Review Text

Rhymes of the Times 

By: Harold Matthew Nash 

 

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Publisher: Booksurge

Reviewed by: John Lehman

   

I particularly liked the first few pages of this book where the poet acknowledges those who have helped him and tells us something about his life. Too often writing is a lonely task and poetry so personal that it excludes others until they read the final result. But both poets and audiences are intimately involved in the process. Readers are not consumers looking for a pair of shoes, but people trying to discover something about how they feel, as well as understand the emotions of the person writing the poem. This spirit of openness and participation is right here from the start in this collection. 

Harold is one of nine children, raised by his mother. In the Introduction he tells us about public moments that have shaped his life (Martin Luther King’s ”I Have a Dream” speech, Muhammad Ali’s “I can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.”) as well as very private ones like attending the wedding of a girl he was still very much in love with. This not only gives us an insight into the person behind these poems, it helps us understand their inspiration and connection to things outside of the words. “The Bee in the Web” draws on the “butterfly”/”bee” of Ali’s boast, yet expands on it to a message of racial harmony as opposed to one of militant aggression and separatism. 

There are some great titles (“The Martian and the Wino,” “W Stands for Wrong", ”Fasten Your Seatbelt”) and lines that make us think (“Sometimes I feel that life’s a curse, has front-wheel drive and no reverse” and the very poignant “I hate in order to protect yourself—you pack a gun or mace. So why don’t I say what the hell and hate the human race.”) There are also some bad lines: “Her skin is cream, her body is slim. Looking at her makes the average saint sin.”—perhaps, but what or who is “the average saint”? The book ends with a sweet poem by Charla Angeline Hultmann (and I really like the candor of her bio) called “Gift” and “giving” is the real spirit of this book of poetry. 

I will be honest, I am not a fan of rhyme. There is a delight in adjacent sounds rubbing together—vowels held and savored, consonants clicking in a row—but “easy” rhymes (“head”/“dead”; “love”/”dove”; “moon”/”prune”) tend to overshadow poetic subtleties, determine word choice and the words themselves lose their meaning, becoming clichés. But this is the music of this poet’s generation, and there is no denying that poetry is more alive, more meaningful and more accessible than it has ever been at any other time during my life. PS I do love the “Osama” “mama” rhyme. In general I think it would benefit Harold Nash’s development to read more of the published contemporary Black poets. 


But form aside, this is an honest (courageous and unflinching) look at life today—one we need to share together for the survival of us all. That is “Rhymes of the Times” message. And it is a good one.

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News Item

The Worst Crash of Aircraft

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Paradise Island, November 10 1989 a terrible crash happened. There were hundreds people killed by that time.

In the first, American Airline was in turbulence condition aggravated with the damage machine, the pilot couldn’t fix till the aircraft out of control.  The aircraft crash in the toll road. In other side, a black car was speeding up in the toll road. Then the collision “boom” happened between American airline and black car that was known as a Chevrolet. The wing and tail section of the plane crashed into pieces while the car badly damage. Blood, tears, fire and smoke mixed in that place, everyone needed help. Fifteen minutes later police and fire brigades helped victims of this terrible crash. There were hundreds people died on the spot include two of four stewardesses. Just seven people were saved. There were five passengers, pilot and co-pilot. The victims and survivors were evacuated and taken to the hospital. This information was reported by David Harts.

Reporters interviewed the saved passengers in the location. One of the saved passengers Albert (28 old) said with tears “I was inside the plane and panic, I don’t know the exactly but it was so fast, then it happened, I lost my friends”. A driver of another car as witness said it was terrible, fire around of the plane and car. The police tried to help the saved and the victims. Many people died, it was terrible accident”. 

Analytical Exposition

Why Stay Up at Midnight is Dangerous ?

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Stay up at midnight is dangerous. As we know, in this era; stay up at midnight is being trend because workers or students usually do that as obligation. People do stay up at midnight because they have limited time to do their work or assignment at noon. Beside of obligation, people should give attention to their body. Stay up at midnight is dangerous not only physically but also mentally.

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Firstly, stay up at midnight, physically; can decrease immune system which is susceptible to disease such as flu, fever, hepatitis, lung infection, and intentional infections. This is happens if body get tired of stay up at midnight. If human lack of sleep because stay up at midnight they will get headache which is can damage brain cells. According to a study conducted by Orfeu Buxton in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital showed that people who sleep less than five hours at night can be at risk for type 2 diabetes. Not only that, people who sleep less than six hours at night can be at risk for heart disease and stroke. Sleep less than six hours can cause inflammation of the arteries that result in the risk of plaque buildup in which the human blood vessels become elevated. This is because it increases the levels of C-creative protein (CPR) in the body.

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Secondly, stay up at midnight, mentally; can decrease hormone melatonin. People who lack of sleeping have hormone melatonin less than people who sleep normally. People sleep deprivation can get interference feeling such as anxious, angry, tired, etc. People who stay up at midnight will get mental disorders, if they do stay up at midnight sustainable. Also, stay up at midnight can be dangerous because make people have a nervous breakdown function. And the last can decrease stressed for people.

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In conclusion stay up at midnight is dangerous for human not only for body but also for mental.

 

Explanation Text

How Sneezing Happens?

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Sneezing is the discharge of autonomous semi air that happens through the nose and the mouth. When human sneezing, the discharge of the air can reach speeds of 70 m/s (250 km/h) which the air exit so hard and fast. 

The reasons why sneezing happens to the human are influenza or the cold temperature, but not only that, because of allergic can make someone sneezing too. Sneezing can spread the disease through infected water grains that are between 0.5 and 5 μm in diameter. Approximately 40,000 such water grains can be produced in a single sneeze. Sneezing is an adjustment reaction because it excludes snot that contains foreign particles or disturbances and cleans the nasal cavities. When sneezing, the upper of the mouth ("palate") is soft and the uvula is slim while the back of the tongue rises to close part of the route to the mouth so that air removed from the lungs can be removed through the nose. It is possible that the air exits through the mouth, if the sneezing or the pressure is strong and the mouth can holding on.

This is how sneezing is happened to the human and it is the natural phenomenon to the human.

Procedure Text

How to Withdraw Money from ATM

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Goal                       : To Withdraw Money from ATM

Material                 : ATM card 

Steps                      :

1.  First, go to the ATM that near to your place.

2.  Second, insert the ATM card to the Automatic Teller Machine, wait till the screen show a language choice.

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3.  Third, choose the language. There are English and Indonesia language, it is depend on you, whether you choose English or Indonesia.

4.  Then, choose or push the button that related to the ‘continue’ word.

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5.  Type or click the password number of your ATM Card.

6.  Then, choose the nominal of money that you want to withdraw, for instance 500 thousands rupiah.

7.  Then, take the money that come out from ATM, while the screen show you whether you want to have more transaction or not. If not, choose ‘no’ of more transaction.

 

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8.  Finally, pull your ATM Card from the machine.