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.

Indra Yudianto

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. 

TRYNING RAHAYU SETYA W.

Insomnia

Keeping your body healtly is important in your life to do your daily business. Besides eating healthy food and do exercise, sleeping well also plays good role for your helth. Sleeping well influence your brain to thing and feeling when you wake up. But, some people get difficult to sleep or it si common to say insomnia. It is because they get pressure or problem from their environment. What can you do if you get insomnia? Here are the some ways to slove it. You ca do your routine activities bavore sleeping like drinking warm milk or chocolate and taking a warm bath. Warm and chocolate help you reduce your emotion and make your feeling calmer. If it does not work, you can come out and take walk to look for fresh air. Finding new world help you refresh your mind. Another way is dong relaxation or meditation for 15 minutes to relax your brain and body. But, if you get painful in your head, it is better to take sleeping pill and it has to base on doctor’s prescriptin. Taking high dose of pill is dangerous for your body because you will no be able to stop taking it. So, keeping your emotion down helps you get sleep well.

Uswatun Khasanah

Obesity

Obesity is related to human health condition in which he or she becomes too fat. If you are in this kind of condition and do not concern with it, you are in a big problem then. Gradually it will ruin your life, because obesity can cause so many diseases like heart attack, diabetes, respiratory, etc. here are some solutions to solve this problem. First, you can start by controlling your food. You must eat three times a day in a proper portion, not too much and not too less. Then you must eat it on time. The frequency of your meal could be five hours or more, for instance, you can eat your breakfast at 7, lunch at 12, and dinner at 6 p.m. Also you must concern with your food quality. Stay away from junk food, like burger, hot dog, coke, and every fried food. You may eat that kind of food but just once a week. It is better if you eat boiled or roasted food. The next is to work out. It does not need a hard work out. You can do cardio, like, jogging, walking, or swimming. You must do exercises at least three times a week in the morning or in the afternoon. It will burn the fat that stuck in your body. The last is to do those activities intensively will help you to stay alive.

Juan Sebastian

Flood

Flood is a kind of Natural Disaster which hurts or even kills people and animals. Flood can also damage houses, factories, public places, etc.There are some efforts to minimize flood. First, we must not cut down the trees in the forest illegaly, because it can cause many disasters for human beings, one of which is flood. Flood happens because the rain water cannot be absorbed by the root of plants, so the water flows directly to the ground. Second, We should plant any kinds of trees in our house, in the barren area or in the side of the road, so the water can be absorbed easily by the root of the plants. Besides, with this way we get many advatages such as to decrease air pollution and to support 'Go Green' program for Global Warming and Climate Change on our earth. The last is that we must not throw away rubbish anywhere which can disturb the flowing of the river water. For example, in Jakarta the people like to throw away the rubish anywhere such as in the river and ditch, as a result flood happens in Jakarta every year. The other flood happens in many other places like in Situ Gintung and Wasior, it is because the people like to throw away the rubbish anywhere. By doing those simple efforts, we can minimize the disasters and participate in the preservation of our environment. So, we must keep our environtment.

Shinta Diah Wulandari

Air Pollution

Air pollution is a common problem in our country. Air pollution comes from dangerous chemical substances which spread in the air, for example, carbon monoxide, CFC, carbon dioxide, hydro carbon, sulfur dioxide, etc. Those substances are produced by human activities such as the using of vehicles which produce smokes causing the air pollution and factory activities such as producing the tires and fake animal skin which use fuels and machine that trigger the air pollution. However, most people are lack of attention to this problem. Even, they do not care that air pollution can be very dangerous for the human health and our environment. How to solve this problem then? There are some solutions to overcome this problem. The first solution is that we must begin reducing the air pollution from ourselves. Lets do the go green. We can start it by planting the plants like flowers or trees in our house. Next, we can make a community to do the go green in some places such as school, city park and forest. Plants can reduce the air pollution by producing the oxygen which is very important for human life to breathe. Plants can also absorb the carbon dioxide by their leaves. Plants do the photosyntesis that occurs in the leaves. They need the carbon dioxide, that is why they absorb the carbon dioxide and of course plants help us to reduce the air pollution. The second solution is that the government should give clear rules for the industries which use fuels and machine causing the air pollution. The first rule is that the industries should change the fuels and machine with the new one that is more eco-friendly for the environment. For example, the industries can use the fuel cells which gain energy from hydrogen. The fuel cells are more eco-friendly because the waste is water. The industries can also use the solar cells for the machine as the electrical energy. Fuel cells and solar cells are the renewed technology which save for the environment. The second rule is that the government should restrict the ownership of vehicles for each family. Nowadays, there are many families who have more than one car or motorcycle. The big number of vehicles can increase the air pollution by their smokes. So the government should give a strick rule, “each family should have one car and one motorcycle”. If the number of vehicles is decreasing, it makes the amount of the air pollution decrease too. From those solutions, we expect to save our environment from the air pollution. We can not vanish the air pollution but we can reduce it with those solutions. So lets start it now.

Rara Zukhrufy

The Untaken Care Environment

World is like a living thing that is just like us or even animals. It is very important for us to know and admit that we live on Earth and in one condition where we need each other's attention in order to live peacefully. What has been happening around us, throughout the world, is that human kinds do not take care of the environments, in which it would be so much troublesome of the balance is not even. All these mess are most likely caused by human that do not give a good feedback to the environment where these environment actually naturally just give away what the human need. Human kind cut down trees illegally just to make a wider are so that they ca have more buildings in order to make life more convenient and easier, according to them. Human kinds build more and more factories that produce so much gasses that harm the environment, however, according to those builders in this era, we can not afford to waste any times thinking about "saving Earth" whereas, according to them, world has became modern. All of those mentioned above are very true, but one thing we should always remember though, trees and all around us such as the environments are connected and have an enormous effect to our daily life activities, therefore, we all must be in balanced. Plantations make the air cooler, and the better air we consume, the better life spend we will have. These trees and plants are the "filters" for the good air and oxygen we inhale. Environment give us enough stock of needs for our daily life. We should have more social community activities explaining and describing what are actually need. We must make a better future for our children and give so much appreciations to the world for letting us to live peacefully with the gifts of being as "filters".

M. Afif Amirul Mukminin