News Report

TV Channel                         : NHK World

Time to watch                   : October 27, 2013

Announcer                         : James Tengan

 

Bomb blasts kill 5 at Indian opposition rally

                A series of bomb blasts near an opposition party rally killed 5 people in India on Sunday.

                The Indian home affairs ministry said 6 homemade bombs went off in about 3 hours in Patna, the capital of the eastern state of Bihar.  Tens of thousands of people had gathered there for a rally of the largest opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.  The party's candidate for Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, was expected to give a speech as part of preparations for the lower house election that will be held after its term ends in May next year.  Hospital personnel say 5 people were killed and 28 were injured.

                Modi is chief minister of the western state of Gujarat. Despite his popularity among Indian voters, he is also known as a hardline Hindu nationalist. He has been criticized for the anti-Muslim violence in 2002 in which thousands of people were killed.

 

Review Text 2: Poem Review

Shiny Tale

By YUKI

We begin playing as an orchestra our dream of journeying, and flip to the first page I have found something that sparkles even more than any treasure When I turn around and look, your silly-looking smiling faces give me the boost to go as far as I want

The tale we once wrote in this small room will be the prologue to the novel we're currently writing

With a speed fast enough for us to almost reach the vast sky, we have been running with our hands off the ship's wheel We begin playing as an orchestra our dream of journeying, and flip to the next page

No matter what difficulties we may face, be it a storm or a black rain, we will ride on the tailwind and wait in a place no one else anywhere will be able to reach

The tale we are writing in this vast sea begins filling up our blank map

We sail towards a sea of endless dreams, not knowing whether we'll find light or darkness On a sea where even the light is pitch black, there will always be wind There's hope visible in a still hidden location, as well as countless sorrows This is our one and only journey, so we begin looking for the next pages

This poem is one the anime soundtrack “Daily Live of high School Boys”. This poem has a great significance and is quite difficult to be understood. The selection of words that used by Yuki in this poem a little bit complicated and poetic. I absolutely love every meaning that contains in this poem which is tell about the story of friendship.

However, in my opinion, Yuki did not merely write about a friendship, but also about the expectation and goals. “Begin playing as an orchestra our dream of journeying, and flip to the first page” here represents a trip to get the succesful and also the expectations that will be achieved. “I have found something that sparkles ven more than any treasure” represents to something that make Yuki believes that there is a great tresure that more than anything else, a friendship.

This poem also tells about the memories that Yuki did in the past with his friends. “The tale we once wrote in this smaal room, will be the prologue to the novel we are currently writing” represents to the memorable time that Yuki spend with his friends and it will be a nice memory for him and will be kept it in his mind.

By writing these words, “No matter what difficulties we may face, be it a storm or black rain, we will ride on the tailwind” Yuki might want to show to his friends that although they have a different faith from others, we have to struggle to get happiness together and begin to reach the journey of life, because life is only once and we only have one opportunity to get our goal and to be success.

Project 3: Review Text

Title                             : The Sister’s Keeper

Directed by                 : Jonathan McGarry

Duration of film          : 1 hour 49 minutes

Genre                          : Drama movie

Actors and Actreess    : Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald,

 Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald,

 Abigail Breslin as Anna Fitzgerald,

 Jason Patric as Brian Fitzgerald,

 Evan Ellingson as Jesse Fitzgerald,

 Alec Baldwin as Campbell Alexander,

 Joan Cusack as Judge De Salvo,

 Heather Wahlquist as Aunt Kelly, and

 Thomas Dekker as Taylor Ambrose

Year of released          : June 26, 2009

Distributed by              : New Line Cinema

Country                       : United States

Language                    : English

            I absolutely love this movie. This is a drama film about a little girl who requires her mother to get a medical independence named Anna Fitzgerald. She has a sister, named Kate Fitzgerald who is a patient of acute leukemia. During her life Kate always having surgery donation that given by her sister, Anna, to keep Kate’s life.

            In the beginning of this story tells about how Anna survives her sister’s life without taking the part of her body. In this story also tells about how Anna survives her life by requiring her mother because her mother has took her body since she was a baby. However, if she would not take her body, probably her sister will die, because only Anna that can help Kate’s life. This is a very sadness moment that I watched and I have to say “I cried”.

            In the middle of this story tells about Kate get along with Taylor (one of patients of leukemia). Kate and Taylor become a couple and spend their time together. This moment makes Kate become more spirit and her self confidence become huge to survive her life. Unfortunately, they cannot get along for a long time because Taylor dies. This accident makes Kate become falling down and tries to suicide. Not for a long time later, Kate finally died. The ending of this story, finally Anna gets what she wants, a medical independence and life happily with her family ever after.

            This movie definitely shows us how Anna and Kate survive their life. Anna is a little girl that must give her body to her sister. However Kate is a sister that must get Anna’s body to survive. This movie also shows us how a family is very important in our life, how Kate’s mother struggle for Kate’s life. From this movie I have learned that life is a choice to be happy, even if it means to sacrifice for those we love. Sacrifice does not mean we give everything that we have. It also teaches us how to be a sincere person.

Experience Writing 2

My Memorable Experience When Studied Writing 2

August 28^th, 2013 was my first meeting in writing 2 with Mrs. Leni Marlina. At that time, I never knew what Mrs. Lina looked like. I just heard her name from my lecturer in reading 1, Mr. Zainil. He told us that Mrs. Lina was one of his clever student and at that time Mrs. Lina was in Australia to have her magister program. Since I was taught by Mrs. Lina, I have learned many things from her, such as how to manage the time, assignments and how to make my best writing project in writing 2.

First, when we are talking about the time that I had spent while studying writing 2. I think, it is the most incredible time for this semester. Why I say like that? because, as I remember we had a class more than 16 sessions until now. I still remember when the first meeting on August 28^th, 2013, Mrs. Lina asked us to have a class on every Saturday morning until the afternoon for a month, because she would take time off to give birth. Actually, it made me little bit upset me because if I had a class on Saturday, it means that I could not go to my hometown for this month so that I had to spend much money this month.

Second thing is about the assignments that Mrs. Lina gave to us. Truly, I only focus with this material, writing 2, because the lecturer gave another task before the task that she had gave before was done. So that make me little bit confused, what I should do first, meanwhile another tasks were waiting for me. Besides, we also had to give some comments to other writing projects and corrected my friends’ writing. By correcting others’ writing project, I got more idea how to make a good essay and also grammatical rules in academic writing. In addition, we also had to write our writing projects on a blog, so that I had to make a blog and  had been published my writing projects on it.

During this whole semester, I had learned three writing projects which are the narrative text, discussion text and review text. From the three writing projects that had been written, I think my best writing project is the discussion text because it had passed for several steps that made this material be the best one. The title of my discussion text is “Should the Event of Miss World be Held in Indonesia?” At that time, it was a hot issue in Indonesia, so that I chose this title as my writing in second writing project. I began to make an outline and searched on the internet some issues to support it. After I finished my first outline, I asked my friends to corrected it and it continued until three steps; revision 1, 2 and 3. After I finished into revision three, I thought it was the best one that I had done because all of the suggestions that my friends gave were very acceptable and supported my writing to be the best one.

In conclusion, studied writing 2 with Ms. Line is one of the best memorable subject that I got this semester, because many things that I have learned while studying writing 2. For instance, I learned to be independent person and manageable the schedule that I had got. I also learned to be more responsible of what I have done. Before I studied writing 2 with Mrs. Lina, I used to make something without putting the sources. Overall, this is an predictable experience.

Memories in Writing 1 and My Expectations in Writing 2

Many people said that studies writing is the most difficult thing in English, because we have to know about the grammatical rules and get many vocab on it. Beside that we have to have a background knowledge to make a good paragraph becomes more interesting and persuade. In case, I ever had this situation when i studied writing in the last semester. It was the most difficult thing that i got when i studied in the last semester.

                First of all, it is about the lecturer that tough us when I studied writing 1 in the last semester. When i studied writing 1, we studied with Mr. Saunir and Mr. Hafidz. For the first meeting with Mr. Saunir, it made me little bit scare, because he was little bit scary. He was very discipline and looks unfriendly. When we studied with Mr. Saunir, we must be on time and cooperated in the class. We have to made a presentation every week and show it up in front of the class. During the whole semester i studied writing 1 with Mr. Saunir, he was very different with what i have thought before. He was very kind and friendly. I like his style to gave lessons to us, he also shared to us about his own experience in his life. Different from Mr. Saunir, Mr. Hafidz gave the lessons with one way. He made a presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint and explained to us about the material. Actually, it was little bit boring. Truly, i usually felt sleepy until the class was over.

                Second, it is about the material that we got in writing 1. When we studied writing 1 in the last semester we have got many materials from the lecturers. We have learned about how to make a good paragraph that had related for each paragraph, the basic skill of writing skill. When I made a presentation in front of the class, I made many mistakes on my writing, about the grammar, develop of my writing. I think it was very embarrassing when I presented my writing in front of the class because I got many mistakes on my writing. I still remember when Mr. Saunir said that my writing was very simple and there was have no related of each paragraph. During that time, I am always trying to make notes on my book with English to improve my English, especially on writing.

                The last one is about the examination. I still remember when the final examination on third building, I was very confused to made an essay. The most difficult thing is about mind, it was very hurting my mind to thought what I was going to write? So when the time was over, I had not done yet. I still writing on my paper and still trying to get some ideas on it. It was very hurtful and made me little bit disappointed because I thought "How stupid I am!" I could not imagine if the lecturer refused my paper. I must be got a bad mark in writing section. Fortunately, I got a good mark, but it was not good enough. So I have to have more spirit and keep on fighting to get new lessons in this semester.

                During this whole semester, I hope my writing will be better than last semester. I hope I can be more creative to tell or share something on my writing. The lecturer will be friendly to make the class more interesting. Also I hope this semester I can improve my writing and increase the skill of writing.

Writing Project: Discussion Text

Should the Event of Miss World be Held in Indonesia?

Miss World, which is the largest and the oldest beauty event in the world, will host the 64^th contest in Indonesia for the first time on September 3^rd to 28^th 2013. The three provinces will witness this grand event there are Bali (Opening ceremony and fast track events), Jakarta (quarantine) and West Java (Live events and Closing-coronation ceremony). Indonesia as a country with a large variety of natural beauty and culture certainly was interested in organizing this event, but soon turns pros and cons accompany the journey towards the implementation of this contest.

As a country that has many traditions and holding the strong cultures, the event like Miss World will give a bad image for Indonesia. The controversy comes from some the council of Islam organizations. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), for instance, has conveyed its disagreement with the event by saying that the pageant was not in line with Islamic teachings. Radical groups the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and the Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) have also demanded the government to cancel this event. As a Muslim-majority country, an event like Miss World is against Islamic and Indonesian culture because of damaging women’s dignity by exploiting their bodies, said Abdul Rahman, who is one of the coordinator of HTI. In addition, Miss World pageant is like an event that shows the beauty of bodies up on the big stage. This is not appropriate with the culture of Indonesia, which has the ideology that upholds women and it is contrary to the norms of politeness that people have appreciated in Asia, especially in Indonesia. Similarly, all contestants of this event must wear a bikini on the stage and will be seen by a hundred trillion people around the world, because this event will be on air in all of the television in the world. In this case, it seems like the government supports pornography.

On the other hand, in spite of all the controversy that comes, Miss World contest has great contributed to the progress of the development of Indonesia. First, as an event that is followed by many countries in the world, of course, this event can introduce all of the things about Indonesia to all around the world such as cultures, languages, unique biological and social nature. In addition, the Miss World pageant 2013 in Indonesia will also be on air the International media. As a result, more than 140 countries will broadcast the contest on their television screens and an estimated 3 billion people of the world will watch the contest live on television. It means the supporter of participants in each country are present to witness in Indonesia will give a positive impact on various sectors such as economics, business hotel -lodging, travel agents, culinary, tourism, fashion, and industrial creative as a souvenir -Indonesian souvenirs. This course will provide income-effect for Indonesia.

In conclusion, as Indonesian people whose well known suave, smiling and rich in culture, especially as the religious people who do not teach violence to intimidate, so that we must be wise to receive this event. Therefore, as the citizen who has the insight and positive thinking, let us take the positive lessons from this contest. Regardless of all the controversies norms, I think, this contest is only an event of the acting on the stage that provides many advantages to survival of a nation.

References

Team editor the Jakarta globe. 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Emilleilmansyah. 2013. pro-kontra miss world 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Team editor of the Jakarta Post/Asia News Network. 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Articles of Muslim clerics against miss world 2013. 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Walk? Why not!
Writen by: Wiwit Melayu

This story is about my own experience when i was in junior high school, grade 3. 

When I was in junior high school, I had an experience that could change my life. The story began when my father asked me to go to my uncle’s house in Petok. So I decided to go there with my youngest brother and a friend. From my home to my uncle’s it is about an hour by bus, but before that we must walk about 20 minutes from my village into downtown. Then we decided to get an Ojek from my home into downtown. At downtown we got a bus into Petok easily.

In Petok, I met with my uncle and his wife. My uncle invited us to go to his garden to get some fruits.  At the uncle’s garden we played and put some fruits there. After we played there, we decided to come back to uncle’s home and got permision to him to come back to my village, because the day was almost afternoon. Before we went home, my aunty gave some rice and some fruits. So, we had permitted with my uncle and aunty and took a bus into my village. When we were waiting for a bus to took us, Suddenly, I felt there was no money on my pocket, my wallet was lost.

I said loudly “Where is my wallet? It lost!”

My brother said “Really? How could it be?! So, what should we do? We did not have money!”

Surprisingly, my friend said that we had to walk to get home because we did not have to get the bus. Then, we decided to walk into my village. You know, it is about 20 Kilometers. We made a tasked that after two or three blocks, one of us must brought rice and fruits that have given from my uncle’s house. So, I decided to bring it first, after two or three blocks, I gave those things to my brother and so on until we got the home. But my friend, Kamal, when he brought those things, he ate one by one of them because he could not stand it, he felt thirsty and hungry.

After we walked for 10 kilometers, I saw the time at 3 P.M. But we still had 10 kilometers left to walk. We were very tired and thirsty. So we decided to eat one by one of the fruits that given from my uncle. After we ate it, my friend said, “Hey, look at there, there is so much water, I think it is clean and fresh to drink!”

Then he and my brother went to the source of water and drunk some water there. While they were drinking, suddenly it made me very sad and made me cried. I thought that it was my fault, if I did not lost those money, we must be get home soon. My friend saw me and spoke loudly, “This is my nicest trip in my life, this is our story. I will never forget this day, March 15 2009, is not it? I love this trip, so why you must be cry? Just enjoy it and fell it that we are having a pramuka’s trip!”

When i heard those words, I felt much better and my spirit come out. After we took a rest for a while, we continued our journey. It almost closed from my village, I heard that Mu’adzin had spoke up the adzan magrib, but we still at Sungai Pindahan village, it is about 6 or 7 kilometers from my house. We still went on and spirit to continue it until we got home. After we got Pasar Dalik, we took a rest for while and the time was at 8 P.M. While we taking a rest at a bridge, I saw a car that I thought, “I must be know this car”. That car belongs to my friend, then I stopped that car and say, “Bang, may I join with you to get home?”

He said, “Of course, but where have you been? You look so tired”

 “Jalan-jalan paniang bang!” I Said.

Finally, I got home and I saw the time it was about at 9 P.M. When I met my father, he was very surprised because we looked so tired and down. After I got took a bath, I told about my journey from Petok until we got home. He was very surprised of it and said that he will never asked me to go to my uncle’s house anymore and I said, “It does not matter yah. I felt tired, thirsty and hungry, but in fact, this journey makes me realize that this is the real life. I have grown up now, thank you for give me this lesson, I love this journey!”