Kacamata Ulfa

“The work of childhood is play. Play teaches children how to learn. A play is fun, not competitive. Children compelled to dress like little adult models, strut on a catwalk like models and smile at an adoring group of mothers, all hell-bent on seeing to it that their child ‘wins’ is the antithesis of play. Let children be children. Put the parents on the catwalk if they want to compete and see how they feel about it at the end of the day.” Irish psychologist, David Carey. There have been many worst incidents caused by child beauty pageants, and people began to demand that child beauty pageants must be banned. Apart from the criticism that the pageants was created to provide an outlet for the narcissistic ambitions of parents through their children, the contest industry flourished. The beauty pageants have proven to be unsafe for using children as participants because there are dark stories in the past that killed a 6-years-old girl. The pageants also have many effects on children, an...

Does soda prove to be dangerous for us? Numerous studies have been carried out by scientists around the world about whether there are benefits or not. Most scientists find that drinking too much soda creates adverse effects rather than positive effects. The real problem we are facing in this century is we are consuming too much soda because it is addictive and refreshing which make us forget that we have consumed it too much. Our society has become treated to various kinds of flavoured soda that make us feel insufficient if we do not drink it every day. Some of us ignore the adverse effects that occur to us because we have not experienced it yet. Therefore, we have to open our eyes and realize the danger of drinking too much soda. It would be better if we prevent it start from now on rather than regretting later. Drinking too much soda is one issue that needs to be solved with the awareness of each because it has many effects on some parts of our body and some health problems will ari...