Minangkabau People

Minangkabau people are embracing the region's largest matrilineal kinship system in the world. where the lineage of descent is determined mother, not from the father. Minangkabau people have principles, namely “adat basandi syarak, syarak basandi kitabullah”.

Minangkabau people are very prominent in the field of commerce, many of the people minangkbau wander in the big cities in Indonesia, even abroad. For me Minangkabau people are very cunning, but can also be said to be lazy. We can see that minang people not want to lost, they are confined when it wants out, and pinned at the top. The point is they are people who want to be happy and do not want to lose.
         They can also be said to be lazy, as most of the minang people little work and eat a lot. We can see the minang people who work as porters of buildings, they are a little work, and if there are certain foods company spirit.

         I think that Minangkabau people a lot of mockers. They are very fond of mocking something or the people around them. But they are not necessarily better. I am also Minangkabau people, also sometimes mocked. Maybe something funny or strange to see, would be immediately comment.

        Minagkabau people have ordinances or attitude in speech, in which we should not speak carelessly, like

1. Word up, this is a word used to talk with people we respect, or older.

2. The word to the decline, this is the word used for people smaller than us, such  as the sister

3. The word landscape, the word used for people who are age

4. The word ramp, said that a metaphor or innuendo.

BAD IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN LIFE

             Technological development is now very advanced. Many of the benefits that we can feel from the current technological advances. Technological advances like the internet, machines and computers can ease our lives, both in the move or communicate. The technology is more advanced at this time also allows us to live in perform an activity. We can also save time with the help of technology. Such as mobile phones, internet, household tools made of machines and others.
However, technology also has adverse effects, namely a lot of crime happens, pornography and human decadence. And the terrible effects can be felt in terms of health. Here is an explanation of the negative impact of technology in human life.

1. Easily happened crimes

Many of us see rampant crime is everywhere now. These crimes committed by perpetrators with the help of technology. With it they would be easier to perform various acts of crime, such as fraud, terrorism, kidnapping, bombing and others. Facebook is one social networking site on the internet is used by criminals to look for prey. As we can see a few months ago, in case of sale of women, and identity fraud on facebook. Increasingly sophisticated technological advances are also used by terrorists to assemble a bomb. Many people who are experts in technology, such as computer experts use their knowledge to things that are bad. Such as ATM burglary incidents or customer funds in a bank. So the technology is not just as a human friend, but also can be a dangerous enemy to man.
For that in using the technology we must be careful, lest we become targets of crime, such as using atm safely, that does not store the pin number in places that easy to know people. Using social networking sites with caution, do not be too trusting with people who are newly recognized. Especially in cyberspace.

2. Pornography

Advances in technology greatly facilitates the spread of pornography action throughout society, including children under age. Through the Internet, people can download and watch videos or pornographic images. Not only that, a lot of pornography that they take action. As we see, the people who commit acts of pornography that utilize the technology in action. They record the actions of pornography that they have created and uploaded to the internet, and spread into the middle of the community. They perform acts of pornography that, because they are interested to try it after seeing the videos. People also use mobile phones as a place for distributing pornography. Most of them are students. Advanced mobile phone and has complete facilities for video and bluetooth allows students to view pornographic videos.

3. Moral decline

The more rapid advancement of technology can make a moral that is in humans was reduced or lost. Moral decay that occurs in the community that happens when people just wants love. For the love that they use every means, even to perform acts crimes. Technology can give pleasure in human life, but it can make people blind with pleasure. So become a human being is immoral and thirst with pleasure and ease of living alone. With advanced technology, many people now no longer keep his words. Many of them say dirty on the internet or in sms. It is because they have nothing to fear if someone else is offended by his words. Moral values ​​in them are gone with the sophisticated technology.

4. Health
Adverse effects of the technology also can we feel in our health. As the effects of radiation or radiation hp signals from other electronic goods. Radiation from such technology can cause problems in our health such as cancer can get sick. Even the overuse of computer, TV or phone can damage our eyes.
The impact of the technologies in life there are good and bad. Adverse effects of technology such as crime, pornography and decadence. If we can use that technology to something useful in life, why should we use to be a bad thing?. Good or bad depending on how the impact of the technology we use advances in technology that exist in people's lives

Conclusion
So, after wrote a paper about it, entitled devastating impact of this technology in human life. I Can be concluded that the technology is not always good for humans. Will but also bad. We can see the many crimes happened through and with the help of technology. And pornography is easily spread among people. So that they can become perpetrators of pornography as well after that. The impact of technology also leads to moral decay in the center of community life. And also argues against the negative health. Where can cause cancer of the influence of radiation.

Geisha "salah satu bentuk budaya Negeri Sakura"

 

Geisha merupakan salah satu bentuk dari budaya Negri Sakura, Jepang. Geisha sering diartikan sebagai seorang pelajur oleh orang-orang. namun, geisha dan pelacur itu berbeda. Geisha adalah seorang artist, yang mempunyai keahlian dan keterampilan dalam bidang seni, dan juga menjadi pelayan bagi tamu-tamu terhormat di Jepang. Bahkan, untuk menjadi seorang geisha, harus belajar dulu di sekolahnya.

para geisha diajarkan untuk menjadi artis yang terhormat dan bisa menghibur mata para lelaki terhormat itu. dengan balutan kimono yang terbuka di bagian punggung, wajah seputih salju mereka menari dan menuangkan teh. 

film memoirs of geisha produksi orang Amerika menggambarkan kehidupan seorang geisha, namun di sana kita dapat melihat kalau geisha tidak sama dengan seorang pelacur.

 

Memories of Geisha adalah film yang diadaptasi dari novel yang berjudul serupa karya Arthur Golden. Film yang telah memenangkan 6 nominasi dalam Academy Awards ini diproduksi oleh Amblin Entertainment milik Steven Spielberg dan disutradarai oleh Rob Marshall. Memoirs of Geisha dirilis di Amerika Serikat pada tanggal 9 Desember 2005 oleh Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks, dan Spyglass Entertainment. Film ini dibintangi oleh beberapa aktor dan aktris terkenal, seperti Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, dan Suzuka Ohgo.

Geisha belajar banyak bentuk seni dalam hidup mereka, tidak hanya untuk menghibur pelanggan tetapi juga untuk kehidupan mereka. Rumah-rumah geisha ("Okiya") membawa gadis-gadis yang kebanyakan berasal dari keluarga miskin dan kemudian melatih mereka. Semasa kanak-kanak, geisha seringkali bekerja sebagai pembantu, kemudian sebagai geisha pemula (maiko) selama masa pelatihan.

Pada bulan Desember 2007, distrik Asakusa di Tokyo telah menjadi saksi atas debut Sayuki (紗幸), geisha Barat non-Jepang pertama di sejarah Jepang. Asalnya, Sayuki menjadi geisha untuk proyek akademik, tapi sekarang berniat untuk melanjutkan pekerjaannya itu. “Sayuki: inside the flower and willow world” akan dipublikasikan oleh Pan Macmillan Australia. Sebuah film dokumenter tentang hidup seorang geisha juga sedang direncanakan.

 

 

The Ant and the Grasshopper

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,

chirping and singing to its heart's content.  An Ant passed by,

bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the

nest.

  "Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper,

"instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"

  "I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant,

"and recommend you to do the same."

  "Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got

plenty of food at present."  But the Ant went on its way and

continued its toil.  When the winter came the Grasshopper had no

food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants

distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had

collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper felt regret for his idleness.

Themes           : Idleness

Moral Value      : Don’t be an idle person. Prepare   something before it necessity