2. All The Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook

'All The Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook' is the article who written by Jenna Wortham. Jenna Wortham is a technology reporter from New York Times. Wortham stated that Facebook accounts were highly increased in October 2009 to October 2010. In October 2010 to October 2011, Facebook were grown decreasing only 10 percents not like the previous year that is 56 percents. Why something like this happen to the famous social networking?

As public knows, Facebook is the social networking under Facebook.Inc company. It launched in January 2004. Facebook was created to made people easier to connect with each other. At Facebook, the user needs to create the account first and fill up their personal details. Facebook also allow their users to share photos, videos, comments and status.

But, not all the users share their real details. Some of users might use their fake personal. Other than connect with other people, some users create the Facebook account just to stalk or hack others account. This thing happens when they feel envy and want to ruin other people life. From this problem, it can be the main cause why people dwindling day to day.

In positive ways, Facebook can help people to get close with the person that we might never meet for a long time such as relatives and friends. In business field nowadays, many people use Facebook to promote their business. This can help human in this era can easily shopping.

Despite the positive ways, Facebook also bring the negative sides that can harm people life. From the personal accounts, people can easily fight although it comes from the small issue. It cause from the word jealousy. As we can see today, many couple are fight because Facebook. The wife did not like what husband comments or chatting with other girl, so wife are easily get mad without any evident. Then, it can cause trouble through the fake account. Lots of fake accounts we can find nowadays that make people gullible.

In conclusion, Facebook more bring the negative impacts towards a person. But if someone can use the Facebook in right way and use it wisely it still cannot bring any problem.

1. The Degree of Happiness

‘The Degree of Happiness’ is the article that was written by Betrand Russell.  Betrand Arthur William Russell was born in Trelleck, Wales on 18 May 1872. He was educated from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was a British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate, whose emphasis on logical analysis influenced he course of 20th-century thinking.  His article, ‘The Degree of Happiness’ can be read in his book ‘The Conquest of Happiness’.

                This article was not easy to understand. I need to read it more than twice to made me understand what Russell try to tell in his article. Some of the sentences were using high lexis word that need me to more careful and understood those high lexis words.

                What is happiness? Based on Wikipedia, happiness can be defined as a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. What can I explain here about happiness is one feeling that bring the enjoyment in our life.

                According on Russell’s article, there are two sort of happiness which is open to any human being and to those who can read and write. Russell had stated that when he was a boy, he knew a man bursting with happiness whose business was digging wells. In fact, he could neither read nor write. When in the year 1885 he got a vote for parliament. Since that day, he learnt for the first time that such an institution existed.  His happiness did not depend upon intellectual sources that he does not have. It was not based upon belief in natural law or any of the fad. It was based on physical vigor, a sufficiency of work and the overcoming of not insuperable obstacles.

                In addition, Russell stated that other sort of happiness can be showed between scientist and artist. He said that, scientist is the happiest men in the present day. Many of them are emotionally simple and obtain from their work satisfaction so profound so they can derive pleasure from eating and even marrying while artist consider it necessary to be unhappy in their life.

                In conclusion, this article can help people in reach their happiness. There were various sort of happiness that can use in daily life. Everyone have different level of happiness in their life which happiness cannot simply determine through position, appearance and wealth. 

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What is Critical Literacy?

Critical Literacy is a course in semester 4 in Diploma in English Communication. Critical Literacy describes a particular approach to reading and writing. The reader or writer understands that any texts, be they academic articles, advertisements, and books should not be accepted at face value. Next, critical literacy teach us to remain critically. That is being aware of the purpose which text serve, convey messages, and realising the text purpose. At the end of the learning, students are enable to manage the demands of literacy in critical manners.