Positive Thinking Makes A Difference

"You got cancer!", I think this is the most terrify result which spoken from your doctor. It can absolutely be cure but the pressure of death or the process of chemotherapy is not a healthy person can imagine it. Why people had easily to get a cancer? Is it because of the bad habit or traced back to the bad gene you had?

According to "Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy due to cancer gene", she was afraid that the family history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer might knocks on her, therefore she decided to decrease the risk from the bad gene. And "she feel empowered that she made a strong choice that in no way diminishes her femininity".She start the process began in February and was completed by the end of April, now she is recovery and try to tell all the women if they had a family history, they should seek the experts for help and to make their own informed choices, women has an option to live more happily.

I was shocked when I saw the news, the actress Angelina Jolie who is a kind, positive, shrewd beautiful woman. Once my friend saw her took her son to Disneyland, and no bodyguard around them, and she smile to everyone who said hello to her and her son. It seems she don't ha the superstar look even that time she was already well-known. She cares about the refugees and against to those women were had been sexual violence. She adopted three different races of orphans and  taught them to learn and respect their own culture and language. This shows how intelligence she is and  I think she doing this way and show to the public is let every women know that "Hey, I double mastectomy, it is not a big deal." We can see lots of women do the breast augmentation surgery is let themselves more attractive to others and shows how femininity they are. But somehow I think the inner side is more important than the look.

It said "having close family members - first-degree relatives like a sister, mother, aunt or uncle - with breast cancer raises a woman's own risk of the disease. Certain genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 are strongly linked with breast cancer and can be detected with genetic tests." Actually I have a family history of breast cancer, somehow I am neurotic to check it every year. I still remember my aunt she fought cancer for nearly a decade and died at the age of 49. I was watched her whole process of chemotherapy and saw how suffering she was. She was done very well on her first time discovered the breast cancer, the bad gene may cause but I think her recurrence for second time is the pressure. At that time, her husband was unemployment, and she had to worried about the spending. She borrow some money from the bank tried to to exert herself but the coast of living seems overwhelmed her and it triggered the bad gene comeback. We know the treatment cause lots of side effects, and it is the second time discovered the cancer, therefore the doctor increased the dose and let her tried the new medicine. Frankly, the results was bad, and watch her life  wither and fall each day is painful.

Joseph Conrad was said “Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” As a woman, I need to cater some social rules and that I am disagree it, but not strong enough to be a Feminist yet. I think no matter man or woman is a difficult task to cope with others nowadays. Emma Parlons, a 38-year-old mother from London said "How women facing a strong likelihood of developing breast cancer have only two real options - to have both of their breasts removed (a double mastectomy) or hope that it will never actually happen." This really a hard decision for me. It needs time to adjust the new body but life will be happily after or just spend it beautifully in the rest of the limit time? What's your decision?  

Reference

Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy due to cancer gene(2013, May 14). BBC News US& Canada. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22520720

Discussing Orangutans = Quest 3, p. 50, x. D

As noted in class, it is more productive, giving you more writing practice and saving class time, to move here the discussion exercise on orangutans following our reading of "Orangutans". So, what are your responses to Hartmann and Blass's questions on page 50? (2007).

Write two or more comments to share your ideas on the questions in exercise D.

1. Should art galleries sell an orangutan's art work? Why or why not? Who should get the money? 
2. Do you think Nonja is well cared for at the Schönbrunn Zoo? Why or why not? 
3. In your opinion, are humans doing enough to care for nonhuman primates? What kind of legal protection should nonhuman primates have? 

It is probably a good idea to at least skim through your classmates previous comments before adding your own - someone might have written something you want to respond to.

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Reference

Hartmann, P., & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

How do you cool down in this hot summer?

What a better way to stay cool in such hot summer in Thailand than a freezing ice cream. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Is it ordinary or extraordinary one? Have you ever tried “fermented shrimp paste” (Cuneta, 2013) flavor?

In “New Ice Cream Flavor: Fermented Shrimp Paste”, Josephine Cuneta says that there is new flavor of ice cream, which is made from local Filipino sour fruit and “salted shrimp paste” (Cuneta, 2013, ¶ 2).

I can’t imagine how the taste will be like. Might it be smelly and fishy? I think that this is one of an innovation that people can think of. In order to differentiate from crowd, ones need to be creative. This flavor may be popular in the niche market, where the owner can set the premium price. So, it is a good strategy to do business.

I personally love eating ice creams. But, my favorite one is cotton candy flavor. It’s less weird than the one I just proposed. My fridge is always full of ice creams. They are either bar, quart, or pint. I think it is one of the best ways to cool down in such a hot weather. However, I will not deny trying new flavors if I am in the chilling countries.

In the last couple years ago, when I was assigned to work at one of the dairy products manufacturers for one week, I remember that there was an ice cream free-served in the canteen every day. Also, the flavors are rotated every day. Plus, some of them were not available in the market yet. So, I had a chance to try the new flavor, which was wonderful. Surprisingly, when I went back home, my dad proudly presented me a gift voucher of an ice cream, which was the same brand as what I just had for an entire week. Therefore, I was kind of sick of ice cream for a long time.

There are a variety type of ice creams and various flavors available these days. However, some people might think that an ice cream is one of the foods we should avoid because of its rich ingredients. Nevertheless, there are some types of ice creams that are made from fruits such as sorbet and sherbet. They are much healthier than the creamy ones. Therefore, the buyers can choose whatever matches to their need.

Before I end up with this article, I also found that there is an article relating to an ice cream in BBC NEWS Magazine. Therefore, I think that an ice cream is the popular topic that I must pick up.

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References

Cuneta, J. (2013, May 10). New Ice Cream Flavor: Fermented Shrimp Paste. The Wall Street Journal Life &Style. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2013/05/10/new-ice-cream-flavor-fermented-shrimp-paste/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=LifeCulture

Taylor, A & Taylor, L. (2013, May 11). Ice cream: How much would you pay?. BBC News Magazine. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22447799

A way to the prosperous Myanmar ?

Do you think Myanmar, one of the poorest countries in South East Asia, are fascinating to invest in? If this kind of question was asked in last decade, I'm sure the response was "no" doubtless. However, if today the same question come back again to the respondents who realize the progress of the isolated country, like me reading BangkokPost Online last night on this issue, It's clear they would say "yes" right away.

According to "Myanmar president to make landmark US visit: state TV", Then Sein, The former junta premier of Myanmar, is scheduled to pay a state visit to The United States in the near future, the first time since the US' invitation in 1966, in the wake of a series of lifting sanctions by global community especially the US on the reclusive state in response to its dramatically political transition. In addition, the leader was considered better due to the lift of house arrest of "the opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi", "the Nobel Peace laureate". (¶ 7)

Despite the fact there are still abundance of ethnic minority conflict in the country. I think such problem, or even others, would be better after all of developments already take place in Myanmar. No country in the world has been prosperous without undergoing any local problem before. The thing the world community has to provide the ASEAN member is time. As I said, what the president is now doing is eliminating difficulties disrupting the national improvement from outside. It should be a perfect beginning for this poor country who stay alone for almost half century.

In my opinion, this country are on the appropriate track. I'm from Thailand, who is one of its neighboring countries that have a common goal in achieving the ASEAN community and rendering common prosperity among state members in this region. I fervently wish the "Thailand's friend" would solve all those problems both internally and externally and finally reach the better and better level of living.



Reference :


Myanmar president to make landmark US visit: state TV. (2013, May 13). BangkokPost Onlnine. Retrieved May 13, 2013 from http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/349810/myanmar-president-to-make-landmark-us-visit-state-tv

But is it terrorism?

As you've probably realised, several of the discussions here this term have already touched on topics that our major essay questions ask you to address. For example, the discussion led by Bas in "Is your (future) job safe from technology?" (Peter F AUA, 2013b) touches on issues involving questions 8. and 9., and in that same discussion, Tae already cites exactly the same source I use in both questions, while "The Popes: lying and killing as ever" (Peter F AUA, 2013a) directly addresses the abortion issues raised in question 4. And knowing what was coming, I included my answer to question 6 in "Meaty Matters" (Peter F AUA, 2013c), which might also have some useful ideas for question 10; since there has been no disagreement, I assume everyone agrees with me that the first precept of Buddhism really does mean that Buddhists should not normally eat meat.

This morning, as I was going through your answers to check that you have a correct understanding of your chosen question and the right sort of ideas for an answer, I remembered that I'd recently read a few stories on cyberterrorism, which I thought might be useful for anyone who had chosen to answer question 10.

In "£7.5m university fund to train cybersecurity experts", Sean Coughlan reports that major British universities have been recruited to provide special training in cybersecurity in response to increasing threats from cyber-attacks, which the government rates as being as serious as terrorism, whether by states or individuals (2013).

Like Poom (Nattida), I am thinking of writing an essay on the interesting question of which group of protesters, if either, have committed acts of terrorism in Thailand's recent political history. I've already written essays on a few of the questions, as you might guess from the summary of an argument I give supporting my thesis that Buddhists today should not normally eat meat in order to properly follow their first precept. I've also answered the question about Bush's first election as US president, although I have to admit that I've since changed my mind considerably: I still think that although he was a rotten president, his election was democratic, but I now have very different reasons for thinking this. I have written the essay supporting my ideas about Abhisit's government, but for the same reasons that support that the awful Bush's election was democratic, Abhisit's government was not democratic.

Although, I guess like Poom, I have some ideas about whether the Reds or the Yellows committed terrorism, I'm not yet so confident of my ideas as to assert them without some weakening introductory language: I think both might have committed acts of terrorism, but in my opinion, the Yellow PAD mob are definitely guilty of committing acts of terrorism. I don't know if Poom, and others, agree with this or not, and I'm not yet 100% certain that I can support it - I might change my mind over the next few days as I work on the support. So, what do you think? Are the Yellows the real terrorists, or the Reds, or both equally?

Naturally, those phrases I think and in my opinion will not be there when I come to write my thesis statement. By then I will have done the thinking and research to support a strong, confident statement.

If you would also like to blog an article that is relevant to your chosen essay question, feel welcome. It might be a useful way to try out ideas and get some very constructive feedback.

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References

Coughlan, S. (2013, May 9). £7.5m university fund to train cybersecurity experts. BBC News Education & Family. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22450544

Peter F AUA. (2013a, May 1). The Popes: lying and killing as ever. Class Blog - AEP at AUA. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-popes-lying-and-killing-as-ever.html

Peter F AUA. (2013b, May 3). Is your (future) job safe from technology? Class Blog - AEP at AUA. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-your-job-safe-from-technology.html

Peter F AUA. (2013c, May 6). Meaty Matters. Class Blog - AEP at AUA. Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2013/05/meaty-matters.html

UN wants us to eat more insects to save the world.

Would the Pizza Hut include the insects on their pizza menu?

In “UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger”, the new UN report urge that eating insects provide nutritional value as same as eating meats and less pollution than livestock which it could use for fighting with starvation, but there are still unacceptable and disgusting for consumer to eat insects in many western countries. So, the report want to “improved regulation and production for using insects as feed” and recommends food industry could make it more popular by including them their new receipts and adding them on their menus.

When I was in schools, I used to eat fired caterpillars before. Nowadays, I avoid to eating it because it is not healthy. Cooking process and raw caterpillars have more hazards which they come from using the same oil when they fire it and some chemical substance to preserve raw caterpillars. So, I decided to avoid eating it for my healthy.

I agree that many insects have more nutritional value as meats have, but the cooking process and the way to preserve them are not healthy which they make many people like me avoided to have them.  Therefore, eating insects need to improve its standard before the UN encourages people to have it.
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Reference

UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger. (2013, May 13) BBC News World Retrieved May 14, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22508439

Myths, Ancient to Modern Time

I used to be one of those people who feel dizzy before exam; the world seems to keep it pace to move. Before I knew it, I failed!

According to Judith Burns’ article “One in three studentswears 'lucky exam underwear'”, there are polls, meaning to say students’ faithfully personal items along with revision tactics. They believe those stuffs and methods could help them to do their exams well.

It wouldn’t surprise me that most of Thais rely on superstitious. But people from the other sides of the world also believe in it too, especially about taking exam. Examination is a significant part in student’s lives, undeniably. I’m still wondering, where lucky pants actually come from?

The decisions students made base on superstitious belief. Might it also develop to their lucky and unlucky results? Zero to one hundred percent chances is totally different. If I had worn my lucky gems on that day, I would have passed the astronomy exam in high school. It is possible that lucky items, attractively persuasive, could help me to accomplish at that time. At least, it could cheer me up when I literally invent my answers. The fact is that it can be only 2 outcomes, either pass or fail. Regrettably, I got the latter. So did half of my classmates; some even drank oily fish instead of rice during a week before exam, some hold popular amulets, such as Jatukam Ramathep when they took exam.

Another example, a black cat commonly represents bad luck, followed by loads of myths. On the contrary, the black cat better not cross the road in front of my car on the exam day because that day will be its last day to cross the road. Obviously, bad luck seems to pass on the poor cat rather than me (but I hope this will never happen). My point is that superstitions are used to trick people, warning that something either bad or good could happen to someone. Might it somewhat give me illusion control? Like when Thais hear lizard’s voice, they better not leave home; something bad would happen if they do so. However, it is an old saying. These days that sort of animal increases even more and would be in anywhere. All things considered, it looks like to remind one to check before he/she go out rather than worry about odd sound.

Notwithstanding the fact that we live in the world of science and technology today, anthropology provides us the useful reasons about folk tales as human studies. But some of the activities labeled magic still sound interesting until now. Do they stray away from mainstream? Most of myths have neither practical way investigating nor evidence to support. Can I count organic veggie assembled the healthy angle myth as magic superstition?   

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Reference
Burns, J. (2013, May 9). One in three students wears 'lucky exam underwear. BBC News UK. Retrieved May 10, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22465114

Let's take a bake!

Cake has been known as a classic dessert over the world that most people, especially girls, are indulgent with it. As a result of loving cake, people tend to start baking it on their own.

According to "Why Britain Has Gone Mad About Baking", due to the economic recession and the high cost of food, baking has become a fashionable activity in the UK. There is a Cake club which is established by Lynn Hill, a retired woman who is passionate in baking cake, and it has been growing very fast over the past three years. These new trend leads to both the growth of home-baking market and cooking shows on TV.

Baking is a great leisure that lessen people's pressure from hard working or study and also broaden their's creativity. While baking, ones will mess up with flour, eggs, chocolate or other ingredients which they will be busy enough not to think of work or have free hand to check an e-mail on mobile devices because they have to concentrate on what they are baking. Nowadays, it is easier to bake since there are many bakery shops that provide baking ingredients and equipment, and there are also many online recipes on the internet that you can search for or even VDO clips on YouTube that show the process of baking.

Some people start cooking or baking since they have a deep affection for eating, and I am also one of them. I really enjoy every kind of desserts, then I start to bake by myself because I can eat it every time I like. My first bake ;however, I am not sure whether it should call bake or not, is blueberry cheese pie since it does not use the oven to cook. It is pretty easy that it must be the first menu for many rookies and it is quite delicious. When I have a chocolate lava at one dessert cafe, I am so in love with it then I find the recipe online and strictly follow the recipe. It is better than I had thought. However, my baking is sometimes not successful. When I try to bake brownie but it turns out to be like stone cookies, so I have to throw them all away. Even though it is unsuccessful, I still enjoy baking because it is fun. One thing that I don't think it an enjoyment of baking is washing after baking.
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Reference

Guttman,A. (2013, May 7). Why Britain Has Gone Mad About Baking. NPR the salt. Retrieved May 8, 2013 from http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/07/181932121/why-britain-has-gone-mad-about-baking