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The document is a student assignment submission for an English communication course at the Open University of Malaysia. It includes the student's name, student ID number, tutor's name, learning center location, and date of submission. The assignment contains 7 discussion questions on various topics including maternity/paternity leave, technology, media influence, environmental impacts, and tourism challenges. For each question, the student provides multiple paragraphs of analysis and arguments on the given topic.

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FAKULTI SAINS SOSIAL GUNAAN (FSSG/FASS) TUGASAN OUMH1203 ENGLISH FOR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SEMESTER : SEPTEMBER 2013 Nama& (No Matrik) : NOOR AKMA BINTI KAMAN 860212015096001 No Tel. : 019-7944140 NamaTutor : PUAN ANAWIYAH BINTI SALLEH PusatPembelajaran : PPW JOHOR TarikhPenyerahanTugasan : 10 NOVEMBER 2013
Question 1 Maternity leaves are never objectionable however when it comes to paternity leaves it becomes one of the most controversial topics of all times. Reasons for maternity leaves are well justified as the women have to carry the child with them as part of their body until the child is born but there are justified reasons for the paternity leave as well. Men have just as much right, need and obligation to spend quality time bonding with and caring for a newborn. With families living isolated from close relatives, it may be difficult for the mother's family to support her after the birth of the baby as was tradition. Now introducing paternity leave, the father can play this important role.One of them is a reasonable amount of time , it will make a world of difference,and having help from father could be very helpful for mothers. Men should get paternity leave from work for a reasonable amount of time, because becoming a parent is a life-changing event that they need to be a part of. Statistics have proven that men that are an active part of their children's births and are present for the few weeks after have a stronger bond with their children, making them better fathers, and giving the children a better environment to grow up in. When a woman gives birth to a child, it is emotionally and physically draining. If a father has the opportunity to stay home for the first couple of weeks to care for both his wife and his new child, it will make a world of difference. I don't believe that paternity leave needs to be several months like maternity leave is. But giving men a few weeks will have a positive effect on home, family life, and happiness. People argue that most men cannot handle the household well. That is why some people also believe that fathers cannot take care of their children as well as mothers do. Usually men is more clumsy about taking care the household and children, so people think that fathers will not really help with the new member. But, mothers can experience difficulties during giving birth, thus healing time is needed for the mothers. In this time, having help from father could be very helpful for mothers. So taking paternity leave for father is needed for helping the mother.
Conclutions,nowadays, we already get used to maternity leave, that because mothers should take a rest from their job during their healing time after giving birth to their child. But now fathers can take paternity leave too. Even there are people who still arguing whether fathers should take paternity leave or not. However, fathers who take paternity leave can be very helpful to taking care for their family. Question 2 Modern technology is one of the main reasons why our country becomes successful.Human life absolutely changed when modern technology was invented.It helps people to communicate faster and makes our lives easier.One of the greatest modern technology nowadays include computers,i-pad,phone,electric stove and so on.Thesenew invented technologies really changed our lives.We can see the changed in our lives now from the past.There was a big difference on how we live now because of these new highly invented technologies.I agree that modern technology makes life more convenient and efficient.For example In our past life,peole are using pen and paper for communication.Forexample,in writing love letters they need to write in a piece of paper to express their feelings to the one they love or admire.But now they can express it through sending text messages,phone calls or sometimes in social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter,orWechat.They can even write love letters by not using papers and pen ,they just type and sent it via email.And through these social networking sites,they can talk to their family that lives in other country by video calls.Modern technologies is a big help in communication ang it helps us manage our time.How does it help us manage our time?For example people used to wash their dirty clothes using hands but now they just have to put their dirty clothes in the washing machine and press some buttons.It simply shows that you can finish washing your clothes early and yo can still do other things after that.
As a student I really do appreciate the advancement of technologies and I think all of us benefits from it.We , student are the most individuals who need technology in life.We always use the internet for research purposes,for our project or assignments.Our knowledge improves and it also enhances our vocabularies by the internet.In the past,student used books in finding some informations thats why the encounter difficulties in searching for some answers unlike now you just have to type , click , and search.We now also have video cameras,or digital cameras,and we are using it for our projects.I can really say that there are many advantages of having modern technologies in our lives. Technology helps to save time,money and material.At present time,all the factories,houses and other businesses are equipped with high tech machine,electronicgadgets.These products able to finish the complex task in few seconds.Futhermore,informations technology make the life simple or convenient.Person can get information about anything at anytime in few second with the help of internet.Globalisation of the whole world is occurring due to modern technology .It is very easy to travel any part or the world and even in space because of high technology. In conclusion,Advancement of technology really helps us in different ways.It really changed the way how people live,learn,work and communicate.It overcomes our problem in having difficulties in our work.Time is precious and modern technology helps us to manage our time.It makes our life convenient and we can work faster.So in one day,we can do a lot of things now compared to the past.People just have self-discipline and be responsible anough in using these modern technologies.We should know how to limit our selves so thah we can live a better and healthy living.It is all for our own good and we should be thankful that these technologies are invented.
Question 3 Peoples thinking is obtained from the informations which comes from various sources,especially mass media.Every house has at least one kind of mass media,whether it is tv,radio,ornewspapers.I personally support that the mass media have strong effect in forming peoples thinking for some reasons.For examples their own interest,shapes people ideas and can change their ways of thinking. Firstly,some people utilize mass media for their own interest.Spreading idea through the mass media is like doctrination but in faster way and wider range.By on air broadcasting , an information is spreaded to many people in many place in short time.Some studies show that people could spend more than five until eight hour each day to watch tv,listen to radio,or read newspaper.Furhermore,the development of technology creates a new trend of enjoying the mass media by internet.The ease of access,cheapcost,and mobility increase the amount of people who obtain information from the mass media.According to this fact,the mass media affects in forming ideas of greater number of people supported by the development of technology. Secondly,human brain works every second absorbing infoemations consciously and unconsciously.In many cases,human keeps unconsciously absorbed information rather than consciously absorbed one.By repetition of the same informations,the mass media unintentionally shapes peoples idea.The clearest fact today shows that with much news about crime published almot everyday through tv,radio and newspaper,people start to accept that crime is an ordinary matter in their life.It results in the increasing of crime rate committed from unconsciously absorbed information which is obtained from mass media.This fact proves that the repetition of the same information every day,people accept the truth of one statement. Third,On the other hand,the media can effect the paradigm of society.What the audience see and listen can change their ways of thinking.Forinstance,tv shows ideal famly life and the audience star considering and taking about that life.Moreover,when the audience feel the life can be imitated and improve their quality of life ,they will try to transform their lives to be better than before.
In conclusions,it seem to me that people s thinking today is mostly affected by the information obtained frm mass media.Even a statement considered wron at the first time could change to be right. Question 5 The improvement of peoples living standard owes too much to the rapid development of science and technology. However, people nowadays are confronted with so many problems, such as the deterioration of environment, air pollution and the explosive expansion of population. Some people claim that the damage to environment is an inevitable consequence of economic development.Example damage of the environment is many helpful precise inventions which caused a huge turn in our daily life,noise pollution and The lack of awareness of environmental protection. Nowadays, we live technology age. We are living the development stage in technology and sciences. In the last century, scientists discovered so many helpful precise inventions which caused a huge turn in our daily life. One of which, is the mobile phone and all other recent technological gadgets. Although rising incomes, science, and technology have had a generally positive influence on our life, they also threaten the ecosystem. I will look at how the development of technology and use of energy are harming our planet. Lets take for instance the revolutionary new forms in the mobile phones, these require development of the new methods. To produce such phones the engineers have to think days, month or even years and they will have to use electricity to run the computers, lights. At the same time the power generating stations will have to supply them with more power and so more emissions into the air will be released. In order to make more profit, some manufacturers and factories are only keen on the pursuit of profits, caring nothing about the protection of environment and the recycling of waste water. For example, about fifty percent of people in Shenzhen possess a private car, and the ownership is increasing by 7,000 each month. The exhaust gas and irritating noise impair peoples health greatly. The prosperity of economy is obtained at the cost of peoples health and the damage to environment.
The lack of awareness of environmental protection is another factor causing damage to environment. Some near-sighted local governments are only concerned about economic development but pay little attention to environmental protection, misunderstanding that economic development says for their achievements and that environmental protection only wastes money. Conclusion If people and the authorities concerned have a long-term developing perspective, I think the damage to environment is avoidable. Along with the development of technology and peoples living standard, the government should take effective measures to handle the problems arising. Meanwhile, the manufacturers and factories should consider not only economic profit but also social benefit. If the government and people can join hands in solving environmental problem, we will enjoy an azure sky and flower fragrance in the near future. Question 7 Few people would question that tourism and travel can be highly volatile industries. A great deal of the industry is dependent on the leisure traveler. However, tourism is composed not only of leisure travelers but also other groups such as business travelers, and these nonleisure travelers often act and spend in the same way as leisure travelers. Tourism and travel professionals know that their industry is exposed to political, health, and economic undulations. Often it is heard that these ups and downs are outside of tourism and travel professionals control. While to some extent industry leaders are forced to react to circumstances outside of their control, an awareness of current challenges can help these leaders to prepare for eventual challenges and to seek ways in which to lessen the negative impact of exigent circumstances. Below is a list of some of the current challenges facing the tourism and travel industry.Firstlyquality,taxed industry and security is a major challenge. Quality is as important to tourism as any other advertising budget. The handling of local village tourism can be the cause of some difficult debates. But the mistakes can be disastrous, not only from the economic viewpoint, but also civic infra- structure and environmental problems. If you wait too long and lose your quality, all the rest will be just pollution and garbage with social problems and ills.
Tourism is a highly taxed industry. Few people, outside of the tourism and travel industry, realize just how many taxes travelers pay. Look at the percentage of taxes paid on an airline ticket, a hotel room, or a rental car. In some locales (be that local a country, city, state or province) almost 40% of the commoditys cost comes from add-on taxes. When government officials claim that they must provide additional protection services to non-residents they often fail to take into account just how much money non-residents add to a local economy not only through purchases but also through the payment of taxes Security is a major challenge to the tourism and travel industry. The tourism and travel industry should have received a major wake-up call on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately many industry leaders simply provided lip-service to security issues rather than confronting the problem. Too many tourism offices or convention and visitors bureaus have no (or almost no) contact with their local police departments. Too many police departments have no officers trained in TOPs (tourism oriented policing/protection services). Too few city councils or local governments have provides their security agencies (e.g., policy departments) with the economic and manpower resources to protect the visitor and tourism facilities. Almost no community has done a tourism security assessment of its industrys personnel and sites. Unless the visitors security becomes a primary focus of concern, many tourism and travel destinations may face great economic losses in the future. Tourism lets people make a living and fulfill our social need to connect with nature. But tourism can also have a hefty toll on a landscapes ecology. The decisions we make about solving and avoiding environmental problems will determine whether tourism and landscapes share a working relationship.
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  • 1. FAKULTI SAINS SOSIAL GUNAAN (FSSG/FASS) TUGASAN OUMH1203 ENGLISH FOR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SEMESTER : SEPTEMBER 2013 Nama& (No Matrik) : NOOR AKMA BINTI KAMAN 860212015096001 No Tel. : 019-7944140 NamaTutor : PUAN ANAWIYAH BINTI SALLEH PusatPembelajaran : PPW JOHOR TarikhPenyerahanTugasan : 10 NOVEMBER 2013
  • 2. Question 1 Maternity leaves are never objectionable however when it comes to paternity leaves it becomes one of the most controversial topics of all times. Reasons for maternity leaves are well justified as the women have to carry the child with them as part of their body until the child is born but there are justified reasons for the paternity leave as well. Men have just as much right, need and obligation to spend quality time bonding with and caring for a newborn. With families living isolated from close relatives, it may be difficult for the mother's family to support her after the birth of the baby as was tradition. Now introducing paternity leave, the father can play this important role.One of them is a reasonable amount of time , it will make a world of difference,and having help from father could be very helpful for mothers. Men should get paternity leave from work for a reasonable amount of time, because becoming a parent is a life-changing event that they need to be a part of. Statistics have proven that men that are an active part of their children's births and are present for the few weeks after have a stronger bond with their children, making them better fathers, and giving the children a better environment to grow up in. When a woman gives birth to a child, it is emotionally and physically draining. If a father has the opportunity to stay home for the first couple of weeks to care for both his wife and his new child, it will make a world of difference. I don't believe that paternity leave needs to be several months like maternity leave is. But giving men a few weeks will have a positive effect on home, family life, and happiness. People argue that most men cannot handle the household well. That is why some people also believe that fathers cannot take care of their children as well as mothers do. Usually men is more clumsy about taking care the household and children, so people think that fathers will not really help with the new member. But, mothers can experience difficulties during giving birth, thus healing time is needed for the mothers. In this time, having help from father could be very helpful for mothers. So taking paternity leave for father is needed for helping the mother.
  • 3. Conclutions,nowadays, we already get used to maternity leave, that because mothers should take a rest from their job during their healing time after giving birth to their child. But now fathers can take paternity leave too. Even there are people who still arguing whether fathers should take paternity leave or not. However, fathers who take paternity leave can be very helpful to taking care for their family. Question 2 Modern technology is one of the main reasons why our country becomes successful.Human life absolutely changed when modern technology was invented.It helps people to communicate faster and makes our lives easier.One of the greatest modern technology nowadays include computers,i-pad,phone,electric stove and so on.Thesenew invented technologies really changed our lives.We can see the changed in our lives now from the past.There was a big difference on how we live now because of these new highly invented technologies.I agree that modern technology makes life more convenient and efficient.For example In our past life,peole are using pen and paper for communication.Forexample,in writing love letters they need to write in a piece of paper to express their feelings to the one they love or admire.But now they can express it through sending text messages,phone calls or sometimes in social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter,orWechat.They can even write love letters by not using papers and pen ,they just type and sent it via email.And through these social networking sites,they can talk to their family that lives in other country by video calls.Modern technologies is a big help in communication ang it helps us manage our time.How does it help us manage our time?For example people used to wash their dirty clothes using hands but now they just have to put their dirty clothes in the washing machine and press some buttons.It simply shows that you can finish washing your clothes early and yo can still do other things after that.
  • 4. As a student I really do appreciate the advancement of technologies and I think all of us benefits from it.We , student are the most individuals who need technology in life.We always use the internet for research purposes,for our project or assignments.Our knowledge improves and it also enhances our vocabularies by the internet.In the past,student used books in finding some informations thats why the encounter difficulties in searching for some answers unlike now you just have to type , click , and search.We now also have video cameras,or digital cameras,and we are using it for our projects.I can really say that there are many advantages of having modern technologies in our lives. Technology helps to save time,money and material.At present time,all the factories,houses and other businesses are equipped with high tech machine,electronicgadgets.These products able to finish the complex task in few seconds.Futhermore,informations technology make the life simple or convenient.Person can get information about anything at anytime in few second with the help of internet.Globalisation of the whole world is occurring due to modern technology .It is very easy to travel any part or the world and even in space because of high technology. In conclusion,Advancement of technology really helps us in different ways.It really changed the way how people live,learn,work and communicate.It overcomes our problem in having difficulties in our work.Time is precious and modern technology helps us to manage our time.It makes our life convenient and we can work faster.So in one day,we can do a lot of things now compared to the past.People just have self-discipline and be responsible anough in using these modern technologies.We should know how to limit our selves so thah we can live a better and healthy living.It is all for our own good and we should be thankful that these technologies are invented.
  • 5. Question 3 Peoples thinking is obtained from the informations which comes from various sources,especially mass media.Every house has at least one kind of mass media,whether it is tv,radio,ornewspapers.I personally support that the mass media have strong effect in forming peoples thinking for some reasons.For examples their own interest,shapes people ideas and can change their ways of thinking. Firstly,some people utilize mass media for their own interest.Spreading idea through the mass media is like doctrination but in faster way and wider range.By on air broadcasting , an information is spreaded to many people in many place in short time.Some studies show that people could spend more than five until eight hour each day to watch tv,listen to radio,or read newspaper.Furhermore,the development of technology creates a new trend of enjoying the mass media by internet.The ease of access,cheapcost,and mobility increase the amount of people who obtain information from the mass media.According to this fact,the mass media affects in forming ideas of greater number of people supported by the development of technology. Secondly,human brain works every second absorbing infoemations consciously and unconsciously.In many cases,human keeps unconsciously absorbed information rather than consciously absorbed one.By repetition of the same informations,the mass media unintentionally shapes peoples idea.The clearest fact today shows that with much news about crime published almot everyday through tv,radio and newspaper,people start to accept that crime is an ordinary matter in their life.It results in the increasing of crime rate committed from unconsciously absorbed information which is obtained from mass media.This fact proves that the repetition of the same information every day,people accept the truth of one statement. Third,On the other hand,the media can effect the paradigm of society.What the audience see and listen can change their ways of thinking.Forinstance,tv shows ideal famly life and the audience star considering and taking about that life.Moreover,when the audience feel the life can be imitated and improve their quality of life ,they will try to transform their lives to be better than before.
  • 6. In conclusions,it seem to me that people s thinking today is mostly affected by the information obtained frm mass media.Even a statement considered wron at the first time could change to be right. Question 5 The improvement of peoples living standard owes too much to the rapid development of science and technology. However, people nowadays are confronted with so many problems, such as the deterioration of environment, air pollution and the explosive expansion of population. Some people claim that the damage to environment is an inevitable consequence of economic development.Example damage of the environment is many helpful precise inventions which caused a huge turn in our daily life,noise pollution and The lack of awareness of environmental protection. Nowadays, we live technology age. We are living the development stage in technology and sciences. In the last century, scientists discovered so many helpful precise inventions which caused a huge turn in our daily life. One of which, is the mobile phone and all other recent technological gadgets. Although rising incomes, science, and technology have had a generally positive influence on our life, they also threaten the ecosystem. I will look at how the development of technology and use of energy are harming our planet. Lets take for instance the revolutionary new forms in the mobile phones, these require development of the new methods. To produce such phones the engineers have to think days, month or even years and they will have to use electricity to run the computers, lights. At the same time the power generating stations will have to supply them with more power and so more emissions into the air will be released. In order to make more profit, some manufacturers and factories are only keen on the pursuit of profits, caring nothing about the protection of environment and the recycling of waste water. For example, about fifty percent of people in Shenzhen possess a private car, and the ownership is increasing by 7,000 each month. The exhaust gas and irritating noise impair peoples health greatly. The prosperity of economy is obtained at the cost of peoples health and the damage to environment.
  • 7. The lack of awareness of environmental protection is another factor causing damage to environment. Some near-sighted local governments are only concerned about economic development but pay little attention to environmental protection, misunderstanding that economic development says for their achievements and that environmental protection only wastes money. Conclusion If people and the authorities concerned have a long-term developing perspective, I think the damage to environment is avoidable. Along with the development of technology and peoples living standard, the government should take effective measures to handle the problems arising. Meanwhile, the manufacturers and factories should consider not only economic profit but also social benefit. If the government and people can join hands in solving environmental problem, we will enjoy an azure sky and flower fragrance in the near future. Question 7 Few people would question that tourism and travel can be highly volatile industries. A great deal of the industry is dependent on the leisure traveler. However, tourism is composed not only of leisure travelers but also other groups such as business travelers, and these nonleisure travelers often act and spend in the same way as leisure travelers. Tourism and travel professionals know that their industry is exposed to political, health, and economic undulations. Often it is heard that these ups and downs are outside of tourism and travel professionals control. While to some extent industry leaders are forced to react to circumstances outside of their control, an awareness of current challenges can help these leaders to prepare for eventual challenges and to seek ways in which to lessen the negative impact of exigent circumstances. Below is a list of some of the current challenges facing the tourism and travel industry.Firstlyquality,taxed industry and security is a major challenge. Quality is as important to tourism as any other advertising budget. The handling of local village tourism can be the cause of some difficult debates. But the mistakes can be disastrous, not only from the economic viewpoint, but also civic infra- structure and environmental problems. If you wait too long and lose your quality, all the rest will be just pollution and garbage with social problems and ills.
  • 8. Tourism is a highly taxed industry. Few people, outside of the tourism and travel industry, realize just how many taxes travelers pay. Look at the percentage of taxes paid on an airline ticket, a hotel room, or a rental car. In some locales (be that local a country, city, state or province) almost 40% of the commoditys cost comes from add-on taxes. When government officials claim that they must provide additional protection services to non-residents they often fail to take into account just how much money non-residents add to a local economy not only through purchases but also through the payment of taxes Security is a major challenge to the tourism and travel industry. The tourism and travel industry should have received a major wake-up call on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately many industry leaders simply provided lip-service to security issues rather than confronting the problem. Too many tourism offices or convention and visitors bureaus have no (or almost no) contact with their local police departments. Too many police departments have no officers trained in TOPs (tourism oriented policing/protection services). Too few city councils or local governments have provides their security agencies (e.g., policy departments) with the economic and manpower resources to protect the visitor and tourism facilities. Almost no community has done a tourism security assessment of its industrys personnel and sites. Unless the visitors security becomes a primary focus of concern, many tourism and travel destinations may face great economic losses in the future. Tourism lets people make a living and fulfill our social need to connect with nature. But tourism can also have a hefty toll on a landscapes ecology. The decisions we make about solving and avoiding environmental problems will determine whether tourism and landscapes share a working relationship.