SINGLE-GENDER SCHOOL

so, i read some articles today about single gender school. it means, in that school, all the students are from the same gender, either it is a boy or a girl. and some people just gave lots of opinions, well, i called it as a debate. lol. so what i found is,

"Single-sex schools are schools that only admit those of one specific gender, believing that the educational environment fostered by a single gender is more conducive to learning than a co-educational school. Studies conducted have shown that boys gain more academically from studying in co-education schools, but that girls find segregated schools more conducive to achievement. However academic results are not the only criterion on which the success of the education system should be judged. In the United States, a long-standing controversy over the Virginia Military Institute resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling, in June 1996, that the institute must admit women. Nevertheless the Court left room for private (i.e. not state-run) single-sex institutions and other such schools, where needed, to redress discrimination. Proponents of single-sex schools maintain that, by removing the distractions of the other sex, students learn more effectively and feel better about their education. Opponents maintain that co-educational schools in contrast are important in that they prepare students better for the real world, and do not attempt to segregate students from the realities of adult life. This debate can apply both to secondary school and college level, but single-sex institutions are found more frequently at the former.

 and some people were like...

Children will gain exposure to the opposite sex when they reach adult life; whilst they are young, they should be around those who they feel most comfortable with. The inclinations of children in the formative years, between 7 and 15, are to gravitate towards their own sex. What is natural should be encouraged, and can most easily be done so in single-sex institutions. Furthermore, they naturally tend towards behaviour appropriate to their gender. It is therefore easier to implement an education strategy geared specifically towards one gender. Moreover, certain subjects are best taught, both in terms of ease and effectiveness, in single-sex classrooms, such as sex education or gender issues. 

 after all, i found this too..

Teaching girls in single-sex schools, long an obsession of many parents worried about their daughters being distracted by boys, makes no difference to their educational attainment according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the way children learn.
The findings by Alan Smithers, Professor of Education at Buckingham University and one of Britain's most respected schools experts, will come as a shock to parents convinced their daughters would benefit from an all-girl environment. Half a century of research 'has not shown any dramatic or consistent advantages for single-sex education' for boys or girls, he will conclude.

well, actually, it makes me think really hard. in one side, i think it's good enough with all-girls or all-boys school environment, because they have no distractions and they willing to study more. BUT, in another side, and it's important, as you know God created girl and boy to live together, and i worried if those children are in the single-gender school since they were kids (4-5 years old), i worried, they were afraid to make friends with their opposite. i mean, in their school they didn't know about their opposite better and i think, they friendship isn't that you know, as big as children who went to public school.

well, at least, that's what i think. tell me yours? ;)

Regards, xox

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BINNORIE - a tale by joseph jacobs.

Once upon a time there were two king’s daughters lived in a bower near the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring. But after a time he looked upon the youngest, with her cherry cheeks and golden hair, and his love grew towards her till he cared no longer for the eldest one. So she hated her sister for taking away Sir William’s love, and day by day her hate grew upon her, and she plotted and she planned how to get rid of her.
So one fine morning, fair and clear, she said to her sister, “Let us go and see our father’s boats come in at the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie.” So they went there hand in hand. And when they got to the river’s bank the youngest got upon a stone to watch for the coming of the boats. And her sister, coming behind her, caught her round the waist and dashed her into the rushing mill-stream of Binnorie.
“O sister, sister, reach me your hand!” she cried, as she floated away, “and you shall have half of all I’ve got or shall get.”
“No, sister, I’ll reach you no hand of mine, for I am the heir to all your land. Shame on me if I touch the hand that has come ‘twixt me and my own heart’s love.”
“O sister, O sister, then reach me your glove!” she cried, as she floated further away, “and you shall have your William again.”
“Sink on,” cried the cruel princess, “no hand or glove of mine you’ll touch. Sweet William will be all mine when you are sunk beneath the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie.” And she turned and went home to the king’s castle.
And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking, till she came near the mill. Now the miller’s daughter was cooking that day, and needed water for her cooking. And as she went to draw it from the stream, she saw something floating towards the mill-dam, and she called out, “Father! father! draw your dam. There’s something white–a merry maid or a milk-white swan– coming down the stream.” So the miller hastened to the dam and stopped the heavy cruel mill-wheels. And then they took out the princess and laid her on the bank.
Fair and beautiful she looked as she lay there. In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not see her waist for her golden girdle; and the golden fringe of her white dress came down over her lily feet. But she was drowned, drowned!
And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill- dam of Binnorie, and saw her sweet pale face. And though he travelled on far away he never forgot that face, and after many days he came back to the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie. But then all he could find of her where they had put her to rest were her bones and her golden hair. So he made a harp out of her breast-bone and her hair, and travelled on up the hill from the mill-dam of Binnorie, till he came to the castle of the king her father.
That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper–king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William and all their Court. And first the harper sang to his old harp, making them joy and be glad or sorrow and weep just as he liked. But while he sang he put the harp he had made that day on a stone in the hall. And presently it began to sing by itself, low and clear, and the harper stopped and all were hushed.
And this was what the harp sung:
“O yonder sits my father, the king,
Binnorie, O Binnorie;
And yonder sits my mother, the queen;
By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie,
“And yonder stands my brother Hugh,
Binnorie, O Binnorie;
And by him, my William, false and true;
By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie.”
Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie, and how he had afterwards made this harp out of her hair and breast-bone. Just then the harp began singing again, and this was what it sang out loud and clear:
“And there sits my sister who drowned me
By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie.”
And the harp snapped and broke, and never sang more.

the most annoying deception

have you seen this email?

"Dear Friend,

My names are (Mrs.Mahamadi Odile) a banker here in Burkina Faso West Africa. Am a widow with a child. I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and Confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both Families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $ 15 Million U.S dollars (fifteen million U.S dollars) into your account. The Money has been dormant for years in our Bank here without anybody coming for it. I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) who died along with his supposed next of kin in a car accident few years ago. I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you, so that we will release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret or delete it from your mail box, if you are not interested.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you full details on how the business will be executed and a text of application which you will fill and send to the bank for the release of the money to your account. Also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned sum, if you agree to transact the business with me while 60% will be for me. I will not fail to bring to your notice that no risk involve in this transaction and you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements has been  made for the transfer. Indicate your interest if you are interested to help me. Please for full trust, reply to this my private e-mail Address (mrsmahamadiodile@yahoo.com) regards."

well, i guess you did.
 all i can say is, they were soooooo annoying. they kept sending me those emails and i didn't give any respon, of course.
i had once respon to one of the email, i asked what kind of help that he needed, and he answered that, he might send me a money through the bank. well, if you just got it for the first time, you probably confused because they asked for your help in a really nice words. such a good thing but well, horrible at the same time.

i just want to warn you guys, never believed with such emails because they just you know, a swindler. they might sweet at the first time, but just for your information, they use fake names. at first they'll send you an email like the above, and then if you replied to the email, they'll ask you to fill a form, and after all, they'll asked for your credit card number and then they'll stole it. as you know, some badass always had a way to do crimes.

take care and trust a few!!
Regards, xox

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THE SAD TRUTH

Ghostbuster Places

Portugal - Mosteiro de Seiça, Seiça

 

Scotland - Jarlshof, Shetland Jarlshof lies near the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland, close to the settlements of Sumburgh and Grutness and to the south end of Sumburgh Airport.



Portugal - Initiation Well, Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra

 

Turkey - Tombs of Myra, Demre

 

Belgium - Château Miranda, Namur

 

Cambodia - Ta Prohm, Angkor

 

Breathtaking Lion Rock

Sigiriya or Lion Rock, Sinhalese is situated in the central Matale District of the Central Province, Sri Lanka. The place receives its name from the huge column of rock almost two hundred meters high that was once the heart of the royal capital constructed by King Kasyapa. Sigiriya nowadays is the most favorite historical site in Sri Lanka.

The environments all-around Sigiriya appeared to be inhabited since prehistoric times. There’s obvious signs that the numerous rock shelters and caves in the area were occupied by Buddhist monks and ascetics from as early as the 3rd century BC. In accordance the ancient Sri Lankan chronicle the Culavamsa the site was chosen by Kasyapa for his new capital. It documents that he constructed a spectacular capital there and a stunning structure on top of this two hundred meter tall rock. The main city and also the royal palace were abandoned after the king’s death, it was used as a Buddhist monastery until 14th century.

When you approach, you’ll be amazed at this fifth century building which is placed on top of a 600ft rock and is visible for miles all over as it rears its head out in the midst of miles of rich green flat land.

You are able to wonder at the many rock shelters or water gardens at the base or maybe when you climb up the 1200 strange steps to the top, gaze at the frescoes mid-way to the top and also the mirror wall which a long time ago served as a mirror for the king but this time has turned into a spot for graffiti showing ancient Singhalese script. The lion gate, named so due to the large lion paws on the entrance, brings you to the summit that is a huge flat place scattered over which are the ruins of ancient palace, such as an ancient throne and a pool. The scene from the top is spectacular.

The Beauty of Carles, Iloilo - Isla de Gigantes

Known as one of the pearls of Iloilo are a string of islands in Carles. It’s consists of thirty-three barangays with 6 huge islands and nineteen islets boasting of long beautiful coastlines.
Among its well-known attractions are a tableau of unspoiled and isolated granite monoliths named Isla de Gigantes or Giant Islands. These groups of islands are known for their magnificent massive rock formations sitting on azure waters boasting their pristine beaches.

The islands are ideal for any water activities by guests who want to discover the wonderful underwater scenery and secrets that lie beneath its crystalline waters.
If you’re searching for the greatest tropical paradise, set your sights on Cabugao islands. Immerse yourself in an oasis of natural harmony. Both Cabugao Islands offers white sand beaches without all the crowds, a wonderful spot to relieve stress, slow down and get into the groove of the real exotic heaven. Sprawl by the warm turquoise waters on Cabugao Gamay while enjoy an underground adventure in Cabugao Daku.

Tangke Natural pool is a must visit destination in Isla de Gigantes if you want a peaceful location surrounded by magnificent rocks. Situated on the southern side of Barangay Gabi in Isla de Gigantes Sur, it’s a hidden saltwater lagoon formed by a surrounding wall of granite monolithic cliffs. Swim in Tangke and gaze into the spectacular rock formations around you. The rocks covered with green floras.

Relaxed on this white sand beach, without anyone bothering or dragging you. Put aside your problems in everyday life and enjoy the nature. Water is clean and very clear, people are very friendly, plus the food is not that expensive.
The perfect time to visit here is when it’s high tide so the water is deeper. It’s a warm and relaxing seawater, you will surely be reluctant to leave.

Xcaret Underground River

Xcaret merupakan daerah arkeologi yang tidak dapat diragukan keindahannya. Daerah ini terletak di Riviera Maya, Meksiko di laut karibia. Daerah ini telah digunakan oleh kaum pra-Kolombia Maya dan telah digunakan sebagai bandar yang digunakan sebagai pusat perdagangan kaum Maya. Daerah ini merupakan tempat terfavorit bagi orang- orang yang ingin berekreasi karena penuh dengan kegiatan yang menyenangkan. Tempat wisata yang alami ini akan membawa turis ke sebuah perjalanan melihat dan menikmati jernihnya air sungai di Riviera Maya.

Hembusan angin yang menerpa lembut di sekitar goa khas kaum Maya ini membuat para pengunjung tertarik untuk berenang, menikmati indahnya perairan di daerah itu.aaaand, The fresh gusts enable people to drift in a range of Two thousand ft. applying life-vests inside a level of 1.60 metres. The experience in Xcaret´s Subterranean Water will take roughly Selama 20 menit para turis dapat berenang ke dalam Goa sepanjang 1km itu.



Xcaret has numerous stores which are available to the general public. Based on the study by the  Institute of Historyand Anthropology  , the very first structures with the location could be out dated from 200 to 600 A.D., however the most of them are within the time period from Twelve hundred to 1550 A.D. The buildings belonging to the Later Post-Classical time period are found across the shoreline; a lot of them in arranged placements for security. The place was built with a wall structure, but in contrast to the main one in Tulum which was open up towards sea, the walls from Xcaret guarded the place from attacks from the sea. The walls could also have functioned to split the rock solid soil of the inside from the swampy terrain nearer to the coastline.



Group A  includes 10 constructions situated on higher terrain away from the defence of the wall structure, towards the south on the stream. Groups B and also C are likewise situated near to the ocean. Group B contains of 5 constructions, whilst Group C is made up of 4 buildings.  D buildings had been made upon higher terrain near the wall structure. All these buildings incorporate a temple that most likely assisted along with seaside routing. Group E is probably the most amazing architectural groupings. All these 3 constructions are close to the walls, two of consider some of the highest buildings in Xcaret.



These types of buildings had been probably used by people for ceremonial functions. Group Y is made of 3 large temples positioned north-east of  E. One of them temples also has ornamental cut, and it has been decorated in a variety of colours.  Grams consist of the Simple Spanish Church. Group H and also K have two temples.

Grain Silos Converted into Contemporary Rural Home

Tucked away in the wilds of the rural American Midwest one might not suspect the nature of this home from a distance – it is, after all, easy to mistake for the two silos that were joined to create it. Up close, however, modern design features and interior elements show it to be a clever adaptively reused silo house.



The ultimate bachelor-pad-plus, this cozy residence is designed for a single man with additional space for his guests and grandchildren. The rounded shape provides amazing views in all directions as well as access to light year round.


Of course, the beauty and bane of a circular house is that everything must be custom-designed to fit the curved interior spaces. While this can be expensive the remark is visually dynamic – the surfaces and fixtures carry one’s eye continuously around any room.

Some of the metal from the silo is left exposed on the inside of the home and offset by the addition of warm wood and simple white paint. The result is a combination modernist-by-comfortable-and-cozy interior design.

Extra bedroom pods also conform to the curved spaces and continue the theme of cozy enclosure implied by the rest of the design.





source: dornob.com

 hell-o
i am back again, now, i want to post another beauty review for Garnier Light Cream. it's a cream riched with vitamin Cand UV protection,
here what it says:

"Extra UV Protection - SPF 17/PA++

Combines 3 potent ingredients for perfect skin. snowpine white source is highly efficient

to remove dullness and fade out dark spots.

Micro-Smoothing Agent smoothens skin texture and Pure Lemon Essence visibly boosts radiance in 14 days. see, touch and feel the perfect flawless fair skin"

you can find this thing from most supermarket, but i recommend you to buy it from drugstore because it's absolutely legal (not the fake ones).

it's perfectly sink into my skin however. and i feel my skin is smoother than ever after using this product. i absolutely love this because you dont have to apply too many make ups. just apply this cream, a little eye shadow and mascara and lip gloss and you perfect already.

PLUS, with SPF 17, you don't have to be worry with dark skin because it will protect you from the UV light all day long. it also covers up your face, i mean 8-hours with un-oily face.
what's a great product!! and it's worth IDR. 35.000

NIVEA - mosturizer cream REVIEW

Hello guys, we're meet up again and today i'll post a beauty review.

it's NIVEA mosturizer cream. you can use it for your hand, neck, face even your foot.

so, lets begin! ;)

you can find this product in most supermarket. only for IDR 10.000 and you can get this awesome product.

its texture is creamy and so light. you can use it before you sleep, or when you are about to go out or you can apply it as a foundation. it makes your skin mosturize all day long!

it smells really nice and i love it so much!
it's a recommended product for me to you guys who has dry skin type because this product is perfectly wonderful for you to use!

English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers

Basic Theory:
    What is a short story? As soon as someone delivers a definition, some good writer will write a story that proves the theory wrong. About the only thing we can say for sure is that short stories are short and that they are written in what we call prose. Some attributes, however, seem to show up more often than not.
    Short stories

1. have a narrator; that is, someone tells the story;
2. have at least one character in them;
3. have some action occur (or perhaps fails to occur);
4. take place somewhere; that is, there is a setting for the action;
5. and someone either learns something or fails to learn something (theme).

With these five characteristics in mind, we can create an almost endless supply of exercises to help sharpen our techniques of story telling.
 
Narrative Voice
    Twenty or so years ago, voice was the "rite of passage" into a successful writing career. Young writers were told that they should write until they developed their voice. The way to do this was to simply write (and read) as much as possible, having others read your work and comment on it, until your voice became distinct from others. The evidence to support this theory was generally drawn from the body of work of successful writers. Everyone agreed that you could read a Hemingway story, for instance, without factual evidence that the story was written by Hemingway, and recognize it as his work because of his distinctive voice. Faulkner provided an even clearer example of this philosophy. In more recent years, the notion that one must discover a unique voice has become a secondary issue as any number of successful writers have demonstrated that they can write in more than one narrative voice.
    Nevertheless, a narrative voice that sounds like it could be anyone's voice or is bland and boring, or riddled with pointless clichés will fail to capture and hold the reader's attention. And a voice that is inconsistent will tend to confuse the reader about the narrator's attitude towards his/her characters and the story that is being told.
NOTE: It is quite common for writers in the early stages of their careers to imitate the writers they are reading or admire most. Often we are not even aware that we are doing this when we write.

1. Locate a relatively long descriptive passage in a short story or novel that you enjoy, and write a blatant imitation. Follow the sentence structure and syntax word for word. Do this exercise for as many different writers as you can. You should write at least 250 words each time you do this exercise.
2. Use a text like Best American Short Stories, containing about 20 stories from as many writers, and write imitations of the first page of each short story in the text.
3. Write a complete short story in imitation of your favorite writer from each major historical period for the past three centuries. (Note: you can change the subject matter, sex of the main character, and other such details and still write an imitation.)
4. Locate a writer whose work you do NOT particularly care for and write a parody of the story.

Point of View     Language is always uttered from some point of view; that is, it comes from someone. Scientific writers and legal writers (lawyers, the court) may try to hide this fact by writing in a voice so passive that it begins to sound as if it were uttered from some completely impartial god outside of the human experience, but no one argues more passionately than those folks who write within these two areas.
    When writing a short story we use one of the following points of view:

1. Third Person Restricted: We recognize this from the pronouns "he" or "she." In this point of view, probably the most popular, and some would argue the most natural, all the action takes place in the presence of the character from whose point of view we learn the story. If we are taken "inside the head" of a character, it is only within this character's head. The narrator does NOT tell us what anyone else thinks or feels. This character may or may NOT be the main character of the story.
2. First Person: We recognize this from the pronoun "I." Like third person restricted, all of the action takes place within this character's presence, and we learn only his/her thoughts and feelings in any kind of direct fashion.
3. Omniscient: As the word implies, this is a god-like point of view. The narrator freely moves from one character's perspective to another. This point of view was far more popular in previous centuries than it has been in the current one, reflecting both the tastes of authors and the reading public. Using this point of view within a short story is very difficult to pull off with any success because of the space restrictions. It takes time to develop more than one character's point of view.
4. Second Person: We recognize this from the pronoun "you." This point of view is rarely used except in some experimental writing. Literally "you" means the reader, and a story told from this point of view can quickly become tiresome. Authors often, however, slip into the highly vernacular syntactical structure of using the pronoun in a casual manner—I kind of "you know what I mean" statement—because the language used to tell stories is more often than not colloquial.
5. Pure Dramatization: This really isn't a "point of view" but occasionally a writer will produce a story that is very close to a play. That is, we receive almost all dialogue and very little narration, which usually seems little more than stage direction. Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is about as close to this as any successful short story trying to accomplish this technique.

Exercise: Take any story you have written and rewrite it from a different point of view. If you originally wrote the story in first person, try it in third person restricted. You'll discover that you need to do more than simply changing the pronoun.  You should find that it is easier to be more objective about a character you are rendering in third person. If you've written a story in third person, try it in first. This can be an especially fruitful exercise if you've had trouble making the character sympathetic.
A wonderful example of the use of point of view in a novel is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Most casual readers remember this novel as a third person novel, but it is actually told from the first person point of view. We learn everything from Nick's perspective, Gatsby's neighbor.
As a variation on the exercise, you can take someone else's published story and render passages, especially paragraphs of narrative of at least a half page in length in a point of view other than that which the author used. Once again, watch what happens to the language as you change the point of view. What is it you need to add, take away? How does this change affect the emotional relationship the reader develops with the character.
 
The T.S. Eliot/John Gardner Killer Exercise: This exercise is quite possibly the most difficult, demanding and important exercise a writer can ever do. The poet and critic, T. S. Eliot, coined the phrase "objective correlative" to designate what he believed was the most important element in writing: Rendering the description of an object so that the emotional state of the character from whose point of view we receive the description is revealed WITHOUT ever telling the reader what that emotional state is or what has motivated it.
The late John Gardner, recognized in his lifetime as the leading creative writing teacher in the United States, developed the following exercise for students:
    A middle-age man is waiting at a bus stop. He has just learned that his son has died violently. Describe the setting from the man's point of view WITHOUT telling your reader what has happened. How will the street look to this man? What are the sounds? Odors? Colors? That this man will notice? What will his clothes feel like? Write a 250 word description.

outfit of the day scrapbook - April 2014

hi hi hi, so instead of post some review or experience, i'd post some OOTD's pictures!
here you goooo!

 p.s: don't forget to share it! xox