Langsung ke konten utama

Postingan

Millennials

Millennials are the people who born in the era of technology. They tend to master the technology (smartphone, computer, tablet, et cetera) better than the previous generation. Nowadays, millennials are very dominating than the previous generation, especially in Indonesia. In the internet era like this, there are so many effects that they can get for being a millennial. Some of the effects may not a positive effect. Some millennials do not have a skill to filtering the information from the internet. Nowadays, there is much viral news of some celebrity that comes from the internet. The viral news usually has a controversial topic. Some of the controversial news contain some lie and usually excessively reported by some no-name media. Some of them who do not have the filtering skill will get angry without searching some clarification. It is not rare that they will become extremely hate that celebrity and blasphemy the celebrity’s account because they hate the controversial news
Posting Komentar
Baca selengkapnya
Postingan terbaru

Beauty Pageant

The beauty pageant is what the women dream about. They beautify themselves, learning many creative things, open up their mind to the world to be able to participate and win the beauty pageant. In Indonesia itself, there is a popular beauty pageant called Miss Indonesia. Miss Indonesia contest has the same concept as Miss America, the oldest beauty pageant in the world. When we see those contest on TV, all of the participants have their beauty, intelligent looks, and tolerable personality. The winner of those contest will be the representative of their country when there are international events and to promote their country. This concept is still the same as the old miss America, but there is something wrong with the old Miss America pageant. Miss America was first held in 1952. In 1968 appears some protest against Miss Contest that leads by New York Radical Women. There was must be some reasons why they do that. The winner of Miss America had a job as the military mascot. She must
Posting Komentar
Baca selengkapnya

THE HARMFUL STEREOTYPE

It is not rare for us to accused someone because of their look or appearance. We often to gossiping them before we know who they really are. For example, when we see a man that has a feminine figure, automatically most of us think that he is gay, he likes the man. In reality, he just has that kind of figure because of his environment or other aspects, and he still loves women. This kind of thinking is what we called prejudice. Prejudice exists because of there are stereotypes. Stereotypes are grouping someone based on their looks, their origin, their behavior, et cetera. In daily life, we used to stereotype someone (in a negative way) without realizing it that it is not right. There are two kinds of stereotypes, in the positive way and negative way. Positive stereotypes usually content a compliment about good things that some people or group has done like we respect Japanese people because they are hard workers and they appreciate the time. We also think that most of
Posting Komentar
Baca selengkapnya

Positive Effects of Full-day School

Full-day school is a hot topic in Indonesia this year. This controversial concept was announced by Muhajir Effendi, Education and Culture Minister a year ago. Effendi thought that Indonesia’s educational world ranking was still low, so he planned to improve the Indonesian education by adding the school hours from 7 a. m. until 4 p. m. or 5 p. m. Most of the Indonesian parents do not agree with his plan because their children will be too tired from the school. Full-day school may give negative effects for the children, but I think there must a bunch of positive effects for the students and the parents. During the full-day school, the parents will feel safe knowing their children are at school. When the school runs like usual, the students can go home at 1 p. m. or 2 p. m. At this time, not every student will go straight to their home. Some of them stay in the school to do the club activity or have a group study, but some students may be involved in the negative activity. Their pare
Posting Komentar
Baca selengkapnya

STREET FOOD

Street food are loved by many people in many countries. Although not all of the street food is unhealthy, but most of it are not good for the body. Many people know about this information, but they still often to eat that food. They must have some reason why they keep going to buy and eat the street food from the street vendor. Street food has really tasty taste. The tastiness of that food can gain many customers who love tasty food. The customer will addict to that taste and will come again in the future. The sources of that tasty taste usually from the amount of monosodium glutamate. Monosodium glutamate is a safe material, but if some people consume it too much they will feel the side effects like headache, sweating, chest pain, et cetera. The interesting dress of the food can be the reason why people love to eat the street food. When the food has beautiful dressing, it is like automatically people will love to eat it. Nowadays, youngsters love to take a photo of the food
2 komentar
Baca selengkapnya

The Differences between Buddhist and Hindu Temple: Borobudur and Prambanan Temple

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world that has long mysterious history, especially for its historical heritage. There are many of those Indonesia’s heritage that are known over the world. The most famous one is Borobudur temple and another one is Prambanan temple. In the next paragraph, we will discuss the differences of these temples. We will know about the purpose of those temples, the structure, and what kind of statue that we will find in those temples. We all know that Borobudur temple is a Buddhist temple, and Prambanan is a Hindu temple, but do we know for what purpose ancient people built those temples? Usually Buddhist temple is a place where the Buddhist followers worship the Gods. In some Buddhist event like Buddha’s birth or what we callWaisak, Borobudur temple will be closed for tourism. Buddhist people will come to celebrate it, to pray, and light the candle and lampions when the night falls. On the other hand, Prambanan temple has different function. Hind
2 komentar
Baca selengkapnya

Treasure Hunt

A sunny day in July, four boys: Firaz, Sandy, Malik, Toni; and two girls: Anna and Nina sat in a round in the attic of their grandparent’s house. Their eyes led to the rolled old paper which Firaz brought. He opened the paper in front of them. It was a map. There was sketch that symbolized the forest and mountain with some path as a link. In the middle of that map there was a big red X mark. An old map with red X mark meant that it was a treasure map. Several hours before, Firaz was being caught by his aunt because he was about to steal some croissant that would be served in his cousin’s wedding party on that night. He run off and hid himself in the old warehouse near his grandparent’s house. While he was hiding, his eyes caught an interesting antique box on the corner of that room, on the top of a big shelf. He climbed the shelf with little cough because of the dust. It looked so old and dusty. Carefully, he opened the box. He found some handwriting on the old paper with the lette
Posting Komentar
Baca selengkapnya