Jumat, 11 Juni 2010

Alangkah Lucunya Kampung Halamanku

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Banyak kejadian dan pemberitaan yang menghebohkan yang terjadi belakangan ini di Indonesia kita yang tercinta, ada dana aspirasi, video panas mirip artis, dan Piala Dunia. Tapi di balik hingar-bingar berita besar itu, ada juga berita miris atau lebih kasarnya "MEMALUKAN" yang datang dari Pilkada Kabupaten Soppeng. Enam dari Tujuh cawabup yang maju di Pilkada Soppeng tidak hafal Pancasila. Fakta itu terungkap saat debat terbuka hari terakhir di gedung Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia (KONI) Watansoppeng kemarin.

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Senin, 07 Juni 2010

The Tudor Age (Population Changes)

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The most potent forces within Tudor England were often social, economic, and demographic ones. Thus if the period became a golden age, it was primarily because of the considerable growth in population that occurred between 1500 and the death of Elizabeth I did not so dangerously exceed the capacity of the available resources, particularly food supplies, as to precipitate a Malthusian crisis. Famine and disease unquestionably disrupted and disturbed the Tudor economy, but they did not raze it to its foundations, as in the fourteenth century. More positively, the increased manpower and demand that sprang from rising population stimulated economic growth and the commercialization of agriculture, encouraged trade and urban renewal, inspired a housing revolution, enhanced the sophistication of English manner, especially in London, and (more arguably) bolstered new and exciting attitudes among Tudor Englishmen, notably individualistic ones derived from reformation ideals and Calvinist theology.

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