentucky. And suicides involving firearms are fatal 85 percent of the time, compared with less than 3 percent for pills, according to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.
So know we know why is it that is such hot
social issue this time around. It is true that it have many benefits: however
in my opinion, I have to appose it as the casualty is more severe. But its up
to others to decide whether it is right or wrong, so think about it.
Anorexia Nervosa
Malaysia is well known for its varieties of food where it is
available everywhere so only few would have guess that eating disorder are
spreading among Malaysian people. Based on the New
Straits Times, according to statistics,
anorexia cases were the highest in 2010, which was 127, then reduced to 111 in
2011. The ministry's Nutrition Division director Rokiah Don have
pinpointed that anorexia is rising in urban areas.


Take care of your body!!!
Anorexia nervosa are highly serious matter as they have a huge impact towards a persons health. Patients will experience low blood pressure as their heart muscles constantly getting more and more weaker. As a result, their heart rate declined and have high risk of having a heart failure. The lack of nutrient intake in body will cause osteoporosis which is the reduction of bone mass. Weak bones can fracture easily under certain impact. Patience also suffer severe dehydration that can cause them to have kidney failure and hair loss.
In brief, anorexia nervosa is an alarming issue must be dealt
with. It can cause serious harm to other people. People should not stop eating.
If we want to get fit then we should retain a healthy diet and exercise daily.
If it brings more harm than good, is it really that worth it?
Stem Cell Research
Stem cell
research started way back in the year 1978 and it’s still being carried on
until today. Basically stem cells can be used to regenerate any cell in a
living organism. This means if you lost a finger in an accident, you can use
stem cells to regenerate a new finger. In simple words, a stem cell is like the
“mother” of cells because it can act like any cell in the body.
One of the
greatest stories about stem cell research is definitely related to Christopher
Reeve. If you didn’t know, Christopher Reeve was the first Superman in movies.
He was a great actor until he faced a tragic horse-riding accident. He broke
his neck, damaged his spinal cord, and
he couldn’t breathe without a
respirator. Basically, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed. He did heavy researches
on the spinal cord and he found stem cells. Stem cells are only found in
embryos. So, the stem cells need to be extracted from fetuses. Once
the stem cells are extracted, they can then be used in patients to regenerate
any missing body parts. Note that
stem cells also work on animals. Christopher
Reeve is an iconic person in the stem cell research because he did a lot of
work in promoting the medical advances in stem cell research. Nearing the end
Reeve’s death, he was actually able to regain some movements in his fingers,
elbows, knees, and toes. Not only that, he was felt hot and cold. This shows
that the stem cells have really helped. Scientifically, the stem cells have
transformed into nerve cells, allowing him to feel any difference in
temperature.
Although
stem cell research brings a lot of medical advances, there are many
controversies about it. First of all, stem cells need to be extracted from
fetuses. This is a problem because it’s kind of like taking the baby’s life
away. Not only that, medical facilities need to a lot of stem cells to do the
research. Therefore, they are taking away many lives away. But at the same
time, using stem cells could
increase the life span of a living organism. Other
than that, certain stem cell therapies have actually developed horrible side
effects. There was one time where after a stem cell therapy
was done, there was
a developing tumor in the body. Aside from that, stem cells have not actually
cured any particular disease. One of the main controversies is “playing god”.
By taking away one’s life just to increase your lifespan is unethical and
wrong.Global Warming
In simple
words, global warming is the rise in the atmospheric temperature of the Earth.
This is also related to the enhanced greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is
very simple. Firstly, ultraviolet radiation from the Sun will enter the Earth’s
atmosphere. The Earth will then absorb and radiate solar radiation.
Theoretically, the solar radiation is supposed to go out of the atmosphere. But
due to the greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere, they will absorb and
re-radiate it back to the surface to the Earth. As a result, the temperature of
Earth has increased.
Global
warming has existed for many years. However, due to an increase in human
activity, global warming has become worse. Some of the major human/natural
causes of global warming are listed
below:
- ·Combustion/Burning of fossil fuels
- ·Production of ammonia (Haber Process)
- ·Formation of Nitrogen Dioxide in the atmosphere
- ·Chlorofluorocarbons in air conditioners
- ·Increase in ozone gas (O3)
Due to global
warming, there have been many effects and some of them are often linked to one
another.
- Rise of sea level – The increase in temperature leads to the melting of ice caps on the North and South Pole.
- Loss of Habitation - Knowing that the ice caps have melted, life on the North and South Pole will soon deplete. Imagine a family of polar bears trying to survive without any home.
- Acid Rain - Burning of fossil fuels will release a lot of carbon dioxide. That carbon dioxide can react with rainwater to form acid rain.
- Health Issues - In terms of air pollution, some of the pollutants present in the atmosphere can cause respiratory and cardiovascular problems. Not only that, by inhaling the air particles (pollutants) for a long period of time, it can lead to heavy brain damage.
- Climate Change - Although the temperature increases, it doesn’t necessarily mean every location on Earth will have summer. For instance, certain places like UK might be facing colder conditions.
- Change in Food Chains - Once an (animal) population dies due to the global warming effects, it will surely affect the other animals connected in the food chain. For example, birds eat fish. If the population of fish suddenly dropped due to acid rain, the number of birds will also decrease because there isn’t enough food.


Nowadays,
we are developing new technologies to try and reduce this problem. We have
catalytic converters installed in every vehicle. They are able to convert very
harmful pollutants to less harmful pollutants. We have solar panels which can
absorb the Sun’s energy. That absorbed energy can then be used to power up the
lighting in a building/house. We have electrically-powered cars which only uses
electrical energy instead of petrol. This is very eco-friendly since it doesn’t
even release carbon dioxide. Finally, new air-conditioning systems are heavily modified
so that they are configured not to release CFC’s.
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