RAPUNZEL STORY

ONCE upon a time there lived a man and his wife who were very unhappy because they had no children. These good people had a little window at the back of their house, which looked into the most lovely garden, full of all manner of beautiful flowers and vegetables; but the garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to enter it, for it belonged to a witch of great power, who was feared by the whole world. One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them. The desire grew day by day, and just because she knew she couldn't possibly get any, she pined away and became quite pale and wretched. Then her husband grew alarmed and said:

`What ails you, dear wife?'

`Oh,' she answered, `if I don't get some rampion to eat out of the garden behind the house, I know I shall die.'

The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, `Come! rather than let your wife die you shall fetch her some rampion, no matter the cost.' So at dusk he climbed over the wall into the witch's garden, and, hastily gathering a handful of rampion leaves, he returned with them to his wife. She made them into a salad, which tasted so good that her longing for the forbidden food was greater than ever. If she were to know any peace of mind, there was nothing for it but that her husband should climb over the garden wall again, and fetch her some more. So at dusk over he got, but when he reached the other side he drew back in terror, for there, standing before him, was the old witch.

`How dare you,' she said, with a wrathful glance, `climb into my garden and steal my rampion like a common thief? You shall suffer for your foolhardiness.'

`Oh!' he implored, `pardon my presumption; necessity alone drove me to the deed. My wife saw your rampion from her window, and conceived such a desire for it that she would certainly have died if her wish had not been gratified.' Then the Witch's anger was a little appeased, and she said:

`If it's as you say, you may take as much rampion away with you as you like, but on one condition only--that you give me the child your wife will shortly bring into the world. All shall go well with it, and I will look after it like a mother.'

The man in his terror agreed to everything she asked, and as soon as the child was born the Witch appeared, and having given it the name of Rapunzel, which is the same as rampion, she carried it off with her.

Rapunzel was the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old the Witch shut her up in a tower, in the middle of a great wood, and the tower had neither stairs nor doors, only high up at the very top a small window. When the old Witch wanted to get in she stood underneath and called out:

`Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

Let down your golden hair,'

for Rapunzel had wonderful long hair, and it was as fine as spun gold. Whenever she heard the Witch's voice she unloosed her plaits, and let her hair fall down out of the window about twenty yards below, and the old Witch climbed up by it.

After they had lived like this for a few years, it happened one day that a Prince was riding through the wood and passed by the tower. As he drew near it he heard someone singing so sweetly that he stood still spell-bound, and listened. It was Rapunzel in her loneliness trying to while away the time by letting her sweet voice ring out into the wood. The Prince longed to see the owner of the voice, but he sought in vain for a door in the tower. He rode home, but he was so haunted by the song he had heard that he returned every day to the wood and listened. One day, when he was standing thus behind a tree, he saw the old Witch approach and heard her call out:

`Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

Let down your golden hair.'

Then Rapunzel let down her plaits, and the Witch climbed up by them.

`So that's the staircase, is it?' said the Prince. `Then I too will climb it and try my luck.'

So on the following day, at dusk, he went to the foot of the tower and cried:

`Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your golden hair,'

and as soon as she had let it down the Prince climbed up.

At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man came in, for she had never seen one before; but the Prince spoke to her so kindly, and told her at once that his heart had been so touched by her singing, that he felt he should know no peace of mind till he had seen her. Very soon Rapunzel forgot her fear, and when he asked her to marry him she consented at once. `For,' she thought, `he is young and handsome, and I'll certainly be happier with him than with the old Witch.' So she put her hand in his and said:

`Yes, I will gladly go with you, only how am I to get down out of the tower? Every time you come to see me you must bring a skein of silk with you, and I will make a ladder of them, and when it is finished I will climb down by it, and you will take me away on your horse.'

They arranged that till the ladder was ready, he was to come to her every evening, because the old woman was with her during the day. The old Witch, of course, knew nothing of what was going on, till one day Rapunzel, not thinking of what she was about, turned to the Witch and said:

`How is it, good mother, that you are so much harder to pull up than the young Prince? He is always with me in a moment.'

`Oh! you wicked child,' cried the Witch. `What is this I hear? I thought I had hidden you safely from the whole world, and in spite of it you have managed to deceive me.'

In her wrath she seized Rapunzel's beautiful hair, wound it round and round her left hand, and then grasping a pair of scissors in her right, snip snap, off it came, and the beautiful plaits lay on the ground. And, worse than this, she was so hard-hearted that she took Rapunzel to a lonely desert place, and there left her to live in loneliness and misery.

But on the evening of the day in which she had driven poor Rapunzel away, the Witch fastened the plaits on to a hook in the window, and when the Prince came and called out:

`Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your golden hair,'

she let them down, and the Prince climbed up as usual, but instead of his beloved Rapunzel he found the old Witch, who fixed her evil, glittering eyes on him, and cried mockingly:

`Ah, ah! you thought to find your lady love, but the pretty bird has flown and its song is dumb; the cat caught it, and will scratch out your eyes too. Rapunzel is lost to you for ever--you will never see her more.'

The Prince was beside himself with grief, and in his despair he jumped right down from the tower, and, though he escaped with his life, the thorns among which he fell pierced his eyes out. Then he wandered, blind and miserable, through the wood, eating nothing but roots and berries, and weeping and lamenting the loss of his lovely bride. So he wandered about for some years, as wretched and unhappy as he could well be, and at last he came to the desert place where Rapunzel was living. Of a sudden he heard a voice which seemed strangely familiar to him. He walked eagerly in the direction of the sound, and when he was quite close, Rapunzel recognised him and fell on his neck and wept. But two of her tears touched his eyes, and in a moment they became quite clear again, and he saw as well as he had ever done. Then he led her to his kingdom, where they were received and welcomed with great joy, and they lived happily ever after.

Ferdinand Magellan

Aristotle first theorized that the earth was round. Columbus died believing he proved Aristotle correct, but the real confirmation came in the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan, the captain of the first ship to sail completely around the world.

Magellan was a Portuguese sailor who explored Asia. While he was in Asia, Magellan picked up an Asian boy he called Enrique, who he brought back to Portugal. Magellan asked the King of Portugal to finance an expedition around the world. When the king rejected him, Magellan disowned his allegiance to Portugal and offered his services to Spain.

Magellan left Spain in 1519 with five ships. It took more than fourteen months to find the southern opening to the Pacific Ocean. He found it in the frigid, stormy waters now known as the Strait of Magellan. What Magellan did not count on was the immensity of the Pacific, a body of water larger than all of the land on earth. Magellan expected Asia to be a few hundred miles past beyond the coast of South America. Instead, the expedition traveled 12,600 miles before reaching land.

The starving sailors arrived the island of Guam after more than six months at sea, and then moved on to the Philippines. While in the Philippines, Magellan discovered that his servant, Enrique, could understand the native language. Magellan realized that Enrique was the first person to have traveled completely around the world.

Magellan had survived eighteen months at sea, but he was killed in battle in the Philippines. A local warrior persuaded Magellan to defeat his rival in battle. Most of Magellan’s men considered the battle both pointless and dangerous, so they refused to participate. Magellan was hit with a poison arrow in the battle and died.

One of Magellan’s five ships did make it back to Spain, only twelve days less than three years after their journey started. Only one ship and eighteen sailors remained of the 265 men accompanied Magellan.

SUMBA

Sumba people today do not vary much with the people in the Sumba ago.

They were able to preserve the language and culture although tireless occupied and dominated by other islands. There are three languages used on the island of Sumba, the two languages in West Sumba and a language in East Sumba. Second language in the western part of the divided again over eight dialects.

Sumba easy for people known by the way I Dressed. Men wear cloth woven strap "Hinggi" tied to the waist with a belt and a big knife in the Plug and woven into cloth belt. They also wear headgear made of woven rope. Interlock woven cloth using patterns of animals and humans. In East Sumba, generally woven strap with a black base color and color patterns in the West Sumba with basic blue color. Women also wear cloth woven rope, but different types and shapes in the form of glove.

One of the Characteristics Sumba is their expertise which in the case of extraordinary horsemanship. The children have started learning to ride a horse since still small. When adults go, they showed through the expertise is in the tradition carried war horse "Pasola".

Sumba most people still live in the village or village and the birth of their women to follow her husband or live in their husband's village. A village usually consists of a page with a large stone stone-roofed houses and large maramu (tower houses) form a circle corral page. Sumba represents the traditional home of the world's three important people in the life of Sumba: the animal is under the ground where the pit house pets they live, the people living in the midst of which the house owner and family live, and in the spirit world to the spirit in which the three fathers fathers dwelt.

In general, villages in Sumba are not very prosperous life. Sumba Prosperity for the people usually can be measured by the number of animals (buffalo, cow and horse) that is in the village as well as extent of land owned. Some Villagers have to sell out their cattle in the past so that the level of Prosperity Villagers become degenerate. Often happens is that children Sumba can not go to school. It is because they must stay home to help their parents prepare a rice field or garden because her parents do not have the money to send to them. Children who are not educated do not have a good future because not all children who come from a family can inherit their father's property. Children who have no land and education as this is intended to be unemployed.

In the past, Sumba grouping the three systems in the community that is nobility, farmers and slave / servant (maramba or kabisu). System such as this does not apply at the present time, but they can still be viewed from a certain level of Prosperity of families in the community to this day. Families gentility still rich enough and tend to be more prosperous lives than most people. Infant mortality in Sumba is still relatively high because many children who lack nutritious food and clean water. Drugs is also very difficult to get. Sumba island had received assistance from the central government's going to fail because of hunger harvest. Thousands of tons of rice had a drop from Sumba but due to the central government are on the Monetary and political crisis that occurred at the same time a few years ago, support for Sumba stopped. Natural resources available in this island are very limited and the central government can not afford to send more aid to residents of adequate Sumba.

Tugas Sejarah

TUGAS E LEARNING UNTUK KELAS VII

KD:KEDATANGAN BANGSA-BANGSA EROPA KE INDONESIA
TUGAS SISWA KELAS VII PADA SAAT LIBUR KARENA USG KELAS IX.
JAWABLAH PERTANYAAN DI BAWAH INI DENGAN JAWABAN BENAR!

1.Sebutkan faktor-faktor Bangsa Eropa datang ke Indonesia?
2.Jelaskan mengapa pelabuhan Konstantinopel merupakan pelabuhan di Turki mempunyai peranan sangat penting bagi pedagang² Eropa?
3.Sebutkan Bangsa Eropa yang datang ke Indonesia pada saat itu?
4.Sebutkan tokoh2 penjelajah Samudera dari masing2 negara tersebut!
5.Jelaskan Jalur yang ditempuh oleh Bangsa Spanyol,Portugis.Mengapa Spanyol dianggap Bangsa yang pertama kali membuktikan teori"Coperncus"yang menyatakan bahwa "bumi itu bulat"?

JAWABAN

1. a. Hindia Timur atau Indonesia telah lama dikenal sebagai daerah penghasil rempah-rempah seperti vanili, lada, dan cengkeh. Rempah-rempah ini digunakan untuk mengawet makanan, bumbu masakan, bahkan obat. Karena kegunaannya, rempah-rempah ini sangat laku di pasaran dan harganya pun mahal. Hal ini mendorong para pedagang Asia Barat datang dan memonopoli perdagangan rempah-rempah. Mereka membeli bahan-bahan ini dari para petani di Indonesia dan menjualnya kepada para pedagang Eropa.
b. Mencari kekayaan termasuk berdagang
c. Menyalurkan jiwa penjelajah
d. Meyakini Keberadaan Prester John
e. Menyebarkan agama
f. Mencari kemuliaan bangsa
2. Karena Konstaninopel merupakan pemberi pasokan rempah rempah ke Eropa sehingga pada saat Konstaninopel ini jatuh karena di boikot oleh Turki maka pasokan rempah rempah ke Eropapun terputus.
3. Bangsa Portugis, bangsa Spanyol , bangsa Inggris, dan bangsa Belanda.
4. Negara Portugis : Bartholomeus Diaz, Vasco da Gama, dan Alfonso d'Albuquerque
Negara Spanyol : Christopher Columbus dan Ferdinand Magellan
Negara Inggris : Francis Drake dan Thomas Cavendish
Negara Belanda : Cornelis de Houtman dan Pieter de Kaizer
5. A. Jalur Portugis adalah menyusuri pantai benua Afrika ke pantai timur Afrika dan akhirnya sampai di India . Jalur Spanyol adalah dengan :
a. Ferdinand Magellan adalah dengan berlayar ke arah barat , kemudian menyusuri pantai selatan benua Amerika dan lautan Pasifik.
B. Karena bangsa Spanyollah yang dapat menemukan daerah Asia pertama kali (Ferdinand Magellan) hanya dengan berlayar ke arah timr secara terus menerus

CARA MENGHADAPI ULANGAN

Ulangan memang terkadang membosankan namun sebenarnya perasaan itu timbul karena rasa ketidaksiapan kita untuk menghadapinya, oleh karena itu saya akan memberikan trick yang sangat mudah untuk menghadapinya:

1.Siapkan dirimu dengan sebaik-baiknya (usahakan keadaan tubuh slalu fit), ini dilakukan untuk mendukung konsentasi karena apabila kita sakit walaupun hanya flu kita tetap akan merasa tidak tenang dan konsentrasi.
2.Jangan pernah menerapkan sistem BHSM (Baca Hanya Satu Malam)
3.Selalu belajar walau waktu luang.
4.Jangan terlalu serius belajar hingga lupakan saat untuk makan (INGAT MAKAN ADALAH SUATU PROSES UNTUK MENGHASILKAN ENERGI)
5.Belajar melalui kisi kisi 

BUKU DIARY ORANG PINTAR

•  Mungkin orang selalu menganggap kita harus mengandalkan orang pintar untuk mengerjakan tugas (mencontek pr).Tapi sebenarnya "mengapa kita tak berusaha untuk mengandalkan diri kita sendiri?"
• Menurut saya sebenarnya hal ini akan membuat orang yang diconteki akan merasa tertekan (kalo dicontekin dijauhin temen, jadi bhn gosip,dll).Melalui hal ini semoga kita sadar kita harus bisa berusaha sendiri dengan tanya caranya sebelum ulangan kalo blm mengerti bukan malah tanya jawaban.