a summary of ted talk- how to make stress your friend by kelly Mc gonigal

How to make your friend stress by Kelly McGonigal

Kelly is a health psychologist who want to help people be happier and healthier, but now she has a fear about what shehas been telling to people, it has to do with stress. She always said that stress make you sick, and it increases someone’s illness from fever fo example, into cardiovascular desease. It far from good. And now she has changed her mind about stress after she know a study that made her rethink about the approach to stress. She said that people would die if they think that stress is harmful for our health, the data shows like that but People who experienced a lot of stressbut did not view stress as harmfulwere no more likely to die. And over 8 years people died prematurely, not because of stress but because of the beliefe about stress is harmful. So, what it is needed now is how you change your mind about stress make you healthier?And here the science says yes.When you change your mind about stress,you can change your body's response to stress. Then, to imagine how stress is , the speaker do a study with participants come into laboratory and have two part of test, math test and unknown test. And what she got is,in math test,  the participant who take the test might seem be stress by looking the respons and heart rate goes up,and blood vessels constrict hard. But different to the participant who participants viewed their stress response as helpful,their blood vessels stayed relaxed like this.Their heart was still pounding,but this is a much healthier cardiovascular profile.It actually looks a lot like what happensin moments of joy and courage.

Her goal now is not getting rid  of stress anymore, but want to make the people feel better when s/he stress And when s/he view stress in that way, body believes ,and the stress response becomes healthier. Stress also has to do with some hormones and oxytocin .being socialized with neighbor, friends, family might decrease stress as well because it has access to heart. he compassionate heart that finds joy and meaningin connecting with others,and yes, your pounding physical heart,working so hard to give you strength and energy.And when you choose to view stress in this way,you're not just getting better at stress,you're actually making a pretty profound statement.You're saying that you can trust yourself to handle life's challenges.And you're remembering that you don't have to face them alone. So, it’s all about beliefe, if you believe is in positive side, your body will respond to everything positively and if you believe in negative side, your body will also respond negatively. 

a summary of ted talks- the world's english mania by jay walker

Recently, our world has several manias, such as beatlemania where some teenagers  arehisterically screaming and crying, or other mania such as sport mania, it is about getting a ball into a net or religious mania. there's rapture, there's weeping,there's visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly. But now we have a new mania, it is learning English. This video also shows how chinese students practice English, by screaming it. English is spoken in all counties over the world, In Latin America,in India,in Southeast Asia,and most of all, in China.If you're a Chinese student,you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year,China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.

The question is, why English?? In a single word: opportunity.Opportunity for a better life, a job,to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. The speaker also said that when someone want to take  a giant test, they prepare it well in English because Twenty-five percent of her/his  grade is based on English, and 80 million high school Chinese studentshave already taken this test.

So is English mania good or bad?Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages?Not likely.English is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with English you can become part of a wider conversation —a global conversation about global problems,like climate change or poverty,or hunger or disease.The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it,but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.

For short, English represents hopefor a better future —a future where the world has a common languageto solve its common problems.

wuthering height summary chapter 6-8

Chapter 6

Summary

Hindley returns home, unexpectedly bringing his wife, a flighty woman with a strange fear of death and symptoms of consumption (although Ellen did not at first recognize them as such). Hindley also brought home new manners and rules, and informed the servants that they would have to live in inferior quarters. Most importantly, he treated Heathcliff as a servant, stopping his education and making him work in the fields like any farm boy. Heathcliff did not mind too much at first because Cathy taught him what she learned, and worked and played with him in the fields. They stayed away from Hindley as much as possible and grew up uncivilized and free. "It was one of their chief amusements," Ellen recalls, "to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at" (46).

One day they ran off after being punished, and at night Heathcliff returned. He told Ellen what had happened. He and Cathy ran to the Grange to see how people lived there, and they saw the Linton children Edgar and Isabella in a beautiful room, crying after an argument over who could hold the pet dog. Amused and scornful, Heathcliff and Cathy laughed; the Lintons heard them and called for their parents. After making frightening noises, Cathy and Heathcliff tried to escape, but a bulldog bit Cathy's leg and refused to let go. She told Heathcliff to escape but he would not leave her, and tried to pry the animal's jaws open. Mr. and Mrs. Linton mistook them for thieves and brought them inside. When Edgar Linton recognized Cathy as Miss Earnshaw, the Lintons expressed their disgust at the children's wild manners and especially at Heathcliff's being allowed to keep Cathy company. They coddled Cathy and drove Heathcliff out; he went back to Wuthering Heights on foot after assuring himself that Cathy was all right.

When Hindley found out, he welcomed the chance to separate Cathy and Heathcliff, so Cathy was to stay for a prolonged visit with the Lintons while her leg healed and Heathcliff was forbidden to speak to her.

Chapter 7

Summary

Ellen resumes the narrative. Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks, until Christmas. When she returned home she had been transformed into a young lady with that role's attending restrictions: she could no longer kiss Ellen without worrying about getting flour on her dress. She hurt Heathcliff's feelings by comparing his darkness and dirtiness to Edgar and Isabella's fair complexions and clean clothes. The boy had become more and more neglected in her absence, and was cruelly put in his place by Hindley and especially by Cathy's new polish. Cathy's affection for Heathcliff had not really changed, but he did not know this and ran out, refusing to come in for supper. Ellen felt sorry for him.

The Linton children were invited for a Christmas party the next day. That morning Heathcliff humbly approached Ellen and asked her to "make him decent" because he was "going to be good" (55). Ellen applauded his resolution and reassured him that Cathy still liked him and that she was grieved by his shyness. When Heathcliff said he wished he could be more like Edgar––fair, rich, and well-behaved––Ellen told him that he could be perfectly handsome if he smiled more and was more trustful.

However, when Heathcliff, now "clean and cheerful" (57), tried to join the party, Hindley told him to go away because he was not fit to be there. Edgar unwisely made fun of his long hair and Heathcliff threw hot applesauce at him, and was taken away and flogged by Hindley. Cathy was angry at Edgar for mocking Heathcliff and getting him into trouble, but she didn't want to ruin her party. She kept up a good front, but didn't enjoy herself, thinking of Heathcliff alone and beaten. At her first chance ­after her guests gone home, she crept into the garret where he was confined.

Later Ellen gave Heathcliff dinner, since he hadn't eaten all day, but he ate little and when she asked what was wrong, he said he was thinking of how to avenge himself on Hindley. At this point Ellen's narrative breaks off and she and Lockwood briefly discuss the merits of the active and contemplative life, with Lockwood defending his lazy habits and Ellen saying she should get things done rather than just telling Lockwood the story. He persuades her to go on.

Chapter 8

Summary

Hindley's wife Frances gave birth to a child, Hareton, but did not survive long afterwards: she had consumption. Despite the doctor's warnings, Hindley persisted in believing that she would recover, and she seemed to think so too, always saying she felt better, but she died a few weeks after Hareton's birth. Ellen was happy to take care of the baby. Hindley "grew desperate; his sorrow was of a kind that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed––he cursed and defied––execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation" (65). The household more or less collapsed into violent confusion––respectable neighbors ceased to visit, except for Edgar, entranced by Catherine. Heathcliff's ill treatment and the bad example posed by Hindley made him "daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity." Catherine disliked having Edgar visit Wuthering Heights because she had a hard time behaving consistently when Edgar and Heathcliff met, or when they talked about each other. Edgar's presence made her feel as though she had to behave like a Linton, which was not natural for her.

One day when Hindley was away, Heathcliff was offended to find Catherine dressing for Edgar's visit. He asked her to turn Edgar away and spend the time with him instead but she refused. Edgar was by this time a gentle, sweet young man. He came and Heathcliff left, but Ellen stayed as a chaperone, much to Catherine's annoyance. She revealed her bad character by pinching Ellen, who was glad to have a chance to show Edgar what Catherine was like, and cried out. Catherine denied having pinched her, blushing with rage, and slapped her, then slapped Edgar for reproving her. He said he would go; she, recovering her senses, asked him to stay, and he was too weak and enchanted by her stronger will to leave. Brought closer by the quarrel, the two "confess[ed] themselves lovers" (72). Ellen heard Hindley come home drunk, and out of precaution unloaded his gun.

wuthering height summary chapter 4-5

Chapter 4

Summary

Lockwood is bored and a little weak after his adventures, so he asks his housekeeper, Ellen Dean, to tell him about Heathcliff and the old families of the area. She says Heathcliff is very rich and a miser, though he has no family, since his son is dead. The girl living at Wuthering Heights was the daughter of Ellen's former employers, the Lintons, and her name was Catherine. She is the daughter of the late Mrs. Catherine Linton, was born an Earnshaw, thus Hareton's aunt. Heathcliff's wife was Mr. Linton's sister. Ellen is fond of the younger Catherine, and worries about her unhappy situation.

The narrative switches to Ellen's voice, whose language is much plainer than Lockwood's. She is a discreet narrator, rarely reminding the listener of her presence in the story, so that the events she recounts feel immediate. She says she grew up at Wuthering Heights, where her mother worked as a wet nurse. One day, Mr. Earnshawoffered to bring his children Hindley (14 years old) and Catherine (about 6) a present each from his upcoming trip to Liverpool. Hindley asked for a fiddle and Catherine for a whip, because she was already an excellent horsewoman. When Earnshaw returned, however, he brought with him a "dirty, ragged, black-haired child" (36) found starving on the streets. The presents had been lost or broken. The boy was named Heathcliff and taken into the family, though he was not entirely welcomed by Mrs. Earnshaw, Ellen, and Hindley. Heathcliff and Catherine became very close, and he became Earnshaw's favorite. Hindley felt that his place was usurped, and took it out on Heathcliff, who was hardened and stoic. For example, Earnshaw gave them each a colt, and Heathcliff chose the finest, which went lame. Heathcliff then claimed Hindley's, and when Hindley threw a heavy iron at him, Heathcliff threatened to tell Earnshaw about it if he didn't get the colt.

Chapter 5

Summary

Earnshaw grew old and sick, and with his illness he became irritable and somewhat obsessed with the idea that people disliked his favorite, Heathcliff. Heathcliff was spoiled to keep Earnshaw happy, and Hindley, who became more and more bitter about the situation, was sent away to college. Joseph, already "the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses to his neighbors" (42) used his religious influence over Earnshaw to distance him from his children. Earnshaw thought Hindley was worthless, and didn't like Cathy's playfulness and high spirits, so in his last days he was irritable and discontented. Cathy was "much too fond" of Heathcliff, and liked to order people around. Heathcliff would do anything she asked. Cathy's father was harsh to her and she became hardened to his reproofs.

Finally Earnshaw died one evening when Cathy had been resting her head against his knee and Heathcliff was lying on the floor with his head in her lap. When she went to kiss her father good night, she discovered he was dead and the two children began to cry, but that night Ellen saw that they had managed to comfort each other with "better thoughts than [she] could have hit on" (44) imagining the old man in heaven.

WUTHERING HEIGHT SUMMARY CHAPTER 1-3

last semester, we studied english literature and dominantly discussed about wuthering height, it is a legend novel written by Emily bronte.. the novel is quite complicated by it is very nice and amazing. the way the author wrote the descriptipn is very clear and highly classic.. this is the summary of wuthering height from chapter 1-3.. another chapter will be posted in next post.. enjoy!!!

 Chapter 1

Summary

It is 1801, and the narrator, Mr. Lockwood, relates how he has just returned from a visit to his new landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. Lockwood, a self-described misanthropist, is renting Thrushcross Grange in an effort to get away from society following a failure at love. He had fallen in love with a "real goddess" (6), but when she returned his affection he acted so coldly she "persuaded her mamma to decamp." He finds that relative to Heathcliff, however, he is extremely sociable. Heathcliff, "a dark skinned gypsy, in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman" (5) treats his visitor with a minimum of friendliness, and Wuthering Heights, the farm where Heathcliff lives, is just as foreign and unfriendly. 'Wuthering' means stormy and windy in the local dialect. As Lockwood enters, he sees a name carved near the door: Hareton Earnshaw. Dangerous-looking dogs inhabit the bare and old-fashioned rooms, and threaten to attack Lockwood: when he calls for help Heathcliff implies that Lockwood had tried to steal something. The only other inhabitants of Wuthering Heights are an old servant named Joseph and a cook––neither of whom are much friendlier than Heathcliff. Despite his rudeness, Lockwood finds himself drawn to Heathcliff: he describes him as intelligent, proud and morose––an unlikely farmer. Heathcliff gives Lockwood some wine and invites him to come again. Although Lockwood suspects this invitation is insincere, he decides he will return because he is so intrigued by the landlord.

Chapter 2

Summary

Annoyed by the housework being done in the Grange, Lockwood pays a second visit to Wuthering Heights, arriving there just as snow begins to fall. The weather is cold, the ground is frozen, and his reception matches the bleak unfriendliness of the moors. After yelling at the old servant Joseph to open the door, he is finally let in by a peasant-like young man. The bare kitchen is warm, and Lockwood assumes that the young and beautiful girl there is Mrs. Heathcliff. He tries to make conversation but she is consistently scornful and inhospitable, and he only embarrasses himself. There is "a kind of desperation" (11) in her eyes. She refuses to make him tea unless Heathcliff said he could have some. The young man and Heathcliff come in for tea. The young man behaves boorishly and seems to suspect Lockwood of making advances to the girl. Heathcliff demands tea "savagely" (12), and Lockwood decides he doesn't really like him. Trying to make conversation again, Lockwood gets into trouble first assuming that the girl is Heathcliff's wife, and then that she is married to the young man, who he supposes to be Heathcliff's son. He is rudely corrected, and it transpires that the girl is Heathcliff's daughter-in-law but her husband is dead, as is Heathcliff's wife. The young man is Hareton Earnshaw. It is snowing hard and Lockwood requests a guide so he can return home safely, but he is refused: Heathcliff considers it more important that Hareton take care of the horses. Joseph, who is evidently a religious fanatic, argues with the girl, who frightens him by pretending to be a witch. The old servant doesn't like her reading. Lockwood, left stranded and ignored by all, tries to take a lantern, but Joseph offensively accuses him of stealing it, and sets dogs on him. Lockwood is humiliated and Heathcliff and Hareton laugh. The cook, Zillah, takes him in and says he can spend the night.

Chapter 3

Summary

Zillah quietly shows Lockwood to a chamber which, she says, Heathcliff does not like to be occupied. She doesn't know why, having only lived there for a few years. Left alone, Lockwood notices the names "Catherine Earnshaw," "Catherine Linton," and "Catherine Heathcliff" scrawled over the window ledge. He leafs through some old books stacked there, and finds that the margins are covered in handwriting––evidently the child Catherine's diary. He reads some entries which evoke a time in which Catherine and Heathcliff were playmates living together as brother and sister, and bullied by Joseph (who made them listen to sermons) and her older brother Hindley. Apparently Heathcliff was a 'vagabond' taken in by Catherine's father, raised as one of the family, but when the father died Hindley made him a servant and threatened to throw him out, to Catherine's sorrow.

Lockwood then falls asleep over a religious book, and has a nightmare about a fanatical preacher leading a violent mob. Lockwood wakes up, hears that a sound in his dream had really been a branch rubbing against the window, and falls asleep again. This time he dreams that he wanted to open the window to get rid of the branch, but when he did, a "little, ice-cold hand" (25) grabbed his arm, and a voice sobbed "let me in." He asked who it was, and was answered: "Catherine Linton. I'm come home, I'd lost my way on the moor." He saw a child's face and, afraid, drew the child's wrist back and forth on the broken glass of the window so that blood soaked the sheets. Finally he gets free, and insists that he won't let the creature in, even if it has been lost for twenty years, as it claims. He wakes up screaming.

Heathcliff comes in, evidently disturbed and confused, unaware that Lockwood is there. Lockwood tells him what happened, mentioning the dream and Catherine Linton's name, which distresses and angers Heathcliff. Lockwood goes to the kitchen, but on his way he hears Heathcliff at the window, despairingly begging 'Cathy' to come in "at last" (29). Lockwood is embarrassed by his host's obvious agony.

Morning comes: Lockwood witnesses an argument between Heathcliff and the girl, who has been reading. Heathcliff bullies her, and she resists spiritedly. Heathcliff walks Lockwood most of the way home in the snow.

KLUET AS MY IDENTITY BATCH 2

AREA OF KLUET

The Kluet region is now recognized as a unity within the district of South Aceh. At first Kluet only two areas, namely North Kluet and South Kluet. The North Kluet region is capitalized by Kotafajar and Kluet Selatan with the capital of the stable.

Since Aceh gained Special Autonomy status and strengthened by the Law on Governing Aceh (UUPA), Kluet region was divided into 5 regions:

·         North Kluet, Kotafajar's capital,

·         Kluet Tengah, the capital of Menggamat,

·         Kluet Timur, the capital of Duriankawan,

·         South Kluet, capital of Cages,

·         Kluet Barat, the capital of Pasieraja.

The expansion of the Kluet region provoked a new conflict in the Kluet region. In West Kluet with the capital of Pasieraja inhabited by the non-Kluet-speaking Pasieraja community, people here do not recognize its territory as Kluet territory. In fact, had spread the issue, if forced Pasieraja region with the name of Kluet West, the community here will ask the region put into the district Tapaktuan only. As a result, the plaque of the sub-district office of this region is clearly written "Sub-district Head of Pasieraja", not "Head of West Kluet Sub-district with the Capital of Pasieraja".

Apparently this made a minor split among the Kluet people, although not to the point of causing a bloody conflict.

The presence of three distinct tribes (Kluet, Aceh and Aneuk Jamee) in the Kluet region seems to be the cause of divisions among the Kluet people. Aceh-speaking community groups do not want to be called Kluet. In contrast, Kluet-speaking community groups also do not want to be called part of Aceh.

The Kluet community has a number of customs and cultures that have been preserved for generations from generation to generation. In the marriage custom, circumcision of the apostle, custom of death, medication, and so on.

Then for oral literature is still alive and growing in this community, for example the tradition of poetry at the wedding party.

There are two popular poems in the wisdom of the Kluet people:

      Syair Meubobo, usually used by the bridegroom's introductory troupe (linto baro). The mebobo poem is also often used when removing children going to the oceans or during circumcision of apostles. This habit is still alive in the Kluet society today. However, not everyone can play the two poems. It takes her own skill to sing.

      The Meukato poem, is a rhyme rhymed between the bridegroom group and the bride's entourage.

In addition the tradition of proverbs in the Kluet language is delivered with dialect of each region.

According to some literatures, the Kluet tribe also has a clan. It's just that the clans in the Kluet tribe are not prioritized to be displayed like the other Batak people. But for some people Kluet there is also a display clan behind his name. Some clans of Kluet are similar to the clan of Alas, Singkil, Karo and Pakpak tribes.

Some within the clan of the Kluet tribe are:

      Selian

      Kombih

      Pinim

      etc.

The majority of Kluet people are devout Muslims. Some traditions and cultures are heavily influenced by the Islamic element. Islam has developed in the Kluet community since several centuries ago, along with the entry of Islam in Aceh.

Among the people of Kluet tribe are also stored myths makhlus magical (smooth), one of them like myur meurampot, which is still believed by most people Kluet tribe.

The Kluet people generally live in agriculture, such as gardening and farming. They live by way of exogamus (mating with another clan). The marriage is arranged by both families of prospective brides. The engagement usually takes about 3 years.

The village administration is divided according to the family group according to the mergo (clan), and the smaller part of the government (rodjo). A group of people one descendant sara rodjo (one father) and sara ino (one mother).

Alas tribe people do not know traditional script. All forms of advice and other things related to social life are passed down through generations through tarombo and oral stories.

KLUET AS MY IDENTITY

in this post, i will tell you about the history of kluet community, fyi.. i am one of kluet people, so i want to let you know about it as well...

Kluet tribe

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One of the areas in the province of Aceh, precisely in the district of South Aceh there is an indigenous community, which has long been living in the region. They are different communities with the people of Aceh in general. They are a community that calls itself Kluet or Kluet. The term Kluet is sometimes referred to as the keluwat or kluwat.

Kluet area is separated by the river Lawé Kluet which originated on Mount Leuser and empties into the Indian Ocean. Kluet residence area is located 30 km from the town of Tapaktuan or 500 km from Banda Aceh.

In this region of South Aceh Kluet tribe co-exist with 2 other tribes, such as Aceh tribe and Aneuk Jamee. The Kluet tribe itself is scattered in the area of Kluet Utara, Kluet Tengah, Kluet Selatan and Kluet Timur

In general, the Kluet are closely related to the tribe of Alas and the Singkil tribe, as there are some similarities in the culture-customs and languages influenced by both tribes.

The Kluet people speak in their own language, Kluet. The Kluet language belongs to the Batak language group of languages. Kluet itself has 3 dialects that continue to grow until now, namely:

Ø  Dialect Menggamat

Ø  Payadapur dialect, and

Ø  Krueng Kluet dialect (Lawe Sawah).

According to the record (Bukhari RA, et al, 2008: 11), Kluet's history is said to be closely related to the Bangko Sea Kingdom which is a small lake in the middle of the TNGL forest (Gunung Leuser National Park) to the west, bordering on Bakongan subdistrict and Kluet Timur subdistrict currently.

According to the story that the Bangko Sea Kingdom was once glorious in the past. The last king named Malinda with the empress Rindi. After the king died, floods hit the kingdom. Its inhabitants fled for land, some fled to Batak Land, others to Tanah Singkil, and the rest survived by searching for higher ground. From this it is said that there is similarity between Kluet language with other Batak languages, such as Karo, Pakpak, Toba, Alas and Singkil.

According to another story, told of a major war in Aceh, a community in the hinterland got in the way and fled to the small town of Chik Kilat Fajar in southern Aceh and became a separate community at the foot of Kalambaloh mountain, while others went deeper into the community and made the community As well as a mixture of languages ​​with several other areas such as Singkil and Alas and several tribes in North Sumatra.

          Meanwhile, according to the Alas tribe folklore that between the tribe of Alas and Kluet tribe is still closely related, seen from the story of the origins stored in these two groups of people, that the Kluet originated from King Enggang who is the younger brother of King Patuha in Dairi and brother of King Lambing which is the ancestor of the Selian clan and the Alas in Tanoh Alas and the clan of Sebayang in Taneh Karo. While King Enggang who is the ancestor of the Kluet, the first descendant in Tanah Kluet is the Pinim clan