Dinda Astria Prastiwi

 

A long time ago, there lived on the island of Bali a giant-like creature named Kbo Iwo.  The people of Bali used to say that Kbo Iwo was everything, a destroyer as well as a creator.  He was satisfied with the meal, but this meant for the Balinese people enough food for a thousand men. Difficulties arose when for the first time the barns were almost empty and the new harvest was still a long way off.  This made Kbo Iwo wild with great anger.  In his hunger, he destroyed all the houses and even all the temples.  It made the Balinese turn to rage. So, they came together to plan steps to oppose this powerful giant by using his stupidity.  They asked Kbo Iwo to build them a very deep well, and rebuild all the houses and temples he had destroyed.  After they fed Kbo Iwo, he began to dig a deep hole. One day he had eaten too much, he fell asleep in the hole.  The oldest man in the village gave a sign, and the villagers began to throw the limestone they ...

Definition of Narrative Text : Narrative text is one type of English text that aims to tell a story that has a series of connected chronological events.   Generic Structure of Narrative Text : Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced. Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story Purpose of Narrative text : The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story. Language Feature of Narrative Text :   Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)  Adverb of time (Once upon a time, one day, etc) Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc) Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc) Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc) Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (S...

  Kang Chol Hwan was born into a loyal family that had once lived in the large Korean community of Japan. In Kyoto, his grandfather had been supporter of Kim II Sung, North Korean’s Great Leader since 1945. In 1961 the grandfather returned with his family to North Korea and had important government post. Within months, however, he was complaining to friends that North Korea was not the country he had expected. He was shocked to see so much poverty, which he eventually came to blame on the government’s stifl ing left for work and never returned. One morning in July 1977, when Kang was nine, his grandfather left for work and never returned. A few weeks later, seven plain clothes security guard stormed into Kang’s house “Your grandfather betrayed the fatherland,” one of them stated” You must be punished.” Kang’s parents and grandmother sobbed as they forced to pack their belongings into two army trucks. The family was driven off, but Kang’s mother was left behind, “spared” becau...

 

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Wurttemberg Kingdom, Germany on March 14th, 1879. His father named Hermann Einstein and his mother was Pauline. His parents were married in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.  Einstein family is the family of Jewish descent. His father worked as a merchant feather bed then switch work to become an expert on electrochemistry. Until now, Albert Einstein is known as the greatest and the most famous theoretical physics in the 20th century. He put forward the theory of relativity and give a huge contributed to the development of statistical mechanics, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. As a child, Albert Einstein had a quiet nature and does not like to play with his friends. He was considered a slow learner, probably caused by shyness, dyslexia, or because of the structure of rare and unusual in his brain (examined after his death). In addition, to cultivate the science and also in school, Einstein’s activities are just playing music together ...