IKEBANA

Ikebana is a one of the Japan’s traditional art. It is dated from 7th century in Japan. Ikebana means ‘the art of giving life to flower’. It also known as “ikeru” means to arrange, and “hana”, which means flower. Ikebana is not like a usual decoration of the flower that we see nowadays. Ikebana has a special relationship with nature and it is an art learned through years of study. Ikebana also categorizes as a disciplined art form in which nature and humanity are combined together through the decoration of flower.

One reason Ikebana is different with usual flower decoration is because normal arrangement of flower usually focus on the blooms of flower but ikebana has more focus on the entire of the flower. It is also include the stems and leaves. Many aspects are taken during practicing ikebana.

Here are the few list of the aspects that be must be follow by the practitioners during practicing ikebana. Firstly is silence. Silence is a part that allows for the mind to think, relax and concentrate while practiced arrangement flowers. It allows our mind to focus on the entire flower. In our opinion, this is good for us to exercise our brain to think wisely. Secondly is harmony. The decoration in the flower arrangement must have sense of harmony with each other. It also must be related with nature. In our opinion, it is help us to appreciate nature and become closer to nature.

Thirdly is the scalene triangle. Ikebana is a based on three points of scalene triangle. Each point usually a twig, can be represent heaven, earth, sun, moon and many more. Lastly is organic. All elements that are used in decoration of flower must be organic. It is including all part of the flower such as branches, leaves, grasses, or flowers. The floral arrangement of blooms should have a multicolor decoration draw importance toward shape, lines, and form. The artist intention behind each arrangement is shown through a piece's color combinations, natural shapes, graceful lines, and the usually implied meaning of the arrangement.

There is various type of ikebana nowadays such as “moribana” and “heika”. Today, Ikebana is practiced by millions of women as well as men around the world.

TV, IS THAT GOOD OR BAD FOR CHILDREN?

Some people say television is bad for children because it discourage them from learning exercises and from communication with other children. However, others say it stimulates the mind and gives knowledge of the world. By watching television, it can affect the children’s mind and behavior. What we can see so far is, it can be good and bad effects depend on children themselves.

Television can be excellent educator and entertainer for children if we know at what channel is the best for our children. For example, preschoolers can help learning the alphabet on public television and grade scholars can learn about wildlife on nature shows. Sometimes television’s programs have a benefit like ‘TV Pendidikan’ on TV 9. This programmer teaches our children about mathematics, religion, and others. Apart from school, children can get information about their subject with this program from television.

Television is the best solution when many advise for more hours per week of educational programming. It is good for children to watch a cartoon channel for entertainment and for the after studies.

Besides that, television is a great way to learn current events apart from the computer and newspaper. For example, watching the history channel could be give a more benefit to children than watching history unfolds before their eyes. Told story form, the picture tell all the events of the past and it makes history fun to watch and easy to understand. The history channel is a good for children.

However, at the same time television also can give bad effects for children because children of all ages can be exposed to violence, sexual images, and cursed words through watching television. Children consistently spend more than four hours per day watching television are more likely to be overnight. Some children, by viewing violent acts more likely to show aggressive behavior and sometimes their feel something bad will happen to them. Television characters are often show risky behavior such as smoking and drinking.

Example of violence program on television channel is when children are taught by their parents that it is not right or wrong. Yours children are particularly frightened by scared and violence images because can’t get difference between fantasy and reality. This situation can cause children to do something what their want to do if no guided from parents when their children watching television.

As a conclusion, it is subjective and depends on the aged of children and from the parents guided. Television can be good for children if their watch the correct channel and parents should teach and guide their children when children watching television. It also can give a bad effect if the children watching a television’s program that are not suitable for their ages.

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN BANGLADESH

Discrimination means the ability to make or find out the difference, sensitivity, judgment, of something in our daily life. There is much discrimination that happens surrounding us. Discrimination also occurs in many countries throughout this world. Each country itself has its own discrimination. There is many type of discrimination such as gender discrimination, age discrimination, races discrimination and many more.

The ones that we want to focus about discrimination is gender discrimination. In our opinion, gender discrimination is when men or women are discriminate against as a result of their gender. Gender discrimination is an unfairly treating people because they are either male or male. Generally, gender differences have been used to give good reason for different roles for men and women in some cases giving rise to claims of primary and secondary class.

The country that we want to focus about gender discrimination is Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a highly gender discrimination is present at all community levels. We can see that gender discrimination between women and men are quiet strong. In Bangladesh, women are dependent on men throughout their lives, from father through husbands to sons. Women and young girls are more disadvantaged than men in their way in to education, health care and financial assets. There are several factors that make the gender discrimination happens in Bangladesh.

Firstly is a family and gender issue. Gender discrimination start from birth and continues throughout life in Bangladesh. As a result discrimination develops between the boys and girls, boys are considered to be an advantage and the girls are considered to as burden of the family. Girls often suffer gendered discrimination both within school and within the community, from teachers, parents and peers.

Besides that, gender discrimination in educational institution. We can see that this situation currently happens in school. In class room, the teachers always prefer the boys to be a captain of the class because they think only the boys have a leadership quality. This situation makes the girls are put away and neglected. Sometimes when the girl student could not prepare their task for burden in the household activities, teacher even female teachers do not handle the class sensitively and softly. In the coeducation system, sometimes the sitting arrangement of the boys and girls is separate. The impact of this will create in the mind of the students that they should be different from every viewpoint.So,in my opinion whether there is male or female,we should respect each other because we have different responsible for us to do.

ACTIVE LISTENING

Conflicts are categorized as dysfunctional communication. Currently, communication responses between people are quite strong. In fact, we can considerably stop conflict by changing communication patterns. What is usually happening in our society is when people talk to each other they don’t pay a full attention to what they are talking about. It is often to see that when people talk to each other, they don’t listen carefully. They are often half-listening, half-thinking about something else and give a response that out of topics that are talking about.

Nowadays, we can see that individual in this world have their own conflict that they are going through. Conflicts are plentiful because individuals are unique, and have

difference values, needs and desires. When a person come to us and need our help to solving their conflict problem, it is important to use our communication skill to help them. Solving someone’s conflict is difficult because if we are not pay a full attention to what they are going to says it will cause worse than before. By improving our communication skill, we can communicate with somebody else without cause any problem. One of the most important skills in effective communication is active listening.

We are agreeing that techniques such as active listening will help to avoid conflict, or at least resolve it more quickly. Active listening is a structured form of listening and responding that focuses the attention on the speaker is trying to communicate. There are few techniques of active listening. Firstly, the listener need to focus a full attention on the subject the speaker is talking about. After that, the listener has to repeats and explains and responds to their stated explanation. The speaker needs to understand on which the main point of the explanation ad if the listener really understood, then speaker can repeat again.

Secondly, the listener must always give the speaker time to finish their sentence before the listener can take action. It is important for the listener to give the speaker time and space for rest after talking. Patience is important for the listener in this situation. Thirdly, the listener must avoid or eliminate all distraction like phone call, talking to other person when the speaker wants to speak. It will cause our attention to the listening of the speaker disturbed. Moreover, the listener should keep an open minded thinking. The listener should not make a guess about what speaker are trying to say or what they are thinking about.

Active listening has several benefits that we can get. Firstly, when the listener listens actively, that’s meant the listener is honouring the other person. This will builds trust with the speaker. Secondly, it can avoid misunderstandings, as people have to confirm that they do really understand what another person has said and it will also solve the conflict. Thirdly, when the listener listens attentively, the listener can fully understand the other person's point of view. This situation can avoids conflict. Lastly, it is usually when people are in conflict, they often disagree with each other, denying the opponent’s explanation of a situation. However, if they feel that their opponent is really attuned to their concerns and wants to listen, they are likely to explain in detail what they feel and why. If both parties to a conflict do this, the chances of being able to develop a solution to their common problem becomes much greater.