Effective Writing G6

WHY????Tell me why!

What happen to youngsters nowadays? 13-14 years old smoking, video taking their classmates being beaten up,and just laugh along! What is this?! In public, you can hear foul languages coming from teenagers and also showing disgraceful behaviour. Well,this is part of my topic today. Are teens in need of etiquette lessons in school?

Definitely YES! But the problem is,will teenagers bother to listen? What should be done so that teenagers show RESPECT & RESPONSIBLILITY in everything they do? Firstly, teenagers can't learn these disgraceful behaviours by their own.I am sure someone have taught them! Perhaps,some parents did not discipline their child well or they uses vulgar languages too often resulting in the child learning from them.Anyway,NO offense to Parents!

Also, parents should have more interaction/discipline with their child,telling them more about etiquette behaviours! Maybe some teenagers are influenced by their bad peers! To prevent this,parents should take note of the friends that thier child makes.Well, nowadays in secondary school,there is a new lesson called "Character Education". It teaches students on RESPECT,RESPONSIBILITY and other moral values. To make the students listen in class, marks/grades is counted for this lesson!. Teachers should try to make the lessons interesting by showing pictures,videos(of disgraceful behaviour).Although this can't solve the problem of teenagers being disrespectful, it helps to reduce the percentage.

I sincerely hope that with this measures carried out,teenagers(including me) can have better social behaviour.----> allowing seats to elders on trains and buses, reduce usage of foul languages in public, no fighting,help others who are in need, no littering! =)

Over the past few years, Pakistan have been addicted to facebook. Including former President Pervez Musharraf, who recenctly began using the website as a way to update his "fans" about his speaking engagements and his new political party. Facebook had been a comment social networking around pakistan, but now it has come to an end for Pakistans. It is ban now due to a user-generated contest page that encourged members to post caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

The Lahore High Court in Pakistan  instructed Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to ban the site after the Islamic Lawyers Movement complained that a page called “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” is blasphemous. The website consist of critisism and  protest against Islamists who threaten violence against individuals that attempt to depict Muhammad. It suggested everybody create a drawing representing Muhammad, a prophet of Islam, as a protest against Islamist efforts to limit freedom of speech.

To my point of view, I feel that banning facebook in Pakistan is unfair just because 1 or 2 person's mistake who created that facebook account. It is unfair for others in Pakistan who is using it to communicate with their family or long lost family relations and keeping contect with their love ones who are living else where. But for the mistake that this 1 or 2 people did, i feel they they should take serious actions on them because its making people whos leaving there to be worried and scared about whats going to happen next, eg: terrorism.

Rekka

The furore over a competition encouraging users to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on facebook has caused the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to issue a block on Facebook until the 31st of May . Pakistani muslims stepped up to condemn the user-generated contest for blasphemy, as the depiction of any prophet is strictly prohibited in Islam (favorable or not).

The Facebook group “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” has generated heaps of criticism in the predominantly Muslim Islamic Republic of Pakistan – Muslims faithfuls set up online campaigns and other forms of protests to grab the attention of the authorities. The page has been censored in India as well by Facebook.

Numerous controversies have sprouted up over the years over drawings of Mohammed, including a Danish cartoonist who sparked backlash in multiple Arab countries after drawing multiple cartoons of Mohammed for a book cover. The debate over whether or not images of Mohammed should be drawn have raged on for years, but when Pakistan banned Facebook due to groups which posted such pictures, the debate was reignited. One group, succeeded at attracting over 100,000 members and more than 11,000 photos of Mohammed.

While Facebook obviously hopes Pakistan will restore access to the site, it’s difficult for the company to constantly monitor groups which post Mohammed cartoons. Facebook most definitely has a team to filter through any offensive photos, however images depicting Mohammed have never been on the ban list. . It will be interesting to see if Facebook decides to ban similar remaining groups and pages.

Michelle

hihi again.=) 

Well, personally i think that it isn't a good decision to ban facebook.Even if facebook is banned, other people could also post it on internet.In fact all other islamic countries have acknowledged it and did not ban facebook except Pakistan.This is only my views on it so please don't get furious if you don't agree with me.=(

For people who don't know what is facebook. I shall explain to you! =) Facebook is a social-networking website.Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. However, one should respect each other religion and know what to post and not to. So lets show our Respect and Responsiblility to bring about a peaceful SOCIETY ! =)

Smartphones. A crucial and important gaget used mainly for communicating in this modernise world. This device is being used by almost all of mankind. Some, to the extent might even be addicted to this small invention. Using a smartphone is not a big issue. However, the prompting question by many is where to draw the line of using it.

As you know, this smartphone (commonly known as a handphone) is a huge distraction in our lives. For myself as a student, this small little contraption is very important to me. It allows me to send SMS, MMS, take pictures, listen to music etc. It not onlys entertains me but it also make it much easier for me to talk to my family and friends during any part of the day. On the contrary, my lecturers and tutors find it really annoying when i use it in class. To them, it is a plain act of disrespect and a gigantic distraction to them. Therefore, they think its a great place to draw the line of the usage of my smartphone. i find this really contradicting because i am 100 percent sure that at least 1 of my teachers use it in a meeting with their superior. So now that they are in our shoes, they will know how we feel. This vicious cycle will continue down the working worldt. Hence, i don't find it an appropriate question to ask as there really isn't a line to draw. It all depends on where, when, why and how is the phone used.

Basically, drawing the line is just being naive as different people have different purpose of using it. If the phone is used for fun and games, then they have crossed it. However, if the phone is used for a real purpose ( family emergency) then i think that that really is not a problem.

Gabriel Tan. Group 6.

Today's smart phones are both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, they certainly have made business communications easier and faster. On the other hand, people have almost become lost in them. With instant access to email and the internet, we are losing ourselves to cyberspace and forgetting the world around us. When we lose touch, we become less productive, we lose our personal interaction skills and we end up offending the people around us. So how do we reap the benefits of our smart phones while keeping successful business relationships with co-workers and customers?

The answer is to know the proper use and etiquette of this new technology and to integrate it into your everyday business behavior.

We’ve all been quite attached to Cell Phones for a while now. It’s time for us to learn some of the rules–or commandments–of phone etiquette. Phones have changed. People have changed. It’s high time for the two to be in sync with one another to a degree at which we can all be comfortable.

Most importantly, remember that if you are looking at your smart phone, you are not listening to the person speaking or paying attention to your surroundings and you could miss something important or be perceived as not being interested.

At the end of the day we should be a master, but not a slave to it. If your use of the phone is going to bother someone around you, then be a master of it and turn it off. Don’t use it.

Michelle

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