Graduate / SOP for MAIDP Interest and expectation of working under disaster condition. [3]

One of unique aspects of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) MA International Disaster Psychology (MAIDP) program is the opportunity for students to travel, work and live internationally while completing their field experiences students live and work in uncomfortable and unfamiliar culture conditions. Describe your interest and expectations about working under these conditions and the strength and weakness you would bring to the experience.

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Urip iku urup, an indigenous Javanese maxim means life is enlightening, is having deep meaning to me. While you help others, you will get broad mindedness and God will going to help you back in unexpected occasion. In accordance to the maxim's spirit, I believe the way of share and give means the barter system of accepting more pleased. I am always exhilarating when I have an opportunity to help people who are living in vulnerability.

I am always exhilarating when I have an opportunity to help people who are living in vulnerability. Even you just putting your hand around someone's arm or listening about what they need, it seems like you want to say, don't panic, you're not alone because I'm here to help you. If you can see the victim succeed reducing their panic, breathing normally and giving you sincere smiles, it is such rewarding and humbling experience that I would like to do as my obsession to become professional humanitarian worker. One of the blissful occasion I did is when I held hands of children in 2010 Merapi's eruption. At the time I do voluntary work in refugee camp in Keji village, Muntilan district, Yogyakarta particularly in the area of children trauma healing, the children's smiling would always bear in my mind as the adorable moment.

Living at the situation of Merapi eruption covering with full of eruptions' ash, limited access of water and food, no electricity and the uncertain nature condition realizes me that I love to aid people in emergency. These situations obviously are not as comfortable as your leisure spending in Conrad resort Bali, but it will all be paid off with a sincere smile of those who succeed you help. The work in disaster can be compelling and rewarding as we stand as helper and also survivor. To deal with unpredictable occasions, disaster aid workers are inextricably intertwined to adjusting skill. I have trained to adjust for living in different places for the last 7 years. This started when I decided to pursue my bachelor degree in Diponegoro University (UNDIP), Semarang, a 1000 km city away from my hometown, Palembang South Sumatra. I have to adjust with certain condition surrounding in my college environment which obviously different, the interaction, vernacular language, daily dietary, were 180 degree different with my prior live. This then has formed me to be more honor with the cultural and individual differences. In 2013 to date, I conduct rural community service program called PSP3 under the compulsory of Indonesian state ministry of youth and sport. In this work area I have to adjust with the situation amongst mothers to empower them in making village trash bank and children that I have to attach in order to raise their motivation to come and study in village library that I formed.

Moreover, doing volunteering in the area of disastrous psychology sometimes is challenging what is more whenever there is a disaster of any magnitude, it offers crucial emotional. In certain culture, however, people are not encourage to express their emotion. Thus, you suppose to pull off the shock and be able to deal with it. In dealing with psychological state, the workers have to aid survivors with wide range of response, sometimes normal response on abnormal situation may exaggerate. In catharsis session of my Merapi's volunteering, for instance, I tended to build rapport among Keji's refugee with simple questions such as: what about the camp condition, is it quite safe for you to sleep? or how about the taste of daily food given? These questions succeed to raise their rapport then they can more open emotionally. "I keep thinking about what's happening up there, with my cows, my property," said one of treated refugee. Furthermore, I have been proved that the most effective weapon to respect them is with sincere smile.

Struggling to speak the language is one of the common problems aid workers experience on international assistance. Based on my recent experience, as the national language, Bahasa Indonesia stands as the lingua franca in all of the Indonesia regions but this is not work as we go to some rural areas. Local inhabitants are comfortably to use their vernacular language. Even though they knew how to speak Bahasa, less of them can appropriately use in face to face communication. They may respond to me appropriately if I use Panjenengan, polite Javenese greeting to say you, rather than Anda, formal Bahasa to say you. Indeed, in certain times, I should learn what they want to say and use some materials close to me to explain what I want to say. I would say that using movement as body language or paper and pencil sometimes are a must.

I am about 22 pounds overweight right now, this may weaken my performance while do rush work in the disaster assistance. But, this is not always proven as my body is strength enough for hiking Bromo 29's peak at 9514 feet high (2900 m) above sea level. Even though some outdoor activities as I was the chief of Psikologi Hijau, a care environmental organization in faculty of psychology UNDIP, are not closely engaged, I still intensively do mild physical exercise to maintain my health. My posture, obviously, cannot prevent my passion to help others.

Writing Feedback / Male or female are become the peaceful leader (IELTS task 2) [2]

Throughout the history, male leaders often made the society more violent and conflicting. If women governed the world, it would be more peaceful world. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give an example to support your idea.

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It is often argued that women leadership in society may bring the most peaceable sense. While it is true for some major reasons, I agree that men could be an eligible chief in keeping world peace.

The decrease of international credence is caused by several national conflicts. Libya, Egypt and Syria are the notorious examples as Qhadafi, Asa'ad and Mubarak ways to conduct their country result on many terrible chaos. In this view, it seems to allow women who have leadership quality in endeavour peace to their county. Au San Suu Kyi, a political leader from Myanmar, has proved that woman has peaceful way to lead. Even though she is in powerful opposition in against military government who arrest her in unfair way in that era, she, further, could create stability around Myanmar in collaboration with the junta. Her steps, then, bestowed her as one of the peace Nobel Prize awardee.

However, women could prove illusory as the best leader from womanhood as they way of leading depict violence and hostility. Margaret Thatcher who ordered British Navy to conquer Falkland Island from Argentina is stance stronger as an obvious example. As results of this force, many victims died and the protest from world peace-lover around the world raised. Apart from the execrable example, history told Mahatma Gandhi as one of the inspiration in leading with peace. He leads in complex struggle to show his basic precepts Ahimsa, no violence, and Satyagraha, resistance from foreign helps. Gandhi proves that leading on against not always use weapon and bomb. Together with Suu Kyi, Gandhi success to become Nobel awardee and also become the symbol of peace.

In conclusion, although women might appropriate to become leader owing to their success in shunning violence, based on the historical fact, I believe that men are too capable to become peacekeeping leader.

Writing Feedback / Elements and proper locations for the installation of wind turbine (IELTS Task 1) [NEW]

The diagram illustrates the construction of a wind turbine which is consist of 4 crucial elements while the second diagram depiction shows the optimum location of wind turbine installation.

It is noticeable that blades are the most important element in catching wind. The blades of turbine rotate when catching wind. Behind the blade, there is sensor which is connected to the ground computer to adjust speed and the direction of wind blowing. Under the sensor installation, generator which would generate electricity power up to 1.5 megawatt is added steadily alongside the steel tower so as to support the top of wind turbine installation.

Fast forward to the second diagram, wind turbine would be generate optimum electricity power when it is constructed on the hill's peak. For the moderate demand, in shore coastal wind turbine installation can be stance stronger as second consideration. However, for the domestic need, domestic turbine can be build adjoining house to harness the output of 100 kilowatt electricity power.

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Writing Feedback / What cause of people life longer ? is that positive of negative development? (IELTS Task 2) [3]

People nowadays live longer than they used to what caused this situation ? Is it negative or positive development?

Life expectancy has climbed throughout the world. Some people think that it brings benefit for the nation while some others deem on its drawback. I believe that the issue of living longer is caused by technological improvement and the discovery of some vaccines.

Living longer can be caused of the alteration manual work to the automatic machine. It can be seen in a factory that the work for physical manual job goes automatic. Workers who help in such technology have sufficient time to rest then possibly far for injuries and accident such as back pain, spine harm or another accident which potentially occurs when they face the heavy machine. As a result, workers physically have stable condition and can be predicted for the range of longer life. Moreover, the discovery of vaccines take part in cause of living longer. Striking backward in the era when the certain vaccine is undiscovered, there are numbers of effected elderly died in folio disease or the case endemic case of Smallpox outbreak in Somalia in the year 1977. In that era, the spread of such virus has contributed in the degradation of life expectancy. On the other field, the invention of HPV, human papiloma virus, vaccine also protects our female from the infection of cervical cancer.

However, life expectancy inextricably intertwined with the growth of global population. When the number of citizen increase, it would be lead to the social problems. Imagine that in Japan, for example, as the country's life expectancy growth positively, the government should provide the retirement home also sophisticated health service for adults which may consume large national budget. Apart from its drawback, a nation senior experts such as professors and writers are in abundance. It is such tangible benefit that they can contribute to the national development as their sophisticated experiences would be the best advice in evaluated some crucial issues.

In conclusion, technological and vaccine discoveries would be take a huge part of the cause of longer life around the globe. While the elderly people need special attention to care in, I believe that when the adult is care with the proper ways they can be one of the prominent aspect in the national development.

Research Papers / Research abstract :Out-of-body Experience [NEW]

Please kindly checked the grammar using and also the overall content in such research abstract. Thank you :D
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY ON OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE (OBE)

The out-of-body experience (OBE) is the transcendental experience where the person's self and body are phenomenologically separate, typically involves a sensation of floating outside his/her body and to see the world from a location outside the physical body. The OBE, however, often includes the experience on moving outside the confines of body and space all the while remaining aware of her/his unmoving physical body.

The present study aims to overlook the perspectives on out-of-body experience (OBE) among the participants. In the manner, this research uses a qualitative phenomenological approach so as to uncover the subjective meaning of OBE. A total of three participants who had reported having at least two times of OBE is selected by purposive sampling while the data is analyzed by the Miles and Huberman interactive analysis model.

Moreover, the testable hypothesis reveals that even every participants experiences OBE, the subjective meaning showed some differences related to the OBE's background. In an OBE experient who signed OBE as a fortunate from the Almighty, the getting message within OBE should be delivered to the others while the appearing meaning in OBE experient in Menangan, a purpose of becoming the best, with the induced of Kejawen meditation, OBE is denoted as the high level of grateful to the God. In the case of OBE's participant with coma condition, the OBE's meaning appears as the advancement of a newborn. Related to the participants, the interpretation of OBE shows a difference even though it is still directly leads to Manunggaling Gusti, soul merges in God. Generally, the participants reports some fatigues and lassitudes as the physical effects of OBE.

Writing Feedback / IELTS Task 1 : Different courses in England - Two pie charts [5]

The pie charts present data concerning alteration in six different means of courses in England in 2010 and 2012.

Overall, more students significantly enrol in sport science course over two years under review while the UK students take the least interest in joining carpentry.

As per the bar charts, around a quarter of English students enrolled to sport science course in 2012 while in 2010 it recorded just 11,9 % enrollment, this 16 percent increase was the most significant improvement over the all courses. Compared to the number of devotees in carpentry course being accounted 5 % in 2012, such trend recorded a fivefold increase. Engineering took the second place in number improvement. Rising at 12,3% in 2010, it climbed to 18,5 % during the review years.

Besides, the courses of social studies, nursing and psychology showed a decrease. Rising as highest percentage at 27%, the number of British student joining in social studies course fell at about 6 percent in 2012. Although the percentage of nursing's attendance in 2010 bear uncanny resemblance in percentage of sport science in 2012, it approximately halved to 14 % in 2012. However, psychology noted an un-significant decrease over the two years period.

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Writing Feedback / According to eg Carl Jung the colors cure mentally illness patients by the art work in psychotherapy [5]

Psychologist have known for many years that colour can affect how people feel. For this reason, attention should be given to colour schemes when decorating places such as offices and hospitals.

How true this statement?

How far colour influence people's health and capacity for work?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
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Colours have a great impact on people's lives. Recently, modern psychologists hypothesize that some colours in the building interior influence the mood states of workers and patients while the opponents assume that people's feelings cannot be explained with the colours provided. I believe that colours in appropriate mixture can actively boost the positivity among its occupants.

Colours and human's feeling are already discussed for long time. All our lives, people have been trained to respond to colours through our action and feeling. An actual example can be seen in the way people conducting their manner while driving or crossing street. In terms of red means stop, yellow means careful and green means go, people instinctively react to colours due to the preconditioning of their minds. While people experience a rush of emotion when run a red light, colours prove its power to influence people. Moreover, in some countries colours may associate with certain mood. A result shows that 35% of Americans express the feel of coziness with Blue. Besides, the adequate outcomes from colour experiments say that red gives the sense physical courage, and violet gives the sense of calmness. Furthermore, as the power of colour, interior design nowadays tend to consider its mixture to deliberate people's mood. A landmark study conducted by University of British Columbia reveals that blue environment can deal with productivity while The Hufftington post publishes that combination of slate blue mixes with olive green and soft cream has helped to foster a team environment. The aforementioned evidences align the colours-emotion association.

On the other hand, colour's power is not merely related to people positivity. A research in Florida University reveals that there is no significant finding to determine anxiety level, length of stay or medication request depend upon the color of patient room colour with a mild tone shape of purple, green and orange. Then, the refutation of mood improvement based on the colours can be accepted.

In conclusion, the energy of colours are widely used in decorating particular buildings to bring positivity to the people. In another case, the colours effect may not seen significantly in healing process. However, I believe that the statement that colours can effect people feel is true as the wonderment of our emotions in connection to colours exist in our daily lives.

Writing Feedback / IELTS Task 1 : Temperature and Rainfall in Darwin and Kuala Lumpur (two tables) [7]

The tables compare the data on the rate of temperature and precipitation over a calendar year in two different countries.

Clearly, there are a four-month from May to August showing similar temperatures. Likewise, May records an identic number of rainy days in Darwin and Kuala Lumpur.

As per the tables, Darwin covers with moderate temperature recording the average at 32oC in January, February and August, a similar temperature occurring in Kuala Lumpur weather from July to December. However, the highest rate of temperature in Darwin breaks the hottest degree in Kuala Lumpur. In October and November, Darwin records 34oC while the hottest period in Kuala Lumpur occurs between February and June with a point lower than Darwin has.

On the hand of rainfall, Darwin's precipitation rates throughout the year experiences more volatile fluctuation than the number of rain in Kuala Lumpur. Coming with the wettest month with 20 days rainy in the early year, it drops to no rain at all in July and August. Kuala Lumpur has a similar amount number of rain with Darwin in October and November, yet both of countries identify a similar number of rain in March.

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Writing Feedback / IELTS Task 2 : Causes and solutions student less leisure [6]

In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work in their studies. What do you think are the causes of this? What solutions can you suggest?

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School and leisure play a pivotal role for students all over the world. While the great numbers of academic demand pursue students to achieve sophisticated knowledge, they should sacrifice much of their leisure to accomplish it. As per the problem, I believe some solutions should be pondered to overcome such students' difficulty.

Schoolchildren nowadays are forced by many duties either in school or extra courses. This may increase the tendency for parents to support them in various activities, however, this decision unconsciously kills the schoolchildren's time to have leisure. In order to enhance the sophisticated school mark it may accepted, but it takes student far deeply in the mental pressure. Results show 80 % of Australian parents register their children to special a course called TAFE in purpose to get some extra coaching for preparing a sophisticated university examination, and most of students are suffered with a mild state of mental distress.

Another possible cause is the national policy including shorter duration of study in elementary stage. While this policy implement, student have to force their-self to fulfill all of the requirement. In Indonesia this called Akselerasi which cuts a year of study term than its normal. Schoolchildren who join with such program commonly engaged with several extra lessons out off main class as their study work far outweigh over the regular class. As a result, their leisure time must be sacrificed.

Having said that some solutions can be taken to solve this problem.
Firstly, school and parents should provide a positive atmosphere for children to study, either at the school or at home, in purpose to avoid much pressure in the students study work. The atmosphere is not only about school facilities and environments but also making a suitable schedule that considerably takes the portion of the children's leisure. Secondly, the State Ministry of Educational Affairs has a responsible to make a federal policy encountering student needs of the sufficient time in study and leisure, this policy plays a vital role for the educators in practicing study process. Finally, the core of the solution comes from students' struggle to face study work. Students are expected to have a full set of soft skill in accordance to support their study such as self-commitment, self-discipline and self-manageability. While student also completed with such skills, the pressure coming from the schools' works should be easily to hand in.

In conclusion, some possible causes come from the parents influence and the federal policy in educational system. Meanwhile, the viable solutions cannot stance stronger independently, but it should make a synergy from the school, parents, government and student as the learner.

Writing Feedback / IELTS task 1: Line graphs of car theft in 4 different countries [2]

The line graphs compare the number of car theft per a 1000 vehicles in a four-country from 1990 to 1998.

Overall, United Kingdom is far outweigh France, Canada and Sweden in the cases of car robbery over the nine years under review. UK and France depict a slight fluctuation of the car stolen case while Canada's care robberies decreasing in numbers as the opposite of the increasing cases in Sweden.

As per the line charts, UK recorded the car theft at 18 cases per a thousand vehicles in 1990, and it was higher alongside a third number of case happening in Sweden. Furthermore, UK experienced a slight fluctuation to reach its peak at 20 cars stolen in 1996 prior to predict a decrease at 18 cases from 1998 onward. Similarly, those cases in France also fluctuated in numbers. Coming 9 cases recorded in 1990, the cases decrease to account 8 cases in 1998, an identical number with the case showed in 1995.

However, Sweden suffered by the increasing cases of car theft over other three countries. It began with the lowest at 6 cases then underwent a steep incline by 12 cases from 1996 to 1997. Standing in contrast, Canada had 7 cases of car stolen in 1990 then within three years, the cases decrease to around 6 cases per 1000 theft vehicles.

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Writing Feedback / IELTS task 1 : GDP line graph [3]

The line graph shows the changing of Gross National Product, GDP, in a particular country over eight years period from 2000 to 2008.

Overall, GDP movement varied considerably. In any case of a decline showing in the first five years, the GDP growth rocketed to more than it happened in the end period under review.

As per the line graph, GDP started at the point of $19 million in 2000, this was the second highest rate showed in the graph. While the GDP recorded to decline steadily to $15 million in two following years, the trend persisted to reach the low of trough to just under $10 million between 2003 and 2005.

A closer to the GDP's trend in the year 2006, it had shown a slight increase in amount at $10 million before experienced a breakneck pace until a peak of $20 million, a million dollar higher than the GDP's trend began in 2000.

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