Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman, born as Natalie Hershlag June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem. She is the only child of an Israeli doctor, Avner Hershlag and an American homemaker, Shelley Stevens.

In 1994 she played in Leon and took her maternal grandma's maiden name Portman, as her stage name, due to privacy. After the Leon opened, she said that her character was too mature and she regretted it. She was only 13 years old when she played the character and became one of The Hollywood's Sex Symbol.

Life

At the age of 3, she left Jerusalem for The States, and after experienced several moves she finally lived in New York. She is a vegetarian since she was 8 .

She has a big crush on her homeland, Jerusalem. She once quotes ," I really love The States but my heart's in Jerusalem, that's where I just feel at home".

She now lives in Soho, NYC. and directing a movie , "New York, I love you" to express her love to her present town, New York.

Education

Everyone on earth knows she's not just an average actress who only cares about the career. Natalie once said that she would rather be smart than a movie star. Maybe, due to her well-educated background she prefers to play in many high-class movies.

Despite saying her family wasn't religious, she attended a Jewish Elementary school. Portman graduated from a Public High School, Syosset High School. She said her favorite subject in school is mathematics because "there always be an answer" in math,

She attended Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. In the spring of 2004 she came back to her native, Jerusalem, and took courses in Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In Jerusalem she studied Arabic language and History of Islam of Israel.

Movie Career

She widely known as Padme Amidala in Star Wars. In 2004 she played in Closer movie as a striptease. Many fans of her said her best acting is in V for Vendetta as Evey Hammond, the movie itself is about a proto-terrorist, she said in her native country, Israel, tons of people were hurt due to terrorist attack.

In 2006 she played in Goya's Ghost, the movie is about Spanish Inquisition, and in 2008 she played as Anne Boleyn the mother of Elizabeth I in The Other Boleyn Girls.

She once played as Anne Frank in a theater. The role is one of her best role ever.

pic: V for Vendetta 's scene

Interesting facts

1. She is a vegan (strict vegetarian) since she was 8.

2. She skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I, so she could study for her high school final exam.

3.She is a short girl compared to average height of western women, some people who had seen her directly said she's less than 160 cm.

4.She loves Julia Roberts.

5.Her favorite country is Israel and her favorite city is Paris

6.She famously had her head shaved in V for Vendetta

7.She doesn't like high-heels

8.She wants a lesbian relationship , she said"Why you close your self off to 50 percents of people?"

9.She is fluent in English and Hebrew (her mother tongue) and has studied French, Japanese, German, and Arabic

Pictures

Left to right

1.Natalie Portman and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, both of them was chosen as Ambassadors of Micro Capital by United Nations.

2.Famous of her short hair-cut.

3.Wearing the most famous dress in the world. Audrey Hepburn wore the dress in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Explanation Text

How Planes Fly

A plane needs air pressure under their wings to stay up in the air. As they move forward, the higher air pressure underneath their wings pushes them upward and gives them lift.
The smooth, streamlined shaped of the plane allows air to flow easily over its surface. This help to reduce the drag caused by the air pushing against the plane and allows it to move rapidly through the air.
Planes move forward using engines. This movement is called thrust. Moving forward keeps a stream of moving air passing over the wings, which allows the plane to stay up int the air. If the engines fail, the planes will begin to descend very quickly.
The air above the wing moves faster so it is a lower pressure than the air under the wing.
The air under the wing moves more slowly and is slightly squashed so it is at a higher pressure than the air above the wing.

Ardian Setianto
XII IA 11/ 05

Anecdote Text

Anecdote of Joe

Joe had a vacation, so he decided to go to the seashore for a few days. He got a train one morning, and an hour later he was in a small town by the sea. A few minutes after he left the station, He saw a small hotel and went in. He asked the owner how much it would cost for one night there.

“One hundred and fifteen thousand rupiahs,” the owner answered.

“That’s more than I can really afford to pay,” Joe said sadly.

“All right,” the owner answered. “If you make your bed yourself, you can have the room for one hundred thousand rupiahs.”

Joe was very happy because he always made his own bed at home. “Okay,” he said, “I’ll do that.”

The owner went into a room at the back, opened a closet, took some things out and came back to Joe.

“Here you are,” he said, and gave him a hammer and some nails

Ardian Setianto
XII IA 11/ 05

How VTEC Works

The Process

1. A standard camshaft is composed of a chain- or gear-driven shaft, with a lobe that depresses the rocker arm as it spins, opening the valves at a set distance. A VTEC camshaft features a set of three lobes with the central lobe extending further out. The longer and shorter lobes of the crankshaft form two different profiles for the electronic control unit to select from.
   
   The rocker arms operate the intake and exhaust valves, opening and closing the valves as the camshaft lobes press against them. A VTEC engine differs from a standard engine through the design of its rocker arms, which uses a set of three arms.
   
   Set between the outer rocker arms is a electronically controlled hydraulic switch that actuates a synchronizing pin to lock or unlock the middle rocker arm. The outer rocker arms have primary control over the valve openings. As the synchronizing pin locks into place, the central rocker arm moves with the extended central lobe, opening the valves farther.
   
   The synchronizing pin consists of two sliding pins separated by a pair of springs. As the hydraulic switch presses the first pin towards the central rocker arm, a spring presses the second pin into place within the third rocker arm. The second spring resets the pins when the hydraulic switch is released.
   
   The electronic control unit, or ECU, monitors the revolution speed of the engine and adjusts between the two camshaft profiles to alter the engine's performance by controlling the hydraulic switch in the rocker arms.

Low RPM

2. At low RPM, the ECU uses the low lift profile, releasing the synchronizing pin to disengage the central rocker arm. This allows the camshaft lobes to actuate only the outer rocker arms, opening the valves less to provide better fuel efficiency and lower power.

High RPM

3. As the engine speeds increase, the ECU engages the switch to lock the central rocker arm into the second high lift profile. As the extended central camshaft lobe depresses the central rocker arm, the valves open farther to allow additional fuel and air into the cylinder. The additional air/fuel mixture inhaled by the motor provides a stronger combustion, which in turn increases power at the expense of higher fuel consumption.

Radityo Wahyu Utomo
XII IA 11/26

The Saddest Song

Only two more days, until your birthday
Yesterday was mine
You'll be turning five
I know what it's like, growing up without your father in your life
So I pretend, I'm doing all I can
And I hope someday you'll find it in your heart

To understand
Why I'm not around
And forgive me for not being in your life

I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all
I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Waiting there to find nothing at all

Maybe someday
you'll really get to know me
not just FROM letters read to you
I pray I get the chance
To make it up to you
We got a lot of catching up to do

So I pretend, I'm doing all I can
And hope someday you'll find it in your heart

To understand
Why I'm not around
And forgive me for not being in your life

I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all
I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Waiting there to find nothing at all

Forgive me!
I'm so sorry!
I will make it up to you....

hit by Ataris


Radityo Wahyu Utomo
XII IA 11/26

Narrative story passed on by Mary M. Morgan, former resident of Amesville.

Here is a story Mr. Henry told me.

The two-story store building, next to the post office, is over a hundred years old. It is very tall for a two-story building and has a steep, peaked slate roof. Slate is very heavy, very strong and protects the building from rain and wind. It probably accounts for why the old building is still standing strong.

Long ago, before automobiles had been invented people came to town to shop or go to the bank or post office in buggies or wagons drawn by horses. The horses had to be tied to a hitching post so that they didn't wander around while their owner shopped. A long hitching post and rail was built along side the street next to the long side of the store building. The buggies and horses were safer there than if they were tied out in front on the main street which was then U. S. 50.

One winter there came a deep snow, maybe as much as 8 or 9 inches. The snow piled up high on the steep roof of all the buildings in town, including the tall store. People needed to shop or go to the bank but horses could come through snow even that deep. Several wagons parked alongside the hitching post and the horses were tied to the rail waiting there for their owners to return. It had turned quite warm, the sun had come out. Heat from inside the store and the sun on the outside heated up the slates on the roof and melted the underside of the snow. Then, all of a sudden, all the roof snow slid off the slates, just like an avalanche, and dropped down right on top of the horses tied to the hitching rail. Snow can be very heavy and there was lots of snow on that roof. It was a terrible accident. All of the horses were frightened. They tried to break free. Two of the horses were killed, several of them were knocked down and some had legs broken. The buggies were badly crushed. People came running to help free the horses and treat them if they could. The accident story was soon in the newspaper. People quickly learned not to ever tie their horses to the hitching rail next to the tall building if it had snowed and it was still on the store roof.

The second story of the store was built to be a large lodge hall. For years there was a KP painted on the front denoting Knights of Pythias Hall (Now there's a good story--Damon and Pythias). Amesville had three lodge halls where people, mostly men, most of the time, could get together to learn, to socialize, to discuss issues of the day and to promote the welfare of the community--BEFORE RADIO, before television. A far greater sense of community than exists now.

Doing the family laundry was once an all day, once a week job. To dry the clothes, they were hung with clothespins outdoors on lines for the sun and wind to take out the water. Women took great pride in keeping their homes, their children and their clothes clean. A line full of clean, sparkling clothes was evidence of a good housekeeper, homemaker living there. Washday on Monday was so traditional it became enshrined even in nursery rhymes. Some people made judgments about a woman's skill in housekeeping by what they saw on the clothesline and getting the clothes out early in the morning earned high praise.

The homemaker who lived at ??? Harrison Drive took every opportunity to boast of "having my wash hanging out on the line before any other woman in Amesville". People were mystified how she could get the wash water heated on the stove, collect the clothes, wash and rinse them and get them out almost at daybreak. And then, quite by accident someone visited her on Sunday evening and discovered that she had taken one load of clothes and dipped them into a bucket of water to have them "wet" to hang out at day break--but they hadn't been "washed" at all. Later in the morning she would take them down and really wash them and hang them to dry a second time. And of course this story quickly made the rounds in Amesville and later, after her death, it became a way of describing a rushed, half-done job, "like Mrs. Crawford's early wash."

Behind the big store building was a small, one-story building with very thick walls and a very thick door. It was the Amesville Ice House. Manufactured ice would be brought by wagon and then by truck from the "ice factory” in Glouster and be stored in the Amesville ice house. The sawdust insulation between the double walls did such a good job the ice could last as long as two weeks, even in summer. People would come and buy 25 or 50 pounds to take home to their ice boxes. The engineer of the train that ran through Amesville would blow the whistle as it came down the valley in time for the store owner to load a 100 pound block of ice onto a little wagon and take it to the train station just as the train pulled in. It was a standing order. It was never explained to me why the train didn't take on ice in Glouster where the ice factory was--perhaps that train didn't come from Glouster?

Affluent people who lived in the country usually had a pond from which they "cut ice" in the winter time and stored it in their own ice house. But most people depended on the factory ice, available 12 months of the year from the little Amesville ice house. I tried to save the building. I thought it was historic but the floor had rotted out and it had been used for junk storage. I couldn't get anybody else interested in saving that little building that I thought children should know about. Ice was so important in lowering fevers and keeping milk and meat from spoiling. It was almost NEVER put in a glass of drinking water. The only thing I could save were the giant hinges that supported the very heavy, thick door. The hinges are on the gate in the privacy fence that I had put at the west side of my house on Harrison Street.

SEKAR CATLLEYA

XII IA 11/32

description text

The United States of America is where the Venus’s fly trap has its origins. The Venus’s fly trap is a unique plant. It belongs to a group of plants called ‘carnivorous plants’. These plants feed on insect. The Venus’s fly trap has a special mechanism by which it traps its prey. This is how it works.

At the end of each leaf – which grows from the base of a long, flowering stalk – there is a trap. The trap is made up of two lobes and is covered with short, reddish hairs which are sensitive. There are teeth like structures around the edge of the lobes.

The trap contains nectar which attracts insect. When an insect comes in contact with the nectar, the trap snaps shut. There are certain digestive juice inside the trap which digest the insect. It takes about ten days for a trapped insect to be digested. We can tell when this digestion is complete, for then the walls automatically open to wait for another victim.

There are two hundred species of carnivorous plants. Another kind of these well- known species is the pitcher plant. What differentiates this plant from the Venus’s fly trap is the shape; the mechanism to catch insects is the same in both plants.

The pitcher plants which cling to other plants by means of tendrils. At one end of the tendril, there is a pitcher –shaped vessel with an open lid. The mouth and the lid of the pitcher contain glands which produce nectar to attract insect. When an insect settles on the nectar, the lid of the pitcher shuts, trapping its victim. The digestive juices inside the pitcher then begin to work.

sekar catlleya
XII IA 11/32

Cinderella

CINDERELLA
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.

Riana Cahya N
XII IA 11 / 28

explanation text

EARTHQUAKE

How Earthquakes Happen
Earthquake is one of the most destroying natural disasters. Unluckily it often happens in several regions. Recently a horrible earthquake has shaken West Sumatra. It has brought great damages. Why did it occur? Do you know how an earthquake happens?

Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves. It make the ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are rubbing against each other, they stick a little. They don't just slide smoothly. The rocks are still pushing against each other, but not moving. After a while, the rocks break because of all the pressure that's built up. When the rocks break, the earthquake occurs.

During the earthquake and afterward, the plates or blocks of rock start moving, and they continue to move until they get stuck again. The spot underground where the rock breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right above the focus is called the epicenter of the earthquake.

Riana Cahya N
12 IPA 11/28

A song that can make you smile a bit ;)

When you had a problem, when you had a brokenheart, or anything that makes you down, just listen to this great song. It has a simple lyric, yet it can make you smile, it can show you that there is a tiny hope in every bad things :)

Stop Crying Your Heart Out

Hold up, hold on.
Don't be scared. You'll never change what's been and gone.

May your smile, shine on.
Your destiny may keep you warm.

Because all of the stars are faded away
Just try not to worry, you'll see them someday
Take what you need and be on your way
And stop crying your heart out.

Get up, come on.
Why you're scared?
You'll never change what's been and gone.

We're all of the stars
We're fading away
Just try not to worry, you'll see us someday
Take what you need, we'll be on your way
And stop crying your heart out.

Stop crying your heart out

performed by Oasis

Noviyani Dwi Wulandari
XII IPA 11-22