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Prosecutors Vow to Swiftly Bring Ahok Case to Court

Good morning, Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to fifth minutes with me Laila Eka in BBC News with the best news about Prosecutors Vow to Swiftly Bring Ahok Case to Court.

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) Junior prosecutor for general crimes, Noor Rahmad vowed that his institution would bring Jakarta Governor Ahok's blasphemy case to court as soon as possible. He said prosecutors would directly examine whether alleged blasphemy fulfilled all requirement set on inthe Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP). One the case dossier examination was finished.

In the middle of November, Ahok expressed his hope that his case would be brought tocourt soon, so people can witness a live trial and he believes that he is not guilty.

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Synopsis Novel

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

John Green

The main characters in this novel are Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. Hazel Graze Lancaster is the girl that diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when she was thirteen. Because of her cancer, she uses a portable oxygen tank to breathe properly.  She never go out from her home. She always spend her time with reading book, and thinking about death. So, her mother suggest to her to attend Support Group . In support group, there are have some people who cancer survivors. She meet a teenage boy in the course of the meeting in Support Group. He is Augustus Waters. Augustus Waters is teenage boy had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but he is just in Support Group at Isaac’s request and also they are to support their mutual friend, Isaac. Isaac is the man who had a tumor in one eye and now he has to have his other eye taken out as well. After the meeting ends, Augustus approaches Hazel and tells her she looks like Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta. He invites Hazel to his house to watch and discuss their experiences with cancer. Hazel tells that she has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs meanwhile Augustus had osteosarcoma, but he is now cancer free after having his leg amputated.

Someday Augustus invites Hazel on a picnic, it turns out he's planned an elaborate Dutch-themed picnic where he reveals that a charitable foundation that grants the wishes of kids with cancer has agreed to grant his: he's taking the two of them to Amsterdam. She is thrilled, but when he touches her face she feels hesitant for some reason. Over time she realizes that she likes him a lot, but she knows she'll hurt him when she dies. She compares herself to a grenade.

In the midst of her struggle over what to do about Augustus, Hazel suffers a serious episode in which her lungs fill with fluid and she goes to the ICU. When she is released after a period of days, she learns that Augustus never left the hospital’s waiting room. The following day, Augustus confesses that while Hazel was in the ICU he had a body scan which revealed his cancer has returned and spread everywhere. They return to Indianapolis, and Hazel realizes Augustus is now the grenade. As his condition worsens he is less prone to his typical charm and confidence. He becomes vulnerable and scared, but is still a handsome boy in Hazel’s mind. Hazel recognizes that she loves him now as much as ever. Augustus’s condition deteriorates quickly. In his final days Augustus arranges a prefuneral for himself, and Hazel gives eulogies.Then, Augustus dies eight days later. She says how much she loves Augustus, and that she would not trade their short time together for anything in the world.

Summary Skripsi Teaching

Syahara, Fia Renny. 2012. Improving The Students' Grammar Mastery Through EGRA Technique (A Classroom Action Research at The Class VIII E of SMPN 01 Jaten Karanganyar in the Academic Year of 2011/2012).

This thesis was about improving the students' grammar mastery through EGRA Technique to the class VIII E of students of SMPN 01 Jaten Karanganyar in the academic year 2011/2012. The purposes of this research is to find out whether EGRA Technique can effectively to improve the students grammar mastery. In this research,the researcher use classroom action research. It conducted in two cycle. Each cycle consist of six steps, they are  identifying the problem, gathering data, interpreting data, acting on evidence,evaluating result. The implementation of the teaching in cycle one included three meetings and in cycle two,included two meetings. The are two findings in this research, first is the improvement of students grammar mastery and the second is strengths and weakness of EGRA technique when it implemented in grammar class. The result in cycle one, there only 17 students from,the whole students totally 33 students or 52 percents that showed there activeness in grammar class, but in cycle two, almost all students totally 33 students or 91 percents showed their activeness in grammar class. So,the conclusion in EGRA technique effectively to class VIII E of SMPN 01 Jaten Karanganyar in the academic year 2011/2012.

Summary Journal Literature 3

Perez, Magdalena Lopez. 2016. A Place in Memory Spatial Features in the House on Arnus Square. International Journal of Language and Literature, Vol.4 No.1, (p: 49-53).

In this paper is about an analysis of the spatial features within the narrative framework of the novel  The House on Arnus Square (Samar Attar 1998),the English version of an Arabic original published ten years earlier entitled al-Bayt ft Sahat ' Arnus. This research is mainly focused on the representations the spatial elements carry out in the text in a diachronic way, with the purpose of exploring the limits between the objective and subjective levels combined by the author through personal reflections, the referents of which are in relation not only with historical realities but also with interferences coming from her own personal experiences. With the analysis of the spatial term 'house' and its projections, in the syntagma my Damascene house, it can check how the author develops this spatial element of the house within narrative framework of the novel The House on Arnus Square in a diachronic way. Then, she combines personal reflections and their referents which are in relation not only to historical realities but also to interferences coming from her own personal experiences. Therefore, we can establish the following link between    the house, the city of Damascus and the Syrian country.

Summary Journal Literature 2

Alami , Suhair Al. 2016. The Power of Short Stories, Novellas and Novels in Today’s World. International Journal of Language and Literature, Vol. 4, No. 1, (pp:21-35).

This paper highlights the significant role literature can play within EFL contexts. That focusing mainly on short stories, novellas and novels. A short story/novella/novel serves as a model and inspiration for language awareness, contributing to the development of language skills and elements. A short story, for instance, is a window to culture which immerses a reader into the world it depicts, surrounding him/her with its language and setting, and involving him/her with its characters, theme, plot, and etc. novels; novellas and short stories within EFL contexts can be considered of genuine
support to learners. The conclusion is  the utilization of a novel/novella/short story, instructors can launch students on a voyage of discovery that can help students master both language skills and elements. On a final note, a literary text should be approached as a valuable resource for an EFL student’s personal growth on his/her own.

Summary Journal Literature 1

Grenier , Joan. 2016. Late Medieval French Composite Poems. International Journal of Language and Literature, Vol. 4, No. 1, (pp: 1-12).

Three anonymous French poems from the late Middle Ages present an additional problem in the often frustrating job of assigning of authorship to early texts, to wit, they have a bi-partite structure that would seem to indicate that each poem is, in fact, an amalgamation of two separate works, thus may have been written by two different poets. Piaget’s original and unsubstantiated theory from 1894 that La Belle Dame was really a composite of two separate works is now underpinned with manuscript, material and thematic evidence. Recent studies on poetic production in late medieval France, including Emma Cayley’s (2006) theory of “collaborative debating communities,” Adrien Armstrong’s (2012) “virtuoso circles,” and Jane H. M. Taylor’s (2007) “coterie poetics,” offer new ways to examine and understand their regularities in poetic structure that are found in La
Belle Dame, Le Dialogue, and Le Serviteur. At some point, a second poem on a similar theme, pre- or post-dating the first poem, with a thirteen-line stanzaïc structure and a “happy” ending, was either copied or bound immediately after the first poem to indicate that the two poems.

Summary Journal Linguistics 3

Arani , Shohreh Shahpouri. 2012. A Study of Directive Speech Acts Used by Iranian Nursery School
Children: The Impact of Context on Children’s Linguistic Choices. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, Vol. 1 No. 5, (p: 163-175).

This purpose of this study  was finding out the forms and functions of directive speech acts uttered by Persian-speaking children. The writer’s goal is to discover the distinct strategies applied by speakers of nursery school age children regarding three parameters: the choice of form, the negotiation of communicative goals within conversation, and the protection of face. The data collected based on actual school conversational situations that were audio recorded in four nursery schools during classroom work and playtime activities. The subject of this study is children, of both sexes, between 4-6 years old and various social classes but their ethnic backgrounds were the same. The data analysis of this study were with imperatives form that studies done by Anderson-Sloberg (1990) have shown that children direct many orders to other children, quite a lot to their mothers, but less to their father and adult interlocutors, interrogative, and declarative form.

Summary Journal Linguistics 2

Esmaeili, Saeed. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family and
Textbooks: Representation of Genderism. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, Vol 4, No 4, (p:55-61).

This study employed a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to investigate the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in Family and Friends 4, 5 and 6 that adopted van Leeuwen’s (1996) representational framework and Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2004) Transitivity Theory Model. For analyzing the representation of genderism, the researcher goes to reading section of each book. There were 4 extensive reading passages in grade 5 and 6, also 5 extensive reading passages in grade 4, and 14 reading passages in grade 4, 12 reading passages in grade 5 and 6. The findings may help EFL teachers, material developers and policy makers to be aware of equality/inequality issues in textbooks in order to make an equality perspective to learners. The data analysis of this study were 1. Deletion can be used to represent process of inclusion and exclusion. 2. Role allocation plays a significant part in critical discourse analysis as a discursive structure. 3. Transitivity. 4. Substitution. The conclusion is According to van Leeuwen framework it came out that the inclusion of male and female social actors is near to 4:1 and based on this claim, males participated much more than females. According of Halliday framework, it was revealed that there was no equality between male and female social actors in process type and most of material, mental, relational and verbal processes belonged to men.