Senin, 05 Januari 2015

essay

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT MUSICS
          Different Times, Different Music Genres
            When Rock and Roll come n the World Music International, slow pop music of various genres are still rare, even yet melodic guitar screeches games like Elvis songs, etc. from Rock and Roll was later developed into the era Rolling Stones. Playing on the guitar melodies are still used in the band Slash G'N Roses (1990). Even exhibited band Metallica, one of the world's pioneers metal band. The point is the development of music afterwards though not pure Rock And Roll, is also relying on a beautiful guitar melodies. In conclusion the average flow of the music there are forwarded 1970-1980 era (various genres).
In the music industry at that time (1970) Pop music is the most powerful, but the Rock and Roll is not extinct. Especially pop music "Golden Era” (era emas), in this era characterized many names / the world’s top bands like Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Janis Joplin, Carole King, Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Elton John, John Denver, Cher, Barbra Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, John Lennon, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, The Jackson 5, The Guess Who, The Carpenters, Eagles (band), Bee Gees, The Four Seasons, Chicago (Band), etc.
The famous names have worked issued single hits from the music flow. This period is arguably the golden era because Rock and Roll "Booming" in 1965, it influenced the development of the previous music to the music varied and it is undeniable that Rock and Roll brings world music into a new kind of music, and later evolved.
Similarly to the music world in this era, there is a trend that shifted and all be the same. But this trend is not Rock and Roll again but music types Dance Pop, R & B, Disco Rock, Pop Rock, etc. The same sample of the song in 2014 is: Katy Perry featuring Juicy J - Dark Horse; Pharrell Williams – Happy; Magic – Rude; Taylor Swift - Shake It Off.
And it seems to flow same music in 2014, followed by the other singer. They are no longer "Pure Pop" (pop murni) but the element of dance. This same is called "Trends".
Just to know, in the "Industry Trends" is a term (as required), "follow the other it should be". As time Elvis booming, collared shirt, leather jacket, shiny hair, followed by a variety of singers (though not similar). There is also a follow sake boost their popularity and it occurs naturally in the music.
Examples woman singer in this era, Beyonce has known because look Sexy, and the others follow. Is not the art of music is free huh? Supposedly for the sake of "Creativity" little different to create a "new style" highly obliged.
Creating Trends can be favorites many people.
Examples of existing ones, has given us the knowledge of trends and tastes Music can be enjoyed many people around the world. Do you know? The song “Wind Of Change” by Scorpion 1990s coincided moment "Berlin Wall Collapses". He said the song is favored politicians, both American and foreign. People associate this song with a song of peace, but it's not. And the song belongs to “Zombies” by Cranberries favored by the Bosnian Serb forces massacred, Balkan war in 1994.
Conclusion enormity of the first American music fitting launch and release, preferably a layer of music lovers the world. Many people sing together, have an album together, not like now, (for example) Katy Perry song release, only a few people who know. Just a little bit right?
Let the gold trend occurred in the past. does not mean that the trend has been lost in the present, must change, who knows how many years. To set the trend again, it took similarity flow in various walks of life, plus the incredible popularity.
There may be some of you who think that the former musician were better or more powerful than musicians in this era. But I disagree with them. How come? Yes I Do. For me, musicians in this era are relatively better and more powerful than old musicians. Why?
In my logic, from the day to day, of course, the number of songs that created are increase.  And also the musical arrangement. Surely, today the number of songs and musical works are more than 10 years or 20 years ago. Agree?
Just imagine! Now there are approximately 1 million songs, or 1 million piece of music that is created (from ancient times to the present). It may even be far more than it.
Therefore For that reason, the challenge of the musicians in this era is more difficult than the musicians in the past. Yeah, you can say it when 20 years ago or earlier times. Musicians in this era must to be extra creative and extra rack their brain to create musical works that are approximately worthy considered original. If it same although a little voice or bar of songs that have previously existed, might be considered PLAGIAT.
That’s mostly often experienced by the musicians nowadays. An accusation of plagiarism is rarely stopped to them. Though they may not know the original song that is considered similar to a song or their work. Okay, if they already know the original song or they ever heard the original song, but I still applaud on their creativity (which although a little cheating tone / rhythm song that has already exist), they still can pack it into something new (not 100% same with the original works).
That is creativity, right?
But what if the degrees of similarity in their tracks close to 100% with the original song? I do not really care about it. For me, as a lover of music, the important of the song is good or fun for me. I do not care about plagiarism. That's their business as a musician, song writer and musical arranger.
Why should I bother to take care of it?
Talk about the songs that are similar to each other (but not exactly), I give you an example of a song “Malu-malu Mau” (Super Girlies) and Rival (Berryz Kobo). If you listen carefully, both songs are indeed quite similar. The difference is only in the language in the lyrics and a little musical arranger. Diatribe about plagiarism was directed at the girl band Super Girlies are considered imitate one of that Japanese song. Including the Japanese concept that promote by that Indonesian girl band.
I do not care about that plagiarism issue. For me, the important thing is that song is make me fun. In fact, I applaud for the songwriter “Malu-malu Mau” and musical arranger. Their works is good for me to be listened as a music lover. I don’t care if they are considered cheating song from the Japanese. So that, when I respond to problems similarities between the song “Best Friend Forever” (Cherry Belle) with the song “Kissing You” (SNSD).
If I am a musician (arranger or composer of music), I think I can not necessarily generate or create works that are 100% original. Today is different from 10 or 20 years ago. If there are musicians who deliberately imitate or cheat some part or tone (from another song that was already there), for me it does not matter. The important thing is they keep trying mixes into something fresh or new. That's where the challenge. Their creativity was tested in there.
Plagiarism considered creative?
For me, plagiarism is when we emulate a 100% without modification or development. So, if there are musicians who deliberately imitate partial tones, bar, as well as the rhythm of the song that was first there, they are not plagiarism. Especially if they can produce new works better than the original song that they made as a source of inspiration. More good example of the musical arrangements, lyrics, dynamic tone, harmonization of transfer between parts, and so on.
I salute to the musicians who are able to mix many songs to be new song / new work that fresh or different. For example, when they take some notes / rhythms of (for example) 5 different songs, and then they potion into a fresh new compositions. Example one of band in Indonesia, which often combining several songs is Teamlo.
It could be, it is not an easy thing for the musicians. One might assume that there is absolutely no challenge when we want to take a "shortcut" to deliberately cheat partly tone / rhythm song that already exist. My opinion is just the opposite. The challenge is much greater, especially in order to how a song or music produced will be better or have a different flavor from the original song (which is used as inspiration).
Come back again to the fact that even today the number of songs that are increasing. Challenges of musicians in this era are more difficult than long time ago. However, I strongly applaud the musicians who can produce original works in this era.
Anyway, in conclusion... . .
For us as music lovers, try to position ourselves as musicians. Should not be too easy to label plagiarism on musicians. We may assume that create a song / original work was easy. But we may never feel how hard creating new works really fresh or did not have the slightest thing in common with the work that has already exist.
If it can, the next hard challenge is how to keep the weight of the work can be good to be heard or be liked by music lovers. My question, are you are able to produce works of music are 100% original and fun to be heard by others? If you like to sue others to produce original work, you also should be free of elements of plagiarism.
Did you could do that?


Senin, 03 November 2014

MID Test Academic Writing (Proposal)

A.    Title
Symbolism on Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story Hills Like White Elephants

B.     Background of the Research
Literature is one of the beautiful art. Through the work of people can pour out all the emotions, thoughts, and experience. Some of them are works of literature: poetry, drama, prose, and short stories.
Short story is a short piece of fiction aiming at unity of characterization, theme, and effect. It can be read at a single sitting, combine matter of fact description with poetic athmosphere, and present a unified of temper, tone, colour, and effect. To convey the contents of the story, the author does not always use the denotative expression, but also conotative expression includes the use of symbols.
Symbol  in a story is an object that represents its owner’s character or situation, or both, whereas symbolism is a literary technique that add meaning to a short story by using an event or object as a symbol to represent something else. Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify the ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
  In this research I intend to analyze the symbol an its meaning which occur in the short story of Ernest Hemingway entitled Hills Like White Elephant.
Hills like white elephants is one of the popular work of Ernest Hemingway. The story tells about two couple who is on trouble because of the girl’s pregnancy. The girl asks for the man’s responsibillity about that.

C.    Research Question
The study will attempt to answer the following research question. How the symbols give meaning to that story?

D.    Research Objective
The purpose of this study is to explain the meaning and the contribution of symbol which is used for the whole story.

E.     Benefits of the Research
From this analysis I can give full meaning of the whole text by showing the meaning of symbol that is used. For student of literature, this study will open their mind  to make them sensitize that to interpret the story is not just read over and over again, but also learn more about the content in the story.

F.     Review of Related Literature
The short story contains of: theme, plot, characters, motifs and symbols. To  interpret a short story there are two ways. Those are implicit and explicit meaning. Implicit meaning is the meaning that we could get from reading the story in general, whereas the explicit meaning can we find after we learn the content in the story more deeply. Learn the symbols used in the story go round one way to get the explicit meaning of the story.
To get the explicit meaning of  Hills Like White Elephants story, it is emphasized on the aspect of its used of symbol. In this, it is intended to analyze the meaning of that symbol in its influence to the whole story.
It was considered that the most appropiate theory to be used here is mimetic theory as a theory that emphasized on the meaning of symbol.

G.    Research Design
H.    Objects of the Research
            The object of the research is a short story entitled Hills Like White Elephant by Ernest Hemingway.

I.       Research Instruments
In this study, the data is classified into two types, the primary data and the secondary data. The primary data were the object analyzed namely Hills Like White Elephant by Ernest Hemingway. The data available in this text were in the forms of phrases, sentences and the explicit or implicit utterance found in this short story. The secondary data are taken from books, dictionary, and internet websites which are related to the research.

J.      Data Collection Techniques
The data are analyzed into three steps. The first step is classifying the data based on the important data itself. And then interpreting the data whether the data is suitable or not with my analysis. For the last step is analyzing the data based on the theory and concept in theoretical framework and then, the writer evaluates the data. After accomplishing all of steps the writer can compile the conclusion.

K.    Data Analysis Technique
The data analysis technique that we used in this research proposal is Descriptive Qualitative Technique. Collecting the data by descriptive qualitative technique in which we describe what kinds of approaches we use in this research.

L.     Biblioraphy

Minggu, 06 Juli 2014

News item

Court for the Old Woman, the Cassava Thief

In the court room hearing, the judge Marzuki sat stunned listening PU prosecution against a grandmother accused of stealing cassava, argued that grandmother was poor, her son sick, and grandson of hunger . But the manager of PT X ** (Y ** group) remained in demand, in order to set an example for the other citizens. Judge Marzuki sighed, he cut out the prosecution PU, 'excuse me', he said, looking The grandmother. “I cannot make a legal exception; the law's the law, so you should be punished. I find you 1 milion dollars and if you are not able to pay, you have to go to jail 2.5 years, as the prosecution PU“.  The grandmother was bowed sluggish, his heart shattered, while the judge Marzuki removing the cap, opened his wallet and then took the money and enter a number 1 milion rupiah into the hat and said to the audience. "I on behalf of the court also fined each person who attended this session at Rp 50.000, since settling in this city, which let someone starving to have to steal to feed his grandson.” Mr. Marzuki ask the clerk to help him, “Please collect the fine in my hat and give all the proceeds to the defendant." Until the judge hammer and Marzuki leave courtroom, he went away. and the grandma pocketing money Rp 3,500.000. Including Rp 50.000 reply paid by the manager of PT X ***. He blush for having prosecution.

Analytical exposition

Rubbish

                Rubbish is waste material derived from animals, plants and humans that are not used. Rubbish can be organic and non-organic. Rubbish has becomes a major problem while back in Indonesia, especially the big cities.
                Indonesia's population is very large, and every day they must dispose of rubbish. And because they live in a big city, they often careless of rubbish and cause environmental pollution. Waste the rubbish in rivers causing pollution of river water, blockage of river water flow, and the silting of the river. Therefore, every rainy season, in the big cities is always flood.
               If the rubbish is burned, it will cause air pollution. The smoke of burning will disturb the surrounding environment and the people who were passing. Substances contained in the smoke will also erode the ozone layer.
              Recycling method is not effective, because the fact that not all rubbish can be recycled. For example, a scavenger only take plastic bottles, while he left  the other rubbish.
              Until now, the rubbish is still a big problem in our environment. To overcome this problem have not found a solution that fits. What should we do for the cleanliness of our environment, while the human needs are still go on?

Review

Avatar
By. James Cameron

               Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi, and Sigourney Weaver.
The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body
              A former Marine named Jake limping selected to join the Avatar program and sent to another planet called Pandora. In Pandora, which is a Na'vi tribe living primitive animals are similar and have the ability as human beings. Na'vi tribe considers that the arrival of humans the earth as a threat, then the war broke out between the human world with Na'vi tribe. Because humans can not breathe earth directly on the planet Pandora, then Jake was changed to a figure like a tribe of Na'vi in order to mingle. Jake also explore the planet Pandora, after meeting with a woman named tribe Na'vi Neytiri, Jake fell in love with her. Finally, Jake is faced with a confused where he must decide which side should be defended, as both a determinant of the fate of the earth and tribal Na'vi.
              The film "Avatar the Movie" by director James Cameron is inviting a lot of admiration from the audience. Avatar is a semi-real film, meaning that part using 3D animation. Although 3D animation in some scenes look cheap (obviously animated), but I think it is not too disturbing film Avatar as a whole.
I think it's very amazing film I have ever seen. There are no major plot holes I could see. The technology is brilliant and used well, and the setting itself is gorgeous.

Explanation

Metamorphosis of Butterfly

                Butterfly is the beautiful insect. Before, it had 4 phases called metamorphosis. Those are egg, larva, pupa, and adult animal (butterfly). The first phase is egg. It is white and very small. It takes almost a week to hatch. The larva develops inside the egg and nourishes on the yolk of the egg. Finally, they make a small hole in the egg and emerge on the leaf. Here the second stage begins. The larva of the butterfly is called caterpillar. The caterpillar grows fast feeding on the leaves. In two weeks they become an adult caterpillar. The adult caterpillar has eight pairs of legs. As the caterpillar grows longer it outgrows its skin. It sheds the skin. This process is called molting. In this stage, caterpillar molts its skin around five to six times. The fully-grown adult caterpillar, start crawling away from the plant it was feeding on and keeps crawling till it finds a safe haven to pupate. It makes a silk-like mat on the surface and hangs upside down. The last pair of legs is attached to the silk-like mat. It hangs for one whole day like this and takes the shape of the alphabet "J". Caterpillar sheds its skin for the last time before it moves into the next stage. When the caterpillar enters the third phase, it has already shed its eight pairs of legs and the head capsule, which had housed six eye lenses. The skin of the caterpillar is shed for the final time and the casing takes the color of jade. This casing is called chrysalis. Though initially chrysalis is soft gradually within an hour it hardens to form a protective shell. The pupate of a butterfly is otherwise known as chrysalis. Within the chrysalis the caterpillar slowly turns into a butterfly. There is a transformation-taking place within the pupa. The body parts of the caterpillar disintegrate to form the body parts of the butterfly. The transformation period of chrysalis to butterfly takes around 10 to 15 days. The hardened chrysalis cracks and the butterfly emerge from it. The wings of the butterfly are small and wet. It clings onto the shell of the chrysalis. At this juncture, a life-saving fluid known as hemolymph is pumped into the body of the butterfly. Hemolymph spreads slowly throughout the body and the wings. This helps in enlarging the wings and the body of the butterfly. Remember that the wings are wet and the butterfly is unable to fly. However, within an hour the wings become dry and the butterfly is ready to fly.

Procedure

HOW TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE PUDDING

INGREDIENTS:

1 instant chocolate pudding
2,5 glass of boiling water
Strawberry
Milk

MATERIALS:

Bowl
Mixer
Mold
Refrigerator
Plate    

STEPS:

First, put 1 instant chocolate pudding powder into a bowl.
Second, add 2,5 glass of boiling water.
Third, mix the dough of pudding until more viscous with the mixer.
Fourth, put the viscous pudding into the mold.
Fifth, let it for 5 minutes.
Then, put it into the refrigerator for a few minutes.  
After that, remove the pudding from the refrigerator and put it on a plate.
Next, adorn it with milk and strawberry.
Finally, the chocolate pudding is ready to eat.