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Suggestion and Offer Dialogue

Who's your pick? On a sunny afternoon, two girls sitting in a bench chit-chatting. They discussed so many things, from the latest gossip until the student president election next month. Joanne: "Ey who's your pick for the student president election?"  Hussey: "I don't know yet, it's between number 1 or 3"  Joanne: " Why don't you try the eenie meenie method, like how you always do on answering the answer sheets of your exam?" Hussey: "Why do I have a friend like you?  I don't think it's a good idea  considering how important this is" Joanne: "If I were you, I picked number 1" Hussey: "You're promoting your one-pick, aren't you? Joanne: "ehehe but you should consider it" Hussey: "What point do you have?" Joanne: "First, let me ask you. What criteria do you have?" Hussey: "Someone who is trustworthy and I don't know maybe a good person, nice and welcoming also...

Diponegoro War

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The Java War or Diponegoro War happened at Central Java in 1825 untill 1830. It was between the Dutch and the native Javanese rebels. It started as an outbreak led by Prince Diponegoro, a leading Javanese  society member that worked together with the Dutch before. The rebel forces were delayed by a blockade at Yogyakarta, stopping them from receiving an immediate win. This authorize the Dutch to raise and ship in new army. The rebels adopted guerilla tactics in fighting the dutch for several years. The Dutch won by betraying and capturing Prince Diponegoro in a Peace Conference. Led by the cost of the war, the Dutch colonial authorities did a major reforms throughout the Dutch East Indies to make sure that the colonies were profitable. The exact reason was the Dutch decision to built a road over Diponegoro's family graveyard. Amongst other causes was a sense of revenge felt by members of the Javanese royal families at Dutch restrict land rent with a high price. Fi...

A day with my friend at EduPassion : Daryaskara

The legend of Surakarta Palace

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The Legend of Surakarta Palace A king living in a very old palace in Kartasura just west of Surakarta in Central Java long, long ago wanted to move to “somewhere better”, but he had no idea where that was. "Hmm... I want to move from this palace to somewhere better, but how?" said the king to himself . After thinking different ways to find that “better” place, he chose to let an elephant decide. An elephant was let loose in the palace courtyard. The elephant wandered around the courtyard before going out of the palace grounds. Wherever it went, the king and his family followed. The elephant first stopped at the village of Kadipolo in Surakarta, so the king settled there and ordered his people to build a new palace in that village. "We will build a palace here" said the king. While the people were working on the palace, the elephant started to walk again, leaving Kadipolo and stopping at a place called Solo, still within the region of Surakarta. So...

How I spent my Holiday

Hellooo everybody It has been the third day from back to school and I already got used to it again. After 17 days of holiday which I spent mostly at home, sleeping. I would like to tell you how I spent and enjoy my holiday. I went to Bekasi for only 12 hours to accompany my grandma in visiting my cousin. We left Bandung at around 8 am by car with both of my parents, my sister, my grandma, and lastly myself. We stopped once at a rest area to bought coffee for my dad because he was sleepy when at the moment.  On our way to Bekasi, I ate snacks and drank milo .  As soon as we arrived at Bekasi, we went to our first visit. It was my grandma's older brother. We chatted a bit but, we were sort of in a rush because we will pray for the solar eclipse at noon. After that, we went to my grandma's younger sister's place to catch up on a few things because they haven't met in a while. After we pray for dzuhur and also the solar eclipse, we went to my cousin's house ...

KALOPSIA

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a night to remember • Place : 3 Senior Highschool • Participants : 3 Senior Highschool's students • Purpose : To increase student's bravery • Dresscode : Halloween costume • Structure of events - 17.00 : opening - 17.30 : free - 19.00 : gather to eat - 20.30 : go home THE presentation

Audrey Yu Jia Hui

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Audrey Yu Jia Hui Meet Audrey Yu Jia Hui, my inspirational person after my mom. She got viral because of her cleverness. I'm going tell a little bit about her. Audrey Yu Jia Hui or known as Maria Audrey Lukito was born on the first of may 1988 at Surabaya. She's well known because of graduating highschool at the age of 13, amazing right ? She finish elementary school in 5 years, junior high school in one year, and senior highschool for only 11 months. She was considered to smart and was admitted to a mental hospital. Her friends would mock her for being 'different'. When she was 12 years old and about to complete her senior year, difficuty started to come to her. No University in Indonesia who could accept a 13 years old. So her parents look for university who could accept Audrey whether it is at Indonesia or not. Audrey finally manage to find univertsity  that could accept her.  College of William and Mary at Virginia,study at Physics Majors  and ...