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Cara Memasang Musik di Blog | Blogger atau Blogspot

Cara Memasang Musik di Blog | Blogger atau Blogspot 
Menambahkan fitur musik di blog bisa menjadi nilai tambah tersendiri di mata pengunjung. Cara memasang musik di blog sangat mudah.

1. Buka http://www.mp3-codes.com
2. Klik salah satu lagu yang mau dipasang di blog. Kamu juga bisa search lagu pilihanmu di kotak pencarian.
3. Kopi embed code-nya, lalu paste di sidebar blog. 
Update:
Jika kesulitan dengan metode di atas, coba pakai Mixpod.
1. Buka mixpod.com
2. Daftar pakai email kamu
3. Klik ‘Create Playlist’ 

4. Cari di kotak pencarian lagu yang akan dipasang. Misalnya, Dear God Avenged Sevenfold. Lantas klik  tanda + di sebelah kanan lagu. Jika ingin menambahkan lagu, ulangi proses ini. Saya ambil contoh lagu kedua Tears X Japan.
5. Jika ingin mengatur tampilan, warna, dll, klik ‘Customize’ (di kiri atas).
6. Klik ‘Save Playlist’. Isi judul dan deskripsi. Misalnya musik dan deskripsinya my music. Lalu klik ‘SAVE (get code).
7. Muncul embed-nya, copy dan pasang di blog kamu. Caranya: Login ke blog kamu, masuk dashboard-design-add gadget-pilih HTML/javasript, pastekan embde kode tadi, lalu simpan.

Puisi Bahasa Inggris

Puisi Bahasa Inggris


The Miracle Of Friendship

There is a miracle called Friendship
that dwells within the heart
and you don't know how it happens
or when it even starts.

But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
and you realize that Friendship
is God's most precious gift.

- Jean Kyler McManus –


Friends will come and friends will go,
The seasons change and it will show,
I will age and so will you,
But our friendship stays, strong and true.

- Author Unknown –


Friends

A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace.
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.

- Jean Kyler McManus –


A Friend's Greeting

I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;

I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.

I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;

I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;

I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.

I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;

And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.

- Edgar A Guest –


Friends

There's nothing as nice as someone who shares,
your laughter, your secrets, your wishes and cares,
someone who's there through your good times and tears,
who stays by your side as your friend through the years.

- Autymn Skillings –


You remind me of a flower,
Pretty, inside and outside.
A reason why people smile everyday,
A gift to all.

You remind me of chocolate,
Luscious and sweet.
Someone people can turn to in crisis,
Loved by all.

You remind me of a teddy,
Cute and huggable.
Someone people feel comfortable with,
Special to all.

You remind me of a balloon,
Happy and bouncy.
Someone people can have fun with,
Enjoyed by all.

You remind me of a lot of things,
But nothing can compare to the real person,
A friend I can look up to,
Cherished by me.

- Jenny Yu –


The Gift Of Knowing You

There are gifts of many treasures
For both the young and old,
From the tiniest little trinkets
To great boxes filled with gold.

But, put them all together
And they could not stand in lieu,
Of the greatest gift of all
The gift of knowing you.

When your times are filled with troubles
Sadness, grief, or even doubt,
When all those things you planned on
Just aren't turning out.

Just turn and look behind you
From the place at which you stand,
And look for me through the shadows
And reach out for my hand.

I will lift from you your burden
And cry for you your tears,
Bear the pain of all your sorrows
Though it may be for a thousand years.

For in the end I would be happy
To have helped you start anew,
It's a small price to pay
For the gift of knowing you.

- Dave Stout -

Jenis-jenis Text Dalam Bahasa Inggris

JENIS-JENIS TEXT DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS

NARRATIVE
Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Complication
3. Resolution
4. Reorientation
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Chronologically arranged

RECOUNT
Purpose: to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Reorientation
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adjectives
Narrative and recount in some ways are similar. Both are telling something in the past so narrative and recount usually apply PAST TENSE; whether Simple Past Tense, Simple Past Continuous Tense, or Past Perfect Tense. The ways narrative and recount told are in chronological order using time or place. Commonly narrative text is found in story book; myth, fable, folklore, etc while recount text is found in biography.
The thing that makes narrative and recount different is the structure in which they are constructed. Narrative uses conflicts among the participants whether natural conflict, social conflict or psychological conflict. In some ways narrative text combines all these conflicts. In the contrary, we do not find these conflicts inside recount text. Recount applies series of event as the basic structure

DESCRIPTIVE
Purpose: to describe a particular person, place or thing in detail.
Dominant Generic Structure:
1. Identification
2. Description
Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Using special technical terms

REPORT
Purpose: to presents information about something, as it is.
Generic Structure
1. General classification
2. Description
Dominant Language Feature
1. Introducing group or general aspect
2. Using conditional logical connection
3. Using Simple Present Tense

EXPLANATION
Purpose: To explain the processes involved in the formation or working of natural or socio-cultural phenomena.
Generic Structure:
1. General statement
2. Explanation
3. Closing
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using action verbs
3. Using passive voice
4. Using noun phrase
5. Using adverbial phrase
6. Using technical terms
7. Using general and abstract noun
8. Using conjunction of time and cause-effect.

ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION
Purpose: To reveal the readers that something is the important case
Generic Structure:
1. Thesis
2. Arguments
3. Reiteration/Conclusion
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using modals
2. Using action verbs
3. Using thinking verbs
4. Using adverbs
5. Using adjective
6. Using technical terms
7. Using general and abstract noun
8. Using connectives/transition

HORTATORY EXPOSITION
Purpose: to persuade the readers that something should or should not be the case or be done
Generic Structure:
1. Thesis
2. Arguments
3. Recommendation
Dominant Language features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using modals
3. Using action verbs
4. Using thinking verbs
5. Using adverbs
6. Using adjective
7. Using technical terms
8. Using general and abstract noun
9. Using connectives/transition
Then what is the basic difference between analytical and hortatory exposition. In simple word. Analytical is the answer of “How is/will” while hortatory is the answer of “How should”. Analytical exposition will be best to describe “How will student do for his examination? The point is the important thing to do. But for the question” How should student do for his exam?” will be good to be answered with hortatory. It is to convince that the thing should be done

PROCEDURE
Purpose: to help readers how to do or make something completely
Generic Structure:
1. Goal/Aim
2. Materials/Equipments
3. Steps/Methods
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using Imperatives sentence
3. Using adverb
4. Using technical terms

DISCUSSION
Purpose: to present information and opinions about issues in more one side of an issue (‘For/Pros’ and ‘Against/Cons’)
Generic Structure:
1. Issue
2. Arguments for and against
3. Conclusion
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Use of relating verb/to be
3. Using thinking verb
4. Using general and abstract noun
5. Using conjunction/transition
6. Using modality
7. Using adverb of manner

REVIEW
Purpose: to critique or evaluate an art work or event for a public audience
dominant Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Evaluation
3. Interpretative Recount
4. Evaluation
5. Evaluative Summation
Dominant Language features:
1. Focus on specific participants
2. Using adjectives
3. Using long and complex clauses
4. Using metaphor

ANECDOTE
Purpose: to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident
Generic Structure:
1. Abstract
2. Orientation
3. Crisis
4. Reaction
5. Coda.
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using exclamations, rhetorical question or intensifiers
2. Using material process
3. Using temporal conjunctions

SPOOF
Purpose: to tell an event with a humorous twist and entertain the readers
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Twist
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Chronologically arranged

NEWS ITEM
Purpose: to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important
Dominant Generic Structure:
1. Newsworthy event(s)
2. Background event(s)
3. Sources
Dominant Language Features:
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
2. Using action verbs
3. Using saying verbs
4. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.

DIBAWAH INI ADALAH PENJELASANNYA

RECOUNT

  Recount Bertujuan Untuk : Melaporkan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan dengan tujuan memberitakan atau menghibur. Struktur teks: 
* Pendahuluan (orientasi), yaitu memberikan informasi tentang apa, siapa, di mana dan kapan; 
*  Laporan (rentetan) peristiwa, kegiatan yang terjadi, yang biasanya disampaikan secara berurut

Contoh:
   Class Picnic
   Last Friday our school went to Centennial Park for a picnic
First our teachers marked the rolls and the we got on the buses. On the buses, everyone was chatting and eating. When we arrived at the park, some students played cricket, some played cards but others went for a walk with the teachers. At lunchtime, we sat together and had our picnic. Finally, at two o’clock we left for school.
We had a great day.

PROCEDURE

   Procedure, the communicative purpose is to tell the steps of making or doing something. (Tujuan komunikatif nya: memberi petunjuk cara melakukan sesuatu melalui serangkaian tindakan atau langkah.)
Generic Structure: Goal/Aim – Materials/Tools – Steps/Methods
Language Features of Procedure text:
Imperative form, ex: Cut, Pour,  Don’t mix, dsb.
action verbs: turn, put, don’t, mix, dsb.
connectives (untuk mengurutkan kegiatan), ex: then, while, dsb.
adverbials (untuk menyatakan rinci waktu, tempat, cara yang akurat), ex: for five minutes, two centimetres from the top, dsb.
Contoh:
SESAME DROP BISCUITS
Ingredients/Materials:
2 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ reaspoon each baking soda and salt
Butter  or margarine
2 tablespoons sesame seed
1 cup buttermilk
Night Before:
In a large bowl stir together flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
2 knives or pastry blender cut in ½ cup butter until particles are fine .
Stir in sesame seed.
Next Morning:
Add buttermilk to flour mixture and stir with a fork just until mixed.
Drop by tablespoons on greased cookies sheet.
Bake in preheated 450 degrees oven until light brown. 12 to 14 minutes.
Serve at once with butter.

ANECDOTE

Definition and Social Function of Anecdote
    Anecdote is a text which retells funny and unusual incidents in fact or imagination. Its purpose is to entertain the readers.

Generic Structure of Anecdote

1. Abstract
2. Orientation
3. Crisis
4. Incident.Language Feature of Anecdote
1. Using exclamation words; it’s awful!, it’s wonderful!, etc
2. Using imperative; listen to this
3. Using rhetoric question; do you know what?
4. Using action verb; go, write, etc
5. Using conjunction of time; then, afterward
6. Using simple past tense
Contoh Anecdote:
Blessing Behind Tragedy
   There was a black family in Scotland years ago. They were Clark family with nine children. They had a dream to go to America. The family worked and saved. They were making plan to travel with their children to America. It had taken several years but finally they had saved enough money. They had gotten passport. They had booked seats for the whole family member in a new liner to America.
The entire family was full of anticipation and excitement with their new life in America. However few days before their departure, the youngest son was bitten by a dog. The doctor sewed up the boy. Because of the possibility of getting rabies, there were being quarantined for long days. They were in quarantine when the departure time came. The family dreams were dashed. They could not make the trip to America as they had planned.
   The father was full of disappointed and anger. He stomped the dock to watch the ship leaved without him and his family. He shed tears of disappointment. He cursed both his son and God for the misfortune.
Five days latter, the tragic news spread throughout Scotland. The ship, the mighty Titanic, had shank. It took hundreds of passenger and crew with it. Titanic which had been called the unsinkable ship had sunk. It was unbelievable but it was.
   The Clak family should have been on that ship, but because of the bitten son by a dog, they were left behind. When the father heard the news, he hugged the son and thanked him for saving the family. He thanked God for saving their lives. It was a blessing behind a tragedy. (Adapted from Look Ahead 2)
GenericStructure:

Abstract
: Everybody has a dream. You have and so do I. When the dream will come true, there is something wrong last minute before it. What will we feel? What will we do? 

Orientation: the Clak family lived in Scotland. They had dream to travel to America. They prepared well for their plan

Crisis: few days before they went to America, his youngest son was bitten by a dog. It made they were being quarantined. They had to forget their plan.

Incident: the family was full of disappointment and anger. The father was angry with his son and God. The family failed to travel to America and the father could not accept it.

Coda: the father thank to his son when he hear the ship sank. He thank to God because of saving the family from sinking. He thought leaving behind the ship was not a tragedy but a blessing.

REPORT 
   Report Bertujuan Untuk: Menyampaikan informasi tentang sesuatu, apa adanya, sebagai hasil pengamatan sistematis atau analisis. Yang dideskripsikan dapat meliputi gajala alam, lingkungan, benda buatan manusia, atau gejala- gejala sosial. Deskripsi sebuah teks report dapat berupa simpulan umum misalnya tentang rumah sederhana dengan mendekripsikan ciri-ciri subyek tersebut sehingga layak dikategorikan rumah sederhana, dsb.
Contoh:
Fax Machine
   Fax, the short term for facsimile is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies (facsimiles) of documents, especially using affordable devices operating over the telephone network. The word telefax, short for telefacsimile, for “make a copy at a distance”, is also used as a synonym. The device is also known as a telecopier in certain industries. When sending documents to people at large distances, faxes have a distinct advantage over postal mail in that the delivery is nearly instantenous, yet its disadvantages in quality and its proprietary format have relegated it to a position beneath email as the prevailing form of electronic document tranferral.

NARRATIVE

   Narratuve Bertujuan Untuk: Menghibur pendengar atau pembaca dengan pengalaman nyata atau khayal. Ciri naratif adalah adanya unsur konflik (masalah) dan resolusi (penyelesaian masalah). Jumlah masalah atau penyelesaiannya mungkin hanya satu, mungkin juga lebih.   Struktur Teks: 
* Pengenalan latar: tokoh, waktu, dan tempat: 
* Pengembangan konflik; 
* Penyelesaian konflik; 
*  Koda: perubahan yang terjadi pada tokoh atau pelajaran yang dapat dipetik dari cerita.
Contoh 1:
   It was a warm day in March. I was very excited. The day had finally come. I was in the rowing team for the Olympics. I got up very early and exercised as always. Then after breakfast I drove to Drummoyne. My team arrived and at last it was time to start.
   Ready, set and the starting gun went off. We began in the third position and were slowly moving closer. There they were. We could see the second boat and then we did it.
   We moved past. My arms were aching. My whole body was sore but we all rowed harder.
The first boat was just in front  I saw a dark shadow near the boat. I looked again. What was it? I was sure  it was the shape of a cigar. ‘Oh my  God’,  I thought, ‘I must be seeing things. A shark in Parramata River? Impossible!’
   Just then I pulled my oar out of the water. ‘Oh no, why only half?’ I thought. Then I knew. I shouted to my team, ‘Shark! Shark!’ and suddenly we forgot the race. We rowed faster than ever back to shore. We made it. Phew, we were safe!

Contoh 2:
   Long ago on the top of Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, there lived a dragon. He owned a large and beautiful pearl. People believed that he controlled the weather with it.
    The emperor of China heard this and wanted the pearl. He sent his two sons, Wee Ping and Wee San to Borneo to steal it. The princes, together with one hundred soldiers, set sail for Borneo in twelve sailing junks.
When they arrived in Borneo, The set out immediately to find the famous mountain. Their journey up the rugged slopes of Mount Kinabalu proved very difficult. The dragon guarded his cave very fiercely and killed many of their soldiers.
    Then Wee San had a clever idea. He climbed a tall tree, so he could see the dragon’s cave. He noted what time the dragon left his cave to hunt for food and what time he returned  to it.
    Next he ordered his men to make a fake pearl and a large kite. He waited until the dragon left his cave. Then he placed the fake pearl in a bag, slung it across his shoulder and flew up to the mountain-top on the kite. He exchanged the real pearl for the fake one and then his brother pulled his kite back to the ground.
The brothers quickly returned to their ships and set sail for China. They sailed safely home. The emperor was thrilled with the pearl and gave a big party to celebrate his sons’ return.

DESCRIPTIVE

  Descriptive Bertujuan Untuk :   Struktur Teks: ciri-ciri seseorang, suatu benda atau tempat tertentu.   
* Pengenalan benda, orang atau sesuatu yang akan dideskripsikan. 
* Deskripsi: menggambarkan ciri-ciri benda tersebut,misalnya berasal dari mana, warnanya, ukurannya, kesukaannya dsb. Deskripsi ini hanya memberikan informasi mengenai benda atau orang tertentu yang sedang dibahas saja, misalnya deskripsi tentang ‘My Dog’. Ciri-ciri ‘anjing saya’ tersebut dapat berbeda dengan anjing yang lain.

What is descdiptive text?
The Definition and Purpose of Descriptive Text
Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
Descriptive text has structure as below:
Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described.
Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.
The Language Feature of Descriptive Text
Using attributive and identifying process.
Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.
Using simple present tense
Contoh 1:
Borobudur Temple
    Borobudur is Hindu – Budhist temple. It was build in the nineth century under Sailendra dynasty of ancient Mataram kingdom. Borobudur is located in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
    Borobudur is well-known all over the world. Its construction is influenced by the Gupta architecture of India. The temple is constructed on a hill 46 m high and consist of eight step like stone terrace. The first five terrace are square and surrounded by walls adorned with Budist sculpture in bas-relief. The upper three are circular. Each of them is with a circle of bell shape-stupa. The entire adifice is crowned by a large stupa at the centre at the centre of the top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8 km of passage and starways. The design of borobudur which symbolizes the structure of universe influences temples at Angkor, Cambodia.
    Borobudur temple which is rededicated as an Indonesian monument in 1983 is a valuable treasure for Indonesian people. 
Analyzing the Text (Generic Structure Analysis):
Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described in general; Borobudur temple
Description; describing the Borobudur temple in parts; eight terraces of Borobudur temple and its characteristics
Language Feature Analysis
Using adjective and classifiers; valuable
Using simple present tense; Borobudur is well-known,The temple is constructed, etc
Contoh 2:
   The Ambarawa Train Museum houses 21 antique locomotives plus two more, which are stored in the depot. These locomotives are no longer produced; even the factories that made them no longer exist. The main building of this museum is the defunct Ambarawa railway station which was built in 1873. the station covers 127,500 m2.
   The oldest in this museum is a locomotive made by Hartman Chemnitz. This locomotive, with a length of 8.58 m and a width of 2.45 m, began its operation in 1891. Using wood as fuel, the steam locomotive could run 50 km/h – its maximum speed.
   A special part of a visit to this museum is a trip by train from the Ambarawa Train Museum to the defunct Bedono train station. This package tour is called Railway Mountain Tour. Why is the trip so special? Because the participants will board an antique train and the train will travel on a 4.9 kilometer-cog railway, which is the only one in the world.

Jahe sebagai Obat Praktis

Jahe sebagai Obat Praktis
 
  Jahe merupakan pereda rasa sakit yang alami dan dapat meredakan nyeri rematik, sakit kepala, dan migren. Caranya, minum wedang jahe 3 kali sehari. Bisa juga minum wedang ronde, mengulum permen jahe, atau menambahkan jahe saat pada soto, semur, atau rendang.
  Daun jahe juga berkhasiat, antara lain dengan ditumbuk dan diberi sedikit air dapat dipergunakan sebagai obat kompres pada sakit kepala dan dapat dipercikan ke wajah orang yang sedang menggigil. Sedangkan rimpangnya ditumbuk dan direbus dalam air mendidih selama lebih kurang ½ jam, kemudian airnya dapat diminum sebagai obat untuk memperkuat pencernaan makanan dan mengusir gas di dalamnya, mengobati hati yang membengkak, batuk dan demam.
  Untuk mengobati rematik rematik siapkan 1 atau 2 rimpang jahe. Panaskan rimpang tersebut di atas api atau bara dan kemudian ditumbuk. Tempel tumbukan jahe pada bagian tubuh yang sakit rematik. Cara lain adalah dengam menumbuk bersama cengkeh, dan ditempelkan pada bagian tubuh yang rematik.
Jahe juga dapat digunakan untuk mengobati luka karena lecet, ditikam benda tajam, terkena duri, jatuh, serta gigitan ular. Caranya rimpang jahe merah ditumbuk dan ditambahkan sedikit garam. Letakkan pada bagian tubuh yang terluka.
  Rimpang tumbuk juga dapat dipakai sebagai obat gosok pada penyakit gatal karena sengatan serangga.
Rimpang yang ditumbuk, dengan diberi sedikit garam, kemudian ditempelkan pada luka bekas gigitan ular beracun (hanya sebagai pertolongan pertama sebelum penderita dibawa ke dokter).
  Dengan dicampur lobak, jahe dapat digunakan untuk mengobati eksim. Parutan lobak dicampur dengan air jahe. Air jahe dapat diperoleh dengan memarut rimpang jahe, lalu diperas. Ramuan ini dioleskan ke bagian kulit yang terkena eksim. Biasanya dalam waktu 2 minggu saja penyakit sudah berkurang.
  Untuk mencegah mabuk perjalanan, ada baiknya minum wedang jahe sebelum bepergian. Caranya: pukul-pukul jahe segar sepanjang satu ruas jari. Masukkan ke dalam satu gelas air panas, beri madu secukupnya, lalu diminum. Bisa juga menggunakan sepertiga sendok teh jahe bubuk, atau kalau tahan, makan dua kerat jahe mentah.

Khasiat Jahe

Khasiat Jahe
 
  Sejak dulu Jahe dipergunakan sebagai obat, atau bumbu dapur dan aneka keperluan lainnya. Jahe dapat merangsang kelenjar pencernaan, baik untuk membangkitkan nafsu makan dan pencernaan.
Jahe yang digunakan sebagai bumbu masak terutama berkhasiat untuk menambah nafsu makan, memperkuat lambung, dan memperbaiki pencernaan. Hal ini dimungkinkan karena terangsangnya selaput lendir perut besar dan usus oleh minyak asiri yang dikeluarkan rimpang jahe.
  Minyak jahe berisi gingerol yang berbau harum khas jahe, berkhasiat mencegah dan mengobati mual dan muntah, misalnya karena mabuk kendaraan atau pada wanita yang hamil muda. Juga rasanya yang tajam merangsang nafsu makan, memperkuat otot usus, membantu mengeluarkan gas usus serta membantu fungsi jantung. Dalam pengobatan tradisional Asia, jahe dipakai untuk mengobati selesma, batuk, diare dan penyakit radang sendi tulang seperti artritis. Jahe juga dipakai untuk meningkatkan pembersihan tubuh melalui keringat.
Penelitian modern telah membuktikan secara ilmiah berbagai manfaat jahe, antara lain :
  • Menurunkan tekanan darah. Hal ini karena jahe merangsang pelepasan hormon adrenalin dan memperlebar   pembuluh darah, akibatnya darah mengalir lebih cepat dan lancar dan memperingan kerja jantung memompa darah.
  • Membantu pencernaan, karena jahe mengandung enzim pencernaan yaitu protease dan lipase, yang masing-  masing mencerna protein dan lemak..
  • Gingerol pada jahe bersifat antikoagulan, yaitu mencegah penggumpalan darah. Jadi mencegah tersumbatnya pembuluh darah, penyebab utama stroke, dan serangan jantung. Gingerol juga diduga membantu menurunkan kadar kolesterol.
  • Mencegah mual, karena jahe mampu memblok serotonin, yaitu senyawa kimia yang dapat menyebabkan perut berkontraksi, sehingga timbul rasa mual. Termasuk mual akibat mabok perjalanan.
  • Membuat lambung menjadi nyaman, meringankan kram perut dan membantu mengeluarkan angin.
  • Jahe juga mengandung antioksidan yang membantu menetralkan efek merusak yang disebabkan oleh radikal bebas di dalam tubuh.

Kandungan Rimpang Jahe

Kandungan Rimpang Jahe
  
  Sifat khas jahe disebabkan adanya minyak atsiri dan oleoresin jahe. Aroma harum jahe disebabkan oleh minyak atsiri, sedangkan oleoresinnya menyebabkan rasa pedas. Mnnyak atsiri dapat diperoleh atau diisolasi dengan destilasi uap dari rhizoma jahe kering. Ekstrak minyak jahe berbentuk cairan kental berwarna kehijauan sampai kuning, berbau harum tetapi tidak memiliki komponen pembentuk rasa pedas. Kandungan minyak atsiri dalam jahe kering sekitar 1 – 3 persen. Komponen utama minyak atsiri jahe yang menyebabkan bau harum adalah zingiberen dan zingiberol.
  Oleoresin jahe banyak mengandung komponen pembentuk rasa pedas yang tidak menguap. Komponen dalam oleoresin jahe terdiri atas gingerol dan zingiberen, shagaol, minyak atsiri dan resin. Pemberi rasa pedas dalam jahe yang utama adalah zingerol.

Pemilu Pertama Indonesia 1955



Pemilu 1955


Ini merupakan pemilu yang pertama dalam sejarah bangsa Indonesia. Waktu itu Republik Indonesia berusia 10 tahun. Kalau dikatakan pemilu merupakan syarat minimal abgi adanya demokrasi, apakah berarti selama 10 tahun itu Indonesia benar-benar tidak demokratis? Tidak mudah juga menjawab pertanyaan tersebut.
Yang jelas, sebetulnya sekitar tiga bulan setelah kemerdekaan di proklamasikan oleh Soekarno dan Hatta pada 17 Agustus 1945, pemerintah waktu itu sudah menyatakan keinginannya untuk bisa menyelenggarakan pemilu pada awal tahun 1946. Hal itu dicantumkan dalam Maklumat X, atau Maklumat Wakil Presiden Mohammad Hatta tanggal 3 Nopember 1945, yang berisi anjuran tentang pembentukan partai-partai politik.
Maklumat tersebut menyebutkan, pemilu untuk memilih anggota DPR dan MPR akan diselenggarakan bulan Januari 1946. Kalau kemudian ternyata pemilu pertama tersebut baru terselenggara hampir sepuluh tahun setelah kemudian tentu bukan tanpa sebab.

Tetapi, berbeda dengan tujuan yang dimaksudkan oleh Maklumat X, pemilu 1955 dilakukan dua kali. Yang pertama, pada 29 September 1955 untuk memilih anggota-anggota DPR. Yang kedua, 15 Desember 1955 untuk memilih anggota-anggota Dewan Konstituante. Dalam Maklumat X hanya disebutkan bahwa pemilu yang akan diadakan Januari 1946 adalah untuk memilih anggota DPR dan MPR, tidak ada Konstituante.

Keterlambatan dan "penyimpangan" tersebut bukan tanpa sebab pula. Ada kendala yang bersumber dari dalam negeri dan ada pula yang berasal dari faktor luar negeri. Sumber penyebab dari dalam antara lain ketidaksiapan pemerintah menyelenggarakan pemilu, baik karena belum tersedia perangkat perundang-undangan untuk mengatur penyelenggaraan pemilu maupun akibat rendahnya stabilitas keamanan negara. Dan yang tidak kalah pentingnya, penyebab dari dalam itu adalah sikap pemerintah yang enggan menyelenggarakan perkisaran (sirkulasi) kekuasaan secara teratur dan kompetitif. Penyebab dari luar antara lain serbuan kekuatan asing yang mengharuskan negara ini terlibat peperangan.

Tidak terlaksana pemilu pertama pada bulan Januari 1946 seperti yang diamanatkan oleh Maklumat 3 Nopember 1945, paling tidak disebabkan 2 (dua) hal :
  1. Belum siapnya pemerintah baru, termasuk dalam penyusunan perangkat UU Pemilu
  2. Belum stabilnya kondisi keamanan negara akibat konflik internal antara kekuatan politik yang ada pada waktu itu, apalagi pada saat yang sama gangguan dari luar juga masih mengancam. Dengan kata lain para pemimpin lebih disibukkan oleh urusan konsolidasi.
Namun tidak berarti bahwa konsolidasi kekuatan bangsa dan perjuangan mengusir penjajah itu, pemerintah kemudian tidak berniat untuk menyelenggarakan pemilu. Ada indikasi kuat bahwa pemerintah punya keinginan politik untuk menyelenggarakan pemilu. Misalnya adalah dibentuknya UU No.27 tahun 1948 tentang pemilu, yang kemudian diubah dengan UU No.12 tahun 1949 tentang Pemilu. Di dalam UU No.12/1949 diamanatkan bahwa pemilihan umum yang akan dilakukan adalah bertingkat (tidak langsung). Sifat pemilihan tidak langsung ini didsarkan pada alasan bahwa mayoritas warganegara Indonesia pada waktu itu masih buta huruf, sehingga kalau pemilihannya langsung dikhawatirkan akan banyak terjadi distorsi.

Kemudian pada paroh kedua tahun 1950, ketika Mohammad Natsir dari Masyumi menjadi Perdana Menteri, pemerintah memutuskan untuk menjadi pemilu sebagai program kabinetnya. Sejak itu pembahasan UU Pemilu mulai dilakukan lagi, yang dilakukan oelh Panitia Sahardjo dan Kantor Panitia Pemilihan Pusat sebelum kemudian dilanjutkan ke parlemen. Pada waktu itu Indonesia kembali menjadi negara kesatuan, setelah sejak 1949 menjadi negara serikat dengan nama Republik Indonesia Serikat (RIS).

Setelah Kabinet Natsir jatuh 6 bulan kemudian, pembahasan RUU Pemilu dilanjutkan oleh pemerintahan SUkiman Wirjosandjojo, juga dari Masyumi. Pemerintah ketika itu berupaya menyelenggarakan pemilu karena pasal 57 UUDS 1950 menyatakan bahwa anggota DPR dipilih oleh rakyat melalui pemilihan umum.

Tetapi pemerintah Sukiman juga tidak berhasil menuntaskan pembahasan undang-undang pemilu tersebut. Selanjutnya UU ini baru selesai dibahas oleh parlemen pada masa pemerintahan Wilopo dari PNI pada tahun 1953. Maka lahirlah UU No.7 tahun 1953 tentang Pemilu. UU inilah yang menjadi payung hukum Pemilu 1955 yang diselenggarakan secara langsung, umum, bebas dan rahasia. Dengan demikian UU No.27 tahun 1948 tentang Pemilu yang diubah dengan UU No.12 tahun 1949 yang mengadopsi pemilihan bertingkat (tidak langsung) bagi anggota DPR tidak berlaku lagi.

Patut dicatat dan dibanggakan bahwa pemilu yang pertama kali tersebut berhasil diselenggarakan dengan aman, lancar, jujur dan adil serta sangat demokratis. Pemilu 1955 bahkan mendapat pujian dari berbagai pihak, termasuk negara-negara asing. Pemilu ini diikuti oleh lebih dari 30-an partai politik dan lebih dari seratus daftar kumpulan dan calon perorangan.

Yang menarik dari Pemilu 1955 adalah tingginya kesadaran berkompetisi secara sehat. Misalnya, meski yang menjadi calon anggota DPR adalah perdana menteri dan menteri yang sedang memerintah, mereka tidak menggunakan fasilitas negara dan otoritasnya kepada pejabat bawahan untuk menggiring pemilih yang menguntungkan partainya.
Karena itu sosok pejabat negara tidak dianggap sebagai pesaing yang menakutkan dan akan memenangkan pemilu dengan segala cara. Karena pemilu kali ini dilakukan untuk dua keperluan, yaitu memilih anggota DPR dan memilih anggota Dewan Kosntituante, maka hasilnya pun perlu dipaparkan semuanya.