Two Articles in English

Pro and Con of Giving Money to Beggars

By Kurniasih

Nowadays, beggars are easily found in most places in city corners, such as on the street, shopping Centre, town square, ATM and other public places. Giving money to beggars always becomes a hot topic to discuss because people tend to have different point of view for that case. Some people argue that giving money to beggar is one way to help poor people to have better life. In fact, it is difficult for them to find job with good monthly income, for most of them are uneducated. Therefore, helping them is an honorable attitude, and it reflects religious value. In other words, they believe that what they have done is a matter of giving charity to poor people. On the other hand, others believe that not all beggars are poor. Even though they always wear dirty clothes, set innocent/sad face, and show weak body, those are part of their tricks to get people’s attention.  In addition, begging habit leads to another serious problem in which they start to think that begging is their profession because they can earn much money without having any skill. In relation to religious value, people can find a smart way of donating they money to a reliable institution that organize people’s donation well. Taking everything into account (conclusion), people have their own human right to give money to everyone including beggars. If they want to help beggars, they have to be very selective. Moreover, it is wise to give money to very old and disable beggars. Thus, it can avoid increasing number of young and powerful beggars. 

Pro and Con Computer with Internet Access will Replace Teachers’ Position

By Muhammad Rifa’i

These days, it has been becoming a public discussion that computer with internet access will replace teachers’ position in education atmosphere. There are many people who have different point of view toward this issue because computer with internet access has positive and negative effect. Knowing this issue, some people argue that computer with internet access can replace teachers’ position because internet provides all materials which students need to study; meanwhile teacher has limited knowledge to be taught to the students. There are many students who can’t understand the teachers’ explanation in the class because the teacher doesn’t explain the material well. In this case, the teacher just gives simple explanation, few or even just one example about the material, and sometimes teacher explains in wrong explanation. As a matter of fact, there have been many teachers who can’t explain the material well and explain in wrong explanation because they don’t master the materials first before coming to the class. On the other hand, others believe that computer with internet access can’t replace teachers’ position in education atmosphere because what becomes teachers’ roles are not had by computer itself. The roles of the teachers like controlling, asking, assessing, and evaluating the students’ result on study. When the teachers should be replaced by computer, of course they will not be able to know more even at all what the students really do with the computer with internet access then. As what the writer knows that computer with internet access has the negative effect that the students can easily do when they have no any controls from the teachers. They can watch porn videos or other negative things on internet. Taking everything into account (conclusion), teachers’ will not be able to totally be replaced by computer that has internet access. Students can still download their additional materials that have and have not been explained by the teachers in the class with the teachers’ roles as those are to hide from unexpected actions that will be done by the students on the computer with the internet access.