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My Favorite Character in Romeo and Juliet: Benvolio

     My favorite character from Romeo and Juliet is Benvolio. He is from the Montague. He is Romeo’s cousin and good friend to Romeo. Literaly, Benvolio means “good will”. His role in this play is very significant. His important role makes me pay my respect to him because he has many skills and good personality. Benvolio’s skills are peacemaker and problem solver. The first, he is peacemaker. In the first play, Benvolio tries to break up the fight between the servants of the Montague and the Capulet. “ Part, fools! Put up your swords . You know not what you do ” (A1. S1, L54-55). This line shows his first character that he appears as the peacemaker. The second, he is problem solver. Once, Benvolio advises Romeo when he was sad because his love to Rosaline unrequited. He said “ Be ruled by me, forget to think of her ” / “ By giving liberty unto thine eyes; examine other beauties ” (A1. S1, L216-218).   Benvolio gives this advise to Romeo to help him take his mind off the problem an

Stopping Myself for Playing Game is Not Enough

In this second semester, I have resolution to encourage myself to stop playing games. This resolution is aimed to manage myself to use my time wisely. I want to read book, study, do my homework and filling my leisure time with some useful activities. Yes, I managed to stop from playing games but my purposes of it is not. The reason I cannot reach that purposes is because of the dope from social media. Although it gives me dissatisfactory impact, I also take the advantage from it. Social media is like a Loranthus . It takes all of my time . I should not blame this parasite but myself. I cannot stop my thumb licking on the screen. Once, I received an Instagram notification and I checked it. Then, I looked for some posts such as interesting or funny memes and videos. Without checking on the clock, I found that I have spent so much time until night whereas I was doing my homework. It happens many a time. So, I oftentimes not finish my homeworks and submit it timely. Eventually, social

The Reasons We Should Study at University

In the third grade of senior high school we will face the last exam called National Exam. So, we will think about our future. Some of us as the student might think to have a job or continue our study at university. But in this time, it is hard to apply for a job after graduate from senior high school if we do not have a skill. So, we d e cide to improve ourselves by continue our study at university for a good job and future because in a university we can get personality development, work experience and better career prospect. We have a chance to develop and to improve our personalities in university. Maybe when we are in the school, we never do anything to improve our skills and just focus on academics or we never have an achievement . But , study at university has so many self-development facilities like organizations, competitions, seminar, talk show, and public lecture. We can participate in it because there is so many educations and knowledge that we can get from it like shar

The Joys And the Sorrows to be a Widow

A widow is a woman who has lost her spouse. A woman became a widow is caused by divorce or the death of her husband. After seperate with her husband, a woman will live her life alone again or with her children if she has the custody for them. To be a widow is not always being so sour and bitter but also have the sweet. So, there are joy and sorrow to be a widow. Some women may feel the joy to be a widow. When a woman became a widow, she can have many friends again. Maybe when the widow married she just focus on her new family and always want to be a good wife for her husband but when she became a widow she can a little bit free from her responsibilities of family and having friends again. Then, the widow will not get the pressure of household anymore. So, it means the widow can savor her life freely even though she need some time to recover after the separation. The last, when the widow is an independent woman and have a good job, she can have a lot of money for her life and her ch

The Advantages and Disadvantages Study with U-Shape Arrangement

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Before welcoming new students to the classroom, a teacher must decide on the arrangement of the students' desks. There are many choices available for teachers, and the desk configuration selected will determine the way lessons are presented, how classroom behavior is managed and the way traffic flows. In a U-shaped arrangement, desks all point to a central spot in the classroom with an opening in the front of the room, like a horseshoe. In this article we going to discuss the advantages and disadvantages study with U-shape arrangement. Study with U-shape arrangement has advantages for teacher and the students. The first, the arrangement supports frequent whole-group conversations as students are all able to see each other and the teacher at the same time. No one is able to hide in the back of the class and avoid participation, so even the most introverted students can be drawn in. The second, this arrangement helps the teacher keep an eye on everyone's actions and quickl

Eating Junk Food is a Bad Habit

Junk food has been part of our daily life. When we hungry and on the run for food, we will like resort to fast food. In this way, fried chicken, pizza, burgers, sodas, among others, have replaced nutritious food in our diet. Eating junk food continuously without control is a bad habit. Doctors suggested junk food consumption must be controlled and medically there will be bad consequences for our health if we consume it out of hand because it is fatty, lack of protein and fiber. Maybe not all people really know the bad consequences of junk food. So here, we have to know that there are three bad consequences of junk food for our health: stroke risk, weight gain and gastrointestinal problems. The greater impact of junk food is stroke risk. One of the causes of stroke is sodium. Health Ministry of Republic of Indonesia suggested we should not consume more than 2,000-milligrams (5 gram or 1 teaspoon) of sodium each day. Sodium is very important to normalize the fluid balance in our body,