Jumat, 25 Januari 2008

Hortatory exposition

The negative Effect of Rock Music

Thesis : Good music should give some advantages for people, for example, the music of Mozart can increase someone intelligence or pop music can reassure someone’s feeling. However, it is different with the rock music.

Arguments : Many controversies have sprung around this kind of music. Those who cannot tolerate with rock music consider it a negative influence on young people.

There are those who do not approve of the way rockers dress and behave.

Some go further and accuse rock of Satanism. For example, Ozzy Osbourne, a famous rock star, often bit the head of small animals and drank their blood on stage. Many people considered such acts affiliated with Satanism.

There are also occasions where teens commit suicide after going to such a concert or listening to the music. Such cases strengthened the conviction of many people that rock music, such as heavy metal, underground music is truly bad influence.

Recommendation: I feel that we must concern with our young generation. I am appealing the music and entertainment promoters not to invite rockers or give rock concerts, for rocks concerts usually present wild impacts on young generation.

Analytical exposition

Being Fat is A Serious Problem

Thesis : Do you know if you are too fat, you may have serious problems with your health? A ground of doctors wrote a report about some of the effects of too much fat.

Arguments : One important effect is on the heart. If you are fat, your heart has to work harder. This may lead to a heart attack or it may lead to other heart problem.

In addition, extra fat can also change the amount of sugar in your blood. This can cause disease such as diabetes.

Furthermore high blood pressure is another possible result of being fat.

Reiteration : More studies are needed about all these problems but one thing is clear, extra fat may make your life shorter.

Analytical exposition

The Importance of The English Language

by: Lia Fitriani

Thesis : I personally think that English is the world’s most important language. Why do I say that?

Arguments : Firstly, English is an international language. It is spoken by many people all over the world, either as a first or second language.

Secondly, English is also the key which opens doors to scientific and technical knowledge, which is needed for the economic and politics development of many countries in the world.

Thirdly, English is atop requirement of those seeking jobs. Applicants who master either active or passive English are more favorable than those who don’t.

Reiteration : From the facts above, it is obvious that everybody need to learn English to greet the global era.

Anecdote

The Genius Rooster

by: Lia Fitriani

Abstract : Have you ever heard a story told about the legend of crowed a rooster? If you known that, it’s good but if you didn’t know, did you want to tell that story from me?

Orientation : In 1000 B.C, the rooster and the hen have a connected. Then, they have chickens.

Crisis : One day, they migrated to jungle because their home had a flood. But they didn’t receive a god welcome. All the animal in jungle forced them. But the rooster wanted to stay in the jungle. Then, they must followed a musical speech contest. Then the rooster be prepared to do that.

Incident : All the participant climbing the three and musical speech contest was began. But all participant were lose because they didn’t know a technique of musical speech contest. Then the rooster was began a musical speech contest and the jury was shocked because the rooster was speech without a text with closed of eyes. Finally the rooster was speech was won. They all the animal in the jungle was interviewing the rooster. And just the only one question from them, Why the rooster crowed with closed of eyes? And just only one answer too, because the rooster known the text very well. Finally the rooster was permission to stayed in the jungle.

Coda : After you heard this story, did You want to be a rooster? I didn’t want to it.

Anecdote

Fashion

Abstract : Why is there always something to take great care of when you start a new thing? You plan your outfit weeks before, choose the most appropriate sit, the right color, the shoes, the bag, the jeans and T-shirt.

For adolescent groups, it’s just something that comes naturally. The way you dress can help you when want to give the best impression and win the people over by the end of the meeting! It’s true, isn’t it?

Orientation : About ten years ago, Vicky received her list of new students. The registration form had a space for their dates of birth, which are only completed if the students are under age. She read through the names and realized it was a kiddy group as their dates of birth were around 9 and 10 year olds.

Crisis : She found it strange that the list had been handwritten, they normally come straight out of the computer. However, she ignored it.

Incident : Then, she realized that the starting date was actually the first day of Spanish Carnival. “Great! I thought. I’ll use my teddy bear suit, bring in my box of cuddly toys and base my first class on animals and colors”. She remembered thinking that most kids dress up at carnival and they’d find it cute if their teacher was also in the carnival spirit. And that’s what she did, she arrived on the first Thursday of carnival, dressed as a cute little teddy bear, with her box of toys under her arm. He held the registration form on her left hand. She walked through the door quite happily… only to see the Director of Studies. Seeing her, he was completely astonished. She smiled at her and looked straight at her as he said: “Good afternoon, Vicky, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Mendez, the director of “lingua”, who has organized the English course which you will be teaching today”. Mr. Mendez had an excellent sense of humor. The secretary then interrupted to apologize her about having given her the wrong details for her new class. Unfortunately the computer had been re-programmed and had lost part of the school’s vital information. That’s why her register was handwritten!

Coda : Be careful! You never know what could await you in your next English class!

Adapted from Vicky Lopez Sheridan in Spain

Comments and Opinions

Another blow for Indonesia

Comment 1 : For those living in Indonesia’s north western regions it must have felt like a nightmare. The recent earthquake has cost at least several hundred lives, and possibly rendered thousands more homeless on the island of Nias, off the north Sumatra coast.

Comment 2 : While the earthquake is not as enormous as the Boxing Day tsunami yet it is a tragedy on an enormous scale. That is why the best thing Western countries can do to prevent another devastation such as on Boxing Day is to encourage economic integration with developing countries. It means an end to trade barriers and to assist them in eradicating the corruption and cronyism that holds many of them back.

Final suggestion: We will never be able to do anything about the destructive earth on which we live. But we can create societies whose cities, buildings and institutions are better equipped to withstand nature’s assault.

Comments and Opinions

Tsunami alert on track

Comment 1 : The violent earthquake of the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra late on Monday night created a panic in Thailand and other countries around the Indian Ocean rim. It was a grim reminder that tsunamis, one of the world’s most devastating natural disasters, could strike at any time.

Comment 2 : The successful early warning system and subsequent evacuation were a good exercise, allowing us to evaluate our preparedness to respond to disasters.

Final suggestion: Above all, the costly lessons learned on Dec, 26 should convince the government that managing our country’s preparedness to deal with disaster should be left to professionals. Professionals who are free to exercise their judgement without fear of favour , or intervention from politicians.

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Evictions of Street Vendors in Big Cities

By:Lia Fitriani

Everyone to get a job and money wherever she or he stays, likewise the street vendors. They want to get prosperity with their job. But as long as they work, they can’t get prosperity, they are prisely get a suffering.

The street vendors come from a village everywhere they live. They come from the village to the city to get a better life. They think will get it in the city, but that’s not like they thinking. In the city is real competition to get a better life. There is more people and they try to find a job, but cannot, just a little percent who can get a job. Maybe they is a lucky man. Just one way for unlucky man, become a street vendors. They could have been a better life but they loose in the competition.

Bandung city, it is one places to many people find a better life. All is available here. It’s a dream city from many people. Food, clothes, etc. Everyone want to get from Bandung. Not only factory outlet, distro, restaurant that we can see there, but also more than a hundred street vendors are there. They increase because more people interest to shopping, shopping, and shopping. They searching the best quality, a better a low price, and they can find in street vendors.

Many places that we can find a street vendors, they will be find in a crowded places and more people will buy them. In Bandung, we can find them in Alun- alun Bandung, Otto Iskandar Dinata street, and Gasibu. Street vendors usually sell they wares in public area like a side walk. They already disturb a public order, and it can become target from the official order. Naughty street vendors always official order always pacified the naughty street vendors and they also not acceptance that.

This is a problem for our government. They must search an answer for this problem. And the solution must be beneficial to all. One solution from our government is a place of the street vendors in a right places. But this solution can’t finished a problem, there still more street vendors sell they wares in public area. Our government must hard work to search an efficient solution.

Narration

A Hole in Your Stocking

Orientation : Once there was a beetle who loved another beetle.

So he went to her house to ask her marry him.

Complication : He knocked on the door. ‘May I come in,’ he asked.

‘I am busy resting this fine afternoon,’ she said.

‘But listen to me,’ he said. ‘I have come to ask you to marry me.’

‘Why ever should I marry you?’ she asked.

‘Well, there are reasons enough,’ he said.

Resolution : “I am the most handsome beetle in all the district. My fine black armour is smooth and shiny. I hold my princers bravely, he said.

Complication : All he can think of is his own beauty! If he thinks himself so fine he won’t think of me, at all!’ she thought.

And she shouted through the door,

‘Go away, now. I am beginning to feel sleepy.’

Resolution : ‘Oh, but listen to me! I’m the richest beetle around. I have more stored away in my little house than you or your Granny thought of.’

And he began to tell her all he had.

Maj.complic. : ‘Oh, stop it! She said. ‘If you have so much already, then you cannot want me. Go away now and let me go to sleep.’

And then he was really sad. He began to cry.

Maj resolut. : She was looking after him as he went down the road. She was curious to see what he looked like. And she saw two big holes in his stockings, one in either heel. She saw them clearly as he went down the road.

She opened the window and called out after him:

‘Hey! You there! You, so rich and strong and beautiful. Why do you come out courting with holes in your stockings. Who looks after you at home to allow such a thing?’

‘There’s no one to look after me. My Granny is so blind she sits al day by the fire.

‘Come along back here,’ she cried. ‘ I can’t have you going away from my house looking like that.’

‘And she invited him in and took up her needle and thread, and darned up his stockings and sewed on a button as well.

‘By the time she had done all she fell in love with him, that when he asked her to marry him again, she didn’t say no.

From The Tooter by Diana Ross (Faber & Faber).

Discussion

The Old and The Young

Issue : Kotoen in the Edogawa district of Tokyo is a home for the elderly, so you might expect it to be a gloomy place. However, the people who live there are always bright and cheerful.

Arguments for, : The reason for this is the happy voices of the children who attend the point 1 Edogawa Nursery School located in the same building.

Elaboration : The nursery school on the ground floor accommodates 80 pre school children aged one and a half to five or six. Kotoen, on the first and second floors, is the home for about 100 senior citizens.

Point 2 : Although many of the elderly residents live in the home by choice, they still long for family life.

Elaboration : Being in the same building allows them to visit the nursery school whenever they wish, while the children often go upstairs to play. In the morning, both old and young gather outside for exercises. Special times such as Christmas and sports days are always celebrated together.

Point 3 : “We find the children learn how to care for others by talking and being with their older co residents,” explained Maeda Takinni, the director of Kotoen.

Elaboration : “As for the elderly, through their association with the children they become more alive and their health improves.

Point 4 : Seeing these old people, many of whom we thought had forgotten how to laugh or even express their thoughts, holding the children and happily talking with them, brings home just how important an affectionate relationship between the very old and the very young can be.”

Point 5 : The success of Kotoen has created a sensation in Japan and brought responses from all over the country.

Elaboration : The declining number of children now being born each year has left unused space at many nursery schools.

Conclusion : It has therefore been suggested that these surplus areas are utilized by the elderly. In this way, in spite of living in small nuclear households, children can experience the advantages of close contact with people of muh older generation.

(Based on an article in The Weekend Australian, Jan 2005)

explanation

Down Syndrome

General : If you have Down’s syndrome, you have an extra chromosome in each of your cells. Chromosomes carry all information we inherit from our parents, which affects how we look, grow and feel.

Explanation 1 : Humans usually have 23 pairs of chromosomes, but people with Down’s syndrome have an extra copy of one chromosome. It doesn’t sound like much of a difference. But that extra chromosome affects how the body and mind develop. That’s why people like Stacey, Richie, Maria and Jack may take longer than other children to learn to walk, speak, read and write.

Explanation 2 : At birth, babies with Down’s syndrome tend to be small and their muscles may be weak. People with Down’s syndrome are also more likely to have heart defects, and many have problems with their eyesight or hearing. They also tend to have skin problems and may have a lot of coughs and colds, so they need to take extra care of themselves.

Explanation 3 : One in every 1,000 babies is born with Down’s syndrome. It happens all over the world. Women of all ages can have babies with Down’s syndrome, but it is more likely if a woman has a baby when she is in her late thirties or forties.

Explanation 4 : Stacey has Down’s syndrome. Every morning, her older sister, Jo, and Stacey walk to their school. It’s just down the road from where they live. Stacey needs extra help with her reading and writing, but not with her favorite lesson, art. She often draws pictures of the family pets, especially of the dog.

Explanation 5 : Richie is five years old and he has Down’s syndrome too. He loves playing with his big sister, Megan. When Mum and Dad first brought Richie home from the hospital, they were very worried about him, but Megan thought the new baby was great. Now, none of them can imagine life without Richie.

Explanation 6 : Maria is 22 years old and she shares a flat with three other young women, Sandy, Tina and Rachel. They all have learning difficulties, Sandy is deaf, Mari has Down’s syndrome. The four flatmates do their own shopping and lokk after themshelves, with a little help from Liz and Jim who live next door. Maria has a job at the local library.

Explanation 7 : Jack catches a bus each morning to take him to a special school for children with learning difficulties. The school is in another town, and the journey takes about an hour. Jack likes the other children at the school, but they don’t live near him so he can only see them at school. He wishes he could go to the same school as his brother, Ben, so that he could make friends with those who live nearer his home.

Source : Unruh, J.F. (1994). Down syndrome : Successful parenting of children with Down syndrome. Fern Ridge Press.

review

Harry Potter

And the Philosopher’s Stone

Orientation : By turns ignored and mistreated, Harry potter is brought up at No 4 Privet Drive by his aunt and uncle together with their spoiled, nasty son, Dudley. Then one day Harry receives a visit from Hagrid the giant, who tells him that it’s time to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Evaluation : The problem with a book as successful as the Harry Potter series is that No one wants to change the magic formula. So, the film is long and follows the book closely. It’s easy to see why Chris Columbus (Home alone, Mrs Doubtfire) was chosen to direct this particular film. He’s hard working, conventional ang great working with kids. Indeed, the film’s real magic is between Radcliffe, Grint and Watson. All of whom are wonderful and there are signs of successful show- biz careers in the future. The grown ups aren’t too bad either. Although lan Hart is terribly mis-cast as Professor Quirell.

Summation : John william’s music score is intrusive and leaden. The film never comes close to realizing the excitement of the book. If Harry Potter hadn’t been such a popular series and had somebody with the creative ingenuity of, say, Jean Pierre Jeuneur (The City of Lost Children, Amelie) been given free rein with the material then HP could have been a tremendous film.

(james Cameron-Wilson, Film Review 2002-2003, Reynolds & Heam Ltd. London, 2003)

review Hook For Kids

HOOK FOR KIDS

Never forget your childhood. That is what Steven Spielberg seems to utter through his latest film Hook. This Hollywood Prince, so he is called, is not going through changes: he likes exploring fantasy land, presenting strangely beautiful creatures and taking you-watchers –to the dream land full of wild fantasy.

His imagination is sometimes unpredictable. His skill in mixing up fantasy and reality turns out to be shocking so that it has produced so far a number of stunning and striking movies such as E.T.(Extra terestrial ) Jaws, Close Encounters, back to future, Raiders of the Lost ark, Indiana Jones, The Empire of the sun, and The Color Purple.

Hook is based on a classic fairy tale of Peter Pan, created by Sir James matthew. In the hands of Spielberg, its plot becomes far different from the original story. In this version, Peter Pan has grown up, having a beautiful wife and children. His name happens to be Peter banning and he is professed lawyer. He is so busy that he has no time for his family. He is workaholic- and this makes him lose his happiness and cheerfulness that used to have in his wonderful childhood.

Once his children Jack (Carlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Amber Scott) were kidnapped by captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), Peter’s worst enemy. That is when Peter Banning (played by Robbin Williams) was just aware tat he made a big mistake. He intends to get his children back and it makes him back to an unknown country called Neverland- a country that possesses two suns and six moons. With the help of Tinkerbell, evr-glittering littlenymph, Peter banning goes back to where he used to belong to.

At lst Peter sees Captain Hook, the kidnapper, face to face. He actually keeps Jack and Maggie as hostages in his pirate-cruise. But there emerges a problem: peer Banning is no longer Peter Pan. He cannot fly and fight anymore. Even he always gets easily frightened (he is totally a jerk!) so that Captain Hook gets no difficulty to defeat him.

Once again Tinkerbell helps him to have his previous power by taking Peter to the circle of Lost Boys, his friend who are never old. It turns out that it is not easy to make Peter back to normal: becoming a powerful and cheerful boy. Peter pan. Assosiating with his childhood friends and remembering (more precisely: replaying) how to play his childhood games, Peter gets his power back. He then is able to fly and to be very good at fighting. Peter pan is back!

Hook is not far different from Spielberg’s late films which are full of imaginations. It costs truly a fortune. Imagine, Spielberg has to spend almost 70 million to accomplish this film! Of course, the result is not disappointing, even it is amazing. Highly complicated technique and sophisticated effects make this film a spectacular project he has ever made.

Hook gives him undoubtedly a good reputation as a story teller. Next, he is reputed as s producer, screenplaywriter, art director, special effect expert, editor and director. His all- round skill is well- known among film people in that he produces only spectacular works like E.T- placing box- office record that is not broken by other films yet until now. This beard- wearing director seems to specialize in producing only best- seller and entertaining films.

After all, Hook is really an entertainment- a fairy tale made with heaps of enjoyful amusements. You can bet on that. The name of Spielberg is a guarantee for laughter and excitement in a film; more ever, you can see how strong his actors and actrees are- among others, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Robberts, Bob Hoskins and Maggie Smith- who play their roles in reviving this tale. Beside, you will enjoy this for it is accompanied with the best music of four- Oscar- winner John Williams.

Philosophically speaking, it is not merely a fairy tale for kids when they go to bed. It speaks rather clearly that childhood is not something- especially for adults- to forget. If you think you happen to have a happy or nice childhood, why don’t you shape another for your children? If however, it is the reverse, you can simply get rid of it so that it will reccure to your children. Give only the best for them, will you?

Never forget your childhood- for the sake of your children.

(source :Daries / Dwi. (July 1992). Hello English magazine)