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Nelson Mandela: A Forgiving Father

By : Raditya Putranti Darningtyas             The world sees him as a ‘moral authority’ with great concern for the truth. He is considered forthcoming and friendly toward everybody. Mandela always showed signs of hospitality by exhibiting his relaxed charms when speaking to others including his adversaries. He enjoyed talking with their staff despite his many friendships with personages, millionaires, and dignitaries, thanks to his mischievous sense of humor. He was also known for his fidelity and stubbornness. He could exhibit a hot temper which could erupt in certain situations.             Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was born on 18 th of July 1918. Mandela was the first black South African to be a president and also the first elected in a multiracial, fully representative election. Being and African nationalist and democratic socialist, he also served as the President of the African National Congress

EXO_늑대와 미녀 (Wolf)_Music Video_Drama Version (Korean ver.)

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                                                     What a great surprise on my Monday. SM has (finally!) uploaded the greatly anticipated drama version of Wolf's Music Video. But being an SM Entertainment till the end, they never ceased to find a way to stir up my curiosity (again!) and drive some of us insane with just one single sentence at the end of the video which is "To Be Continue" and i was like aissh Wae Geuraeseyo? WAE? WAE? What makes me happy about it is that my top three bias (D.O, Luhan, Kai) are stunning! They have a good and unexpected plot here, while many of us assumed the main story in the MV was merely the love triangle between Luhan, Kai and female leading role (which i thought kind of mainstream-,-) but thankfully theres alot more to it. The innermost struggle of Luhan in controlling his wolfish nature, the friendship and sacrifice.

Creative Economy; Nationalism Booster among Indonesian Youngsters

By : Raditya Putranti Darningtyas     The improvement of education and health in many countries around the world has raised people’s living standard, thus causes changes in how people seeing their life. Interconnection and internationalization has also influenced human life motivation. According to Maslow’s theory of human motivation, once a person has surpassed fulfilling their basic physical needs, he will try to fulfill his needs on the next level such as social or esteem needs and self-actualization. He won’t buy things to merely satisfy his functional needs only, but he would also looking for products that can give him an identity and bring him respects from others. We can call these things as prestigious products. Hence, this initiates transformation in people consuming behavior as well as the market situation. All these reasons resulted in what we call Creative Industry and nowadays as Creative Economy. Creative economy is an evolving concept that put knowledge