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About: Irawatii
- Irawati Ika
- Bangkok, Thailand
- An INdonesian, an undergraduate student, a daughter of wonderful family, a thinker, a feminist, and a future revolutioner *i hope*. Studying in Ahmad Dahlan University,Faculty of Letters, English Literature department. Currently joining Thammasat University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, British and American Studies department as an exchanged-student under MIT (Malaysia-Indonesia-Thailand) program
Samuel P. Huntington concludes that while there may be an immigration problem, it isn’t really serious problem; the really serious problem is assimilation. It extremely emphasizes on the difficulty of integrating into a different culture. Fortunately, Chinese as an ethnic that has moved beyond the bounds of its Empire since centuries ago is acknowledged as a successful tribe to undertake assimilating experiences. Recently, it can be found almost in worldwide, including in Thailand. Some influences also become the impact of assimilating process by Chinese into Thai society. Chinese has changed Thai architecture.
The first major kind of Thai architecture is the temples that excessively gain Chinese influence. These temples exhibit a distinctive circular wooden entry door and representation of the best Chinese architectural styles. Chinese- Thai temple can also be designated trough the use of ornamental decoration, such as porcelain fragments, which encourage the effect of gleaming elegance. The application of porcelain parts and testifies in its harmony and coordination is highly represented Chinese culture. The temples have within its interiors decorations made out of many colors and textures. Those characteristic can also seen in most of Thai temples. These works include the unique temples such as Wat Pho, Wat Suthat, Wat Chalerm Prakiet and Wat Arun, Wat Raja Oros, Wat Khruawan, Wat Nang Nong, and Wat Bangkhunthian Nai. Also, Khlong Bangkok Yai was inspired by Chinese designs. The best example of such spectacular architecture can be seen at Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok containing exquisite carving. Chinese has contributed to change the basic of architectural idea of Thai temple.
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| Grand Palace: Temple of Emerald Buddha |
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| Erawan: Phra Phrom Shrine |
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| Chiang Mai Dragon Temple |
On the other side, there is an opponent that asserts the contemporary Thai home designs less represent Chinese architecture. It insists that Chinese do not participate to the development of Thai architectural idea. Nevertheless, although Thai home designs are excessively full of modern influence but most Thai home are likely to have a small Chinese shrine to worship gods. Even some Thai people, who do not have Chinese roots, also have a Chinese shrine at home. The shrine is usually red in color and set on the floor. It represents the god who controls the ground upon which the house is built. Also, the cult and respect of ancestors is the base of the Chinese religion. It represents particular part of Chinese architecture becomes the foundation of modern Thai home designs.
Another opponent believes that what many people realize as Chinese-Thai architecture is original Thai art and it is fully separates from Chinese culture. Its supporters reveal difficulties to define what certain culture in a multicultural society, including architecture, is made up of. However, they often forget that Thai society and its tolerance are very likely to open its door for new knowledge. Moreover, those are supported by the Chinese and Thai religious background and their intensive contacts. Actually, the beginning of Chinese architectural influence came when the reign of Rama III. Many Chinese financed the construction and restoration of Thai Buddhist temples with royal encouragement. Rama III also employed many Chinese artisans and materials for the work, so it is unsurprising that Chinese designs found their way into the architecture and décor. Therefore, Thai-Chinese architecture is the result of two art concepts united into one new representation.
The compatibility of Chinese and Thai architecture reinforces the statement that Chinese has given its influence to Thai culture, especially architecture. Thai temple, shrine, and sculptural ornament are significantly assimilated from Chinese culture. Their designs, ornaments, interiors and purposes have adopted Chinese identity.
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Haguma Robert reveals that public policies are designed to solve social problems or exploit opportunities that can avail themselves for the improvement of social welfare. Recently, marijuana policy project becomes the most flourishing political topic in some states. There are many opinions that emerge to support and refute legal marijuana laws. In this article, we will discuss why all citizens have to stand against marijuana legality.
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National Institute of Drug Abuse asserts that the use of marijuana can produce adverse physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral effects. Because marijuana affects brain systems needed by all humans to think, it will specifically be critical threat for students that are very requested for their healthy brain to comprehend academic stuff. Marijuana can impede teens' ability to learn. It causes the lacks of thinking ability, reading comprehension, and verbal and mathematical skills. The low academically scored students are more likely to involve with marijuana than the students that achieve the high score in class. It will be a problematic for country because teenagers will inherit and shape country’s future. In brief, it is supposed to be the main national concern to guarantee teenagers’ education and life.
Proponents of marijuana legality argue that the government could earn money from taxes on marijuana sale. The government could gain many dollars from the taxes it could impose on its sale. Furthermore, it will also help country to support economy through its supplying of job vacancy. New industrial will make the burgeoning new jobs for many citizens. Nevertheless, the terrible marijuana impacts can achieve the highest peak than its profit to country. It will make profit but it will also request more fund to solve the problem caused by marijuana legality. It will demand fund to bring to justice someone that gets trouble because of marijuana. Also, government should provide more fund to rehabilitate marijuana users from them dependence of its drugs. Violence and country’s damage will request for much more donations to cover up all of marijuana relating accidents.
Another notion claims that marijuana contains the useful medical substance that outweighs its potential abuse. Marijuana is considered as the most necessary chemical that is capable to support the healing progress of a patient. However, that invalid opinion is refuted by the fact there are many more efficacious substance except marijuana that can be used for medical necessity. The Institute of Medicine concluded that smoking marijuana is not recommended for the treatment of any disease condition. In addition, there are more effective medications currently available. For those reasons, the Institute of Medicine concluded that there is little future in smoked marijuana as a medically approved medication.
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It was my 21st birthday two days ago. I can only wonder I have lived for more than two decades. Wow! I begin to make a question about my own life: what is my greatest accomplishment in life?
I can only acknowledge that I have not achieved many accomplishment yet in my life. Now, I have to think how to improve my living quality. Did I already get successes? How can I achieve those? What are the other success that I did not gain yet? When will I gain those? and how can I gain those as soon as possible?
However, overall, I am very grateful to have a wonderful life: my family, relatives, friends, and lovers. Thanks to them for always giving me a life learning, a greatest support, and an endless companionship. Without all of them, I am convinced that I could not attain success.
My reflections
What I have to achieve:
- a mental stability
Actually I find the highest dificulty to handle my own emotion. Fortunately, day by day I can always step forward to organize and improve my mind well. It maybe also explain my progress to get maturity.
- an academic achievement
I have finished to complete my first draft of thesis, my high enough credit academic score, my greatest experiences to study abroa. All of those can help to motive me to be graduated next year. Amin.
- life with clearer purpose
I should begin to think about my future occupation, my graduate study, my plan to be entrepreneur, and many other targets in my life. It is time to maintain them well.
Struggle to gain a better future!
we stand in the middle of wonderful memories
before the blames come in
and the flames begin
we're just be the colonies
conquered by ego
ignoring all sympathy
and having no charity
in preventing heart to go
I beg you now
one, twice, and more
until you know
that I need more
my heart chose you
to be my unintended love
It is my success day to extend my visa in Thai. I already experienced a critical struggle to find a best way to extend it. Actually it is a very easy task to undertake this duty. However, my habit to procrastinate makes me get into trouble to complete it. The story begins:
My friend, Cresna, had told me that we had to fill a requesting form and submit it to BAS office as soon as possible. This form would be necessary for us to gain a letter which is one of visa extending requirements. It means that if we did not submit a form, we would not gain a letter. Moreover, if we did not gain a letter, we could not extend our visa. Then, if we did not extend our visa, we had to leave Thai. Furthermore, if we left Thai, we would not success to complete our exchanged study in Thammasat University. You can imagine how important that requesting form is.
However, the nature of procrastination always brings me to become the person who is stagnant mentally and practically. I considered my duty as trivia and tend to ignore it; whereas actually that is what extremely I had to do. Therefore, I always procrastinated to undertake that duty. The case of extending visa can be an appropriate example to illustrate my procrastination. Actually to fill the one-page requesting form could not need time more than 5 minutes. Moreover, my classroom is in the same building as BAS Office so actually I can go to BAS Office to submit the form easily. Because of my procrastination, I had to get bad consequences to extend visa. I failed to get the letter from university in time.
It is a big trouble for us; me and my two friends, Cresna and Mega. BAS Office told us we had to extend visa for seven days and extend again until the end of semester after BAS Office could give the letter. It is because we could not extend visa more than seven days without bringing the letter from university. The worse possibility was when BAS Office could not give the letter during seven days of our first extending visa. It meant that we should extend for the first seven days, extend again for the second seven days, and extend until the end of semester after we got the letter. It could not be a matter if we only go to immigration office frequently to extend visa which did not only need the once action. However, we only worried about our pocket money if we had to pay twice (or maybe three time). Thus, we began to think how we could extend visa without paying more than once.
We went to International Office and Mr. Hamam (our friend that becomes a lecturer in Thammasat University) to gain advice from them. At first, Mr. Hamam suggested us to take "running visa". We should pay around 3000 bath that is equal to the fee to extend visa twice. The benefit to take "running visa" is we can be invited to walk around Cambodia for free. Later, Mr. Hamam got information that if we take "running visa", we can get tourist visa rather than student visa. It would be likely Thammasat could not accept its foreign student with tourist visa to study in Thai. The first choice should be forgotten, we thought.
After three times we went to International Office to get help to find the best way extending visa, we got a little enlightenment from it. Pi Maa, Head of International Student Services Division in Thammasat University told us that we might be able to gain the letter from the rector of International Office. We submit the requesting form in the same day after we got it from Pi Maa. Fortunately, we succeeded to gain the letter before our visa was expired. Thank you God, Thank you Pi Maa, Thank you Mr. Hamam, and apologize to BAS Office for bring you into our trouble.
Our experience becomes the life learning to us. Do not procrastinate! Now is better than later.
After three times we went to International Office to get help to find the best way extending visa, we got a little enlightenment from it. Pi Maa, Head of International Student Services Division in Thammasat University told us that we might be able to gain the letter from the rector of International Office. We submit the requesting form in the same day after we got it from Pi Maa. Fortunately, we succeeded to gain the letter before our visa was expired. Thank you God, Thank you Pi Maa, Thank you Mr. Hamam, and apologize to BAS Office for bring you into our trouble.
Our experience becomes the life learning to us. Do not procrastinate! Now is better than later.
Bangkok: October 29th, 2010
Steps to produce an argumentative essay:
- Brainstorming
- Make an outline (plan)
- Start to produce an essay
#2 OUTLINE: make a plan of writing
MARIJUANA LEGALITY
Introduction:
Paragraph 1:
Thesis statement: All citizens have to stand against the legality of marijuana.
Body:
Paragraph 2: Pro Argument 1
Marijuana tends to give bad impacts to physical and psychological tenacity
- The impact includes a faster heartbeat and pulse rate, bloodshot eyes, and a dry mouth and throat.
- One of psychological impacts is the acute panic anxiety reaction.
- Another impact is to cause psychologically dependent.
Paragraph 3: Pro Argument 2
Marijuana encourages the increase of crime rate.
- Marijuana weakens the stream of consciousness
- People’ awareness will be experienced under consciousness after using marijuana
- People will unconsciously break the law (Also explain the concrete cases of those crimes)
Paragraph 4: Pro Argument 3
Marijuana is likely to participate to children and teenagers’ life.
- The children and teenagers often lose interest and are not motivated to do their schoolwork.
- The effects of marijuana can interfere with learning by impairing thinking, reading comprehension, and verbal and mathematical skills.
- The damage of teenagers’ life will cause the trouble for country’s future.
Paragraph 5:
Counter Argument 1: Marijuana will help the country’s economy
Refutation 1: It will make profit but it will also request more fund to bring to justice someone that gets trouble because of marijuana
Paragraph 6:
Counter Argument 2: People should struggle for their liberalization idea
Refutation 2: Government has right to regulate its citizens
Paragraph 7:
Counter Argument 3: It is about productions, distributions, and its sale, not the usage and abuse. (Also explain about marijuana in medical interest)
Refutation 3: There is no one that will guarantee the marijuana legalization will never impact to support the emergence of its abuse.
Conclusion:
Paragraph 8:
Restated statement: Marijuana has many unpredictable bad effects to our life so that we have to ignore the issue to legalize it.
Steps to produce an argumentative essay:
- Brainstorming
- Make an outline (plan)
- Start to produce an essay
#1 BRAINSTORMING: Put all ideas on paper
- Free writing: write whatever ideas flowing out from your mind. Give 5 minutes to do it rapidly. Don't think about grammar, ideas structure, and logic. It will help you to generate ideas and find certain topic.
e.g.: Drugs; Bad impacts; Good impacts; Health; Medical; Government; Laws; Policy
- Focused free writing: the similar step as above but you will attempt to generate specific idea than think about all things in mind.
e.g.: Marijuana; Legality; Abuses; Children; Society; Country's conditions
- Brainstorming: try to relate words, phrases, details, examples, and thoughts.
e.g.: Marijuana increases country's economy; Marijuana for medical necessities; Marijuana influences physical and mental tenancy; Marijuana relates to children and teenagers' future; Marijuana encourages crime cases.
Topic: Drugs
Issue: Marijuana Legality
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