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.