Becoming Jane

Category:	Movies
Genre:	Drama

film ini bcerita tentang kisah hidup Jane Austen semasa muda. Jane Austen adalah seorang pengarang Inggris yang terkenal dengan karyanya Pride and Prejudice trus Sense and Sensibility, dll. Yg main Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries 1-2, Devil wears Prada, Brokeback Mountain) sm James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland). Kisahnya dimulai waktu si Jane ud menginjak dewasa trus ibunya sibuk nyariin jodoh yg tepat buat Jane. Tapi Jane yang seneng menulis, punya prinsip ngga mau nikah sama orang yang ngga dia cintai cm demi status n harta. Sementara si ibu ud punya jodoh yg tepat buat Jane, cowo dari kalangan terpandang, anak org kaya gt d. Nah, pas kakaknya Jane pulang kampung, dia bw temen, temen kakaknya ini cowok kota yg hobi main tinju jalanan n mabuk2an. tp sebenernya dia pinter bin cerdas. Cowo ini yg main james mcavoy. Trus s Jane naksir sm cowo ini (cowonya belajar hukum). Meski sama2 suka tp hub mrk dapat tentangan dari pihak Jane maupun si cowo (nama perannya kalo ngg salah Tom Lefroy). Singkat cerita, Jane ngga bisa nikah sm cowo ini, n memilih utk ngga menikah seumur hidup. KEREN!!! Sebenernya jane punya kesempatan buat kawin lari sm tom tp jane ngga mau karena ngg mau nyusahin keluarga tom maupun keluarga jane. What a wise girl!!! Trus meski ngga bisa bersatu, ternyata mrk te2p saling mencintai, buktinya anak sulung s tom di kasih nama Jane. Mencintai bkn berarti harus memiliki kan??! Yg paling aku suka dari film ini adalah keputusan Jane untuk ngga menikah seumur hidupnya n memilih hidup dengan penanya sbg penulis. Jane ngga peduli anggapan masyarakat pd wkt it tentang penulis perempuan, Jane jg ud siap hidup miskin dr menulis drpd menikah sm cowo kaya yg ngga dia cintai,cewek yang punya prinsip d pokoknya. SALUT!!! Menurutku sh, cerita becoming jane ini menginspirasi bgt, khususnya buat perempuan muda ky kt2 ini.Jane punya semangat yg kuat buat jd penulis,dia siap dengan pilihan hidupnya n resikonya, n yg pasti jane ini cerdas n ngga peduli anggapan masyarakat.,trus dia jg siap berjuang demi mimpi n cita2nya n prinsip hidupnya.
Denger2, kisah nyata yg dialami jane inilah yg menginspirasi dia buat nulis novel Pride and Prejudice. Karakter s tom lefroy menjadi dasar dr karakter mr.darcy di novel ini.

MY FORBIDDEN FACE

Category : Books
Genre : Biographies & Memoirs
Author : Latifa

This is a story about a girl named Latifa who lived in Afghanistan. She wrote it as a testimony about her life in Afghanistan when Taliban occupied Afghanistan in 1996. Latifa tells us about her life, her family life, and especially about women in Taliban regime. Her life stops when Taliban takes over her country. She loses her freedom and women are like in hell in Taliban regime. Taliban forbids women go outside their house, forbids them go to work, forbids them go to school. Women are like prisoner in their own country. They are raped, abused, and killed by Taliban. Taliban also forbids radio, television, and films. This is a very personal story and honest. A story about people losing their freedom but struggle to get it back. We can see how brutal Taliban is from a girl’s point of view.

BURNED ALIVE

Category : Books
Genre : Biographies & Memoirs
Author : Souad

Souad is seventeen years when she falls in love for the first time. Blinded by love, she has sex with her boyfriend before they get married. In her village, like many other places in her country (somewhere in Palestine), sex before married is a prohibition and consider as a serious offense. Bad news for Souad when she becomes pregnant and her boyfriend does not want to take the responsibility. When her family finds that she is pregnant without husband, they decides to kill her because she has brought disgrace to her family’s name, and this is forbidden in her village. Then, to safe his family honorary, his brother in law with the support of her family, burns Souad. Fortunately, she survives and her baby is fine too. Some villagers help her and take her to the hospital. Miracle happens when some social workers from Europe help her and take her to Europe to get some medicine. In Europe, Souad speaks up and tells the world about her experience. She tells her story and uncovers the brutality that exists in her village and in many other places.

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

Category : Books
Genre : Literature & Fiction
Author : Arundhati Roy

A very complicated book, need a lot of energy to understand this book. The story is just simple, about a family in Kerala (small city in India). But, the characters are very complex and their life as well. The father is a gentleman but he tortures his wife. The son is Marxist but he is hypocrite, he like to sleeps with his employee. The mother is a female who believes in patriarchy system. The daughter is a widow with two children, and she is in love with a man from different caste in society. This is a very complex book. We can find a lot of issues in this story, with the background of Indian society in 1960s. We can see how hypocrite is the society, we can find about caste in society, the domination of patriarchy system, and also the issue about child molester.

Review SAMIRA AND SAMIR

Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Siba Shakib

The story about a girl in Afghanistan who is treated as a male because her father want to have a son. Samira was born as a female, but she has to hide her real identity as a female, and has to act as a male with the name Samir. Her father treat her as a son, because for him having a son is an honor in society, while having a daughter is dishonor. For Samira’s father having a son can make him be a ‘real gentleman.’ Samira’s life become more complicated when she grows up. And when she falls in love, she has to choose between reveals her real identity but lose her freedom as a male or forgets her love and lives as a male forever. But in the end, Samira choose a brilliant choice. She does not want to lose her freedom but she also does not want to be a male forever. In the end, she finds her own way.

How do dogs communicate?

We all know that animals different from us. So many differences that we can mention, but the most visible difference between human and animals is the way we communicate. We realize that animals do not use the same language as we have. They do not communicate like the way we communicate. We have language that helps us to communicate easily with others. Maybe animals have their own means too, but it is very different from ours.
Our language has five characteristics, which are: duality, displacement, creativity, patterning, and structure dependence. We cannot find these five characteristics in animal communication. Besides that, we also have many languages around the world. Different country uses different language, for example English, Indonesian, Italian, etc. Language allows us to communicate orally or in written form. While, animals do not write message or letter, they deliver it orally. What I mean is we can use so many things to send message to other people but animals cannot do that.
To learn more about animal communications, I observed animals around me. I observed my dogs. I have two dogs, so I observed both of them. My dog’s names are Maksym and Nuno. They are male. Maksym is younger than Nuno that is why he is more active than Nuno. Most people think dog communicates by barking, but actually not only barking. They can also communicate by gesture. By barking, dogs can express what they feel and also send messages, may be if they want something or they want to show something.
Dogs have different sound of bark. They use different intonation for different purposes. When I observed my dogs, they barked loudly and fast when some stranger entered my house. Their bark sounds like a threat. If I could translate it into words, it said, “If you enter my territory, I will bite you!” In this matter, my dogs felt that my house is their territory, so when someone entered my house, they felt threatened. Dogs recognize people by their smell. If they smell someone whose smell is not familiar with them, they cannot recognize him/her. So, the dogs will bark. They stopped barking when they were tired or bored.
My dogs are also sensitive with sound. If they heard something unusual, they barked. If they did not bark, they showed different gesture. They moved their head especially their ears to left or right direction. It was as if they were questioning something, like “what is it?” they were curious of that sound, and then they will run to where that sound comes from.
My dogs greet my family by wagged their tails fast and happily. They showed their happy face. They will wag their tails every time they feel happy. They use this gesture to express their emotions. When my dog Maksym wanted to get out, he barked loudly but short, I mean he barked, and then stopped than barked again. He barked like this when he want something. If he wanted to play with me, Maksym brought something in his mouth, usually stick or bottle, then he came to me and showed the thing that he brought. If I took that stick and threw it away, Maksym ran and took it. If I asked him to bring it to me, he brought it back to me. What I learn from this experience is that actually dog can learn how to communicate with people. If we teach them to do something patiently, they will respond to us, they are smart.
Actually, dogs respond to our voice, they recognize their name by memorizing our voice every time we call them. They do not memorize ‘what it said?’ but ‘how it sound?’ Every word produces different sound, and dog memorizes each sound they heard.
Besides that, dogs are also memorizing something by repetition. In my experience, every time Maksym feel hungry he will carry his plate in his mouth and he will come to me. He does this because when he was a baby, before I fed him, I asked him to bring his own plate, I gave him his plate and I asked him to bring it to the kitchen. He did it repeatedly, and if he did not do it, I taught him again until he remembered. Since that, when he felt hungry he showed me his plate. Maksym did this action as a way to send message to me that he was hungry. He used plate as a symbol of hungry. He also respond to my order, when I say “sit!” he will sit, when I say “stand up!” he will stand up, and when I say “give hand” he will raise his hand.
When my dogs felt scared, they hid their tails and they hid in a hidden place or they stayed close with people. If they were angry, they growled, they showed their teeth and their tails were upright. If they were happy, they played together.
Based on my observation and experience, I conclude that animals, in these case dogs, communicate by their voice (bark), and gesture. Just like us, they show their emotions too. They get their ability to communicate instinctively and by learning. Animals can learn to communicate, just like human learning other language.

Life is complicated

Life...how would you define this word? It is difficult to describe what does it mean. For me, life means what we must deal with every single day, since the day we were born until the day we die. Every moment we have, every step we make, that's called life.

If I were God

If I were God, I’d have the world in my hands;

I’d put it under my feet.

Right or wrong, I’d decide it.

Cause I were the right one.

Literature

Literature is something that cannot be defined into words. It is very difficult to formulate what is literature. People also find difficulties in classify which one is consider as literature, and which one is not. They have their own reason in classifying literatures. According to Horace definition, literature has two important components, which is sweet and useful.
Sweet means that literature has an entertaining essence, it is something delightful. It means that when you read poetry or novel, it entertains you. After reading this, you feel happy; it gives effect to your emotion.
While, useful means that you can learn something from literature. It means that, after reading literature you get something that benefit for you. In this matter, the benefit that you get from literature is related to your life, your way of thinking, and your way of seeing the world. You can get this benefit by understanding what you have read, not just read but understand the essence of the text. From this point, I can conclude what I have said before about literature. It is not important to know the meaning of literature, but it is important to understand the literature, what I mean is understand the text. As literature is meaningful.
Based on what I have read from Joseph Conrad, I conclude that literature is a picture of our life. It shows happiness, sadness, aspirations, dreams, hope, fear, everything that we feel, what we want, what we are questioning. The artists who create literature help us to learn more about our life and universe. The artists use words, pictures, and many other symbols and combine it. Literature shows the mystery of our life.
We can uncover the mystery of our life by interpreting the literature. Literature also helps us to meditate upon our life, what we have done, what we will do, etc. It also helps us to evaluate our relationship with others, the world, and ourselves. Literature opens our mind, guides us to be critical. It also influences our way of thinking, our way of seeing the world and universe.

Farmer

Farmer is the common profession in our country since our country is an agricultural country. Almost all of the population in village work as farmer. Here, the definition of farmer is those who work in ricefield, planting rice and vegetables. Rice is the main food in our country. That’s why rice is very important. Usually, we get rice and vegetables from market or shop. But, do we know those who plant rice and vegetables? I mean the farmer, rice and vegetables come from them before we buy it in a market. The answer is no. We don’t know anything about them and what they had done so we can eat rice and also vegetables. I think people ignore them. Whereas in fact they have worked very hard. This is not a popular profession, although they do a good turn. Imagine if there were no farmer, where would we get rice and vegetables?
Farmers have played an important role in our society. They have become the supplier for the rice demand. If farmers stopped plant rice, we would lack of rice so we had to buy rice from another country. If we imported rice from out side our country, the price would be very expensive. And only a few people can afford to buy rice. So, we should respect farmers. But, in reality, farmers were not treated in a good way. They did not get well-paid. When they sell rice to broker, sometimes they only receive little money while the broker receive much money. The broker buys the rice in low price, then they sell it again in higher price. It is unfair for the farmer because they only accept little money from their hard work.
Besides that, farmers only get money during the harvest season, while they have to fulfil their daily need every season. So, it would be difficult for them to fulfil their daily need if they only get little money. But that’s the reality, that’s why many villagers did not want to be a farmer and choose to leave village, and find a job in the city. If farmer got well-paid, many villagers would be a farmer so they would not move to the city. If they worked as a farmer, there would not be migration to the city and they would not work outside our country as “TKI” (: Tenaga Kerja Indonesia). Because when I read in newspaper usually the reason they become TKI because if they worked as a farmer, they would not get enough money to fulfil their daily need.
As I mention earlier, it is not a popular profession, I think because the pay is not worthy with what they have done. Their job needs a lot of energy because they work in ricefields not in an office. Farmers should have knowledge about plants, soil, and cultivating. It may sound easy but believe me it is not that easy. Farmer should be patient, hard worker, strong, healthy, diligent, and not give up easily.
This profession is very important in our society, they are our food provider. We should respect them by giving them well-paid. It is not like other profession is not important. They are important too, but farmer did not get a lot of attention, and people did not care about them. If they did not provide us with food, where we could get food? If we did not eat food, where we could get energy to do some work? It is like a life chain, where the farmers are the producer and we are the consumer. They are the source for us so we can produce too, what I mean we can do our job and produce something for our society. I mean, they provide us food, we eat it, then we get energy, after we have energy, we do our job, which is producing something for our society.
By giving them well-paid, it will attract many people to be a farmer. More farmers are better for us because it means that our food provider is more and more. We will not lack of food so we will not import food. And who knows our country could be a big producer of rice and vegetables, so we can export our food to other country. That will give us prosperity, hopefully.