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 Many years later, Sangkuriang found a house in the woods inhabited by a beautiful woman. The woman, Dayang Sumbi, recognized him as Sangkuriang. He felt in love with her without even knowing she was her mother. He forced her to marry him. Dayang Sumbi couldn't take it because she was her mother and son. She made unreasonable demands on him to marry him. He must build a large ship overnight and have it ready by dawn. Sangkurian agreed to this and built it with the help of spirits. When the work was almost done, Dayang Sumbi asked nearby women to pound the grain as a false sign that dawn was approaching. The ghosts escaped and Sangkuriang was unable to complete the boat. He got so angry that he overturned the ship and turned it into a mountain called Tangkuban Perahu. she was quilting. Suddenly her comforter felt out of her house. She prayed to God: "If a man picks up my blanket, he will be my husband. If she is a woman, she will be my sister." The man then picks it up. Sh

Toba reluctantly went to the farm. But he did not immediately go to the farm. He stopped somewhere on the street and ate. It was already late afternoon when he reached the farm. His father was disappointed. Then he got angry when he realized that his son had eaten his food. He said sarcastically. 'Oh, you're a stupid lazy boy. You are a fish boy!' Samosir was injured. He immediately went home and when he got home he told his mother what his father had said. Samosir's mother was shocked. He was also deeply wounded. "Oh Toba. You broke your promise so I can't live here with you anymore. Now you have to accept the consequences of your actions. Samosir, now go to the hill, find the tallest tree and climb it. - Why mom? What's going on?' - Just do it, never ask for anything. bye' As soon as he said that, suddenly the weather changed. A sunny day suddenly became a cloudy day. Shortly afterwards it started to rain. The rain continues for several days. As a

Tari Lenggang Bekasi is one of icon in Kota Bekasi. This dance has showed in Festival Seni Uggulan BARKOWIL II Provinsi Jawa Barat, DISPARBUD Kota Bekasi . Sanggar Sinar Seli Asih has studied literature which created a new traditional creative dance with modern action. Tari Lenggang Bekasi tells about life of Kota Bekasi girls which are dynamic and multicultural. Basic of this dance is taken by combination of action from Betawi dance and salsa dance. It is accompanied by a Gambang Kromong music. The actions of Tari Lenggang Bekasi include geol , silat , kagok , and lenggang which have a meaning. The action of silat has toughness of Kota Bekasi . Meanwhile, the geol action has a meaning which can face challenge. The dance has an educational element and cultural wealth which can be known by people. The special costume of this dance is peacock feather.

SAUSSURE: LANGUAGE AS A SOCIAL FACT By the end of the nineteenth century, apparently everything look good for the time, and some still remain convincing for the present - the equation of languages with biology has been widely rejected. It creates a difficulty for understanding language as an academic discipline: If the languages are not living species. In what sense are they "things" that can be investigated? A layman happily to French as something that can be learned, which has specific devices and in some same or similar cases for the English but differs from it in others; but if the French is an item which is something strange. It obviously is not a concrete object like a table or even like the stretch of terrain called France. You cannot see or hear the France. You can hear Gaston as the waiter saying “pas si bete …””; you can see a line of print in a newspaper “Le Monde”; but how can we define a form is called French that is behind thousands of a phenomenon concre

Ibas dragged into SKKMigas scandal A court hearing in the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) bribery case revealed that the name of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s son, Edhie “Ibas” Baskoro could have been abused in the scandal. According to a dossier read during the on Thursday, Ibas is believed to be close to Singapore-based oil trader Kernel Oil, especially the company’s president Widodo Ratanachaitong. Widodo was suspected of bribing former chief Rudi Rubiandini in return for a guarantee to allocate some oil blocks. Ibas’ alleged involvement was revealed when judge Djoko Subagyo asked graft defendant Deviardi, a golf trainer who dabbled as a middleman and confidante of Rudi, about his conversation with Widodo. In the dossier, Deviardi said that Widodo claimed to have close ties to people from the State Palace. “He [Widodo] has seven oil companies, all based overseas. He has networks in the State Palace, the House of Representatives and Ca

Reported Statements When do we use reported speech? Sometimes someone says a sentence, for example "I'm going to the cinema tonight". Later, maybe we want to tell someone else what the first person said. Quoted speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact words. Quotation marks are used. Reported speech refers to reproducing the idea of another person’s words. Not all of the exact words are used: verb forms and pronouns may change. Quotation marks are not used. Quoted speech: Jane said, “I am hungry.” Reported speech: Jane said that she was hungry. Notice in the example: the verb form and pronoun change from quoted speech to reported speech. Tense / Modal Simple present Quoted speech: He said, “I like ice cream.” Reported Speech: He said (that) he liked ice cream Present continuous Quoted Speech: He said, “I am working hard.” Reported Speech: He said (that) he was working hard Simple past