Alpen-The Ultimate Lookbook

            The movie started with a horse giving a birth to a fowl. It was a great moment so far until they had to sell the fowl to the auction. Ted Narracott, the owner of the fowl didn’t want to sell it to the mayor, the Lyons. Even though Ted Narracott would have to figure out another way to pay for his rent in order for his family to live. So at the end of the auction, he bought his own fowl with 30 guineas. He got home with the fowl and his wife, Rosey, was mad at home for losing 30 guineas instead of getting money to pay for their rent. But instead his son, Albert was so happy because he really fancy the fowl and he promised his mother that he can teach the fowl to plough the land. After a few days, Albert taught him so many things and he finally came up with a name for the fowl, Joey. But soon, the Lyons asked the Narracotts for their money, but then in the moment of desperation, they begged the Lyons to give them more time to complete the money to pay for their rent. Ted was so frustrated that he’d kill his own fowl that he bought for 30 guineas, but then Rosey and Albert stopped him and Rosey stopped him from drinking. The day after that, Albert and Joey have succeeded on doing the land. And soon Albert learned more about his father through Rosey, that his father was a hero, not just for the country, but also for the family and himself, he felt bad for killing people for years and he drank because he wanted to forget about the memory so bad. But the day after that, Albert couldn’t find Joey in the barn, and it was the day when England was preparing for the war. Albert ran long enough to find the fowl and he found him being sold to a person in the military, it was hard for Albert to let him leave at first, but then the person from the military promised that he’d take a good care of him. After a few days, it was the day where the war begun, England wasn’t prepared enough and the person from the military died, leaving Joey, himself running and he get caught by the Germans, rivals of the English people.

            The movie has taught me for showing more empathy, the Lyons might not be the best people, but they gave the Narracotts more time to pay for their rent. The movie gave a good a outline of friendship, Albert couldn’t let Joey go at first and real friends wouldn’t let each other go after what they’ve been through, the movie also taught me to not give up at any circumstances, just like when Albert kept on cheering for Joey and he kept on doing the land until he hurt his legs. There were so many scenes that taught me for being loyal. Like when Rosey told Ted that she could hate him, but then she couldn’t love him less, that means she’s accepting him in any ways, even though they don’t have any more money and Ted is stubborn and a drinker. Albert also promised Joey that he’d look after him after the war has ended. The movie also taught me about trust. Albert trusted Joey so much that he thought that Joey can help his family with paying the rent, it doesn’t mean that he’s not thinking logically, but he thinks positively, but yet logical.  

Today is such a blessed day. I thought I was going to get the lowest score, but then because God is too nice to me, that He let me to have a better score than what I was expected. And thanks to Ms. H, I'm sure she have wasted so many hours of her life just to shape up our future. Also, to Ms. Clegg, who was very nice to come to our class and to mark our grades, giving higher score than we deserved. Ms. H have taught us a lot of things, I know now how to write my Argumentative essay properly, I know now that we should be putting our thesis statement at the end of the first paragraph. To also write the background, putting them in structure. I also learned to do more research than just a regular research, let the readers know about the things that they don't generally know about. As people said nowadays, like it or not, people will look at you from your appearance, because visualization is the first thing they do towards you, then you're gonna shake their hands and talk. So in an argumentative essay, it's also important to pick the perfect title. Last but not least, she also taught us to be hardworking in everything, discipline and also many things I can't explain, unless I want to spend another minute of your life. No, make worth of it. That's what Ms. H also taught me indirectly. 

    The debate made me feel like I’m in a battle, that I have to give all I have to get a good score at least. I felt my throat was drying, like there wasn’t single drop of water in my mouth, I just kept on talking every time ideas blinking in my mind. I had so many “What Ifs” before the debate assessment, that one thing that I was so afraid of is to not be able to remember any single word once I sit on that chair. I regret for not mentioning some points out. But I was relieved when it all ends, I could finally breathe again and keep the water flowing in my mouth, again. After looking at the score, I wasn’t so happy, but then I thought myself, this isn’t so bad after all. The most important thing is to learn, if we keep doing the same mistake again and again, then it’s bad.

       

In this case, Dani should be more responsible for taking care of his children because his youngest son, Dul, have killed 7 people and injured others in a car accident at thirteen years old. Dani was actually aware that Dul drives sometimes.  Dani should’ve not allowed him to drive because Dul is not emotionally stable yet at 13. And according to the Stanford studies, it is clearly stated that, “As people age, they’re more emotionally stable and are better in the ability of solving highly emotional problems”. It means that when you get older, you’ve learned from your mistakes everyday, and when it comes to solving problems in the future, you will know what to do because you have learned from a certain situation that have happened in the past. For example, you feel that a car is about pass in front of you, so when you have learned and applied your driving skills everyday, you will know what to do, you’re going to use your reflex to stop the car.

Usually, a certain behavior of a child is affected by their parents’, this is because most children looks up to their parents; they want to be like them in the future so they start acting like them and also raising their future children with the same way that their parents are treating them in the present. According to a psychology book that is written by Sigmund Freud, it is stated that a child’s future behavior is determined by the way he was treated in his 4 – 6 year of age. And let’s go back to Dani and Maya, Dul’s parents who are now divorced, relationship. Dani and Maia got divorced in 2006 because of Dani’s love affair with Mulan, Maia’s duo that tore the marriage apart.

While another argument against this stated that the toll person should have noticed that the car was drove by a thirteen-year-old. However, nowadays most teenagers look like they’re two or three years older than they actually are, so the toll person could not differentiate the difference between teenagers and an adult. And it was not the toll person’s fault because he wad busy to take care of other cars that are behind him, so he didn’t have the time to take his phone out and call the police.

According to these arguments, Dani is still responsible for Dul’s action for letting his underage son drive. He should also control his behaviors because his children look up to him and that he should pay more attention to his children in the future.

            

         Do uniforms make any better? Personally, I don’t think it does. I am against wearing a school uniform in Sekolah Victory Plus. There are many pros and cons about using a uniform. When we face other opinions that doesn’t matches ours, we tend to think, “But it’s not logical, it will always be like..”. And that is how our brain works. At first, we don’t understand why would someone have his way of thinking, but when we learn about him, we understand; we might also have the same way of thinking.

            First of all, I think not wearing a school uniform might be a good idea, because we can express our identity, because I think, usually if you have the same kind of clothes as someone, that person could possibly have the same interest as yours, because in my opinion, you are what you have. From the past 14 years, I haven’t seemed to find someone with a sophisticated look, with a soul that is rebellious. They tend to be quiet, classy and fabulous.

But Velda, what if it’s inappropriate, surely the head of school would disagree, but I think, teenagers would be happy to know that they got to wear free clothes with rules than having a uniform with no rules. Because some people dislike the way their uniform look, they will push the boundaries, they would pull up their skirts so people can see their thighs, they would unbutton some buttons to create a V-neck collar and I think it’s such a disrespectful attitude to use uniform with other usage, uniforms are supposed to be tidy and clean, but some people use it as an inappropriate kind of way. It would embarrass the school’s name and our name. But if we use our own clothes, they’d just see us, and if it were the way we dress, it’d be fine because it’d our fault either way, because we it’s our decision.

            Second of all, it’s about equality. Blazer, white shirt, cottoned shirt, a vest. What’s the first thing that comes into your mind? Luxury clothes from an expensive school with high education of English and western students. Blue skirt with rough fabric and a white shirt. What’s the first thing that comes into your mind? National school and local students. I believe that human will never be satisfied, ever. They will always see what’s above them, and they have a will to be “it”. But again, what if the school would implement a rule to not have a brand name on their clothing? So that means no “Love Pink” shirt, no this “Check” Nike and etc.

            There are still a lot of pros and cons that I would like to talk about, but the time is right behind me and it will catch me any minute. But from these paragraphs, we can conclude that Uniforms are not going to make any better because of equality and inappropriate ways of using uniforms. But I think, what’s even better is to combine the school uniform with free clothes. With one condition, plaid and patterns are a “No, No” since they’re not going to be able to match with other patterns if we happen to wear a clothing with another clothing with a pattern on it. So it should be bold and black, white or brown, because they’re the basic colors that will match any patterns and any colors. I really appreciate for the one who took their time on reading my boring essay. I really hope that you will have a great year. Because “a day” is too mainstream.

Thank you for spending 6 minutes and 23 seconds of your life.