Ocean'o Writing

Whether Or Not British Monarchy Should Be Abolished

           

Monarchy is a system of government by a king or a queen. Britain or United Kingdom is one country which until right now still using Constitutional Monarchy. Its leaders are devive into two, head of government and head of state. The head of state or Monarch right now is the Queen Elizabeth II. Even if she is a queen but her power is not like the queen in the old era, her power is ‘limited’. Second is the head of government or Prime Minister, alongside with cabinet they handle the government matter. On legislature, British has Parliament which consist of Head of Lord and Head of Commons. The differences between them is Head of Lord appointed, while Head of Common is chosen through election. All political stuff are handled by Prime Minister and the Parliament, queen has no more power to interfere in government and political thing. From this condition, some people propose that monarchy should be abolished then latter replaced into republict.

            Those who support on British Monarchy abolition mostly are republicans. They believe that monarchy only bring harm than good for United Kingdom. It would be better for UK to abolish monarchy since it will improve its economy. If we see Spain’s condition right now, it is really chaotic. Spaniards demand a referendum to monarchy abolition because their irresponsible King abdicated when Spain economy condition getting bad to worse. What support them more is the fact that Spain royal family do corruption. The brave picture of Spain monarchy is something that can be happen in another monarchy country, especially British. Queen spends for about ￡40 million in a year and this number does not equal with what the Queen has done to the country. She only stand as an icon, smiling and waving there and there. It is two different picture between life of monarch and life of worker. In some side of British there still people who hardly get something to eat, while Britain people pay taxes for the queen sake. Monarchy only create social jealousy. Just because someone born as the first born of royal family, he/she become the most important person, his/ her life will prosperous and glamorous until he/she die without any hard work. The monarchy system is ineffective because the leader is two. So beside country pay the Queen, Britain still pay for its Prime Minister, Ministers and thousands of House of lords and commons.

On the other side, Monarchy also seen as a good government system. It had been Britain trademark from ages ago. People are used to with this system, even if the role of monarch is not as important as monarch in the past, but it has to be conserve. The ‘limitation’ for the monarch comes without no reason, it prevents a single leader which can lead into dictactorship leader. By dividing the leader into two role, both symbol (the queen) and government (parliament) can run well. The amouth number of money waste for the queen is already covered million of tourists from all over the world who want to visit places related to the monarchy attractions, the monarchy earns Britain £500million a year from tourists visiting Royal attractions. Landmarks such as the Tower of London, visited by 2.5 million people a year, net half a billion pounds in fees. Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle also featured highly, drawing in nearly four million visitors.

            For me personally against the idea of abolishing monarchy. Until now, Britain is a great country, their people is also comfortable already with monarchy system instead they adore royal family. To change a system is not as easy as we change our cloth, it is the country foundation. Moreover, it will be akward if United Kingdom has no kingdom.

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Review of Lord of The Rings

Lord of the Rings is trilogy movie based on the novel with the same name written by J.R.R Tolkien. The movie was directed by Petter Jackson and received a big success. The first movie The Fellowship of the Ring was released in 2001, next year latter the second movie The Two Tower was released, following in 2003 the third movie The Return of the King. The setting of the movie is an imaginary world named Middle Earth.

The story is about Frodo Baggins, a hobbit who heritage his uncle’s ring, The One Ring. Without he knows, The One Ring was the lost ring of The Dark Lord, Sauron who was destroyed thousand years ago by the last line of man king. However Sauron was still living in the ring. That ring must not be found by Sauron’s army because it will only destroy middle earth. That ring must be destroyed and the only way to destroy it is by throwing it into the mountain Mordor’s fire.

It is not simply to walk into Mordor moreover Sauron’S army are everywhere. Frodo was accompanied by Sam (his gardener), Gandalf (the wizard), Arragorn (the lost king of Gondor), Legolas (the prince elf from Mirkwood), Borromir (Gondor steward’s son), Gimly (a dwarf), Marry and Pippin (Frodo’s hobbit friends). They are the Fellowship of the Ring with Frodo as the ring bearer. Their journey was a difficult journey, they have to lose Gandalf who fall into the darkness when he defeated Balrog in Moria mine. After a nice hospitality in Lothorien, Borromir he cannot resist the temptation to own the ring. Make Frodo, the ring bearer, lost his trust to the rest of the fellowship. When a bunch of orcs attack them, he separate himself. He is going to walk into Mordor alone, and destroy it by himself. However Sam insisted to join with him. They continued the journey together. The guilty Borromir try to protect the other hobbits (Marry and Pippin), but he was stabbed by arrows and died. The orcs took the hobbits, hoping one of them is the ring brearer. Arragorn, Legolas and Gimly chased the orcs after giving the last respect to Borromir.

Frodo and Sam was lost, fortunately they were attacked by Gollum, a sticky ugly thin creature who own the ring for hundreds years before it was stolen by Frodo’s uncle. They defeated Gollum and made him guide the save way into Mordor. The Hunters (Arragorn, Legolas, Gimly) still run to chase after their friends, but the riders from Rohan had burned alive the orc. Fortunately Pippin and Marry was able to escape from the orcs into Fangorn forest. They met an Ent, which latter helped them in the war. The Hunters met newborn Gandalf, they save two man kingdoms, Rohan and Mordor.

With a hard struggle by Frodo and Sam, the ring was destroyed. Arragorn become King of Gondor. The hobbits back to their land (the Shire). Everything was happy, until Frodo was sailed with his uncle and elves into Valinor.

Lord of The Rings is the best movie ever. The picture, the costume and the battle seems so real. Lord of The Rings is one of few movie adaptation which better than the book. I do not say that the book was bad, but by in the movie out imagination of middle earth and its creatures was perfectly reflected. The actors’ acting is also superb. No wonder if this movies won 11 oscar categories.

Say No to Legalized Prostitution

Become a prostitute is not option, it is a self survivor action. They choose it because they do not have skill or job offering. Even if it is their own body and they can do whatever they want with it, but most of them are not willing. It is like you giving the gun to a desperate person, what happen? They kills themselves.

There Is No Gold at The End of The Rainbow

No one cannot live without money, that is why parents nowadays really have a high passion in their jobs. They will try their best ro gain lot of money everyday, neglecting their children. Children, especially in elementary grade, are the fragile figures who needs parents affection and attention because they cannot decide what is good for them. But parents would take them easy, only give them pocket money and let them buy anything without parent’s control. It is really dangerous because in school children do not always learn a good thing, but sometimes it could be a bad habit they get. The bad habit to chose dangerous food they consume. Children love colorful tasty foods in font of their school which are very dangerous.

Otak otak, fried tofu, yellow noodle, meatball, es syrup, and cilok with red sauce. This kind of foods is very easy to be found in front of elementary gate. The sellers need not store or tend, they sell this food on their motorcycle, gerobak or even only on mat. Their loyal consume is starving children which spend their energy for their brain at school. They offer tasty and colorful foods for their consumers.

Children cannot resist the tempting invitation from this tasty but poisoned foods. Children spends their ¾ days at school, but their pocket money is only Rp 2000 – 5000 in a day. Only 5% from them which bring home-made food, and the rest lay their stomach in school’s food. While the vendors dare to offer low price for their foods, children able to full their stomach by Rp 1000 foods. This economic nature give benefit for both of vendors and children. And the second reason why school’s food became favorite for children is because children’s eyes are interesting in shocking color.

Research found there are 25%-50% Salmonella Parayphi type A in ice syrup. Otak otak and meatball use borax. Fried tofu and wet yellow noodle use formalin. The shocking red color is got from Rhodamine B and Methanil yellow as tempting yellow which both of them are actually to coloring textile. This dangerous things is carcinogenic, so consume this solute continually will increase the probability rate the consumer will have cancer someday. While children are the young generation who will lead this country to be better someday. Mentally effects are insomnia, concentration problem, emotional problem, hyperactive and worsening autism. Not only mentally effect, but this foods also take short term effect, there ara dizzy, nauseous, diarrhoea and constipation.

In summary, even if cheap and tempting, but the foods offered in school is dangerous for children. This kind of food only bring lot of disadvantage rather than benefit.

It is better for parents to prepare the children foods. It takes time but by bringing foods from home is saving their health. The further thing must be done is giving children simple explanation about how dangerous the tasty and rainbow looks food in their school.