These files containing all chapter from my final assignment.. may be useful for helping you all..cheers!!
Showing posts with label gotta reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gotta reviews. Show all posts
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Pengaruh Penerapan Good Corporate Governance Terhadap Kinerja Perusahaan Dengan Pendekatan Balanced Scorecard
These files containing all chapter from my final assignment.. may be useful for helping you all..cheers!!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
MIDNIGHT SUN (edward cullen-twilight) by STEPHENIE MEYER
baca n nonton twilight pasti udah donk!!!
malahan gw yakin pasti ada yang udah tamat baca nya sampe breaking dawn..
sekarang hadir lagi satu buku dari Stephenie Meyer judul nya Midnight Sun..
buku ini sebenernya ceritanya sama ma Twilight beda nya buku ini menceritakan kisah nya dari sudut pandang si vampire ganteng, Edward Cullen !!!!
di buku ini kita jadi tau bagaimana Edward berusaha menyesuaikan diri dengan Bella,dan juga cerita cerita kecil dari keluarga Cullen sehari-hari..
gak tau kapan buku ini bakal dateng ke indonesia tapi buat yang gak sabar pengen baca bisa kok baca di situs resmi nya stephenie meyer....
berhubung gw baik..gw sertakan link nya disini...
selamat membaca !!!!!
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/midnightsun_chapter1.pdf
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/midnightsun_partial_draft4.pdf
happy green ^o^
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Others !!!!!!! BEST moVie i ever Watched!!!!!!
Sumptuously crafted, with moody eeriness and almost surreal visual imagery, Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's The Others is a terrific supernatural thriller that builds and sustains its considerable suspense, without ever relying on violence or special effects. Cast in a role she was born to play, Nicole Kidman stars as a neurotic single mom, raising two seemingly problematic children while her husband is fighting in WWII.
Though effectively scary, and thematically recalling the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, The Others is an arthouse film, a status recently confirmed by its inclusion in the Venice Film Festival's main competition. Avid devotees of the occult film are the primary target audience, but, with the right marketing, and strong critical support, Miramax can score decent numbers in major urban centers, with an English-speaking tale that still feels like a foreign film.
Showing a special talent for reality-bending thrillers, Amenabar has earlier made the equally impressive thriller, Open Your Eyes, which was adapted as Cameron Crowe's new film project, Vanilla Sky, starring Rom Cruise, here credited as exec producer with his partner, Paula Wagner.
Like all good psychological thrillers, The Others deals with the most primal human fears, such as fear of being isolated in a secluded house, fear of somber closets, fear of half-open doors. In this particular case, scripter Amenabar works up a nice twist, building his suspenser not around fear of the dark, a common element of the genre, but rather fear of the light.
Set on the secluded Isle of Jersey in the final days of WWII, tale revolves around Grace, an attractive if severe woman who's anxiously waiting for her beloved husband to return from the front so that her family can resume a more normal life. A domineering mother, Grace overprotects her two children who, she claims, can never be exposed to any light. The house is always dark, with curtains covering ever inch of the big, menacing windows.
As the story begins, three new servants appear at Grace's door, as replacement to the former helpers, who had inexplicably disappeared one night. Tension mounts as soon as Grace realizes that the servants have arrived, even though she has not had a chance to mail her request for help to the personal ads section of the local press. Who are they Gradually, it's revealed that each member of the enigmatic trio is familiar with the house, its surrounding cemetery, and bizarre history that's recorded in hidden photo albums.
Every once in a while, the children scream out of frightening sights, holding that the house is populated by intruders. When her daughter first reveals that she has been communicating with unexplained apparitions, Grace is reluctant to believe her, because it defies her devout Christian upbringing. Instead of consoling her children, Grace keeps punishing them with the kind of severe intensity that will increase the fears of normal children, let alone problematic ones. All the relationships get even more perplex and complicated, when Grace's husband (Eccleston) suddenly returns home from the War and proves unable to communicate with his family and servants.
Amenabar, who also composed the ominous score, works well in the Gothic tradition of the haunted house (in this case, a grand Victorian mansion), a staple of horror thrillers that here plays a legit character along with the human ones. As director, he deserves credit forbuilding a subtle psychological terror that's entirely dependent on the viscerally real performances of his ensemble.
With her classic grace, porcelain-like beauty, sophisticated manner, and forceful stare, Kidman gives a chillingly delectable performance (one of her very best), as a headstrong woman, who's gradually forced to abandon all her beliefs and fears, entering the dreaded realm of the occult and supernatural.
Equally important as the superlative acting is the mesmerizing lensing of Javier Aguirresarobe, whose camera swoops and glides through dark, echoing halls and foreboding, half-lit rooms. Reflecting the changing tone of the story, the camera quickly turns from calm and peaceful to harried and panicked pacing. At the end, both characters and viewers seem to have lost all sense of time, operating in a truly bizarre twilight zone.
review !!!!!!! the little prince by Antoniate de saint exupery
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince for those who like to be accurate), a novelette, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was published in 1943. Even today, this wonderful story of love, loneliness, and life exercises its wonderful magic over readers and is much cherished by both children and adults. It's easy to see why: a simple prose style that delights, fresh and funny illustrations, a wealth of imagery, a simple story that's yet effortlessly profound and above all the character of the Little Prince that tugs at your heart strings without ever getting overly cute and sweet.
The story is narrated by an aviator downed in the Sahara Desert who is trying to repair his wrecked airplane. His frenetic efforts are suddenly interrupted by the appearance of the Little Prince who, of all the things in the world, asks him to draw a sheep. The narrator is astonished and even wonders what a kid is doing in the middle of a desert.
But, "When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen."
Thus begins the interaction between the Little Prince and the aviator out of which is born a classic tale.
On a simplistic plane, The Little Prince is the story of an aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert and there meets a boy who has traveled to earth from another small planet. The boy, the Little Prince, asks him numerous questions about sheep, trees and flowers. The boy also shares his various adventures, his journeys from one planet to another and finally leaves.
Yet, the story is much more enriching and satisfying. It's also the tale of a young prince who has left his tiny planet to seek answers to all his questions. The Little Prince is also the story of a man who learns a lot about the nature of life from an innocent kid whose journeys and innocence have given him the wisdom of a sage who has lived many years and traveled many miles. The Little Prince and the aviator come to understand what is really important in life -- love. What matters is caring about someone or something, living up to the trust invested in you, and sustaining that relationship.
It is only when one realizes the importance of love that one understands the responsibility towards those who one has "tamed." As the prince did:
"No," said the little prince. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean, 'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."
"'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
[. . .]
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. "Please, tame me!" he said.
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..."
The prince loves his flower so much that he protects her every night with a glass cover. He also requests the aviator to draw him a muzzle for his sheep so that it wouldn't eat the flower. The prince knows that his flower is naive and it is his duty to protect her.
Adults forget that love and friendship matter the most and allow themselves to be consumed with things that are inconsequential. In a way, The Little Prince, is also somewhat of a satire on adults. The novelette describes how adults lack imagination. When the narrator draws a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant, adults only see it as an odd-shaped hat. This lack of imagination translates into adults who are unable to focus on the essentials of life and instead concentrate on the unnecessary. Saint-Exupéry carries this throughout the book and pulls off some fine satiric touches.
There's the king who commands the Little Prince to function as his judiciary:
"I have good reason to believe that somewhere on my planet there is an old rat. I hear him at night. You can judge this old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. Thus his life will depend on your justice. But you will pardon him on each occasion; for he must be treated thriftily. He is the only one we have."
The author similarly satirizes a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a geographer, and a few others. They all serve to show how adults make some futile aspect of lives their very existence.
And that's the nature of this little book. It delivers its message, its wisdom, unobtrusively, often casually through the Little Prince's encounters with various people, through his innocent questions that seek only the truth, and through his understanding of the self and of the life and people beyond oneself. And all the time, it also remains an excellent children's tale, without ever turning didactic.
After you've read the book, things start looking a bit different. You realize that somewhere, for someone it is possible to love a flower and lavish attention it. You realize that such love and responsibility is not be ridiculed, because you've understood that the object of love is not important – what matters is that there is love and there is a commitment to sustain that relationship.
And if you are bold enough (and if life hasn't corrupted you totally yet) you too would start questioning some of your priorities in life.
[. . .] nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has eaten a rose... Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no?
Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes... And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!
This story of a boy in love with his flower is told in a little over a hundred pages. If there's anything to crib about the book, it's that it gets over so soon and you wish that you had not read it so fast. However everyone of those pages of is fantastic and will stay with the reader forever.
If you appreciate the simple things in life, if you want to know what is it that makes children find so much joy out of life, read this book and you'll treasure its simple but deep wisdom
review !!!!! Breaking Dawn by Stefanie Meyer
I’m sure you all know what Breaking Dawn is (if not, what rock have you been living under?), so I’ll skip that. The midnight release party was a surprising non-event considering the fan base these books have, but many of the people there were incredibly into it all, dressing up for a book in which people dress normally (hmm…), and there were tasty special drinks at the Books-a-Million coffee shop.
Anyway, the book itself. Well, this was exactly what I expected the end of the Twilight Saga to be, in some ways. It was a wonderful brain-candy type of book–something I couldn’t put down, something I loved the experience of reading, but, well, nothing about it is dazzlingly brilliant. It’s something I absolutely loved reading, but now that I’ve finished I don’t feel like I’ve gained anything. Stephenie Meyer’s writing is not too impressive, honestly. I love her characters, though, and when what I want is something that I will absolutely devour and something that won’t take anything out of me, that’s perfect.
I hope I explained that well enough. Anyway, this book what exactly what I expected and wanted out of the end (I think) of the Twilight Saga. I loved finding out the fates of my favorite characters. My thoughts on Bella’s fate are below and spoilerific.
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* Note: I’ve edited the end of my review a bit because my prediction that fans would enjoy it was completely mistaken. I have seen book-burning campaigns, and book-returning campaigns. Anyway, yeah, I don’t usually edit reviews after they’re posted but I felt the need for a bit of clarification here.
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* Another note: Please don’t take this review the wrong way if you link to it. Do not take it to mean that I loved this book. I did not love this book. I enjoyed myself while reading it. No, this review is not intensely negative, but I didn’t have very high expectations.
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* HERE COME THE SPOILERS:
Bella’s transformation is what I expected and hoped for, knowing the characters, but I was afraid that the author would find some way of avoiding it, some crap reason for Bella to hold on to her humanity or her soul or whatever. Luckily, she didn’t. What happens between her wedding to Edward and her transformation into a vampire is unexpected, though, and I appreciate Stephenie Meyer’s ability to throw such a curveball, because I usually have an idea of where everything is headed in her books. Predictability and formulaic stories are nice, though, to an extent. Stephenie Meyer’s books are exciting, but not particularly thought-provoking. They’re fun to read, even addictive sometimes, but not something I feel a need to revisit often. I enjoyed finding out the fates of my favorite characters, though I’ve always wanted to hear more from Alice, and she was absent during much of this book. I was a bit disappointed at not delving deeper into my favorite characters, except Jacob–I loved his part of the book. It was by far my favorite. Jacob is fantastic.
*SLIGHTLY SPOILERY PARAGRAPH OVER.
Overall, reading Breaking Dawn was a pleasure. Stephenie Meyer is great at what she does, great at writing for her audience, and if you can recognize that, can see that this book is exactly what it is meant to be and not expect more from it, you’ll love it.
Edited to say: Spoilery comments, more so than this review, so beware! Also, I thought the nicknames were stupid, too.
