WORLD POVERTY

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Rule of threes. Phrase for boundaries of human being. People can stand without air, within 3 minutes. No water within three days and he will die. Human can stand last long for only three weeks without food. Again, Rule of threes. Show us human limits and boundaries. Specifically, out of many aspects with selective condition. Here, we talked about World Poverty. No money, no talk, people said. Significantly, world poverty and hunger are two issues that cannot been separated.

Generally, world poverty rise many issues that give an impact to the population of people. Just imagine for almost everyday, 25,000 people are dying and unprepared to death because of poverty and hunger. With that, nowadays 25,000 people decreased day by day because of one issue WORLD POVERTY. Most of that are children. It shows, how serious this matter but as people said, WE ARE SURVIVAL of our life. 

Statistics shows, based on 2012 research indicates that almost half the world with over 3 billion people that live on less than $2.50 a day. The differences of the development of each country express the ranking or groups that show where the country had been with their development. Out of sudden, another three terms created, first world country, second world country and third world country. In fact, these poor people come from third world country and most of them at Asia follow by Africa that indicates the second largest poor population in the world.

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From the facts itself, we assuming that disease that bring to death is the main reason why a huge number of people decreasing. But then, the first main problem is LACK OF FOOD. Lack of food will cause lack of nutrition or MALNUTRITION. Because of that, no immunization through in and out of your body to resist disease, not enough protein and minerals to provide your energy and because of that, our body losses functions including essential amino acid provision and development and maintenance of muscles.

How we can contribute to help this kind of problem? Since, we do not have a big authority or power such a President of our country, having a campaign or awareness day could less the suffer of this kind of people. Do boycott the planning to have a war and also weapons mass destruction as this waste so much money to that country. Rises a fund that contribute to this matter consistently as people world-wide should contribute and help each other to decreased the number of people death everyday because of HUNGER. IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) is one of the NGO’s that been established at 2002 to help those kind of people to give value and works to retain poverty. They do research how to enhance these people lifestyle by designing and evaluating programs to help the world’s poor. With that, a support from many body and NGO’s will enhance this development work. DO SUPPORT IPA! WE SUPPORT IPA!!

Different Belief of Ghost

In our opinion, we learn three types of ghost which are vampires, ‘chiang-shih’ and ‘pontianak’ in which all three course are different in term of character and appearance.

Vampires are mythology or folkloric who is being subsisted by feeding or draining the blood of living beings. The term of vampire was popular at early 18th century after an influx of vampire superposition into Western Europe from the areas where vampire legends were frequent. This term also often applied to similar legendary creatures from other regions and culture.

The characteristics of vampire are basically creatures of the night and enter a come-like vampire sleep during the day. It was said that they have red eyes and are cold when have skin contact with human. In addition, vampires are said have some unusual “supernatural” attributes. It also was said that they have great strength to fly, can hypnotic power to human, and can undergo a transformation into a variety of animals. Vampire avoid sunlight symbols as the cross and holy water and may need to sleep on their native soil. They may killed by a wooden stake thrust in their heart or by fire.

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‘Chiang-shih’ is the vampire of Chinese version. In Chinese belief, each person has two souls, a superior or rational soul and an inferior irrational soul. The superior soul could leave a sleeping body and appear as the bodies double as it roamed about. The other hand, the inferior soul which inhabited the body of fetus during pregnancy and often lingered in the bodies of dead.  Usually ‘chiang-shih’ was created after a particularly violent death such as a suicide, hanging, drowning or smothering. It also could be a result of an improper burial.

The characteristic of ‘ching-shih’ is only appear at nocturnal hours and had difficulties crossing running water. The legend was said that they are vicious by ripped the head or limbs off their victims. It also was said they have strong sexual drive which led them to attack and rape women. After a period of growing stronger, ‘chiang-shih’ would gain the ability to fly, grow long white hair and possibly change into wolves.

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Vampire of Malay and Indonesian version is called ‘pontianak’.  ‘Pontianak’ also known as a ‘matinak’ or ‘kuntilanak’, sometimes shortened to ‘kunti’. ‘Pontianak’ is often being confused with ‘langsuir’. ‘Pontianak’ are said the spirits of women who died while pregnant while ‘langsuir’ is the ghost of a woman who died while giving birth. ‘Pontianak’ was said kills their victims by digging into their stomach with its sharp fingernails and devouring their organs. In other cases, Pontianak will desires revenge against a male individual by rips out the sex organs with its hands.

The physical appearance of ‘pontianak’ are usually depicted as pale-skinned women with long hair and dressed in white. They also are said able to be a beautiful appearance since they prey on men. In folklore, a ‘pontianak’ usually announces its presence through baby cries. If the cry is soft, it means that the Pontianak is close and if it loud, it means they are far. The other way to know the appearance of ‘pontianak’ by dog whining, it means that it was nearby. Its presence can be detected by a nice floral fragrance identifiable of the plumeria followed by an awful stench afterward.

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As a conclusion, basically all people have different believes in ghost. It depends on what religion that we believe.