Through the Looking Glass - Chapter 6

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Chapter 1 - Looking-Glass House

Chapter 2 - The Garden of Live Flower

Chapter 3 - Looking-Glass Insects 

Chapter 4 - Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Chapter 5 - Wool and Water

Chapter 6 - Humpty Dumpty

However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself. `It can't be anybody else!' she said to herself. `I'm as certain of it, as if his name were written all over his face.'

It might have been written a hundred times, easily, on that enormous face. Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall -- such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance -- and, as his eyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn't take the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure after all.

`And how exactly like an egg he is!' she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every moment expecting him to fall.

`It's very provoking,' Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, `to be called an egg -- very!'

`I said you looked like an egg, Sir,' Alice gently explained. `And some eggs are very pretty, you know, she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.

`Some people,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her as usual, `have no more sense than a baby!'

Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to her; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree -- so she stood and softly repeated to herself: --

`Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.'

`That last line is much too long for the poetry,' she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.

Pengertian, Fungsi, Jenis, Teori, Permintaan dan Penawaran Uang

PENGERTIAN UANG

Uang adalah suatu benda yang dengan mudah dan umum diterima oleh masyarakat untuk pembayaran pembelian barang, jasa, dan barang berharga lainnya, dan untuk pembayaran hutang.

Uang mempunyai ciri dapat diterima umum, dapat digunakan sebagai alat tukar, dan dapat digunakan sebagai alat pembayaran.

FUNGSI UANG

Sebagai alat pemenuh kebutuhan hidup, uang mempunyai beberapa fungsi, fungsi asli dan turunan. Yang termasuk fungsi asli adalah sebagai alat tukar dan satuan hitung. Sedangkan yang termasuk fungsi turunan adalah sebagai standar atau ukuran pembayaran yang ditunda, alat penyimpan kekayaan, dan alat pengalih kekayaan.

JENIS UANG

Uang dibedakan menjadi:

1.      Berdasarkan Pihak Yang Mengeluarkan

Berdasarkan pihak yang mengeluarkan, uang dibedakan menjadi aung kartal dan uang giral. Uang kartal adalah uang kertas atau logam yang beredar di masyarakat. Uang ini dikeluarkan dan diatur peredarannya oleh pemerintah serta merupakan alat pembayaran yang sah.

Uang giral adalah alat pembayaran berupa cek, bilyet giro, dan sejenisnya. Uang giral dikeluarkan oleh bank dan digunakan sebagai alat pembayaran.

2.      Berdasarkan Bahan Uang

Berdasarkan bahan yang digunakan untuk membuat uang, uang dibedakan atas uang logam dan uang kertas. Uang logam adalah uag yang yang terbuat dari logam berupa emas, perak atau logam lainnya. Sedangkan uang kertas adalah uang yang terbuat dari kertas serta penggunaannya diatur oleh undang-undang dan kebiasaan.

3.      Berdasarkan Negara Yang Mengeluarkan

Berdasarkan negara yang mengeluarkan, uang dibedakan atas uang dalam negri dan uang luar negri. Uang dalam negri adalah uang yang dikeluarkan oleh negara yang bersangkutan. Rupiah adalah uang yang dikeluarkan oleh pemerintah Indonsia. Uang luar negri adalah uang yang beredar dalam suatu negara, tapi yang mengeluarkannya adalah negara lain. Contohnya adalah Dolar Amerika (US) dan Poundsterling (Inggris).

4.      Berdasarkan Nilai Uang

Berdasarkan perbandingan nilai bahan dengan nilai tukar, uang dibedakan atas uang bernilai penuh dan uang tidak bernilai penuh. Uang nilai penuh adalah uang yang nilai bahannya sama dengan nilai nominal atau nilai penuh yang terdapat pada standar emas. Pada standar emas, nilai uang tersebut sesuai dengan bahan yang terkandung pada bahan uang. Uang tidak bernilai penuh adalah uang yang nilai bahannya lebih kecil daripada nilai nominalnya. Umumnya uang yang tidak berniali penuh adalah uang kertas.

Through the Looking Glass - Chapter 5

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Chapter 1 - Looking-Glass House

Chapter 2 - The Garden of Live Flower

Chapter 3 - Looking-Glass Insects 

Chapter 4 - Tweedledum and Tweedledee

 

Chapter 5 - Wool and Water

 

She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner: in another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were flying, and Alice very civilly went to meet her with the shawl.

`I'm very glad I happened to be in the way,' Alice said, as she helped her to put on her shawl again.

The While Queen only looked at her in a helpless frightened sort of way, and kept repeating something in a whisper to herself that sounded like `bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter,' and Alice felt that if there was to be any conversation at all, she must manage it herself. So she began rather timidly: `Am I addressing the White Queen?'

`Well, yes, if you call that a-dressing,' The Queen said. `It isn't my notion of the thing, at all."

Alice thought it would never do to have an argument at the very beginning of their conversation, so she smiled and said, `If your Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin, I'll do it as well as I can.'

`But I don't want it done at all!' groaned the poor Queen. `I've been a-dressing myself for the last two hours.'

It would have been all the better, as it seemed to Alice, if she had got some one else to dress her, she was so dreadfully untidy. `Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to herself, `and she's all over pins! -- may I put your shawl straight for you?' she added aloud.

`I don't know what's the matter with it!' the Queen said, in a melancholy voice. `It's out of temper, I think. I've pinned it here, and I've pinned it there, but there's no pleasing it!'

`It can't go straight, you know, if you pin it all on one side,' Alice said, as she gently put it right for her; `and, dear me, what a state your hair is in!'

`The brush has got entangled in it!' the Queen said with a sigh. `And I lost the comb yesterday.'

Alice carefully released the brush, and did her best to get the hair into order. `Come, you look rather better now!' she said, after altering most of the pins. `But really you should have a lady's maid!'

`I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!' the Queen said. `Twopence a week, and jam every other day.'

Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, `I don't want you to hire me -- and I don't care for jam.'

`It's very good jam,' said the Queen
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`Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate.'

`You couldn't have it if you did want it,' the Queen said. `The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam to-day.'

Through the Looking Glass - Chapter 4

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Chapter 1 - Looking-Glass House

Chapter 2 - The Garden of Live Flower

Chapter 3 - Looking-Glass Insects 

 

Chapter 4 - Tweedledum and Tweedledee

 

They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had `DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other `DEE.' `I suppose they've each got "TWEEDLE" round at the back of the collar,' she said to herself.

They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was just looking round to see if the word "TWEEDLE" was written at the back of each collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked `DUM.'

`If you think we're wax-works,' he said, `you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing, Nohow!'

`Contrariwise,' added the one marked `DEE,' `if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.'

`I'm sure I'm very sorry,' was all Alice could say; for the words of the old song kept ringing through her head like the ticking of a clock, and she could hardly help saying them out loud: --

`Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.'

Photography: Jak-Japan Matsuri 2011

._.)/ hey, seem like it's been a while since I post my photo. I've been posting Through the looking Glass by Lewis Carroll lately. Which is still on going until I post all the chapter. Through the Looking Glass is one of my favorite English literature beside Alice in Wonderland. Feels like riding a roller coaster on Imagination Land. Check that out if you interested ^^. This time I will post my old photo at Jak-Japan Matsuri 2011.

Through the Looking Glass - Chapter 3

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Chapter 1 - Looking-Glass House

Chapter 2 - The Garden of Live Flower

Chapter 3 - Looking-Glass Insects

Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through. `It's something very like learning geography,' thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able to see a little further. `Principal rivers -- there are none. Principal mountains -- I'm on the only one, but I don't think it's got any name. Principal towns -- why, what are those creatures, making honey down there? They can't be bees -- nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know - - ' and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking its proboscis into them, `just as if it was a regular bee,' thought Alice. 

However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact it was an elephant -- as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first. `And what enormous flowers they must be!' was her next idea. `Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks put to them -- and what quantities of honey they must make! I think I'll go down and -- no, I won't just yet, ' she went on, checking herself just as she was beginning to run down the hill, and trying to find some excuse for turning shy so suddenly. `It'll never do to go down among them without a good long branch to brush them away -- and what fun it'll be when they ask me how I like my walk. I shall say -- "Oh, I like it well enough -- "' (here came the favourite little toss of the head), `"only it was so dusty and hot, and the elephants did tease so!"' 

`I think I'll go down the other way,' she said after a pause: `and perhaps I may visit the elephants later on. Besides, I do so want to get into the Third Square!' 

So with this excuse she ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks. 

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`Tickets, please!' said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage. 

`Now then! Show your ticket, child!' the Guard went on, looking angrily at Alice. And a great many voices all said together (`like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), `Don't keep him waiting, child! Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!' 

`I'm afraid I haven't got one,' Alice said in a frightened tone: `there wasn't a ticket-office where I came from." And again the chorus of voices went on. `There wasn't room for one where she came from. The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch!' 

`Don't make excuses,' said the Guard: `you should have bought one from the engine-driver.' And once more the chorus of voices went on with `The man that drives the engine. Why, the smoke alone is worth a thousand pounds a puff!' 

Alice thought to herself, `Then there's no use in speaking." The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means -- for I must confess that I don't), `Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!' 

`I shall dream about a thousand pounds tonight, I know I shall!' thought Alice.