Inspirational Story

Elephant's Rope

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.



Summary

The story that I've found was talking about an elephant that not getting escape and the elephant is only tied by a rope. Why could this happen? A man came nearly into the elephant and thinking on his mind "but how can a big creature as that is not breaking away? It only tied by a rope!" Then he asked the trainer. Then the trainer told him that since the elephant was very young, the trainer tied a rope at the front legs of the elephant. Then the elephant seems to be believe that after a long time that he tied by a rope since very young, when he grew up the rope is still at his legs. The elephant believe that he cannot breaking a way from it even it is only a rope. The man that asked to the trainer was amazed. Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?
Failure is part of learning, we should never give up the struggle in life. Don't get tired of being trying anything. What you need to do is just keep chasing on what are you going to reach. Don't easily give up on something just because you had failed for one moment. Don't give up because god creates human as the most respected and the smartest thing alive on earth. He gave you brain to think positively. Not to thinking negatively which can make you not improving.

Now You See Me

         Details

         Directed by Louis Leterrier

         Produced by Bobby Cohen

                             Alex Kurtzman

                             Roberto Orci

        Distributed by Summit Entertainment Lionsgate

        Country: United States – French

        Language: English

        Release Date: May 31, 2013 (United States)

                              July 31, 2013 (France)

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas

Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes

Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney

Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves

Dave Franco as Jack Wilder

Mélanie Laurent as Alma Dray

Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley

Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler

Plot

Four gifted street magicians — J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, and Jack Wilder are brought together by an unknown benefactor and one year later, perform in Las Vegas as "The Four Horsemen", sponsored by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. For the finale, a member of the audience is invited to help them in their next trick: robbing a bank. That audience member is Étienne Forcier, an account holder at the Crédit Républicain de Paris. Forcier is apparently teleported to his bank in Paris, where he activates an air-duct that vacuums up the money and showers it onto the crowd in Las Vegas.

Upon discovering that the money really is missing from the bank vault, FBI agent Dylan Rhodes is called to investigate the theft and is partnered with Interpol agent Alma Dray. They interrogate the Four Horsemen but release them when no explanation can be found. Dylan meets Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who makes money by revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks. Thaddeus was in the audience and deduced that the Horsemen replaced the money weeks before and manipulated the audience's perception of current events, the fake money notes in the bank vault at Crédit Républicain having been counterfeited on flash paper.

Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus attend the next performance in New Orleans. The group's finale involves them stealing roughly $140 million from Tressler's bank account and distributing it to the audience, composed of people whose insurance claims had been denied or reduced by Tressler's company. Dylan attempts to arrest the Four Horsemen, but they escape with help from hypnotised audience members. An infuriated Tressler hires Thaddeus to expose and humiliate the Horsemen in their next performance. Later, while researching the Four Horsemen's background, Alma learns about rumors of a secret society of magicians called "The Eye", who steal from the rich and powerful to give to the needy, and suggests to a skeptical Dylan the case might be tied to a magician named Lionel Shrike, whom Thaddeus had exposed 40 years earlier and who was so embarrassed that he undertook a dangerous underwater stunt involving a safe, and accidentally drowned.

The Horsemen are located in New York, but they escape during the raid to arrest them; however, Jack is presumed dead when his car crashes and bursts into flames and explodes. The remaining Horsemen vow to continue and complete their final performance, stealing a safe made by the same company that made the safe Lionel Shrike died in. They perform their one last show at 5 Pointz during which they seemingly vanish into thin air, transforming into loads of money that is showered on the crowd. The money turns out to be a forgery and the real money is found stashed in Thaddeus's Range Rover. Thaddeus is then assumed to be the fifth Horseman and is arrested, although he claims that he was framed.

Dylan visits Thaddeus in his cell, where Thaddeus explains that the only way the safe could have been removed was if Jack was still alive, but they would have also needed an inside man. Thaddeus realizes that Dylan is the fifth Horseman when Dylan disappears from the locked cell and reappears outside it. Dylan tells Thaddeus he wants him to spend the rest of his life in jail and leaves as Thaddeus asks why he did it. The Horsemen are now rejoined by Jack, whose death had been staged. They finally meet their benefactor and are surprised to find it is Dylan. He welcomes them into "The Eye".

Later, on the Pont des Arts in France, Alma is met by Dylan who reveals himself to be the son of Lionel Shrike, the magician who drowned years ago. He masterminded and designed the Horsemen plot to obtain revenge on those involved: Thaddeus, for humiliating his father; the Crédit Républicain de Paris and Tressler's company, who refused to pay the insurance on his father's death; and the company that produced the substandard safe used in the trick that led to its failure. Alma, however, decides not to turn him in. Alma takes a lock and a key that Dylan magically produces as he proclaims, "One more secret to lock away." After Alma locks the lock on a chain fence with all of the locks that have been locked there over the years, she throws the key into the Seine.

After the beginning of the credits roll in, it is seen that the Four Horsemen have driven to a wasteland in the middle of a desert. All of them enter and find a secret room containing boxes full of their new magic equipment. They turn to Merritt and ask him for his individual card to open the boxes, and to his surprise he finds it in his back pocket. This is not present in the DVD version.

Gerund and Infinitive

Gerund
1. He started working two days ago.
2. They stopped calling us cowards.
3. I finished playing that game since yesterday.
4. She suggested not to walking around that area.
5. They keep on swimming.
6. He started doing his homework.
7. She mentioned staying up late.
8. Anggun suggested not to playing outside.
9. They finished their job on Tuesday.
10. The waiter finished doing his job.

Infinitive
1. She promised to do my job.
2. They decided to buy that car.
3. He agreed to come with you.
4. That woman offered to buy her property.
5. He asked me to leave his house.
6. She decided to stay in the car.
7. They started to learn how to play football.
8. She waited to be seated.
9. He promised to come to my party.
10. They agreed to seat at the front.

Natural Phenomenon

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated—that is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides suitable conditions for many types of ecosystem, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation.

The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as cumulonimbus (thunder clouds) which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation which forces moist air to condense and fall out as rainfall along the sides of mountains. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to the dry air caused by downslope flow which causes heating and drying of the air mass. The movement of the monsoon trough, or intertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes.

The urban heat island effect leads to increased rainfall, both in amounts and intensity, downwind of cities. Global warming is also causing changes in the precipitation pattern globally, including wetter conditions across eastern North America and drier conditions in the tropics. Antarctica is the driest continent. The globally averaged annual precipitation over land is 715 mm (28.1 in), but over the whole Earth it is much higher at 990 mm (39 in). Climate classification systems such as the Köppen climate classification system use average annual rainfall to help differentiate between differing climate regimes. Rainfall is measured using rain gauges. Rainfall amounts can be estimated by weather radar.

Rain is also known or suspected on other planets, where it may be composed of methane, neon, sulfuric acid or even iron rather than water.

How does Rain Happen?

Rain is the primary source of fresh water for most areas of the world, providing suitable conditions for diverse ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation.

The phenomenon of rain is actually a water circle. The concept of the water cycle involves the sun heating the Earth's surface water and causing the surface water to evaporate. The water vapor rises into the Earth's atmosphere. The water in the atmosphere cools and condenses into liquid droplets. The droplets grow until they are heavy and fall to the earth as precipitation which can be in the form of rain or snow.

However, not all rain reaches the surface. Some evaporates while falling through dry air. This is called virga, a phenomenon which is often seen in hot, dry desert regions.

Rain Advantage:

• Rain can make the plant growing faster
• Rain can make the supply of farmer's increase
• Rain can provides drinking water
• Rain will washes the dust on the ground and dirt
• Rain will clean the air

Rain Disadvantage:

• Rain will causes flood
• Rain probably will make people unemployed in a certain times
• Rain can cause erosion
• Rain can breeds mosquitos nests

Holiday!

In this holiday, I thank to Allah to give me a chance to go to baitullah, Mecca and Medina at Saudi Arabia. I went there with my family which consist of my mother, my father, my brothers and my sister. A day before my departure, I had a problem with my visa. My visa was taken by other person. I think that was a big trouble for me to depart to Mecca and I felt shock and panic. It makes me panic because in the next day I must go to Mecca by my self. While my family went there a day before i depart. I prayed and beg to Allah so I can do the umroh with my family. At the afternoon, I got some emails from the travel agent which tells me a good news. The good news is on that day the aircraft that my family will ride is at its bad condition. Then I conclude that my family will depart to Mecca at the same day with me departure. It's on the same day but with a different aircraft. I cannot believe this was happened to me. I'm very thankful to Allah the most gracious and the most merciful. It makes me so happy and it was unexpected. I also thankful to Allah the most to make me did the umroh together with my family. This is one of my favorite holiday. It's very impressing me. I will never forget this moment. :)