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image : google In this video Jamila announced to others that she is “articulate”. She is able to speak fluently at home with her father and her mother, at school with her professor, and with her boy and friends in the classroom. She has decided to treat all three of her languages as equal, because she is articulate.  The audiences raised a big laugh when she pointed out’ “You may think it is ignorant to speak broken English, but even articulate Americans sound foolish to the British.” One time when her professor comes and says “Hello”, she stoped him and say “Noooo... You’re being inarticulate... the proper way is to say “what’s good”. Jamila also said that the language has rules, because when her mom talk to her in incorrect grammar, she said to her mommy that the sentence is not following the law.  She is a tri-lingual orator, she consistent with her language now. Sometimes she fight back two tongues while she used the other one in the classroom. when she...

“Breaking the Ice” in Britain Image : google What is the most difficult thing for an overseas student in Britain? Many will say that it is “breaking the ice” with British people. Unlike Americans who are open and friendly, British are reserved. They are quiet  people, don’t like introding on another person’s personal space, and value privacy very much. They are not very ‘generous’ with theis smiles. In Indonesia, friendliness is expressed by smiles. You are always surrounded by people who do not hesitate to give you big smiles. Yet, they are some topics that can almost guarantee success in opening conversation with the British people. One common topic is talking about the weather. If you say, “It’s freezing (very cold) outside,” followed by “winter came too early this year, “this will usually elicit at least a smile from another person. You may hear, “what is the weather like in youe country?” To which you can reply, “Always warm and usually sunny”. The British ...

When we want to write about a topic in more detail, we can turn our paragraph into an essay. We write a paragraph composing three sections, these are topic sentence, body, and concluding sentence. Similar to a paragraph, an essay is also composed of three sections. These are introductory paragraf, supporting paragraph (body of paragraph), and concluding paragraph. The topic sentence of the paragraph becomes the thesis statement of the essay, which comes at the end of the introductory paragraph. The supporting sentences of the paragraph become the topic sentence in an essay in several paragraphs based on our topic or idea. . And the last is the concluding sentence is made into a concluding paragraph. The first paragraph in an essay is introductory paragraph. The function of introductory paragraph is to get readers’ attention and to introduce the subject of the essay. There are many ways for writer to get the redaers’ attention in an introductory paragraph. First is Anecdote, it is...

Summary of Wuthering Heights chapters 1 – 4. Image : google  In 1801, Mr. Lockwood writes in his diary as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange landlord, which Mr. Heathcliff is the owner and who has terrible characteristic lives in the Wuthering Heights. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. While entering Wuthering Heights, Lockwood notices but does not comment upon the date “1500” and the name “Hareton Earnshaw” above the principal door. They enter the house and Lockwood realizes that there is only one servant, Joseph, which may explain why the house is in such disrepair, and there are also several dogs. A short while after, Heathcliff and Joseph go down the cellar, leaving Lockwood alone with the dogs. Fortunately, a female servant comes from the kitchen with a pan and shoos the dogs away, and when Heathcliff back Lockwood finds him compelling and uninvited announces that...

TED.com Terry Moore : Why is ‘x’ the unknown Most of people already known the letter ‘x’ is represent something that unknown. In math, ‘x’ is to tell that a variable is unknown. Also it letter everywhere in the culture, for examples : x-files, project-x, TEDx. Why is the letter ‘x’ represent unknow ? About six years ago, Terry decided to learn Arabic, a supremely logical language. He said that when write Arabic language is like crafting an equation, because every part is extremely precise and contain a lot of information. May be this is why everything we know as science, mathematics have its derivations in Arabic language system, most notably, Al-Jabra (Algebra). The Arabic text containing mathematical wisdom finally made the way to Europe, which is to say Spain, in the 11th and 12th century. There was tremendous interest in translating this wisdom into a European language. The unknown in Arabic is called syaiun, which means something, some undefined thing.  But the pro...

My name is Maghfirah, I am 20 years old. I am from Neuheun, Aceh Besar. Usually I am called Firah or mb by my friends. I have a beautiful family. My parents have three children, I am the oldest. I have two younger brothers. My father’s name is Bukhari, he passed away several months ago exactly at ramadhan month, and my mother’s name is Suarni, she is a civil servant  Miftahuddin is my first brother, he is a second grade student of Darul Ihsan senior high School, and the youngest is Misbahul Firdaus, he is a sixth grade student of Laboratory Islamic Elementary School. Now, I live with my mom and my last brother, because my first younger brother is staying in boarding school. My hobbies are travelling and dancing. I love dance since early age. I studied traditional and creative dance. I ever participated  as a dancer at the opening of Aceh Cultural Festival (PKA) in 2013, and it was a really unforgettable experience to me. I really enjoyed it.  I  went to element...