My Analytical Exposition Text

Why Exercise is Important

The majority of us claim that we do not have time for doing exercises. We are too busy with our activity so that we cannot to do that thing. However, many experts said that exercise has a great role in making our healthy body.

Being physically active offers many advantages. In physical reword, exercise can reduce weight then our body will become fitter. Exercise is also believed to reduce stress levels, improve sleep patterns, and reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer. Beside physical advantage, exercise also brings good effects mentally. Due to the fitter body, exercise can make us feel refreshed and happy then we can increase our quality of life and expectancy.

How can we do exercise while we are busy? Such question is commonly found among us. Actually, exercise can be done in simple ways. We can go walking while shopping. In the office, we can take the stairs rather than the lift to run up and down. Alternatively, we can go cycling while enjoying our leisure time.

Overall, exercise helps us to be healthier on our physical and mental. That is why exercise is very important to us to do.

My Review Text

An Inspirational Value of
“Semangat Hidup Seorang Tuna Wicara”

“Semangat Hidup Seorang Tunawicara” is very interesting and make us so surprised. It gives us an inspirational value of life to be strong even though we have disability. This video was created by Aprilia Nur Andini. The genre of this video is a documentary video, which tells us about a strong figure of deaf person’s life. Comparing to another documentary video, this video has a good description of the figure with a very detail explanation and trusted sources.

This video represents the real life of a dump collector. In this video, we can see many difficulties faced by Tarko and how he accepts his condition sincerely. Every day, he goes to work in the early morning until the sun sets. He is responsible for his beloved wife and daughter. Even though many people insult him, he still try to do his best for his life and family. We can also see in the video other person’s comment about him. She said that sometimes, Tarko was funny and annoying because he did not always hear what people said to him. On the other hand, he was a hard worker and responsible person.

As a descriptive perspective, we can see how Aprilia created this video with a very minimalized but clear message giving. She gave the story in an appropriate setting when all of the video has set in TPS in Jakarta. This is the place where the source of this inspirational video work. Aprilia also took some sources of Tarko’s life from his friend or working pals. She also took some picture of Tarko’s deaf wife and normal daughter as a description for his family condition. The narration for the video are also quite clear to open people mind about how to be motivated from Tarko’s life with some classical music to make us easy to flow with the story.

This clear explanation from the video can give a good motivation to normal people to be more thankful of their normal condition. This video also can become a media for people to reflect on their own life. Therefore, people who watch this video can introspect themselves on what things they had got before. If this disable people can do something like what normal people can do, even better, why the normal people cannot do something same.

This video is really recommended for people who lost their motivation of life. The hope from watching this video is that many people could watch it because of the moral value inside of the video. It could be inspired by the figure of Tarko who fight for his life even if he had a disability to do his job , and it could make people aware not to make a disability as a barrier of people to do the best for their life.

My Discussion Text

Junk Food

Junk food is a kind of food that people usually eat which is prepared and served quickly. There are many kinds of junk food that we can find easily such as: hamburger, French fries, instant noodle, gorengan and so on. Nowadays, junk food becomes a popular food because it is very practical. We can find junk food everywhere such as on the edge of the road. Junk food has a cheap price because it is made of cheap ingredients such as high fat meat, refined grains, added sugar and fats. Busy people usually eat junk food to fulfill their need without thinking further about the nutrition and the effect. They just fill their body with such kind of junk foods.

 Actually, many people consume junk food because they just think that junk food is more practical for their busy life. They also can find this kind of food everywhere. It is much easier to prepare junk food or order it from junk food restaurant than to prepare and cook food because junk food is more fast and simple. We can also get this kind of food with a cheap price. Besides that, people also think that junk food has a good taste.

However, junk food has a negative effect if consumed over. Many people believe that junk food can make a lack of nutrition that are needed by our body. It is also unhealthy because most of junk food always contains dangerous additive substrate that can disturb our health. The additive substrate such as MSG (monosodium glutamate) has known can effect serious illness like cancer and so on. No food is good for you if you do not balance your diet and eat a variety of food. Junk food also increases cholesterol and should be avoided if you suffer with high blood pressure of cholesterol problems.

Because of this pros and cons about junk food, the people should care about what they consume. Even if they consume junk food, they must know the save standardization to consume junk food and balance it by eating healthy food. Therefore, the negative effect of the junk food can be minimalized. It will be better for you if you choose to consume healthy food than junk food.

My Hortatory Exposition Text

Dangerous Fake Meatball

            Nowadays, a meatball becomes a favorite food for everyone because of its taste, which is very delicious. We can find meatball seller wherever we go because of the big profit we get if we sell it. It makes few people do cheating in making the meatball in order to get a big profit itself. They add some formalin and borax just for making the food looks beautiful. Although they know about the bad effects of substances, they still do it.

            First, as we know that formalin is used for preserving a corpse. Imagine if we consume it, automatically, we have poisoned from that substance. From the research stated that formalin is one of carcinogen compounds that trigger the growth of cancer. Actually, the use of formalin is for preserving the dead body but they use it for preserving the meatball and to make it looks more beautiful.

            Second, besides using formalin they also use borax, which is added in the meatball. Actually, the use of borax is for chemical material like anti-rust agent and material for dentures. If we consume a meatball that contains a borax, so it will be very dangerous for our health. It will cause many diseases for our body such as an inflammation of the digestive track and makes our tissue to be broken. They use borax just for making the meatball become elastic and more beautiful.

            Both formalin and borax are not appropriate to be used in a food. Those substances are very dangerous for our body if we consume it. We have to be selective when we choose the healthy meatball to be consumed. The hygiene place is very important to be considered when we eat the meatball. 

My News Item

“Nawa Cita”, Nine Priority Agenda of Jokowi-JK

http://www.indonesiapolitik.halsatu.com/?p=26

         Couples Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla planned nine priority agenda if elected President and Vice President. Nine programs were called Nawa Ideas. This program was initiated to indicate the priority of the change towards a sovereign Indonesia politically, as well as independent in the field of Economics and personality in culture. Here is the crux of the nine programs abstracted from the site www.kpu.go.id.

1. Bring back the state to protect all people and provide security to all citizens, through the free and active foreign policy, national security and the development of reliable national defense Tri Mantra based integrated national interests and strengthen its identity as a maritime nation.
2. Making the government do not miss to build clean governance, effective, democratic, and reliable, by giving priority to efforts to restore public confidence in democratic institutions to continue the consolidation of democracy through electoral reform of the party system, and representative institutions.
3. Build Indonesia from the periphery to strengthen the rural areas and within the framework of a unitary state.
4. Refusing the weak state by system reformation and law enforcement that is free of corruption, dignified, and trustworthy.
5. Improving the quality of human life by improving the quality of Indonesian education and training program "Indonesia Pintar"; and increase social welfare program "Indonesia Work" and "Prosperous Indonesia" by supporting land reform and land ownership program 9 acres, country house series programs or subsidized cheap flats and social security for the people in 2019.
6. Improving people's productivity and competitiveness in the international market so that people of Indonesia can move forward and stand up with other Asian nations.
7. Realizing the economic independence by moving sectors of the domestic economy.
8. Revolutionizing the character of the nation through a policy of realignment of the national education curriculum with advanced aspects of civic education, which put in proportion aspects of education, such as teaching the history of the formation of the nation, the values of patriotism and love of country, passion and character to defend the state in the Indonesian education curriculum.
9. Strengthening the diversity and strengthen the social restoration of Indonesia through strengthening the education policy and representing a diversity of spaces of dialogue between residents.

taken from www.kompas.com

My Explanation Text

How a Human Heart Works

Heart is one of vital organs of a human, which has the important role to pump blood throughout the blood vessel to various parts of the body by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The average human heart, beating at 72 beats per minute, will beat approximately 2.5 billion times during an average 66 year lifespan, and pumps approximately 4.7-5.7 liters of blood per minute. Therefore, this is why the heart is very important. However, how does it work?

The human heart has four chambers, two superior atria and two inferior ventricles. The atria are the receiving chambers and the ventricles are the discharging chambers. During each cardiac cycle, the atria contract first, forcing blood that has entered them into their respective ventricles, then the ventricles contract, forcing blood out of the heart. The pathway of the blood consists of a pulmonary circuit and a systemic circuit, which function simultaneously. Deoxygenated blood from the body flows via the vena cava into the right atrium, which pumps it through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle, whose subsequent contraction forces it out through the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary arteries leading to the lungs. Meanwhile, oxygenated blood returns from the lungs through the pulmonary veins into the left atrium, which pumps it through the mitral valve into the left ventricle, whose subsequent strong contraction forces it out through the aortic valve to the aorta leading to the systemic circulation.

This is the entire process how a human heart works. 

My Procedure Text

How to make Rujak Bebek Tradisional

Goal: Rujak Bebek Tradisional

Materials	Seasonings
1.     A noni 2.     A papaya leaf 3.     A peeled raw cassava 4.     A banana bud 5.     A pineapple 6.     An orange leaf 7.     A yam bean	1.     3 chilies 2.     ½ spoonful of salt 3.     ½ shrimp paste 4.     2 garlics 5.     ½ brown sugar 6.     Tamarind 7.     A handful of fried peanuts

Procedure:

1. Slice all of the materials and wash them cleanly.
2. Put chili, salt, and garlic into the pounder and pound them until mixed well.
3. Put shrimp paste, brown sugar, tamarind, and fried peanuts to the mixture before, and pound them all together.
4. Pour the sliced fruits to the pounder and pound them as like as you want.
5. Serve it in a plate.

My Descriptive Text

My House

Everyone surely wants to have a beautiful house for his or her living. It can make them life peacefully, feel safe, and it can protect them from the hardness of climate. So do I, my house is my beautiful place and my convenient place I have ever had. Although it is just common house and simple, but it can make me feel enjoy when I live there. My house is in Cilacap. In my house actually there are seven people include my mother, my old brother, his wife, three nephews and I.

My house is large enough. It consists of some rooms. They are living room, bedrooms, middle room, bathrooms and kitchen. As my house is a traditional house, it is still use board for the wall although it has been renovated few years ago. The floor of my house has used tiles. Then I will describe about my living room first. In this room, there are many chairs and tables and in the wall, there are some calligraphies. In this room, also there is my brother’s bedroom. The next room is middle room. In here, there are three bedrooms, a television, two wardrobes, and two cupboards. Besides all of that, there are two beds that are usually used for gathering if we have free time. Usually we watch television together in this room. Then the next room is the kitchen. In this room, there is a gas stove and also there are two fireplaces that sometimes are used when there is a big event that is held every month. Then the next room is bathrooms. In here, also there is a well that is used for washing the clothes and for being consumed. My house has a large yard. We arrange the yard with gravel to make it more beautiful and tidy. Beside my house, there is a garden that is planted with fruit plants like banana, coconut, rambutan, mango, and guava. Although there are many plants there, the kids like playing football because of the flat land and also large. After that, there is also a fishpond behind my house. Sometimes I waste my free time for fishing. That is all about my home.

My Report Text

Laptop

A laptop is a portable computer, which is used to make it easy for the user to be brought everywhere because of the slim body of it and lighter than monitor computer. They are also sometimes called notebook computers or notebooks. Laptops are commonly used in a variety of settings, including work, education, and personal multimedia.

A laptop combines the components and inputs as a desktop computer; including display, speakers, keyboard, and pointing device such as a touchpad, into a single device. Most modern-day laptop computers also have a webcam and a microphone pre-installed. A laptop can be powered either from a rechargeable battery, or by mains electricity via an AC adapter. Laptops are a diverse category of devices, and other more specific terms, such as ultra books or netbooks, refer to specialist types of laptop which have been optimized for certain uses. Hardware specifications change vastly between these classifications, forgoing greater and greater degrees of processing power to reduce heat emissions.

My Narrative Text

The legend of Wijaya Kusuma flower in Cilacap

            Once upon a time in CIlacap, there was a sprig of flower that was never wilted all season. A rare flower that, allegedly, not only curing a variety of disease, but also reviving the dead body. People earlier believed that the origin of the magic flower was from the stamens of Wijaya Kusuma Flower that belonged to the Lord Vishnu in heaven, which fell and grew in the world. The flower of the Gods which later sought to become an amulet that its owner would be immortal in the world.

            At one time, the King of the land of Java dreamed of finding Wijaya Kusuma flower which grew in a coral island in the South Sea. He had a dream that he could not die if he got it. The next day, the King immediately called the entire of trusty retainer. They were instructed to pluck Wijaya Kusuma flower, which grew up on the coral island in the South Seas, which was known as Badong coral island. One of the adviser said to the King that it could not be plucked at any time because it could be plucked when the climate was good and the South Seas were quiet. However, the King did not listen for the advice.

              Finally, without being able to resist the King’s command, a troupe of royal retainer left the Palace to go to the South Seas. In fact, they went with misgivings and fear. Officers of the Place has said that anyone who violated the restrictions would get a plague, not longevity.

           Arrived on the coast of the southern sea, their feelings grew wryly. When the waves of the South Seas were very high as a hill, they became very afraid. Badong coral island was in the middle of the ocean; sometimes it appeared and sometimes vanished hindered by the wave. That situation was not the appropriate time to conduct the King’s command.

            In the middle of bewilderment and despair, they saw a fisherman sat brooding while staring at the sea. The retainers of the kingdom immediately approached him and asked why he sat alone there. He was contemplating his fate. As a fisherman but he did not have a ship. Then, the retainers of the kingdom offered the man to pluck the flower and he would be given many rewards.

           Finally, he went there because he was interested in the reward he would get. By borrowing his brother’s ship, he encouraged himself passed the violently waves of the South Seas to Badong coral Island where wijaya Kusuma flower was. The fisherman really exerted all his skill and courage in order to get to the Badong coral island. After arriving there, the fisherman quickly climbed the cliff he could pluck that rare flower.

            After getting it, suddenly he saw there were many terrified faces of demon around him who wanted to get the flower too because of its power. They wanted to grab it but the fisherman could run away from the crowd of demon with his chopping knife to go to the boat. However, how disappointed he was, when he saw his boat was hit by strong waves to pieces among the coral. He was very afraid and thought how about his fate if he was killed by the demon of the Badong coral island. Finally, when the demons who chased him getting closer, the fisherman had no choice anymore then he dabbled into waves that run down. However, because of his spirit made him not to give up. With all his might, he grabbed a swim board that apparently came from the fragments of his boat. It made him safe from the waves.

            In the next day, the retainer of the kingdom found him with a sprig of flower in his hand. However they did not take the responsible of him. Knowing the fisherman be dying, they just left him and took the flower from him without helping him.

            In the end, the King and the retainer of the kingdom got the curse because they had violated the restrictions. One by one the retainer of the Kingdom dead without any clear reason while the King itself became mad and left the palace. The fisherman who so cursed the King because of his betrayal, eventually could still be grateful. Although he did not get the ship but he was still safe. After that event, no one knew where the flower was. It disappeared mysteriously.

My Spoof Text

Missing Perception

Few years ago, when I was still in Senior High School, my friends and I went to some places around the Banyumas regency that we never visit before. I was so interested to join it because I thought that it would be the new experience for me and it would be the most unforgettable moment that I would pass. Coincidentally, it was a holiday of the school after we had a final examination so that we could go as for refreshing our mind. After doing preparation, in the next day we started to go. We had planned to go for visiting four places. The first place until the third place we did not miss the direction, but for the last place we missed the direction. It was in Baturaden, exactly when we through the small way that made us confused. For few hours, we just surrounded the place without any movement. Finally, we asked someone for showing the true way. Then we followed him. When asking him, we thought everything was all right and his answer could make us believed of him. However, for few minutes followed him, we also just surrounded the place as we have done before. We became suspicious of him after he said something weird as he mentioned his name even we did not ask him the name. Then, no longer after all, there was another one came to us and said that the man we had followed was an insane people. We were so amazed because we did not think so. His appearance was normal but in fact, he was insane. After that, all of us became laughing. It was beyond our mind. 

My Recount Text

Went to Indrayati beach in Yogyakarta

            Last December 2013, my friend and I went to Indrayati beach in Yogyakarta. We did it because it is just for refreshing our mind after feeling bored of many assignments. After having a lot of planning about the places we would visit and the goods we had to bring, we finally decided to go at 04.00 P.M in the next day.

            In the next morning when all of my friends had been ready, they picked me up to my boarding house. However, at that time when they arrived, I was still sleeping deeply although they had woken me up many times by calling my phone. Then they entered my room so that they could wake me directly. As I was in hurry, I did not take a bath first and I just sprayed my body with a perfume. We went there by renting a car that we had booked before. There were seven people in the car. After a few minutes on trip, we stopped for a while for subuh pray before continuing our trip. As long as on the way, we met some accidents, like a motorcycle crashed with a car and I did not know about the condition of the victims. After at least four hours on trip, finally we arrived there. Tired of travelling was completely paid with the beauty of the beach. On there, we played with the sand and the waves. We also took a photo together and made the beauty of the beach as the background of our photo. After that, we ate together because we had not eaten before. We bought a meatball. It was very delicious because we were very starving. Then we continued playing with the waves. It made our pants wet whereas we did not bring another pants for changing. Therefore, we went home with a wet pant. While going home, we dropped in Malioboro for buying some merchandises. I bought “geplak” and “bakpia pathok”as the special food from Yogyakarta.

            I thought it was the best experience and the best moment I ever had. I hoped I could visit another places as beautiful as Indrayati beach.