Analytical Exposition Text

Twitter Leads People to Success

By. Annisa Rizqi Handayani

Nowadays, people use social media to make many things easier in their lives. They have already been familiar with some social networking services which are mushrooming and becoming an interesting issue. One of the most popular social networking sites which people all around the world talk about is called Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site or micro-blogging service which was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006. This micro-blogging service enables its users to send a text in 140 characters, known as tweets. Then, why does Twitter become so popular? The answer is in how people are really enthusiastic about it. It grows with 140 million active users all around the world with Indonesia on the fifth position.

No wonder, almost every well-known people from Justin Bieber to Barack Obama are now on Twitter. Even Barack Obama, the number one person of the United States, used Twitter as a way of his election campaign. Thus, there are so many benefits of what we can get by using this social networking service. Furthermore, most of the Twitter users are young people who have fresh thought and creativity.

Firstly, Twitter becomes a media that provides real time information and highlight news. There are a lot of Twitter accounts of some Indonesian news media such as @kompascom (the Twitter account of Kompas), @jakpost (the Twitter account of The Jakarta Post), @korantempo (the Twitter account of Tempo), and so on. By following those news accounts, we can get a lot of recent information when signing in Twitter then seeing the timeline.

Narrative Text

THE MAGIC RING
By. Annisa Rizqi Handayani

In 1898, there was an ordinary girl named Marry. She lived with her mother in a big city in England which almost everything was available, including a school where Marry learnt many things.

One morning, Marry’s teacher read a story about a magic ring. The ring was owned by a witch from West who was called Matilda, the magic finger. Matilda could do some evil magic only using her finger. Since her finger used that magic ring, she did not need a magic wand to curse her enemies. Then, she became a greatest wizard around the world. However, when fighting with a young wizard from the East, Matilda lost her balance which caused her fell into the ground. The young wizard pointed her magic wand to Matilda’s finger where the ring circling. She took the ring that fell beside the moaning Matilda. Then, she brought it far away from the fighting field. Now, the ring was kept in the National Museum in the center of the city. Actually, Marry was not really interested in the story because she had already seen the ring in the museum, and it was the worst ring she had ever seen.

In the afternoon, Marry went home and found a note hanging on her room’s door. There, her mother wrote that she had to go to village to visit her sick brother. She apologized to her daughter because she was in a hurry and could not ask her to join. Marry was sad in the beginning, but she realize that many things she could do during her solitude in her house.

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The Lucky Knight

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Bertha. She lived with her father in a big castle. Her father is a mean king who always forced all he wants.

When the king went to a neighbor kingdom, Princess Bertha played with her white horse in a wood near the castle. She tied her horse to a tree and picked some beautiful flowers at the edge of a river. However, when she came back to the tree, the horse disappeared. She was so sad and started to cry. Suddenly, there came a handsome knight with a horse tie on his hand. The princess yelled and ran to her horse. She fell in love with a knight who had found her lost horse. However, since the king did not like his daughter’s relationship with the knight, they made a secret meeting in a hidden garden every evening.

One day, the king invited a young prince from the other kingdom. He was a charming prince who had so many achievements. The king asked him to marry his daughter. However, the princess did not want to because she had already fallen in love with the knight. The king was very disappointed of his daughter’s rejection, but he could do nothing.

Recount Text

Stuck on The Bus

One day on December, I got an unforgettable experience on a bus. On that day, I have prepared myself to come back to Semarang after enjoying my short holiday in my hometown. I decided to take an economic class bus because I did not get a ticket of the exclusive class bus. The bus was so crowded of people and their stuffs that I could not find any chair easily. When finally I found a chair which divided into three parts, I chose the position beside the window. Ten minutes later, there were two men who came and took a sit beside me. Those two big men took most part of the chairs which made me hard to move. Moreover, they fall asleep and swung their heads to left and right. I got stuck and could not move even one centimeter. It was hard to breath well in that condition. I prayed to God that I could go away from the chair and found another chair to sit. Finally, both of them stood up and left the chair after almost an hour past. All in all, it was such an unpleasant experience I got on a bus that taught me how to stay calm in facing unpredictable event. 

Descriptive Text

The English Department of Semarang State University

I study English education at Semarang State University. English education is a part of the English Department which is one of the most wanted departments in Semarang State University. The Department of English is devided into two majors: English education and English literature. Both education and literature maintain its good quality in creating the best graduates of English program.   

The English department is located in B3 building. The building is clean and comfortable. It has many rooms, such as some lecture rooms, the lecturers’ rooms, an administration office, two toilets, a prayer room (musholla), a library, two language labs, etc. Each room gives its own contribution to the students and lecturers. That's why I proud of being a part of the English Department of Semarang State University.