COHABITATION, SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT?

A man and a woman live together and have a sexual relationship without being married. This phenomenon is called “cohabitation”. In recently year, cohabitation became the new fashion in the young people’s lifestyle; it is very popular to see in those people living far from house, lacking of the matter and the mind, especially workers and students. In my point of view, I strongly oppose the cohabitation.

Many young people think that cohabitation can help them avoid the problem after marring. Whether the cohabitation is really a good solution to lead on a perfect marriage? In fact, it is very rare. According to the United States Department of Justice, 86 per cent of cohabitation are finished by separation; the remainder got married but not happy. People say that the true love is mysterious sentiment; therefore, it makes them feel curious and always want to discover it. If a boy and a girl cohabit for a long time, they will understand their lover clearly and face to face with the daily contradiction such as financial problem. As a result, their life becomes boring. The girl who cohabited confides: “Living with him, I feel that he is selfish. He does not allow me to go out with my friends; after school, I must return home immediately to cook. If I come back home late, he storms at violently, even beat ruthlessly.” In addition, they do not tie down in law, so they can be not difficult to say goodbye. Thus, I confirm that the cohabitation is not the basis of firm marriage.

Cohabitants must burden a lot of serious consequences. For example, with the students, their study is worse because they have to spend a lot of time to take care of their lover from cooking to washing clothes. With this freedom lifestyle, pregnancy is unavoidable thing. So, what would happen then? In this case, most women burden the greatest disadvantage. The men leave them alone with the fetus and the ruin in the mind. If she can not stand this tragic truth, she will go to death. Another solution is having an abortion, which affects women’s health, even becoming an infertile person in the future. According to the statistics of Department of health, Vietnam is a country having the highest rate of the abortion. In 2010, the abortion in the juvenile makes up more than 20% of the aborting shifts.

Many young people explain that cohabitation can help them to save money. It means that when they live together, they can share the money for water, for rent of house…, but it is not persuasive. In fact, there are many ways to save money. They can live with the same sex friends. It is easy to share the fee; moreover, they can help each other in study and share happiness or sadness if they need. In addition, the young always think that everything is possessive together, so they are willing to pay everything without returning. Does this save money or waste money more?

In conclusion, cohabitation is a snare in the life. It is deviance of the young. As a student, we should prepare future luggage so that we are more confident to enter the life. It is more important to decide what we should or should not do right now than wasting a lot of time to follow the cohabitation.

AFFECTS OF POLLUTED WATER

Water is the precious source. In fact, the amount of water covers 97 per cent of the Earth’ surface, but there is only 3 per cent that uses for life and production. Acording to LHQ, lacking of clean water has been happening all over the world. In some developing countries, it is about 75 per cent of urban inhabitants using clean water. In the rural area, in the other hand, this rate makes up 25 per cent. What do the numbers mean? They indicate that source of water has been being polluted seriously, which causes the epidemic disease, affects humanbeing’s life and threatens the diversity of the organisms in water.

Humanbeing can get disease easily because of using polluted water. In 2010, WHO summaried that it is about 270 milion people catching the paludism and nearly 100 million ones getting the disease of filaria. The reason are the spread of the parasite through eating and drink. Moreover, water with the high lead and mercury content causes many serious disease such as skin cancer, mutation. Especially if we use water containing Asen, which is a kind of toxin, causes lung cancer or blood disorder and leaves clinical symptom like as black fang. Furthermore, waste matter is also the pathogen, especially waste water is released from isolation hospital. This category spreads the pathogenous bacterium quickly and we get contagion through the line of digestion. Some common disease which we often get are diarrhoea, cholera and dysentery.

Lacking of clean water causes the disorder of the life. In cities, most of households use tap- water, so they have to accept to live with polluted water, especially in the dry season. Nowadays, instead of sleeping well in the morning, they have to get up early to buy clean water with expensive price. It fluctuates from 100,000 to 120,000 thousand dong per one stere. They lost a lot of time to worry about the fee, so they can not pay attention to their work. It is not easy to arrange time and manage the life with their little salary.

Pollution of water not only affects the health but also threatens the creatures in water. The waste water from factories and hospital make the quality of water supply be decreased. The organisms in water do not have “ safe house”, even dying continuously. For example, Giua Nho canal in Ca Mau province, from 18^th to 21^st Octocber,2010, a strange phonomenon occured. Shrimps and fishes died consecutively. The dead of fishes drifted along the canal, which makes water become black and have the reek while thousands of households also take water here to raise fishes, shrimps. Beside, the organic substance at the bottom of lake is disintegrated, which causes shortage of oxygen, reduces the content of PH and increases the concentration of acid radical; therefore, colour of water changes into black. It is very hard for the organisms to exist in polluted water.

In conclution, pollution of water is an insolvable problem all over the world. It affects all aspects, especially the health and the life of mankind, the existence of the creatures in water. Beside hunanbeing’s awareness, the government need to concern more and give the suitable sollution to limit this phenomenon.

THE FESTIVAL OF PRAYING FOR RAIN

When reminding Binh Thuan province, people often look back on Mui Ne in Phan Thiet city. Like other provinces, there are a lot of characteristic festivals such as Dinh Thay Thim, Nghinh Ong. One of valuable ones is Cham’s festival of praying for rain. It is held every five years at the begining of January and lasts during two days. The festival is divided into three steps that are preparing, celebrating and ending.

Before the festival, villagers prepare carefully. The frist thing is to ask the priest, thay Xe, thay Co Ke, who play the important role in ceremony for the suitable day to celebrate. Next, cleaning the yard of village and preparing something neccessary for the festival such as food, drink. Moreover, it is essential to choose people who dance or carry the Palongk’ Sach’s palankeen. To increase more solemnity, temple plags are pitched from Palongk’ Sach temple to village.

There are many activities during the ceremony. It starts at 4:00 p.m. Everyone has presence. In front of palankeen, the magician disposes a tray with special food of Cham such as banh tet, banh gung, canh ca and so on. When thay Xe reads the incantation, Cham’s women, who wear the traditional clothes, clasp hands and make a kownow. In the evening, villagers make the incense- offering ceremony with keen sincerity. In the following morning,everyone gets up early, especially beautiful women in dancing team. The sound of Paranung drum beat and Saranai horn resound, which signs Palongk’ Sach return the temple. Behind twelve young men standing in two lines, there are four other men who carry the palankeen. Dancing team and villagers follow them. The drum beat is more repeated. When the palanquin is set in front of temple, Thay Xe checks the sacrifice including 12 eggs in big bowl, 30 ones in 6 smaller bowl and incence. Before carring the palankeen into the temple, all women kowtow and wish “ Quoc thai dan an, mua thuan gio hoa, dong ruong tot tuoi”. Then, all men also do the same that.

At the end of the festival, villagers hold party. At that time, everyone gathers to eat and drink.Next, some young men put the dry woods together, and the firewood bursts into flames. After that, the beautiful women perform Cham’s traditional dances aroud it while the young men blow on the horn and children run and scream, which makes the atmosphere become more aminated. Villagers give the best wishes in New Year. The festival ends after the declaration of villager patriarch. All of them rerurn their home and take a rest.

In conclution, to have a successful ceremony, the festival must follow the fixed order; Cham often hold it with the cautious preparation, the solemn celebration and the joyful end. Cham’s festival of praying for rain has great moral value, so it is very meaningful to conserve and uphold.

KIND OF MY FRIENDS

KIND OF MY FRIENDS
There are many important things in each person’s life. Depending on a lot of elements such as character, ambition or demand, these things can be family, friends, money, work or love. For me, beside family, friendship is the essential feeling, even it controls my life. As a student of university, I began the independent life without my family. Thanks to my friends, they saved me from the solitude and the darkness of sorrowfulness. In fact, everyone has many friends and depending on the feeling which we give them, we can divide friends into three categories that are close friend, slight close friend and social friends.
The luckiest thing which God give to each person is a close friend. An intimate friend can be formed between two people who have the same or different sex or age; however, it is not easy to have a true close friendship. In the life, our close friend is like another member of our family, even he understand us more than our parents. Having many ways to express and improve our friendship; nonetheless, it has common expression. For example, there is a couple of close friend learning in the same class. They often meet, talk, smile, play each other but not bored. They are ready to share everything, including secret. They love their close friends more than themselves; they are willing to sacrifice themselves to help friends. Being an intimate friend, their feeling will be never changed although they have not met each other for a long time. To be honest, we can not show all expression of the true close friendship because it never finishes.
Another kind of friend is the slight close friends. They can be classmate, colleague, drinking companion, etc. Because of having common things, they feel comfortable to talk about the same thing. For example, with students, they can discuss a subject or exchange views on the club which they join together. To colleague, when they meet each other, they always to talk about their job, project, the boss or salary. Actually, those relationships can not stop immediately if they finish their work. On the other hand, it is easy to become the fairly good friends if they know how to improve it. Our circle of slight close friend has been widening because of our diverse life.
We have a lot of social friends. They are friends in society, but they are not true friends. Like other people, I also have many social friends; I know them through my classmates, my roommates or my brother. Whenever I see them, I just greet them by smiling or asking a simple question like as “Where are you going? Or are you going to school?” .What is an insipid conversation! So, to make these relationships closer, we need to spend more time to improve and discover their interest.
In conclusion, it is very meaningful for us to have many friends. In fact, having a close friend is difficult; however, we can be easy to make relationship with slight close friends and social friends. Friendship is often formed from the feeling, so it can last or finish anytime. Thus, we need to respect the friendship which we have and spend more time to make our relationship better and better.

WHAT MAKES THE GLOBAL CITIZENS?

Nowadays, people become more and more selfish while million of global problems happen everyday such as the warming of the Earth, climate change,etc. Actually, it is very difficult to resolve these problems; however, the global citizens can do it. Who are they? the simple understanding is that the global citizens can live and work in many different countries; they often care and repulse the national problem. So what makes the global citizens? Of course, three special qualities that they own are empathy, respect and knowledge.

Empathy is necessary to make the global citizen. They are not only moved but also sympathetic in front of the unfortunate plight like orphans, the disabled, the children infecting dioxin. They always ask themselves how to save these pitiful destiny. They usually think about others and do what they can. For example, Bui Duc Ky Anh, who is the director of Microgame, invented OLA.VN- society network which helps students living far from home update information, play games; furthermore, students can contact with friends easily but not paying fee. Another empathy is that they do not discriminate between the poor and the rich, Vietnamese people and other people because they love all.

It is not easy to become the global citizen without respect. In order to live and work in foreign countries, they must accept all culture. It means that they must follow custom, law or religion anywhere. For instance, in China, when they get a present, they must not open it in front of the crowd or in Japan, when they visit their friend’s house, they have to bow them and go into home with their slippers. Moreover. Respecting also means that they must adapt with the weather, food everywhere. The global citizen go to many places all over the world, so they have to face with a lot of difficulties of meals everyday because of the strange taste of food. Unless they enjoy, their health is worse and worse; therefore, they can not work well and complete his responsibility.

Knowledge is the essential means with the successful global citizen. To solve the worldwide problems, these citizens have to own the general knowledge in many fields, which helps them analyze or dissect the difficulties and give solution quickly. Moreover, they have to learn culture of other countries so that he can be easy to live and work there. As the global citizen, they often update information everyday exactly; thus, they must know how to use English and computer well. If the global citizen is good at English, they can communicate with everyone and approach internet easily. Thank to that, they can catch the situation of the world and confront with the unexpected events.