New Year's Resolutions

Angelina Yuana Martanto (Grade 7 Level B)
The new year means a new life, that should be better than last year.
New year resolution is a tradition that you can find it at most of the country in the world. According to this tradition ,someone will promise to do something to improve themselves . Such as a beginning for people ,so they like being born into the world for the second time.
New year resolution has began about 4000 years ago, the ancient babylonian society already has a tradition of new year's resolution . At that time, the new year celebrated on the 1st of march and not 1st of january as it is now. Because is coincided with the festival of the harvest season, lasted 12 days. The festival was called Akitu
One profession of Akita festival is the crowning of the new king and affirmation of fidelity of the old king. This ritual also confimed the agreement man with the gods. Many years later,roman people also had a similar tradition.Along the widening of the power of Rome became an empire in 27 BC, the new year's ritual began to filled with soldiers loyal oath to the Roman Emperor.Post-death of Emperor Nero in 69.
According to Richard Alston, a professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway University of London around the year 300, the celebrations shifted to January 1. Therefore, Roman society is a military society with vast stretches of territory. If the oath of allegiance made on March 1, was the war also began in the harvest season, it will be too late. Because they will go a long way to the battlefield.
New year resolution is also can be interpreted as a target that you want to reach ,but you don't reach it last year and you want to try to reach it this year. The Failure that happen last year should not happen again this year .We should live to be a better human being .
some examples include resolutions to: improve self: become more organized,play less video games , be more patient
Improve education: improve grades, read more book, improve talent
Improve career: get better job,become more discipline at office
Improve health: eat vegatables, do not drink soda, do more exercise, quit smoking
We should make people know who we actually are. And my resolution for this year is I want to study harder, be healthier , improve grades, be more organized, to get more friend in my new school and spend most of my time with my family. To complete my resolution ,I think I need to more active at school , eat healthy food like vegetables, talking to my family about our problem more often,and i need to be more friendly
” not all of the resolution can be reach, but just keep trying and oneday you will get it”