cell phones

When I was in school, I didn't have a cell phone. Neither did I have one in my high school. I got one when I was in the last year of college. Too  late? That I wouldn't know. You see, there was no other way then. Now when I do have my cell phone, I can't really think of life without it. It seems to have become a sickeningly important part of my life. And when I look around today, I find that students as young as 10 are carrying cell phones to school. Which leads to the question - is that really necessary, or is it an extravagance? AS parents I strongly agreed that cell phones should not be used in school.

This is because cell phones causes distraction. Along with the many applications available on a cell phone, an important one is that of texting. There is no guarantee that a student will not text during class hours. Which, along with posing as a distraction, also affects their concentration on studies and thereby the overall learning process. Not only does the factor of distraction come into the picture in relation to students, but also in relation to teachers and the classroom in general. For example, when the phone starts ringing in class (or even if is on 'vibration mode'), the teacher might lose his/her link of teaching and that will prove to be a major disadvantage for the entire class. Not to mention that it is extremely disrespectful for the teacher who is conducting the class.

As parents we should aware what is going on in the fast growing technology. The teens especially  will make nuisance with cell phones by dealing with illegal activities. The cell phones could turn into potent device for some students. They might click snaps that are not right, or record videos that are questionable in nature or call the school and report a bomb threat as a prank or to cancel classes. They may also use the phone to draw out other illegal activities like drug deals, thefts and the like. So also, if the phone is used extensively, it could lead to an extravagant bill.

The most nerve-cracking is that our children tend to cheat in exams. Now it is a trend among students the way they misuse the technology. Students will probably text their friends  to look up for the answer. They usually photograph information of text book answers and use it to cheat in exams. These habits actually cultivate the teens to copy more in getting high marks in their exams.

Other than that, all the sophisticated cell phones are brought by the rich students. This will lead to many social problems like jealousy among the students that will lead to stilling. This will cause a lot of problems in school, and head ache for parents as  we are called by the authorities  to discuss  the problem. In my opinion that they most probably they brought cell phones  to keep in touch with strangers which they found exited to text message without our knowledge. We are able to Control children’s communications with friends, social engagements and who they are in contact with, when they are too young to understand all of the risks. All the reasons I stated clearly for my stand to against bringing cell phones to school.

WRITTEN BY,
FARZANA

human cloning

          Should humans be cloned? That is the question that many people all over the world have been debating. Some say it is morally wrong, that we would be nefariously attempting to "Play the role of God." However, the facts have shown that there is nothing inherently wrong with human cloning. Scientists have proved a number of times that human cloning would be nothing but beneficial to the human race, if only it was legal. If the law allowed human cloning, it would not only save lives, but it would lead to a number of advancements in scientific research, and improve the quality of life.

          First and foremost, clones would be the best organ donors.There has been a breakthrough with human stem cells.  Embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones.  Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, spinal cord cells for quadriplegics and paraplegics, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced.  By combining this technology with human cloning technology it may be possible to produce needed tissue for suffering people that will be free of rejection by their immune systems.  Conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart failure, degenerative joint disease, and other problems may be made curable if human cloning and its technology are not banned.

          For years, couples everywhere have been facing problems of infertility, meaning they are unable to reproduce. Many of these unfortunate couples still want children, so they settle for adoption.  With cloning, infertile couples could have children.  Despite getting a fair amount of publicity in the news current treatments for infertility, in terms of percentages, are not very successful.  One estimate is that current infertility treatments are less than 10 percent successful.  Couples go through physically and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children.  Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children.  Human cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before possible.

          Besides, human cloning and its technology the days of silicone breast implants and other cosmetic procedures that may cause immune disease should soon be over. With the new technology, instead of using materials foreign to the body for such procedures, doctors will be able to manufacture bone, fat, connective tissue, or cartilage that matches the patients tissues exactly.  Anyone will able to have their appearance altered to their satisfaction without the leaking of silicone gel into their bodies or the other problems that occur with present day plastic surgery. Victims of terrible accidents that deform the face should now be able to have their features repaired with new, safer, technology. Limbs for amputees may be able to be regenerated.

          However, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries.Percentage of human being who suffered from cardiovascular disease increase rapidly.Human cloning technology could be used to reverse cardiovascular disease. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat cardiovascular disease victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged.  

          In a nutshell, human cloning would be entirely beneficial for science, and the quality of life, in addition to helping the prosperity of the human race. It would save, create, and improve lives all over the world. This would be an amazing accomplishment for scientists and following this major milestone, who knows what we will discover next! Human cloning would help the human race, the world of science, and the age of technology. The government would be blind not to see the benefits and allow human cloning. It is only a matter of time before they. 

Written by,

Kek Ai Ling

Human Cloning

What is cloning? It is defined as the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another. I believe every one know about the presence of Dolly the sheep which is cloned by Ian Wilmot, with Keith Campbell, however he had a team who helped him in Edinburgh in 1997. How about human cloning? Cloning technologies is much more modern than previous years.  These human cloning were not making in lab, it is created naturally. There is couple of ways which is embryo twinning and somatic cell nuclear transfer. Of course, through human cloning, there are still pros and cons about it. Should human cloning be allowed? In my point of view, I disagree with it.

According to the procedures of human cloning, there a unacceptable risks to clone. The procedure is far from the perfected and many trials were run before Dolly was ever created. This causes the death of many clones before it. There are many risks involved including risk to an ovum donor, a nucleus donor and a woman who receives the embryo for implantations, along with all the risks to the clone in this experimental procedure. There is also the problem with chronological age versus biological age. The clone has already gained many years by the time it was born because it was taken out from adult cells. This means the clone does not have as long of a life expectancy. This is an intrusion of the clone’s right to live a long and prosperous life.

Since cloning creates identical genes and it is a process of replicating a complete genetic constitution, it can significantly hamper the much needed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) diversity in human beings. The lessening of genes diversity will be weakening out adaptation ability. Similarly, cloning will also severely affect diversity in plants and animals. A cloned species may not know how to react viruses and other destructive agents as scientists cannot predict such potential developments.

However, there are many negative aspects about human cloning debating among scientists and critics. One of the aspects is the possibility of physical harm to the human embryo. It seem like the technology is not safe enough to use on humans. The cloned ones will age quicker than the original individual. This is what the scientists are afraid of since the cell used in the cloning procedure has already been used in a real life individual. Psychological harms would occur and fall upon children. They could suffer from a reduced sense of individuality, and a cloned child may feel that their future is worthless as it now rests in a cloned individual. There are also critics argue about that cloning encourages parents to value how well children can genetically meet their expectation rather than loving them for being their child. Some parents and society takes those cloned as object instead of their children or not as human being with realistic feeling. It is also seen that if human cloning occurs it would become a chaos in a reality and a regular social practice for those parents who want to “play the lottery” and not genetically choose their child may be cast out of society. This will eventually lead the cloned ones feel that their life may already be laid out before them and have no choices. They will also face psychological problems and discrimination because of the press about their identity.

Human cloning used on a very widespread basis would have disastrous effect on the human gene pool by reducing genetic diversity and out capacity to adapt to new conditions. Like many cloned plants, human may face extinction if evolution is not allowed to follow its proper course of action.

Moreover, misuse by unscrupulous elements would occur. For example, some unwanted elements of the society may exploit human cloning of the sake of their malicious intention posing in this way a grave threat to the society and state. Number of criminals will be maximise which involved in producing crucial parts of human body, exploiting the cloning are often arrested by the police which reveals how arbitrarily the human cloning is misused internationally.

Violate moral or human rights argue in the issue of human cloning. God creates every human in this universe have their own unique identity and a right to ignorance about one’s future or to an “open future.” This could easily be disputed because of the nature of identical twins. They share the exact same genome but have different lives and futures. The right to ignorance and an open future is a differ issue. There already exists another version of the clone and they already know certain things about themselves and the future they have to live up to. The later clone may lose the spontaneity of authenticity creating and becoming his or her own self. Thus, one will lose the sense of human possibility in freely creating one’s own future.

Human cloning will also cause controversy in kinship relation. Any woman donating her DNA for a cloned has got to encounter a complex situation regarding relationship of mother and child as the human cloning deprives the mother of a privilege of being a mother of her cloned baby. As the mother of a cloned baby is treated as a genetic twin, the significance of relationship between mother and child vanishes.

In the other hand, human cloning would lessen the worth of individuals and diminish respect for human life. Human life would be seen as replaceable. If something happened to a person such as being killed, it can be simply replace it through cloning. In fact, it would create a different child and could never replace the lost ones. Clones would be subject to discrimination based on the fact that they are clone and did not arise because of sexual reproduction.

From the point above I had mentioned, human cloning is disadvantage to occur because it has more negative purpose then the positive ones. Cloning can only help in certain category such as cloning organ and many more but not all. Therefore, human cloning is not beneficial for humans.

Shin Wei

Should human cloning be allowed?

Should human cloning be allowed?

What is human cloning all about?  The process of human cloning comprises creating a copy of a human being that is genetically identical to him by the means of asexual reproduction. Should cloning for human benefits or even human cloning itself be allowed in society today? That is a question we must ask ourselves. In my opinion, I agree that human cloning should be allowed. This is because human cloning  providing better research capabilities to find cures to many health problem and diseases. Besides that, it can help some infertile parents who do not wish to have artificial insemination to get a child and that child may have physical characteristics same as their parents.

            Through cloning and other forms of genetic research scientists are all ready learning all kinds of important information about the genetic make up of cancer and before long we may have the cure for cancer. Though the cure for cancer is reason enough not to ban cloning it is by no means the only benefit this new technology could create for the medical field. For example, the average person carries 8 defective genes inside them. These defective genes allow people to become sick when they would otherwise remain healthy. With human cloning and its technology it may be possible to ensure that we no longer suffer because of our defective genes.

            Furthermore, embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones. Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, spinal cord cells for quadriplegics and paraplegics, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced. By combining this technology with human cloning technology it may be possible to produce needed tissue for suffering people that will be free of rejection by their immune systems. For example, human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks.  Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. 

            Moreover, many couples that are infertile still have a great desire to create a new life however the current method in vitro fertilization is very often ineffective.   In fact it only results in a healthy pregnancy 10% of the time.  However, human cloning would also help people who are suffering from infertility. They can just get themselves cloned and have a baby of their own. If you add a bit of genetic engineering, you will have designer babies that are exact copies of the parents with some additional talents and looks. People will be able to fulfill their desires that they lack and create a clone of themselves with all the extra qualities they would love to possess. Talented people like Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Beethoven can be cloned once again and they can carry forward their legacy of creativity for a whole new generation. 

            In conclusion, cloning to some extent is good. You can clone organs and blood tissues to save lives. But cloning humans for harvesting human organs is a bad idea. In my opinion, I agree that human cloning should be allowed. It provide better research capabilities to find cures to many health problem such as cancer. It also help some of the infertile parents to get a child. Human cloning may be illegal and unethical today to clone humans but no one knows what the future holds. The future can give birth to clones who are either a boon or a bane to human race. So whether we will choose to become God or remain humans, is something that only time will tell.

Written by,

Yi Xian

Should Human Cloning be Allowed?

Human cloning has been a major issue over the past decade or so, at the beginning we started to changed the structure of plants, etc like tomatoes because of the food sources, we made them immune to diseases so that they grew bigger and lasted longer. Nobody thought that was made, then the scientists managed to clone sheep the first to be called 'Dolly' but they did not want to stop there and they wanted to clone human beings. About that, there are many argument in the world today regarding the disadvantage of cloning.

          People believe that cloning could be immoral, because some human characteristics are more important then a clones body. It could destroy human nature and the fact that cloning denies the 'Sanctity of Life'.
   
          Besides that, cloning mammals is still a highly experimental technique. Scientists involved in cloning various mammals have reported many technical problems. A large majority of the clones die during gestation or soon after birth. Placental malfunction seems to be a major cause of death. Many of the surviving clones are plagued with serious physiological and genetic problems. During embryological development, cloned sheep, cows, pigs, and mice tend to become unusually large. Although some scientists suggested that human clones might not experience the problems encountered in cloned animals, the risks remains very high and quite unpredictable.

          On the other sides, there are still a lot of benefit of cloning. Clones would be the best organ donors. Imagine your mother suddenly gets cancer in her kidneys and she needs to have a transplant. Assuming you love your mother and would do anything for her, you decide to be her donor. Then after the operation, her body rejects the new, foreign organ, and the kidney fails. The doctor says that the only way she would survive would be to find a kidney with the same type of tissue as her original, healthy tissue. The solution to your mother's problem and the answer to your prayers would be cloning. Because a clone is an exact copy, she would have no worries about her body accepting the organ or not. This would be the only way to save her.

          In addition, infertile couples could have biologically related children. For years, couples everywhere have been facing problems of infertility, meaning they are unable to reproduce. Many of these unfortunate couples still want children, so they settle for adoption. The problem with that is that the kids are not actually blood related, and this leaves an empty hole in so many people's lives. With cloning, these couples could finally have children with their genes. They would be exact copies of one parent's DNA. Cloning is the perfect solution for making many people incredibly happy, and helping the human race grow.

          In conclusion, there are more serious negative effect of cloning although its advantages can be detect. In my opinion, human should not be cloned. We have to face the nature – dead which should process by every human beings.

Yew Soo Ee

Should human cloning be allowed??

Should human cloning be allowed?

Cloning in general has been a rising debated issue across the globe since before Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996.The success of being able to clone animal brought scientists to wonder about a more challenging task, cloning humans. This challenging task is morally wrong and should not be stood for. However, some people seem not to realize the negative aspects that cloning would bring into a world which is already nuisance.  We cannot deny that cloning may help in saving one’s life or making someone’s life better but will it cause nuisance to the society with the misuse of the cloning process?

First of all, the advantage of cloning is this process provide organs for transplantation where if vital organ in human body is cloned and served as a backup system. The cloned body parts like heart, lungs liver and many more could be a lifesaver. Furthermore, when the organ failed to function well, it may be replaced with the cloned organs. Moreover, the doctors can clone identical organs like kidney so that the patient will not face risk of rejection of the kidney after operation. Thus, it will be safer and directly benefit the patients. In the case of accident victims, or transplant patients, obtaining the needed tissues, or organ parts in a timely manner can mean the difference between life and death. In this situation, the ability of being able to produce needed tissue materials and organs in the lab would provide a timely source of treatment. In short, cloning helps to save one’s life.

Recently, the success rate of current infertility treatments is very low. Further, the couple has to go through tormenting procedures with a small chance of getting a child. The advent of cloning technology will make it possible for infertile couples to have child than ever before where the cloned embryos are implanted into their bodies. This method, while providing couples with the chance to conceive, and also the capability to determine the gender of an embryo, which would make it possible to select which embryo lives and which one dies depending on its gender. Thus, cloning may help to eliminate the mental and physical pains among the infertile couples.

Besides that, cloning has the ability to determine the health of an infant.  The process of cloning can eliminate all the worrying regarding the child’s health. Scientist can alter the genes to ensure a healthy child. For example, if a mother has given birth to two children which suffered from Down’s syndrome. Doctors can manipulate and balance out the number of chromosomes in the embryo to give the mother a normal and healthy child. Through the cloning process, parents can also prevent their child from inheriting their sickness that their child might high risk of inheriting it.  Thus, the cloning process might help in ensuring younger generation from inheriting unwanted genes from their parents.

In a nutshell, I strongly feel that cloning should not be banned from the society as this process has contribute lots of advantages to the society and provide a better life for the future generations. Every coin has two sides, cloning has its flip side too. Nevertheless, we cannot deny that cloning might cause nuisances to the society if it is misused by other irresponsible homo sapiens for their own benefit. However if it is used in an appropriate manner, it will contribute lots of pros to the world.

JoYuin

Principle’s opinions :
When I was in school, I didn't have a cell phone. I got one when I was in the last year of when I was studying in college. Now when I do have my cell phone, I can't really think of life without it. It seems to have become a sickeningly important part of my life. And when I look around today, I find that students as young as 10 are carrying cell phones to school. It is that really necessary, or is it an extravagance?. I think bring cell phone in classroom is not suitable.


Many academics believe that there should be a banning of cell phones in school. They say that the disadvantages of carrying a cell phone outweigh the advantages . Along with the many applications available on a cell phone, an important one is that of texting. There is no guarantee that a student will not text during class hours. Which, along with posing as a distraction, also affects their concentration on studies and thereby the overall learning process. Not only does the factor of distraction come into the picture in relation to students, but also in relation to teachers and the classroom in general. For example, when the phone starts ringing in class or even if is on 'vibration mode', the teacher might lose their focus of attention of teaching and that will prove to be a major disadvantage for the entire class. Not to mention that it is extremely disrespectful for the teacher who is conducting the class. Effect of this, will distract the concentration of student when studying in class.

Teacher's opinion :


      Schools go through cycles of problems and debates. Centuries ago the debate surrounded issues about where and if students should be able to smoke at school and if girls could wear pants.


        Many of today's debates deal with the use of technology. Cell phones being the major question. Parents, students, teachers, and school administrators all have opinions on either why or why not children should be allowed to have cell phones at school.However, the debate is not only limited to the children. Teachers and administrators are now seeing debates among themselves. School principals are witnessing more and more cell phone use by their teachers.

       Teachers find it easier to make calls from their cell phones in the room rather than heading down to the office and possibly waiting in line. Some teachers feel that it is better to use the cell phone in their classroom rather than to leave the children unattended to go and make a call elsewhere in the building.

      Some of these calls being made pertain to the school. Teachers are returning the calls of parents, calling about sick children, calling about major discipline troubles, or calling to arrange school trips and such. Some of the calls are personal. Teachers keep cell phones on to hear from sick family members or other family issues. Some teachers are simply making doctor appointments and hair appointments.

     Regardless of the reason of the call, one cannot deny that if students are not allowed to use their phones during class then teachers should not either. Most school administrators limit teachers to cell phone use to during their lunch and other breaks when students are not present. However, like students, not all teachers follow the rules.Under extreme circumstances and emergencies, most principals are more than willing to be cooperative about teacher and student cell phone use.

Cell phones can actually be a great help in some situations. For example, when school lets out early for weather conditions the school phones lines are jammed with calls. Cell phones allow for teachers to reach and contact more parents than the school phones alone

Parents opinion :

Today, mobile phone has become popular to everybody since it is very convenient. The most advantage of having a mobile phone is our chidren can communicate to us when they having problems at schools.From my opnion as a parent I think mobile phones give advantages to our children.

First of all, cell phones can be very helpful in the classrooms. They could use their camera on cell phones to take pictures of school experiments being done by the teacher. This would help them to remember information for an upcoming test. Also, they could perform phone interviews during class time. Most cell phones have calendars on them, so they can put the due date of a test that is coming up.In addition,they could record their teacher giving a lecture.

In addition, if there was an emergency they can contact us as soon as possible. If a gunman came into a school then they could call 911 and give them information on his whereabouts, what he looks like, and a description of his clothes. For these reasons, cell phones can become lifesavers in an emergency. If happened to pass out in a classroom, it would be faster to call on a cell phone versus taking 5 minutes to run down to the office and make the call. Ultimately,this could save our children life. If they has a medical problem, they can reach their parents if they do not want to go to the school . If they is in a position where they cannot get help from someone at school, they have their phone to contact the hospital if they were sick. For example, my son has had a cell phone since she was nine years old. If she runs into any problems, she can easily contact us. For many parents,a cell phones is a convenient way to contact their children.

Mobile phone can also help us to know where our children are after school. If we are not able to call or text our children at school, then it would be less likely chance that a mix-up would occur relaying messages. Sending them a text message or leaving them a voice mail when they need to tell them something that cannot wait until the end of the school day.They can also contact us when they have forgotten something at home or have forgotten to tell us something. It would save the office staff time because they would not have to be running around the school all day delivering messages.We may need to get in contact with them because of a family emergency such as, a death in the family or an accident that has happened.This would be easy to us to communicate with our children. Mobile phone can also help us to know where our children are after school. Today, cell phones are more like a small hand-held computer. That could become very useful in schools that don't have a lot of extra computers for the children to use.

In conclusion, for many parent, cell phones have become an important part of daily life. The ability to communicate with a cell phone, along with our children other features has made life easier.Lastly,as a parent I think cell phones give many advantages than disadvantages to our children.

written by,

Intan Humairah binti Abu Bakar

Asyraaf Syahir bin Ahmad

Mohd. Aim Faqhrudin bin Mohd. Kifli

Cons Of Video Games

Cons Of  Video Games

Today video games have become common thing of children life in the world, including youths and adults also. Playing video games is become main part of leisure activity of their life. But this issues can get many bad effects for their life. I strongly agreed about this statement.

First the bad effects of playing video games is, increased on the violence contain. In many games, kids are rewarded for being more violent. Children who play more violent video games are more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The act of violence is done repeatedly. The children will lack of  moral values, behavior and feelings of empathy for others . Violent games also will reduce child in helping others people. Violent games behavior, vengeance and aggression. Women are often portrayed as weak characters that are helpless. The child is in control of the violence and experiences the violence is in their own eyes likes killings, kicking, stabbing and shooting. The children also likes argue with their teachers, fighting with their friends and will not hear what their parent said, their cannot differentiate between right or wrong.  The effect of playing violence video game for kids is, they will worsen in attitude

 Second playing video games can makes children socially isolated. They may spend less time in other activities such as doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends. Children may weak in academic achievement,  get lower marks in studying and have attention problems when do the something. Because of   spent much time in playing video game. Addiction in playing video games can be harmful if you're unable or unwilling to participate in any interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming. Relationships with  friends and family members become lack. Children spending too much time in playing. The effect of playing video games is children will left in social life with other people.

The last point is  video games may get risk in health. The children have a hard time to differentiation the line between the real-world and the gaming world. If the children spend all of  their times in playing video games. They will  skip meals or lose of their sleep times. Playing video game addiction can negatively impact  their health and concentration. This can make children become lazy, health problem, and other bad effect. 

As the conclusion playing video games can get lot of bad effect for children. so we must give attention to the children make sure they read books, take part in sports, interact with other kids, and watch good program.

Written By,

Intan Humaira Abu Bakar

MBS

The Benefits of Playing Video Games

Gaming both video and computer has become more than a fad, it is a part of life. Parents and teachers worry about games having negative effects on children and a great deal has been written about games leading to violent behavior and addiction. However, all is not negative about gaming, studies by leading researchers have shown that video and computer games have many benefit.

One of the benefit of playing video and computer games is inducing in decision making and teaching players to think on their own feet. This will make players be more independent to make a decision. It’s not easy to make a decision in games especially in adventure games, because once you make a mistake, it’s so difficult to be a winner. So, the players need to think on how they can win the game and become a famous winner.

Second benefit that we can get from playing video and computer games is a chance to build or create a team players and hone social skills. This will help the players to be more alert on how to create a great team and learning how to hone their social skills in their real life. As we know, it is not very easy to hone our social skills without any knowledge. From the video games also, we learn slowly how to hone our social skills like talk to others friend in that games or else.

The third benefit of playing this both games is teaching players to solve problems, motivating, and cognitive skills. A lot of games nowadays can be said it as real adventure game which means the games that teaching the players on how to solve the problems in that games also can be used in their own real life. Learning from the games also is the best way to not be a loser in real life.

As conclusion, we can see that a lot of people nowadays especially parents, they only can see the disadvantages of video games, but they never think about what their children will get after playing video games. Actually, video games bring many advantages to us more than bring disadvantages to us. So, we need to think carefully whether it’s good to playing video games or not.

written by,

Asyraaf Syahir Bin Ahmad.

Pros of Video Games

        Computer games played on the computer in cybercafes or at home.Online games more popular nowadays,these online games we can play alone or in competition with other gamers.I say that playing games are doing youths more good than harm.

        Games keep them away from getting involved in unhealthy activities like drugs or criminal activities.Many prefer to play games at cybercafes for entertainment because of the cheap hourly rates.It is a good way to bond with friends and meet new people who share the same interest.

         Gamers also think there is nothing wrong with making a business out of trading virtual items or high-level avatars in games.It is possible to earn several thousand ringgit a month by trading virtual items or helping other gamers improve their avatars.Virtual items have value because of the time and effort it takes to obtain them.Some students do this part time to help pay college fees.It also provides job opportunities especially for those who have not completed schooling.They play online games on a competitive basis and are able to earn a decent living doing something they like.This is not illegal as cybercafes operate on licensed premises.

          Through online games kids are learning how to earn money by pursuing their interest.This may not seem proper when they are still in school.But,indirectly they are learning entrepreneurial skills.Parents can feel proud of them as long as their studies are not affected.It is better than having them waste money loitering in shopping malls.Cybercafes are also comparatively healthier than other places of entertainment.These places,unlike discos or bars are free of drugs or alcohol and most do not even allow smoking nowadays.

          One disadvantage is truancy among school children.Some of them sneak out of school and go to cybercafes.Actually,children will play truant regardless of whether there are online games or cybercafes.Most cybercafes have strict rules that forbid anyone wearing school uniform from entering the premises.Young children are given access only if accompanied by their parents.

          Computer games are developed to provide wholesome entertainment for families.Most have features that block the use of profanity and patrols in the games to promote good behaviour.They also provide parental control features to monitor and schedule children’s playtime.They do more good than harm.



MOHAMAD AIM FAQHRUDIN

               With the ever increasing population of people in the world, no doubt technology is also creeping up together as time flies by our rooftops. Adjacent to this, video games is prominently one of the factors in the field of technology. Amazingly, the trend of playing video games has never been out of sight even in this hasty and crowded lifestyle. With this newly formed generation overpopulating the world, children as young as 2 years old have already been introduced to this beast called video games. Don't believe it, just take a simple stroll at the park and tunnel in on the amount of children on the analog slides and swings compared to last time and look at the amount of children holding up a rectangular piece of metal that is tabs or phones. The results is not extraordinary to us anymore as we are so accustomed to this lifestyle. The question homosapiens have been debating and shouting about is, are video games good?
                 Everything in the world consists of both elements, the pros and the cons. It depends on how one views at the statement. But with this, video games do give positive effects to us who are playing it besides just giving entertainment. There are a few positive effects that video games can bring to us. Some of these are educational, physiological and other give real world values. The first one involves physical hand-eye coordination. As we know how gamers are very fast in their reactions as a few milliseconds could determine whether it is a win or lose. Therefore, gamers are constantly being trained or even train themselves to be fast in their reactions. This is already an upper hand in the fast paced lifestyle we are living in. A definite advantage among other people. They will also pick up the habit of being aware on what is happening around them and not just focusing on one item. This is a skill of multitasking that is important.
                 Besides that, playing video games can help children who are not very active socially to gain confidence. When they begin a game, people usually start easy. And as they move on and get better, it gets tougher. With this system, children can start with easy tasks and start winning and succeeding which will then boost their self-confidence. This is very important for every children and is definitely beneficial especially to those children with down syndrome or even  Autism. Because of their lack of ability to interact and learn outside of their comfort zone, video games not only boost their self-confidence but also help them learn to interact with other people and also to know how life is with games like 'The Sims' which incorporates daily lives and daily routines into the game.
                  Bringing these values that we learn from games is not a struggle at all. Bear in mind that there are thousands of genres of games available throughout. And 'role playing games' are one of the most played games of all times. This is where people start as a character and trains the character in different ways depending in how the game is made to be. In these games, trading is very usual and normal. With this, I believe 90% of gamers including the younger generation learns how to trade in games. This will there fore improve their skills in analyzing the product they are buying by searching for the best price. Besides that, they will also automatically learn how to earn profits by buying items at a low price and selling them high. Many extremists neglect these values that are brought into the lives of this generation so naturally and easily. And therefore criticizing video games as spoilers of our generation. In addition, games also provide proper language in text forms, this requires the players to read and understand then further analyze the task which directly improves their English. How much more can video games damage this generation? Further more, players will do research on the Internet when they are stuck in a task. This gives them the opportunity to learn how to do researches on the internet. in the working world, all this values are the key factors in being successful in a job. Education is good but any Tom, dick and Harry can spend all their time studying and get the same results. Without these values, one will only gain knowledge but not being able to apply it. What is the use of it then? Application is very important and video games have been a great tool to help children in developing this skill.
               With all these points, video games definitely brings positive impact to children and teens nowadays but it must only be played to a certain limit as too much of something will spoil everything, but a little of everything will make the dish balanced. Therefore, playing video games to a certain limit is definitely good and beneficial but not until it takes over your life. 
Written by, Chun Yang