Antismoking Law to Create Friendly Environment

Everybody needs and has right in getting health because healthy is invaluable thing for his/her. However, some people do not care about their surrounding by doing unhealthy habit, such as smoking which causes air pollution. To protect non-smoking citizens from air pollution is needed antismoking law to create friendly environment. At least, antismoking law should include three things, such as right to health, reducing cigarette production, and smoke-free zones.

Right to health, as initial, should be included in antismoking law. People need fresh air in his/her respiration to live normally. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 harmful chemicals, such as tar, arsenic, benzene, cadmium, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and other harmful chemicals. Tar that is a mixture of lots of chemicals can cause cancer. Arsenic can cause cancer as well as damaging the heart and its blood vessels. Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous gas and carbon monoxide sticks to our red blood cells in place of oxygen. Thus, right to health should be included in antismoking law to protect people from the dangers of cigarette smoke.

As the next, reducing cigarette production should be done by government. It has to make rule in reducing this production as the aim to bring back fresh air. It can be done by raising taxes on cigarette production or promoting awareness not to smoke early, through health institutions, schools, or the family. This way could reduce cigarette production and protect non-smoking citizens.

Subsequently, government should make smoke-free zones rule. Public place should free from cigarette smoke and provide smoking room for smoker. It is not fair that non-smokers have to inhale smoke that has the potential to affect their health. The current health risks are faced by passive smokers, even with greater risks than active smokers. Smoke-free zones and providing smoking room is fair decision in separating smokers and non smokers. So, they will get their rights.

Overall, antismoking law has to be created as soon as possible to create friendly environment. Fair decision should be take for both smokers and non smokers to preserve their rights.

Punctual and Tardy People

There are many types of people in this world. Everybody is unique and it makes this world be colorful. There are many ways in dividing people, such as race, skin color, regions, and others. One of ways in dividing people, easily and simply, is punctuality. By this type, people can be divided into punctual and tardy people.

Punctual people are the people who have good management in time. They schedule everything and manage their time to do their job effectively and efficiently. “Time is money” is their slogan. They do their jobs on time and always wait to the other jobs. Punctual people, as diligent ones, are the people whom enterprise need. However, to be punctual people needs great effort. Although it is not easy, it is not impossible to be punctual people.

In contrast, tardy people are the opposite of punctual people. They do not have good management in their time. As a consequence, they do their jobs in chaotic. Have a difference of punctual people, tardy ones usually are the lazy people. They wait the deadline to do the job. Finally, they need longer time in finishing. In short, tardy people are the people who do not plan their time in doing the job.

To be punctual or tardy people is a choice. Everybody has to choose one of them and receive the consequence. Considering the effect is the best way to decide the decision.

 

Death Penalty as Controversy

Rule and law are needed in this world to create peaceful world and protect people right. However, there are many controversial laws, death penalty for the instance. Death penalty has been the punishment in many countries for a long time ago. Some people agree with this punishment, but disagree for others.

Death penalty, for some people, is relevant in this era. As the highest punishment, it is good to control peacefulness. For example, if there is a person who kills others, he/she will get this punishment. It will make people think twice to kill someone and protect human right to live. This punishment will decrease crime and give the secure for people who live in this world. Beside for murderer, death penalty is some people opinion is relevant for corruptor. They kill many people because of their faults. Thus, death penalty is relevant in this era.

On the contrary, some people think this punishment is no longer relevant in this era because they think that only God who have right to take someone’s soul. The government has to protect the citizen right to live although for some murderer. Murderer and corruptor have a right too to change their life to be better. In short, only God has right to take someone’s soul.

To sum up, relevant or not, people in this world need to live safely and have rights to live normally. Execution in death penalty should be reviewed again. The most important is not the execution, but to keep the world peacefully.

Kick Andy as an educational TV program

Television, commonly abbreviated as TV, is a media tool which can be used for promoting and communicating by its programs. Bad as the TV programs are broadcasted in many TV channels, good and educational programs still get spot on the show. Kick Andy is one of good programs that is surviving and gets attention from the audience. Ki Hadjar Dewantara said that education is about “educating the head (cognition), the heart (affection), and the hands (psychomotor)”[1]. This-talk show is educational program because it presents two of three education domains, cognition and affection, and inspiring.

Cognition, as initial, is often associated with knowing and program presented by Andy F. Noya shows this aspect. Kreativitas Tanpa Batas (unlimited creativity) that was aired on February 8, 2013 and Kreasi Anak Negeri (creation of domestic people) on May 8, 2009 are the small part of many cognitive shows in Kick Andy. These shows explain the ability of domestic people in science and creativity. They could create and produce many valuable products. As other evidence, in the end of sections, this program shares many books to the audience. In other word, with cognitive shows, Kick Andy is the one of education program and contributes in developing Indonesian education.

Subsequently, Kick Andy has aired many shows which are related with affection. Affection is often associated with feeling and heart. It has showed many affective programs such as Berbagi dengan Sesama (share with others) on January 25, 2013 and Bahagia dalam Keterbatasan (happy in limitations) at January 18, 2013. They are the evidences that this is educational program and teaches us about caring, sharing, and helping others. Not only on theory and assembly, this program has a foundation to collect funds from generous people and share to people in need. Obviously, Kick Andy has been the educational TV program and actively participate improving education in this country.

This program inspires Indonesian citizen. It has been the great teacher. The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, the great teacher inspires (William Arthur Ward). The shows have influenced, moved, and guided the audience to be better. This is the main in education. It makes the people improve their selves and create real learners who learn to learn, without compulsion. In short, Kick Andy never stops inspiring and participating in education.

In conclusion, as TV program, Kick Andy is consistent in showing quality programs and actively participates in improving Indonesian people to be better. This has been an education TV program and deserves to be watched.

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[1] Theo Riyanto, Pemikiran Ki Hajar Dewantara Tentang Pendidikan, http://bruderfic.or.id/h-59/pemikiran-ki-hajar-dewantara-tentang-pendidikan.html accessed at May 9, 2012.

A person who has made a difference: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is a well-known physicist even though he had many problems in his educational background. When he was child, he could not grow normally like other children. He also didn’t pass the final secondary school exam and failed entering Zurich University. He had many different ways in thinking and solving the problems with his teachers and lecturers that cause them to presume Albert was the dull person.

His “different way” in thinking and solving his problem made him feel free to think anything with anyways. He developed some spectacular physics theories without having to obey old theories, such as special and general relativity, mass-energy equivalence, and photoelectric effect.  Nowaday, his theory, mass-energy equivalence, E=mc², and general relativity are the most famous formula in physics. On contrary, at that moment this theory was not received. After he got nobel prize in phycics for his theoritical phycics theory, photoelectric effect, some scientists started to turn their ways in thinking. Later, this theory took the main rule in quantum theory.

He had changed the viewpoint of physicist from Classical Mechanics (Newtonian mechanics) into Quantum mechanics. He had changed the scientists’ opinions about gravity, energy, time and space, and electron’s behavior. He has regarded as the father of modern physics.