Transsexual people and job opportunities

By Nok (Kanokwan 530132001)

Many people cannot identify themselves clearly as male or female because their appearances do no match information on their IDs. They sometimes are not considered by the company they apply for a job although they have excellent knowledge and skills. Having been denied must be a very painful experience for anyone.

However, recently there is a new airline in Thailand formally provides job opportunities for transsexual people, men who have undergone a sex change operation. It is a new phenomenon of international airline career. The company’s executive mentioned that all candidates will have to take a test and to be trained according to standard of Department of Civil Aviation the same as male and female candidates.

In my opinion, it is good and interesting news that people nowadays give more chances to this group of people although only 3 positions are available for them. It is the first step of Thai society to openly and formally accept this group of people except for their particular opportunities such as cabaret show, beauty contest or makeup artist. This situation also shows that Thai society concerns more about human rights and human dignity.

I think we should not judge people from sex and appearance whether they are men, women, heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. I think skills, ability, knowledge, responsibility and a quality like service mind are more important for a service job. However, they should behave and express themselves appropriately according to their career.

The most impressive thing about this airline to me is giving a chance. If we do not give people a chance to try, how could we know the result whether it is good or bad.

What is Language? Benjamas:53132008

What is Language?

By my point of view, language is a signaling system which operates with symbolic vocal sounds, and which is used by a group of people for the purposes of communication.

Let me look at this definition in more details because it is language, more than anything else that distinguishes human from the rest of the animal world.

It’s true that other animals communicate with one another by means of cries; for example, many birds utter warning calls at the approach of danger; apes utter different cries, such as expressions of anger, fear and pleasure. But these various means of communication differ in important ways from human language. For instance, animals’ cries are not articulate. This means basically that they lack of structure given by the contrast between vowels and consonants. They also lack a kind of structure that enables us to divide a human utterance into words.

We can change an utterance by replacing on word in it by another: a good illustration of this is a teacher who can say, e.g. “textbooks are behind the green box”, or he/she can change one word and say “homework are behind the green box” or “textbooks are behind the pink box” ; but a bird has a single utterance cries which means “danger”

This is why the number of signals that an animal can make is very limited whereas in human language the number of possible utterances is infinite. It also explains why animal cries are very general in meaning. We are more civilized than animals with beautiful language. Thus, we should maintain such signaling system as a magnificent human language for our next generation.

Bittorrent : A pirate software or a right of internet users.

Good evening everyone, my name is Nuttagon Sattayapanich. My ID is 530132006. So let me start the first topic.

Have you ever surfed internet? If yes, did you recently download files from the internet? Are those files legal to download? Well, I am sure that you will hear about Bittorrent. The Bittorrent is a program that assists the internet users to download files between peers (To make it simply, the user can download files from other users. For instance, Mr.A uploads a movie via the Bittorrent program, then, Mr. B C and D can download that movie from Mr.A’s computer). This program was designed for transferring huge files on the internet. Nowadays, Bittorrent has become very familiar with the internet users all over the world. Basically, Bittorrent users can upload any files for their clients, including pornographies, illegal software, unlicensed programs and pirate files. This leads to an issue that Bittorrent users violate the copyright software, movies, games and music. Many organizations claimed that their revenues were heavily declining. Thus, many countries prohibit the Bittorrent such as Thailand and The United States. However, numerous internet users are still using the Bittorrent as it is not illegal. Recently, in Thailand, the police department charged one of the Bittorrent administrator for an accusation of piracy that resulted in the shutting down of Torrentmove website. This website hosts more than ten thousands of Bittorrent users. Right now the head of the police department announces that downloading files via Bittorrent client is illegal.

In my perspective, I am the one who also being as the Bittorrent tracker. I believe that using the torrent is not illegal. However, it will be illegal if the user uploads or downloads the pirate files. But to download these files is commonly accepted in entire world. I think it has been adapt to a social norm already. Nevertheless, the problem begins from some of merchants who download these files and burn them into DVDs for selling and earn an abundant of profits. This causes various organizations loose lots of their income. If the policemen consider torrent is really illegal, they should incriminate those merchants instead of torrent users. I think it is unfair to blockade the Bittorrent program for internet users. The real problem is selling the pirate programs. Therefore, police officers should reconsider this issue and start a new campaign to settle this topic. Finally, I perceive the torrent is on the grey area, it is neither right nor wrong. We have to use it wisely and carefully.

Nuttagon Sattayapanich "Pique" 530132006.

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