Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Globalisasi Kebudayaan


Pengaruh Globalisasi Terhadap Perkembangan Kebudayaan Indonesia
ROBBI NURDIN HIDAYAT    1006756484    SASTRA INGGRIS

            Kalau kita mendengar kata globalisasi, maka sesuatu yang datang dalam pikiran kita adalah perubahan yang mendunia atau universal terhadap segala bidang, baik itu bidang ekonomi, sosial, budaya, dan politik tentunya. Dalam pembahasan ini, saya akan menekankan pada apa saja pengaruh dari globalisasi yang melekat pada kebudayaan yang ada di Indonesia pada saat ini. Seperti yang kita tahu bahwa makna dari kata Kebudayaan itu sendiri adalah cipta, rasa, dan karsa dari sekelompok manusia yang berada dalam suatu wilayah dan membentuk suatu tatanan kehidupan baik itu dari segi norma-norma kehidupan atau pun aturan lainnya yang sekarang kita sebut Kebudayaan. Indonesia merupakan negara yang memiliki kemajemukan kebudayaan. Bayangkan saja dalam satu wilayah yang terdiri dari berbagai desa, namun dari setiap desa tersebut memiliki budaya yang berbeda-beda. Kalau kita lihat pada saat ini, globalisasi telah menjadi ancaman bagi kebudayaan yang ada di Indonesia. Mengapa demikian? Karena dengan hadirnya globalisasi ini, masyarakat Indonesia mulai  memiliki kiblat baru mereka yaitu kebudayaan barat sebagai bagian dari sesuatu yang dibawa oleh globalisasi. Sebenarnya apa saja pengaruh globalisasi terhadap kebudayaan Indonesia saat ini?
            Pada saat ini, kebanyakan masyarakat Indonesia telah berkiblat ke negera barat dengan alasan negara barat adalah negara yang maju di segala bidang, sehingga mereka berfikir, dengan mengikuti cara berfikir dan budaya barat, mereka juga bisa memajukan negara Indonesia. Apakah mungkin hal itu terjadi? Jawabannya mungkin saja terjadi, namun kita tidak bisa terlepas dari identitas kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia. Globalisasi yang dilakukan oleh bangsa barat ini menimbulkan berbagai sisi positif dan negatif terhadap kebudayaan Indonesia. Contoh dari sisi positif yang ditimbulkan oleh globalisasi ini adalah :
a.       Perubahan sistem masyarakat yang dulunya tertutup oleh dunia, sekarang menjadi masyarakat yang terbuka oleh dunia.
b.                             Mulai bermunculan budaya-budaya baru yang lebih maju dan mendukung kebudayaan yang telah ada, contohnya seperti kebudayaan yang dibawa oleh masyarakat china ke Indonesia. Banyak berkembangnya kesenian-kesenian baru di Indonesia, seperti mulai munculnya musisi-musisi lagu pop, band-band, dan mulai juga bermunculan alat-alat kesenian baru, sepertinya guitar listrik, drum, dan lain-lain.
Dari berbagai sisi positif yang disebutkan diatas, kita bisa melihat bahwa globalisasi ternyata bisa juga berakibat kemajuan budaya, seperti yang disebutkan mulai bermunculan kesenian baru, budaya berdagang china, dan lainnya yang mana mampu memajukan budaya masyarakat Indonesia. Namun demikian, kalau kita menganalisis lebih dalam mengenai globalisasi ini, maka kita akan menemukan ada penyimpangan terhadap kebudayaan Indonesia. Beberapa sisi negatif dari globalisasi terhadap kebudayaan Indonesia adalah :
a.                          Mulai bermunculan trend-trend barat baru, seperti cara berpakaian ala barat yang cenderung memakai baju ketat-ketat dan tidak menutup baga tubuh yang sepantasnya ditutup. Style rambut yang aneh dan unik mulai di terapkan oleh masyarakat Indonesia.
b.      Mulai hilangnya rasa solidaritas diantara sesama. Dengan hadirnya bangsa barat yang membawa masyarakat Indonesia menuju arah individualistis dan cenderung cuek terhadap sesama, contohnya budaya gotong royong yang dulu di junjung tinggi oleh masyarakat Indonesia, sekarang sudah hampir hilang. Ini terlihat sekali di daerah-daerah perkotaan, seperti Jakarta dan Bali. Ini jelas membuktikan bahwa masyarakat perkotaan telah terkena virus globalisasi yang dibawa oleh bangsa barat ke Indonesia.
c.       Mulai hilangnya kesenian-kesenian lama yang dimiliki oleh masyarakt Indonesia. Sebagai contoh, dulu masyarakat Jawa senang sekali mementaskan pertujukan wayang. Hampir setiap minggu mereka mengelenggarakan pertunjukan wayang yang berceritakan tentang kisah-kisah Jawa itu sendiri, sehingga budaya mereka tetap terlestarikan dengan adanya pertunjukan wayang itu. Namun, ketika datangnya globalisasi, masyarakat Jawa perlahan-lahan meninggalkan pertunjukan wayang ini, semakin lama semakin hilang. Kalau kita lihat sekarang, hampir tidak pernah lagi masyarakt Jawa mempertunjukan wayang mereka. Dengan kata lain, satu kebudayaan telah punah dan hilang dari pemiliknya akibat munculnya budaya yang lebih modern yaitu budaya barat yang dianggap lebih maju dan populer.
d.      Dengan adanya globalisasi, kebanyakan generasi muda tidak lagi memperdulikan identitas mereka. Mereka kebanyakan beralih kiblat, seperti yang sebutkan sebelumnya, ke barat dengan merubah hampir seluruh gaya hidup mereka dulu, ke gaya hidup sekarang. Orang banyak menyebutkan zaman sekarang bukan zaman modern, tetapi zaman global modern.

Inilah hal yang ditakuti oleh para ahli kebudayaan yang masih memperhatikan kelestarian kebudayaan yang ada di Indonesia. Mereka takut globalisasi yang dibawa oleh bangsa barat mampu mendominasi kebudayaan lama. Hasilnya, kebudayaan Indonesia akan musnah seutuhnya tanpa meninggalkan bekas kebudayaan lama yang telah dijaga oleh nenek moyang kita pada masa dahulu. Sewajarnya kita harus bersyukur kepada pendahulu kita yang telah memberikan kebudayaan Indonesia yang majemuk ini sebagai identitas yang tak kan pernah hilang walaupun masyarakat global berusaha memunculkan kebudayaan yang jauh lebih bagus dan lebih maju.
Kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia wajib menjaga dan melestarikan kebudayaan kita, jangan sampai modernisasi dan globalisasi memusnahkan kebudayaan yang ada dan bahkan menggantinya dengan kebudayaan yang tidak sesuai dengan jati diri bangsa Indonesia. Kalau kita perhatikan, pada saat ini kita sedang berada dalam era imperialisme bangsa barat. Kenapa saya mengatakan demikian? Karena perhatian saya terhadap kesenian lama telah memudar akibat tidaknya adanya masyarakat yang menampilkan pertunjukan itu, malah pada saat ini bangsa Indonesia cenderung menyelenggarakan konser dan acara-acara yang berbau modern. Saya melihat, kebanyakan masyarakat perkotaan malu untuk mempertunjukkan pertunjukan adat atau kesenian budaya adkibat darah globalisasi yang mengalir dalam tubuh mereka.
Maka dari itu, kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia dan generasi penerus harus menyadari akan kekayaan bangsa kita dan keanekaragaman budaya yang dimiliki oleh bangsa kita. kita jangan sampai membiarkan kebudayaan lain masuk tanpa penyaringan atau pun penyesuaian terhadap kebudayaan kita sendiri. Kita juga harus berusaha untuk melestarikan kebudayaan yang yang ada dengan jalan mempertunjukannya atau tetap menjaganya, sehingga kita bisa memilah mana kebudayaan barat yang sesuai dan tidka sesuai dengan kebudayaan lama kita.




Daftar Pustaka
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24673301/Difusi-Akulturasi-Dan-Asimilasi-Konsep-Contoh-Dan-Perbedaannya

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Body Building Strategies


Robbi Nurdin Hidayat
1006756484
Build Up Arm Muscles-Triceps Muscle

Topic : Build Up arm muscles-Triceps muscle
Thesis Statement : Here are some steps to build up your Triceps muscle with pushing
                                exercise styles
Body Paragraph : a. Board Press Exercise
                           b. Dips Exercise
                           c. Dumbell Triceps Curl Exercise
Conclusion : In conclusion, to build up your arm muscles-Triceps muscle, you should do those three exercises, including Board Presses Exercise, Dips Exercise, and Close Grip Barbell Bench Press Exercise. Do all those three exercises regularly because it will effects the process of building up your Triceps muscle, and also you can get injured or cracked when you randomly do it. I am sure that you can build up your arm muscles especially Triceps muscle and get healthy body if you keep track of what should be the first, the second, and the third exercises.

The Essay

Build Up Arm Muscles-Triceps Muscle

This essay is addressed for those who want to build up arm muscles and get healthy body. To shape your arm muscles, you must train it regularly and of course do it in order. Actually, building up your arm muscles is important because it is related to your health. For example, when you go to fitness center  and you do some exercises for your muscles. You actually have tried to be healthy. Nevertheless, in this essay, I only give you some explanations about how to build your arm muscles-Triceps muscle, so that you can get several methods to be followed, and also you can get healthy body. Arm muscles consist of two main parts of muscle, Biceps muscle and Triceps muscle. Biceps are like your front hand muscle, and Triceps are the most important muscle on your hands. According to the source www.buildmusclefast.com paragraph 1, that I have read, Triceps muscle takes two third of the upper arm and it is made up three parts of hand muscles a long head at scapula, a lateral head, called Humerous, and the short head that is in the Humerous, but a bit lower than lateral head whereas Biceps muscle take only one third of the upper arm. It means that you must more concentrate on Triceps muscle than Biceps because Triceps muscle is more important than Biceps muscle to build your arm muscles up. Hence from that, here are some steps to build up your Triceps muscle with pushing exercise styles.
As I have experienced it, the first step is called Board Presses Exercise. It is like you lay down your body on a bench press which already has weight in it. Then put two or three or four boards on your chest to limit the motion between the board and the weight, so that the weight will not hit your chest if it is dropped from your hands. Board Press Exercise is one of the Pushing Exercises. It forces your Triceps muscle to push the weight up and down, and it will indirectly build your Triceps muscle by pushing it ten times. If you feel that you cannot lift the weight up, you can reduce it. This is the most important step you should do because Board Presses actually shape your front Triceps muscle, and you cannot build your deep Triceps muscle without building up your front muscle first. You will be injured if you do such exercise.
The second step is called Dips. I put Dips as the second step because Dips shape your deep Triceps muscle. After you have trained your front Triceps muscle, then you must train your deep or middle Triceps Muscle. It can strengthen your Triceps muscle. To get Dip’s positions, you should stand up between two bars. Then you hold the bars with your hands-left and right, push your body with your hands as strong as possible. Next slowly lower yourself downward and push again, and repeat it ten times as you can. Please do this exercise carefully because if you force your hands to push your body too quick, your hands can get cracked.
The third step or the last step is called as Dumbbell Triceps Curl Exercise. To do this exercise, you have to stand up straight with dumbbell in your two hands-left and right, grip it powerfully, keep your elbows close to your torso, and move out the dumbbell up and down about ten times. This step is the easiest exercise to do. I put it on the last step because it builds your back Triceps muscle and also the whole Triceps muscle.
In conclusion, to build up your arm muscles-Triceps muscle, you should do those three exercises, including Board Presses Exercise, Dips Exercise, and Close Grip Barbell Bench Press Exercise. Do all those three exercises regularly because it will effects the process of building up your Triceps muscle, and also you can get injured or cracked when you randomly do it. I am sure that you can build up your arm muscles especially Triceps muscle and get healthy body if you keep track of what should be the first, the second, and the third exercises.

References
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/triceps.htm
www.buildmusclefast.com



Panjang Beach And Kuta Beach




Robbi Nurdin Hidayat
1006756484
Comparison and Contrast

Topic : Panjang Beach and Kuta Beach
Thesis Statement : In several parts, Panjang beach and Kuta beach are different, but alike
Body paragraph :
a. Differences
- Hotel designs
- Tourism resorts
- Cultural Perspectives
b. Similarities
- Landscapes
- Malls
Conclusion : In conclusion, Kuta beach and Panjang beach: different, but similar. Although the two beaches differ in some aspects like the design of the hotels, Tourism Resorts, and also the cultural perspectives of the two societies, both are suitable to be the place for holiday. Moreover, the differences of them make special characteristic of those two beaches which actually can attract to be visited by the tourists outside Indonesia and the similarities like Malls near the beaches and the landscapes classify them as beauty of the nature.

The Essay

Panjang Beach and Kuta Beach

Beach is one of tourism resorts in Indonesia. Most of people usually spend their day off time on beach. In this article, I would like to talk about two famous beaches in Indonesia; Kuta Beach in Bali and Panjang Beach in Bengkulu. As we know Kuta beach is the greatest tourism resort that has been popular throughout the world. Most of the visitors are from some countries outside Indonesia such as Europe and America countries. Panjang beach also has popularity in Indonesia. It is the longest beach in Indonesia with 7 kilometers length. You cannot march Panjang beach by feet because you will get tired quickly. You should surround the beach by car, motorcycle, and so on. In several parts, Kuta beach and Panjang beach are different, but alike.
The differences among Kuta beach and Panjang beach are divided into two aspects which are the hotel design and Tourism resorts in the beaches. Let starts from Kuta beach first. In Kuta beach, the hotel designs are very modern and be westernized. People try to modernize the design of the hotel because they think the tourists would be excited with that. For example, the hotels are classified by the price, the accommodations which are served, and the landscapes, what can be seen from the hotels? For example, from the luxurious one is Aditya Homestay Munduk, the standard one is Pendawa Kuta and so on. The luxurious hotels are usually designed to attract tourist’s attention by building it near the beach with beautiful landscape that can be looked from it, and the designs are surely modern like hotels in Europe. What about the hotels around Panjang Beach?  Are they the same as what Kuta beach in Bali has? In Panjang beach, the hotels are mostly located very close to the beach. When you go around the beach, you will see the hotels on your left side. Actually, the design of the hotel is not quite modern, only some of the hotels are designed like modern hotels like Hotel Grage Horizon, Hotel Raffles City, and Hotel Rio Asri. The others are almost similar with the old design of Indonesian Hotels such as Hotel Puri Bidadari, Hotel Pasir Putih, and so on. You can see all the landscapes from the hotels, or you just walk out to the beach, it only takes 5 minutes to reach the beach from the hotels.
          When you go to Kuta beach, you will get what you think about western countries. You will meet some foreigners; you speak in English when you do conversation, and other activities that do not belong to Indonesian society. However, that makes Kuta beach to be famous today around the world. The people are so friendly with different cultures that come through the tourists, so they feel comfortable and often visit Kuta beach. Because of that ease feeling, the government of Bali makes Kuta beach as one of the investment for Bali Province. Different cultures that Bali societies have been received from the tourists make them heterogeneity  However, the Balinese do not lose their old cultures even they introduce those cultures to the visitors to get money. They really appreciate the shows and pay for it. What makes it interesting is that tourists learn the cultures for years. On the other hand, the visitors of Panjang beach are mostly from Bengkulu residence. The foreigners dislike to visit Panjang beach because they do not feel ease with the situation around it. The people are still more entrenched to their cultures. Thus, the tourists cannot do what they want to do on the beach, for example, the tourists take off their clothes and do sunbathing. Of course the people around the beach will forbid that kind of act because it does not fit the culture of Bengkulu people.
         Do not forget about the tourism resorts while you are going to the beach. Because it will make your holiday better than what you imagine in your mind. The tourism resorts on Kuta beach are different from what we have on Panjang beach. On Kuta beach, there are so many resorts or what we call as Play Rides. For example for play rides are Surfing, Sunbathing, Soccer Beach, Water boom, Kiddy Park, Sling shot, and so on. All the rides can be played by the visitors, but you need to pay for it. What about play rides on the Panjang beach? Actually Panjang beach does not have that many as Kuta beach have because in my opinion, the government of Bengkulu does not tend to make Panjang beach as a tourism resorts. The play rides are banana boat, wagons, jogging tracks, and sport center, you can do every sport on the sport center because it has been served for sports only, and elephant ride (there are two elephants on the Panjang beach you can ride on, just pay Rp. 5000. They are located on the Panjang Beach. You can be brought by the elephant to go around the beach.
          Kuta beach and Panjang are different, but almost similar also. The similarities are from the landscapes and Shopping center. If we look at what we know about beach, we have the imagination the sceneries that beach always has amazing sunset time, beautiful sea and trees, and famous white sand. Kuta beach and Panjang beach has that views. Then at the moment you pass those beaches, Shopping center are waiting for you to come inside. There are a lot of souvenirs you can buy for your family. It is unforgettable to have something that can remember you with the place you have ever visited.
          On Kuta beach and Panjang beach, Mall can be found near the beach. You can buy clothes, Hawaii clothes, Batik, and so many other things you can buy in the Mall. The name of the malls are different I think. On Panjang Beach, we call it Bengkulu Indah Mall, and on Kuta beach we find many malls near the beach such as Discovery Shopping Mall, Beach walk, and so on.
In conclusion, Kuta beach and Panjang beach: different, but similar. Although the two beaches differ in some aspects like the design of the hotels, Tourism Resorts, and also the cultural perspectives of the two societies, both are suitable to be the place for holiday. Moreover, the differences of them make special characteristic of those two beaches which actually can attract to be visited by the tourists outside Indonesia and the similarities like Malls near the beaches and the landscapes classify them as beauty of the nature.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Time Is Running Out "Oogenero Nonuccal"


Poem Assignment
Bab I   Introduction
            The poetry “Time Is Running Out” by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. In my opinion, this poem is one of the best poem in the world especially in Australia. Oodgeroo Noonuccal formerly called Kath Walker or Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska was born on November 3th, 1920 on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) Queensland, Australia. She was the second youngest of six children from Ted and Lucy Ruska. She was an Australian poet, political activist, artist, and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo left her school at age 13, 1933 because she wrote with her left hand. She was the first Australian Aborigine woman who published her book of verse. Her occupations as domestic servant, corporal, writer, and educator. She had ever worked as Australian Womens Army Service and Nonuccal-Nughi Education Cultural Centre. Oodgeroo Nonuccal died on September 16th, 1993 (aged 72). But, during lived day, she did a precious thing that can change the differences between black and white communities in the world especially in Australia Country.
            According to me, her poem “Time Is Running Out” talked about the destruction of the environment. In this poem, Oodgeroo expressed about what we had done for our environment, did we keep it or destroy it ? We need to do something positive for our environment. We might not be able to feel what a beautiful world with beauty of our environment such as beautiful landscape of beach. But, the world made us losing all of it. In fact, the humans use the environment to get money for their life without think of the risk of their behaviors. All of the thing in the world is used for materiality.
            In this essay, I want to talk about the important messages that Oodgeroo put in her poem, the figurative language that she used for her poem, and I want to tell you who the poem refers to. I think, this poem is interesting and it can become a lecture and advices for the humans being who apply the environment just for their life.


Bab II  The Fisrst Stanza
The first stanza talk about the people acts. They lived for money. They can conduct everything for money including the destruction of the earth. They destroyed the environment violently. They don’t think about the risk of their behaviors for another. (Stanza one line 1 and 2).
The miner rapes the hearth of earth                Stanza One
With his violent spade
“His” is refers to men. In this line, the miner is compared to the people in the real life. In this case, they use Metaphor as poetic device. This stanza is also talk about what they can get for their if they destroy the environment such as, they can get advantages like money. They take each elements of the environment such as they cut the trees in the forests illegally and bring them to their company, change the forests that become the lung of the world like the industrial land. They use this land for industrial company to cultivate the trees to be kind of the equipments that become the humans consume it for their daily activities just like this line “stealing, bottling her black blood for the sake of greedy trade” (stanza one line 3 and 4). “Her” in stanza one is refers to Earth. And then “Black blood” is refers to the oil.

Bab II   The Second Stanza
            The second stanza related with the first stanza which was talking about the risk of environment destruction. We can see that the world has been spoiling quietly. And who knows about it? People in the world only understand about how I can save my life from suffering. They do everything even damage the environment only for their importance. I quote the line that related with this act.
            In his greedy lust for power 
He destroys old nature’s will                          Stanza Two
For the sake of the filthy dollar
He dirties the nest he build
“He destroyed old nature’s will” (stanza two line 2) is compared with the nature that had been given by the God.  He destroyed it for money that can make them happy life and happy ending.  But we don’t thinking of the others.  As the line “for the sake of the filthy dollar” (stanza two line 3) means “money”. They consent their world to be change by the money, money, and money.  He destroyed their life and their world. The world which become their birth place. Oh my God. Pardon there. And then when they damaged their environment, they did not know that they damaged their place also. And unexpected thing for them is the crime they made for money will be written down by the God and just in the end of their life for the punishment.
Bab III   The Third Stanza
            But time is running out (stanza three line 1). This line use symbol as poetic devices. It interpreted as the time will be over. No one can run away from it. In this stanza, it talks about the punishment for people who had destroyed the earth violently for money. What an upset situation. We need to take over this situation. We must save our earth that had been given by our God. Don’t let someone or a group of people destroy our earth. We give them a lecture and punishment for their behaviors. Remember, all you guys will get the effect for your stand, but you will not know when it happen for you. And for people that take care of the earth just hope, someone will come to us and help us solve this problem just like this line :
            Come gentle black man
Show your strength
Time to take a stand                                        Stanza Three
Make the violent miner feel
Your violent
Those lines have strong meaning for evildoer and persuade the people to get back to the God’s way. “make the violent miner feel your violent” (stanza three line 8 and 9) shows that the earth know what you had done with it also. Thus, the earth will punish you guys for your behaviors if the time has arrived.


Bab IV   The summary of the poem “Time Is Running Out”
Well, we are in the end of my discussion about this poem. According to me, the poem “Time Is Running Out” by Oodgeroo Nonnuccal is very good poem and has great meaning for me after i read it. This poem was talking about the destruction of the environment dealing to our behaviors especially. It can improve our knowledge about our acts. Do we take over our earth or we destroy it ? We cant understand about it, but we can realize and feel it. Can we feel the environment love us and hence from that, we have to love the environment to so that it will make a balancing between the earth and us. Well, we don’t need to think about the advantages and the positive effect, but we think about the negative effect that had caused by ourselves. For example, we cut the trees in the forests for company’s importance so that we can get much money for that, and then we burn the forests to be changed as a company to add our money. Everything we do is just for money. I’m afraid about this because not only people can hear this situation but the so does the earth. And the effect for this poem for me, I think, I felt what I had done for my environment is wrong. I often throw the rubbish everywhere. It means that I didn’t care with my environment. After I read this poem, something hit me and speak to me, you must take over your earth because it is your life all the time. I felt, I need to change my behaviors so that I can save my life and my earth.


LET’S GO
TAKE OVER OUR ENVIRONMENT (THE EARTH)
DESTROY THE PERSON WHO WANT TO DESTROY OUR EARTH
SAVE THE EARTH

Death By Scrabble Story


UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER
PENGANTAR KESUSASTRAAN INGGRIS


OLEH :
                        NAME                                    : ROBBI NURDIN HIDAYAT
                        NPM                                       : 1006756484
                        LECTURER                         : ASRI SARASWATI M. Hum




UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA




COMPARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY DEATH BY SCRABBLE AND THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN

Bab I   ANTECEDENT
            Death by scrabble and unicorn in the garden are the excited stories I had ever heard in my life before I got in University of Indonesia. Actually when I read the stories and I was getting surprised. Why did I say like that?  Because first, I had just known that I found the nice story for reading, then I saw the beauty of the story, the meaning of the story and good story. The story “Death by Scrabble” by Charlie Fish. It is the beautiful story according to me. Because we know that the story tells us about the husband and the wife who are playing scrabble. In fact, the husband does not want to play scrabble because I read in this story “I should be out, doing the exercise, spending money, and meeting people. I do not think I have spoken to anyone except my wife since Thursday morning. I would be doing something interesting right now. I would be climbing mount Kilimanjaro, starring in the Hollywood blockbuster, sailing the Vendee Globe on a 60-foot clipper called the New Horizons”. From those sentences, we know that the husband dislikes the wife’s way to him. So, it makes him hate with her. Angrily, he accepted her to play scrabble. In that story, all of the words which the husband put on the scrabble board are come true. For the example, he put “Quake”, just as the room starts to shake. So, it proves that what the word he put is come true. And then in the end the word that he chewing on his mouth gets lodged and his throat swells up and he fall down to the floor but his wife just watching.
            And the story “The Unicorn in The Garden” is nice story. Why did I say like that? Because first the story tells the reader that the husband looked the unicorn in his garden, and he told to his wife but his wife ignored her husband’s story.  Not a long time, the husband went away. During his husband went on, she called the psychiatrist and the police. She wants them to go to her house because she said that her husband is mad. And then suddenly her husband goes back. The police ask her husband, “did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?”. And he reply, “of course not”. So, the police are getting confused and the police know who is the mad?  Just as the police catch her and take her to the police office. Eventually, the wife is mad and then the wife realizes that she had been cheated by her husband.



Bab II   THE SUMMARY OF THE STORY “DEATH BY SCRABBLE”
            The story from Charlie fish “Death By Scrabble” tells the reader about a couple of husband and wife. I think, they are a sensational couple before the wife change it all. O n the Sunday afternoon, the husband had had plans to spend his weekend times. He want to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, starring in the latest Hollywood Blockbuster, sailing the Vendee Globe on a 60-foot clipper called the New Horizons and all, but I must doing something.
            The wife as housewife according to me does not want to do anything. Because she does not have plan, so she decides to invite her husband to play Scrabble. But the husband does not do it with her. She forces him, so he obeys his wife decision. That is why, he hates his wife. First, he plays BEGIN, twenty two points. And then, his wife plays JINXED (bad lucky) and so on till the last event, when the husband is chewing the B in his mouth gets lodged and it makes his throat swell up and making a blue face of him. Just as he falls down to the floor and his wife is just sitting and watch him.
            As we know, all of the words which he had been playing are become true. He played WARMER, the air in their room get hot, he played ZAPS, the air conditioning get a static shock off, he played CHEATING, suddenly the wife gives him a suspicious look like she knows that he cheated her. He played EXPLODES, there is a deafening bang from the air conditioning unit, he played FLY, there is a fly buzzing around him. And then he played QUAKE, just the room starts to shake and his wife played DEATH, it is mean that the word DEATH toward to her husband. It makes what is going to happen in the sooner time. Surprise, the husband move on and he does not realize that he is chewing the B on his mouth, so it lodge to his throat and makes it swell up. The husband fall down in the floor and the wife do not have desire to help him
            Hence from that, we can see how the characterizations of the characters build the story and makes the story to be interested to read by the reader. So, we can get a message that “Do not doing what your heart does not to do it and try to follow your conscience because the best decision of your life is your conscience.


Bab III   THE SUMMARY OF THE STORY “THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN”
            The story from James Thurber “The Unicorn in the Garden’ is excited. It starts on the sunny morning. There is a husband and wife. The wife is sleeping while the husband is having breakfast. When he is enjoying the breakfast, the unicorn come to his garden and cropping the roses. Then, he tells to his wife, honey “there is the unicorn in our garden”. But his wife is still sleeping. And then he sees the unicorn still there. So twice, he tells to his wife, honey please, see it the unicorn. She open one unfriendly eye and look at him. Because the wife stills a sleep, he decides to go away.
            When her husband is still going away, suddenly she wake up and she is looking around at the garden, but she did not see anything moreover the unicorn. Because of that problem, she get the telephone and call the police and the psychiatrist to come to her house. Not a long time they need to go, they arrive to her house swiftly.
            Excuse me miss, could you tell me the truth? She said “my husband saw a unicorn this morning”. So, they do not believe about her story, confusedly, they face to face. I do not know what they are thinking of. Maybe they are thinking of her story or the think about the wife is crazy. I do not it surely. After they hear the wife’s story, suddenly, her husband is coming on the house. It is the truth of the story. The police ask to her husband, “did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?”. “Of course not” he said. The unicorn is the mythical beast.
So, her husband is the clue of their confusing. So, the police take the wife away to police office. She is getting curse and scream when she is taken by the police. After all the events, the husband is the lucky man because he does not be the deceiver. And he lives happily in the house ever after.    





Bab IV   COMPARE THE CHARACTERS HUSBAND AND WIFE IN DEATH BY SCRABBLE AND THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN

            Well, in the above section, we had told about the story Death By Scrabble and The Unicorn in The Garden. I am sure that we have known the characters both of the story. As we know, the characters in both of the story are same. The husband and The wife. First, we talk about the husband in both of them. The husband in Death By Scrabble is the nice husband, he obey what his wife say to him, and he is the handsome man I think. What about the husband in the unicorn in the garden. The husband is the cruel man, the deceiver, clever because he can return the fact, and he is handsome man. Both of them have different characteristics in their story but the same characteristic of their is handsome man. The husband is Death by scrabble, he is the soft man but the husband in the unicorn in the garden is the cruel  man. The husband in death by scrabble
What about the wife in the both of the story? The wife in the Death by Scrabble is the cruel woman, she likes forcing her husband and lazy girl because he do not want to do anything in the weekend. And the wife in the Unicorn in the garden is the soft woman, kind woman because he care with the madness of her husband, and he is a lazy woman too because his job is just sleep. The same characterization of their is lazy. Both of them are lazy woman.
            In the death of scrabble, the husband hates his wife because his wife force him to obey what she said, and in the end of the story, the husband lodge his letter that he chew on, so his throat swell up and fall down. But the wife is just watching him, there is no need to help him. But in the unicorn in the garden story, the wife hates her husband because her husband cheat her about the unicorn, he said to her that he saw the unicorn crop the roses in the garden but when the police that I had been called asked to him, he reply that he did not see the unicorn wherever. So, she is wrong. She does the worst thing. And then, the police take her away and the husband live happily without his wife..
            So, in the death by scrabble, the husband is the victim of the wife’s crime in the end but in the unicorn in the garden the wife is the victim of the husband’s crime in the end.




Bab V   CONCLUSION
           
Death by Scrabble
The Unicorn in The Garden
The antagonist is the wife
The antagonist is the husband


The protagonist is the husband
The protagonist is the wife
           
From that story Death By Scrabble and The Unicorn in The Garden we can conclude that, the characters build their characteristic with the different way but the same meaning. The characters of the husband in death by scrabble are the characters of the wife in the unicorn in the garden and the characters of the wife in the death by scrabble are the characters of the husband in the unicorn in the garden.

The Farewell Party Story


The Farewell Party
            The story from Indian’s woman (Anita Desai) that according to the story that the story tell us about the social relationship in social environment amongst the families members, friends, and love couples. We know that the relationship amongst us must be as ease as possible, but in this story there are some trouble that deal with social behaves. The story begins on the party which is held by Raman and his family. They provide soft drink, ice, kebabs, and biscuits. It is in the lawn because the house is full bloomy house. Raman and his wife want to invite Bina who is antisocial in the society. Actually, Bina does not want to go to that party, but Raman said to her “this is the last party (moment) for us to meet because i must go out from this place”. So, Bina wants to coming on the party. In the party, there are some events happen amongst Bina and Raman, Bina and Mrs. Raman, Bina and Bose and Young Proffesor. Actually Raman is in saddest feeling because He is placed in low hierarchy even get British concern, and American collaboration, but he exists in Indian. And Bina has spastic child that makes her hesitate and won’t to give apology for her husband. But it id unnecessary more after Bina through her life like that. I think, “The Farewell Party” becomes its title is good. Because The Farewell Party is just like a normal party for all Indian and like ship-board party that occurs for a while, romantic moment amongst the couples, foods, drinks, friendliness, and gaiety. After that, it is up to them, they want to remind it or just let it be. The Farewell Party is only to draw Bina’s attention and Indians. In the end of the party, a sad song and the party finish with the tears with drink, relief, and regret. I think, the farewell party takes a value that “life can not be ease without friendliness, giety, something astonish, suffering, mocking, destiny and fate. Everything is going to be change. Regret and belief will always accompany us, but they can be break us too if we can not keep it in our heart and represent to our normal life.      

Satan In Goray "Novel"


POWER AND RELIGION
            If we talk about the  power and religion in the novel Satan in Goray, we expect to see another part of human life. A religion can be a power for human to do bad or good things in their life. As I know from this novel and other resources from the internet that there was a power in a religion that the society of Goray believe in it. As I had written on my first thesis of Satan in Goray. For example, someone who believe with the Sabbatai Zevi’s Religion accoding to people in Goray, he kept his belief as well. Then if people try to disturb his belief, or make him doubt with his belief, he can make their life in danger even kill them. This was an example of Power of Religion. As I respect of this novel, Satan in Goray means that there was a Messiah (Prophet) that in Goray’s people opinion he can helped her from the conflicts and tought them about how to be good person and pray to God. The new Messiah was Sabbatai Zevi who said to People in Goray “The Evil Will End Soon, and There Was A Messiah, Who Will Come and Erase Everything.
            The Power within a religion in Goray’s society took them into the destruction of their pride, their life, their personality even it can kill themselves as well. I take an example from one of character in this novel, she is Reb Gedaliya (Sabbatai Zevi’s follower), who marrried with Rechele, the weakness person because he has a limp. By the end of Rechele’s life, Reb Gedilay took the advantages to spread Zevi’s religion in Goray and made his position on the top, became the leader of Zevi’s followers. This was the condition where people in Goray became bad society, they were in danger of themselves. they lived in evil spirits surround them, motivated them to follow what Zevi’s said. They were in power of evil. The evil in it called as the religion. Thus, this was the power as I said in the first. The power which can bring us into bad things as the example of people in Goray. They even did not realize that they had lived with The Spirit of Evils, wrong belief, and they kept stay on it. It was like people of Goray blamed their status in black magic (Evil) because they did not realize about what they belief in reality and there was a person within this problem who took the advantages from people who followed the Evil. Also I know that people of Goray cannot see real things behind the imitation of something surround them. they all had covered with Evil. They don’t know about the real things,. This was the power of Religion which can make people did not know everything. The power of Religion can controlled them even forget about something more real that can save them.
            As I read from this novel, the relation between Power and Religion is a person. A person can be very powerful. When they became powerfull, they can control everything even it deal with religion (what people believe about God), but by the time people had believed with this powerfull person, they forget everything. They did not realized what was real and what was not real in their life. This was the problems of  power of something. I can see that people of Goray had covered with this power, so they cannot escape from this Power of Evil. I got this opinion what people said that the novel Satan in Goray was called as a Religious Hysteria because in this novel, it always show something such as conflict in religious, The Messiah, Belief, God. All of these things are deal with religious thing.
Refrences
Burgh, d Mark, 2002. Prohpetic and Fabulistic. Amazon.com
Ruether, Radford Rosemary, 1974. Images Of Women In The Jewish and Christian Traditions.

Caravaggio 4


Power and Religion
            Setelah saya membaca novel The Man Who Became Caravaggio ini, saya mendapatkan sebuah gambaran tentang betapa berkuasanya sebuah aspek keagamaan pada masa tersebut. Dalam hal ini diibaratkan bahwa aspek keagamaan atau religius ini seper sesuatu hal yang mendunia dimana semua aspek kehidupan baik itu aspek jasmani maupun rohani diatur oleh agama dalam hal ini agama yang dimaksud adalah Gereja karena peristiwa yang terjadi pada masa M ini ada di Eropa yang menganut agama kristen. Nah, dengan ikut campurnya agama dalam urusan dunia, maka apa pun yang dianggap melanggar ketentuan agama akan di hukum dan hukuman tersebut harus sesuai dengan hukum agama yang dibuat oleh agam itu sendiri.
            Ketika M menafsirkan lukisan-lukisannya yang indah dan genius itu, agama memandang bahwa lukisan M merupakan lukisan yang melewati batas religius. Dalam artian, lukisan M mengkritik keras peran agama yang sebenarnya. Seperti contohnya pada lukisannya yang berjudul Mary Dead. Ilustrasi yang tergambar dalam lukisan ini adlaah adanya penggambaran proses kematian itu seperti apa sih, menurut M. Namun, disisi lain, gereja tidak suka M ikut campur dalam urusan agama yang menurut orang-orang pada saat itu yang hanya tahu mengenai urusan kematian adlaah Tuhan, tetapi M mengilustrasikan proses kematian tersebut dalam lukisannya. Gereja engan keras melarang diterbitkannya lukisan M karena dianggap melanggar norma agama pada saat itu. M sebagai seorang yang revolusioner tidak begitu saja menyerah, dia terus saja melukiskan hal-hal yang berhubungan dengan dunia. Apa saja yang terjadi di dunia, disekitarnya, peristiwa yang ia lihat, M menggambarkannya dalam lukisan. Namun, dari semua lukisan M, hampir semuanya berhubungan dengan gereja, sehingga M dilarang melukis kembali.
            Dari kejadian diatas, dapat kita simpulkan bahwa M disini mencoba untuk mengkritik peran agama dalam aspek kehidupan. Seperti yang kita tahu bahwa agama merupakan suatu hal yang bersifat personalitas, hubungan antara manusia dengan Tuhannya, bukan hubungan Tuhan dengan masalah yang terjadi di dunia. Jadi, dengan adanya pemikiran M yang melihat bahwa tidak seharusnya agama ikut campur dalam urusan duniawi, masyarakat juga merasakan hal tersebut, sehingga banyak terjadi masalah-masalah mengenai peran agama dalam aspek kehidupan. Dan juga saya melihat bahwa M melukis tidaklah bertentangan dengan apa yang tercantum dalam agama. M mencoba melukiskan apa yang ada di dalam pikirannya, baik itu peristiwa yang ia lihat disekitarnya ataupun peristiwa yang terjadi pada waktu itu. Terlihat dari inspirasi-inspirasi yang muncul dalam lukisan M merupakan penggamabaran dari apa yang telah ia lalui semasa dia melukis.
            Saya juga memperhatikan sendiri bahwa M melukis dengan metodenya sendiri\, makanya dia disebut sebagai penemu teori melukis dengan kanvas. Masih terkait dengan aspek keagamaan tadi, bahwa M bisa dianggap juga sebagai pemikir masa depan karena berkat lukisannya, manusia sadar bahwa ada suatu ruang pemisah antara peran agama dalam masyarakat itu seperti apa dan mempersempit ruang lingkup agama menuju lingkup sosial, maksudnya adalah agama bukan lagi urusan sosial, tetapi agama merupakan urusan pribadi masing-masing manusia di dunia ini