Descriptive essay

TYPEWRITER
Typewriter is the basic of all writing machine, which has box shaped and at an angle at the front side. It is usually made from wood, steel or plastic. Since this machine was invented and patented in 1714 by British inventor Henry Mill, it became very popular and played a central role in journalism until late 20th century. Later, at the year 1868, three American inventors Christopher Lathan Scholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule developed and patented the later version of this writing machine. The former American gun company, Remington, become the first and the famous company to produce the typewriter. Typewriter has three main parts attached in its body. Those parts are a carriage or a large roller, a keyboard, and angled type holding rods arranged in a semicircle. Now, let’s examine each part of the typewriter.
The first part of the typewriter is a carriage or a large roller as the place of the paper. Carriage also attached by many parts, and they work together during the typing process. The carriage is made from 2 cylinders, a big rubber platen cylinder and a small platen cylinder. When a paper rolled in through the carriage, this smaller cylinder will roll the paper upward, and helps the paper to move along the bigger cylinder. Then the bigger cylinder will hold the firmly. The bigger cylinder also decreases the impact of the rods when it struck the paper, as it is coated with rubber. During the typing process, the carriage will move on a rail from right to left with speed 1 space each time the keyboard pushed. On the top left of the carriage, there is a lever, to bring back the carriage to the right, as well as to move the paper 1 space up. In front of the carriage, there is a type guide. When typing, the type guide will move up and down, to adjust the ink ribbon it holds. The ink ribbon is rolled from the ribbon spool at the left side of the typewriter body to the ribbon spool on the other side. On the left side of the body, there is a ribbon reverse button, to roll back the ink ribbon.

The second part of the typewriter is the angled type-holding rods, which made from thick plates, arranged in a semicircle. Its position is between the carriage and the keyboard, in the body of the typewriter. On the top of every rod, it contains two letters, the capital letter on the top and small case on the bottom. The rods were adjusted to type the small case first. To type the upper case or capital letters, typist needs to push the shift key. This key will bring all of the rods down, in order to make the capital letter typed on the paper. There is a gear attached the bottom of every rod, hidden behind the rod. This gear becomes the linkage between the keyboard and the rods. Under each button of the keyboard, there is a long, small, tiny plate. It is placed horizontally from under the button until under the rod. At the end of the plate, there is a gear in a vertical position. Those two gears are connected each other. When the button is pushed, it lifts up the plate under the button. The gear at the end of the plate as well as the gear under the rod move up, and pushed the rod to the front, to hit the paper. This geared linkage was introduced by Wellington P. Kidder in 1891 on his Franklin typewriter and commonly used in every typewriter.
The last part is the keyboard, placed in the very front of the body, at the angle side, in front of the rods. The keys will be seen as a group of small circles, with has diameter about 2 cm of each keys. There is an exception for the space bar. This key has is a long four square shape, about 15 cm in length. All of those keys are usually made from plastic. Viewed from the front, the keys of the keyboard arranged like a stair, which have 5 steps. Unlike the keys in the computer keyboard, these keys are tough keys. Why? Because when typing, typist has to press the keys a bit harder, so it can push the rod behind the keyboard. That also makes the space of the keys between one to another quite wide. The arrangement of the letter in the typewriter keys at first was arranged alphabetically. Later, Christopher Sholes developed another keyboard layout in the 1870s, known as “QWERTY.” This layout, which is still standard for keyboards today, is so called because the letters Q, W, E, R, T, and Y appear in succession near the upper-left-hand corner of the keyboard. The keys for the letters that most often appear in combination in the English language are located far apart. The early typewriter also typed only capital letters. In 1878 Sholes solved this problem as well by adding a shift key.
Although many people regarded that typewriter is worse with the recent writing machine, i.e. computer, but this machine is still very useful. Some people in some place in the world still using typewriter and feel more comfortable to use it rather than computer. Further, this machine will be better than computer in the place where there is no electricity.

Narrative essay

THE MEANING OF THE DREAM

The man stood alone in the park. He looked around the park. It was a very beautiful park. There were so many flowers, with various colours. He was very happy in that park. A moment later, a butterfly crossed him. He starred at that butterfly. He wanted to catch the butterfly, but he couldn’t. The butterfly fled high into the bushes. The man followed it and went into the bushes. The man didn’t know, that there are hyena, waited for him in it. As the man got into the bushes, those hyenas appeared and surrounded the man. They directly bit and tore him out. The man couldn’t run. He screamed and screamed loudly...

It supposed to be a half hour later for the alarm sound to wake the man up every morning. However, this morning, he awaked earlier, in a sudden. He were sweating and breathing so fast. His wife, astounding of the sudden move of himself, quickly asked him, “What’s the matter? You got a bad dream?” “Yes,” the man replied. “It was a very-very bad dream”. The man then told his wife about his dream. “Just calm down, will you? It just a dream,” said his wife, while she cleaned her husband sweat at his head. “Just forget it!” The wife looked at the clock beside her bed. “Oh, it’s already 6 o clock. Why don’t you wake up and go to take a bath now. I will prepare a breakfast for you and the kids now.” The girl kissed the man, and rose up from the bed after his husband. The man went to the bathroom, and the wife went to the kitchen.

It was winter. Outside, the wind blew hard, and the snow fell down from the sky. Inside a big house in the suburban area, in its large bathroom at the second floor, the man turned on the hot water tap. It made quite a noisy. It did not take a long time for him to finish his bath. So then, he went out from the bathtub, directly into the front of the mirror at the washstand. He took his shaving cream and his shaver, and he begun to cut his beard. When he finished his shaving, he washed his face again, put out his shaver, and starred at the mirror.

The mirror gave a reflection of a white man, with height around 175 cm man. The face is long, with a pair of black eyes, and short blonde hair. To that reflection, the man talked then. “So, here I am. 32 years old. A director of a successful real estate company. I’ve been married for 5 years with a wonderful girl, and we both have two kids. But why, after those long years, I have such kind of bad dream this morning? What will happen? Gosh... I wish I know the answer...” Although he stared at the mirror quite long, it didn’t give him the answers of the man’s questions. Therefore, he went out from the bathroom.

Right after he went out from the bathroom, her wife shouted to him. “Honey... Come down here... The breakfast is ready.” The man went to a big shining closet at the corner of the room to wear his clothes. As he opened it, many luxurious and expensive clothes hanged. Each tuxedo waited for the man to wear and take it outside that closet. It was a rare opportunity for those clothes to come out. This morning, he picked up his first tuxedo, which he bought from 6 months of his first salaries as a low rank employee at the company he worked just now. Its colour was brown. He loved it so much. “Wow, I didn’t realize that you’re a very good clothes. You’re still shining. I guess, I’m going to wear you this morning, cause I don’t know when will I have the chance to wear you again,” the man said to his beloved clothes. He took it and wore it. After 15 minutes, he went down to the kitchen.

The wife was putting the breakfast on the table when the man entered the kitchen. She was very surprised and very curious, when she saw her husband wore his beloved clothes. Then she asked her. “Do you have a special event today?”

“No,” the man replied.

“So then why you are wearing your beloved clothes today?” asked the wife again.

“I don’t know. I just want to wear it. Is there any problem with that, honey?” said the man. He walked in and dragged a chair in the big round table in the middle of the kitchen to sit there. He then quickly finished his breakfast and left his wife.

”I’ll go now. Take a good care for the kids when I am not at home, will you?” said the man.

“Honey, you’ll only go to office now, aren’t you? Why did you say such a thing? His wife asked the man, with a little curiosity.

“Nothing,” he said. “Bye honey. I love forever.” He kissed his wife, and left her.

The man went to the garage. He wanted to take his car. As he opened the garage’s door, he saw a strange view. A snake, which he would never think would show up in that place, was in front of him now. The snake starred at him, and lifted up it body and hissing to the man. “Oh my God.” He screamed. “How on earth a snake like you can be here?” He paralyzed, and kept starring at the snake. The man took a long stick to ride the snake out of there. The snake was very angry, and kept hissing, to both the man and the stick. After a while, the man could get the snake out of his way. Quickly he went to his car, turned it on, and left that place.

He was late to arrive at his office. The clock showed that it was already 10 AM. His secretary welcomed and greeted him. The man entered his office with his secretary. She told the man about his schedule for the day. The man, whose mind was thinking of the two previous events, cancelled his entire schedule. He told his secretary to leave him. He still felt scared. He laid himself at the couch in his room, to make himself calm. Slowly, he was able to calm himself down and he fell asleep. Again, he had the same dream with the previous one. He woke up later, sweating and breathing so fast.

The man was confused. He was very angry and he could not calm down. After thinking for a moment, he decided to leave his office. He wanted to go to the bar, to have some drink. He took his bag, and went out from his office. He went to the parking area, on the basement of the building.

At the parking area, he directly went to his car. He got in to the car. He turned the car on, and left the parking area. At the parking area door, a girl suddenly crossed the road. The man was surprised, and hit the brake. But the girl had fell on the ground. Quickly the man went out the car. The man approached the girl.

“Are you all right?” asked the man when he approached the girl. “My legs are hurts. But I still can move,” said the girl. “Let me take you to the hospital.” said the man. “No, it’s okay” said the girl, while she was trying to stand up. “Come on. You have to see the doctor!” the man tried to stop her when she was attempting to stand up. The girl replied, “No, I’m fine.” The man hesitated, “But...”

“Well, if you insist on helping me, why don’t you just take me to my house? My legs aren’t bleeding. I think my legs are only sprained. It will be okay soon. However, I can’t go home by bus now.” the girl told the man. “Are you sure?” asked the man. “Yes, of course....” the girl replied. “All right then...” the man answered.

Therefore, the man helped her to walk into his car. She sat on the front, beside the driver. After the girl sat in the car, the man went into the car too. He turned the car on, and went out from the parking area. The man now changed his direction, not went to his house, but he went to the girl’s house. They have a small talk, while the girl told the man the direction to her house.

After an hour driving while they were talking each other, they arrived at the suburban area. The place was very quiet. The road was very small, only enough for one car. The place surrounded by high trees. Only few house there. The place seemed neglected by the people.

“Are you sure that this is the place?” asked the man. “Yes. That is my house.” She pointed a house at the end of the street. “All right then.” said the man. He continued driving.

Few minutes later, they stopped at the front of the house. The man turned off the car engine. He removed the seatbelt from his body, and then he opened the door. When the man opened the door of the car, suddenly four men appeared. All of them carried a gun. The man could not say a word when one of those people pulled him out. He was thrown into the ground. Those four people shot him, and run away with his car. Blood spread around his body.

“Now I know what that dream mean...” and he closed his eyes.