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Let’s Success The Planning Family Program!

In Social Problems on November 25, 2009 at 3:40 pm

It’s not a secret that Indonesia has inhabitant problems since a few time ago. Indonesia is one of nations that has a high inhabitant quantity in the world. In 1990, the world inhabitant is 5,3 billion. 1,4 billion (26%) is poor society. In 2000, the world inhabitant is 6,1 billion. There are 20% of the world society has income above US$ 100 a day. However more than one billion world society just has income US$ 1 a day.

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The Gifts for The Gifted Children

In Medical Sciences, Psychology on September 22, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Young children, particularly preschoolers, usually strike us as bright, full of wonder, eager to learn, and artistically inclined. They delight us by asking questions like little philosophers or by making playful, aesthetically pleasing paintings that sometimes resemble the work of 20th-century masters. Assuming a normal brain and home environment, these gifts are nature’s largesse to most children. Occasionally, however, we observe a child whose abilities so far outstrip those of the typical toddler that we realize not all preschoolers are genuinely gifted. The more extreme the gift, the rarer the child.

Sadly, we know far less about such exceptional children than we do about those with exceptional deficits: retarded, emotionally disturbed, and learning-disabled children. Psychologists have attended far more to these deficits than to strengths. An interesting recent movement in American academic psychology, spearheaded by Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania, calls for more emphasis on “positive psychology.” Positive psychology is now studying subjective well-being, positive character traits such as honesty and hope, and the nature of giftedness and how to nurture it.

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Do You Know About Mangongkal Holi?

In Anthropology, My Life Stories on July 21, 2009 at 2:48 pm

mangongkalDuring the recent holiday, for several days I, my sister, and my mother went on a journey to my mother’s ancestral village in Tarutung, North Sumatra, Indonesia. We had been planning to see our ancestors’ burial ground as my mother’s clan had preformed a “Mangongkal Holi”.

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The Kuru Desease Phenomenon

In Anthropology, Medical Sciences, Psychology, Social Problems on May 16, 2009 at 9:27 pm

kuruHave you ever heard the kuru desease? Only a few of you have ever heard of it. However, more have heard of cannibalism.Cannibalism is a phenomenon where an animal eats another member of the same species, for example: the dog eats the other dog or the people eats the other people. Sometimes this phenomenon is said anthropophagus (From the Greek anthrôpos: people and phagein: eat). As the short story that I had written about prion before, the kuru desease certainly related to the prion. If you are anxious to find out this kuru desease, now please join me in the kuru desease phenomenon investigation!

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Learning About Prostate Cancer

In Medical Sciences on February 17, 2009 at 10:09 am

Are you a man over fifty? Do you:

  • urinate often in the night?
  • suffer pain when urinating?
  • have difficulty starting and maintaining a steady stream of urine?
  • have bloody urine?
  • have difficulty achieving an erection?
  • is ejaculation painful?

If you have many of these symptoms, you should consider the possibility that you have prostate cancer. However, cancer isn’t the only possibility danger: Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH)) and prostitis have the same symptoms. Therefore, I will talk about prostate cancer and some ways to differentiate it from other, less destructive disorders.

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Let’s Share Our Love!

In Psychology on December 23, 2008 at 11:33 pm

love_heart1There are many celebrations in December, such as: Mother Day every 22nd December, and Christmas Day every 25th December. Through these celebrations, we realize that the most important thing in life is LOVE.

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In One Nation, Indonesia

In Anthropology on November 9, 2008 at 1:57 pm

sumpahpemudaOctober, 28th is a historical day for Indonesia because 80 years ago, the Indonesia young generations had declared a pledge known as The Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge). In Indonesia, earlier generations believed that the Pledge is important to strengthen Indonesian unity. Today, I’ll just talk about one statement of The Youth Pledge: “We, the sons and daughters of Indonesia, acknowledge one nation, the nation of Indonesia.”

 

The Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge) Text

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I’m from Your Rib, not from Your Foot Bone

In Social Problems on September 29, 2008 at 11:37 pm

What is the meaning of this title? Perhaps you can take a guess. Ok, in this time I will write about gender bias.

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Do I Have a stomachache, Doc?

In Medical Sciences on August 29, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Perhaps you suffer from severe, chronic pain in the middle of your abdomen! You should not dismiss it as ‘just a stomachache’. I suggest you to go to the doctor as soon as possible: it may be a stomachache, or it may be something worse: cholecystitis.

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