Way to win friends ^.^

Let me introduce the book i read in these day. The book is called "How To Win Friends & Influence People" written by Dale Carnegie. This book also has a burmese translation namely "mate ta bala" translated by "U Nu". It's an interesting book for me and teach me alot of things in communication skill as i m a silent, shy, straightforward, easy to angry and also don't know how to keep the friendship within the people. So bad, isn't it?

pls take a look at the pic i post. 1st is burmese translation and 2nd is the english.

Let's get to the topic. There is only way under heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did u ever stop to think of that? Yes, it 's only 1 way. And tht is by make the other people want to do it. Difficult right? For example, Tml, you may want to persuade something. Before that, think and ask yourself "How can i make this person want to do it?" That question will stop us from rushing into a situation heedlessly, with futile chatter about our desire.Professor John Dewey, one of America's most profound philosophers, phrased it a bit differently. He said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important". What do u want? Not many things but the few things that you do wish, Some of the things are mostly include:

1.HEALTH
2.FOOD
3.SLEEP
4.MONEY and THE THINGS MONEY WILL BUY
5.LIFE IN THE HEREAFTER
6.SEXUAL GRATIFICATION
7.THERE WELL-BEING OF OUR CHILDREN
8. A FEELING OF IMPORTANT.

Now, You know what the people want. Know how to deal people and gain friend aldy?

Almost all these wants are usually gratified-all except one. But there is one loging-almost as deep, almost as imperious, as the desire for food or sleep- which is seldom gratified.

Lincolon once began a letter saying "EVERYBODY likes a compliment"
Willian James said "The deepest Principle in human nature is the carving to be appreciated"

We nourish the bodies of our children, friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their self-esteem.We should to nourish with the compliment and appreciation.

This is the thing that i read. juz share share with u all. Wish you can learn somethings from this. I am also continue learning from that book..

Wish you all win win alot of friends and happy forever.

Deforestation warns the World !!!

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Long Text Assignment (Cause and Effect)
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Module code: EG1471
Name: Su Mon Pyone
Matric Number: U075599R
Lecturer’s Name: Brad Blackstone

Number of words: 717
According to Bob Brown, a senator with the Greens Party, “John Howard, Australian prime minister said that Australia is putting 200 million dollars into stopping forest burning in Southeast Asia while he is authorizing forest burning in southern Australia” (Australia sets up…, 2007). What is the reason behind Australia for pouring in large amount of money to stop burning forest in Southeast Asia? The reason is “Australia is one of the largest cities which produce the greenhouse gases in the world” (Australia among…, 2003).Therefore, Australian government is planning to plant large number of trees due to the huge amount of forests being burnt in Southeast Asia, which leads to deforestation .What is deforestation? Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest land for use such as arable land, pasture, urban use, logged area, or wasteland (Wikipedia, 2007). Nowadays, the main cause of deforestation is humans. This is because of the increasing human need for agriculture as well as for accommodation.
As the Southeast Asia is moving into industrial age, Asian population is increasing at the same time. Therefore, more and more land area is needed to be converted to usable land for human food supply. Since 1960, Thailand has lost an average of 330 000 hectares of natural forest annually because more land needs to be converted into paddy fields for rice and wheat. Similar in the Philippines, one of the world’s most densely populated countries, the amount of forest lost is rapidly increasing based on the human needs. World Resources Institute (n.d, as cited in Philippine deforestation, 1997) found that “Now, 11 million people live in the forest uplands without title, and, therefore, Philippines have no incentive to maintain the lands”. In the chart below shows that the worst deforestation rate within 2000-2005 year mainly occurs in Vietnam, Cambodia and Sri Lanka (Butler, 2005). Therefore, agriculture is one of the biggest issues of deforestation.

http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1115-forests.html

As the human population increases, people need more places to live. Therefore, they move out from the city and into the rural areas, where trees are cut down to make houses and home furniture. For example, the population rate is high in the Philippines. Therefore, the demand for land area is high for housing and the government has no incentive to main the forest. Similar in my home country, Myanmar, Weatherbee says that "the population rate of Myanmar is increasing." ( International relations...,2005) . And the government has created more and more new usable land areas for citizen to live in which can be one of the causes of climate change in Southeast Asia. Moreover, the need for living is not only to have a place to stay but also for home furnishings such as furniture. However, as most of the Asian countries are moving toward industrial ages, wood is not only used in making furniture. Most wood exported out to foreign countries as a form of income for the country. Therefore, for developing housing and for economic purposes, most Southeast Asia countries are cutting down huge amounts of trees, which can lead to a rise in the rate of deforestation in Southeast Asia.

In conclusion, the biggest issues which can cause the deforestation are agriculture and human needs for accommodation and home furniture. Although these are the basic human needs for daily life, there are two ways to prevent deforestation by replanting the trees and controlling the amount of human population. Effects of human can cause deforestation and because of the deforestation, there can be a lot of natural disasters which can harm humans. Thus, deforestation is one of the important issues that humans need to consider.
References

Australia sets up fund to curb deforestation in Southeast Asia. (2007, March). International Herald Tribune. Retrieved March 10, 2008, from http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/29/news/forest.php

Australia among world’s biggest greenhouse gas producers. (2003, September). FairfaxDigtal. Retrieved March 8, 2008, from
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/17/1063625074518.html?from=storyrhs

Butler .Rhett A.. (2005, November 17). World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005. Retrieved March 10, 2008, from
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1115-forests.html

World Resources Institute (WRI). (1997, November 1). Philippine deforestation. Retrieved March 9, 2008, from
http://www.american.edu/TED/PHILWOOD.HTM

Deforestation. (2007, March 14). Wikipedia. Retrieved March 9, 2008, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation

Weatherbee, D.E. (2005). International relations in Southeast Asia; The struggle for autonomy. Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Solution for the waste disposal problem facing in Myanmar (Timed Paragraph)

In a US survey of recycling program, saving the waste was made in 13 out of 14 cases (Collins, 2002). Why do we need to talk about this recycling topic? Recently, the world is starting to shake by natural disasters and when we track back the reason behind it, we find that it is indirectly caused by human being. In my country, Myanmar, the government needs to start to form or set rules and responsibilities for industries to dispose theirs product waste into reusable form or into the form which cannot harm human. Nowadays, Myanmar government does not care about recycling waste especially in industrial sectors. The waste products from the industries were pouring into the rivers of the country which caused the river to be polluted. People who depend on the rivers like farmers did not aware of the chemical in the water and they used the water from the river as their source of supply. Chemical pollution from the industry waste is not the only issue that causes the water to be polluted. Failure in disposal of plastic bags is another main cause of the water pollution. Because of the rivers in Myanmar are polluted, it affects a lot in agriculture fields and cause human health full of diseases. Therefore, by setting a set of rules and responsibilities for industries will help to prevent and reduce the critical conditions for citizens’ health and the economy rate decreasing.

Collins, J. (2002, Oct 3rd). Radical plans for waste could herald a big clean-up. The Guardian Weekly. p.25.

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Saving Nature !!!

I thought that the author for this article is more agree on environmental necessities .He did mentioned in the one of the paragraphs , environmental luxuries are nice to have if costless. And later in the writing, he talked about the important distinction between environmental goods that are fundamental and merely aesthetic. “Nature is our ward. It is not our master”. According to that statement he agrees to take the risks disrupting the calving grounds of Arctic caribou. And I agree with his thoughts. I agree variety of nature is good but compare to human needs, we should be considering of scarified of nature a little bit, although human fate and nature are tie together. However, atmospheric ozone which is caused by the human is really a threatening to man’s life. From my personal point of view, what the author discuss about in this article enlighten me which kind of person we are and it really highlighted a few nature things which we can save of.

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Deforestation has been pinpointed as a serious environment problem in Southeast Asia.(Cause and Effect)

Deforestation has been pinpointed as a serious environment problem in Southeast Asia .What are the causes/circumstances that give rise to this problem? (Cause-Effect)

The human causes of deforestation in Southeast Asia have gradually increased due to the human needs for agriculture as well as for the fuel. As the south East Asia is moving into industrial age, Asian population is increasing at the same time. Therefore, more and more trees are cut down to increase the size of the usable land for human food supply .Since 1960, Thailand has lost an annual average of around 330 000 hector of natural forest because more land are need to convert into paddy fields for the rice and wheat ( “Statistics South East Asia”,n.d.). Similar to Thailand, in the Cambodia the amount of forest lost is rapidly increasing based on the human needs. Many developing nations in Southeast Asia still depend on wood as a primary source of fuel and energy. This is because burning of wood is much less harmful compare to burning of fossil fuel and plastic. The review of forest covers in the Southeast Asian countries are as follow

Statistics South East Asia. ( n.d.). Retrieved February 22, 2008 ,from

http://www.trfic.msu.edu/rfrc/stats/seasia7385.html

Compare and Contrast about Recyling system for two countries

Recycling has been identified as one way to conserve resources. How might the approach to recycling differ between a developed country and a developing country? Choose two specific countries to illustrate by answer.

Nowadays, more and more countries start to realize the importance of recycling. In 1996, developed country like Germany started to use the recycling system called Spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is the system which can indentify different materials. Paper and plastic items are spread out by a conveyor belt in a single layer. The system is able to analyze the data from sensor that detects light in both the visible and the near infra-red spectrum and a computer is able to determine the color, type, shape and position of each item. After that the system will activate to push particular items from one conveyor belt to another, or into a bin. Numerous types of paper, plastic or combinations can be sorted with up to 98% accuracy. And more than 1,000 of which are now installed worldwide. However, my country ,Myanmar which is a developing country and the technology is not modern enough to use this kind of system has a very different recycling system. Myanmar government is still using the tradition kind of dustbin and they never realized of splitting up the waste materials and recycled them individually. Although the recycling technology in Myanmar is not advanced as Germany, they started to take action by forcing people to use recycle bin and setting rules and fine to throw the rubbish into particular dustbin to prevent rubbish pollution.

Spectroscopic sorter system

Describe a serious environmental problem that exists in Myanmar today and explain how there could be an “engineering solution“ to it.(Problem&Solving)

The production of plastic in Myanmar is rapidly increasing and it is causing a lot of environmental problems. People are able to get hold on the plastic bags so easily and they are discard in the similar ways. Nowadays, current dumping systems are not suitable to dispose plastic bags because plastic bag are in-degradable and remain spoiling the environment especially for those coloured plastic bags. Fumes that produced from the burning plastic bags are harmful to human beings especially to those who suffer from respiratory problems. Although using plastic bags is causing serious environmental problems, a few solutions have been introduced by the government to prevent the problem from getting worse. One of the solutions introduce is to reduce the production of coloured plastic bags because those plastic bags are the hardest to degradable as well as recycled. Another solution is to design a filter that will be able to break-down harmful fumes into oxygen and carbon-dioxide. This can be implemented in all the industrial areas to prevent the fume from harming living beings.

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Which pattern of Love are you in ?

Let’s get to the topic about Love. According to the Erikson's theory, you can say that I am in young adulthood stage now (approximately between the age of 20 and 30). Before the twentieth century, there were only three stages of life, such as child, adult and old adult .Contemporary society has a variety of markers, such as early childhood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. As life expectancy began to lengthen, the term "young adulthood" happened to enter into the dictionary. Anyway, Erikson states that it's time for us to achieve the crisis of intimacy Vs isolation in order to move on to the middle adulthood. The virtue is "LOVE”. We are at risk of achieving young adulthood stage which is the stage of committing into intimate relationship .Here is where the question come .Why do we need to commit into the relationship? Most people like love stories, including their own. Love, to some people is addiction. For others it's a fantasy, in which one person expects to be saved by a knight in shining armor. Still others think of love as a game or a war with a winner and loser. Love can be a horror story or a mystery, isn't it? Anyway those are just an example, we cannot really define love. Let back to the point about how to commit into the relationship. According to the Psychosocial researchers, Sternberg formed this theory called”TRIANGULAR SUB THEORY OF LOVE", which is the balancing the three elements of intimacy, passion and commitment.

Here is a picture which I just post above. So you can make sure which pattern of love you are in and I hope all my friends have balanced these three elements and formed a good relationship with your loved one if you have one.

Refer from

2008 Edition , Exploring lifespan development / Laura E. Berk.

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Environmental Problem faced by Myanmar

What are the negative effects that the Myanmar government fail to dispose the plastic bag in proper way?

Have you ever wondered where all the plastic bottles, jugs and containers you collect, rinse and sort so carefully end up after they are hauled off to the recycling centre? The answer is very simple. Right now, they tend to go nowhere. Plastic has never been a big favourite among environmentalists. Production of plastic in Myanmar is rapidly increased and that concerns a lot of environmental pollutions. People use plastic bags because they are readily available and convenient for carrying goods .Another side of this convenience is that if people can get plastic easily, they will discard it the same way. Tons of polymers are used each month as a raw material for producing plastic bags in Yangon Division which is the capital of Myanmar. Dealing with plastic waste is a challenge in developing countries .The plastic pollution can be generally seen in those countries which do not have efficient garbage disposal systems. Current status of solid waste of management in Yangon is as following.
Among the solid waste rate, although the rate for other type of solid waste is higher than plastic waste rate, the side effect of plastic rate is much more important than the rest. Conventional open dumping systems are suitable for other waste ,however ,it is not appropriate for plastic waste because palstic wastes are indegradable and remain spoiling the environment. Burning is an option but it contributes to other negative effects because the fumes produced from burning plastic can spread widely into the atmosphere causing respiratory hazards. Pollution from plastic waste affects not only the land and air, but also waterways and seas as well. It can harm sea life and sometimes small islands of plastic waste can be seen floating in the ocean, therefore greater community awareness is needed to deal with plastic waste. Since 1999, the Pollution Control and Cleaning Department has been piloting a recycling project, which turns plastic waste into containers, however, some kinds of plastic wastes cannot be recycled, such as coloured plastic bags. Plastic pollution will be reduced if the public becomes aware of the issue and takes action to limit the use of plastic. Plastic pollution will no longer be a problem for environment only when people become disciplined and efficient facilities are provided for garbage collection and waste management.


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Environmental Problem faced by Myanmar

Have you ever wondered where all the plastic bottles, jugs and containers you collect, rinse and sort so carefully end up after they are hauled off to the recycling center? The answer is very simple. Right now, they tend to go nowhere.

So here is my question

What are the negative effects that the Myanmar government fail to dispose the plastic bag in proper way?

My MeAing Of LiFe !

When I was in Myanmar, I never thought of what the meaning of life was. I was just like a normal teenage girl who liked playing and going out with friends. I have started to realize the meaning of my life after I came to Singapore and this is the first time in my life I feel lost .In Myanmar every time when the problem occurred I had my parent to guide me .But now I have to solve everything myself .This has built up my confidence and has make me to be more independent and slowly realize what the meaning of life is . To me , life is like a long journey and everybody is driving towards their own destinations through individual routes.

The journey may not be as smooth and easy as it looks. However, if you have confidence and trust in yourself, you will be able to make the journey smoothly and reach your destination in no time. Now I am starting a brand new journey in NUS and I know that it is not going to be easy and smooth. But as long as I have strong determination and confidence, I believe I will reach my desired destination .