Nadya Alfi Fauziyah

     

 

The effects of polluted sea

 Water pollution that almost contain of visible things such as waste, sewage, sludge, and garbage is very disgusting moreover the invisible things contained in the polluted water such as chemical substance and poison. It will be dangerous for sea and its environment. Polluted water in the sea may decrease the existence of living things. It certainly happened because water from all of the river flow into the sea. So that, effects of water pollution are very intimidate the living things there.

            Polluted water can be easily identify when it is visible consist of waste or something big, hard and easy to find even it can float such as plastic bag, bottle, dry leaves, etc. it will disturb the human who like to fishing, It make them difficult to find some fish in a polluted water. For example they throw a lure then they get a plastic bag. Besides that, it also happen to one of living things which doesn’t really has a good seeing such as jellyfish predator which consider the plastic bag as a jellyfish and it die.

            Unlikely polluted water which easily can be identify, we will be very difficult in identifying polluted water such as water that affected by rubbish dump from a factory which contain few or even much of dissolved poison and chemical substances in the water and it can kill the fish, destroy the corals and sometime changes the fresh color of the sea. It makes the sea loss its beauty, existence of the living things, and number of people who like to visit the sea.

            If the polluted water has damaged the sea and its existence of living things, the number of fish predators (birds) will be decrease first, because they will take the floating fish easily. Whereas, the floating fish were die because of the poison. This is can be a big factor of beach become quiet from visitors and fisherman so that the number of fish will be decrease and the number of sea food lovers will also decrease as long as the sea is being polluted.  

            People who live near the sea or beach are often direct the gutter from the house to the sea whereas, it contains many dangerous substances such as the water containing dissolved detergent which can damage their environment. They will never realize that being clean and healthy is very important. Moreover, they live near the beach they creating water pollution each day. They should know that what they have done is very intimidate the living things in the sea.

           

           

Luqi Faizal

Android vs iOS

Nowadays, Android and iOS are common names which often spelt by technology lover. Which one is better? Which one is more useful? And which one is more powerful? Those are the topic which often argued by the technology lover. At the fact, both Android and iOS are the best operation system for tablets or smart phones in this globe. Either Android or iOS is a leading innovation operation system. Even they are leading in their class, between Android and iOS have some differences in some ways. Through their differences, consumers can easily define which gadget will be the best for them.

                By the time, the competition between Android and iOS can be felt by society. Building new innovations is still continuing to fulfill the desires of the people. As Android, this operation system can be easily found throughout many vendors of smart phone and tablet, such as in Samsung, Sony, LG, HTC, Lenovo, Motorola, and etc. On the contrary, since iOS has been invented, iOS operation system is only available on Apple devices. This limitation affects to the cost of iOS devices is more expensive than Android devices. Caused by most Android devices are more economic, it makes Android dominating the market competition. For most people, choosing Android devices as their gadget is not only caused by the cost is more economic, but it is also caused by the easiness of operating Android devices. Its easiness is caused by Android vendor launches its operation system through almost all of smart phone and tablet vendors except Apple vendor. A wide distribution of Android operation system among many gadgets makes people get used to use Android as the operation system of their gadgets.

                For the performance, between Android and iOS, it can be tested by the both of the newest and the most famous product of Samsung and Apple. Galaxy S5 is a smart phone launched by Samsung corporation which is trusted Android as its operation system. On the opposite side, iOS operation system is operated in iPhone 5S which launched by Apple vendor. The performance between those smart phones can be easily differentiated by their power, speed, and their model. At the first, for the power, battery is the main source of power for both devices. In iPhone 5S, un-removable battery is planted inside this device, and the battery can stand alive up to around 8 hours. For Galaxy S5, this smart phone is powered by removable battery which can stand alive up to around 9 hours. Second is the speed, many people argue that iPhone 5S is faster than Galaxy S5. It is caused by iPhone 5S has designed with GPU as its processor, whereas, Galaxy S5 is just supported by CPU processor. Third is the model, the model of Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5S are almost similar. Both of those smart phones are designed with large screen dominated in the front side of the phone, and with very sensitive touch screen pad control. Simple rectangular with little arches on every angle becomes the model of those smart phones. Even their model are almost similar, between Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5S can be differentiated by their large and weigh. Galaxy S5 is larger than iPhone 5S. For the weigh, iPhone 5S has less-weigh than Galaxy S5.  

                For the application, between Android and iOS, has some differences on their development, quantity, and quality of their applications. The development of applications is so contrast between Android and iOS. Android has open source trait, it means that the users are allowed to change the application without some strict rules. In the meantime, iOS has opposite trait from Android, i.e. closed source. Closed source means that we as the users of iOS devices cannot change the origin of the application in accordance with our wishes, but here the Apple as a developer is able to provide applications to complete our needs. Through the applications, for the quantity of their applications, there are around 8 millions applications provided in Google store (the official applications store for Android) for Android devices. On the other sides, App store (official Applications store for iOS) provides almost 9 millions applications for iOS devices. Not only at the quantity of the application where iOS is stepping ahead Android, but also at the quality, iOS is still leading. A company named uTest observed that Apple provided better applications than Android did. In the observation data launched in the January of 2014, uTest posted that iOS’ applications were leading by getting 68.5 scores, whereas Android’s applications got 63.3 scores.

                Well, either Android or iOS is an absolute symbol of modern technological innovation. Both of them are increasingly competing to provide comfort for the users. Innovations by innovations invented by Android and iOS make some differences between them. Through all the differences make people have different perspective to Android and iOS, and by those differences make people easily define that both Android and iOS have their own characteristics and benefits. So, which one is the best to use depends on the needs’ of the user.

Luqi Faizal and Nurma Daoh

Is Social Media Good or Bad?

Do you think social media is good or bad? So, why can it be good or be bad? Nowadays, social media is growing rapidly while the world is increasing to be more modern. Social media is a website that allows social interaction. There are three kinds of social media. They are social news, social networking, and social photo and video sharing. Social news is a website which is used to interact by tagging and searching through website bookmarked by other people such as detik.com, kapan-lagi.com, viva-news.com, and others. Social networking is a website which allows users to easily meet and communicate with others such as Facebook, Twitter, Path, etc. Social photo and video sharing is a website which is used to interact by sharing photos or videos and commenting through user’s photos and videos such as in Youtube, Instagram, Fickr, and etc. These three kinds of social media have changed human behavior in many ways. Today it can be used as a very helpful tool in changing a person’s life, but at the same time it also can be a negative impact for that person.  

                For its advantages, social media has some positive effects on the society. Nowadays many people often use social media as their daily needs. The first, social media is a kind of a virtual bridge that connects one place to other places, so it allows people to contact with other people even they are from different country. For example Facebook, the most popular social network, it allows people to communicate with each other, comment on people’s statuses, join different organizations, play games, and even send an instant message. This site also allows for millions of people to keep in touch with each other, and ultimately becomes a source of entertainment. The second, using social media can help people who have difficulty socializing in person. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others social networking or photo and video sharing, allow people who have difficulty communicating with society to feel more comfortable interacting via those social medias. The third, through getting up-to-date issues via social news websites, can also be a huge help to a lot of people, for instance someone who wants to update stock exchange news can get the news by searching it on social news sites such as in Viva-news.com, detikfinance.com, and others.

                On the other hand, social media also has negative effects for human behaviors. Caused most people depend their needs on social media, it affects that they will spend a lot of time to the social media. At the first, many people usually spend sleepless nights on social media. The disruption of sleep has had adverse effect on the people. It has led to cases of insomnia, mood swings, less attention at school and increased obesity. The second effect can be detected from some people who rarely communicate with their society but they more often communicate through social media. This phenomenon indicates that those people are more comfortable communicate with social media than they communicate with other people. If that kind of interaction is kept regularly, it will hinder the people to interact with their society. Moreover, some researchers have found that the middle school, high school and college students who use Facebook at least once during 15 minutes period get lower grades, especially at their communication skill.

                Well, because everything has its own pro and contra, so does social media. Most people admire it as a revolutionary invention and some seem to take it as a negative impact of society. Clearly, social media can’t be claimed as a negative impact or even be a positive impact. It stands somewhere and between. But it depends on an individual’s perspective on how s/he perceives it. While there are some negative impacts associated with social media, the positive impacts in communication all around the globe has made the world becomes stronger and a better place to live.

Luqi Faizal

Loneliness influences being careless

            Do you believe that loneliness influences people to do their work carelessly? So, how does loneliness influence people to do their work carelessly? According to aresearcher (Hensley, 2010) on this topic, when someone works alone, he will be nervous, even just a little. While he is being nervous, he will rush in doing his work. His rushaffects him to do carelessly. By this simple way, loneliness will influence people doing his work carelessly.

            Beside loneliness becomes the major cause, there are some factors which can lead loneliness become carelessness. The factors can be divided into two parts. They are internal factors and external factors. Based on Chris Conway’s statement, mind/feeling is the most influential factor that brings more carelessness when you are getting alone. Working alone makes some people think that; there is no one around them, no one is able to discuss with, and no one gives some corrections for their work. Those all reasons which some people think make them worry about. Not only worry, but what is in their head also influences them to be nervous. Getting nervous makes heartbeat beats stronger, itmakes body produce sweat more than usual. Those factors, mind/feeling factor and physical reaction factor, are included in internal factor.

            External factors also have a big influence which can drive loneliness become carelessness.  What in the immediate surrounds, such as our facilities, those can influence us to do carelessness. Not only what in around us are able to influenceus to do carelessness, but condition is also influential. Let’s imagine, when you are in your room in order to finish your work, and there is no one accompanying you except your laptop. In that condition, you have to finish your work immediately, but you feel very bored, and you decide to take some refreshments by playing game in your laptop. By gaming, you can refresh your mind, but it can make you forget your work. So, what will happen if you forget your work? Because the work has to be finished immediately, you will rush in doing your work, and because of your rush, it may make you finish your work carelessly.

            Chris Conway said “controlling self is the best way to minimize carelessness when working alone”. Controlling self means ability to control all aspects of our bodies. Keeping mind in positive thinking, whether there are internal or external factors which are bothering you.When you first realize that you are in that situation stop and regain your composure. Control your worries. Recognize aspects that bother your mind. Relax and think; don't make any hasty judgments. Observe the resources around you. Analyze your situation and plan a course of action only after considering all of the aspects of your predicament. Be sure to keep cool and collected. It is important to make the right decision at all times. Set your goal of work and always keep it fresh in your mind. Never give up. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.