Freedom is precious to everyone, especially to teenagers. To them, freedom is able to go anywhere without parents' consent, freedom is able to do anything they want and they like without any restrictions. However, when actions of freedom bring hurt to any party's feelings, the freedom is being taken for granted. Everything we do is related to other as we are living together in the world...
In my opinion, I think that the west has too much freedom. Take for example, few years ago when Denmark's Jyllands-Posten’s two illustrators takes up cudgels for freedom of expression produced cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The newspaper published the series of cartoons, after a writer complained that nobody dared illustrate his book about Mohammad.
Because of this, it caused social instability as it arouses anger in many Muslim which lead them to protests, burning down Denmark Flags. The freedom of the media in Denmark, in this case had been insensitive to the feelings of the Muslim thus it show that freedom of media has not been put to good use and this kind of freedom should not be cherished.
To add oil to fire, countries in the West continue to spread the cartoons of prophet Mohammad using the media’s freedom of expression and speech… this further spread angers to the Muslims in the West… this shows that the media in the West had too much freedom which lead to being insensitive to others feelings causing instability.
Another incident showing West having too much freedom is the Virginia Tech Massacre. In America, everyone has the right to buy a gun after the age of to protect themselves. This is too much of a freedom, when everyone has the right to have a gun, they tend to misuse the guns. They will not use words nor fists to solve problems but they will use guns instead. The dun in America is designed as a tools to stop evil people from hurting innocent people in the gun law. However, evil people can also own a gun… this means that evil people can also hurt innocent people with a guns. Having this gun law, it encourages people to use force to solve problems… in this case, it will cause the country to be in chaos as killing of people become so easy and it’s difficult to track the killers.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Media do not report the news; they make the news
There are many types of media- newspaper, Internet, magazine, television, radio. It can be in the form of pictures, words, sounds or video. No matter in what form, it can affect greatly on the readers or viewers points of views as media is the source of our information to the world.
Readers and viewers point of viewers do not just be affected by watching or hearing the news; it is due to how the journalists, editor, and news presenter present the news to the reader and viewers. If the news is presented in such a way that a certain party is at fault, most of the people in the world who view such a similar news will condemned the ‘wrong’ party being at fault.
Affecting the readers and viewers point of views is not too a serious problem as the readers and viewers still has the ability and rationality to have their own point of view of the whole incident. What is more serious is that the news that is not true is brought to the viewers and readers. In other words, the media make the news. In doing this, the media had caused injustice to the party who are involved in the ‘fake’ news and also caused ignorance in the readers and viewers. This is unfair to the readers and viewers as they have the right to know the truth, since the media is responsible for REPORTING the truth.
The incidents of injustice have been done mostly in the case of entertainment and statistic. For examples, making news like a certain celebrity might be pregnant, has an underground relationship with a guy or a girls, edit photos to make celebrity seems like they are dating. Or, even to slot in dialogue that was not made by the celebrity involved. Doing such things might tarnish the reputation of the party involved and will also caused misunderstanding which might lead to undesirable effects. As a Chinese saying goes:’ fan ke yi ruan chi, hua bu ke yi ruan jiang’. Meaning, can anyhow eat anything but cannot anyhow spout words.
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/awful/index.jsp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070423/en_celeb_eo/19843b6e_a2d645a8_a20c_014e5ea58772;_ylt=AiASXTdGav_hFYRECEKxawhdDxkF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070423/en_afp/entertainmentus;_ylt=AjhaYC3mb.V5ZNgz0eFqm21dDxkF
Readers and viewers point of viewers do not just be affected by watching or hearing the news; it is due to how the journalists, editor, and news presenter present the news to the reader and viewers. If the news is presented in such a way that a certain party is at fault, most of the people in the world who view such a similar news will condemned the ‘wrong’ party being at fault.
Affecting the readers and viewers point of views is not too a serious problem as the readers and viewers still has the ability and rationality to have their own point of view of the whole incident. What is more serious is that the news that is not true is brought to the viewers and readers. In other words, the media make the news. In doing this, the media had caused injustice to the party who are involved in the ‘fake’ news and also caused ignorance in the readers and viewers. This is unfair to the readers and viewers as they have the right to know the truth, since the media is responsible for REPORTING the truth.
The incidents of injustice have been done mostly in the case of entertainment and statistic. For examples, making news like a certain celebrity might be pregnant, has an underground relationship with a guy or a girls, edit photos to make celebrity seems like they are dating. Or, even to slot in dialogue that was not made by the celebrity involved. Doing such things might tarnish the reputation of the party involved and will also caused misunderstanding which might lead to undesirable effects. As a Chinese saying goes:’ fan ke yi ruan chi, hua bu ke yi ruan jiang’. Meaning, can anyhow eat anything but cannot anyhow spout words.
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/awful/index.jsp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070423/en_celeb_eo/19843b6e_a2d645a8_a20c_014e5ea58772;_ylt=AiASXTdGav_hFYRECEKxawhdDxkF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070423/en_afp/entertainmentus;_ylt=AjhaYC3mb.V5ZNgz0eFqm21dDxkF
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
YouTube has no ethics; it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.
Youtube, broadcast yourself is establish to allow uploading, viewing and sharing of videos by many individuals. It is a site where people can visit for entertainment and information. Anyone can create an account for free in youtube, and this allows them to upload video,post comments and rating.The range of video available in youtube, varies from drama series, real-life video, speeches, cartoons, animation and many more.
Youtube has done certain measures to stop inappropriate video from spreading in the Internet. Viewers of inappropriate video can flag the video as inappropriate and the youtube committee will suspense the account of the person who post the inappropriate video, removing all video which were posted by the person. Whether, the inappropriate video is being flagged as inappropriate, it depends on the viewers whether to flag it a not.
However, this is not a fool-proof measures to stop unethical video from spreading in the Internet. As the saying goes, 'prevention is better than cure'. The youtube committee should review all video being uploaded before approving to post the video over the Internet. In this way, unethical video will have no chance to reach to any viewers. With this, the unethical video cannot be downloaded by anyone when it has no chance to reach the viewers.
Apart from issue of unethical video post on youtube for entertainment, there is this issue of youtube is established for the purpose of making money. Making money from the Internet is very common. Advertisers want to post advertisement on youtube proof that youtube is a success website. Advertisers won't just pay to post advertisement on any website. Youtube was a success thus it is reasonable to earn money from it when the youtube committee has put in effort to make the website a success. Thus, earning money from their own effort is absolutely a reasonable things.
Youtube has taken measures to stop unethical video from spreading over the Internet. It is just that the measures taken was not a perfect one. Thus it is unfair to say that youtube has no ethics. On the other hand, it is absolutely reasonable for youtube to earn money from their own efforts.
Youtube has done certain measures to stop inappropriate video from spreading in the Internet. Viewers of inappropriate video can flag the video as inappropriate and the youtube committee will suspense the account of the person who post the inappropriate video, removing all video which were posted by the person. Whether, the inappropriate video is being flagged as inappropriate, it depends on the viewers whether to flag it a not.
However, this is not a fool-proof measures to stop unethical video from spreading in the Internet. As the saying goes, 'prevention is better than cure'. The youtube committee should review all video being uploaded before approving to post the video over the Internet. In this way, unethical video will have no chance to reach to any viewers. With this, the unethical video cannot be downloaded by anyone when it has no chance to reach the viewers.
Apart from issue of unethical video post on youtube for entertainment, there is this issue of youtube is established for the purpose of making money. Making money from the Internet is very common. Advertisers want to post advertisement on youtube proof that youtube is a success website. Advertisers won't just pay to post advertisement on any website. Youtube was a success thus it is reasonable to earn money from it when the youtube committee has put in effort to make the website a success. Thus, earning money from their own effort is absolutely a reasonable things.
Youtube has taken measures to stop unethical video from spreading over the Internet. It is just that the measures taken was not a perfect one. Thus it is unfair to say that youtube has no ethics. On the other hand, it is absolutely reasonable for youtube to earn money from their own efforts.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
The teenage years are the best years of one’s life
Teenage year is a period of time that everyone has to go through… It is a time when teens need people to talk to, become emotionally unstable, sensitive, and self-conscious. Thus, these are the factors which lead to teens following the ‘emo’ trend nowadays.
Due to the rapid industrialization and sex equality, the female had also joined the work force instead of taking care of domestic affairs at home. As a result, teens at home have even a lower probability to sit down with ONE of their parents to express own thoughts, problems and difficulties. This will lead to the sensitive teen feeling lonely and worthless. As an alternative, the teen might look up on his or her friends. However, when all his or her fair-weathered friends left him or her, he or she will be thrown into despair. At this point of time, when he or she cannot not expressing himself or herself verbally, he or she will express it through action, in this case, cutting their wrist.
Apart from the lack of care and concern, the stress of school life is also another reason that drives teenagers into a corner. The high expectations from their parents or themselves make them work like a bull. However, despite the hard work, but still up to expectations, teens feel that they are useless. This, too, cause them into despair.
On the other hand, apart from academic results, looks also take up a large portion of teenagers’ life, as most of them are self conscious. Fluffy hair, fat legs, slightly protruding tummy, pimples, flabby arms are a BIG NO NO to many, due to the influence of models of slim products, facial products and hair products who appeared on the television. Thinking of how to improve their looks, this adds to the stress of the teens.
When stress builds up day by day, it is like sand pouring over u in a pit. When the sand covers you completely, u will eventually suffocate to death…
Due to the rapid industrialization and sex equality, the female had also joined the work force instead of taking care of domestic affairs at home. As a result, teens at home have even a lower probability to sit down with ONE of their parents to express own thoughts, problems and difficulties. This will lead to the sensitive teen feeling lonely and worthless. As an alternative, the teen might look up on his or her friends. However, when all his or her fair-weathered friends left him or her, he or she will be thrown into despair. At this point of time, when he or she cannot not expressing himself or herself verbally, he or she will express it through action, in this case, cutting their wrist.
Apart from the lack of care and concern, the stress of school life is also another reason that drives teenagers into a corner. The high expectations from their parents or themselves make them work like a bull. However, despite the hard work, but still up to expectations, teens feel that they are useless. This, too, cause them into despair.
On the other hand, apart from academic results, looks also take up a large portion of teenagers’ life, as most of them are self conscious. Fluffy hair, fat legs, slightly protruding tummy, pimples, flabby arms are a BIG NO NO to many, due to the influence of models of slim products, facial products and hair products who appeared on the television. Thinking of how to improve their looks, this adds to the stress of the teens.
When stress builds up day by day, it is like sand pouring over u in a pit. When the sand covers you completely, u will eventually suffocate to death…
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