The Definition of Art--Revision

Art is one of the constructs that man developed to support values that exist apart from what he considered necessary for his physical survival or comfort—that is, those objects or experiences that produce as aesthetic response. The term art identifies certain objects or experiences as valuable because they are capable of eliciting human responses or judgments about qualities other than those normally associated with morality or the technologically purposeful. Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. It is also an expression of an idea and it can take many different forms and serve many different purposes. Although the application of scientific theories to derive a new scientific theory involves skill and results in the "creation" of something new, this represents science only and is not categorized as art. These qualities determine the aesthetic characteristics of an object or experience and, when recognized, cause the aesthetic reaction.

Somewhere Nowhere, BSD

If i asked by someone about my hometown, i really REALLY don’t know how to explain it. Part of it, maybe because i spend so little time in my parent’s hometown, and I think hometown is some place that I kind of ‘belong to’, so my parent’s hometown is not mine. Another part is because the hometown that I think I belong to, BSD, is kind of unfamous. Believe me.

I even get usual to describe it before they ask for more. This is one example of my conversation with my lecturer when we first met.

Lecturer : “Adiajeng Warastuti?”

Me : “Yes, sir”

Lecturer : “What school do you come from?”

Me ; “Santa Ursula, sir”

Lecturer : “oh, the one that only have female student, right?”

Me ; “No, sir. I was in Santa Ursula BSD.”

Lecturer : “BSD..”

Me : “Well, it is the one that has Ocean Park.”

Lecturer : “oh, I know Ocean Park, I ever watched it in Trans TV”

See what I mean?

Actually BSD is not just about the-wellknown-Ocean Park. Maybe you could called it more like a home complex than a city. But, like all those city, it has all the facility you need for living. It consist of houses, mallS, swimming pool, minimart, school, university, church, city’s garden, restaurant, and so much more.

But for me, the most important thing in this place is not about its facility. It is about my home, family, friends, school, childhood, memories. BSD is the place where I grow up. It save all of my memory since I was still cry for a cone of ice cream til i cry for a boy. Since my mom mad at me cause I haven’t had enough sleep (somehow back then I always have too much energy) til she mad cause I have too much sleep. Since I yelled to my brother how I hate him so til I cried to my brother begging him not to go anywhere (anyway He still go to his college in Singapore).

So whenever I go back to BSD, and see its malls, its houses, its street, its trees, I know for sure that I was seeing my ‘home’. The place that I kind of ‘belong to’.

Blood

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According to the Indonesian dictionary’s book, blood is the type of connective tissue with a fluid matrix called plasma in which blood cells are suspended. Our blood moves through our body in a set of tubes called blood vessel. At a glance, we can see that our blood is like a red liquid. But, if we know that our blood is not just a red liquid! It has a miracle function for our body. Everytime blood moves, it moves with carrying the essence of food and carrying the oxygen. Of course it will be worked in the different part of blood. The function of carrying the essence of food is worked by Plasma and carrying the oxygen is worked by hemoglobin in erythrocyte. In hemoglobin, there is an iron which helping to fasten and divorce the oxygen. There are other functions of blood. Blood can work as antibody and it can help us to cure when we have injury. It is so miracle!

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Tolkienology.

According to Wikipedia, Tolkienology is “a term used by Tolkien fans to describe the study of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien treating Middle-earth as a real world, conducting research from an ‘in-universe’ perspective”. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien himself is the world-renown author of some of the finest works in the fantasy literature genre, his works include The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkienology is different with the Tolkien Studies done by Tolkien literature scholars, because the study in Tolkienology was mostly done by the Tolkien fans. While the ‘serious’ Tolkien Studies talk about a wide range of his works, including letters, notes, non-fictional pieces, and short stories, Tolkienology mostly talks about his more publicly known works like the ones aforementioned. Tolkienology includes Tolkien linguistics studies (or studies of languages of Middle-earth, for example Quenya and Sindarin, and also the writing systems, for example the Feanorian Letters); genealogies of Hobbit families; accuracy of Tolkien’s calendars; morality issues of the stories; and so on. Arkasha 16107071.

Antibiotics

Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic medicine that inhibit and stop the infections of bacteria in our body. This medicine is used to kill bacteria that cause specific diseases, such as strep throat, ear infections, urinary tract infections, and sinus infections. Antibiotics can not kill virus, so antibiotics do not work against illnesses that are caused by a virus. They do not help illnesses such as common colds, influenza, most cases of acute bronchitis, most sore throats not caused by strep, and runny noses. Antibiotics must be used well. If we take antibiotics when we do not need them, they may not work when we do need them. Each time we take antibiotics, we are more likely to have some bacteria that the medicine does not kill. Over time these bacteria change (mutate) and become harder to kill. The antibiotics that used to kill them no longer work. These bacteria are called antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts is an action role-playing game developed and published by Squaresoft (now Square Enix) in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 and VGA video game console. This game is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines characters and settings from Disney's animated features with those characters from the Final Fantasy game series, that developed by Square. The main character in this action adventure genre game is Sora, a 14-year-old boy, together with his two closest friends, Riku and Kairi. He is joined by Donald Duck and Goofy, classic Disney characters, who help him on his quest. In addition, it had an all-star voice cast which included many of the Disney characters' original voice actors. Kingdom Hearts was also supported by the most famous character designer and the pro of SquareEnix company, Tetsuya Nomura. Kingdom Hearts was praised for its unusual combination of action and the usual role-playing style, as well as its unexpectedly mix of Square and Disney. It received year-end "Best" video game awards and achieve Sony "Greatest Hits" status. As the sequel from this popular game, SquareEnix answers the request of the fans by released three series for Kingdom Hearts : Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (for VGA console), and Kingdom Hearts III.

Cilegon The Industrial City

Cilegon is an industrial city. It's located in Banten Province. It is not big, but it is well-known for its industry. The nickname of the town is The City of Steel (Kota Baja). Cilegon has its own exclusive area where all of the companies located. Some of them are local company such as PT.Krakatau Steel, KIEC, KBS, Bakrie Kasei, PELNI, etc. And many other are foreign, such as Sankyu, BASF, Ericsson, etc. As a result, you can find numbers of foreigner in Cilegon. Most of them are Japanese and Korean. Mostly, they work in the foreign company.

PT. Krakatau Steel is the biggest company in Cilegon. If you talk about Cilegon, usually people will recognize it as the city where Krakatau Steel located. They produce steel and iron for industrial needs inside and outside our country. The worker live in a residential complex, named Krakatau Steel Complex, which is specially made by the company for them. In the complex you can find some facilities, such as a hospital, golf courses and driving range, swimming pool, a mini market, and some other facilities. The company also provide education for the people, from kindergarten to senior high. All of them are located in the complex.

Tourism objects are also available. Anyer beach is one of the example. It’s not exactly located in Cilegon, but it’s only take about one and a half hour for you to get there and smell the sea wind blows. There are many hotels and recreational places in Anyer. Anyer is a holiday destination for people who live in Jakarta. You’ll be agree with the statement after you come there in the weekend and look it by yourself. Lots of car with B plate attached can be seen parking in the hotels’s carpark. Beside Anyer, Ujung Kulon is also a nice place to visit. You can find One Horn Rhinoceros, which is now rare and protected, in Ujung Kulon Preservation Park. But eventually, the remote location of Ujung Kulon make this place lack of visitor.

Compared to other cities in Banten, beside Tangerang, there is no doubt that Cilegon is a city with the highest economic transaction and activity. The quality and quantity of the shopping malls can’t be compared to those which is located in Bandung or Jakarta, but it’s not far down below them. Cilegon is a small town that still need a lot of improvement. And thats what Cilegon do now.

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Violin

According to Wikipedia, free online website, Violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifth to the notes G, D’, A’ and E’’. These four strings produce a high pitched voice that makes violin become the highest pitch instrument in the string family, including viola, cello and double bass. Violin’s bow is a long narrow slightly incurved stick, with a band of horsehair stretched from end to end of the bowstick. However, beside the strings and the bow, violin also has other main parts that not less important. These parts are the front or the belly, then, there is the back. There are also the ribs, neck, finger board, peg box, scroll, bridge, tail piece, fine tuners and f-holes or sound box. The front, back, and ribs are joined together to form a hollow sound box. The sound box contains the sound post, a thin stick of wood wedged inside underneath the right side of the bridge and connecting the front and back of the violin. The bridge placed between the tail piece and the finger board on the front. The strings are fastened to the tailpiece, rest on the bridge, and then suspended over the fingerboard, and run to the pegbox. In this peg box, the strings are attached to tuning pegs that can be turned to change the pitch of the string. Other way, the player can also change the pitch using the fine tuners in the tail piece. The player makes different pitches by placing the left-hand fingers on the string and pressing against the fingerboard. The strings are set in vibration and produce sound when the player draws the bow across them at a right angle near the bridge.

Ballet

According to online Wikipedia, ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance court, further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. Ballet is a mixture of graceful, flowing movements combined with orchestral music. The dancers usually wear tights and a leotard (which can come in various colors and styles), with an optional short wrap-skirt (or tutu) for women, and tights along with a form-fitting shirt for men. The dancer wears soft technique shoes, often called flats through their classes. During performances, the women wear custom shoes, called pointe shoes, while men learn more advanced jumps and turns in soft shoes. The movements of ballet are known in French, for example pas de deux (a dance of two people), pas de trois (a dance of three people), pirouette (a rapid spin of the toes), etc. Ballet is a theatrical representation of a story which has its own plots and characters. The famous ballet productions including Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, and others are still presented in theatres all over the world.

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Glasses
Glasses is an object that helps you see better. It consists of two lenses, a string of metal between the lenses that joins the lenses together, two pieces of small plastic or glass put on the nose to make a distance between the glasses and your eyes, and two strings of metal that connect lenses and your ears to make the glasses more comfortable to wear. If your problem is long-distance view (which is mostly occurred to students), you should have the negative lenses and if your problem is short-distance view (which is mostly occurred to aged people), you should have the positive ones.

Wikinomics

Wikinomics is a new concept of business which was recently proposed by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. It shows how business in recent 21st centuries can be success by using mass collaboration concept. The difference is that instead of company works itself, mass collaboration relies on free individual agents to come together and cooperate to improve a given operation or to solve the problem from that company. Then someone who can give the best solution will accept a valuable reward. Procter & Gamble is one of the company that uses Wikinomics concept to solve their problem, especially in research and development of their products. Moreover, Goldcorp, a gold mining company in Canada, finally could find the proper location of new gold mine by using this concept. It is like the concept of Wikipedia, one of the encyclopedia in the world, which become so great and famous because it is fulfilled by mass collaboration.

The Fascinating iPod

Ipod is probably one of the brilliant innovations in this century. For those who love listening to the music, ipod soon become their new best friend. It is a high technology MP3 player with remarkable design, including its signature click wheel. Ipod was first marketed and designed by Apple on October 23, 2001. Since then, Ipod sales around the world have increasing. The development of Ipod itself has landed in third series. Now, with memory capacity up until 160 GB, music lovers can enjoy their favorite songs, watch the video clips, store photos, play games, and the latest ipod enable them to make a call. Above all, the best thing about ipod is its mini size makes it easier to be brought everywhere we want to go and that is why I really like this thing.

Defense of the Ancients

The online wikipedia defines Defense of the Ancients (DotA) as ‘a team strategy game that focused on hero combat whose purpose is to destroy the opponent’s base using the player’s picked hero along with allied heroes and allied AI controlled fighters that called ‘creeps’’. DotA pits two teams of players against each other. However, DotA not only focused on hero combat but also focused on how the players develop their hero to be unbeatable using the various equipments for defending the base if the opponents attack. The player’s hero is leveled up by killing both of opponent’s heroes and creeps and uses the obtained gold to buy equipments in an effort to own the game so that the opponent’s base can be destroy. Each team has a base that guarded by various towers from the weakest tower to the strongest one. The heart of team base called ‘Ancient’, that guarded by the strongest towers, must be destroyed in order to win the game. Therefore this game is called Defense of the Ancients.

Ravenhearst

Ravenhearst is one of a computer game that makes us, the player, act as a detective. In that game, Ravenhearst is an old manor in Blackpool, England. We're asked by Queen of England to solve its mystery, to unlocked secret, some believes. The Queen gives us diary of Emma Ravenhearst, the woman who lived in the manor hundreds years ago, incompletely. Our challenge is to find the diary entry to find out what actually happened with Emma Ravenhearst.
It begins with finding items in every room. There are 32 rooms, including parlor, dining room, servant's quarter, cellar, library, master bedroom, and many more, all with old-fashion, unique, and beautiful design. In each room, we will not found it's a nice tidy room. Maybe it was, but onion on the floor, opened-bottle of wine poured on the table, books, and other items, all scattered, very scattered, makes us a little difficult to find items we have to find. To see it, makes us asking, what actually happened in this manor. Maybe because it is left behind for years, but finding a rib cage, human bones, lungs, hair, and even cut-hand with blood, those are really make us curious.
The adventure become more intense when we have found items and able to solve the puzzle to found the lost diary entry of Emma Ravenhearst. In the diary, Emma wrote what happened and her feeling about that. Emma lived in 1890's. One diary entry is found, another room ready to be discovered and so on. The final of this game--which actually I don't want to tell--is freeing Emma's spirit that has been kept for years in Ravenhearst manor. After our job as a detective finish, the rooms are renovated, renewed as a historical building. Ravenhearst manor now looks clean and tidy, yet keep the old-fashion manor still the same with its shape in the past. The Queen of England thanks to us as a detective with an excellent work solved the mystery.


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Aurora

Auroras are natural different colored light displays, which are usually observed in the night sky, particularly in the polar zone. Auroras are produced by solar wind (rarefied flow of hot plasma emitted by the sun) that flowing past the earth and collided with earth magnetosphere (part of atmosphere that contain magnetic field). This magnetic "curtains" have different colors depend on it's molecules. Green and red aurora consists of oxygen molecules, when blues aurora consist of nitrogen molecules. This phenomenon commonly occured in the Poles and occasionally occured in other latitudes, as a result of great geomagnetic storm.

Traditional Medicines

According to World Health Organization (WHO), traditional medicines refers to "health practices, approaches, know ledges and beliefs incorporating plant, animal and mineral based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises". Traditional medicines applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being. Unlike modern medicines, these medicines don't need the process to legally the products for being use. All customers and users just can use these medicines as they want because the peculiar property of these medicines is proofed by the ancestors and continuing from generation to generation. Traditional medicines are usually unwritten and transmitted orally until someone "collects" them. So the customers must selective in order to get the true medicines. One example of traditional medicines is Chinese Traditional Medicine. This “Yellows Emperor Medicines” is considered a complementary or alternative medical system in most of the world. It is used globally because the Chinese all over the world use this medicine in their daily life and spread it to local people. This ardor it still continues from dynasty of Mae Zedong until now.

Traditional Arts in Bandung

Bandung has many traditional arts which make it is known not only as a 'shopping city' but also an art city. Some of those are tari jaipong, angklung, rampak kendang, kacapi suling, and wayang golek. Tari jaipong is a dance that shows joy and simplicity of past people. Jaipong can be danced by one or several dancer. The melody from music instruments like rebab, kendang, and goong gives the rythm of Jaipong.
Angklung is also a music instrument. It is played by a number of people. Angklung is made from bamboo stem which designed with a international gamut (do-re-mi) and Sundanese gamut (daminatilada). Bandung has an angklung art center, it is Saung Angklung Udjo, belongs to Mr.Udjo. Tourists can often watch the beautiful perfomaces of angklung there.
Not only angklung has an interesting performance to watch, but also rampak kendang. Rampak kendang shows joy and cheer in every its performances. It is played by four until seven kendang player and also accompanied by the music from traditional music instruments, such as bonang, saron, and goong.
Different from rampak kendang, kacapi suling brings a calm, pleasant atmosphere as a result from soft melody by kacapi and suling. Kacapi has strings while suling has holes to create to create its melody. The last but not least, wayang golek. It is somekind of a doll play. The dolls (which is 'wayang' means) are created from wood. They are painted, given clothes and hair like human. Cepot is well-known figure in wayang golek, it is a red-faced with a funny teeth doll. Wayang golek often tells Sundanese folklore, but sometimes about recently issue also.
There are so many traditional arts in Bandung, West Java, my lovely hometown, to be loved because they are unique, historic, and--of course--beautiful. With all the traditional arts that is has, Bandung can be called one of the richest city with its traditional arts in Indonesia.

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Molecular Biology

Molecular Biology is part of Biology science that focus on study about biological molecules and chemical reactions of living organism. There are four important biological molecules in Molecular Biology; they are protein, carbohydrate, lipid and nucleic acid. Basically, Molecular Biology studying about how the structures of those biological molecules are and what are the functions of those biological molecules in chemical reactions of living organism. But now, the modern Molecular Biology concern about how to produce beneficial products for human with change the chemical structures of biological molecules especially the DNA molecules.

fashion

One of the things that always change and develop until today is fashion. According to Oxford dictionary, fashion can be defined as "a popular style of clothes, hair, etc at a particular time". Based on that definition, we can say that fashion itself changes constantly. The changes may occur more quickly than in other human activity, or even technology. Fashion designers, as well as high-status consumers including celebrities, appear to have some role in determining the rates and the direction of fashion change. For example, a famous celebrity starts to wear new or different clothes then a fashion trend may starts. People who like or respect her may start to wear clothes of similar style. Current fashion is also influenced by the global fashion center such as Tokyo, which is famous for its Harajuku style, Paris, and New York City.

Stem Cells

According to online wikipedia, stem cells are one of the smallest functional units found in all multi-cellular organisms. Similar to other cells, they retain the ability to renew themselves through cell division. The distinction, however, is that stem cell can differentiate into a diverse range of specialized cell types that perform a specific task. There are two types of stem cell based on the source: first are the embryonic stem cells which are found in embryos and second are the adult stem cells which are found in adult tissues. Stem cells are expected to be a future medication due to their ability to mend various body systems. For example, when someone suffers an irreparable damage in his/her eyes tissues, the stem cell therapy can be used to restore it. As the stem cells are put into the damaged eye tissues, the stem cell will then differentiate and thus become another eyes’ cells that perform the same task as other eyes’ cells do.

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softball

according to encarta dictionary, softball is a sport similar to baseball that is played on a smaller field. with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball and that is pitched underhand. Softball is a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players. softball is played on a large field called diamond, contain of infield and outfield. There are 4 bases on the infield and in the center of the infield there is a pitcher's circle. The object of the game is to score more points than the other team by batting the ball and running around the bases. There's no time limit in softball. The game is played in a series of innings, usually seven to nine. An inning is one series of both teams playing offense and defense. The offense team bats, while the defence team occupies the field. The offense attempts to score runs, while the defensive team attempts to record outs in a variety of ways. After the defense records 3 outs, the half inning is over and the teams switch roles.

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Panda Bear

Panda bear is a large bamboo-eating mammal with bold black and white markings, including its black patches over the eyes. Panda has chubby appearance with all of the fluffy covered its body. Giant panda has large molar teeth and strong jaw muscles for crushing tough bamboo. Many people find these chunky animals are so cute, but giant panda can be as dangerous as any other bear. Giant panda usually grows about 1.5 m long and around 75 cm tall and it has a short tail. Both heel and toes make contact with the ground when walking, in a manner similar to humans. Panda is such a majestic creature. It is very unexpected that there may not be Pandas around us much longer.

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Surrealism

Some people know surrealism as a kind of style in painting (even more people don’t know what surrealism is). In fact, this is not entirely right. According to Wikipedia (and cited from Guillaume Apollinaire’s quote), surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. Two vital elements that distinguish surrealism from other style in painting is its tendency to be suprising and features scene that is impossible to happen in reality. One painting that adapts this style is “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali, created in 1931.
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