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Reviewing a short film “Lets raise a generation of equals!”

  Reviewing a short film “Gender Equality” From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPlEiWNUxU The Tittle is “Lets raise a generation of equals!”                 Gender equality is hot issues todays. A lot of pro contra have raised a lot recently. Pro side says that this gender equality will help woman to have equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities like a man. While the other side says that gender equality makes people loss their identities. This is very hard to decide who is right and who is wrong. Every people can have their own opinion and other people can’t force their opinion to other people. Gender equality is not that all bad, but we don’t know where is the limit of the equality.                 This short movie or short video was uploaded in November 23, 2018 and already watched by 33 million of people aroun...

Improving Students Skills in EFL with Music

  In the end of 2010, English has become the most widely speakers all around the world. It is because the non-native English speakers could surpass the number of native English speakers. This happen because English already becomes the common protocol for global human communication (Beasley & Chuang, 2008, p.1). With this happening right now, it will need a syllabus that help students in learning English as a Foreign Language. One of the methods that can help student in learning EFL is by Music, because it has positive influence on memory and better retention (Arjomad & Yazdanimoghadam, 2015, p.111). There are some suggestions in using popular music for EFL class, it divided into the following category listening, and speaking, writing and reading, grammars, collocations, and vocabulary to help student mastering EFL (Lieb, 2005, p. 91).                 In Listening and Speaking activates include true...

The Reckoning by Within Temptation

       Within Temptation is a symphonic metal band from Netherlands. Founded by Vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerhold on April 1996. Their genre mostly classified as gothic metal and symphonic metal. Even though they mostly used symphonic or gothic metal as their genre, their album can influence outside of these genres.             Their first album is Enter in 1997. They are not very popular until 2001 when they releasing their singles “Ice Queen” in their second album Mother Earth. This Single reaching the no.2 on the Dutch charts. They also win Conamus Exportprijs, a Dutch music awards four years in a row, and fifth in 2016.             One of my favorite song from Within Temptation is The Reckoning from album RESIST. This Single released on September 14, 2018 featuring guest vocal from Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach, and released worl...