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 Raden Adjeng Kartini Raden Adjeng Kartini or Lady Kartini born in Jepara, Central Java on April 21, 1879. Her father is Raden Mas Adipati Ario Sosroningrat and her mother is Ngasirah. Kartini is the fifth child of eleven siblings from her biological mother and also from her stepmother. At that time, polygamy was common practice among nobility. Kartini was born in a family with a strong intellectual tradition. Kartini’s family allowed her to attend school until she was 12 years old. She studied at ELS School (Europese Lagere School). She studied Dutch language, so that she can speak Dutch language quite well. But, by the age 12 she quit school because she had to be secluded “pingit” at home, a rule of Javanese nobility that forbid woman to go outside before marriage. During her “pingit” time, she still tried to study with her own way. With her ability to speak dutch, she gathered several Dutch friends. She read a lot of books, magazines, and European newspaper about European femini...

  Madame Loisel was a pretty girl born into a poor family. She had no expectations  and she felt so trapped by her situation that she married a little clerk in a goverment office. Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to  afford any other, but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her  status; for women have no caste or class, their beauty, grace, and charm serving  them for birth or family. She suffered endlessly, feeling  herself born for every delicacy and luxury. She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its bare  walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains. MONSIEUR LOISEL:  Sweetheart, I have a surprise for you. MADAME LOISEL :  Really, what is the surprise?   MONSIEUR LOISEL:  See for yourself.   (He places the invitation on the table.)  Swiftly she tears open the envelop and draws out a printed card and reads out   "The Minister and Madame Ramponneau request the pleasure of th...

  Hope is something that we want to happen and we work very hard for it to happen. But we are not sure whether it will happen or not and sometimes we can’t do anything about it. Hopes and dreams signal future intentions. My hopes is if Indonesia leaders know how bad corruption is and they will make rules that make corruption stop and my dreams that I will tell to the important person in Indonesia is that one day we will be developed country and no more poverty in this country. M