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My bedroom: A nice place to be alone

I have a lot of things to do, such as going to college, organization, meeting people to socialize and etc. Besides; I also glad to spend my time alone. Oftentimes, in leisure time, I prefer to be alone in my house. There are many rooms in my house, but for me, my bedroom is the nice place ever to be alone. I can do everything in my room without anyone interrupted me. Especially when my brother plays his PlayStation, the loud sound will not bother me anymore. It makes me enjoy because when I am in my room, all what I need is there. Perhaps; I could say that my room makes me feel comfortable to spend my time alone. 

My bedroom is a perfect place for me to be alone. Because it is separated from other rooms; my parent and my brother rooms, family room, living room and etc. It is one of the two bedrooms in the upper floor that reside in. I could say that I am the only one of the occupant of the upper floor. My bedroom size is not too big or small. It is a standard square room which colored is orange. It has a medium size door. The door’s color is dark red. There is a carved object with my name, my date of bird and my zodiac was written on. My room has two windows. The first one is facing the road. I could see the house in front of mine. The second one is facing the hallway and the soccer field. There is a bathroom inside my room that placed on the left of the door. Beside it, there is a hanger that I uses to hang my bag or clothes. My fit bed placed in front of the make-up mirror that hangs on the wall. A pillow, bolster and dolls are placed on my bed. There is a keyboard which I usually use to play music in my leisure time. It is placed under my bed. On the right side of my room, there is a dark grey cupboard with three doors which one of the door has a make-up mirror. There also a brown light desk and a chair beside my cupboard. It fully equipped with books such as holly book, textbook, magazine, novel and other various kind of reading books. All in all, the stuffs in my bedroom make it perfect as a place to spend my times alone.

Like, love, and pity

Talking about like, love and pity, there were questions, do you ever like someone? Do you ever Love or feel pity for someone? Yes, I am. So, what are the differences between three of it? People have their own opinion about this. But we will find that the quantity, quality and sincerity of like, love and pity are different. Maknakatacinta.blogspot.com said that like is an ego feeling, it is mean that if you want something, you will try and give everything to get it, to make it be yours. I like chocolate, I will buy it. No matter is it expensive or not. If it runs out, I will try to get another chocolate. How about love? Actually, it is a feeling where you try to make someone happy even though you have to sacrifice yourself. You as a sister or brother, you will do everything to your little sisters or brothers when they had been bullied by their friends, don’t you? Also when you have trouble, your parents will do everything to help their lovely child. Meanwhile, pity is a feeling where you know that nothing will everlasting. You do everything for someone who made you feel pity. If you interested to see her or him smile, you will try to keep the smile, and do not want the smile gone from her or his lip. In short, you do everything but not for yourself.

In my opinion, like is a temporary feeling. You could like something or someone based on their style or the first impression, but when you had known a wrong thing, the feeling will gone. And love is a deep feeling, a serious thing, a long feeling, and a perfect thing to give for someone. Besides, dear or pity is a feeling that cause confusing. Sometimes you should distinguish between to feel pity because you are really interested or just get pity because of someone’s condition. That is why, nowadays people will ask you when you said that you love them. Is it true love or pity love?

Butterfly

Butterfly

Butterfly is a beautiful insect. Is not it? It is the only one in insect classification that has scaly wings. The wings are colorful, sometimes the color is a combination between yellow and brown, blue, black and white, and it could be more than 3 colors. Butterflies wings are also bright. As butterfly ages, the color of the wings fade and become ragged.

If you can catch a butterfly, you will find that it has 6 legs, 3 body part (head, thorax, and abdomen), compound eyes and an exoskeleton to save it when moved quickly.  And butterflies have a complete metamorphosis in which they go through four different life stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. The egg is very small. The shape sometimes round, oval or cylindrical, It’s depend on butterfly varies that laid the egg. This egg is placed on the leave because when it became a caterpillar (larva), it needs to eat leaves. Eat and eat for growing. Caterpillar can grow quickly by eating much leaves. Pupa is one step closer to the butterfly. The caterpillar changed in this stage and waiting for being an adult, it is the last stage of the metamorphosis. It was an awesome life circle if you can observe it by your own eyes.

Butterfly has a long, flexible tongue, so it can sip liquid food like nectar, juice rotting fruit and water from puddles. Amazine.co said that there are 5 kind of butterfly’s food: the nectar, the rotting fruit that has a lot of sugar and water, the bird waste which still fresh and moist, the tree sap, than the salt and sweat, because butterfly like sodium. But if you are a butterfly’s collector, it is better for you to give nectar or rotting fruit.

Butterflies are very good fliers, it can only fly if their body’s temperature is above 86 degrees. The fastest butterfly can fly about 30 mile per hour or fasters, and the slowly butterfly can fly about 5 mph. it has many species and different in all types of environments. In Java and Bali it is more than 600 species. Butterflies also migrate to avoid adverse environmental condition. There is a Tropical Butterfly Exhibition in Munich Botanical Garden which held every year and this information of course for people who like, love and give attention in butterfly. The information published by liputan6.com. And in the exhibition people can see the flying butterfly in the greenhouse from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

The Disadvantage of City Life

The Disadvantage of City Life

Actually everything has two sides, bad and good. I have shared one of it before. Now I would like to share the other one. That is about the disadvantage of city life. Where should we start? How about the people? Well, let’s talk about metropolitan life. Almost all people are not really friendly with other. They have a high individualism, sometimes they hard to deal with their personal problem as well. The people are careless and we may say they have limit time to do socialization because they are really busy with their job.

The people has a luxurious life, some of them life in apartment, the large or the small one. In fact, it is an expensive life. It will be easy as long as you have much money, so it makes them busy to collect the money as fast as they can. There are crowded places, people hurry and out of time, the traffic also in heavy.  Of course we can’t avoid pollution, noise and dash. Many vehicles or public transport cause a traffic jam. It makes us need more times to get a place. It trains our patience. 

The Advantages of City Life

The Advantages of City Life

There are some of reasons why people like to stay in a city, and many of us dreamed it. City is a suitable place especially for young people. In a city, we can find a best school, university, restaurant, shop, market, hospital, concert place, and other modern places. There are so many skyscrapers as well.

Live in a city? I do love too. City has the high technology. Technology is an important thing in this modern age. Every student wants to study in a good or best school which is has technology to help them for study. We can also find a special school to express ability, to study what we want, which is can’t find in the village. We need to develop our skill, because it will help us to find a job. Although there are so many places to work, the fact is not easy to get a job. We still need to improve our skill. If we got good education, have a skill, there are an international companies where we can work for. Believe it, and that is one of my hopes.

The City just not suitable for younger, but some of men or women love to stay in a city because there are so many places to visit, besides to get a better job. They, who are stress with their jobs, can enjoy their life with hangout to the best restaurant, watching a movie, visiting museum, or doing their hobbies like play golf. That is really suitable for people, who have modern soul. City is a big place to stay.

Social Media Most Intriguing

Social Media Most Intriguing Among Seventh Semester English Department Students of UIN Ar-Raniry

By

Putri Yunisari

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EAP-II

2016/2017

Abstract

            This research purpose are to find out whether seventh semester English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry in unit six interested in social media and what kind of social media most intriguing among them. The research was done by questioned and investigated the students. As the result, most of the seventh semester English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry in unit six more enjoy Instagram. It is recommended to all social media users to use social media in the right way as it should be.

Introduction

Social media turned over time and became a part of human’s life. It offers the easiness for users. A lot of students, especially English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry agree and welcoming social media. They said social media, now days, is a trend; it is a must. And by social media, they are easier to get information, entertains and also in making friends. More ever, social media doesn’t require meeting in person, and at the same place. In addition, it has no limit time.

As cited in liputan6.com, in the end of 2015 there are ten favorite social media in Indonesia.  One of them is Facebook. About 59.5% of Smart phone users’ prefer to use Facebook which made it become the most popular social media in Indonesia. A study from Pew Result Internet Project, as cited in Modo Labs Team, also found Facebook is on the top list of social media used by adult.

            This study aims to find out what is social media most intriguing among seventh semester English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry in unit six.

Methods

This research was done by questionnaire and investigated seventh semester English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry in unit six with 29 numbers of students who take EAP-II class. The questionnaire was distributed to 27 students. The informants asked to choose one of the social media they more enjoy and provided open ended responses to clarify why they prefer that social media.

Results

The result of this research shows most of the informant interested in Instagram. Below is the pie chart of social media most intriguing among seventh semester English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry in unit six.

Discussion

From the total ten Social Media that are served, Most of the informants have chosen Instagram (30%) as medium to share information with others and also for self-actualization. Whereas, 26% of the informants more prefer Line because the message sent would not be late as by using BBM (18%).  According to the informants, they only use BBM to communicate with people who known. Besides, there is the lack on BBM systems in delivering the message; it excessively depends on the network. On the other hand, only 15% of the informants enjoy Facebook. The result is dramatically different from what have been stated in Metrotvnews.com where Facebook is on the top list of most popular Social Media with the large number of users. The informants, who prefer Facebook, though it is a friendly media social; it is a link to connect each other, make you easier to contact your old friends that you don’t know their existence; also to keep relationship with people in distance. However 7% of the informants thought Twitter has better construction as media social because it’s only need a few minutes to make the information separate around the world. There are 4% informants had chosen Flickr to enjoy their photograph hobbies because it provides 1000 GB space freely and for the rests is 0%.

Conclusion

As a result, researcher found that seventh semester English department students are active users of social media, especially Instagram. Due to most of them love photograph. They use it for self-actualization. They were satisfied to communicate with others abroad, and also they enjoy seeing the world widely. It is suitable with the research conducted by Jasmin Knight-McCord, Dylan Cleary and friends from Alabama State University entitle ‘What social media site do college students use most?”. They found that Instagram is the most used social networking side among college students.

Recommendation

Researcher recommends to them who love photograph to try Flickr even it is not as popular as Instagram but it is also good. Also, researcher suggests users to use social media on the right way as it should be. And for them who has responsibility (in this case is the company) to pay attention on the lacks of the social media, therefore it could gain more users and becomes a social media most intriguing among seventh semester English department students of UIN Ar-Raniry.

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