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Reflective Essay The great backslash in 1979

Caryl, Christian. “1979: The Great Backlash”. Retrieved October, 25th 2009 from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/18/the_great_backlash_1979
Pauker, Guy J. “Indonesia 1979: the record of three decades”. Retrieved November, 8th 2009 from http://www.jstor.org

All the great things in the world must have certain reasons. The fall of Soviet Union, the capitalization in China, and the shifting power from the west to the east, don’t they have any trigger? Christian Caryl, a contributing editor of Newsweek, says in his article titled “1979: The Great Backlash” that the most important moment that effect the world condition nowadays is in 1979. This is year when Ayatollah Khomeini seized the Syah Iran to bring the Islamic Revolution, and built the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this year also Den Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher reform the economic system to be more liberal. The other happening that also brought the great effect is the pilgrim of Pope John Paul II to Poland that initiated the Central Europe countries struggle against the communism system, and at the end, demolished the Soviet Union in 1989. However, what happen in Indonesia at that very important year?
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Simbolisasi Kehidupan Multikulturalisme dalam Serial Avatar the Legend of Aang

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Tak ada sesuatu yang tercipta di dunia ini dan tak memiliki makna. Tiap partikel dalam alam semesta ini, telah tercipta untuk suatu tujuan. Mereka saling jalin-menjalin membentuk suatu kompilasi makna. Bahkan sebuah titik yang dipercikan oleh kuas pelukis, memiliki makna besar bagi keseluruhan hasil goresannya. Sama halnya ketika kita menikmati sebuah karya baik itu puisi, cerpen, musik, atau film. Tiap detail yang disuguhkan oleh karya tersebut sudah barang tentu memiliki suatu symbol sebagai petanda sebuah makna. Layaknya dalam film, tiap tokoh atau peristiwa merupakan petanda akan sesuatu lebih dalam. Tidak hanya film dengan pemeran manusia, kartun atau animasi pun kaya akan simbol yang dikreasi bukan tanpa tujuan oleh pembuatnya. Dalam tulisan ini, kita akan mencoba menginterpretasikan symbol-simbol kehidupan multikulturalisme dan konsep relasi kuasa yang terdapat pada serial animasi Avatar the Legend of Aang.
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Kritik feminisme pada cerpen Perempuan Sinting di Dapur

Ketika mendengar kata perempuan, maka di benak kita akan terlintas kata-kata seperti lembut, cantik, lemah, manja, penurut, dan seterusnya. Bagi masyarakat pada umumnya, konsep ini dimaklumi sebagai sesuatu yang kodrati bagi seorang perempuan. Kaum esensialis pun seperti para pemuka agama dan masyarakat turut mendukung bahwa atribut-atribut yang melekat dalam konsep seorang perempuan adalah sesuatu yang kodrati atau alamiah dikarenakan factor biologis sebagai perempuan itu sendiri.
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Perempuan Sinting di Dapur

Cerpen oleh Ugoran Prasad

Dinanti-nanti matinya, Wak Haji Mail malah mulai mengigau. Semula tak seorang pun menangkap apa yang dikatakannya. Kupikir bukan tak bisa. Tak mau, lebih tepatnya. Aku sendiri, begitu diizinkan mendengar langsung segera mencerna, bukan kata, melainkan sepotong nama. Gumam ini berulang di antara tarikan nafasnya yang payah. Saodah.
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Ariel and the Ads of Sunsilk Shampoo

Nowadays, advertisement is something important to the mostly of mass media, especially television. As the media that combine sound and visual matter, television become the most effective place to inform people about something (widyatama, 2005). The ads supports the television station by sponsoring some programs provided. As the compensation, the company or institution that pays certain television station to put their ads on it will get more customers who see the ads. Moreover, the advertiser also makes the ads as attractive as possible, and one of the tricks is by using a celebrity or public figure as the model (warto, 2007). This strategy is used to construct a certain image toward the product (suasana, 2001). However, there is also some deviation which is used by the advertiser to strengthen the message from the commercial. One of the recent examples can be seen at the Sunsilk shampoo ads. Instead of using perfect woman as the main figure, this ads brings the handsome vocalist Ariel Peterpan. This tactic must have particular reason to increase the product selling indeed. In this essay, we will see the effect of the ads in constructing the gender identity to woman as the main consumer of the product, and also, How Ariel as the main figure impact the women position in gender relationship.
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Universitas Indonesia Turns to a Liberal Arts College?

In recent years, there is an issue in Indonesian academic to apply the Liberal Arts Education method in universities. This idea comes among the lot of criticisms toward the national education system. Some people say that our current curriculum or system does not build the students to be well-rounded person. School or college are considered just teaching one major, and forces the student to become experts in that place without mastering the other things. Also, they believe that students can not only take a number of classes which are directly related to the student’s career goal. They argue that Students should also study other lectures outside the major. It’s aimed to create students who are able to do multitasking job, so they will always be ready whatever the field is. The Rector of Universitas Indonesia, Prof. Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri, also has an interest on the Liberal Arts method. Just after the inauguration of being the rector of Universitas Indonesia, he stated his intention to apply the method in the university. However, we also need to consider the objective of Liberal Art Education with the demand of the global world toward the skillful workers nowadays. This essay will discuss whether the Liberal Arts education is still relevant to be applied in Universitas Indonesia as the first class university in Indonesia by considering the job competition, educational fund, and the human resources availability.
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Ibu, I miss You so Much

Diambil dari Milis Resonansi 2003, membuatku menitikan air mata. astagfirullah.. astagfirullah.. astagfirullah..
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Hukum kekekalan energi dan semua agama menjelaskan bahwa apapun yang kita lakukan pasti akan dibalas sempurna kepada kita. Apabila kita melakukan energi positif atau kebaikan maka kita akan mendapat balasan berupa kebaikan pula. Begitu pula bila kita melakukan energi negatif atau keburukan maka kitapun akan mendapat balasan berupa keburukan pula. Kali ini izinkan saya menceritakan sebuah pengalaman pribadi yang terjadi pada 2003.
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Puisi Matahari

Seberkas garis menembus jendela berterali.
Merambatkan gelonbang-gelombang tranversal pagi di pipi lembut seorang putri.
Dikala ia membuka matanya, segenap alam berseri menari.
Angin bernyanyi, tetes embun meniti.
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