asterina's: Assignment - Year 2 (Semester 3 - September) ENGLISH FOR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION OUMH1203

question 1

Nowadays, social media has proven to be an important and integral part of modern day and cannot be ignored. It allows you to communicate instantly with millions of people, and gives each one of them the opportunity to spread your message even further. In this assignment, social media like facebook is a good communication tool. I agree with the statement. According to a new survey from Prompt Communications, Facebook is now 96% the most popular communication tool with over 350 million users. Here the reasons why Facebook become a good communication tool.

Firstly, Facebook help teens to express who they are. Preliminary results from two recent surveys involving 3,702 people of all ages suggest that people aged 32 and younger use Facebook as a communication tool, much like texting and phone calls. It's also can make easier for shy kids and teens to socialize by reaching out to others from a smart device rather than in person. In the same time, it can reach the large audience and get to know with each other all over the world. Facebook is also famous for finding a date. College students and youngsters are using Facebook for dating and to make new friends. Indeed, it’s easy to find a date for yourself who share common interest and hobbies. This way, most of the time you don’t get into the issues of in-compatibility.

Next, Facebook is a good communication tool because it’s can make the users become more successful in business opportunity. Meanwhile, talking about Facebook for business, it’s one of the largest site in the world where we are allowed to connect to everyone else. Anyone, can take advantages of Facebook to maintain a good relationship with others, who identify with certain tastes or products, is very important, because later you can sell a product or promote products or services, thus increasing the possibilities of making money on the Internet. Facebook allows the establishment of partnerships between various projects. More over, using Facebook fan page, you can increase your brand value and social media presence for your business. Facebook also helps you to find new leads and client, if you use it properly.

Lastly, A lot of facebook users agree that Facebook also as source of information and news. Thus, Facebook also describes as a real-time social networking site and it’s one of the best source to stay updated with latest news and updates. More over, major news usually goes viral on Facebook and you will not miss important updates. Bloggers and Internet marketers can subscribe to popular blog Fan pages and keep themselves with latest updates.

In the end, I can conclude that Facebook if it used in the right proportions and with proper care it can be a powerful tool for marketing and networking. Specially for any online or offline business, you can leverage the power of Facebook for success of your business. In addition, it also become information and news source and even for dating or make a new friends.

Figure: Business In Facebook

Source: executionists.com

( 500 Words )

QUESTION 2

E-mail is one of the Internet's most frequently used and most popular. E-mail does not require paper even stamps but just typing through the keyboard and within seconds after being sent, the letter will reach destination despite receiving distance and thousands of kilometers, without any limitation of time or space. Thus, there are five things that shouldn’t do when using e-mail.

First, sending without thinking. As you know, answered without thinking can cause problems. That’s why before sending something on email make sure that you are really meant what was written. Other people might misinterpret your sentence. Sentence joke that is sent via e-mail possibilities can misunderstood greater appeal to say directly. Beware also of the response too quickly to e-mails that hurt you. Another reason why you should think before sending is as a form of punishment in which email can be used as evidence by those who receive your email.

Secondly, Sending pornography. Pornography is prohibited channeled through email because it can lead to sexual harassment to the others. If used to provide information that does not fit can also lead to symptoms unhealthy. At the office also workers are not allowed to send pornographic elements among employees through email because it can interfere with daily work activities once considered wrong according to the rules of the company.

Apart from that, there are also some unscrupulous people to send virus through email. Caused of the computer used to face severe technical problems and had to be repaired and related to cost. This is one of negative attitude and we need to imagine that important documents are lost when the computer is infected by a virus. Time for repair also requires a long time.

Meanwhile, it is not fair if we use email to disseminate political issues nature incitement to others because it can lead to fighting among themselves. Sometimes negative information is not true and done by some unscrupulous individuals. We must be careful to identify information transmitted before believing and acting recklessly without check elements as may invite disaster.

Lastly, sometimes we also have experienced and received an e-mail address with many other recipients. This will cause our screen full and crowded. Besides harassing, the sender may have violated privacy by revealing your e-mail address to all other recipients. Do not make the same mistake. If you are confident that all recipients will also already know or can find the addresses of all recipients know others, please specify them. If not, save the address for you alone, and enter the recipient's address in the Field Blind Carbon Copy (BCC). Thus, in this way the recipient will not see the other person receiving your email and in the same time it can protect the privacy of the recipients.

Overall, the e-mail also have disadvantages and advantages of its own. As someone who is responsible, we must ensure that the email was sent not burdening anyone who has received. In other words, use e-mail in a safe and proper way.

Figure: The Most Common Email Applications

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( 501 Words )

QUESTION 3

As I know, murder is to eliminate someone's life without faith or with the intention of either intentionally or not. Society in our country often thought that the murder was a criminal act but it actually can also be categorized as one of the serious social problems in this country. In the meantime, malice aforethought is a state of mind, or intent, requirement that makes a homicide a murder. It is this state of mind that differentiates murder from other types of criminal homicide like voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. In my opinion, the murder occurred in Malaysia due to several important factors such as illegal immigrants, the lack of religious education, population, household problems, mental problems, environmental factors and so on.

Today, the presence of illegal foreign workers has caused the crime rate in the country is increasing. There are migrant workers who come here do not have a job for a certain period and crime became a place for them to acquire some money to finance personal and family life. So, more and more foreign workers the higher the probability for rising crime in our country. Certainly this crime will be difficult for ordinary people's lives. This is an important factor in the occurrence of murder case in this country.

In general, lack of religious upbringing in a person is the cause of the murder symptoms. A few people today are not care about the importance of religion in their lives. They do not realize that the knowledge of religion that determines the actual track of their lives. This will result in negative symptoms.

Population factor also play a role of increase the crime in malaysia. There are more people but only a few opportunities. When the desire to get something by legitimate means fail, they chose an illegal way and stuck with various criminal activities. Economic downturn has also affected the increase in the crime rate. Many experiencing financial problems will find unethical ways to make money. For easy to earn, some cases involved fraud, embezzlement, robbery or sometimes kill to cover the case of inhaled authorities.

In addition, household problems can also cause these symptoms. This can be seen through the cases of child abuse are increasingly occurring. They not only abused but viciously murdered. This is due to the attitude of some parents who are too materialistic pursuit more than family affection.

At the same time, other side factors like mental problems were also identified among the factors contributing to the symptoms of terrorism, murder or rape as well as environmental factors and so on.

In conclusion, we found almost every day in the news report on the murder of leases due to many contributing factors. Therefore, measures should be taken and required the cooperation of various parties and the most important is to identify those with a high potential in the murder. Today, our society might feel lucky to live in this country in peace of war. However, if the problem persists murder, then it also can affect security in the country. Better to prevent before its too late.

Figure: Murder Of Senior Citizen

Source: mynewshub.my

( 514 Words )

QUESTION 4

In the modern era, people use the Internet to indirect communicate. At the same time, some users use the internet as a place to do the sales in online for example such as clothing, food, mobile phones and many more. Sometimes they will make individual sales and by grouping. Promoted their products are more cheaper compared to sales in the store. Many customers purchase goods by online and even their do realize that the risk but their rather to take it. Thus, there are some sellers who takes the advantage of it to make way for cheating the customers.

However, I used to be one of an individual who has been fooled by buying goods in online. Initially, the sale carried out in the right way, as promised, according to the schedule. Mean that, I bought in a group where a total of ten individuals will pay installment. System was proper created with the letter and the payment installment agreement will be reflected in each month. Unlucky, after three of the people got the goods, the seller is already starting to make a variety of reasons of which the fourth person had to wait a long time to get belongings .

After that, we all tried to contact the dealer for the validity and available dealer but she was disappeared and unable to contact. In that case, I had been pay five times and the losses incurred by RM1250. From the current information, I heard that she changes the tactics which is she used her husband details to deal the same online business and doing the same thing. In the other words, she is like playing undercover person while cheating with other customers. She's still active until now. And my biggest mistake are I didn't make a police report at all. That's because I have reason that can't deal with my job.

From the moment of that incident, it was an extremely difficult period in my life because I had to bear the losses. My faulty is trapped by the seller promises without checking her background and I'm too easy to trust a stranger. With this experience, I have learned a lot from it. I was a bit hard to believe in online business and I'm very careful before dealing with strangers and not be duped by-promotions offered campaigns. If necessary, I will investigate first before doing any business.

In conclusion, it is better if we buy the things we need from direct store because it will guarantee our items quality and security. We also can see the items to be purchased before making payment. While prices in the shop are quite expensive but we can feel the satisfaction when we buy goods to be received safely without coercion or any fraud. Hence, if there is any fraud we can easier report to the authorities because we have a valid receipt issued. Apart from that, if we damaged goods easier for us to communicate and consult with the vendor compared with online sellers because it is difficult to detect.

Figure: New Online Business; Zalora

Source: greenroom136.com

( 509 Words )

QUESTION 5

There is no doubt that life is full of setbacks and heartache. And normally we all have a bad day and so do I. A bad day is ruin. It's make everything that's going well in my life seem a little darker. When I am in the midst of a bad day, its hard to see beyond it. However, my top priority when starting a bad day is to stop it as soon as possible. So it's important to have a game plan to get back on track when things go wrong. Here are a few things that I used to get myself feeling better when things seem to be headed in the wrong direction and it's always work.

Smile is the best thing to do when I'm having a bad day. I look in the mirror and smile as big as I can. I see immediately that my mood will lift just a little. Smile again, and again and find myself laughing at the face I'm approached the mirror with. It's just about impossible to remain in a bad mood while smiling. The physiology of smiling will impact emotions and help me break my previous thought patterns. When in that situation, I mean a bad mood, I decide that smile at every single person will pass for the rest of the day. By the end of the day, I forget that I'm in a bad mood at all.

Next thing is exercise. Although it is often the last thing I want to do, exercise is a great way to get me out of a bad mood. Exercise releases endorphins, which are chemicals in my brain that makes me feel so good. Thus, by doing some exercise I will automatically make myself feel better. One of exercise that I always do is playing badminton which is the best game I like most as I'm be able to take my bad mood out on the shuttlecocks. This way will make me more energetic throughout the day.

The most important thing that I do when having a bad day is relax and listening to the music. This is because, music has lots of positive effects to me to overcome a bad day. In the other words, music is the language of the soul of humanity. It's no secret that people love music. While taste in music differs from person to person, almost everyone enjoys some type of music. But by common observation, professional medical practitioners have linked music to our well-being and general health. A recent study concludes that listening to music has positive health effects on people of all ages.

In conclusion, although there are many other more effective ways to overcome a bad day, but for me this method is useful and effective way every time I'm having a bad day. Meantime, think of a good memory is a great idea to overcome a bad day. Think that this bad day won't last forever, yet when in you're in the midst of it the day can certainly feel like it is never-ending. Thinking about this good time or moment in your life will remind you that this day will be over and more happy times are ahead.