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Raya Advertisement: Janda 7 Anak dan Lembu Raya

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  Every year, there is a festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide because it marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. This Raya advertisement is one of my favorites because it has a lot of values for family relationships. The ad is about a widow who gave birth to seven children. Seven brothers scramble to find the meat, spleen, and beef liver their mother ordered because her sons had forgotten to purchase them. They returned home with a cow to be butchered. The advertisement above shows one of the situations when Eid al-Fitr is approaching. The following are the important implicit contents that I can describe: Firstly, family values are something that we get from our parents in the form of love, care, trust, honesty, kindness, empathy, compassion, perseverance, and many more. They instill these values in us, knowingly or unknowingly, to make us good human beings. No matter what happens, they will stay together through the thunder and storm. ...

Movie Review: Top Gun: MAVERICK

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  Top gun: Maverick is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer as well as, the lead actor of this movie, Tom Cruise and it was directed by Joseph Kosinski known for his computer graphics and computer-generated imagery (CGI). The lead actor in this movie is Tom Cruise, who starred as the naval aviator Maverick. The film was released on May 27, 2022, with advance screening starting the day before. Originally it was planned to be released on July 12, 2019, but was delayed to June 26, 2020, to shoot several complex action scenes. It was moved on again on December 23, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As the time is extended the movie date was fulfilled in May 2022.   Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell graduated from Top Gun, United States Navy Captain for more than 30 years as a test pilot. Maverick was assigned to fly the prototype to the speed objective but then he pushed further to the exceeded limit, and it destroyed the plane. Maverick was sent to NAS North Island as a TOPGUN unde...

Book Review: Does My Head Look Big in This?

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  Does my head look big in this? - Randa Abdel-Fattah   Does My Head Look Big in This is a novel and was written by Randa Abdel-Fattah. It was released in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia on August 1, 2005. This book also won the Australian Book Industry Award and the Australian Book of The Year Award for older children. This book tells a story of a Muslim-American teenage girl, Amal Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim, a 16 years old girl who made the decision to start wearing a hijab (religious veil) as a representation of her Muslim faith. This novel also includes the reactions and repercussions that stem from her decision. Because of what she is going through, her parents and friends are constantly there for her in various ways.   This book tells a story about Islamophobic sentiment and ends with a profound conclusion. The book is very explicit in its handling of stereotypes and Islamophobia. “Does My Head Look Big in This” is such a straightforward teenage drama....

Music Review : Lily by Alan Walker, Emilie Hollow, and K-391

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  LILY BY ALAN WALKER, EMILIE HOLLOW, AND K-391 Do you guys realize that each perspective on Alan Walker’s song Lily has a unique interpretation? Let me inform you that Alan Walker is a British-Norwegian music producer also known as DJ Walkzz. He had no intention of making music when he began doing so, he was motivated by a passion that led him to compute graphical design and musical programming. He also teaches himself by watching YouTube tutorials based on a musical production.  He started to act in producing a song on the year 2012 until now. In July 2012, his fans got his back when he began to pursue his music production career and slowly began posting his music to YouTube and SoundCloud. He starts as a bedroom producer but now he is better known as DJ Walkzz before signed a record deal and released his debut single in 2014. Walkers YouTube became the most subscribed channel registered in Norway because it exceedingly roughly 4.5 million subscribers. On January 25, 2020, W...

Product: Spotify or YouTube Music

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SPOTIFY OR YOUTUBE MUSIC    Youtube Music and Spotify continue to be well-known brands with enormous influence and a staggering user base, despite the saturation of the music streaming market. While it could be challenging for some to choose between the two given their similar-looking traits. What are the specific comparisons between these two titans? Which one will best suit your listening style? Swedish businessmen Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon are the creators of Spotify. The app made its debut in Europe in 2008, and once it attracted its first million subscribers in 2011, it swiftly gained popularity. It's one of the most widely used music streaming services right now. There's a music streaming service called Youtube Music was created by Google's Youtube division. It was initially introduced as Youtube Music Key in 2014 with the intention of serving as an alternative video streaming platform to the now-defunct Google Play Music. The application underwent a few brand...

Poster: Barack Obama 'Hope' poster (2008)

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BARACK OBAMA 'HOPE' POSTER (2008)    Barack Hussein Obama known as Barack Obama was a president who served country 44th in the United States along with Joe Biden. He was born on August 4, 1961. He worked as a civil rights lawyer before he joined politics. He served in the United States for 8years. Starting from January 20, 2009, until January 20, 2017. He studied at Occidental College Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts and Harvard Law with Juris Doctor. In 2008, Shepard Fairey is American artist designed a poster for Barack Obama and represent Barack Obama in his presidential campaign it is a stylized stencil portrait of Obama in the color of solid red, beige, and light blue accompanied by the word HOPE. As well as, the color represents the United States. In the first place, the words PROGRESS and CHANGED have also been used on some posters. Nevertheless, HOPE became the most famous and well-known poster. Fairey used references to picture Barack Obama from a 200...

Movie Review : The Sea Beast (2022)

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  THE SEA BEAST (2022)  Have you ever seen a big monster and there are two humans in front of it? Not yet? Let me introduce it to you. It is called The Sea Beast. The Sea Beast was directed by Chris Williams and co-writer Nell Benjamin and was released on Netflix on June 24, 2022, in theatres and on July 8, 2022.  This movie is a Netflix original animated film by directors of Disney’s Moana. This film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards and 4 awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature at the 21st Visual Effects Society Awards. It follows much the same thread as How to Train Your Dragon, but it is written in a unique way.  This fantasy epic is about Maisie Bumble, a young British girl of color (voiced by Zaris-Angel Hator), who stows away on a ship to find adventure hunting sea beasts. For a decade, Captain Augustus Crow III (voiced by Jarred Harris) continues the legendary of capturing the sea beasts with a ship ...