Paperless and Full of Paper’s Society???

A school where I attended recently gave us the option to save papers by choosing to receive an email copy of its newsletter instead of a mailed paper copy. My friends wanted the email version but I did not. They liked the convenience of only seeing the pages with the class schedules. I liked the convenience of hard copy so that we did not have to go online every time we had schedule questions. So we compromised instead of receiving two mailed copies, we had one emailed and one snail mailed. It is another small victory for the paperless society. However, in my opinion there are still advantages of using manual way of doing work that is using papers. Therefore, this essay is going to compare and contrast between the paperless society and full of papers’ society.

Paper is an important raw material for garbage men and recyclers. It supplies more landfill tonnage than any other materials, and it also is our most easily and commonly recycled material. A paperless society has major implication for both sides of the solid waste equation. People used papers since they were studying in primary school. The paper industry does not think so. Paper production remains healthy for most products. Of course, some are not as strong as they used to be. And newspapers are becoming slimmer as a television and other media siphon off advertising dollars.

Will we have paperless society? I doubt it, but a less-paper society is inevitable. Scientists are hard at work inventing substitutes for most paper products, including “pages” for books and newspapers that do not remotely resemble the paper we know so well. Expert declares that the new office computers made paper irrelevant. Today, most of us laugh when we remember those predictions. But I wonder, were the experts wrong, or just too early? Those first computers did not have the memory to replace paper, making the first attempt to create paperless offices doomed. But has the rise of the internet changes the rule of game? Is a paperless society only a generation away?

The paper industry does not think so. Paper companies will use more paper to make smaller boxes of shipping products sold on the Web than for shipping cases of the same product to a brick and mortar store. Tissues and towels cannot be replaced by Bytes, although the Japanese have invented a paperless toilet. Right now, we are not using less paper as much as we are shifting who pays for it. Besides, I can read the paper more quickly and efficiently on the web than with the paper version. But I still can print out articles that I need to save and think about. This indicates that we are using papers in our daily life.

Undoubtedly, my generation will have trouble using less paper. We are used to reading books, magazines and newspapers on sheets of paper and not on a computer screen. Our generations however, are more adaptable. My friends used to reading mails, newspapers articles online, and they use the Web to research assignment projects. Does anyone even buy paper encyclopedias anymore? I do not think so, as people always seek for convenience in their life.

As conclusion, paperless society and full of papers’ society give us understanding of what kind of society there are. Some think that paperless society are unintelligent as they are depending on what they found in Web or internet but for me, as long as the society knows how to use the knowledge, they will be at the same level with full of papers’ society.

NOOR FARHANI AHMAD ISKANDAR

NOOR FILZATI ZULKEPLI

Life Before and After the Invention of Fast Food

As we all can see, nowadays, fast food is not a new thing to us. We just need to walk along a road and there we can see varieties of fast food outlets. McDonald’s, KFC, A&W so on and so forth, these are the examples of fast food outlets that are located in our country. Since the invention of fast food, there are several changes that affect our lives. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the differences between life before and after the invention of fast food. The three main differences are cost, time saving, and its effect to health.

First of all, we are going to discuss about the cost. Previously, there were no fast food; hence, people during that time eat their own cooking. It is obvious that eating self-cook food saves a lot more money than eating out at the fast food outlet. This is because, self-cook food can be eaten for two or three meals compared to fast food that can only be eaten for one meal. Therefore, life before the invention of fast food is more economical than after the invention.

Since people are getting busier nowadays, eating fast food save more time than eating self-cook food. They can just go to the nearest fast food outlet and order what they prefer to eat. Not only that, fast food outlet also provides other services such as drive-thru and delivery. However, self-cook foods need more time and energy to be prepared and it is almost impossible for busy people to do that.

It is noticeable that eating fast food can give negative effects to our health. For example, eating fast food can make us gain weight and lead to obesity. Whereas, self-cook food give positive effects to our health because we can control the amount of sugar, oil and salt in the ingredients. Besides that, self-cook food can satisfied our appetite.

Even though the invention of fast food gives negative effects to our health, it is actually suitable with our life styles today as people are getting busier. As long as we can control our diet, then it depends on the person oneself.

How Many Times...???

Parents are the most precious person in our life. They are the one who bought us to this world. Without them, we are not able to be who we are right now.

How many times do we show our love to them as they show their love to us? How many times do we care about their feelings as they try to care and understand our feelings? How many times do we pray for them as they pray for us? How many times do we hurt them as they try so hard not to hurt us? They try so hard to fulfill our every wish. They try so hard to make us happy and make sure that we do not shed any tear. But what do we do in return their sacrifices? Not only we shatter their hopes and ignore their feelings, we even make them cry and disappointed them. How could we do these to ouu parents???

They do not even request any rewards from us. All they need is just a little appreciation by seeing our respect to them and our success. People always take for granted for whom they love the most but when that person is gone, then they realized how precious that person are. Unfortunately, it is too late and time can never be turned back. Therefore, love your parents before it's too late, before God take them, away from your life, FOREVER...

How Gulf Countries Get Their Water

In these millennia, water can be similized as oxygen. Without water, it is almost impossible for living things to survive. We use water in massive number every single day to fulfil our basic necessities such as cooking, bathing and cleaning. It is so important that it even erupt a war; The Bolivian Water War of 2000. This essay is going to explain on problems that gulf countries face to obtain water and how they get their water.


Our country has sufficient sources of water because we are blessed with consistent rain throughout each year. We even have vast stretch of seas and rivers providing us enough water. However, have you ever thought about the gulf countries? The Oman’s for instance, face blaring heat everyday because they have very little annual rainfall. Since their countries are very hot and dry, the view of seas, rivers or ponds are almost impossible. Somehow, they manage to survive there.


According to Palm Water LLC, gulf countries spend around $133 billion in water and wastewater management annually. Making the price of water way too high compared to the price of gold. One of their ways of obtaining water is by wastewater reclamation and desalination. Water reclamation is a process where wastewater from homes is cleaned using biological and chemical treatment. Then, the water is returned to the environment safely to enhance the natural systems from which it came. It is used today as both an aquifer and stream enhancement strategy. While desalination is a process where salt and other minerals are removed from sea water. This would produce filtered water for drinking. They have to go a lot of hardships in order to get clean water for daily lives usage. It is proven how hard it is for them just to have water for drinking and bathing.


Therefore as Malaysians, we should be grateful and thankful that we never run out of water and never need too much effort in obtaining such necessities compared to those in gulf countries. We should never take water for granted, such as littering into the river, seas and ponds without the slightest guilt.

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