Writing Feedback / The Impact of Divorce on Children [4]

Marriage, for the majority of people, is one of the most remarkable moments in life.
Unfortunately it is not always as wonderful as it is shown on the surface.
Some families must deal with miserable condition called divorce, eventually.
According to Professor Tamara D. Afifi, these days, the motivation of getting divorce tends to personal happiness of parents rather than unpleasant marriage life. Moreover, some parents even argue of having forever marriage life but feel really unhappy in reality. This condition turns divorce into a very common thing.

Divorce not only splits the family members but also influences stable upbringing of children.
The speaker has described several impacts of divorce into two types, short term effects and long term effects. Anxiety, depression, and low quality contact with parents belong to short term effects of parents' separation. If children unable to conquer them then they will turn into long term effects such as psychological problems and unsatisfying bond with parents . The most horrible one is the children might have potential to get divorce as well in their future marriage.

In order to take control of divorce circumstances, Professor Tamara offers a few positive solutions for children.
The first one is instead of involving in parents fighting, it is better to focus on the future life. On the other hand, mind your own business and let parents handle theirs. The second possible way out is recognizing the emotions, trying to do Self-Talking and taking away the regret. The last essential thing is let it go.

Writing Feedback / A single father from San Diego establishing a close bond with his little daughters [2]

Dad Sings Disney Song with His Daughters, Your Heart Explodes with Cuteness

Nurturing children does not mean having serious and flat time all day long. As shown by Jorge Narvaez, a single father from San Diego, establishing a close bond with his little daughters can be so much pleasure. He demonstrates an extraordinary way to interact with his little girls by collaborating in singing A Dream Is a Wish, the soundtrack of Cinderella movie.

Although Jorge had a complicated childhood, but he does not want to share the same boat with his children. He tries his best to keep his daughters, Alexa (11 years old) and Eliana (8 years old), living a joyful life.

This beautiful moment of father and daughters has proven that divorce is not the end of the world.
It is the beginning of real struggle of life, to survive, to think positively, to rise and shine.

Writing Feedback / We must be able to listen to the signal of body, because it is better than any doctors. [3]

TED Summary: The Shocking Truth about Your Health

Lissa Rankin, founder of Owning Pink; an organization which has been contributing a lot in assisting people with physical and mental illness, comes up in front of her audience with marvelous insight regarding what really matters to gain healthy body and mind.

As opening, she begins by sharing what she has been through in life. In the age of 33, she achieved all her dreams in career, even had enough retirement fund to support her living cost. In contrary with her bright job, her marriage ended miserably. This condition even got worse when his father passed away. Surprisingly, at the same time, she had servic cancer and high blood pressure with three medications, but failed to heal her. She said, at that time, she was spiritually lost.

Learning from her experiences, then Lissa researches a lot about the indicators of health and formulates a self-healing concept called The Whole Health Cairn, also well-known as Healing Bubble. This theory finally reveals the untold truth about the correlation between body and soul by providing several indicators which affect our health, such as healthy relationship, creative expression, spiritual connection, healthy financial life, healthy mental state, healthy professional life, and healthy environment, while the body becomes the centre of information by transferring symptoms. Hence, we must be able to listen to the signal of body, because it is better than any doctors.

Writing Feedback / TED Summary: The Art of Free-Stress Productivity by David Allen [2]

There is a phase in life that is experienced by everyone, when productivity gets low and everything turns unstable. It is called crisis zone. Why the crisis is there? According to David Allen, the writer of The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book, it happens when we are not appropriately engaged with the circumstances we face, such as financial and healthy problems or work stress. The crisis then leads us to be overreacted and overthinking since there are actually a lot of things we have not accomplished.

Furthermore, David points out that people tend to blame time as if one day is never enough when getting stress, instead of figure it out and get it done. Hence, he suggests 3 core principles to cope with stress. Firstly, changing perspective in order to create creativity breakdown in managing time. It means we need flexibility not perfection and the ability to shift in and out the focus quickly from one job to another. As a quote states "focused attention if you do not pay attention to what has your attention, you will give it more attention than it deserves". Secondly, getting properly engaged with what is going on to notice what it takes. At last, taking an action to the path you really want by using the right map. That simple.

Writing Feedback / Angela Lee Duckworth: financially settled in the age of 27, but still yet in pursue of her passion [3]

TED Summary: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Lee Duckworth

Being financially settled in the age of 27, in fact did not fulfill the personal desire of Angela Lee Duckworth to pursue her passion. She then decided to become a teacher, a path that led her to be a psychologist, eventually.

Angela and her team focused on researching in four challenging settings in order to find out who will successfully struggled and survived and why. The settings took place in a military academy to predict which cadet will be selected to the military training; a national Spelling Bee to see how many kids will go further in competition, to survey working teachers to find out who will be able to endure until the end of the school year and improve the ability of the students; a private company, to forecast the performance of sales people in earning money.

The outcome of her research is astonishingly since it has revealed the indicators of success. It is said that, it does not take social intelligent, good looking, physical health, and even an IQ to be a success person. It is "Grit" that matters. Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goal, a willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again, to conquer obstacles, and to live life to the full.

Writing Feedback / A Legal Trade in Ivory Would Wipe Out Elephants, Study Finds [2]

The decision-making mechanism is a proposed process by Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; those nations that support the legalization of ivory trade. It is about collecting ivory from existing government stockpiles of seized illegal ivory, natural elephant deaths, elephant culls, and intentional elephant hunts. It is believed that this process is able to meet the demand for elephant ivory without causing extinction. However, a study finds that the demand for ivory is far greater than the amount of ivory that can be harvested sustainably.

"There is no way to harvest sufficient ivory in a controlled way that won't drive elephant populations to extinctions," says Phyllis Lee, one of the study's authors and a researcher at the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. His argument is based on his research which used data from elephants in Amboseli, Kenya, to determine how many could be killed for their ivory before it started to negatively affect the population.

In conclusion, the life of elephants is in danger and it is the responsibility of everyone to figure out how to save them from extinction.

Source: news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/wildlife-legal-ivory-trade-not-sustainable-study/

Writing Feedback / TED Summary: Protecting Endangered Species for Future Generations By: Andrew Currie [2]

"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life", a quote by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, presented by Andrew Currie, a researcher, a traveler, an observer, who concerns a lot regarding the existence of endangered species, to remain us that there are other worthy living creatures simply in need of protection.

Furthermore, he described about the significance of helping rare animals, that they do not have representative in congress, they do not involve in any elections, and they are completely dependent on human's good willing for their survival in this planet. As conclusion, Andrew proposed couple ways out in order to avoid the extinction of those animals. Reducing population is the first suggestion offered by him as he believes it will keep the habitat safe. He emphasized that having fewer children will be helpful, but adopting kids will be much better. Lastly, he highlighted that extending empathy to endangered wildlifes, as the way we care about our pets, is as precious as our future generations' life, to be maintained, to be loved, to live life side by side peacefully.

Source: youtube.com/watch?v=a7MeCPfaPR0

Writing Feedback / Article Summary: Nearly Half of US Deaths can be Prevented with Lifestyle Changes [2]

Heart disease, cancer, lower respiratory illnesses, stroke and unintentional injuries are considered to be the five leading causes of premature death in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. According to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that those diseases actually can be avoided by making changes to harmful lifestyle such as smoking, drinking and lack of working-out, as well as unhealthy diets and being overweight. Supportive statement is simply stated as well by Frieden, a health official and researcher: "There are far too many places in this country where just by the unfortunate fact that you live there you are much more likely to die from a preventable cause, you don't have to move geographically, but we do have to move in terms of policies and programs." Yes, it is true that a death is definitely inevitable, but premature death surely can be avoided.

Source: time.com/84514/nearly-half-of-us-deaths-can-be-prevented-with-lifestyle-changes/?iid=sr-link2

Writing Feedback / Hunting and moving from one place to another for meal - the first phase of human civilization [2]

TED Summary: Urbanization and the Future of Cities by Vance Kite

Hunting and moving from one place to other places to search for meal is considered as the first phase of human civilization development. Our ancestors then began to learn on the subject of selective breeding for agricultural technique in order to provide sufficient food. This condition led to the establishment of semi permanent village since people were still in need of relocating when the soil was not longer fertile; while irrigation was believed as the solution for permanent settlement once the water was highly available.

Years passed, the activities became more complex since people have already acquired various skills for trading and crafting. As a result of this circumstance, they began to take into account the transportation and facilities required, such as carts, vessels, roads, and ports. Those were surely in need of great numbers of manpower to build up. Hence, there was a massive shifting to any places that required labor. This stage then was regarded as the beginning of urbanization.

Urbanization has been multiplying the number of population in cities. Establishing vertical buildings, maintaining the balance of nature and providing adequate food, better sanitation, and good education for all people are recommended solutions to overcome the crowd.

Writing Feedback / Article Summary: If You're Trying to Get Pregnant, Here's What You Need to Know about Stress [2]

Since emotional and psychological factors affect to women fertility; exercising, meditating, and talking to a mental health pro are highly recommended in order to keep the stress away. According to a new study published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology states that pregnancy is even more difficult to conceive as the effect of frustration and nervousness.

The respondents of this study were 400 women who reported their daily stress levels on a scale from 1 to 4. While recording extra data like how often they had sex throughout the course of 20 cycles or until they got pregnant, researchers found that women who described the most stress around ovulation , in fact, the only time of month to actually get pregnant; were 40 percent less likely to conceive than they were during less stressful months.

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Writing Feedback / TED Summary: A Guide to the Energy of the Earth by Joshua M. Sneideman [3]

As population grows alongside as rise of the industrialization and development, globe demand for energy becomes even more complex, but the planet has limited energy sources. Without continual input of energy, life on earth surely will no longer exist. It affects education, health, political power and socioeconomic status. Human spends a lot of energy, especially from fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas to generate electricity on various activities. Another alternative energy comes from renewable sources such as wind, water, geothermal and bio-fuel.

Where does energy come from. Energy is all around us; it is a physical quantity on our earth's physical systems. Its flows including atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. It moves in and out of this systems. Our planet's energy comes from the internal sources such as geothermal from radioactive and rotational from the spinning of the earth, while the sun is the major external source to run certain systems. In order to have adequate supply, we have to be able to improve our energy efficiency by using natural resources more responsibly to enhance the quality of life for everyone.

Writing Feedback / Article Summary: This Woman Might have Found a Deep-Fried Rat's Head in Her Popeyes Meal [3]

That incident might be the most embarrassing moment for Popeyes, one of fast-food restaurants in New York City, when a woman named Rosemary Thomas posted photos to Facebook of what a rat head looks like in her daughter's fried chicken. She uploaded the pictures and wrote: "Friends and family, this is a meal Popeyes in Harlem served my daughter, my niece, and sister." She even asked other users to share the pictures of the disgusting dark gray object which has been fried deeply. In contrary to its real service condition, in fact, Popeyes is considered as a 5 rating ready-meal restaurant by department of health.

As response to the incident, Renee Kopowski, a spokeswoman for Popeyes, stated "When things are found they usually turn out to be chicken organs."

We don't think so!

Writing Feedback / TED Summary: How Social Media Makes Us Unsocial by Allison Graham [2]

In 2001, when an American was asked how many close friends he/she had, the answer might be 10 or more, but when the same question is asked today, the answer probably only 2. Where do they go. Surfing on the internet is the most suitable answer.

Allison Graham, who presented the topic How Social Media Makes Us Unsocial, offered a hilarious illustration regarding basic human needs today. She illustrated that people need one per cent of food, four per cent of water, five per cent of air, and ninety per cent of internet in order to highlight that internet is addictive, especially social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Social media influences people ways of life. For instance, there are some popular vocabularies used by teens and even by the elderly in texting, such as OMG, WTF, LOL. By using those abbreviations, they unconsciously lose the nuance of the words to be fully communicative and interactive. Texting while driving is also considered as one of the effects of social media addiction. It is underlined as the number one factor of death of teens all over the world. Social media tends to make others faking their lives, as well. They upload perfect family photograph, bathroom mirror selfie, driving selfie, and even funeral selfie, simply to gain numerous "Likes" on Instagram or Facebook, since the number of "Likes" somehow equal to self-esteem.

How to deal with this situation depends on our enthusiasm in making such change. We can use social media to create positive face-to-face activity, not by being a "hashtag" activist, but a humanist who grows human connection. We can make the world a better place by holding each other hands rather than kissing on "click" and by teaching our kids how life looks like before living in front of the screen. As a well-known quote by Mahatma Gandhi states "be the change you want to see in the world."

Writing Feedback / The only way for women to show their qualities is by getting involved in economy and politics [2]

TED Summary: What Islam Really Says about Women By: Alaa Murabit

Experiencing a school of a traditional city in Libya in the age of 15 was the path which led Alaa Murabit; a moslem activist, to start questioning the role of women in her religion. She was introduced to two cultural aspects of religion namely 'Haram'(religiously prohibited) and 'Aib' (culturally inappropriate). After having a lot of conversations and a heavy debating, she then decided to conduct a research. Through her research, she found an astonishing fact regarding a well-known muslimah namely Khadijah, whose participation in economic sector was vital in Islamic movement. This fact proves that women have the same right as men in Islam. Thus, if women are equal in the eyes of God, they should be equal in the eyes of men, as well. Then why there are so many restrictions for women. Men domination is probably the most logical answer. Men have become the decision maker for religion institutions for years; they have been controlling 'the spiritual messages' to create policy in their wills. This condition has caused miss-perception, miss-used, and manipulation of religious scripts. People then tend to hide in the name of religion when giving judgment.

The only way for women to show their qualities is by getting involved in such economic and politic activities in order to begin social and cultural changes. Alaa Murabit utilizes Qur'an scripts and Hadist in her campaign to persuade other women and as a counterattack. She believes that by changing the 'messages', women are able to find alternatives to interact, as men do.