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My Grandpa’s Funeral in Toraja

Last month my family and I went to Toraja to attend Grandpa’s funeral. It was my first time to go to such a ceremony. We gathered there with our kin in the ceremony.

Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about a week. Several days before the ceremony was done, grandpa’s body was kept in a series of houses arranged in a circular row around an open field called tongkonan. His corpse was dressed in a fi ne wearing.

The funeral was performed in two phases. First, we slaughtered the pigs and buffaloes, and then moved the corpse to face north. In this ceremony we wore black clothes. After that, the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and placed on an open platform beneath the granary. Meanwhile, my uncle, my brother, and I prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral tower called lakian. The next phase of the ceremony was held in this place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian. During the day, there were also buffalo matches. They were great matches. In the night, we were feasting, chanting, and dancing.

On the last day, the grandpa’s coffin were lowered from the funeral tower and brought up to the mountain side family graveyard. It was followed by great shouting and excitement from the relatives and the guests. Finally, we installed the wooden puppet on a high balcony where other puppets representing the members of a whole family were already there. The funeral ceremonies made my family and me tired. However, we were grateful because it ran smoothly.

My Holiday Was Fantastic

 

Last summer I got a fantastic holiday. I visited some great places.

I went to an airport and was going to fly to Cleveland. I was spending there two days. I liked to see some Cleveland Cavaliers basketball matches.

Then I went to Hollywood. Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It had become world-famous as the center of the film industry. Four major film companies – Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO and Columbia – had studios in Hollywood. I did not want to leave but I had to.

After that, I went to New York city. I visited the Statue of Liberty. I went from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of the crown. That was very amazing.

The places made me feel at home but I have to go home. Next time I would return to them.

My Horrible Experience 

Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake last week. When the earthquake happened, I was on my car. I was driving home from my vocation to Bali. Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I thought I got flat tire. I did not know that it was an earthquake. I knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone and electricity poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.

Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I was trapped by the rock. Even I could not move my car at all. There were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I could do but left the car and walked along way to my house, in the town.

When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there was almost nothing left. The earthquake made a lot of damage to my town. Although nothing was left, I thanked God that nobody was seriously injured.

My Horror Experience

I stayed a night at Sakhuwa of Gati VDC because a landslide near Baseri had blocked the road, The next morning, I hopped onto the bus with registration number Ba 2 Kha 4013 that was on the way to Barhabise from Tatopani.
 

I took a seat by the doorside and remember that there were around 35 passengers, including me. The driver started the bus. A kilometer into the journey, I noticed a ditch on the road.
 

The driver tried to avert the ditch. Before I could know what was going on, the bus started hurtling towards the Bhotekoshi.
 

I had given up hope of surviving, but found a ventilator glass broken. I came out of the shattered glass and plunged into the Bhotekoshi.
 

The river carried me for about 35 kilometers and left me on the shallow surface. I passed out after that. The rescuers took me to a hospital when I regained consciousness.
 

I heard later that all except four passengers had survived. I have sustained injuries on the face, hands and other body parts. Nonetheless, I feel that surviving was my destiny.

Contoh - Contoh Report Teks

1. Kangaroo

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.

The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grow to a length of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life

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Kanguru adalah binatang yang hanya ditemukan di Australia, Meskipun dia memiliki kareabat yang lebih keil yang disebut Wallaby, yang hidup di pulau Tasmania Australia dan juga di New Gunea.

Kanguru makan rumput dan tanaman. Mereka memiliki dua kaki depan yang pendek, tetapi memiliki kaki belakang yang sangat panjak dan kuat dan juga memiliki ekor. Semua itu digunakan untuk duduk dan untuk melompat. Kanguru telah dikenal suka membuat lompatan ke depan lebih dari delapan meter, dan melompati pagar lebih dari tiga meter. Mereka juga bisa berlari pada kecepatan lebih dari 45 kilometer per jam.

Jenis kanguru terbesar adalah Great Grey Kanguru (Kanguru Abu-abu Besar) dan Red Kangaroo (kanguru Merah). Kanguru dewsa tumbuh dengan panjan 1,60 meter dan berat lebih dari 90 kilogram.

Kanguru adalah jenis hewan Marsupial. Yang berarti bahwa kanguru betina memiliki kantong luar di bagian depan tubuhnya. Seekor bayi kanguru ukurannya sangat kecil ketika lahir, dan merangkak sekaligus ke dalam kantong tersebut di mana anak kanguru menghabiskan lima bulan pertama kehidupannya.
 

2. What Is Thunder and Lightning?

Lightning is a sudden, violent flash of electricity between a cloud and the ground, or from cloud to cloud. A lightning fl ash, or bolt, can be several miles long. It is so hot, with an average temperature of 34,000° Centigrade, that the air around it suddenly expands with a loud blast. This is the thunder we hear.

Lightning occurs in hot, wet storms. Moist air is driven up to a great height. It forms a type of cloud called cumulonimbus. When the cloud rises high enough, the moisture freezes and ice crystals and snowfl akes are formed. These begin to fall, turning to rain on the way down. This rain meets more moist air rising, and it is the friction between them which produces static electricity. When a cloud is fully charged with this electricity, it discharges it as a lightning flash.

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Petir adalah listrik sambaran kilat yang besar yang datang secara tiba-tiba antara awan dan tanah, atau dari awan ke awan. Sebuah kilatan atau petir bisa memiliki panjang beberpa kilometer. Petir sangat panas, dengan suhu rata-rata 34.000° Celcius, dengan udara di sekitranya tiba-tiba mengembang dengan ledakan keras. Hal ini merupakan Guntur yang kita dengar.

Petir terjadi di tempat yang panas, badai basah. Udara yang lembab yang di angkat ke ketinggian yang tinggi. Hal itu akan membentuk sebuah jenis awan yang disebut Cumulonimbus. Ketika awan naik cukup tinggi, kelembaban membeku dan kristal es dan kepingan salju terbentuk. Saljupun mulai jatuh, beralih menjadi hujan dalam perjalanan ke bawah. Hujan ini bertemu dengan udara lembab yan naik, dan saat itu terciptalah gesekan antara keduannya yang menhasilkan listrik statis. Ketika awan terisi penuh dengan listrik ini, maka akan timbulah petir.
 

3. Platypus; a report text

Many people call platypus duckbill because this animal has a bill like duckbill. Platypus is a native Tasmania and southern and eastern Australia.

Platypus has a flat tail and webbed feet. Its body length is 30 to 45cm and covered with a thick, and woolly layer of fur. Its bill is detecting prey and stirring up mud. Platypus' eyes and head are small. It has no ears but has ability to sense sound and light.

Platypus lives in streams, rivers, and lakes. Female platypus usually dig burrows in the streams or river banks. The burrows are blocked with soil to protect it from intruders and flooding. In the other hand, male platypus does not need any burrow to stay.

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Banyak orang menyebut platypus, duckbill karena binatang ini memiliki paruh seperti duckbill. Platypus adalah hewan asli Tasmania dan Australia Selatan serta Australia Timur.

Platypus memiliki ekor datar dan kaki berselaput. Panjang tubuhnya adalah 30 sampai 45 cm dan ditutupi oleh bulu lapisan wol yang tebal. Paruhnya berguna untuk mendeteksi mangsa dan mengaduk lumpur. Mata dan kepala Platypus kecil. Ia tidak memiliki telinga, tetapi memiliki kemampuan untuk merasakan suara dan cahaya.

Platypus hidup di aliran sungai, sungai, dan danau. Platypus betina biasanya menggali liang di sungai atau tepi sungai. Liang tersebut diblokir dengan tanah untuk melindunginya dari penyusup dan banjir. Di sisi lain, Platypus jantan tidak membutuhkan liang untuk hidup.

4. The Camel

The camel is a large, strong desert animal. Camels can travel great distances across hot, dry deserts with little food or water. They walk easily on soft sand and carry people and heavy hump. The hump is a large lump of fat providing energy if food is hard to find.

There are two chief kinds of camels: (1) the Arabian camel also loads to places that have no roads. Camels also serve the people of the desert in many other ways. The camel carries its own built-in food supply on its back in the form of a called dromedary, which has one hump, and (2) Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

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Unta adalah hewan gurun yang besar dan kuat. Unta dapat melakukan perjalanan jarak jauh yang di gurun yang panas dan kering dengan sedikit makanan dan air. Mereka berjalan denga mudah pada pasir yang halus dan dapat membawa orang dan punuk yang besar. Punuk tersebut adalah benjolan lemak yang besar yang menyediakan energi jika makanan sulit untuk ditemukan.

Terdapat dua jenis utama dari Unta: (1) Unta Arab yang juga bisa memuat ke tempat-tempat yang tidak memiliki jalan. Unta jenis ini juga dapat melayani orang-orang gurun dalam banyak jalan. Unta tersebut membawa pasokan makanannya pada punggungnya yang disebut Dromedray, yang hanya memilki satu punuk, dan (2) Unta Bactrian yang memiliki dua punuk.

5. The Red Bird Of Paradise

An Indonesian endemic, the Red Bird of Paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta islands of West Papua. This species shares its home with another bird of paradise, the Wilson's Bird of Paradise. Hybridisation between these two species are expected but not recorded yet.

The Red Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea rubra is a large, up to 33cm long, brown and yellow bird of paradise with a dark brown iris, grey legs and yellow bill. The male has an emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark green feather pompoms above each eye and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips at either side of the breast.

The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that require at least six years to fully attain. The female resembles the male but is smaller in size, with a dark brown face and has no ornamental red plumes. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods.

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Seekor hwan endemik Indonesia, Burung Cendrawasih Merah (Burung Surga Merah) yang tersebar di datarana rendah hutan hujan Waigeo dan pulau Batanta Papua Barat. Spesies ini berbagi dengan burung surga yang lain, Burung Wilson. Hibridisasi antara kedua spesies ini sudah diduga tetapi belum ada catatannya.

Burung Cendrawasih Merah (Burung Surga Merah), jenis Cendrawasih Rubra adalah yang besar,panjangnya 33cm, berwarna coklat dan kuning dengan iris mata berwarna coklat gelap, kaki abu-abu dan paruh berwarna kuning. Burung jantan memiliki wajar berwarna hijau zamrud, sepasang ekor seperti kawat hitam memanjang, bulu seperti kepompong hijau gelap di atas mata dan rentetan bulu merah dengan warna putih tipis yang mengkilat di kedua sisi dadanya.

Burung jantan panajangnya 72cm, termasuk bulu merah hias yang membutuhkan setidaknya enam tahun untuk bisa sepenuhnya terbentuk. Burung betina bentuknya menyerupai burung jantan tetapi dalam ukuran yang lebih kecil, dengan wajah berwarna coklat gelap dan tiak memiliki bulu merah hias. Makanannya utamanya terdiri dari buah-buahan, berry dan hewan anthropoda. 

6. Tigers

Every body know tigers especially in thier wildness of hunting instincts and skill for survival and their extinction. The habitats of tigers are in  Asia, Siberia and India. And the habitats of the tigers in each place is decrease every year, like we found in India where there are less than 3500 tigers in wild around of which 1411 are in India with its habitat falling by over 50% in last 30 years. Globally tigers occupy less than 7% of their historical geographical landscape.

Tigers are one of the biggest among the 37 species of cats in the world today. Tigers have very sharp teeth and very powerful claws to catch thier food such as deers, zebras, even buffaloes and other animals to be able to survie. Althoug tigers placed in the highest rank of predators but they also has a predator except a human. The predator of the tigers is a lion. Lions do not eat the tigers but just kill them to erase rivaly in catching their target. Tigers have big mouths and also have big gums. Tigers have piericing yellow eyes that glown in the dark that are used to hunting their food in the night.

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Sitap orang tahu mengenai harimau khusunya kebuasan mereka dalam instink berburu dan kemampuan untuk bertahan dan juga kepunahan mereka. Habitat harimau ada di Asia, Siberia dan India. Dan habitat harimau tersebut di setiap tempat menurun setiap tahunnya, seperti yang kami temukan di India dimana terdapat kurang dari 3500 hamiau liar di seluruh dunia yang mana 1411-nya berada di India habitatnya terus menurun sampai 50% di 30 tahun terakhir. Secara global haimau menempati kurang dari 7% landscape sejarah geograpik mereka.

Harimau adalah salah satu yang terbesar diantara 37 spesies kucing di dunia hari ini. Harimau memiliki gigi-gigi yang sangat tajam dan cakar yang sangat kuat untuk menangkap makanannya seperti kijang, zebra, bahkan kerbau dan hewan-hewan yang lainnya. Meskipiun harimau menempati peringkat tertinggi di rantai makanan mereka tetapi mereka juga memiliki predator selain manusia. Predator harimau adalah singa. Singa tidak memakan harimau tetapi merka hanya membunuh mereka untuk mengurangi persaingan dalam mencari makanan. Harimau memiliki mulut yang besar dan juga gusi yang besar. Harimau memilki mata kuning yang tajam yang bersinar di kegelapan yang digunakannya untuk berburu pada malam hari.

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The Purse of Gold

A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in a market place. Opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shouted, "A reward! A reaward to the one who find my leather purse!"

Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchant saying, "Here is your purse. Will you keep your word to give a reward now?"\

"Reward?" scoffed the merchant greedily counting the amount of gold. "The purse I dropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You've already stolen more than the reward I'll give to you.! Go away or I'll tell you to the police."

"I'm an honest man," said the beggar defiantly. "Let's take this matter to the court!" In the court, the judge patiently listened to both sides of the story and said, "I believe you both. Justice is possible! Merchant, you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of gold. Well, that's a considerable cost. But the purse the beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold. Therefore, it couldn't be the one you lost."

And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the golds to the beggar.