The Count Of Monte Cristo

A young sailor named Edmond Dantes returned home from a dangerous voyage. Since the captain of the ship Leclere died during the voyage, Edmond Dantes took over the command of the ship Pharaon which was owned by Morrel. Morrel liked Edmond and promoted him to be the new captain of the Pharaon. Dantes was well-liked by all of the sailors, except Danglars, who was jealous of Edmond's favorable position. Edmond asked for Morrel’s consent to visit his father and then to see Mercedes, his fiance.

When Edmond hurried to Mercedes’ house, she was having an unpleasant talk with Fernand, a soldier who loved her so much and wanted her to be his wife. But Mercedes was true to Edmond. Finally, unable to bear the sight of the happy couple, Fernand rushed out of the house. Then, Edmond and Mercedes planned their marriage,

One day Fernand, Danglars and Caderousse, Edmond’s father’s neighbor, drank together and they conspired to crash the wedding of the two lovers and they would also like to denounce Edmond Dantes as an enemy of the King.

The big wedding feast was prepared and soon the celebration began. Suddenly soldiers barged into the hall, interrupting the feast and arresting the bridegroom, Edmond. The reason for the arrest was not stated. Everyone was shocked, but Edmond believed that it was just a mistake or misunderstanding.

Villefort, the district magistrate, was told that Edmond was a Bonapartist conspirator. Though it looked as though Edmond had tried to help Napoleon, actually the young sailor was simply following orders given to him by his late captain. One of the orders was to deliver a letter to someone in Paris. As Villefort questioned Edmond, Edmond showed him the letter, hoping to reveal his innocence. Villefort read the letter and he was so shocked to see that it was addressed to his father, Noirtier who was a Napoleon supporter. Hoping to destroy any evidence that he was helping the father whom he had disowned, Villefort burned the letter, telling Edmond never to speak about the affair again. Edmond was told that he would be released, but the sailor was forced to stay in prison for the night.

Edmond believed Villefort. But what happened then? Edmond was taken by soldiers to the Chateau d’If, a very well-known prison due to its bad condition. Edmond didn’t know what to do. Villefort had betrayed him.

As the years passed, Edmond really lost his spirit. He feared he was going mad. In his twelfth year, he wanted to die. But one night he heard a scrape on the wall of his room made of stones. The next night the scrape was heard again. He thought someone might be giving him a signal, so he knocked the back of the chair against the wall. Then Edmond broke a mug and used the broken mug as a scraping tool to chip away the plaster of the stone. He did it every day. Before a jailor entered his room to bring food and drink for him, he closed the wall with a table.

Days by days Edmond chipped away the plaster. Meanwhile, a person next to his room also scraped the plaster from the opposite ends. Finally, they succeeded in moving the big stone. An old man entered Edmond’s room and introduced himself as Father Faria, whom the jailors called “The Mad Priest.” They became friends and often communicated with each other. When a jailor was going to bring food and drink, they moved back the position of the stone.

Father Faria was an Italian, a man of the church. He was an educated man. Political enemies had caused his arrest after the death of the rich Cardinal Spada, who had protected Faria and treated him like a son. Edmond felt that his whole world had turned over. For the next few weeks, the two men used the passageway freely to go between Edmond’s dungeon and the priest’s cell.

During the next year and a half, Faria taught Edmond many things and Edmond made rapid progress. Without realizing it, Edmond began to adopt Faria’s refined quiet way of speaking and moving. Soon the rough sailor vanished, and an educated young gentleman emerged. Faria also declared Edmond his heir. At his death, all the riches that he inherited from Cardinal Spada would belong to Edmond.

One day they planned an escape. Faria showed Edmond a treasure map, a map of the Island of Monte Cristo. In this island there were jewels, gold bars, and silver household objects hidden in one of the caves. Edmond wanted to escape with Faria. Unfortunately, Faria was sick and dead several days later.

After fourteen years in the Chateau d’If, Edmond managed to escape. He was free. And then he became a rich man and used the name the Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond wanted to take revenge against his enemies: Danglars, Villefort, and Fernand. He got the information from Caderousse that these three men were responsible for his suffering. The Count of Monte Cristo did a business with Danglars and Villefort. Of course, these two men didn’t know that the Count of Monte Cristo was actually Edmond. With his strategy, Edmond succeeded in making them go bankrupt. They lost in their investment. Villefort were so shocked to see the fact that he lost a lof of money and that the Count of Monte Cristo was Edmond. To make it worse, Villefort’s wife poisoned herself and her son. Finally, Villefort went mad. Danglars felt the same way as Villefort. But Edmond decided to show mercy on Danglars because he was sorry for what had happened to Villefort’s wife and son.

Edmond’s next target was Fernand. Edmond met Mercedes who had become Fernand’s wife. They had a son named Albert. Mercedes didn’t know what had really happened to Edmond and Edmond explained everything. Fernand was very angry to know that Edmond was still alive. Finally Mercedes and her son left home. They didn’t respect Fernand. Fernand shot himself. He didn’t stand it any more. He had so many problems and he faced accusation in the court.




These & Those
Sebenarnya materi ini merupakan pelajaran yang sangat dasar sekali. Tetapi kenyataannya masih banyak pelajar bahasa Inggris yang bingung mengenai penggunaan kedua kata ini. Baiklah kita mulai saja...!

These adalah bentuk jamak dari this.
Contoh:
This book is very interesting.
= Buku ini sangat menarik.
These books are very interesting.
= Buku-buku ini sangat menarik.

Those adalah bentuk jamak dari that.
Contoh:
That tiger is big.
= Harimau itu besar.
Those tigers are big.
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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman, born as Natalie Hershlag June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem. She is the only child of an Israeli doctor, Avner Hershlag and an American homemaker, Shelley Stevens.

In 1994 she played in Leon and took her maternal grandma's maiden name Portman, as her stage name, due to privacy. After the Leon opened, she said that her character was too mature and she regretted it. She was only 13 years old when she played the character and became one of The Hollywood's Sex Symbol.

Life

At the age of 3, she left Jerusalem for The States, and after experienced several moves she finally lived in New York. She is a vegetarian since she was 8 .

She has a big crush on her homeland, Jerusalem. She once quotes ," I really love The States but my heart's in Jerusalem, that's where I just feel at home".

She now lives in Soho, NYC. and directing a movie , "New York, I love you" to express her love to her present town, New York.

Education

Everyone on earth knows she's not just an average actress who only cares about the career. Natalie once said that she would rather be smart than a movie star. Maybe, due to her well-educated background she prefers to play in many high-class movies.

Despite saying her family wasn't religious, she attended a Jewish Elementary school. Portman graduated from a Public High School, Syosset High School. She said her favorite subject in school is mathematics because "there always be an answer" in math,

She attended Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. In the spring of 2004 she came back to her native, Jerusalem, and took courses in Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In Jerusalem she studied Arabic language and History of Islam of Israel.

Movie Career

She widely known as Padme Amidala in Star Wars. In 2004 she played in Closer movie as a striptease. Many fans of her said her best acting is in V for Vendetta as Evey Hammond, the movie itself is about a proto-terrorist, she said in her native country, Israel, tons of people were hurt due to terrorist attack.

In 2006 she played in Goya's Ghost, the movie is about Spanish Inquisition, and in 2008 she played as Anne Boleyn the mother of Elizabeth I in The Other Boleyn Girls.

She once played as Anne Frank in a theater. The role is one of her best role ever.

pic: V for Vendetta 's scene

Interesting facts

1. She is a vegan (strict vegetarian) since she was 8.

2. She skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I, so she could study for her high school final exam.

3.She is a short girl compared to average height of western women, some people who had seen her directly said she's less than 160 cm.

4.She loves Julia Roberts.

5.Her favorite country is Israel and her favorite city is Paris

6.She famously had her head shaved in V for Vendetta

7.She doesn't like high-heels

8.She wants a lesbian relationship , she said"Why you close your self off to 50 percents of people?"

9.She is fluent in English and Hebrew (her mother tongue) and has studied French, Japanese, German, and Arabic

Pictures

Left to right

1.Natalie Portman and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, both of them was chosen as Ambassadors of Micro Capital by United Nations.

2.Famous of her short hair-cut.

3.Wearing the most famous dress in the world. Audrey Hepburn wore the dress in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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How To Create Aplication a Theme for The Blackberry

Blackberry has a unique theme and distinct from the others may be something interesting. But unfortunately, many Blackberry themes offered on the Internet price is quite expensive. While some free themes that seem to us unsatisfactory. On this occasion we will try how I create a theme by using some of the many applications available on the Internet.
To make blackberry theme was not too difficult, the important thing is how we choose the right application, which can be obtained a theme that suited us. In addition, our creativity is also needed in conducting such a design theme. Because the length process of making a theme, then we will divide into two kinds of writing. Where the first part, we will describe the process of downloading the application from the web application, and in the next section is a description of the design theme, while the installation will be missed because it is not different from the process of installation in some applications in general.
Download application
The first thing you need to do is to make the download application blackberry theme builder of the Blackberry official website, where this application you can find in http://id.blackberry.com/service/themestudio, which will take you to view these sites. If you have, you can click on the bar “download Blackberry Theme Studio” which will then display the registration page that you need to fill first.
After filling out the form all the fields correctly, then you can proceed to the next page by pressing the “next” which will display the approval page should you agree to download the application? After completing a form filling, you will be directed to the download page
Size of this applications around 282 MB. You can just click the download button next window will display the option to save the file or cancel the download option. Selengkapnya...

Aplication BlackBerry Themes Download Sites

For the following BlackBerry owners have interesting site to get free themes, namely; http://blackberrythemes.co.uk. Starting from the old BlackBerry type, until the most recent available with complete. Options theme provided enough of each type. But definitely, you can easily find a suitable theme to the type of BlackBerry used. Since, category choice is made with a clear theme for each type. Very strategic position. That is, there is at the top of the display site. You just set and click one of the categories, and download options window will appear. Next, just highlight the download link in the bottom of the example themes to get the zip file and save it to your PC. Display themes are offered quite varied. You can get it for free and can be used to change the appearance and structure of your BlackBerry menu at any time. Good luck

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Cinderella story Sms

Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the ball”.

Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.

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Aplication Explanation Text

How Planes Fly

A plane needs air pressure under their wings to stay up in the air. As they move forward, the higher air pressure underneath their wings pushes them upward and gives them lift.
The smooth, streamlined shaped of the plane allows air to flow easily over its surface. This help to reduce the drag caused by the air pushing against the plane and allows it to move rapidly through the water.

Planes move forward using engines. This movement is called thrust. Moving forward keeps a stream of moving air passing over the wings, which allows the plane to stay up int the air. If the engines fail, the planes will begin to descend very quickly.
The air above the wing moves faster so it is a lower pressure than the air under the wing.
The air under the wing moves more slowly and is slightly squashed so it is at a higher pressure than the air above the wing.
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