Sabtu, 27 Desember 2008

Global Warming, The Worst Thing That We Have to Fight

Don’t you realize that our earth becomes hot? Don’t you realize that the climate has changed? All of this is the result of the new phenomenon that becomes hot issue. Most of people worldwide are having discussion about it. It’s known as global warming. The new phenomenon as the result of glass—house effect. It creates new disasters that humans never imagine before. It has also made the people suffer. Today, many people worldwide are having discussion what the other causes of it except glass—house effect, what are the impacts of it for human life, and what we can do to prevent it.
As we know before that the global warming is the result of glass—house effect. Meanwhile, there also many causes beside the glass—house effect. First, the carbon dioxide from power plants such as coal. We know that coal is our sources as the fuel for industries. We realize or not, coal contains about 80 percent more carbon per unit inside. We can imagine how bad it for our environment. Second, the carbon dioxide emitted from cars. In United States, about 33 percent carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of gasoline in internal—combustion engines of cars and light trucks. Third, the carbon dioxide comes from airplanes. According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, aviation causes 3, 5 percent of global warming and it can rise up to 15 percent in 2050. Last but not least, is the methane? We know that methane is more than 20 times as effective as Co2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere. It comes from sources such as rice paddies, bovine flatulence, and bacteria in bogs and fossil fuel production.
There are several impacts of global warming that can be bad for environment. We have felt that the temperature is going to increase day by day. It makes terrible things everywhere in the world such as ice is melting especially in North and South Pole; sea level rise became faster over the last century. Also, global warming has changed the climate. It creates the precipitation (snow and rainfall) increase across the globe. And there are more disasters would happen if the global warming continues such as:
• Hurricanes and others storms are likely become stronger
• Some diseases will spread worldwide
• Less fresh water will be available
• Floods and droughts will become more common
So, what we should do to prevent this phenomenon in order to save our environment for our grandchild in the next future. There are many ways that we can do. First, we can recycle garbage. For example you can recycle paper into envelopes, or anything else. Second, decrease the use of car by use the public transportations, walk, and cycle. Third, turn off the electronic appliances when they’re not use. Do not use dishwasher machine. Cut off the use off electricity because when we reduce electric power use, we save money, breathe cleaner air, and help to reduce the global warming problem.
As we have discussed previous that global warming is the new phenomenon which causes many new problems that humans never imagine before. There are several causes of global warming except glass—house effect such as carbon dioxide from power plants, emission of cars, airplanes, etc. Global warming has created many disasters such as the increasing of temperature, the climate change, etc. if we want to save our environment and grandchild in the next future, we have do something to stop it. There are many ways that we can do to prevent not stop global warming such as decrease the use of cars, turn off the electronic appliances when they’re not use, recycle garbage, etc. Have we done it yet? Or we just stay without doing anything? Let’s stop global warming together.



Jumat, 12 Desember 2008

Dracula: Love Never Ends

This story began in 1462 when Constantinople has fallen into the hand of Turk. Dracula was sent to Constantinople to take away it from Turk. He had to leave her bride Elizabeta. Before Dracula went, Elizabeta had had bad feeling about her husband. Her bad feeling becomes true. Dracula die in the middle of war. When Elizabeta heard this, she became very upset. So, she decided suicide in order to follow her husband. Then, she had her servant, the Bishop to proclaim her soul damned. Consequently, Dracula renounces god and the church.
Four centuries later, Jonathan Harker, the lawyer was given order to go to Transylvania to sale 10 houses in London purchased by Dracula. Before he went, he had proposed marriage to her fiancée Mina Murray. At the first time arrived in Dracula’s castle, Jonathan felt something strange. The castle looked scary, there aren’t enough lamps, and the count never sleeps all day. The thing that makes Jonathan afraid is one of the count habits. The count always crawls down the castle like reptiles. One night, Jonathan has dreamed about 3 women who try to seduce him. Count seems like falling in love with Mina when he looked her picture for the first time. Then, he had idea. He had Jonathan to write letter that saying he will be stayed in count castle for another month. Meanwhile, Dracula prepared to go to London to meet Mina.
When Mina received the letter, she became sick of worry. Her friend Lucy is going to marry with Quiencey. After Dracula arrived in London, he looked for where the exactly Mina is. In other side, Lucy had bad habits. She always sleeps walking every night. The worst thing happened. Dracula came to Lucy’s room and bit her neck. Then, Lucy became sick after that. Lucy’s fiancée, tried to take care her with calling Dr. Seward. According to Dr. Seward check up, she was diagnosed suffer from anemia. However, Dr. Seward can’t find the causes for it. Then, he called his old mentor professor Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing immediately begins recovering Lucy with blood transfusion and places garlic near her bed.
Meanwhile, Mina has been visiting town and met Dracula for the first time. However, Dracula introduced himself as Prince Vlad Szekely. Soon, Mina seemed like falling in love with him as if she has known him before. Suddenly, Mina remembered the condition of her husband Jonathan and decided to visit him in Transylvania. She wrote a letter to Dracula and say goodbye for a while to Lucy. When Dracula heard this, he became very upset. So, he took Lucy as her bride instead.
Lucy is dead because she was losing many bloods and Dracula bit her once more again. However, Van Helsing smells something wrong on Lucy’s dead. He checked her mouth and knows that she is nosferatu. Then, Van Helsing asked quince to check Lucy’s grave on night. His guess is right. They are seeing Lucy carry a child on her arm. They saved the child and killed Lucy on her heart.
Meanwhile, Jonathan and Mina arrived in London and went to Lucy’s grave directly. They shocked after saw the condition of Lucy. One night, they have dinner with Van Helsing. Jonathan took a look around and realizes that Dracula has followed them for hours. He knows that Dracula live in Carfax Abbey. So, he and Van Helsing pay a visit after the dinner in order to sterilize Dracula earth boxes. In other side, Dracula visiting Mina on her room and take a bit on her neck. Suddenly, Van Helsing came and saved Mina. He tries to burn that room. However, Dracula changes into hundreds of rats and scurried away.
Then, Dracula feels that he isn’t save in London. So, he returned back to Transylvania via Varna. As Dracula is in mind contact with Mina, Van Helsing knows Dracula’s plans but Dracula seems to know either theirs plans. Then, they travelled across country to find Dracula and killed him. They divided into 2, Jonthan, quincey, Arthur, and Jack took train to Galanz where they secure horses for the borgo pass hopinf to cut off Dracula while Van Helsing and Mina took journey directly from Varna to Borgo pass.
Van helsing and Mina are almost to catch the castle but they decided to stop for the night. Van helsing made circle around in order to protect Mina from Dracula’s influences. In the circle, they stay through the night while Dracula’s 3 brides tempt Mina to join them. The next morning, Van Helsing entered the castle and killed 3 Dracula’s brides when Mina still slept. 
It is near sundown. The gypsy wagon bearing Dracula in his earth box approaches the castle. Jonathan, Arthur, Quincey, and Jack are riding hard to catch up. Mina and Van Helsing wait inside the castle courtyard. Mina calls up a blue flame to protect Dracula. As the gypsy wagon enters the courtyard, a gypsy stabs Quincey in the back. Jonathan attempts to open Dracula's earth box, but the sun has set and Dracula rises. At that very moment, however, Jonathan slits Dracula's neck and Quincey stabs Dracula through the heart with a sword. Mina screams. As Arthur races forward to finish Dracula, Harker stops him. 'Let them go,' he says. 'Our work is finished here; hers is just begun.'
As Quincey dies, Mina sits with Dracula on the chapel floor inside the castle. She kisses him, and he begs her to give him peace. Then, out of love, she pushes the sword the rest of the way through Dracula's heart. The burn on her forehead disappears, Dracula dies, and Mina releases him by cutting off his head. 



Sabtu, 06 Desember 2008

"Emo", Is it The New Lifestyle of Teens?

Nowadays, we always hear everytime and everywhere about something called "emo". That's right, It's the new thing that most of teens around the world adopted. It has become popular in the recent years and it's influenced teens for many things such as lifestyle, the way of thinking, music, etc. However, most of teens do not know what is emo itself, what its appearance, and what emo's teenager behave like.
Actually, emo is kind of music that developed in the middle of 1980s. In that era, emo is chategorized into subgenre of hardcore-punk. Soon, emo separated from hardcore-punk and made new kind of music. Most of emo lyrics contain about depression and the emo's music itself are mixed of alternative rock, punk, and heavy metal. Meanwhile, emo also made something surprisingly. It's not described as the genre of music but also as lifestyle. Today, emo is a teen who is depressed and frustation. The thing that they want to do is to prove to the world that frustation and depression are the spirit of their life.
Let's talk about emo's fashion. A teen who called himself as an "emo lovers" always wearing tight black jeans with either hoodie on top or their favorite bands T-shirt on. They also make their hair into badly dyed which covers one of their eyes and they often wear sneakers shoes mostly converse brand. This fashion become their daily lifestyle.
 In recent years, this thing become lifestyle or we can say mainstream for teens around the world. However, it also made some problems. People think that emo or anything else that related with emo like something unusual. they're saying that because it seem different from others. Different here means most of emo's teenager are trying to separate from the normal condition. We can take example like this when another teens want to prove their existence, they're trying it with something positive thing like make a achievement on school or university. This inversely proportional to emo's teen, they're trying to prove their existence with depression and frustation. It's getting worse because they expressed their emotion with self injury. Many medias has assosiated emo teenagers with something bad like chategorized it into young people who have being emotional, sensitive, shy, introverted, or angsty. Also, there are many criticism about emo such as emo is a pile of shit or emo just like teen who can accept the reality. All of that criticism are based from the term of emo itself. There are many perception to make a definition about emo. One of emo definition is "Sad carricature". It means that most of emo lovers are artist who always made poetry especially depression poetry that published by one emos to another emos.
We can take s conclusion that emo is the new lifestyle for most of teens around the world. It has made many influences through their life such as the way of thinking, fashion, music, etc. Emo itself is a teen who is depressed and want to prove to another that they are alive. They always wearing tight black jeans and black T-shirt. They're appearence like people who have many problems. They separated from the society and made their own group. Well, we can say that emo is the mainstream for most of teenagers around the world . We can accept it or not depands on our perception how to make a definition about it.