Depression

 How can depression affect people in modern social?
In the current time, depression is a very common issue that has been discussed in media. Depression has been defined as an illness in brain which can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and physical well-being (Wikipedia 2011). Nowadays, depression becomes more popular and dangerous to modern people than it used to be. Depression comes from many sources and exists in many forms. For example there are many elements in school, work and family are leading you to feel depression. ‘Depression is something that makes you lose your sight’ Michael Schenker said. Depression can affect negatively to your body in emotional, health and lifestyle ways.

First of all, I believe that depression affect seriously to human’s emotional. Feeling depression can cause many bad results, such as: having bad mood, lacking of concentrate and suicide. When a person have depression, that’s mean his mood is going down. It will lead him loose his temperature with another people easily and cannot concentrate well in study or work anymore. Bad mood makes his mind feeling uncomfortable and unpleased. This element can influence negative to his through and can make illness become more severe. If a person has suffered depression for a long time, suicide will be is an obvious result when he cannot bear depression anymore. In 2004, Suicide was the 11^th leading cause of death in US and every 100000 people died have 10.6 died by suicide. By statistic, up to 15% of people who are having depressed die by suicide. The more people have depression, the much number of suicide case increased. Symptoms aren’t clear in many cases but there are still some slight different of patient’s behavior which people can realize easily to prevent depressed patient from suicide case.

Health is a second thing which depression influence negatively. Three harms which depression can cause are feeling tired, losing weight and being sleepless. When you are having depression or another kind such as stress, the first symptom you will feel is tired. Tired is the way of body react when our mind feeling uncomfortable. For example, we just want to take a sleep after so much stress and expected thing you had suffered in a day. This element is the major key which can decide the level of depression later. If you don’t try to escape from feeling tired and keep keeping it, the obvious harm is you spend all your time in your home to rest. That’s mean you will have no time for another activity else. It will lead you to get a worst mark or lose your job. The connection between you and another people will be shut down and loneliness will come to you. Because of doing nothing all the time, you won’t enjoy eating anymore and your weight is losing every single week. Some time, the high level of depression can make you hard to sleep well in night. These materials can highly harm depressed person and lead them to die because of malnutrition.

The life style of a depressed person is strongly different from before. Depression is a reason which can change human’s behavior in fastest way. When I was in high school, I saw some of my friend suddenly behave in strange way after they got much stress and feeling depression is an obvious result. Depression has ability to change the character of person which is a symptom easy to be realized to diagnose.

In conclusion, depression is not so strange to people nowadays. Depression is an illness so everyone can be got depression in some time in the life. Instead of being afraid of depression, we can enjoy each moment of life by doing hobby, talking with friend or hanging out with family. People also have to leave their stress and pressure in school or work office when come home and take a rest after a long day studying and working.

Should euthanasia be legalized?

Euthanasia is defined as the painless killing for the patient who have to suffer an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma (Wikipedia, 2011). Nowadays, euthanasia is becoming a bigger issue when there are some vehement arguments about the right to choose euthanasia of patient appear in media. People usually say that life is the gift but how can patients keep living with the pain appear in each second of their life while they know that there is no medicine can cure their illness? I believe that euthanasia should be legalized because of three main reasons below: people have right to decide their fate, humanitarian grounds and financial issues.


First of all, I believe that patients still have the right to choose their fate. Everyone had been born with the hope and happiness of their parents. They grown up and decide the way for their life. Someone becomes the President, politician, doctor, teacher or worker but there are still many people can’t achieve their dream because of illness. But the worst part is there is no medicine can cure and they have to count every single day till they die. In my opinion, this is so cruel that patient suffers the pain everyday while the only thing doctor can do is injecting to reduce a pain and they refuse when he asks them to help him die. It is quite funny when government compares euthanasia as a murder crime. In fact, euthanasia is not as government said, it is the action to help patient get peaceful. I believe that if the patient seeks to die with dignity because of they can’t stand anymore, they should be allowed to have euthanasia without government’s or anyone’s decision.  In the past, the ancient Greeks and Roman thought that there was no reason to maintain someone’s life when they don’t want to live anymore so these two ancient civilizations allowed euthanasia in their time. I hope that government should review about illegalized euthanasia because of the right to choose the fate of patient.


When a person has been diagnose that he has an incurable disease, which moment is really the bad time for him and his family also. Do you image how the painful moment is when his family watching him writhing in pain and they can do nothing? The pain they feel is much more than the pain which patient is suffering. When patient asks to die, that’s mean he can’t bear the pain any more. It is really ridiculous when doctor refuses the request and keep injecting to reduce patient’s pain. How about the case of irreversible coma? When even the doctor doesn’t know how many percent the patient will wake up. It’s make it hard for family and doctor to make any decision. Maintaining the life of patient is the most popular choice but it’s quite vague and expensive. It can be out of affordability of a poor family and it will be a tragic if doctor doesn’t allowed euthanasia. Some people said that while there's life, there's hope but how can they understand when they don’t have to suffer? I know that euthanasia in this case is so insensitive but I believe that it is the only best way.

The cost for cruel and maintain the life for patient who has an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma is very expensive. It is very difficult for patient’s family to make a decision because they don’t sure if patient will be cured after treatment or not. People can’t let their family member suffering the pain but they will have the pressure of earning money when they choose maintain choice. When the patient and patient’s family ask for euthanasia because they cannot effort for the medical cost, doctor should do them a favor.  I know that almost people will try to earn and borrow money for cruel their family member but in fact doctors can’t extend to the use of life-support systems indefinitely. Lacking of medical resources, uncertainty about result of the treatment and the medial cost for patient are reasons for waiving of doctor.


In conclusion, although almost people would prefer the opinion that euthanasia should be abolished but euthanasia is not completely right as people usually said. Basically, euthanasia is the action of killing people but sometime it can make many benefits for patient and social. Government should give patient the right to have euthanasia when they want. Maybe it is so hard to decide but euthanasia is necessary for modern life.

Reference

Euthanasia: Should It Be Legal?

http://j.whyville.net/smmk/whytimes/article?id=3041

Letting-Go or Killing: Thai Buddhist Perspectives on Euthanasia - Pitak Chaicharoen, M.D. & Pinit Ratanakul, Ph.D.

http://www.eubios.info/EJ82/ej82c.htm

Why euthanasia should be illegalize?


http://able2know.org/topic/144955-1

Argue the case for against capital punishment.

 Argue the case for against capital punishment.

Capital punishment is still popular nowadays. As you can see, there are many cases of criminal had been killed by electrocution, poisoning or shooting in over the world because of killing, kidnapping or rapping people. But in my opinion, death penalty is not the good way to punish criminal. When in high school, I had been taught that if I had done something wrong, I have to do something to solve my mistake so that’s means if criminal had done some bad thing, even very bad thing, death penalty is not the good way to solve what they had done. “Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.” Henry Ford said. There are three main points what make death penalty be the worst punishment: no deterrence, no humanitarian and expensive.

How do you think about killing people because they killed another people? It is quite funny when government nowadays using death penalty to prove that killing another people is the thing we should not do. When someone commits a serious crime, they have to suffer the life without freedom and the fear of being revenge. For the murder, the best way to punish them is let them spend the rest of their life in the jail to work and think about what they had done. They will have time to think about the life they had taken and it is very effectively in making them feeling tormented. They will have a nightmare every single night or seeing the soul whose they killed in their chamber.  This way is better in making criminal paid for what they had done than death penalty. As you can see, a criminal who committed a multi murder or children raping and they just have to suffer only one painful moment. They have been killed and everything done while the relative, parents, friends, lover of the victim have to suffer the pain of losing a person whom they love each second. Is it fair if the criminal have just eat and sleep till they have been killed somehow while they have to paid more for what they had done? Even nowadays, they try to invent some ways for criminal don’t be suffering the pain when they are being killed. Electric chair and poisoning are examples. In my opinion, death penalty is a easy way out for serious criminal while they have to do many things to solve their crime. Moreover, we have many effective punishment for criminals, not only death.

People usually think that there is no matter when killing a criminal. They think that because they are not concern with this thing. But if they are the relatives of the criminal, how will they think? Even though, the criminal had committed the crime but with some people, they are still a whole world. How about their parents, their children, their wife/ husband? I know that their sin can be forgiven but how about giving them a chance to solve and offset for the relative of victim. And do you ever think about the person who has responsibly to do the death penalty. Of course that they are paid to do that but it is quite hard for them when their job is taking the life of someone. It is just like the criminal kill a person. So don’t make another people knows the feeling of killing someone. And a criminal, they are still in jail but being given a chance is happy enough for them.

Do you know how much for death penalty? By statistic, California taxpayers have to pay $130 million per year to death penalty cases and California death penalty trials have cost as much as $10.9 million. That is quite a big number of money. We can ban the death penalty and use for helping homeless and poverty. I know that keeping criminal in the jail still cost a lot of money but we can give them a work so they can make money for buying food or clothe in jail.

In conclusion, many people think that capital punishment is the best way for justice to be excused but it is completely not a good way to punish serious criminal. We can make them paid for their crime by many ways, not only killing them. with no death penalty, we can save money and have more worker. In my opinion, if capital punishment is no longer, that will make many benefits for social.
 

Reference
5 reasons why capital punishment is wrong? 
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090122182658AAMLnvh

The High Cost of the Death Penalty
https://death.rdsecure.org/article.php?id=42
 
Arguments for and against capital punishment in the UK.
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/thoughts.html

How can stress affect people in the modern society?

How can stress affect people in the modern society?

Nowadays, stress is the most popular feeling in the world. Stress has become more common to modern people and it is impossible not to go through some forms of stress in current time.  Stress comes from different many sources. For example, there are many elements in school, work and family… lead you feeling stress. Danzae Pacesiad that:  “Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life”. People have been changed their characters and behaviors because of feeling stress for a long time and the main reason of some suicides is couldn’t stand the stress. There are just two of many bad influences what stress can cause negatively affect people.

Today, people have to suffer more pressure than they used to. In the past, social was not developed as present so the pressure which worker used to suffer was not as much as now. Nowadays, the work asks worker to put more effort in. They have to complete many works what their boss asked them to do. However, the level of pressure depends on the level of salary. If people want to have a good job with high salary, that’s mean they have much the pressure when they do this job. However, because of life, everyone usually refer to do the high salary-job. With a high salary-job, people can earn enough money to feed their family and for their own. As you can see, women nowadays are refer to married a men who has a good job and a poor family is not usually feel happy. Because of life condition, people have to suffer much stress and the influence of that is really bad. Feeling stress for a long time can depression, increased risk of heart attack and sleep problem.

Stress is a symbol of being tired because of suffering much pressure in daily life. For example, a person who has to finish many works and these works is not easy in many ways. He has a very close deadline and he has tried to complete in each single day. But when the deadline is near, he has just finished half of work. Because of afraid of being fail, he will have some very big stress. The stress will make his behavior change in many ways. He can be easy to lost his mind and getting angry with another people. Moreover, he has to spend more time in his work so he doesn’t have enough time for his own and his family. At first, he cannot sleep well anymore, this thing makes his felling tired every time in the next day. This element can reduce the quality of his work and put him in the bad mood. He will feel panic and do some crazy things when he can’t stand any more. In the worst case, he can decide to suicide or killing people.

 Hans Selye, M.D - the author of The Stress of Life - said: "Stress is not even necessarily bad for you; it is also the spice of life, for any emotion, any activity causes stress. But, of course, your system must be prepared for it." in my opinion, it’s a truth because no people live without stress nowadays. There are 3 simple solutions to easy reduce stress: have a pet, do hobby and talk with family, friend or lover.

Reference.

Banks, T. The Effects Of Stress On Health. Healthy Lifestyle Success. http://www.healthylifestylesuccess.com/effects-of-stress-on-health.html

5 easy ways to reduce stress
http://www.holistic.com/holistic/learning.nsf/b00588db461b551d87256906005eb56f/ed65208f17fd62a5872569f8005d3b8d!OpenDocument

view of success

Explain how people’s differences in their definition of success influence the way they lead their lives.

Success means different things to different people. We are surrounded by examples of success. Steven Jobs is an icon of success. He had created the most famous brand of mobile phone. You can hear many moms telling their children that they should keep their dream and put effort as much as possible, the dream will come true. You hear teacher in school telling you about successful people in their career. According the data of survey, there are six types of success, different people view success differently: mainly in the ways of puritan, escapist and a contributor.

Puritan is the view that working is the key to success. People have that view is usually work as hard as possible. It’s mean the more working they do, the more success they will get.  Every single achievement will be a motivation for them to maintain their effort. Thomas Edison is an example for that view. He had failed one thousand times before the light bulb had been invented successfully. After inventing light bulb, he had been successful in inventing motion picture. It was the invention which born the movie industry. According to the six types of success of Daniel Midson-Short, each achievement adds more to their sense of worthiness, and there is always another goal once the current one is achieved. Base on this information, we can know that puritan people are usually having a high motivation and determine them to try their best to achieve their dream.


Feeling success with a new experience is the person who has escapist view. According to the six types of success, these people believe life is simply one big experience. Our time on earth is meant to lived to the fullest and we are meant to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,” as Thoreaux famously espoused. These types of people are always searching for fun, for experience and for the next thing to get them excited. They want to try all things what they have never go through before. For example, sometimes you can see some people who change their job for 2 or 3 times in only one year. People who have that view are easy to feel boring when doing a thing for a long time. They try to find some brand new experience to have pleasure by changing their work.

People who have contributor view are very helpful for social. Contributors are usually creating best things for another people to improve the life condition and make the life better. by discovering and inventing a brand new helpful knowledge or technology to help people, contributors are step by step improving the life of many people. For example, many new medicines have been created to decrease the number of death because of disease and there are many new technologies have been invented to serve people. These inventions have been created to make people’s life become easier. There many famous inventors who have spend all their own life to serve the world. Sir Alexander Fleming had invented penicillin which is a powerful medicine to solve the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms. Bill Gates is also an icon of contributor, he has created Microsoft company where all the most famous windows and applications come from. With Microsoft’s technology, many works have been done in very easy ways.

In my opinion, although each people have a difference definition about success but the most important key is people have to know what their success view is. After defining the style of view, they have to choose the right dream for them to archive. It will be quite easy for them to make their dream come true with a high motivation and many efforts they put into.