Peran Bahasa dalam Berbudaya bagi Indonesia

Apa jadinya jika generasi muda Indonesia bermental ikut-ikutan; berani karena teman-temannya berani, mundur karena teman-temannya mundur? Bisa sangat disayangkan jika pemuda Indonesia yang terkenal dengan kegigihannya dalam menanggung setumpuk mata pelajaran saat SD, SMP, SMA, menjadi individu yang bahkan tidak tahu untuk apa sejatinya belajar, tanggung jawab, dan hal-hal penting lainnya. Krisis identitas sedang melanda.

Ciyus? Miapah?

Krisis Identitas dan Ciri-cirinya

            Segelintir istilah pada penutup paragraf di atas memang sekilas tampak keren, meskipun tidak diketahui secara pasti hal ihwal pembentukan kata-kata tersebut. Namun demikian, istilah asing itu cepat sekali merebak pada lingkungan sekitar. Diakui atau tidak, pemuda Indonesia sekarang dapat dikatakan sebagai generasi ikut-ikutan. Mulai dari pola bertutur dalam lingkungan masyarakat, cara berSMS, menulis singkatan, hingga meng-update status di jejaring sosial, remaja saat ini cenderung meninggalkan siapa jati diri kita sebenarnya.

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Make Some Room for Homeschooling

“My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” – Thomas Alva Edison

            The above quotation was said by Thomas Alva Edison after he was expelled from his previous school just because his mind often wandered during the class. His mother ensured him that it was not the end of the world that he could not get the formal education. His mother believed that Edison was special. He was an extraordinary person even he got terrible hearing problem not long after the expelling moment. Thus, she home-schooled Edison until he succeeded in inventing many new mass communication devices.

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Should National Examination be Eradicated?

             It becomes widespread today that students in the last grade of high schools get into panic every year by national examination. They are very anxious and nervous by the coming exam. Students tend to spend most of their time by studying specific subjects and following any courses. National examination became a hot topic after it had to be the students’ graduation standard. Students who cannot reach higher score than the standard should take a high risk as failed. Furthermore, the graduation standard has increased year by year. Therefore, the government should eradicate national examination because it cannot be the school graduation standard and burdens the students a lot.

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Mentally Ill Students

              Can we imagine if there is a boy, who is sitting in the back corner of the classroom, suddenly getting angry and ruining the class? This incident rarely happens and just a few people aware of its existence. That boy who is suddenly in anger has his own label as mentally ill person. Mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate others functioning. Just like diabetes which has the disorder of pancreas, mentally ill person has disorder way of thinking and feeling. It is also unable to be detected since very beginning. The sudden attack surely harms the surrounding. Therefore, mentally ill students should immediately be expelled from school.

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Personal Characters by Recreation Places

               Stress or being bored by stagnant activity is the biggest problem that should be treated seriously because it will suffer and ruin the regular job or activity. Having leisure time to get recreation is one of the solutions to deal with stress. Some people feel that they need time to refresh their minds. Each person has different place to go when he/she does recreation. The place which is chosen can reveal the characters of that person. There are three most visited places for examples to know someone characters.

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Learning by Various Intelligences

Education is changing. In this global era, everyone has thought that education is the most important thing to have. School is a common place to get a mountain of information. Nowadays, people realize schools are covered by classic things, such as in scoring, giving explanations, and also from the media used. This reality is in opposite with some educationalists invention that basically each person has miscellany styles in learning, based on their intelligences. Those types of learning can be classified to cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. According to the educationalists invention, government should ask schools to apply those three types of learning than keep apply the classics.

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When Women Talk

Women are naturally different to men since they were born. The most distinctive thing between them is their powers that generally men are much stronger than women. This condition is one of several reasons gender discrimination happens. Women labors at factory is an example of discrimination often happens, especially in term of wage, chance for promotion and lose their job after having free days for giving birth. Another case is sexual harassment that often happens to some of women labors who have night shift work. These discriminations give some effects towards the women labors. Less productive, psychological problem and the difficulty of being promote are some examples of the effects.

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Facebook Makes Distance Nothing

Nowadays people prefer to share their feeling in virtual world than write down in their own notes. It makes social network being popular and useful. Facebook is one of social networks which provides some creative features. It shows what the member’s opinion and other members can give comment on it. Some people say that Facebook is not effective for people, especially for students. Different to it, in my opinion, the advantages of Facebook are far outweighs the disadvantages. The advantages can be divided into three important things.

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