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A Brief Review of Ikiru (1952)  Ikiru is one of the greatest works of Akira Kurosawa, infamous Japanese filmmaker. Many said that his films often inspired many western movies, for example, Star Wars. The lead actor of this film is Takashi Shimura. He is praised in this filmbecause of his acting that give a certain degree of emotional depth to viewers. Thisfilm is telling us about the story of a “dead-inside” oldman who eventually liveanactual life after facing a death sentence. Here is my summary of it.  Watanabe have worked as a sector chief of Public Affairs for nearly 30 years. But hedoesn’t seem bored, despite always doing the same activity everyday. His colleagues astonished as he never absent in that period.  But the thing is changed when his stomachache got more severe. The doctor said, in indirect way, that he got stomach cancer. This is pretty much a death sentence. Knowing that he can’t live for more than 6 months, he is depressed and lost his conscience.  In the house, there

Peace was Never an Option  Did you agree if your rights are violated, then the villain give apology and youjust accept it peacefully?  I think I won’t just let it goes like that and “peace was never an option”. (Just lookat the fiery anger in that chicken’s eyes!) I have several reasons that I’ll explainthemin the following.  First, if we claim that we have freedom, we must fight to achieve it. Violationagainst our rights is the same as violation against our freedom. “We must tatakae, tatakae, tatakae! ... (fight)”, like Eren or the Attack Titan said. Don’t be like Arminwho thinks that talk is enough to settle things down. Especially, don’t try it whenwehave lower position or doesn’t have an ace under our sleeve in negotiation or thepeace talk. If we are doing it, maybe we would ended up like Indonesian who lost more than 50% of their territory against Netherland, including their capital city, in1950s!  Second, peace talk is often useless. It’s not effective enough if the villain is so

  How I Ended Up Being an Astronomy Student and I Love It  I actually have a life plan for my 40s in the future. I choose 40s because somepeople said that it is the year of someone’s peak of success or failure. I’d madetheplan in the middle school. But it still had various and, for my current’s condition, irrelevant objectives. Now that I’m an astronomy student, I’ve choosen a pathandI’m happy about it.  I always want to state that I’m proud and grateful with this path of life. I feel that I was destined to be in this “star line” indeed. It feels like my childhood was givingsome “spoilers” ahead. My father was an astronomy enthusiast. He had a hobbytocalculate lunar calendar. He also still had used his middle school notes about falakcourse (Islamic astronomy), combined with current modern books. I was interestedin those books. Books after books, I looked out for the picture of the planets inthespace and, even more exciting for me, their terrains. I also had fun with readingtheir facts.

  Why Does Face-to-Face Communication Feel Better? Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, email, or telephone calls. I believe that face to face communication is still a top mode of communication. I have several reasons that are viewed from different perspectives. I will explain them in the following. First, talking can deliver messages faster than typing. Although our mind can be translated into words more accurate with typing, it lacks interactivity. Imagine if we want to interview somebody. We ask our guests, but they are too slow to respond back because they want their answer more appropriate. Even if they give us the answer, maybe we want to clarify a bit of information that they’d delivered, so we ask again with small questions. They’ll give us the clarification, but of course it’ll take  a lot of time. Second, it contains subtle communication that other modes of communication

 Traditional vs Online Encyclopedia The article tells us about how traditional encyclopedia is more superior than online communal encyclopedia. The author stated several problems that online encyclopedia faced and the lecturer countered those arguments. Here’s the summary of that debate. First, the author stated that online encyclopedia lacks credibility because it doesn’t say anything about its content writers’s background. Everybody can contribute to that encyclopedia. Meanwhile at traditional encyclopedia, only professionals do that job. But the lecturer argued that every encyclopedia never has been 100% accurate, even if the writers are professionals. Besides, online encyclopedia credibility can be improved with easier correction that the traditional one lacks. Second, online encyclopedia is more prone to be hijacked because of its openness. It wouldn’t happen in a traditional one because it has its publisher team. But, the improvement can be applied in online encyclopedia if its a

  The Dilemma of Private Fossil Trade Many people have traded fossils for private purposes for centuries, yet it still poses some protests now. It is told that scientists and general public would have many disadvantages because of that business activities. But, some also argued that those activities are not that bad and the benefits are more than the side effects. First, if fossils are not traded with the government or public organization, the public would have less access to them. The fossils are not seen much anymore in museums. But in reality, not every fossil is purchased by the rich. We, ordinary people or school, can also purchase the less rare one.  Second, scientists also are also having the same difficulty. They have to rent or buy the fossils for research purposes. But, this is not entirely true. If someone found something odd, like fossil, and they don’t know anything about that, they would have handed it first to other people who know it. So, scientists will not miss the ch