Ayah

Ayah... adalah seseorang yang sangat berjasa disetiap keluarga. Kepala rumah tangga yang baik, dan selalu mencari nafkah tiada hentinya. Ayah yang selalu menjaga para anak-anaknya dan selalu membiayai pendidikan anak-anaknya hingga jenjang sarjana pun tiba, ayah yang selalu membanting tulang mencari nafkah dari pagi hari hingga larut malam.

Ayah... perjuangan engkau sangat lah berarti buat kami. Jasa engkau tiada tara. Engkaulah pahlawan kami, dan engkaulah yang membimbing kami agar menjadi anak yang baik dan berguna untuk masa depan.

Ayah... terima kasih untuk semuanya, untuk jasa-jasanya dan untuk uang yang telah ayah berikan pada kami untuk menempuh pendidikan hingga tinggi. 

Ayah.. doakan aku biar sukses yah, semoga perjuanga aku ini bisa membalas perjuangan ayah yang telah ayah berikan padaku.

sekian~

by: raysa renita

The Princess and The Pea

There once was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but it had to be real princess. So he went all over the world looking for a real princess. Everywhere he met young ladies told him they were real princess, but could never be completely sure that this was true. There was always something about them that did not seem quite right. And so, after along time, the prince went back home to his parents and was very sad.

One evening there was a terrible storm. It rained heavily and there was thunder and lightning in the sky above the royal castle. Then there was a knock at the castle gate. The old king went out to see who it could be.

A princess was standing outside the gate. The rain ran down over her hair and clothes and into her shoes. She told the king that she was a real princess, and he asked her to come inside.

“Well, said the old queen. We’ll soon find out if that is true. She went into the guest bedroom and took the mattress and blanket of the bed. Then she put a little green pea on the bed. She put twenty mattress on top of the pea, and then twenty mattress on top of the pea, and then twenty blankets on top of the mattress. This was where the princess was going to spend the night.

The next morning the queen asked the princess how she had slept.

“oh, it was terrible” answered the princess. Í didn’t close my eyes all night. I don’t know what was in my bed, but I lay on something hard, and now I am black and blue all over. It was quite a terrible night.”

Now, the king, the queen and the prince could be sure that this was a real princess she had felt the little pea trough twenty mattresses and twenty blankets. Only a real princess will be able to do that.

So the prince married the princess and the pea was put in a museum for everyone to see, unless someone has taken it, it’s still there today.

by: raysa renita

Filsafat secara singkat

  A.      PENGERTIAN FILSAFAT

Secara etimologi atau asal usul bahasa kata filsafat berasal dari bahasa yunani “philopsophia” yang merupakan penggabungan dua kata yakni pilos yng berarti cinta dan sophie yang berarti kebijaksanaan. Cinta artinya hasrat yang besar atau yang berkobar-kobar atau yang sungguh-sungguh. Kebijaksanaan artinya kebenaran sejati atau kebenaran yang sesungguhnya.

Secara epistemology (istilah) terdapat ratusan rumusan pengertian filsafat. Namun secara mendasar filsafat adalah hasrat atau keinginan yang sungguh-sungguh untuk menemukan kebenaran sejati.

Menurut kronologi sejarah filsafat ada beberapa definisi dari para ahli :

1.       Plato, mengatakan bahwa filsafat adalah mengkritik pendapat-pendapat yang berlaku

2.       Aristoteles, mengatakan bahwa filsafat sebagai ilmu menyelidiki tetang hal ada sebagai hal, ada yang berbeda dengan bagian-bagiannya yang satu atau lainnya

Filsafat sebagai latihan untuk belajar mengambil sikap, mengukur bobot dari segala macam pandangan yang dari berbagai penjuru di tawarkan kepada kita. Kalau kita di suruh membangun masyarakat, filsafat akan membuka implikasi suatu pembangunan yang misalnya hanya mementingkan kerohanian sebagai ideology karena manusia itu memang bukan hanya rohani saja.

Filsafat meninjau dengan pertanyaan “apa itu?” “darimana?” dan “kemana?” disini prang tidak mencari pengetahuan sebab dan akibat suatu masalah, melainkan orang mencari tau tentang apa yang sebenarnya pada barang atau masalah itu. Maka, jika para filsuf di tanyai “mengapa anda percaya akan Tuhan?” mereka tidak akan menjawab. Karena dia telah di kondisikan oleh pendidikan di sekolahnya untuk percaya kepada Tuhan, atau karena dia kebetulan sedang gelisah.

Sumber: ringkas buku etika dan filsafat komunikasi bab 1 

Losses of Big Fish

Scientists in Canada say big ocean fish have almost disappeared from the world since the start of industrial fishing in the nineteen-fifties. The scientists found that populations of large fish like tuna, swordfish and cod have dropped by ninety percent in the past fifty years.

The study took ten years. The researchers gathered records from fishing businesses and governments around the world. The magazine Nature published the findings.

The scientists say the common method called longline fishing is especially damaging to populations of large fish. This method involves many fishing lines connected to one boat. These wires can be close to one-hundred kilometers long. They hold thousands of sharp metal hooks to catch fish.

Longline fishing is especially common in the Japanese fishing industry. Records showed that Japanese boats used to catch about ten fish for every one-hundred hooks. The study says longline fishing boats now might catch one fish per hundred hooks.

Modern methods also include the use of satellites and underwater radar to find fish.

The scientists say industrial fishing can destroy groups of fish much faster than in the past. The study suggests that whole populations can disappear almost completely from new fishing areas within ten to fifteen years.

Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led the study with Boris Worm of Dalhousie and the University of Kiel in Germany. Mr. Worm says the destruction could lead to a complete re-organization of ocean life systems. Mr. Meyers says the decreased numbers of large fish is not the only worry. He says even populations that are able to reproduce do not get the chance to live long enough to grow as big as their ancestors. He says not only are there fewer big fish, they are smaller than those of the past.

American government scientists say even with the best efforts to protect fish populations, decreases are to be expected. Fishing industry groups say the study makes the situation seem worse than it is. They say programs are in place to help repopulate big fish where numbers are low. And they say there have already been some improvements.

Last year, many countries signed a declaration in South Africa to work toward the recovery of fishing areas by two-thousand-fifteen.

Tenses:

1.       1. Simple Present

1.       Scientist in Canada say big ocean fish have almost disappeared .

2.       This method involves many fishing lines connected to one boat.

3.       The hold thousands of sharp metal hooks to catch fish.

4.       The study says longline fishing boats.

2.       2. Simple past

1.       The scientist found that populations of large fish like tuna.

2.       The study took ten years.

3.       The researches gathered record from fishing business

4.       Record showed that Japanese boats used to catch about ten fish for everyone-hundred hooks.

3.       3. Simple Future

1.       Ten fishes will fish for everyon- hundred hooks

Asian Lady Beetle

There are lots of insects that farmers hate. But there also are some they like. These protect crops against damage from other insects. A good example is the lady beetle, also known as the ladybug.

Lady beetles are a natural control for aphids. Aphids are tiny insects that develop colonies on plants and eat plant fluids. Aphids can also spread crop diseases. Adult lady beetles can eat fifty aphids a day. The young beetle larvae can eat hundreds of aphids.

Lady beetles are red, orange or black. They often have black spots, though some have light colored spots. Different kinds of lady beetles have different numbers of spots. There are lady beetles with four, five, seven and fourteen spots.

Many of the well-known kinds of lady beetles come from Asia or Europe. They now are common throughout the United States.

American scientists imported one kind of lady beetle, the multicolored Asian lady beetle, as early as nineteen-sixteen. They released them as an attempt to control some kinds of inspects. Over the years, the beetle has become established, possibly helped by some that arrived with imported plants on ships.

Experts say over four-hundred-fifty kinds of lady beetles are found in North America. Some are native to the area. Others have been brought from other places. Almost all are helpful to farmers. Two kinds, however, are not. The Mexican bean beetle and the squash beetle eat plants.

The Asian lady beetles now in the United States probably came from Japan. The Asian lady beetle eats aphids that affect crops like soybeans, fruits and berries.

In the southern United States, Asian lady beetles have reduced the need for farmers to use pest-killing poisons on pecan trees. This popular tree nut suffers from aphids and other pests that the beetles eat.

But some people say the Asian lady beetle has itself become a pest. This time of year, lady beetles have no food after crops have been harvested. It is time for them to prepare for winter. Normally this is in the ground, but it can also be in someone's home. Some farmers also worry that the beetles may eat their late-autumn fruit crops.

Experts say Asian lady beetles may appear in large numbers in some years. But they say the insects are too helpful to consider pests.

Tenses:

1.       1. Simple Present:

1.       These protect crops against damage from other insects.

2.       That develop colonies on plants.

3.       The Asian lady beetle eats aphids.

2.      2.  Simple Past:

1.       American scientist imported one kind of lady beetle.

2.       They released them as an attempt to control some kinds of inspect.