Sunday, 21 June 2009
People should have a freedom to do what they want. Everyone has the right to say what he\she wants or thinks. Quran says everyone was born with freedom, and they should have it until the day they are dying. You don’t see the happiness in your life if you don’t have the freedom.
Forbidding people from doing things that they like or they think make them do these things all the more. Sometimes, you don’t know what are the advantages of forbidding you to do or try something. But when you try it you will know everything about it. For instance, when I was fifteen years old, my mother didn’t allow me to drink alcohol. That makes me had more desire for drinking alcohol. I thought it’s a good thing to try it, but unfortunately it wasn’t.
If we don’t have a freedom to say what we want, we can’t improve ourselves. No one knows our skills and talents, and what we are able to do for our country and community. For example, we want to have a democratic government in our country, but we are not allowed to say anything bad about the government. The government will not help to show your skills and talents if you don’t have relatives in the government. I think if they continue with forbidding people to say what they want, the government will not change.
In conclusion, people were born with freedom, and they should have it. It’s not a good idea to forbid people from doing things because we are making them trying these things all the more, and we need improvement in every field in our life.
My Mother
The Most Memorable Vacation I Ever Took was to Syria
Our flight took three hours. By the time, we arrived at the airport, there was a taxi that was waiting us, and we went to the hotel. The hotel was 22 km away from the airport and took us 40 minutes to reach it. When we arrived at the hotel, we were so tired, and we slept straight away. The hotel was in one of the most amazing places on the Red Sea in Lattakia. We had a suite with three beds, and it had a sea side. Our room was high- technology with remote control for lighting, music, TV, and air conditioning. The panoramic view of the surroundings from the hotel was mind blowing. The location of the hotel was astonishing for tourists in terms of entertainment and sightseeing. Every night, we went to the party in the club at the hotel. It was nice, and we learned Arabic dancing. We had many fishing tours in our vacation. When we were there, most of the time we ate food at different kinds of restaurants of foreign countries. We met foreign people, and it was helpful to know more about other cultures. We used the swimming pool for doing our daily exercises. After two weeks, we went to Halab city that is the biggest Kurdish city in Syria. We visited the Hamidiah bazaar that is the most popular bazaar in Syria. We saw the parts of that bazaar, and every part had its specialty. We bought everything that we wanted. The day after, we went back to sulaimani.
In conclusion, being outside of your country means a lot. Regarding to the familiarity to the other cultures and see the world outside your country. By this trip to Syria, I have learnt a lot of how to adapt for new environments and interact with foreigners. This trip fed me up in terms of hotels, traditional bazaars, moles, and night clubs.
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Physical exercise are very helpful things in the process of education. They are a way for people to live in peace. In my opinion, physical exercise should be a required part of every school day because it helps students to do practically what they have learned in the class, and it helps them
to have a good behave with people, lose weight, and be healthy.
Sometimes, our teachers give us some information about subjects, but we aren't understanding everything about these subjects until we do physical exercise by ourselves. Physical exercise make you think deeply and faster than the normal way about the subject. For example, when I was at high school, one of my teachers gave us a lecture about playing voleyball, but I didn't understand how to play and the rules of the game exactly. After that, I played volleyball, and I understood everything about it.
Physical exercise make people relax, lose weight, and healthy . People who are doing physical exercise, have nice body, and they are very calm and quiet with other people. They learn how to fight for things peacefully. This makes them behave good with people. The researchers found that people who are doing Physical exercise, live longer than the people who don't. For instance,three years ago, I was at high school. My weight was about 90 killos, and I was very with other people because I didn't do any practises. But right now, I am doing a lot of physical exercise. Doing physical exercise make me another person. I lost 10 killos of my weight. I behave better, and feel healthier than I was.
All in all, Physical exercise are a good way for people to learn things. They make people behave better with together. They make them lose weight and be healthy.
Sunday, 31 May 2009
IM Universal Language
In this article, Menand mean that phone messages and instant messages are increased, so textures are more likely tend to write their texts in English due to the simplicity of this language.
I’m surprised when I wanted to talk with a new (online friend) when I just understood his “hello”. It’s a fact that my English is not very well, but yet I can speak in English or at least I can understand it. However, I couldn’t understand English when I was speaking on net because they use so many strange abbreviations that I’ve never seen them before. Text messaging is one of the most common net activities. Once you want to talk and interact with people on the internet, you’ll face this strange words “lol, brb, bf , gf and many others”. They are easy to remember once you practiced them. People call it IM language. This IM language seems to be the first universal language men have ever created. Yet this language has some bad effects on our daily life.
First, it reduces using a local language or your mother tongue when you are not an English speaker. Learning English is important for toady but not that funny English that never helps anyone in the formal occasions. IM doesn’t help us to learn English correctly or learn correct English at least. Because of this reason IM messaging could be a bad process of using English language as well as disusing native languages.
Second, using IM symbols leads to create inhomogeneous language, because every group on net tend to create their own abbreviation and language. You’ll believe it when you go online and see you can’t understand many of them, because they are updated or personal. This abundance leads to not creating nice atmosphere by confusing people about using language. It causes a bad result when people decide to create their language group because language is not an easy case for people to create. This confusion also leads new English learners to frustrate about learning English because they can’t get a little of it while they try very hard to understand and speak by it. Confusion could be a great damage which IM creates it.
Third, it reduces the beauty of language. One aspect of using language is how to use it literary. When you poetic language, you’ll be amazed directly. When you hear about intellectual language, you’ll admire how words can explain such things. With IM, the beauty of these using would be zero. Everything that you should know about language in IM era is just a few abbreviations and words that people update it and change it daily. Tendency toward digging deep into language will be less and less. Literature will lose its delighted face. IM leads people to forget about them. The problem is, with progressing techniques of communications this phenomena takes a progressive face.
Yet using IM has some advantages like efficiency of using language. Languages especially English always tends to create a better and faster way to communicate with each other. With IM English found a path to create it. When we see this creation is used universally, we know about its advantages because at last language is basically created to help people to communicate. The more efficient they can do it, the more advantage they can get from using it. In this case IM is very useful for helping us to create all over the world. Just like McDonalds and Subway which provide fast food universally, the global army which protects the world’s safety and the organization which asks for nation’s rights, we need an easy language which people can understand it without much difficulty. With IM this dream could be true. It’s not just exaggeration when we experience it.
In conclusion, IM as the other inventions in the world has some positive and negative aspects. In my point of view its bad aspects are much more than it’s good. Like it helps us to create –or to find a path- a universal language but it reduced the beauty of language as well as reducing tendency toward the correct form of a formal and useful language. Furthermore, IM most of the times is personal or belongs to a specific type of groups online, when they agree to use a new model of significant abbreviations. This universal language is not a proper one as I think because even if at last we could create a language, we create a very weak one which at last we’ll return to our native immediately.
Monday, 25 May 2009
Polygamy
Why are men allowed to have more than one wife, but women are not. If a man has more than one wife, and he has sex with all of them, after, the wives get pregnant, and they give birth. The children would know their mother. But, if a woman has more than one husband, and she has sex with all of the husbands, after she gets pregnant, and she gives birth. The children wouldn't know their children. Polygamy exists in Kurdistan. Some people don't agree with it especially women. People who don't agree with polygamy want to prohibit it because they think polygamy is the way to persuade women. Due to the reason that is most of the people in my country are Muslims, and they accept polygamy. They think it solves many social and domestic problems. In our country, we always have wars and enmity between tribes. We have many women who lost their husbands. Women who lost their husbands can't earn enough money for their children, so they have to work. They become prostitutes, and they sell their body for sex, in order to earn money or they persuade their small children to work. They work as a servant because they don't have a house to live in, and someone to protect them. However, polygamy have some problems. Men can't earn money for all the wives or the wives can't live together.
In conclusion, polygamy is a legal rule in Islam. It solves many problems, but sometimes, it makes some problems.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Things Are Forbidden Makes People Want Those Things All The More
When, certain things are being forbidden some problems come along with them. The reason behind this is when something is forbidden people have more desire for it. It is like a nature of human beings. When, they know that they can't do something or we are not allowed to do something we get really curious about it. Sometimes, people don't have a control over this curiosity, and they might be thinking what if we tried to do it just for once and see what it is like, so that we won't be curious anymore.
For example, drugs like marijuana and alcohol that might be forbidden in some societies because of or religious reasons, or maybe something like cigarettes especially when, you are young, and your parents don't allow you to smoke. It is a completely natural result for people to want to try them whether they like it or they are just curious, but the issue with things like marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes is that when people start doing them it will be a little bit hard to quit these habits. So, we have to believe that human beings are rational, and they know that when some things are forbidden there is a reason behind, and it is usually because they are bad.
In conclusion, it is true that forbidden things are usually wanted, and people have more desire for them, but at the same time people are rational, and they have to have control over themselves and not to do things that they know are bad just out of curiosity.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
What is the working class dream?
while some people dedicate their lives to escaping their working class backgrounds others have no interest in climbing a class ladder, says Laurie Taylor in his weekly column.
Back in the early 70s, the most played record on the Essex Students' Union juke box was We've Got to Get Out of This Place by The Animals. I remember thinking when I heard this news that there was something wonderfully ironic about so many middle class students being able to enjoy the privilege of higher education while simultaneously protesting about the nature of the institution which sought to provide it.
But I also know that my irritation was strengthened by memories of people who really did feel trapped by their circumstances, who desperately desired to get out of their allocated space.
Nobody fought harder than Tony Williams. We were classmates at secondary school for several years before we became friends (I learned later that he'd been afraid to speak to me because I was what he called "a bit la-de-dah"). But even before we started sharing a social life, before we started hanging around chip shops drinking illegal pints of mild and shouting ourselves hoarse in the Boys Pen at Anfield, I knew that Tony was very different from other boys in the class.
For a start there was his handwriting. When ever I turned around during a particularly boring part of a History or RI lesson, I'd spot Tony writing his name over and over again on a blank page in his exercise book. Tony Williams. Tony Williams. Tony Williams. Tony Williams.
And if that was not strange enough, there was also the peculiar business of his voice. When I first knew Tony he'd had a basic raucous Liverpool accent. But by the time he got to the fifth form, he'd developed a much softer tone and odd way rounding his mouth as he spoke as though he was consciously forming each syllable.
I only discovered what lay behind these peculiar practices when we were firm enough friends to talk about what we might do when we left school. After I'd rather airily talked about the bohemian future I fancied for myself, Tony began, very slowly, to give me a picture of his intended future.
And what a picture! Tony slowly told me that what he wanted most of all in the world was to become middle-class. He wanted to get out of the poor terrace house in Bootle which he shared with his widowed dad and gradually climb the social ladder until finally he could move into his dream, into a large detached old house in a country village in the South of England. He told me that he could see this house with absolute clarity, see the ways in which the shadows of the large trees in the garden fell across the manicured lawn, see the tray of full spirit bottles sitting on the antique dresser in the corner of the oak-beamed living room.
It was the desire, the obsession, to realise this dream which informed almost every aspect of Tony's life. If he was going to escape from working class life then he'd have to learn to pass as middle class. This was the reason behind all those hours of handwriting practise, all those hours he'd devoted to replacing his crude scouse accent with a soft slightly over-articulated whisper.
This was also the reason why Tony was only ever to be found reading good books (Dickens and Austen) rather than the Hank Jansens which circulated in the playground. It was the reason he played Mozart at home on his wind-up gramophone rather than Frankie Laine and Johnny Ray. It was I believe the reason he married a lower middle class girl called Veronica who came from the posh part of crosby.
And it was a success story. If you want to find Tony now, all you need to do is drive to a small village in Cambridgeshire, look out for a large detached country house, and there he'll be, sitting back in a well-upholstered armchair, a large whisky in his hand, Cosi Fan Tutte on the Cd player.
He's a very successful solicitor, a man of means, a local figure. He has realised his dream. He's got out of the working class and become so thoroughly middle class that one-one would ever imagine his origins.
But not all working-class children and teenagers ascribe to that dream. Despite being offered a whole set of choice points in their lives where they might leave their proletarian roots behind and take a different track to their parents, they still decide, sometimes unthinkingly, to stay where they feel comfortable, to stay true to their class of origin.
Monday, 11 May 2009
Alaska and Hawaii
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
My Primary School
As you entered the building, you could find three rooms, one for the principle of the school and the two others were for the teachers. We have many teachers at our school, but what was weird about them was each have very different personalities. Some of them were really friendly with us that we could feel comfortable with them and share our thoughts with. The others were not only unfair with us, but also very strict and tough that they wouldn't even want to listen to students' opinion. For instance, once I was late to class, the teacher hit me with a stick just because I was late for class without asking me for any explanation why I was late for the class.
The internal design of the building was so old, the walls and floors were all damaged and dust covered almost everywhere. At the backyard the building, there were ten classrooms. They were very messy and disorganized, even we hadn't a trashcan to throw things wastes in. Sometimes our teachers persuaded us to clean the building. When we cleaned the school, and our face seemed like a mouse because of the dust. The walls become as a black board for the students because they were all writing stuffs on it, and nobody cared. This is all because of the teachers because they didn't make us love school and education. At the middle of the front wall, we had a black board, we were writing on it with a chalk. Both desks and door were broken, and they were squeaking like a mouse.
On the left side of the yard, we had a cafeteria. They were serving only one kind of sandwich, and it was really tasteless. The meat seemed like expired before a long time. However, it was disgusting, but we had to eat it because it was the only source that we could have food from.
We had not workers at school to clean the school so due to this reason the toilets were very dirty and full of sewage. For this reason students the neighborhood's toilets of our school. When there was a wind, the smell of the toilets were smelled over the school and interrupted everybody.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Suicide Between Sin and Correct Behavior
Under many circumstances, a man has the right to kill himself. Like someone cannot earn their own money, and they're disappointed to gain a happy life. That makes their life has no value to them. So why should they be a live while they cannot be a supporter for others? When he has no advantages, and he is just a problem to those who loves him. Sometimes, by killing yourself, you could rescue the life of other peoples. In the era of war, when someone gets shot or injured, there would not be a person to help them to not be arrested or get shot by their enemies. So what the fighter is doing either sacrifice for the sake of their companies. And also, when a person gets a serious disease that cannot be cured or it may leads to make a risky for their surroundings. Like AIDS, which has no cure and kills so many people each year.
On the other hand, I am against this statemnt. Due to the environment that I have been raised, religion had a great affect upon me. In our religion, when someone kills themselves it is just like killing another one without any reason. Our religion gave the government permission to kill anyone who wants to take the life of other people, such as criminals who does not care for other people's lives. I believe in my religion opinion more than others because I have been raised in this and makes me more comfortable.
All in all, life is full of options. You have to look for things that can serve you and people around you. Everyone can live once on the earth. Your life is in your hands. You have to choose how to live and die. Also, you have to know the rules of your religion, and you have to depend on them.