Book Review

Title : The Story of Scotland Yard


London got its first police on Sept 30,1829 which carried heavy stick and a light at night. In that time, most of policemen used the door at the back of the house and that came out in Scotland Yard.

In Scotland Yard, it had different departments that deal with different things. As mention in this book, there were 4 departments which we can see below.
Department A deals with policemen and policewomen. It was the place of the New Scotland Yard. It had police in horseback, so he could see trouble in a long way off. It had some dogs too which trained very well. They could smell drugs, looked for people and so on. Sometimes, when traffic in London became very heavy. So with its computer, it could detect and saw where the traffic lights were not working.

Department B deals with fingerprints. They were collected from people all over Britain and put them in the Police National Computer at Hendon. Only police could access them.

Department C had its own detectives which deal with very crucial thing such as murder. If police need to work with others from different countries which called Interpol. Beside that it used scientist to solve some extreme cases.

Department D had the job of finding new policemen.
The important thing is London that has floating police station and this is the only one in the world.

Reading log

Title : The Penang File

A British agent, Munro, is sent Penang. Penang is a part of Malaysia. His job is to find a man who wants to kill the British Prince. The Prince is going to meet the King of Malaysia on August 31st. Munro’s boss, Naylor, gave him the information about the killer. The killer’s name is Sergio.

In Penang, Munro met his colleagues from Malaysia. They were also policemen. They were Abdullah Yahya and David Lee. They took him to the hotel. In the afternoon, he went to the place where the King of Malaysia and the Prince of British would meet. He could see the place clearly, because he rent a trishaw.

Lee said to him that Sergio had arrived to Penang and stayed at the Cheong Fott Tze Mansion hotel. He went to that hotel to find some more information about Sergio. But he did not arrest Sergio yet, because his boss ordered him to arrest Sergio when Sergio was in action.

In August 31st, before ten o’clock he went to Sergio’s room at that hotel. He found that Sergio with a gun and ready to shoot the Prince. Sergio looked a bit surprise that he got unexpected guess. Then they got a fight, but suddenly policemen came and pointed the gun to Sergio. They stopped fighting and arrested Sergio.

note: i am really sorry i forgot to put the author's name

Book review

The Story of The Internet

As a concern about technology, American President, Eisonhower, announced a new organization that would control the government’s high technology work that called ARPA. ARPA was working in computing area.

In the beginning, computers were sited in some universities, acted as a stand-alone machine. They did their own work and they had different systems. But later on, the computers could talk to each other’s.

To make two computers could talk, it needed additional equipment that named IMP. IMP was a box, which stand between the different computer systems. It would translate between different networks and reduced the number of differences between them.

Internet was used at first time in 1973, which meant a network of networks.

Personal Computer (PC) was invented by Altair, but only the hardware not the software. So, to make it run, it needs software, which created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in that time.

World wide web (www) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. It could make electronic connection within different documents on different computers.

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i am really sorry because i forgot the author's name, what a silly mistake

Book sinopsis

Title : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

By : Anita Loos

There are two females that is closed friend. They are Lorelei and Dorothy. Both of them are American and beautiful girls. Moreover Lorelei has very nice hair, she is blonde.

Lorelei has a lot of friends especially men. They really like her and they try to get her sympathy. She realized about that. Therefore, she can foolish their mind and gets what she wants.

She loves shopping very much. In every place she goes, she always spends her time in the exclusive store. She can not close her eyes when she looks at the diamond. If she does not have money, as she always does, she will seduce her man.

She is lucky because she has a friend that is a rich man. His name is Mr Eisman. He likes her very much. She always gives her presents, such as books and diamonds. Additionally, he treated Lorelei and Dorothy to Europe.

After she went back to her home town in New York. She decided to marry a man. Who is the lucky man? He is Henry. They know each other very well and their family too. The wedding party is very wonderful, because a lot of interesting and important people come.

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I read this book one year ago when i learned english at ialf surabaya. i know it still isn't good enough, but i had tried. I would very happy if you give some advice. Thank you very much.