How the family, education, religion, media, political and legal systems are used to maintain social control?

One can take an association between social order and social control. For society to survive there must be order which preserve, maintain and make obligatory ways of relating and behaving. Social control is simply all the mechanisms a society would position in place to ensure traditionalism and fulfillment of its members. 

The above social science factors guarantee that people live in peace and the rate of crimes are decreasing. This promenades that the society is move towards developed status. The Caribbean of all societies needs to have proper social control mechanisms ready to develop economically, socially and politically.

Socialization is the process of making a person to learn to live in terms of the expectations of the society and making him adapted to the society. Socialization is entirely based on social interactions. Creating an understanding regarding society and culture and personality development are important components in socialization process.

For instance, in Sri Lanka there was a very low percentage in tourism growth due to the crime situation within the country before 30 decades. This gave a negative effect because it broken down tourism and decreased foreign capital from accumulating within the economy.  

In order to conform, these standards and behave systematically societies have developed two methods of ensuring conformity in both a formal and informal approaches via the socialization process which refers to the enduring process of inheriting and disseminating  norms, customs  and providing individuals with skills and habits necessary for participating within the society.

Informal control relates to wide range of expectations and behaviors made by societies directed to extend actual behavior which are not imposed by the law. This strengthens the concept of socialization.

The primary agents of socialization enforce the informal rules of society; they are the family and our peer groups. The family is the most vital part of every individual's upbringing which has the power to influence an individual's self-concepts, emotions, attitudes, norms, values and standards of behavior of the wider society. A peer group is made up of people with related ages and statuses in society and sets the norms and values by which the individual must tolerate.   If we obey the rules we are praised and if we move away from these accepted values we are punished.

The secondary agencies of socialization are the work environment, education, mass media, and religion. Religion represents the decent principles of society which has its own set of norms, values that standardize the conduct of its members. The mass media provide a medium of communication and let individuals to learn and adopt new lifestyles and behaviors in society.

Formal control relates to the external permits make compulsory by the government to prevent the establishment of the disorder in society. The agencies of socialization teach us how to act in the way that others expect of us in society.

As you reflect on life thus far, what has someone said, written, or expressed in some fashion that is especially meaningful to you. Why?

According to Babe Ruth the baseball player “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up”. The statement he stated is extremely meaningful to me because it gives me courage and makes me attempt for what I want from life. If we give up, we will never achieve our goals in life. That is a major crisis in today’s society.

According to Mother Teresa, “If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.” I know that the quote’s reality is unquestionable and I hated Mother Teresa’s intention. But in my point of view it is better to judge people so as not to have to love them, because some people don’t deserve a chance. As all of you know the judgments are protected and extracted.

I know the value of a chance of having trust-worthy person in valuable. And they are seeing others as they desire they could see themselves. I’m glad to say that many of us have a lot of time left with different sort of people in my life because we definitely have a lot of chances left to give, a lot of people left to love.

Kids give up in their studies and even drop out of high school. These days in the news we can see that some of them make up foolish story to report to the police so they can get on TV and have their own reality for public. But this sound absolutely horrible to them in their lives. So kids think that it’s easy to become famous and earn a lot of money. Consequence children do not care about their education and in some extreme cases even drop out of school.

But if we attempt for what we wanted and really gave it; there is nothing online exist that can stop you. And that is why people that never give up are so hard to beat, because they would do everything in their power to get what they want. They have desire, passion and determination for what they want.

In one hand this would be a bad thing as well. Finally I would like to say that you really have to be careful with how you use all your passion.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere is the source of every living being on the world. It plays a major role in serving world’s needs. Atmosphere is very important to sustain life. The air which wrappers the earth and extends up to a substantial height from the surface of the earth is called the atmosphere. It consists of a combination of various gases and is held to the earth by gravitational attraction.

The atmosphere comprises insignificant percentage of the collection of the earth. It is the cover of air which surrounds the earth. As the atmosphere is not of the same compactness throughout and that atmospheric force decreases with height, it is a bit difficult to mark the outer boundary of the atmosphere.

There are many environmental problems that are currently cursing the earth. Many of them are caused by humans and some are immediately arise naturally. Environmental pollution isn’t a matter that has been noticed now. Many of the problems that are currently hurting the environment are acid rain, stratospheric ozone reduction and global warming.

The atmosphere has got a layered arrangement. Layers of the atmosphere vary from one another in value of temperature, density and wetness of the air. Vertical motions are produced due to these different physical properties of the atmospheric layers.

Actually, stability or unsteadiness refers to these distinctive conditions and these properties of the atmosphere decide different forms of equilibrium.

To protect Atmosphere it is simple and possible. Basically need to avoid polluting water and air. Also can fight by planting more trees against global warming and while keeping environment clean. By reducing the fuel consumption by make using the energy efficient appliances, we can preserve the Atmosphere.

Force of Habit

It is easy to acquire bad habits. In depth it means the more we do a thing the more we tend to like doing it. The bad habits such as eating too much food, drinking too much liquid of anything or smoking; if we continuously do these activities from smaller days it is unhappy to drop it in a certain age. This is called force of habit and we must fight against to control that to spend a better life.

Some tasks that we do time to time unfortunately can be harmful at a time point. This applies to both good and bad things. A wise man only remembers the true things that have done by him and recognize the bad things and attempt to avoid them.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a task not simply consummated. This requires an individual to let loose all negative passions related with the offenses against them. It is important to forget what another person has done. Rage, revenge, anger and sorrow are a few emotions that an individual must face when considering forgiveness. Forgiveness is a very subjective subject matter and everyone has their own idea on who should and who should not be forgiven.

In order to forgive others, you have to first forgive yourself. If you feel guilty about something, you have to be able to accept that you made a mistake, but you also have to then carry on and move forward. If you cannot forgive yourself, you will always be scold yourself and you won’t be able to leave the past behind.

Of course, you have to learn from the mistakes you made and try to never repeat them. In my opinion, once you understand that you have spent more time making yourself feel bad about something you have done, it becomes clear others have long since forgiven you.

Everyone has their own set of morals and ethics. I think that the hardest people to forgive are the people who are near to you. If someone who is close to you like a friend, then for them do forgiveness that they have given up your trust to some extent. I think that the level of trust breaks how it is easy to excuse someone.

I think if someone made a genuine mistake and this hurt you, then there is nothing to forgive, but if someone purposely show your trust then this makes it much more difficult to forgive. In my opinion, everything can be forgiven, but not forgotten. It is not always probable to trust someone to the same degree as before and even if it is, trust is something which has to be earned back.

Teacher as a facilitator

First of all it is important to understand the term facilitates that define to promote, to help or to make a work easy. Let’s relate this term between teacher and students which is called Teacher centered learning. The teacher will be there to promote learning, to help students, to develop more and more by learning, by providing them a practical environment to interact with in order to bring learning and further development.

 In the past the learning systems was teacher-centered learning. This breaks the liveliness and students creativity in the classroom. Actually I have experienced in this technique.  Teacher-centered learning must be balanced with student-centered learning. But student-centered learning would be more effective for the active students to carry on the work flow to succeed by using the guidance of teacher. Teachers only act as a facilitator, motivator and inspiration for students.

When a teacher is part of the student learning environment, teacher is participating in the process of providing instructions / providing certain guidance in order to bring out the learning of students. Traditional class followed through lectures by teacher. The teacher presents information in an oral presentation while students listen, take notes occasionally. Then teacher asks questions. This method leaves little space for discussion hands-on work.

 In this way teacher plays a major role in students learning environment where the student learning is not going to improve at least a decimal point. But as the teacher is researching and gathering information his knowledge improves a lot where as students get grades usually based on written exams by hearting the taught information. But in this occasion if a student fail to memorize a single section of the topic he is unsuccessful in the life.

 Because of this the student centered learning environment was built and here the student has to research and find information and to present to the teacher. This method of teaching spread to online environment where video lectures and PowerPoint presentations are used.

A teacher leads the class in discussions based on the material covered in student centered process. Facilitators rarely lecture; instead, they lead the class to discuss the material and share personal ideas by mapping the real-world examples. This approach allows students to apply the information to their own situations, making the learning more meaningful to them.

While both approaches are effective, online learning is well suitable to a facilitator approach to teaching because of the delivery system. Because information is online, classes cannot be delivered in person, it is usually delivered through reading assignments, posting discussion questions and various electronic presentations.

Floods

Floods are a natural occurrence which has resulted in various ways all over the world. Floods are natural disaster and take place regularly in certain areas. Floods benefit mankind by shaping alluvial soil. But also in the other hand Floods cause tremendous decimation to human life and property.

In some areas people are prepared for Floods. The rushes of water pull down and carry away the houses, top-soil, men and animals. It swamps large area under cultivation; overwhelm public services and makes life despondent. So that voluntary organizations arrange assistance camps and provide medical facilities, food, clothes. Also some people try to cash on the sufferings of people or facilitating necessitates goods.

Floods can be brought down by construction of dams and forestation in the catchments areas. But however people can also contribute at individual level by planting trees and preventing denudation of vegetable cover.

Rainy Day

Nature is handsome and it has many forms; each of which is different from one another and varies in their beauty. Rain is one of the most gorgeous flashes of natural world. The falling of water drops from the clouds coming back to the earth is taken obliquely by the sun. Different people can elaborate the aesthetic of behind this very beautiful moment. Many people believe that the rain as a great blessing of God donated at man by him in some specific time.

Rain gives a real feeling of happiness and gratitude in a sad occasion to anybody as proved in the statement “Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness”. Although the nature yclept bride illustrate amazing beauty but the rain is one of the doleful moment in my point of view. This is because that the sky is covered with light grey clouds, the sky seems to suffer from depression. The floor is fully wet. However some people like to stay at home, make a cup of coffee and relax, watching their favorite TV program.

I still remember each of the past moments in my life at school and I don’t imagine that I would overlook that enthralling moments. Rain is not just water slightly it is a big relief and a great blessing of god. The flaming warmth, hot shinning sun and no clouds in the sky is the proof for no chances of rain. When rain showers drop it look like that earth was eager for water, flowery buds were waiting for many season to came and then to bloom. According to the statement “Rain showers my spirit and waters my essence” elaborate that rain is the sky pompous to earth and without rain there would be no life. Rain gives new life to the whole atmosphere.

Therefore the rain is the well-known and beautiful phenomena of nature and is ravishing, adoring, charming, fascinating beauty.

Experience in travelling in over-crowded bus

Traveling by bus in an agreeable experience and I mostly prefer traveling by my car. It is only the suffering to enter an overcrowded bus but to buy the ticket or maintain vertical position. In the process, many boots stepped on my shoes and I too trod on many boots.

All sorts of people can be seen at a bus stop. Some are impatient and look at their watches at every second and some are worried and upset. But there are some who wait patiently until a bus reach. They even give smiles to others. Students stand in groups and talking until a bus come to go back home. Today it is bit difficult to travel in an over-crowded bus because of the human nature of behavior. And also the other reason is less comfortable than raveling in own car.

At peak hours there is a mad rush. The school and college students, the office fellows vie with each other to get into the buses. Until I get down from the over-crowded bus I found myself in very uncomfortable positions. Because co-passengers strike against me and some are smoking and unable to bear the smoke. Therefore it is not an easy task to travel in over-crowded bus. When travelling in bus we find people with sweat stinking clothes.

At most of the bus stops people try to stand in queues mostly. But when a bus is visible, the queue is broken as flying bees. Everyone just pushes to get in to the bus. There is a lot of confusion. At peak hours people try to get on a bus without even checking whether there is any space in it or not.

Traveling on footboards is very common and dangerous. In the over-crowded bus there are many pick-pocketing people. Finally I would like to say that it is difficult to travel without comfortable car.

A day spent without reading is a day wasted. What is your view?

Reading can be associated with books, newspapers, self-written work, expressions and text messages, information on computers, on websites, electronic books and essays. Reading can also be divided into smaller categories such as reading advertisements, notes, and memos and so on.

In a nutshell, reading is about everything that is written down by a person whether it is electronic, handwritten. So taking this definition of reading into account, a day spent without reading will be useless.

How can someone spend a day without reading anything? It is possible if the person is cannot read or blind but it is not his fault. That person’s day is not being considered as wasted because they can still engage in other activities.

But if a completely normal, educated person decides to spend one day without reading anything, it is impossible. Why? It’s because, he has learnt to spend his life with the use of deprived knowledge of reading some kind of materials. Examples of such uneducated people in society work as sweepers, helpers, sometimes even drivers and they spend their day doing their job, earning a living, spending it on themselves and their family.

As the people are not reading resources they have to face many problems but wasted is something which their days never coming to learn. Though one cannot ignore the advantages of reading as it improves grammar, writing skills and the ability read some words while speaking to someone. None of these skills are obtained from watching television etc.

Reading enables the mind to think deeper to make decisions. Reading has its own unique advantages and the rest of activities one performs in everyday life have their own specific compensations. Therefore, a day spent without reading is not a day wasted.

Keeping an open mind allows for growth

Nowadays the society is getting more and more open. Therefore people are getting more open minded too. This allows for growth by learning from mistakes, participating and interacting more on events in the life and leads to greater tolerance.

Growth is an essential part of being a human. Not only do that we grow in size and figure but in personality and character as well.   Personal growth shapes each of us into the people that we are connected currently. The key to life is to continue to adapt to the world around. Keeping an open mind in life will lead to personal growth.

First, keeping an open mind will help you learn from your mistakes. Every individual makes mistakes but it takes an open minded person to learn from those mistakes. If you learn from your mistakes, you will grow as a person that is well disciplined.

Keeping an open mind will facilitate you to participate and interact more in life. Also allow you to try new things that are creative. Take part in new activities grant you new experience. Having a closed mind in life is like running with the blinders. Being open-minded allows for growth of friendly relations around the globe. It is the cumulative effort of each individual that will start others to adapt to innovation and new values.  

Finally, keeping an open mind leads to greater tolerance towards people. Narrow mindedness is the origin for intolerance and favoritism. By letting you to be open towards different people’s attitudes, practices, traditions, religion, race will lead to personal growth. The world would be a much better place to live in, if every an individual has an open mind.

Keeping an open mind allows for personal growth highly. If your mind is not open, you will not listen to new ideas from new people in the surroundings. If you do not listen to new ideas, you will never change from the way you are currently means you are going on the wrong path if you are doing mistakes or indeed things. If you do not change, how can you grow up? It is human nature to avoid changes and appreciate the traditional ways which we are presently familiar with. Change does not occur without certain degree of resistance.

Keeping an open mind has affected present-day life of people especially in the growth by developing their views and improving their knowledge.  

Society and its views are very complicated naturally. As you know the judgments of those people are different or complex. Therefore by learning from mistakes that you currently do and participating, interacting with people as well as behaving well will let you to shine the modern life which is changing with new ideas, trends, innovations, and technology.

Having an open mind is enormously vital for the enlargement in us and also in the society. People are trying to improve by themselves by developing new ideas in order to succeed themselves. Therefore the people's minds need to be independent and open.

Being sincere is important

Sincerity is an essential constituent to life. A sincere person is always welcomed because of his honest mind, friendly attitude and unchanged and real personality. The most difficult portion in life is to find a most sincere person to individual out of a great number of insincere people.

I think it all comes down to personal beliefs and morals. If a person lies to other people then I definitely not select that fellow as sincere. Also no need to boast about yourself to others saying lies to show how you are important than others. I feel a need to be honest with people in order to accept myself. Why lie about who you are or how you feel? You have to be real with yourself. You should never feel ashamed of who you are.

A sincere person will enjoy a large circle of friends. A sincere person usually has an honest mind. He is truthful to everyone. He rarely tells lies. Because of his notable characteristic, most people will like him.

It is important to have a realistic view of life

 Life is a dream and changing from person to person. I think it is important to have a realistic view on life to a confident level. You would be truly disappointed and always upset if you didn't.

But on the other hand, we all need to have a tiny dream that probably won't come true. Because we need hope and we need something to keep working at, even if we never get it. As long as you can realize that a dream is called a dream for a reason, then I think it is okay.

Most people do not have a realistic view of life and it is to risk of failure to achieve goals and dreams. Such people usually become lonelier. Some people make dreams on changing the world around them to fit the vision that they have in their head. People have the power to change the world for the better or worse, for good and bad.

If people   do not achieve goals and dreams, they might be unhappy or unsatisfied for the rest of the life. For example, a person who dreams of becoming   a doctor, but never gets to medical school, he would probably be very disappointed.

The same thing applies for any goals of any person’s life. For this reason, it is important that people choose realistic goals that can be achieved.

Some people follow their dreams and try to make the world fit their dreams. So by doing this they can make their own reality. People who refuse to accept a limit to their dreams can have the power to change the world.

The best gifts are the simplest ones

I was thinking about my past memories in my life until today. In this occasion i was just thinking about all sort gifts I have ever received.  I have received gifts from parents, friends, relations and many other people and still receiving in the life. Choosing a gift for the birthday or any special event is an extremely difficult thing to do and really time consuming.

The best gifts are displaying on the store and only thing that you have to do is to select the suitable thing for that person. The gifts that they need are simple heartfelt compliments or handmade creations that offer real true heart. Simple gifts make the day happy of people. Also the simple gifts doesn’t necessary to be actual but can be anything in this world which shows the true feeling and sincerity of the person.

Buying a random gift from a store is nothing but handmade gifts make the receiver surprise. When I prepare the handmade cards, I won’t go to the store for shopping unless they want exact the item. But some people may think I am doing this because to save my money. But NO! Its because to present the exact idea based on the person’s interest and hobby.

When my friends receive handmade cards or gifts that show me a delightful face with a smile that says me I like this card so much. This explain me how I am unique from the shop items. The simple handmade cards fully contain my best wishes for that person directly. And also it is valuable and meaningful than any other gifts.

The best gifts are the simplest ones. A simple heart felt compliment can enjoyment that person. However the gift that show true feeling and best wishes  and that satisfies the person is the best gift forever. 

A Good Life Does Not Have to Be Complex

A good life can be defined in various ways by different people. Having an active healthy existence, feeling safe and secure in your life and being happy are the most likely answers to the question of a good life. Health is an essential part to a good life, as is morals and beliefs. A good life is defined by how people interpret the term happiness.

Our parents, friends consist of a vision that we live good while gathering experience in lives. This is different for every person, because nobody follows the exact same path in life.  Also the events that they attend are influencing someone’s existence.

In some cases a good life does not have to be complex. A modest life is often more rewarding as a busy, complicated lifestyle. Although I don’t necessarily agree if my life would be better - it is suddenly made much simpler. However there are people in the world who believe that the best thing one could ask for is straightforwardness.

Someone who highlights the shadow that doesn't care much about their life may be preserved through time. They know eventually it will all slip away and focus on doing things that other people will praise.

One who lives by the courage does not concern themselves with noble endeavors. They seem more interested in self-fulfillment as opposed to what others think about them. Buddhists get rid of the need for desires through self-disciplines. Most people’s lives are based on their morals and beliefs.

Happiness can be initiated in daily life. Many people don’t content simple life today as they are more complex. While people are looking for something that they think this fulfillment will make the life happy but unfortunately their life becomes too complex.

People will never be happy for what they have now at present until they die. They have rendering in their mind which concatenate with desire, avarice, passion etc. They will not make you feel the real happiness and have good life.  Being simple everyday is what makes people happy. 

As a student a good life means to have good grades and to live simple as a person who is valuable to the society.  I am an undergraduate student now and my life is simple yet good because all I want is to have high grades; so I can enter to a good career.  I know I live a very simple life, but I am happy about it. Many of my friends find my life boring. They chat online all the time or have boyfriends. Then, they complain how hard it is to get a pass on a test or how impossible it is to finish a project on time. I can only pity them.

This way, we can focus, enjoy on what we do and have time to do what we enjoy doing. I hope my dream of living a simple yet good life will come true.  

To encourage healthy eating, higher taxes should be imposed on soft drinks and junk food

When we are talking of health, it is not just about a healthy body but also about sound mental health. The main causes behind poor health conditions are diseases, improper diet, mental stress, and unhealthy lifestyle. Nowadays stay fit and healthy is very important. There are a lot of discussions about how to prevent junk food.

·         One of many possible solutions could be to impose higher taxes on soft drinks and junk food. This will encourage healthy eating.

·         But it is not the best way; therefore junk food must be replaced by healthy and home-made food.

Yes, obesity is a huge problem in today’s society, but is extra taxes really the solution to this problem?

There are many people who are healthy weight, do regular exercise and generally have a healthy diet. These people like to take pleasure in the bottle of coke / bar of chocolate. But why are they not very fond on those.

Even the top people these days get to go wild and have a McDonalds everywhere. 

Why should these people be charged extra tax? It’s just because the government are attempting to stop unhealthy people buying them. Money doesn’t grow on trees. But everyone needs something small to treat themselves from time to time. I believe a tax like this would be highly unfair.

In many countries the high cost of eating healthy food is often and it’s an excuse for being overweight, especially by people who have lower incomes. In this busy world many people do not like to cook meals at home when after they come back home. So they walk to a restaurant to buy food. These are the main causes for unhealthy.

If we think about how much a bar of chocolate costs today- a regular bar of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk costs “X” amount. The most expensive chocolate bars would cost in highly. How much tax can really be put on a bar of chocolate? I highly suspicion it. Therefore I disagree with this statement.  I believe that higher taxes should not be imposed on soft drinks and junk food. I hope these arguments have shown how it would be completely harmful to the society when eating junk food and also the introduction of higher taxes on soft drinks and junk food. 

The primary mission of colleges and universities should be preparing students for the workforce

At present some people suppose that the main duty of universities and college is to provide knowledge and skills for the students which related to their future careers. On the contrary there are also people who hold the ideas that college and universities should only focus academic stuff without thinking whether it is useful or not to build a proper workforce. Therefore the main function of a university and college is to deliver only academic based resources and to prepare the students for future employment. 

Universities in reality teach students a lot of practical valuable house of information regarding academic subjects and mention in which field it can be applied.  But no one can refuse that this knowledge is not valuable for their future working purpose. Some students are getting in to university to acquire sufficient knowledge for the intention of finding a better job in the future.

However, if the university and college only deliver academic knowledge such as theory to the student without any practical knowledge this is not sufficient for the student to achieve the best job opportunity.

Therefore it is necessary for the university and college to provide work skills related knowledge to the student; at the same time the soft skill should not forget as well such as communication skill, decision making skill and personality skill.   If this subject is not covered in depth, then the student is afraid when they enter to the industry. However at the same time it will also affect their working qualifications. Companies would want to accept those who have higher qualifications.

This is important as students should be able to experience the atmosphere in a real workforce and apply the skills they learn in daily life. By doing so students would know the purpose of studying such topics and would be motivated to learn more during their life in college and universities. However life skills and character building should also be included during college and universities. This is to ensure that the students have the right character when they enter a workforce and could adapt to their working environment easily. Co-operation between members is definitely necessary as no man is an island by itself. 

Actual needs of students are to enter to the industry and work while preserving the good will of the university or college. The basic academic knowledge is important unless the student know how to implement it practically. 

College Students Should Have Complete Freedom to Choose Their Own Courses

In Sri Lanka there is freedom to select the desired course for every student without complaining to anybody based on the interest in the subject area and have to spend much time on doing things that they do not really need. I think that college students should have more power on their studies program and should be allowed to skip some courses if they are difficult. 

Universities mainly have their own specific requirements for students to graduate. First of all, when the college students have the opportunity of choosing their subjects, they will be more eager to attend their classes or seminars to collect more information on the fields that they can play. They can face to certain number of workshops by attending as the students by own know how to evaluate themselves and as they know their knowledge and understanding. But I see a lot of students struggle due to their classes in the stage of selecting the best path to follow and face both physically and mentally concerns. As the result they will get better marks, which is satisfactory both for them as well as for their teachers. They focus on something which can be important for their future career.

Additionally, they get more responsive to the all subjects that they are going to follow which can be useful for them in the future. Also they can choose them as extracurricular activities to build a good healthy mind. Intelligent students will attend more classes and lectures in different sort of locations. 

When the students select the subjects lonely, it is their responsibility to learn it successfully without dropping off. Long classes and lots of homework makes it hard to study independently about the topic, sometimes one might lose interest in the class due to these reasons. These classes are usually dropped or students end up getting a bad grade. So I think it is necessary to give students an opportunity to choose the classes which will help them become good students and also keep their interest in the major alive.

I perfectly am in agreement that college students should have freedom to choose their own courses. Nobody knows better than students what is best for them. From my own experience I know that if other students in the world have such an opportunity at college, It make them to learn courageously  without wasting so many hours on spare time or on hated subjects. This would be definitely useful for me and others who have experienced these situations in the future.

My visit to Ambewela Farm - Nuwara Eliya

I am very fond of going there, and I know all its inhabitants. In Sri Lanka Ambewala Farm is a wonderful picturesque view of the beautiful hills in Nuwara Eliya.  It is interesting when taking a walk towards the farm. I actually spent more than one hour with a stop at the cafe. But some cover the farm in less time.

Ambewela is a small town in Nuwera Eliya. It’s also a well-known dairy company. The weather in Ambewela is very suitable for dairy farming. This area is also sometimes called the ‘Little New Zealand’ because Ambewela farms are made up of two farms called Ambewela Farm and New Zealand Farm.

Because of the great climate in the hill country, different type of cattle as well as modern technology and top quality pastures where cattle graze freely can be found.  The farms have pure bending cattle from New Zealand. 

In order to maintain the quality of milk from the cows, the farm management takes great concern towards them in order to provide them with a balanced diet and sterilized water. They are also given excellent healthcare on a 24-hour service.  The largest grasslands of Sri Lanka also can be found in Ambewela farms. In addition to the cattle, it has rabbits, pigs and goats.

In the afternoon when you pass the lovely grasslands with the cows from New Zealand grazing freely it’s a beautiful sight. Sometimes you feel stench smell especially in the barns where the cattle are bred.

You can have a glass of fresh milk in the Ambewela cafe in the middle of the farm. You also can have a look for production manufacturing areas inside the farm. You can also buy different types of cheese. They are usually cheaper than the supermarkets. The farm also cultivates different varieties of vegetables like seed potatoes, and vegetables such as lettuce, carrot, cauliflower and cucumber.

Advertising is a way to draw the attention of the public

Advertisement is an announcement in a public medium promoting a product/ service which is vastly developed nowadays. To some degree, the nature itself advertises the products like the color and smell of flowers in order to attract the attention of insects and birds and the give your word of honey as a gift.

Advertising is one of the media to draw the attention of the public and to educate them regarding a particular thing. It is a way of life or thinking. Most companies today use advertising to introduce a new drink, food.  It is not enough even if the product is good; the public should be made to understand its reality. So that, they try to make visual images regarding the introduction f products using various occasions in the natural world.   

Since advertisement has become very important it also becomes a very professional deal today. In fact, advertising agencies do a good business. Advertisers make use of artists and script writers who have expert knowledge by themselves. There are many ways of advertising but visual, audio and audiovisual are demanding.  Leaflets and brochures are produced describing a colorful product. Free samples are given, so that new customers may be found.

Perhaps one of the most well-liked medium of advertisement is the newspaper, as newspaper is reached to a wide public. Some products are advertised throughout the year and generate a valuable income for the newspaper. Here the picture and the script play a very important elements.

Although many people advertise the same product for a longer time it is sometimes become boring. The advertiser knows this, so they change the mode of advertisement from time to time. Either the pictures may be changed. An advertiser can utilize a ton of paper for printing advertisement and distributing it to various houses to get the message of the product across.

Then advertisement brings the prospective buyer and the product man nearer. With a complex market where there are dozens of products competing, advertisement is just a single way of winning the market. When designing advertisements you must consider the advantages as well as the drawbacks as advertisement is a powerful media at present.

Why is agriculture important in the world of today?

“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” is a famous quote by Arthur Keith. This emphasizes that the agriculture plays a vital role in the economy of every nation. Since the dawn of history agriculture has been one of the significant earnings of producing food for human utilization. Today more and more lands are being developed for the production of a large variety crops. 

In Asia, immeasurable areas of grounds are being used to fabricate rice, wheat, rubber and a variety of other crops. Agriculture developed over the centuries and each innovation caused changes in the human life.

    ·    The primary agricultural products consist of harvest plants for the people, animal and domestic animal which were kept for sale.

It keeps the economy running and helps people to survive. More than half of the lands engaged and developed by human beings in the world are devoted to agriculture. Mainly agriculture is the main contribution to the Gross Domestic Production over the past years. At the same time the productivity has been increasing. That agriculture is one of the most fundamental resources of producing food. It is understood when we think of the types of things that we eat. 

Men eat are the products of the soil that covers the earth. In fact, everything that we eat apart from meat, fish and other kinds of flesh come from the land and what grows on the land is part of agriculture.

The organizations should encourage the renovation of agriculture as a sector to support the growth of industry and services. It makes life easier for people because it is a way of supplying the basic human needs. In the same way, many of the medicines that we use are made of plants that grow in various parts of the world.

Therefore still men working to agriculture for the livelihood. Today, agriculture continues to provide almost all the food that men require to survive on the earth.

Necessity is the mother of invention

The meaning of this proverb is that "If someone really needs something or has a problem, he/she will find a way of doing or solving it."

If we can obtain all we want from nature we should not bother to invent anything; as we can’t, we are forced to find out ways and means to satisfy our needs.

In the early days the necessity of communicating with one another piloted men to the invention of languages. Later, the necessity of keeping some record of what they did or said led to the invention of writing. Later still, the necessity of spreading news and knowledge led to the invention of printing.

These are only few illustrations to prove that from the very beginning of the human life that man has been making inventions and discoveries out of complete necessity. Therefore we can recognize that the necessity is on progress of the human contest.

If I were a Teacher ...........

When becoming a teacher anybody should be aware of the classroom environment, teacher and student relationships. This is the way how I relate my experience in playing the role as a teacher.  The classroom environment should be interesting, fun and encouraging environment. In my practical experience at school I have noticed how my teachers have employed these practices. These are occasions assisted me in becoming a teacher in future with fun and encouraging. When I was young, I was fond of playing the role of a teacher. Then I would imagine a class of children in front of me, a black board on the wall and myself.

My first and foremost deliberation is that teaching is a noble occupation. I have the highest regard for teachers as they are the person who accountable for guiding a student from ignorance to knowledge. I have a wish to become a teacher in the future.

 

If I were a teacher,

·         I would give greater importance to example that to precept.

·         I would make the children understand the worth of respectful speech and decent performance.

·         I would never go late to class.

·         I would avoid taking casual leave as far as possible.

·         I would teach the children regarding the good greetings.

·         I would plan the lessons well and ensure that every child had understood the day’s topic.

·         I would give special attention to the weaker students, unlike some teachers who only care for the clever children and neglect the below average ones.

·         I would consider it my obligation to analyze and solve the problems of every child without any favoritism.

·         When I become a teacher I would like to be unique with my approach and techniques of teaching.

·         I would try to make every lesson interesting by giving practical examples from everyday life. Then the children would be encouraged to collect information from newspapers and magazines as well as browse internet media. We focus too much about effective methods of teaching as well as multimedia teaching methods and overemphasize what can be said in simple.

·         I would encourage the children to participate in games, sports, group and cultural activities.

·         I would never make any personal remark which would hurt any child’s feelings as some teachers do.

·         I would never tolerate selfishness, rudeness and fraudulence.

·         I would encourage the children to be happy with everybody.

If I were a teacher by ensuring the above mention duties I would act as a productive citizen to the world. My aim would be to develop students who can create their own image. At the present teaching has become an art more than science. Students want to discover new areas. I would use strategies in preference to giving lectures in classrooms which makes students passive listeners means I would utilize the multimedia learning approach using text, images, audio, video and animation to make it an interactive learning process.

I would gain my students attention by adopting a friendly tone. I wish my students to learn with ease in my class. I would always be there to help my students out to explain concepts that are ambiguous. A good teacher is one who is an expert in the subject he/she teaches.

The ability to communicate the knowledge and expertise to their students is important. So, I would develop my teaching skills keeping these factors in mind. Also, I would say over and over interest in the subject I teach the students and make them want to learn the material by making it interesting. I would like to combine new and existing knowledge where students can get the best of both worlds. Always updating myself with the routine happenings will help me better handle the class I teach.

I would give every opportunity for my students to express their views without fear of payback. An open challenge for students to come out and speak their mind will help me in understanding them and expanding my prospect.