Friday, 29 April 2011

Should Euthanasia be legalized?

Euthanasia is the act of a physician or other third party ending a patient’s life in response to severe pain and suffering.  In recent society, with increasing of the medical science, euthanasia becomes a disputed topic.  Is that euthanasia legally or not?  Some people agree that to use euthanasia end of a patient’s life if he/she suffers incurable disease, it provides a way to relieve extreme pain.  However, other people think this way is illegalized because it breaches the nature.  Nevertheless, there are many important areas we should deeply think about it rather than give a simple view.  In my opinion, I support that a terminally ill patient can use euthanasia because the affliction, financial and human right.

First of all, affliction refers to condition or cause of suffering.  It does not mean that the patients lose their aspiration to live in this world, it just because they finally cannot stand the disease bring such enormous agony both to their body and spirit and they are totally paralyzed to do anything except breathing.  Take a patient as an example who suffer from the terminal cancer, Actually deep down in his hearts, he wants to combat and live on, but the reality is, the probability of being totally cured is too slight to motivate him to fight with the great physical pain.  He knows distinctly that however stoutly the fight with the disease, he also will meet Azrael before long.  Hence he loses the courage and aspiration to live on.  Worse still, besides rendering him nothing but laying on bed day and night, the devil disease tormented them by posing enormous body pain. Based on all these brutal facts, they feel little sense and spices of life.  In this case, how can a doctor and the patient’s family member still let them stand this kind of pains?  If we do not help them implement euthanasia, then they may probably conduct more extreme and cruel methods to end their lives, such as hanging, shooting, etc. In this sense, our well-intentioned which wants they live more time in this world has become inhumane!  With the aids of euthanasia, they can go to heaven placidly, with smile on their face, which indicates the end of agony eternally.  So the best way to deal with it is allow them to use euthanasia to end their life with a happy way.

Next, financial also is a problem that allow patients to use euthanasia in legally way.  This is another reason to support mercy killing is that medical costs are very high.  Today the cost of hospital room can be as much as $1,450 per day for basic care, which does not include the cost of specialized care or the use of special equipment.  The high cost of medical care can cause financial problems for the family. Think this question more detail, how can a poor family undertake this kind of huge bill to cure the patient?  And dose the patient will not feeling that he/she bring such a burden to their family?  Why this two party worry about the problem?  The reason is they lack of money.  For example, Charles Adkins’ eighty-two-year-old wife lived in a nursing home in a coma for four years.  Since there was no chance for her recovery, Mr. Adkins requested that the medical staff withhold treatment. However, his pleas were ignored.  Soon after she died, Mr. Adkins was billed $250,000 for his wife’s medical care. The courts ordered him to pay the bill, which must have placed a terrible financial burden on him. (Extracted from “Introduction to academic writing” by Alice Oshima & Ann Hougue.)  From this sample we can know it is no easy for an elderly man to afford this huge bill.

      Human rights are “rights and freedom” to which all human are entitled.  The final reason to support the legalization of the euthanasia is the patient’s human rights.  Human rights include the patient’s personal choice and their freedom.  Take personal choice as an example, for an incurable disaster, if they want to choose use euthanasia to end of his/her physical affliction, can we stop them?  Of course the answer is no.  The reason is that is the way to help them to free themselves and no need to suffer the affliction anymore.

Overall, the several reasons to support the incurable patients to use euthanasia are legalized just because we don’t want them to undergo more painful which our common people cannot stand.  So in my opinion, that is a good way to help them to go to heaven placidly, with smile on their face

Sunday, 10 April 2011

What are the possible causes of conflict?

        Conflict is when two or more opposing parties begin an argument or violence with each other while attempting to be the ones in the right.  Human behavior studies (e.g. Armstrong 1994) show some conflict is inevitable in human relationships, often conflicts are the results of perceived difference rather than real one.  What are the reasons lead to people begin to conflict and quarrel with their opponent?  There are many difference results to cause conflict.  Some possible causes of conflicts are misunderstanding, disagreement over facts or opinions and one party did not live up to expectations to another.

       First of all, misunderstanding can change one’s mind to think of a person and to cause the conflict between each other.  Racism, sexism and bigotry are all results of lake of understanding.  When we do not take the time to put ourselves in other people’s shoes then we can draw all sorts of wrong conclusions.  Take racism pattern as an example, in USA, the white people always think they are the best race, they look down upon the black guys.  I think misunderstanding is the most important reason lead to inequality.  The history can trace back when the first time the white people go to Africa and catch the strongly black men as coolies.  So until now the white people still think that black people just the lowest level and work for white.  As the reason, for the equality, black man want to proof that human are without rank, so they emerge the conflict.

       Next, disagreement of facts and opinions between two people also result in conflict.  The reason involved the education’s background and their feeling to treat things.  For instance, two people are argued that if there have aliens in our universal or not.  Even now, the scientist still not sure whether there are other living being in our universal, so these two people set up the conflict on something nobody know.  However, the stuff they conflict maybe come from their education background, maybe one person think there are alien exist because his teacher teaching him.  But for another person, he think there are no aliens in our universal just because he has learn something cosmology by himself and what he learn tell him the different result as his opponent.  So the conflict comes out if two of them still disagree with each other.

        The last but not the least, conflict also happen if one party did not live up to expectations to another.  Take a couple as an example, husband is a company’s boss, always bustle about his business, and the wife is a housewife, nothing special she does except the housework.  Before they marry, the wife hopes their life just like a sweet couple, and with each other every day.  However, because the husband runs the company and do busy things every day, so they cannot meet with each other, even once a week.  As we can see, the result is that wife cannot stand her husband focus on his business rather than her, so they have different idea of each other and lead to the conflict in the end.

       Overall, since the conflict cannot avoid in our lives, I think we can improve our knowledge or control ourselves. In my opinion, if we make sure the stuffs we are going to do, conflict will not happen for ours misunderstanding; and if we learn more about our lives or some theories, we will not come out the conflict with other person because of the disagreement. 

Friday, 1 April 2011

Needs

        Needs are something that is necessary for human being to live an enrich lives.  For our lives, the needs also can be separated into different levels, such as basic level and luxurious level.  Is that people possess the needs from basic to luxurious step by step or just daydreaming thinking that they can have a skyrocketing rise to reach the highest level?  Actually, nowadays, for courting fame and fortune, many people thinking about the unrealistic needs even if they did not achieve they basic needs.  However, in general, to live enrich lives, people should more focus the physiological needs, love and belonging needs and self- actualization needs.

       First of all, human being cannot survival without metabolic requirements, such as water and food, because that is energy for our bodies.  For example, in ‘Robinson Cruse’, a castaway who call Robinson spends 28 years on a remote tropical island.  How can he survival and live a long time?  The reason is that he found out the useful element for himself, just like transform the sea water into drinking water, and found out the innocuously vegetable and fruit crops to product his own food.  From the sample of Robinson, it is obviously that physical needs play the most important role for our lives, without this kind of needs; we cannot get into the next level.

       Secondly, in love and belonging needs, friendship and family are significant things for one person.  “Can you imagine if a person without family and friendship just live in this world alone”?  In fact, nobody can alive in this way.  Maybe you cannot stand without anyone concerned with you and nobody helps you when you are in trouble.  For instance, Albert Einstein, everyone knows he is a famous scientist.  But when he was in kindergarten, everything he did just like an untalented child, even if his teacher did not like him for his behaviors.  However, he is very fortunately, he has a good mother who to teach him how to become a good person.  And lastly, he become a very useful man, the big part of contribution is come from his mother.  So the needs from family and friendship can change one person to live a different life.

  Finally, the highest level is self- actualization needs.  Everybody has their own dream to achieve, so after them possessing the physical needs, love and belonging needs, they want to combat with their goals.  The reason is that human being cannot just complacency status quo; they must try their best to do what they want to do.  For instance, Maria Skłodowska-Curie is a very well-known scientist who does a lot of huge contribution for our society.  In the past, many people did not believe a woman can do the contribution, the society discriminate against woman, but miss Maria fearlessness the result, she does what she wants to do just because she think about she has ability and she fell in love in science, also she wants to give a force for the society.  So whatever she does just with her own beliefs. So she achieves her own dream and helps the world a lot.

     Overall, in my opinion, needs is the spirit for people to live motivate.  When they see if they have nothing, they will try harder and harder to gain something belong to them own, but if they already possess something basic, they also want to climb to the next level to gain more and more they need.  So we cannot lose anyone needs when we want to possess an enrich lives.

Saturday, 26 March 2011

How success be defined


  There are many successful people who do very well in different fields.  These people achieve their dreams in many different ways.  Do they succeed in wealth or relationships?  Although, they work in different fields, the methods of their success are similar.  There are 3 ingredients to achieve success: education, determination and health.
  First of all, good education can make people achieve success much easier.  The more we know, the more we can realize and develop our society, and we can use our knowledge to create something new or discover new things.  For example, Steven Hawking is one of the most famous scientists.  He got PhD when he was 21 year-old.  During his study of the universe, he continuously increased his knowledge in the area.  For his wide knowledge and huge effort, he brings huge contribution to our society and develops modern science.  From Steven Hawking, we can know education is an important part for us who want to success in correct way.

  In addition, success also can be defined by determination.  The reason is that if we cannot persist on our own and always give up in the face of difficulties, we would not reach and achieve our dreams.  In other words, it means we cannot succeed.  For instance, the famous pianist Beethoven is a good sample for us.  Although he suffers from deafness, he still tried his best to compose music.  Such as "Symphoine No.5 Op67 a804-1808 and Symphonie No.68  Op 1807-1808.  All the music had been composed out just because he fell in love and enjoyed music.  So, I think if you want to be successful, you must deeply understand the things you do and never give up until you reach the destination.

  Furthermore, health is the most significant ingredient if we want to achieve our dreams, without heath, there is nothing you can do, much less to say you can do it perfectly and with success.  For example, when we have a cold, we may feel under the weather, do not want to do anything and cannot pay attention.  How can a person succeed with this kind of situation?  An example would be a famous idol whose name is Jerry Yan, who always has a cold.  Because of his health, he lost opportunities in his work and the chance to become a good actor.  For this reason his reputation dropped substantially and lost many fans.  Therefore, we must stay healthy so that we can pursue success.

  Overall, in my opinion, if a person have good education, never give up and have good health, all these make him have success much easier than others.  Don’t you think you will be a successor too if you have these 3 types of success?


Saturday, 5 March 2011

My favourite subject-----Taiwan drama

  The first time  I saw Taiwan drama when I was 11. I think that was interesting because I saw it by accident. I still remember the name of TV play which I first saw is called "silence". Afterthat, I lose my herat to it, and I always focus Taiwan drama.
 
  There are 3 reasons that I get into the habit of watching Taiwan drama. firstly, I can see handsome actors on the screen. As we kown, girls are curious about boys at the age of 11/12, and they always have good impression if the the boy has good looking. So, I think I like watching Taiwan drama is that I can see many different styles' handsome boys. However, with the growth of age, not only the handsome boys can attract me, also the story of the play draw my attention. If you see Taiwan drama frequently, you can find that the stories are similar to our daily life, just like "The life is like a play,play as life." So, I can get many useful imformation from the stories as my life experience. For US movies or Chinese drama, most of them are fiction or state the history. I think that is impratical and   quite boring foe people to guess human being's future or go to understand something we know very clearly in the past. In addiction, Taiwan drama also show the beautiful views. For examle, for one Play, the director maybe take the first EP in Taipei, but for the second EP ,it could be in Kouhsiung. I think is very good for audiences to see different views all aroud Taiwan, also can look into diverse cultures. For busy man who like traveling, it no need to have a trip, just sit infront of screen and follow the Play to enjoy the funny that TV bring to you.

  overall, for me, Taiwan drama can let you appriciate handsome actors and increase your daily and society experience at the same time.

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Attitude toward Writing

For me, I think writing is a way to show  what you want to say...but it also differently when you write the formal and informal essays.

  For example,at school, writing is an importance homework,we must finish the essay what  teachers give us. To be honest, I don't like it,because I can't express my own opinions.Maybe sometimes I     should write something what my teachers like to get high marks. Actually, it makes me sick, just for I can't let you know my real thought.

  In daily life, I love writing, the reason is that I can show my own expression.For instance, after I       seeing a TV drama, I will giving opinions for actors' acting skills or appearance, also I can comment      wether the TV series is good or not. All of them show what I want to say. At the same time, it emphasize the personal opinions rather than unify thinking. So you can get more feedbacks if someone have    same hobbies with you.