Inspiring Person

Hi, everybody! We meet again in this article. And now, I will show you a person that is my inspiration. This person was working in the field of medical. Before I explaine about this person I will tell you why this person became my inspiration. This person, became my inspiration because I want to work in the field of medical too, especially become an obstetrician. And when I read this person’s biography, this person inspired me to be a good doctor later. from this person, i saw a big kindness and sincerity  to help people that is riveting me. Well, I think that is enough for prologue. Now I will tell you about my inspiration, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

Florence Nightingale as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was known as "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. She was born in Firenze, 12 May 1820. And she passed away on 13 August 1910 in

Park Lane, London, England, United Kingdom (aged 90).

Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports got back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and the staff of 38 women volunteer nurses that she trained, including her aunt Mai Smith,and fifteen Catholic nuns (mobilised by Henry Edward Manning)were sent (under the authorisation of Sidney Herbert) to the Ottoman Empire. They were deployed about 295 nautical miles (546 km; 339 mi) across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.

The first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1911) asserted that Nightingale reduced the death rate from 42% to 2% either by making improvements in hygiene herself or by calling for the Sanitary Commission. However, death rates actually began to rise to the highest of all hospitals in the region. During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. With overcrowding, defective sewers and lack of ventilation, the Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Florence Nightingale had arrived. The commission flushed out the sewers and improved ventilation.Death rates were sharply reduced, but she did not recognise hygiene as the predominant cause of death at the time and never claimed credit for helping to reduce the death rate. In 2001 and 2008 the BBC released documentaries that were critical of Nightingale's performance in the Crimean War, as were some follow-up articles published in The Guardian and the Sunday Times. Nightingale scholar L. McDonald has dismissed these criticisms as "often preposterous", arguing they are not supported by the primary sources.

Nightingale still believed that the death rates were due to poor nutrition, lack of supplies and overworking of the soldiers. After she returned to Britain and began collecting evidence before the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army, she came to believe that most of the soldiers at the hospital were killed by poor living conditions. This experience influenced her later career, when she advocated sanitary living conditions as of great importance. Consequently, she reduced peacetime deaths in the army and turned attention to the sanitary design of hospitals.

She was known as “the lady with the lamp” because her kindness when she when she insists on helping a wounded soldier while others refuse to do so.

On 13 August 1910, at the age of 90, she died peacefully in her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Mayfair, London. The offer of burial in Westminster Abbey was declined by her relatives and she is buried in the graveyard at St. Margaret Church in East Wellow, Hampshire.She left a large body of work, including several hundred notes which were previously unpublished.

I think that’s all about my inspiring person, Florence Nightingale. Thankyou for reading and see you soon on the next article!

From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

Colosseum

The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and stone,[1] it was the largest amphitheatre of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. It is the largest amphitheatre in the world.[2]

The Colosseum is situated just east of the Roman Forum. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian in 70 AD,[3] and was completed in 80 AD under his successor and heir Titus.[4] Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (81–96).[5] These three emperors are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named in Latin for its association with their family name (Flavius).

The Colosseum could hold, it is estimated, between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators,[6][7] and was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.

Although in the 21st century it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome. It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions and has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession that starts in the area around the Colosseum.[8]

The Colosseum, like all the Historic Centre of Rome, Properties of the Holy See in Italy and the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1980. In 2007 the complex was also included among the New7Wonders of the World, following a competition organized by New Open World Corporation (NOWC).

The Colosseum is also depicted on the Italian version of the five-cent euro coin.

Dewa Athena Event

Last week, on 15^th February 2014, there was an opening of sport event called Dewa Athena in my school. This event is hold in Lapangan Bali. It started at 8 o’clock. The opening was marked by a lit of torch by Mr Encang as our headmaster. After that, this event followed by sports competition between classes form 2015 and classes from 2016. Sports that are contested was football, relay, basketball, and much more.

Each class has its own schedule to compete, and schedule for my class was 13.00 for tug of war, and 14.00 for relay. So we just took photos and walked around the area. Over time, we felt bored and then we decided to went to Richeese Factory to have lunch before compete with other classes. When we were finished our lunch, we still have much time so we went to GBall field in Kosambi to play futsal for about one hour. We went there by public transportation, and some of us were brought their own transportation. After played futsal, we went back to Lapang Bali again and palyed tug of war. And unfotunatelly we were lose, I think it was because our team’s body was small, and our opponent was big. But, we think it was okay.

After tug of war, we continued out competition. That was relay. If we are disappointed before, now we were happy because our team win the competition! The winning of our team made our day, and that’s how our day’s end. We closed our day’s with happy! However, we still have a lot of competition that we do not yet. We have to keep our spirit until the end of this event!

Tsunami

A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: 津波, lit. "harbour wave";[1] English pronunciation: /suːˈnɑːmi/ soo-nah-mee or /tsuːˈnɑːmi/ tsoo-nah-mee[2]) is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.[3]

Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves. Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train".[4] Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230,000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his late 5th century BC, History of the Peloponnesian War, that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes,[5][6] but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown. Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.

A tsunami is usually caused by a powerful earthquake under the ocean floor. This earthquake pushes a large volume of water to the surface, creating waves. These waves are the tsunami.

In the deep ocean these waves are small. As they approach the coast these waves get bigger and more dangerous. Tsunami waves can cause tremendous damage when they reach land.

A tsunami can also be triggered by a volcanic eruption, landslide, or other movements of the Earth’s surface.

resource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami

My Holiday

When I was on my year-end holliday, my family andi went to Europe. We spent 12 days there. We departured from Indonesia on 25^th December at 20.20 using  Singapore airlines, and arrived in Milan on 26^th December at 07.50. We were visited 5 countries, they were Italy, Venice, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Holland.  I really felt the different experience there, mostly because it was winter and I can’t feel winter in Indonesia so it’s really exciting.

The first day in Europe, we arrived in Milan, Italy at 07.50, after took our luggage we went to the bus and went to Milan Catedral. It is the 2^nd biggest curch in the world after the curch in Vatican City. There was really crowded because it still in the Christmast Event. And beside the curch, there was a Chirstmast Bazzar that sold so many things like souvenirs, food, sculptures, handycrafts, and much more. Near the curch, there is a Duomo that is a big place that sold many branded things. My mother and I weren’t like to shopping something that when we were traveling, sometimes we bought things like that but not when we were traveling because we thought that wasn’t the right moment to shopping something like that, so we just windowed shopping and buy foods and souvenirs in the bazzar. When we were shopping, it started raining and it was really cold, so we decided to came in to the Duomo and get some Cappucino or hot chocolate in the coffee shop. After that, we went to the hotel, checked in, and took a rest because we still have jetlag.

The next day, we moved to Florence. On the way there, we visited one of 7 wonders of the world, that was Pisa! Pisa tower is placed in Pisa City, Italy. When I went down from the bus, I saw many sovenirs sellers that sold maythings about pinochio, like pen, pencils, keychains, and much more. They also sold anything about Pisa, but the pinochio things were much more than the things about Pisa. So I asked our tour guide, and he told me that actually the pinochio story was start from Pisa City. In Pisa, we of course took a lot of photos and walking around the Pisa Tower, we didn’t came in to the tower because it was very crowded and we thought we haven’t enough time to do that. When we went back to the bus, we bought may souvenirs for our friends and of course for us. Next, we continued our journey to Florence City. There we visited one of michelangelo’s masterpiece, that was David Sculture. This Sculture was really amazing, and fortunately when we reach the place it was night because this sculputure looked more beautiful in the night because of the lightning. We only took photos there because there wasn’t many things to see. But because of this sculpture is placed in a hill, we could saw the Florence city view, and it was really beautiful, mostly in the night. Next, we went to Chinese restaurant to have a dinner and went to the hotel to took a reast. This night, we used Hilton Metropole for stay in Florence.

We had morning call from hotel at 6 o’clock, after that we took a shower and got ready to continued our journey. At 7 o’clock we had breakfast, and at 8 o’clock we stated our trip. This day, we went to Roma City to have a city tour and visited some places. We were arrived on Roma at 11.30, so we went to Italian restaurant first to had a lunch, and after that we went around Roma City to had a city tour with a local guide named Linda. Linda was born in Rome, so she knew everything about Rome very well. We had our city tour for about 3 hours. When we were city touring we also visited The Colloseum, Trevi Fountain, and Spanish Steps. In Colloseum my brother and I had photos with a guy in roman costume, our tour group also took a group photo. We didn’t spent much time in colloseum because we have to go to trevi fountain. A lot of tourists threwed a coins in Travi Fountain, but I didn’t because I thought it wasn’t really usefull and it was really crowded so I choosed to took pictures of Travi Fountain and then went to an ice cream café to bought a gelato, that is Italian typical ice cream. Next, we continued our trip to Vatican City. Exactly, to St. Peter Bassilica. St. Peter Bassilica is the biggest curch in the world and also the center of Chatolic religion. This curch was so beautiful, there also placed one of Michelangelo’s masterpiece that was Pieta sculpure. The ceiling was full of painting. And Michelangelo also painted this ceiling. I just walked around this curch and took photos because I can’t do anything in this curch, I just can saw those beautiful scultures and ceiling. So, after I was bored in the curch I asked my family to went out from the curch first. And then we went out and went to souvenir shop to bught a lot of postcards, because I like postcards a lot so I collect it.

After we went around Roma, the next day we went to Venice. Venice is a “city water” lot of canals built there. The main transportation is a boat called Gondola and there was no car, motorcyle, or the other vehicles that used mechines in Venice. If there was a vehicles, it musn’t used mechines. We went along the canals by Gondola. It such an amazing experients. I took a  lot of beautiful photos there. But, we only had a little time there. I wanna come back again there someday :)

From Italy, we moved to Switzerland. There, we stayed 2 nights in Luzern. The trip from Italy to Switzerland took much time, so when we arrived there it was night but we still have time to visited Lion Monument. We only took photos and then went to the restaurant to have a dinner and then went to hotel to took a reat. The next day was the moxt exciting and memorable day, because we went to Titlis Peak to play the snow!! So we went from hotel at 8 o’clock and arrived at Titlis Peak at 11 o’clock. First, we were given the tickets by our tour guide and then we went to the cable car to went to he peak. When we arrived in the peak, my brother and I were really exciting and then we have a snow war. We threw the snowballs to each other. It was -5 degrees that time, but I didn’t feel it. I think it was because I always moved. It was reaaaallly amazing day. It was the most beautiful day during the tour. I didn’t buy much souvenir there, only postcards because the price was too expensive.

The next day we went to Paris, France. When we arrived there, we went to Seine River to went along the river by boat. Form the boat, the view was really beautiful. But, unfortunately it was raining but I still went to the roof of the boat to got the beautiful photos. The wind was really big, but it’s okay. After that we had a dinner and went to hotel. The next morning, we had a city tour passed the Eiffle Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Place de La Concorde, and Notre Dame Curch. Of course to took photos with eiffle tower, but we didn’t cam eto eiffle tower because it was full of people and many pickpockets there. So our tour guide told us that we have no time and it was dangerous to went there when it was full. Next we went to Lavayette Shopping Center. I don’t like this time, because I don’t shopping. So I just walked around this building. So many people want to visited Paris so much, but I think Paris wasn’t as beautiful as what they think. Even in my opinion Paris is the least memorable city. I don’t know why, but I just feel like that.

From France, we moved to Holland. To reach Holand we must through Belgium first. And fortunately, because we have enough time we could have city tour around Brussel, the Capital City of Belgium. We visited the famous Menneken Pis and Automium. We also bought chocolate from Belgium. After city tour, we continued our trip to Den Haag, Holland. It took for about 3 hours from Brussel. When we arrived in Den Haag, it was afternoon but. Then, we went to Madurodam. Madurodam was a beautiful miniature of Holland, especially Den Haag. Next, we went to restaurant and then to hotel. In the 2^nd day, we visited the famous Volendam Village. The most popular place to visited in Volendam was a photo studio that will take our picture with Holland tranditional costume. We have much time here. After we had lunch, we went to the souvenir shop and then went to the photo studio. We only need for about 1 hour to wait our photos printed. We sepnt the time with shopping and took photos again.

At 5^th January 2014, we have to went back to Indonesia L I don’t want to went back to Indonesia actually…..if I could, I want moreeee holiday. But time is up, so we have to went back. We went from hotel at 5 o’clock but our plane taked off at 10 o’clock. From Den Haag, we landed in Singapore to transit there and then continued our journey to Indonesia from Singapore. We arrived in Indonesia at 13.20.

That was an amaaaaaazingg holiday!! Of course I won’t forget it. I want to repeat it again and again hahahaha. But I wish 2 years again I will return there to continue to University :) 

Announcement

SCHOOL CELEBRATION 

For all student, in commemoration of the anniversary of the school, we will hold the event, which is bike to school.  in this celebration, we also hold 3 copetitions, types as follow:

• ·      Math Competition
• ·      Debate Competition
• ·      Story Telling Competition

The event will be held at June 1^st, 2013 at 14.00 until end. This celebration will be held in the Auditorium, and all of student are expected to attend this celebreation. For debate competition, each class have to send participants with a minimum 1 group (3 people). And for math and story telling competition, each class is free to send the participant.

To register please Contact:

• 1.     Mr. Bambang (12345678910111)
• 2.     Mrs. Eka (419063597350)
• 3.     Kresna XIPA3 (2345679765)

The Most Precious Wealth

In a country, there was a kingdom that ledded by an old king. But, someday, he was passed away and left a son that would be successor of the throne, names Princes Faisal. Prince inherit his father’s wealth very much. However, he wasn’t mature enough to led his kingdom. He had a hobby to hold huge parties.over time, it was spent his wealth.

Prince Faisal had a spiritual teacher that always gave his father advices when he was alive, and now the spiritual teacher warned Prince Faisal not to spent his time and money on things that wasn’t usefull. He said “Faisal, if you continued you habit to spent you money and time in things that wasn’t usefull, The Gread God would be angry. And if he was angry, you must be carefull”. But, Prince Faisal never cared to the advice.

One day, when he was in his room  he approached an old man mighty. And the old man said “ Faisal…. I am the Great God, and you…..you have condemned yourself and your people. I’ve been protected you kingdom since a long time ago…but if you continued you habbit it was not possible your kingdom would be decayed”. Prince Faisal panic and said “but….but I don’t want my kingdom decayed…..so how….?” Asked Prince Faisal. “you have to find out the most prious treasure in the world”. After said that, the Great God disappeared and left Prince Faisal in confused. The next day, he told his Spiritual tearcher about the Great God.

“Ooh… you were lucky, I know where was the palace of the Great God. Let’s go to the palace and asked him what was meant”. Then, they went to the Great God’s Pallace. When they got there, they asked the Great God what was he meant. He answerd “you have to bring the girls without sin to me”. After that The Great God gave them a mirror, but the mirror was foggy and the Great God explained to them if a girl without sin mirrored there, the fog would disappear.

After listen to the expalination, they ventured to get that girl. Time passed, and they didn’t get this girl. One day, they went to Spiritual Teacher’s house and Faisal met his teacher’s daughter, named Sarah. Sarah found the mirror and said “Oh….what a beautiful mirror….whose mirror is this?” and than she looked at the mirror and….the fog was dissappeard! She was a girl without sin! They immediately took her to the palace. When they got there, they told the Great God that sarah was a girl without sin. After that, the Great God hold her hand and they were dissapear. Prince Faisal and his teacher were confused, but they decided to went back to the Prince Faisal’s palace. On the way, Prince Faisal realized that he was fall in love with sarah. But he didn’t told to his teacher.

When they got in to Prince Faisal’s palace, Prince Faisal went to the treasure room and realized there were different things, which is a sculpture that he knew did not exist before. This sculpture was covered by a silk, and he pulled it. Unexpected! Under the silk wasn’t sculpture, but there was Sarah dressed nobility and she was really beautiful. Then the Great God appeared and said “faisal, This is your future wife. before you to lead this kingdom, you must learn that a pure heart is the most precious treasure”

From the story of the story, the message that we can take is that we should not waste the wealth we have, other than that we also must have a clean heart for a pure heart will be more valuable than any treasure.