REFLECTION TOPIC 8

Topic 8 is the last topic in the chapter which is discussed about an article ‘Drugs or Guns’. The interesting part in this article whenever the publics argue the government decision that they choose to buy weapon rather than the citizens’ health. The writer also looks like not agree with the government because in the last paragraph he mentioned that the real war for the country is to against the AIDS. However, the government has its own reason through this matter because they believe that the first thing that they need to do is the country be in safe position. This is because of the country have the unstable political system.

Next, the thing that makes me to think is that why the government not over comes both problems? In order to protect the country externally, at the same time they could put the trust to their people to handle the internal problem which is the AIDS and HIV matter by helping the AIDS activist that willing to help those people who need them. This group I think just need some budget for them to do their job to over come the problem for short or long term.

Eventhough, the approach that I could comment in this article is the government and the public should have a connection in order to maintain the political system of the country. The government also should give the positive impression the citizens so that they could trust on their leader ability to conduct and control the country. Indeed, it is not an easy thing make all people satisfied but as the body that have the authority, deep observation should be done so that the problem could be over come in nicely way.

REFLECTION TOPIC 7

Unit 7 covers about ‘Dieting: a waist is a terrible thing to mind’ written by Seligman, Martin (1994). The things that touch on my attention is about ‘Depression and Dieting’. According to the reading, the depression could appear in dieting whenever a person failed to set up his or her diet properly. They might not achieve their goal in order to decrease weight and finally they become depress and women are the group who are dominant with this problem. From here, we could see the significant relationship between depression and dieting that could be effect the weight. This is because feelings play the important role to a person in order to be the winner or loser.

Moreover, something that always is the question mark in my mind is why the diet pills can contribute to the increase of weight. Indeed, some of diet pills are helpful in order to weight loss. However, it could gaining the weight and risk to the health. It supposedly to help people who want to weight loss, but it simply do not work to them. Other than that, the diagram used by the writer is quite difficult to understand and need for the concentration whenever to analyze the diagram.

From the reading I found that the writer are not agree with the medical way in order to get nice body shape such as taking the diet pills and I do agree with the write according to that. Moreover, it is some a good approach taken by the writer by putting the strong evidence according to the wrong doing of dieting such as the bulimia nervosa and so on. It is make the readers realize that the side effects of false diet set up and obsesses to achieve the weight loss.