Terjemahan Molly Part 2

 

Molly bertanya-tanya kemana tuannya pergi. Setelah lama menunggu ia menggaruk-garuk pintu dapur dengan cakarnya berharap dibukakan pintu. Tetapi tampaknya tidak ada orang di dalam rumah. Molly lalu memeriksa kalau-kalau ada jendela yang terbuka sehingga ia bisa masuk, tapi ternyata semua jendela terkunci rapat.

Molly merasa kesepian. Tetapi ia berharap tuannya akan pulang nanti sore.

Tetapi setelah lama menunggu tuannya tidak juga pulang. Molly mulai merasa kelaparan. Ia juga kedinginan karena harus tidur di luar. Walaupun bersembunyi di dalam semak-semak, ia tetap basah karena kehujanan. Molly mulai sakit.

Dua hari telah berlalu. Karena kelaparan Molly memakan tulang kering yang ditemukannya dan juga daun-daun kering yang ada di sekitar rumah. Penyakitnya juga semakin parah. Ia bersin-bersin dan lemas.

Pada hari keempat Molly sudah menjadi sangat kurus. Ia bahkan hampir tidak bisa berjalan karena sangat lemah. Ia lalu teringat kepada Billy, anak yang tinggal di rumah sebelah. Siapa tahu Billy bisa memberinya makanan.

Ia lalu berjalan pelan menuju rumah Billy. Saat melihat Molly, Billy hampir tidak mengenalinya lagi. “Astaga!, kaukah itu Molly?” seru Billy terkejut. Ia berlutut dan membelai Molly. “Oh kasihan, kau sangat kurus, pasti kau kelaparan. Apakah tidak ada orang yang diberi tugas untuk memberimu makan?”

Billy segera mengambilkan ikan dan susu untuk Molly. “Oh kasihan, “ kata Ibu Billy. Untuk sementara biar saja ia tidur di dapur kita.”

Molly sangat senang. Setelah makan dengan lahap, ia lalu tidur dengan nyenyak di dapur ibu Billy. Billy bahkan memberinya tempat tidur dari kotak kayu. Billy juga membersihkan badannya yang kotor karena beberapa hari tidur di semak-semak. Malamnya, Molly benar-benar terkejut. Ternyata di dapur ibu Billy banyak sekali tikusnya. Maka ia pun menangkap tikus-tikus itu, karena ia ingin membalas kebaikan Billy dan ibunya. Keesokan harinya ibu Billy terkejut karena melihat banyak sekali yang telah ditangkap oleh Molly. Ibu Billy sangat senang. Molly pun menjadi semakin disayang di keluarga itu. Sebulan kemudian, keluarga Jones pulang dari berlibur. Dengan berat hati Billy mengantar Molly pulang ke rumah keluarga Jones. Tapi, setiap diantar pulang, Molly selalu melarikan diri dan kembali ke rumah Billy. Molly tahu bahwa Billy dan ibunya sangat menyayanginya, tidak seperti keluarga Jones yang tega menelantarkannya. Karena keluarga Jones tidak terlalu memperdulikan Molly akhirnya mereka pun memberikan kucing itu kepada Billy. Akhirnya, Molly pun tinggal bersama Billy dan ibunya. Ia sangat bahagia karena selalu disayang dan dibelai. Ibu Billy pun senang karena dapurnya menjadi bebas dari gangguan tikus.

Molly wondered where the Jones went. After waiting for a long time, Molly pawed the kitchen door, hoped someone would open the door for her.  However, it seemed none of the Jones was in the home. Then, Molly looked around, perhaps, there would be the windows that were opened; so, she could get into the house but unfortunately all of the windows were locked.

Molly felt lonely. However, she hoped her owner would return to the home in the afternoon.

However, after waiting for a long time, the Jones hadn’t gone home. Molly started feeling hungry. She also felt cold because she had to sleep in the outside of the house. Although she hid in the bushes, she was still wet because of the rain. Molly started feel sick.

Two days had passed. She ate the bones that were found and the dried leaves around the house. Her sickness also became more serious. She sneezed and felt weak.

On the fourth day, Molly already became very bony. Even, she almost couldn’t walk because she was very weak.  Then, she remembered Billy, the boy that lived beside the Jones’ house. She hoped Billy could give her some food.

Then, she walked slowly to Billy’s house. When Billy looked Molly, he almost didn’t recognize her. “Oh God, are you Molly?” said Billy shocked. He knelt and rubbed Molly. “Oh, what a pity, you look very thin, you must be very hungry. Aren’t there any people who are asked to feed you?”

Billy, immediately, took some fish and milk for Molly. “What a pity,” said Billy’s Mom. “Let her sleep in our kitchen for a moment.”

Molly was very glad. After eating greedily, she slept soundly in the kitchen. Even, Billy gave her a wooden box for her bed. Billy also cleaned Molly’s body that was dirty because of sleeping in the bushes for the last few days. At night, Molly was very surprised. Evidently, there were a lot of mice in the Billy’s mom’s kitchen. Therefore, she caught the mice because she wanted to say thank to Billy and her mom for their kindness. In the next day, Billy’s mom was surprised seeing there were a lot of mice that were caught by Molly. Billy’s mom was very glad. Molly was loved more than before. A month later, the Jones returned from vacation. With a heavy heart, Billy took Molly to the Jones’ home. However, every Billy returned Molly to the Jones house, Molly always run away and went to the Billy’s house. Molly knew that Billy and his mom loved Molly very much, not like the Jones, they always ignored Molly. The Jones gave Molly to Billy because they didn’t very care with her. Finally, Molly lived with Billy and his mom. She feel very pleased because Billy and her mom always loved her and they always rubbed her. Billy’s mom was also delighted because there were no more mice in her kitchen.

An Essay About Family

A Call from Them Can Be Very Meaningful For Me

I want to talk about living separately from family. This is a condition that makes you know more about how important the family is. I want to talk about this because living separately from family is one of my experiences. Based on my experience, it’s not an easy life. I have missed many events with my family. Some people can live together with their family. They can meet their family   every day. They have much time to talk and to share with their family. They can do many things with family, such as having breakfast together, talking in the living room together, and spending weekend together. For people who live separately from their family, doing usual things like that can become very special moments, because they do those things rarely. For me, living apart from family is a precious experience. I have learned many things, especially about what family means for me.

Actually, people describe family in many ways. They have their own meaning about family. Everybody in the world has family. They have different stories about their family. What does the FAMILY mean for you? For me, family is everything. My father, my mother, my brothers and my little sister are precious people in my life. We always keep and love each other. I have two brothers and one sister. They are younger than me. Distance of our ages isn’t too far, between two until four years. In my opinion, having two brothers and one sister is like getting an injection when we are sick. Actually it is painful but it also cures me. To be honest, they were naughty and often disturb me when I was doing a work. Sometimes, having a sister and two brothers is one of my tired moments. When I was a child they always cried if they quarreled with each other. After that, my mother would get angry with me because I’m the oldest. She said that I should stop the dispute.  Exactly I thought it was not fair, but I couldn’t talk anything to help myself, because my mother would be angrier than before if I talked too much.

However, having two brothers and one sister is not always a tired moment. I also have friends to play monopoly and ular tangga, ride bicycle, and swim together in my spare time. In other words I never feel lonely, because they always accompany me to play together, share something, and help me whether I need some help. I also liked to help them doing homework. It was very fun moment, because I could know more about their ability in the school and I could know how far they have understood about the lessons. When my little sister is in kindergarten, I liked to accompany her to school and she was very happy. She told her friends that she has an older sister and she was very proud of that. However, when she was getting older she changed. She asked me not to escort her to the school when she was in the second grade of elementary school. She didn’t want to be seen like a little girl. She wanted to go to school by herself. Similar situation happened in my brother. When I was in kindergarten, he always wanted to follow me to go to the school. He also wanted to play with me and my friends. However when he was getting older, he asked me to go, when I wanted to see them playing with his friends. He was embarrassed if he played with me. He said whether their friends would call him “little boy” if I accompanied him when he was playing with his friends.

Knowing some small facts about them is an interesting thing. I can study about their characteristics. I can know more about them. In my opinion knowing the characteristic about the members of our family is important. It can help us to communicate with them easily. We know exactly what should we do to entertain them, if they are getting in some problems. We will know exactly what they need. We not only can know the exact way to entertain them, we also can reduce the dispute between us. The most important thing is we can more respect each other. I think respecting, loving, and keeping each other is one of meaning of the family.

According to an entitled essay Family in Wikipedia the word family means a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children.("Family," 2011). The member of family in small group are father, mother, and children and in larger group we know there are other members, such as grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, and cousin. Family is a first place for children to get their education. The members of family will teach them many things, such as talking, smiling, eating, and walking. Mother often meets the children, so she can teach the children more often than a father and other members of family. The children will imitate the people behavior around him, so it is important for the mother not to talk in a harsh manner, even angry with the children. It can give some bad effects to them because they will imitate it.

However the larger families usually don’t live in the same place, they live separately. Grandmother and grandfather who live separately from their children and grandchildren are rare to play with their grandchildren. Thus, children are rare to imitate the behavior from their grandparents. Even, some of them need time to be familiar with their grandparents. It is happened to me , my two brothers and my sister. My family lived separately from our big family. We lived in the different city. We meet my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt, my uncle, and my cousin rarely. Since I was two years old, we had moved in some cities. We had to move because my father had to work in another city, so we followed him.

My brothers, my sister, and I met our big family rarely. We only met them once in two years, when Lebaran was coming. That opportunity was very special for us. My brothers, my sister, and I as children used that time effectively.  We spent our time to play with our cousins and we talked to many people to know them more. At first I felt difficult to memorize all of their names but in the next day I had already memorized some of their names and I had already memorized all of their names in the end of the week. I felt happy because of gathering with my big family. I liked hearing stories from my cousins. We talked about our experiences in our school. They also taught me some words in Palembang Language. My family and I are from Palembang, but I couldn’t speak in Palembang Language fluently because we did not stay there. They laughed at me when I was trying to speak those words. They said that my accent is funny. However I never got angry with them even I laughed with them. It also happened with our parents. They used that time to gather with their relatives. In Lebaran, my mother, her relatives, and my grandmother cooked together. They cooked a lot of Lebaran food from Indonesia, such as opor ayam, sambal ati, and ketupat. In my grandparents village the most complete traditional market only open once a week. However, one day before Lebaran it opens very early, at 04.00 a.m. Thus, the men included my father, helped their wives to buy many things, such as chicken, meat, and egg in that market. If they came to the market earlier, they would get fresher meat. Gathering in Lebaran is one of the most valuable moments that I have. However my mother thought sometimes it was also necessary to spend our Lebaran in the city that we were staying because people there were also our family.

In Indonesia, most people who live separately from their big family usually go to the hometown if there are long holidays, such as Lebaran holidays and Natal holidays. Going to the hometown in Lebaran and Natal holidays has become Indonesian people tradition. It is usually known as mudik.  It becomes a big moment that is used by them to meet and know the other families. It’s a very special moment that they can meet their parents and their relatives. Their children can play with their cousins. They also can talk much thing and share about their experiences. Talking much thing can make they know more about each other. It’s a very relaxing moment. They don’t need to think about works and worry about their busy activities for a while. They just need to enjoy that moment.

In fact gathering with family is one of a very happy moment for people. They get this happiness from family’s love. Based on Wikipedia word happiness means a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.”("Happiness," 2011). Gathering with family is one of positive activities. There are many positive activities that we can do, while we are gathering with our family. “Happiness is a pleasant emotion made out of contentment, love, joy, inner peace and fulfillment.” ("Definition Of Happiness. What Happiness Is And Isn't," 2011). My happiness will increase when I’m near with my mother and my father. I will stop crying when my mother hugs me because I feel peaceful, comfortable, and safe near her. According to Wikipedia happiness is characteristic of a good life, that is, a life in which a person fulfills human nature in an excellent way.("Happiness," 2011). Having a good family is one of indicator of having a good life. Gathering with family fullfils our life. It is one of positive activities. We can forget for a moment the stress routines, such as meeting in the office, projects from our boss, and homework from our teacher when we are gathering with our family. Sometimes talking our problem with our family is a good way to decrease our stress.

I have talked about the bigger family that lives separately. How about a small family which lives separately? Are they happy? However the larger family is not only the family which lives separately. Sometimes the small family also lives separately. They don’t live in the same place. They sometimes have to live separately because of some reasons. Some of them have to live separately because of education reason. Some people choose to go to the far place for studying because they want to study in a good university. Thus, they can’t meet their family for a long time. Others must live separately because of work reason that requires them to live separately with their family. A man who has obligation for looking some money to cost the necessities of their family sometimes gets in this situation. The father must live separately with his wife and his children because he has to work in another city. He works for his family. He must cost the necessities of the family. His children need money to buy a new toy. They need money to get good education.  They also need money to get enough nutrition. Costing necessity of the family, such as food, clothes, and house is father’s obligation. Actually a wife can work to help his husband but it’s not her main obligation. Supporting her husband with become a good wife for him and become a good mother for their children will help the father.

A man that leaves his family and stays in the far place from his family always worries about his family condition. He will worry about the health from his children and his wife. He worries if his wife can’t keep their children without him. He knows that his wife needs his support to lighten up her life. He is always afraid if one day there is a bad situation happens in his family. He knows that his wife needs her husband to help her. The wife will feel safer if her husband is near her. She will become stronger to face many problems. Another worry from the husband is if his children do naughty things. They can make his mother feel angry and sad. This is not a good condition, because it can make the mother feels stress. That problem will disturb the peacefulness in the home. The father has many worries about their family problems. Those problems are thought by the father and it makes his life becomes not too comfortable.

Same with the husband, wife also worries about her husband. She will feel sad if her husband is not in a good condition. She knows that her husband is alone there. He needs his wife’s help, when he is sick. The husband doesn’t have family that can treat him when he is sick. There isn’t family around him that can support him to make him feel better. He also doesn’t have a wife to get some healthy food and to get extra attention. The wife doesn’t like to imagine that his husband has to live alone without family in the far place. She worries about everything. She worries about the food that her husband eats every day, about the problem that must be faced by the husband, and she worries if her husband feels lonely. He will not get focus in his work if he has many problems and there isn’t family near him that will give support to him. She knows that her husband needs someone to make him feel happy when he faces the problem in the office. Wife worries many things about her husband.

Living separately is not easy. We will not only worry each other, we also must believe in each other. Keep believing is important to keep harmony of a family. According to oxford dictionary keep can mean promise. It means your promise to do what you have promised. It also can mean staying in a particular condition.  Belief is a strong feeling that something or somebody exists or is true. It also means confidence that something or somebody is good or right. (Hornby, 2000).

Thus, keep believing can mean staying and promising something or somebody to believe it. We promise to believe that something or somebody is true. Everything that happens in our life has the reason. Therefore, it’s important for us to keep believing in each other, especially our family. When we live apart, we need extra trust to keep believing. ”Trust should be like feeling of a one year old baby when you throw him in the air , he laughs, because he knows you will catch him ; that is trust.” ("Confidence, Trust & Hope," 2007). Husband and wife have to trust each other to keep the harmony of their life. Having a good harmony in the life can make living separately condition better. We will feel more comfortable and more peaceful. Both of keep believing and trusting are positive mental. Happiness will come in our life if we have positive mental. It is the reason why it is important to keep believing.

As a person who lives separately from family I know the difficulties from living separately. When I lived with my mother, my two little brothers, and my little sister without my father, my mother looks feel lonely. At first, when my father has to move to Kalimantan because of the work reason, everything became more difficult without him. However in the next month we had adapted to live without him. We started to live happily although my father has lived separately from us. My mother always said that we must give good news to our father when he phoned us. My father will feel happy if he knows that his family is in a good condition. Therefore my brother and my sister don’t want to make some dispute very often. We not only reduce the dispute between us, we also study hard so we can get the good score in the school. It can make my parents, especially my father happy. Hearing the bad news would make he felt sad and apprehensive about condition of the family. Thus, we always try to give much good news to our father. However, the condition will be different if one of us is sick. We have to give the real news to my father, so he can know our real condition. He will do something to help us.

Now, I live separately from my family. I have to live separately because of education reason. I’m studying in a Faculty of Letters in English Department, Universitas Padjadjaran. Therefore, since July 2010, I have been living in Jatinangor. I only have the chance to go home in the long holidays like Lebaran holidays and holidays in the end of semester. Thus, now, I’m in the same condition with my father. We are living separately from my mother, my little brothers, and my little sisters. Actually I often feel lonely. I need them to help me in facing some problems. I need their support. “Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you. It may not be easy at times but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are.” ("Keep Believing in Yourself," 2007). Although they aren’t near me, I know they always pray for me. I don’t want to see them feel sad because of seeing me having many problems. Keep struggling is a good way to face a difficult situation. Thus, I always try to become a strong person to pass my problems.

In conclusion, living separately from family is not easy. “There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren't the way you had hoped they would be.” ("Keep Believing in Yourself," 2007). I never hoped to live separately from family but this condition gives me many lessons. Actually, I feel hard living without my parents especially my mother. I don’t have much time to talk with her. I have missed many events that I usually do with her. Seeing her names when there is a call on my mobile phone screen is a wonderful thing. I will feel very happy when I see it. Sometimes I don’t want to hang up the phone although I don’t have other things to talk with my mother. I do that because I miss her. Living separately is a valuable experience. I more respect my family. I know more about the meaning of loving each other. I also know more about how important the family is. Now, I more appreciate everything that my family has given to me. Even, a call from them can be very meaningful for me.

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My Designs

My Favorite Short Story

HARRISON BERGERON

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.

It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd forgotten for the moment what they were about.

On the television screen were ballerinas.

A buzzer sounded in George's head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.

"That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel.

"Huh" said George.

"That dance-it was nice," said Hazel.

"Yup," said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.

George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas.

Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been.

"Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer," said George.

"I'd think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds," said Hazel a little envious. "All the things they think up."

"Um," said George.

"Only, if I was Handicapper General, you know what I would do?" said Hazel. Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers. "If I was Diana Moon Glampers," said Hazel, "I'd have chimes on Sunday-just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion."

"I could think, if it was just chimes," said George.

"Well-maybe make 'em real loud," said Hazel. "I think I'd make a good Handicapper General."

"Good as anybody else," said George.

"Who knows better then I do what normal is?" said Hazel.

"Right," said George. He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.

"Boy!" said Hazel, "that was a doozy, wasn't it?"

It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes. Two of of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples.

"All of a sudden you look so tired," said Hazel. "Why don't you stretch out on the sofa, so's you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch." She was referring to the forty-seven pounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, which was padlocked around George's neck. "Go on and rest the bag for a little while," she said. "I don't care if you're not equal to me for a while."

George weighed the bag with his hands. "I don't mind it," he said. "I don't notice it any more. It's just a part of me."

"You been so tired lately-kind of wore out," said Hazel. "If there was just some way we could make a little hole in the bottom of the bag, and just take out a few of them lead balls. Just a few."

"Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball I took out," said George. "I don't call that a bargain."

"If you could just take a few out when you came home from work," said Hazel. "I mean-you don't compete with anybody around here. You just set around."

"If I tried to get away with it," said George, "then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?"

"I'd hate it," said Hazel.

"There you are," said George. The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to society?"

If Hazel hadn't been able to come up with an answer to this question, George couldn't have supplied one. A siren was going off in his head.

"Reckon it'd fall all apart," said Hazel.

"What would?" said George blankly.

"Society," said Hazel uncertainly. "Wasn't that what you just said?

"Who knows?" said George.

The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, "Ladies and Gentlemen."

He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read.

"That's all right-" Hazel said of the announcer, "he tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard."

"Ladies and Gentlemen," said the ballerina, reading the bulletin. She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men.

And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. "Excuse me-" she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.

"Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen," she said in a grackle squawk, "has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous."

A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen-upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up. The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches. He was exactly seven feet tall.

The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.

Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds.

And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random.

"If you see this boy," said the ballerina, "do not - I repeat, do not - try to reason with him."

There was the shriek of a door being torn from its hinges.

Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set. The photograph of Harrison Bergeron on the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an earthquake.

George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have - for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune. "My God-" said George, "that must be Harrison!"

The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile collision in his head.

When George could open his eyes again, the photograph of Harrison was gone. A living, breathing Harrison filled the screen.

Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood - in the center of the studio. The knob of the uprooted studio door was still in his hand. Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die.

"I am the Emperor!" cried Harrison. "Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!" He stamped his foot and the studio shook.

"Even as I stand here" he bellowed, "crippled, hobbled, sickened - I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!"

Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds.

Harrison's scrap-iron handicaps crashed to the floor.

Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall.

He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.

"I shall now select my Empress!" he said, looking down on the cowering people. "Let the first woman who dares rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne!"

A moment passed, and then a ballerina arose, swaying like a willow.

Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her physical handicaps with marvelous delicacy. Last of all he removed her mask.

She was blindingly beautiful.

"Now-" said Harrison, taking her hand, "shall we show the people the meaning of the word dance? Music!" he commanded.

The musicians scrambled back into their chairs, and Harrison stripped them of their handicaps, too. "Play your best," he told them, "and I'll make you barons and dukes and earls."

The music began. It was normal at first-cheap, silly, false. But Harrison snatched two musicians from their chairs, waved them like batons as he sang the music as he wanted it played. He slammed them back into their chairs.

The music began again and was much improved.

Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while-listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it.

They shifted their weights to their toes.

Harrison placed his big hands on the girls tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers.

And then, in an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang!

Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well.

They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun.

They leaped like deer on the moon.

The studio ceiling was thirty feet high, but each leap brought the dancers nearer to it.

It became their obvious intention to kiss the ceiling. They kissed it.

And then, neutraling gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long time.

Report Example

To       : Fitria Mayasari, M.Hum, Lecturer

From   : Debby Sheilla Saputri, Student

Date    : 9 October 2011

Subject: The selection of minor from some students in Faculty of Letters, English Department in UNPAD

Terms of Reference

This report is written on your request on 29 September 2011 to find out the reasons for the choosing of minor in Faculty of Letters, English Department , UNPAD in 2011. This report is to be submitted by 10 October 2011.

Procedure

I interviewed 20 students and a lecturer in English Department. Firstly, I checked which students that have taken the minor. Secondly, I asked some questions to them. I asked in what year they are now, why they choose the minor, and what the title of their thesis. Then I examined their answers by observing the background of their reason.

Findings

1. Most students prefer choosing the linguistic program. There are four classes for students that have taken the minor in 2011. There are two linguistic classes and the rest are a literature class and a translation class.

2. I interviewed 10 students and a lecturer from linguistic program. Most students who have chosen linguistic program said that they choose it because they like education, want to be a teacher, and are interested in studying structure. Two of them said that they choose linguistic because they want to be a linguist. They like studying the forming of words. The rest said that they choose linguistic because they aren’t familiar with literature, don’t like to analyze the literature work, and feel difficult to understand the plot of story.

3. I only interviewed 4 students from literature program. Most of them prefer choosing literature because they like art. They said that they are interested in literature work. They are also interested in knowing more about the genre of texts. They said they can get many lessons in life from studying literature. They can know the culture from others in many times although they don’t go around the world and don’t live in the past time. One of them said she chooses literature because her score in linguistic was bad.

4. The translator program first opens in this year. I interviewed six students from translation program. Most of them said that they choose translation program because they want to be a translator. Even, one of them has become the freelance as a translator.  Others said they want to know what will be studied in this program.

5. The students that have taken the minor are not only the students from the seventh term. Some of them are from fifth term.

Conclusion

1. Most students prefer choosing linguistic program because they like education and language structure. They feel difficult to analyze the literature work.

2. The minority that choose literature program said that they like the literature work. Although some of them don’t want to look for a job which is connected with literature they still choose this program. They said that they can study many life lessons from literature.

3. Actually, translation, the new minor in English Department has many enthusiasts. However in this year, there is only a class of translation program because the students still don’t know what will be studied in this program.

Recommendations

1. I recommend the students to know what their interest before they choose the minor, so they can focus in their minor.

2. I also recommend the students to ask the teacher more about explanation of each minor in Faculty of Letters, English Department Universitas Padjadjaran. Thus, the students can know more what will be studied in the minor that they will choose.

Debby Sheilla Saputri

Enclosure

1. Elvi Citraresmana, M.Hum (Lecturer) (Linguistic)

2. Rosanti (180410080238) (Linguistic)

3. Aprilia Sasmar Putri (180410090142) (Linguistic)

4. Nadia (180410090034) (Linguistic)

5. Annisa Yusti Desiyanti (180410080079) (Linguistic)

6. Guruh Anugrah Pradana P. (180410080238) (Linguistic)

7. Fitria Mayosa (18041008217) (Linguistic)

8. Dedeh Anggina (180410080090) (Linguistic)

9. Elysa Ratna Astuti (180410080044) (Linguistic)

10. Ria Aryanti (180410080007) (Linguistic)

11. Desy Indriyani (180410080019) (Linguistic)

12. Geni Kurniati (180410080053) (Literature)

13. Mellysa Anastasya (180410090063) (Literature)

14. Karina Damayanti (180410080014) (Literature)

15. Teguh Wijayanto (180410070026) (Literature)

16. Ahmad (180410080057) (Translation)

17. Dimas Kautsar Harjono (180410060083)

18. Andri Dharma (180410080183) (Translation)

19. Harli Yudha Pratama ( 180410-80069) (Translation)

20. Januar Kevin Khaled (180410080107) (Translation)

21. Supajriah (18041010080155) (Translation)

Compound Words and Word from Names

Compound Words

1.    

          Fireflies : kunang-kunang

2.    Fireworks : kembang api

3.    Passport : paspor

4.    Football : sepak bola

5.    Hometown : kampung halaman

6.    Blacksmith : pandai besi

7.    Blacktop : aspal

8.    Sweetmeat : manisan / gula-gula

9.    Friendship : persahabatan

10.  Backlog : jaminan simpanan

Words From Names

1.    Ammonia : A pungent nitrogen-based gas or liquid used widely as a household cleaning agent, from Ammon or Amen, an Egyptian god of oracles because ammonia was first obtained from a region near the temple of Amen, in Libya.

2.    Boycott : To refuse to do business with because of a difference of opinion, from Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), Irish land agent for an absentee landlord who refused to bow to Irish land reforms of the 1880s and was shunned by members of the party supporting the reforms (the Irish Land League) who denied him servants, postal service, access to stores, etc.

3.    Cardigan : A knit sweater that buttons in front, from : James Thomas Brudnell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British cavalry officer.

4.    Diesel : A type of motor engine that runs on heating oil rather than gasoline or petrol, from Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913), the German mechanical engineer who invented it.

5.    Fauna : The animal kingdom, all animals taken together, from Faunus, the Roman god of pastures and forests.

6.    Gamp : A large, baggy umbrella. After the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.

7.    Hansom : cab a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the driver's seat behind the passengers, from  Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-82), an architect from Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, who designed and patented it.

8.    Iris : A beautiful tuber plant with large, multicolored flowers growing on a single stem resembling large orchids, from Iris, Greek goddess of the rainbow; also the Greek word for "rainbow".

9.    Jovial : Happy, amiable, jocular, from  Jove, the English for Jovialis, an alternate name for Jupiter, supreme god of Roman mythology, considered to be the source of all happiness.

10.  Knickers  : 1. (US) Pants with legs cut off and gathered just below the knee, often worn by golfers. 2. (UK) Women's underpants. Short for knickerbockers, for the family Knickerbocker in the fictitious History of New York by Washington Irving (1783-1859), shown wearing baggy pants with legs gathered just below the knee in the illustrations by George Cruikshank.

11.  Marathon : An arduous footrace or other long and difficult undertaking that is a test of endurance. The city of Marathon, Greece where, in 490 BCE, the Greeks defeated the Persians even though heavily outnumbered because a messenger named Pheidippides ran 150 miles in two days to Sparta for help

12.  Nicotine : The poisonous addictive chemical in tobacco smoke, from Jean Nicot (1530-1600), the French ambassador to Portugal, who promoted smoking by sending tobacco seeds and leaves to France in the mid 16th century.

13.  Odyssey : A long, wandering journey, from Odysseus, the mythological Greek hero of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.

14.  Palladium : 1. A protector or safeguard. 2. A sacred object believed to protect an administrative region (city, state, country, etc.). After the protector of Troy, the Greek goddess Pallas Athena.

15.  Panic : To lose control of yourself in a state of nervous anxiety, from Pan, the Greek god of the forests, shepherds and flocks, represented as a human torso with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.

16.  Quisling : Traitor, collaborator, from Vidkun Abraham Quisling (1887-1945), a Norwegian collaborator with the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II.

17.  Roentgen : A unit of radiation exposure equal to the amount of ionizing radiation that creates one electrostatic unit of electricity in one cubic centimeter of dry air, from Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays.

18.  Sandwich : Food on a slice of bread or between two slices, eaten with the hands, from John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), an English aristocrat after whom Captain James Cook also named the Sandwich Islands.

19.  Slave : A person who legally belongs to another and has no rights within the law, from Sclavus, Medieval Latin word for 'a Slav', a member of the Slavonic people of central Europe, including Poles, Czechs, Russian, and Ukrainians.

20.  Titanic : Huge, gigantic, from The Titans, 12 primeval gigantic gods and goddesses in Greek mythology.

21.  Volcano : An opening in the earth through which molten lava issues or a mountain build up of lava, from Vulcan (Latin Volcanus), the Roman god of fire and metalworking.

22.  Weber : A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells, from Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), German physicist known for his research into magnetism and electricity.

23.  Zany : Outrageously funny, ridiculous, from  Zanni, a traditional clown who wears a mask with a long, downward curving beak in the Italian Commedia dell'arte.