Cherry Blossom Festival

United States of America is one of the most chosen destination for tourists since they have many attractions to offer from various different states and also the macro environment of the country itself. National Cherry Blossom Festival is one of the world’s famous annual festivals in Washington DC; this festival is a sign of spring and has a symbol behind it which makes this festival worth attending and nominated as one of world’s best festival.
Washington’s world famous annual National Cherry Blossoms Festival started in March 27, 1912 when Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo donated 3000 Japanese cherry trees or Sakura in Japanese as a gift to mature the growing friendship between United States and Japan. This festival is a Washington DC’s signature springtime event and as a representation of continuing friendship between the citizens of Japan and the United States. (National Cherry Blossom Festival 2007) This annual festival attract both residents and visitors for the reason that the festival features over 150 daily cultural performances by local, national and international entertainers and most of the festival events are free of charge.
In an highly individualism country like United States, big festivals can be considered as an effective tool to gather people together, working hand in hand just like the way Japanese do. All in all, the Americans sure can learn something from the Japanese from this festival. Not only this festivals will gather tourists from many different places together, but also the local residents a feeling togetherness for the sake of this annual festival.
In conclusion, National Cherry Blossom Festival is an important contributor to the wellbeing and way of life of communities in Washington DC. However, there are some points which need to be improved in order to make this annual festival attract more tourists such as the country political stability and more publication since it is an annual event, which means there is plenty of extra time for further in depth planning, organising and controlling.

American's Politic Attitude

The strangeness of American’s politic attitude to handle international problems has appeared and seen from long time ago. We could see how ‘heroic’ was America to interfere the internal conflict in Mozambique, Somalia. Instead of solving the problem, they made the problem more and more complicated. On the other hand, when many UN committees wanted to ban Israel for invading Palestine, America decided not to interfere the international crime by using veto rights.

Work-yourself-Out

Too lazy to exercise once or twice is tolerable, but be careful, if
you stay unmotivated everyday, you will totally forget exercise
routine. Look around you, there are various fitness center or gym
everywhere since being healthy is the lifestyle that is "hot" in this
day and age, by all means exercise is an important thing in your daily
or weekly schedule. Generally, exercising three times a week is good
for you as long as you maintain to do it every week without excuses,
but what you should do when you are simply weary? First, keep in mind
that you have a target, either to lose weight or to maintain your
fitness level. Moreover, mindset is important, the way you see things,
the way you think, is all that matters. Keep in mind, your body is
your own temple, thus you should take care you own temple. Second, get
yourself a "gym buddy" it could be you colleagues, and ask them to
join you. If you prefer not to have a "gym buddy", then get yourself a
personal trainer (PT), not only you will have a better training
schedule and extra reason to go to the gym because of the money you
spent to hire a PT, but also normally people attain their fitness
target faster with PT. Next, do not forget to take your beloved MP3
players such as iPod when you are exercising, be your own DJ and set
an energetic music to escort you jogging and let the sound of music
gets the best of you! Hence, remember that exercise is important,
stay motivated and remember your target, drink plenty of water, get
yourself a gym buddy or PT, turn on your iPod and start your work out!
Happy exercising! ☺

What British Music Has Become

As we all know that music industrial has spread globally through the world,
And I want to asure all of you people to hear quality music that I am going to recommend.

Today European music industry has become a big influence to people around the world, and what am I going to specifically recommend you is British music. Today the millions copy of british music cd’s has successly sold in Europe and other millions across Asia, America and Australia. These succesful achievement has shown that British music industry could compete equally against other music industries around the world. There are many artist that have been successful in the industry such as Oasis, Coldplay, Travis, Radiohead, Mika, Paulo Nutini, The kooks and many more. I am quite sure that some of you have heard about them, but what I personally recommend to you is Arctic Monkeys. Arctic Monkeys is a Rock alternative Band that instumented by guitar, bass and drum. Their music come with strong but gentle tone and rythm with alternative vocal and thick british accent. With it I was touched and out of a sudden I became a fan. To conclude, as their fans I recommend all of you to hear these artist that I have stated. In a free time I hope you could hear their music especially Arctic Monkeys, you should hear it.

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Nokia in Indonesia

Nokia has become the dominating brand of cell phone in Indonesia, followed by Sony Ericsson and Motorola. The reasons Nokia dominated the market lies on its superiority in programs and models. First of all, Nokia offers a lot of variety of programs to use from. It has from simple programs that people can use everyday such as calendar and alarm, to the most complicated program that a cell phone can offer by using the newest technology. Through all of its variety programs, Nokia is able to allow their users to choose which ever programs they need for their lifestyle; such as music phone, communicator, and camera phone. Secondly, Nokia’s phones are also superior in its models, more specifically in its styles. Most people in Indonesia, especially teenagers, see cell phone as part of their fashions. Even some believe that cell phone, just like cars, shows the social class of the user. Therefore, since Nokia has design a more stylish cell phone than all of its competitors, most people chooses Nokia on top of the other brands.
As a conclusion, because of its user friendly programs with a stylish design, Nokia has become the dominating brand of cell phone in Indonesia.

Benchwarmers

For some athlete, it's great to be a benchwarmers. In soccer, for example, a few of the team's benchwarmers enjoyed watching their teamates playing a competitive football, while he sit for the whole 90 minutes match, possibly, if they didn't got the chance to play from the coach. These kind of players, have all the best days of earning a blind income. The weekly salary for them, if they're an important or a star player, are based around $70,000. And the role-playing of them,were just sit and play in a few minutes, 1 time in a week, and then get the $70,000. How a waste of time was that! In addition, let us take a look at an example. The all time well-known player, Ronaldo, had a really wasted time when he was playing for Internazionale Milan, since he had a two-year injury blow. But it seems that he had no intention of playing anymore, for the reserves team, after his recovery proccess. The il phenomenon, then jumped to Real Madrid a few weeks after the world cup 2006. The total waste that Inter spends were around 8 million dollars. Unbelieveable! But however, not all of the benchwarmers enjoy to sit idle and earn a blind income. Some of them, who have a highly determined spirit, refuse to be the benchwarmers. There are a few causes for this case. First, they feel that being a benchwarmers are such a waste of time. They feel that they can't be a well-known and great player, if they were just sitting idle. Secondly, not all the benchwarmers had a higly paid salary. the non-star player, paid only around $5,000 to $10,000, and, to see that being a footballer was not a long time job, he understand that he have to come out to the pitch and play to show their talents, and then have a new contract and an improved salary. In conclusion, try to be a hardworking and key player for the team, unless you would be such a poor players, known as the benchwarmers.

The Great Sphinx of Giza

People had always admired The Great Sphinx for it’s truly remarkable. The Sphinx had represented the essence of the Egyptians for over thousands of years. It has a body of a lion and a head of either an Egyptian pharaoh or a God. The Sphinx is believed to symbolize strength and wisdom. The Sphinx has a length of 150 feet (45m) and is 14 feet (4m) wide. Until now, nobody really knows the builder of this exclusive figurine, but the most current and popular theory of the builder is held by the 4^th Dynasty King, Khafre (2558-2532 BCE). Between the paws of The Sphinx sits a stela which is usually mentioned as the ‘Dream Stela’. Did you know that The Sphinx is originally believed to be painted? It was alleged to be quite colorful but now it has become battered and ware out. The Great Sphinx is believed to be the most immense stone sculpture ever made by man. It is definitely a great work of art and I wish someday I would be able to see it with my own eyes or maybe even sit on the lion’s back.

The Cause of War

The blood's rushing, the pressure's too high, you can't stand it anymore and then you explode! Anger causes everything in your life, when everything goes wrong you'll be mad and your life started to become misserable and you just can complain about it. From the moment we can interact with other people, we struggle with anger, stress, and frustration. But, sometimes we forget that we've hurt someone when we're angry and that's the beginning of everything. What do you think causes war? It's anger. Right? All of the complains and anger you throw on everybody else didn't make the others like you, they even hate us for that. Anger is a natural emotion but we have to control anger before anger control us, you just have to learn to express your anger in the right way. The better way is to find out what triggers your anger and then solve the problem which keeping you angry from time to time, after that you can try to relax and breathe deeply until you calm down.

Study Abroad

Study abroad has become a trend among people. They usually recommended their children to study abroad after graduated from high school. In fact, only upper mid-level people that can afford to send their children to study abroad. Furthermore, The countries that mostly chosen for study abroad are China, Australia, USA, Singapore, etc. In Indonesia, graduates from overseas country will be easier to be accepted in a company than graduates from local university. In addition, Their parents also feel proud to see their children graduated from overseas country. As a conclusion, Study abroad is important for the brighter future.

Married for life?

In this modern era where people are more logical and practical, the idea of being married to one person for life has become a controversial topic to everyone. But if we may put aside all idealistic and religious or even moral considerations for a while, it is still a good arrangement to stay married to one partner for life. Firstly, couples should grow old together and take care of each other. This will results in the understanding of each other that long married couples would develop into a firm friendship which would ideally life long. In addition, seeing that they are of opposite sexes, they will complement each other. Another consideration is it is also cheaper to live with one person for life, especially for men. In fact, how many men have been ruined by divorce settlements? As a conclusion, divorcing and marrying again is like running two families and will lead to a lot of expenses, which few can afford and these are just few of other good and strong reasons why couples should be married for life.

Coffee for Your Vote

Coffee has the ability to make someone interested in the subject he or she doesn’t like. Researchers from Queensland University have found that some ingredients of caffeine in coffee can make someone interested to what he or she did not interested early.
This conclusion is made after a research was made. The research is that 140 students were asked about abortion and euthanasia. They were divided into two groups. Each was about was against their argument. One was given common orange juice and the other was given juice that has been mixed with caffeine. After drinking it, they were asked again about the same case. The result was they who drank the juice with caffeine inside changed their view. They agreed with what they were against before. So, if you want to make someone agreed with our opinion, try to give he or she some coffee.

Wireless Connectivity

     We know that a wireless connection is not an extra-ordinary thing today. First of all, a wireless connection is a wave-access that we can use for connect to the internet from PDA, Mobilephone, PC, PC-tablet, and many more. Wireless connection we can call it as a
"Wi-Fi" is a connection that always use by a businessman, 
businesswoman, campusboy, campusgirl, 
and many more that can't be write one by one in this paragraph. 
We can search anything of information what we want when we are using the internet, of course with the Wi-Fi connectivity. For your information, a place that have a Wi-Fi spot connection can be call as a "Hotspot". We can find that spot 
in specific place only. 
For example, in cafe, coffee shop, bars, lounge, campus, and many more.
In fact, many people in Jakarta need this connection for
business, browsing, and many more. Wi-Fi connection is
available if the place owner buy or rent a wireless connectivity from internet provider (IP).
In my humble opinion (IMHO), many teenager use Wi-Fi for gaming, and chatting.
In conclusion, we know that Wi-Fi become more important in the era of globalitation.

How to make an 'eggs in a basket’ ?

First of all we will need the ingredient, and they are 1 piece of bread, 1 egg, and oil, about the oil we will need it according to our pan the bigger pan is the more oil we need it so I suggest you to use a small pan but make sure it is still big enough so you can scoop up the oil. The first thing you need to do is pour the oil in to the pan but be careful make sure that the oil is slightly higher, slightly lower or the same height with the thickness of the bread, don’t forget to light the fire to heat it. Second we leave the oil to boil while we waiting, we prepare the bread and the egg. To prepare the egg we just need to crack it open and place it content in to a bowl and to prepare the bread we need a spoon press the canter of the bread with the spoon till it make a shape like a saucer enough make sure you didn’t make a hole at the canter. And third after everything is done , what I mean is the oil is boil and the bread and the egg were prepared, put the bread in the pan, make sure the hollow canter is facing up then put the egg on top of the bread right in the bread’s bowl like shape. Finale we reach the last point take the oil from around the bread and pour it on top of the egg repeat this action till all the top of the egg turn white then turn it up side down and wait till it done then serve it and eat it while it still hot. And that is how to make a 'eggs in a basket’

MUSIC

Music is the universal language that unifies all people in the world. First of all, people can understand the beauty of music regardless of their race and nationality. For example, European or American tourists in Bali can really enjoy the Balinese atmosphere because of the Balinese traditional gamelan music. Secondly, music also enables the mixing between Western and Asian culture, creating a wonderful harmony together. A prime example is Bob James’ album, “Angels of Shanghai” where he cooperated with a Chinese Orchestra to produce unique ethnic-jazz fusion. Thirdly, music contributes a lot to the peace of humanity. Popular songs such as “Heal The World” and “Ebony and Ivory” have raised people’s concern about the importance of interracial unity. Lastly, the rapid development of technology enables people from different cultural backgrounds to share music easily by using the internet.This is the proof that humans perceive music as a collective matter that belongs to everyone regardless of their race and culture. As a conclusion, music is definitely an essential language to maintain harmony in our beloved mother earth.

Imbalance Social in Jakarta

Many Indonesian people live in poverty condition, but not a bit of us also live in glamour lifestyle.
Everyday we can see a lot of homeless people spread around the outskirts of city. They are willing to do anything so they can survive in this city. They become singing beggars, vendors, bus driver, or maybe some of them become robbers. Sometime they feel hungry and thirsty but they can’t buy anything because they out of money. On the other hand, some of rich people in this city live extravagantly. They could spend millions money just for the unimportant thing, like shopping brand stuff, one night party, or maybe only for one set menu in expensive restaurant. Some of rich people like to show off their capital and try to make other people envy and this condition can bring to social jealousy.
In conclusion, rich people should be more generous and give some of their money to the poor people so the social economic condition in Jakarta not seems unbalance significantly.

Developed and Developing countries

There are two types of countries. Developed and developing countries. Each has its own characteristics

A developed country has a high GNP per capita, as they have educated population. Their inflation rate is well controlled. As a result, they have a mild inflation that can attract investment, and create job opportunity, which will lead to low unemployment rate. Which will then resulted to a surplus in current account as well as reserves. Developed countries mainly have a secondary or tertiary sector in their economic structures. They also have a low birth rate because, they are too busy with their career, and high live expectancy rate because of high technology in medical system and low number of people per doctor. They also have a income equities, which forem a diamond shape of incoe distribution chart.

Where as, in developing countries, the GNP per capita is very low. Because most of their economic structures are in primary sector, due to their resident are not well educated. Developing countries also have a high and fluctuating inflation rate, which causes investor refuse to invest in the country. This will lead to a high unemployment rate and will lead to a deficit n current account as well as reserves. They usually have a high birth rate because they are not well educated. They also have a low life expectancy because they have a low technology in medical system as well as less educated people, so there are fewer doctors. developing countries has inequalities in income, therefore they formed a piramid shaper of income distribution chart.

Tsunami disturbance

Tsunami is a giant wave with height 5 until 10 meters and may be higher.
It’s caused by sudden earthquake that moves earth’s plates and make ocean disturbance.
The water moves towards the coast and will make dangerous disaster.
It will cause lost of property an loss of human life.
Economics of the place will affected and spread of the disease. Japan is the country in the world that often strike by the tsunami. But they already find a way to prevent them. Last tsunami attack comes to our very own country Indonesia especially in Aceh.
First it caused by the huge earthquake and then followed by tsunami. Indonesia citizen wasn’t aware of it until the disaster comes. Many loss of property and human life.
This shows us that tsunami may bring dangerous effect to our country even our province.

Soccer League

Soccer league is a competition of a soccer teams. They compete each other against different teams, they compete in a league that consists of 20 teams. Each time they won, they will get 3 points, 1 points if draw, yet a 0 point if they lost. Each country divided the league into 3 division, the first division, second divison, and third division, but each of them have their own league's name. There are many different leagues in different country, we called the England league by Premiere League, while the Italian league is called Serie A, and many more. There also a champions league, it consists of 4 team from each european country, and the teams are at the top 4 of their league, they are divided into 8 groups consists of 4 teams. To sum up, each country have their own league, and they can compete against other teams in champions league.

Water

Water is one of the most important natural sources in the world and also one of the biggest earth disasters. In our daily life, water is an essential substance. We use water for drinking, taking a bath, cooking and much more. However water is used more than that, water can also be dangerous in our life; water can also serve as a natural beauty of the earth. The natural beauty that we have now, mostly originates from water. Waterfalls, oceans, lakes, rivers and many more are some of the example of earths’ magnificence. Aquatic animals needs water to live, so water is also needed for our sources of food, earth needs water to grow trees and plants and animals needs water to re-hydrate themselves. Further use of water than the usefulness and the beauty of water, water can also destroy our environment in disaster, such as, tsunami, flooding or rainstorm and many more. Water is an essential source in our life; however it can also be the cause of catastrophe in our life too.

Cell Phones

Cell phone is a mobile communication device that has many functions. The main function is to communicate with each others that far away from us. We can communicate with each other wherever we are. For example, if we need to buy something from some place, we won't need to go to that place. We just need to call and order something like food or anything else. As technology is getting higher day by day, we can use cell phone to see each other which is called video call. We can see someone we want to see even though he/she is thousand or even million miles away. The new technology called GPS is really helpful. We could know where we are, but we cannot depend on that thing. The other function is to send messages. With text message, people can easily communicate each other instead of via voice communication which is more costly. Not only communication but also other services such as gaming or music media that cell phone offer. As a conclusion, there are many function of using cell phones.

Air pollution in Indonesia

Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Indonesia experienced significant environmental degradation due to the increasing population.

Air pollution is Indonesia's most serious environmental problem.
Motor vehicles are one of the main sources of air pollution in Indonesia especially in Jakarta.
Forest fires also contribute to air pollution in Indonesia. These fires were resulted from illegal logging of Indonesia's rain forests. Nearly 10 million hectares were burned, producing a haze that impacted the neighboring countries like Singapore and Malaysia.
Other sources of pollution are Indonesia’s industrial sector. They release dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere.

To control the air pollution in Indonesia, The Blue Sky Program was initiated by the government to improve air quality in Indonesia's five largest cities: Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, and Medan.

Friendship

Friendship is one of the most precious thing in our life. Although we can't measure it with tangible things like money or other things but as the matter of fact , friendship is an important aspect in our life. Friendship could be define as a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans. Therefore all people in this world have friends to share with each other. They could share about their problems, hapiness,sadness,etc to each other because to make friends and have a good relationship with your friends is such a wonderful thing. For examples, when i have a problem and then i don't know what should i do then my friend will help me to solve my problem and then there's some situation when i fell so sad but then they could understand my feelings. When u face a hard time, they will be there for you,will help you come out from your sorrowness and will keep moving on with you. Therefore, friendship has become our part in our life which might be full with a lot of undescribeable things but for sure it'll create an unforgetable event in your life. So in the end, friendship has become a part in our life that we couldn't separate it.

Pyschology

Psychology is the minor point that people in this world has not realized yet. Psychology itself is the simple word that describes the study of soul and human behavior. Today as the world keeps changing; improving, and updating, people tend to have more stressful thinking. It is caused by the mental destruction. For example, people always have motivation in their life, especially competing in their business world. They are to busy to reach their goal and ignored some part of their life. Psychology is the one that will help them finding their own self back, make them relaxed, listen to their every problem and tell them how to balance their complicated life. In other meaning, psychology is the perfect answer for those people who also have mental illness and a good listener for people who have undefined problems.

Inflation

Inflation can be defined as the general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. Inflation is one of the economic indicators affecting economic growth. High inflation means low economic growth, and low inflation means high economic growth. There are several effects that caused by inflation. And they are the increase in unemployment, decrease in demand at the market, and a decrease in the business and consumer confidence to invest. Firstly, inflation can caused an increase in unemployment. Since the increase in price is making everything is more expensive, the economic activity is decrease since people couldn't afford to buy things for their needs. Because of it, business institutions have to let go some of their labours to close the losses that were made. Secondly, the demand in the market will fall since as stated before, poeple couldn't afford to satisfy their needs. In addition, this effect will also make the economic growth is falling. And lastly, inflation also make the business and consumer confidence to invest is dropping. In short, it means that the interest rate in the market is decreasing. Since that, it also support the economic activity to go down. In conclusion, there are 3 effects of inflation that could happen. And they are the rise in unemployment, decrease in demand, and the decrease in the interest rate.

Global Warming

Global warming has become one of the major issues that concern the world. As we know, Global warming is a process that results to increase of average temperature in Earth. The continuous rise of temperature can lead us into major disaster such as, death of living things and extreme weather situation. Global warming is majorly caused by greenhouse effects. In addition, Global warming also caused by deforestation and pollution occured by human. Furthermore, We can decrease the level of global warming by planting more trees, using conserved energy instead of fossil energy, and make less pollution. In conclusion, We have been warned by some early effects of global warming. We have to immediatelly action to stop all of the activities that can encourage global warming, Save our planet, before it's too late.

Rottweiler

Rottweiler is one of the inteligent dogs in the world. This breed originally came from a small town in Germany called Rottweil. Since 1900s rottweiler has been used to help people, usually farmers in Germany, for example it can pull a cart, and guard the farm territory. With its huge figure (60-68 cm tall for a male or 50-56 cm tal for a female),weigh about 45 to 60 kg, black coat with brown markings on its eyebrows and chests make the dog suitable as a guard dog. Because of its highly inteligence, rottweiler can be trained so easily for obidience and guarding. Nowdays many police departements in the world are using rottweiler to help the police works such as tracking boms or drugs , and fire departement using it to help searching fire victims who's trapped in buildings when fire occured. Usually it needs 1 year training to be ready as a police dog or security dog. Moreover rottweiler can live as a family dog because its characteristics are gentle, very loyal to its master and usefull to guard a house. In short, besides as a working dog rottweiler is known as a house dog and in terms of its intelegence rottweiler can be very usefull to human kind. So these kind of potentials that it has make rottweiler is one of the smartest dogs on earth.