Time management

Time is money. It doesn’t mean that for every hour we should get paid but it means how valuable time is. We should take advantage from every free minute we have, maybe we can do something that could change our lives during our free time. We don’t know when the opportunity to change our lives to the better would come. So to benefit and profit from our time, we should learn first how to manage it, how to divide our time from the important to the less important. Time management is the biggest difficulty that faces everyone in his life, for students and also for adults.

Most of the students don’t know how to manage their time between studying and having fun, most of their time is in the “having fun” part. They don’t want to do any effort to work but they should know that no one will achieve any goal in his life by spending his time playing and not wanting to work. So to manage their time they have different methods. First one is how to make technology useful for your work, start using your blackberry, your iPad, your iphone to schedule your time by putting alarms for précised hours of working and you should respect it. Second method, you can the old method, paper and pen to put a schedule and mark everything you achieved. Also don’t put all your time for work, you have the right to have fun so make 60% of your time for work and 40% for rest and having fun.

For adults, most of the time it’s the opposite, they spend all the time working and working non-stop. They start to follow their culture what made them believe that the most important thing is money and they start forgetting their duties towards their families. Then it causes problems between the family members, so every adult should manage his time between work and family equally. He should do all his job duty but not to forget his duties towards his family. Bringing money to the family isn’t the most important duty but the most important is to make his husband or her wife happy, satisfied and to make his children happy and feeling safe with him or her. So time management is the most important domain in life that I think people should take lessons in it, they thinks it’s simple but they’re wrong, it’s the most complicated thing in life.  

My personal project

Last year, at the end of C4, we were all thinking about the topic of our personal projects. Everyone has his idea, it may be related to their hobbies or related to something they want to do in their future. One day before giving the topic, I had no idea about what my personal project is about, I kept thinking but no ideas came.

Until I was watching the television and I saw a talk show talking about the pollution of the River Nile. So I told myself “What about helping to find solutions for the River Nile problems?” then I decided to create a booklet discussing different Nile problems as pollution and also politics conflicts about the Nile. I started my project with doing a lot of researches and interviews until I had a sufficient amount of information that will be useful to me. After collecting the information, I started typing my booklet on my laptop. After finishing it, I corrected the mistakes then I went to print it.  To know what my booklet is talking about, well, my booklet is interpreting all kind of pollutants as agricultural, industrial and municipal pollutants and the politic problems as the problem between Egypt and Ethiopia.

To conclude, the topic of my personal project was difficult to find, but when I found it, I tried my best in researches to have a good booklet full of information. At the end, it was a good experience doing my personal project because I learned how to communicate during interviews and also while printing the booklet. I learned how to schedule my time between personal project and other school work.   

Qualities of a good friend

Everyone, in his life has his good moments and bad moments, sadness and happiness. These feelings, he should share it with others, these others are friends, but friends are divided in two sections, the good ones and the bad ones. Everyone searches the friend that will be always next him during his difficult moments and even during his happy moments. We are always searching for the good friend. Good friend has qualities; if these qualities increase he’s better and better. Friendship is the most important aspect that keeps everyone resists against his difficulties.

There is a list of the basic qualities that should be found in a good friend. First of all, the most important two on which everything is based is honesty and trustworthy. Honesty and trustworthy are the key to everything in a true friendship, it allows me having the brave to tell my friend everything I do because I’m sure if he’s honest and trustful, he will keep my smallest secret that I told him. Second quality is being with your friend during his ups and downs, never let him alone, enjoying the moment or being sad, that’s what makes you stronger during your difficult time.  Finally, I can say that a good and a real friends are the ones who give you hope while disappointed, giving you advices to the right directions and making  you laugh when you are sad.

To conclude, I can say that good friends are one of the most important people in my life, I should take care of them, I should not lose them because it’s very difficult to have a friend with a lot of good qualities. I can say that friends changed a lot in my life, for now and the future.

Constitution

The constitution is a set of fundamental rules or established precedents by which a state or a country is governed and ruled. It’s made by a number of rules that are collected in a legal big document. The role of the constitution is to protect the citizens’ rights as freedom by putting laws that everyone is following them. Usually constitutions continue even when the political parties change. It is changed when the majority of the population refuses it.

The first constitution probably made was in 1877, it was issued by the Sumerian king of Urukagina of Lagash 2300 BC. It was the first number of laws put in a document fot a citizen to follow. Although the document hasn’t been discovered, but the oldest document known to exist is the Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur in 2050BC. Also the first constitution recognized as written constitution by Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, the three towns in Connecticut.

Concerning the situation in Egypt, a debate is now between the new constitution or the presidential elections first. I see that the constitution should be done before electing the president, because before having a president everyone will say his opinion and what he needs in the new constitution. Citizens will have their rights equally, but if is it made after having a president, the rules will be based on the president will, what may not be liked by the population and we will have the same problems as before during the old regime. I wish that the decision of the time to make the constitution will be made before the presidential elections hoping to not have other manifestations. God bless Egypt.

New Year's Resolution

I DON’T BELIEVE IN NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION. I think it’s a good way to start my post. Some of us wait for the New Year planning that he will change. But why waiting for change from year to year while you have 365 days to change in them? I personally don’t follow the attitude of the New Year’s resolution. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect the persons that changes with the New Year, I respect them because I look for the concept of CHANGING, it’s like making a deadline for himself.  

Also I have hopes in changing myself for the better but I still don’t find the right time. I wish that I could be more helpful, not only with friends but with my family and my community, it’s a big and dangerous weak point in my personality if I don’t change it quickly. I should be more nice and obeisant towards my parents because a lot of lessons in life taught me that parents are the most important factors in your entire life. In addition some persons around me say that I am a little selfish, that’s also a trait that I should take care of changing it because I might lose some close and dear persons with this trait inside of my character.

To conclude, New Year’s Resolution is just a concept that was put in people minds as if it’s the right time for changing. But every day is the right time to change to the positive way. I believe in the second one. I hope that I could change myself quickly so I won’t have any damages and regrets in my life. Everyone should review himself, evaluate his character traits, and see what is going wrong, what people think of him. Once he finds cons in his character, it’s the time to change.   

Globalization: Reflection on the overview

The article talks about the Globalization. Before reading the article, I knew the concept of Globalization but without knowing this word. Globalization is one of the most important ways that affects a lot of countries a lot of different ways. Its basic is the contact between so many countries and societies. It gives the countries a lot of different resources. Almost every country in the world is operating this theory or system.  

As for sure, every theory or method has it pros and cons, this also applies to the Globalization. Ill begin with the pros, the most important pros is that it links big countries with small countries or two big countries to trade their different sources in their countries, religion, in the medical department and others. These links helped to improve and increases the economic state between different countries. It also helped a lot of underdeveloped countries to cover their food crises and many others. Globalization has it pros but also has it cons, it had lead to make slavery one of the main and capital exports in the 1600s and 1700s. In addition, the international transport of animal caused the extinction of a few of them all around the world.

It’s a big topic, where we could have two different point of views if is it with or against the Globalization. The first point of view, it connects the world and make relations between countries and societies get better and better so there will be peace around the world. And it helps to grow the economic state for different countries. The other point of view is that Globalization affects the world negatively by influencing other cultures. From my point of view, I see that Globalization has a lot of pros that will affect in changing many countries to the better. In addition its pros are more than its cons so we should accept the cons because we have a lot of benefits from it.