A Brainstorm

Brainstorm is the negative kind of brainwash, a method or a way which is used to change our perception or to lead the way of thinking to have the same idea in interpretation about something by infiltrating an information or idea to our brain. A brainwash is a useful method if it is used for positive aims, such as to develop our confidence, to increase or build spirit of war, etc. But it will be negative if it is used for negative aims such as for an activity which has a reason for religion like “jihad” for example. Brainmstorm is one of the biggest issues which Indonesian people have been talking about recently. It cannot be underestimated because it has caused many victims, especially for young moslems. The victims are able to allow themselves to accomplish their aim for the holy war because they think they will get heaven as an exchange of the activity. Whereas the truth of the idealism is not still able to be proven. It is really difficult for us to annihilate their activity. But there are some ways or solutions to avoid the influence of brainstorm. First, we do not believe too much to strangers. We have to be aware to the strangers if they try to give a strange attention for us. Second, we should be overminded in thinking. We ought to reduce our egoism, not to think in radical ways. Islam is a religion which loves peace. Third, we had better think the impacts of the activity. Whether it will give us bad impacts or not. Whether the activity will harm us, our family and other people or not. If there are many disadvantages that occur which can be caused by the idealism, we have to it. Fourth, we had better get the truth of the idealism. We can try to look for the truth from Qur’an, books, ask to ustadz or someone who has enough capability about that. Jihad is actually holy war in Islam. But it is not radicalism. “Dakwah” is one of the best ways to do jihad in a country which has many religions like Indonesia. Beware and try to think more often about new idealism which we might get. Avoid regretness about our noble death, so that it will not be wasted.

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Senior High School and College

Nowadays, it is hard to find a proper job. Unemployed is always increased every year. There is no guarantee, the higher education will give an ease to get a job. It depends on ourselves. But by continueing our education to a college university, it will help us to get a proper job more easily. Our readiness to do a job will be better than when we only graduate from a senior high school. In a college, the students are demanded to have a better independency than the students who study in a senior high school. The college students have to manage their own lesson schedules by themselves and they are  the senior high school students. They cannot manage their own lesson schedule. They also cannot choose the teachers. All of them are managed by their teacher’s decision. The students in a senior high school have to cometo the class from Monday to Saturday. While the college students have to come to the class from Monday to Friday, and it can be less depending on their own lesson schedule. The teachers in a senior high school are usually more caring than the lecturers, the teachers in a college university. The teachers usually have a better attention to their students about the attendance and the school grades of their students. So as a college student, we should pay better attention to our education for our own better future, a better future in getting a proper job.

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Briptu Norman Kamaru, The Indonesian’s Syah Rukh Khan

Nowadays, the name of Syah Rukh Khan and Briptu Norman Kamaru are not strange again to Indonesian people. The name of Briptu Norman became popular after he did video lipsing of Hindi song in You-Tube. Norman who is an ordinary policeman from Gorontalo, suddenly becomes very popular, as popular as Syah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood artist in India. Both of them are good in dancing. In the video, Briptu Norman was able to dance like the way of Syah Rukh Khan’s dance in the Hindi song which entitles “Chaiya-Chaiya”. Norman also has a good voice, as melodious as Syah Rukh Khan’s. It is proven by his performance to sing the Hindi song, Chaiya-Chaiya in some TV stations, such as RCTI, SCTV, TransTV, TVOne, Trans7 and many more other TV stations. Almost all the audiances are cheered up by his performance and almost all of them sing and dance along with him. Both, Syah Rukh Khan and Briptu Norman Kamaru have a wonderful talent about Hindi song and the dance. It is not easy either to sing a Hindi song or to show a dance in the style of Hindi. We should not blame his act act as a bad act of a policeman, but we should be proud and appreciate his wonderful talent.

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Coupling : The Sources of Sins

Coupling is not a kind of detachable things in adolescent’s life nowadays. It is one of the sources of sins. Islam has prohibited coupling explicitly. In Islam, the activity is kind of prohibition which is commonly classified as “zinah”. Zinah is the second big sin in Islam. There are many kinds of zinah. There are zinah by our heart, zinah by our eyes, zinah by our hands, zinah by our lips and many more kinds of zinah. But the worst kind of it is having sexual intercourse. It is the same thing with doing a sin about 80 years. In Al-Qur’an, Allah SWT has explained, “Do not you approach something which can lead you to do zinah, because actually zinah is a kind of despichable acts and a bad way.” (QS. Al-Isra’ : 32). Our prophet, Muhammad SAW disagrees with coupling either. It is not without a reasons. He said, “Do not both of you (man and woman) come together in a place, because syeitan (the prince of darkness) will be the third of you.” He means that the activity (coupling) can give an encouragement to do zinah. It is also able to make a small sin becomes a big sin. There are many common activities in coupling, such as holding, hugging, kissing, and or even more like having sexual intercourse. Holding can encourage to do hugging, hugging can encourage to do kissing, kissing can encourage to do something more or even having sexual intercourse, the real zinah. Love actually is a kind of feeling which given by God, Allah SWT. But as moslem, we should know how to respond that kind of feeling. Beware of that kind of feeling, do not let it leads us to do zinah by coupling. Avoiding to have couple is kind of obligation for us as moslem.

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Rubbish

Nowadays, there are many environment problems. These problems consist of land problems, water problems, and air problems. One of the main sources of these problems is rubbish. The volume of rubbish is increasing. We can find many types of rubbish everytimes and everywhere. Commonly, rubbish consists of residue of foods, plastics, leaves, and many others. This rubbish comes from many ways, such as, houses, schools, factories, and so on, including every person. Today, we can produce 1200 ton rubbish/ day. If we cannot minimize production of rubbish, day by day, the level of rubbish will be over limit and make some disasters, for example, floods, landslides, extinction of animals and others. In order to solve these problems, first, we can reduce our paper use by using both sides of the paper when we print out our job and write a letter. Second, we must minimize the using of plastic bag. We have to reuse our old plastic bag at home, because plastic is one of the difficult things to decompose. We must try to think that if we go to the market one month with our old plastic bag, we can imagine how many plastics cannot be rubbish. The last is that we can recycle our own useless things to be something useful. For example, we can make something with our papers to be cover of our books, draft of Paragraph Writing tasks or to write notes. Therefore, the three R, reduce, reuse and recycle is a good way to decrease the volume of rubbish. 

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Living in a small village and a city

Most people want to live happily with their family in comfortable places. Some of them prefer to live in a small village to a city. But, some of them say the opposite. They are many differences between living in a small village and living in a city. If we choose to live in a small village, we can find comfortable places or we can enjoy the beautiful scenery from fields, mountains, lakes, and rivers that we cannot find them in the city. Besides, we can feel so quiet with the situation and there is no pollution from public transportation or factories, so, we can breath fresh air. In a small village, there are no noises and the important thing is that we cannot find any traffic jam over the small village. We can go anywhere easily. In contrary, if we choose to live in a city, we can find a noisier sound, very dangerous pollution and crowded situation in everyside of the city. But, living in a city is very helpful, because we can find more jobs in high salaries than jibs in a small village. In the city, there are various equipments, we can find everything we want, such as foods, clothes, cars, and many others completely and easily. So, we san say that, living in a small village and a city has many differences in term of the situation, the air condition, and the ability to find something, like jobs or some equipments.

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Agnes Monica and Cinta Laura

Most of people in Indonesia know Agnes Monica and Cinta Laura as  well. They are very famous. Agnes Monica and Cinta Laura have many differences in their physical appearances, behaviours, or their favorite things. But, nobody knows that both of them have similarities in their career. Agnes Monica and Cinta Laura are singers. They began their career as a young singer. The first Agnes Monica’s song is Si Meong and the first Cinta Laura’s song is Baby. They have good voices. Besides, they have good looking and always dance in every performance. They are very talented as an entertainer. They are also well known as an actress. They have already done many soap operas. The first soap opera acted by Agnes Monica was “Pernikahan Dini” and “Cinderella” was the first soap opera of Cinta Laura. In addition, they are smart women. They have an ability to talk in English very well when they were interviewed by reporters. Now, they are going to develop their own career in an International level. They are featuring with international singers, for example, Agnes Monica with Keith Martin and Cinta Laura with Australian singer, Guy Sebastian. Another similarity is that they are very respectful and always follow social actions to help somebody who wants helps, for example, they always help victims in disasters, give contribution in orphanage and so on. So, we can say that, Agnes Monica and Cinta Laura have similarities in their career as a singer and an actress. Besides, their social actions are inspiring to some people outside to help somebody else. 

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