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Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension through Cognitive   Strategies of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Tompobulu Gowa By Hasyim Abstract This research is a quasi experimental research at the objective of finding the increasing students’ reading comprehension achievement through the cognitive strategies (rehearsal, organization, and elaboration) and to what extent these cognitive strategies influence the students’ reading comprehension achievement. The subject of the research was the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Tompobulu Gowa which consisted of 50 respondents into two classes; each class consisted of 25 respondents, one class as a control class and another class as the experimental one. The data were collected through the reading comprehension test in pretest and posttest and the observation checklist during the teaching and learning process. The test consisted of 45 items of test from three kinds of texts (news item, descriptive, and narrative te...

This is me Some people say I'm a boring and stupid man. when I talk about something I cannot tell it in a good and systematic way. In my mind you are true about it, but it's me. I cannot be any  one  else. It is one thing you know about me. If it is my weaknesses, sorry...It is I am.  I cannot recognize all about me by myself. As I was given birth to the world, I never wanted to be a foolish boy. I just thought that to be who I am now is a amazing moment that I can reach for. Sorry for all that make you are disappointed about me. If you think I cannot fulfill you want, teach me how can I be changed for every-things. Even for my closed family or my family all at once, sorry for my weakness. May be it just was given by the God of me.I just want one thing, tell me when I'm wrong. Talk to me teach it the thing where I've got mistakes. To be a man that for people want, it's of our imagination, even it's a destination of us. But God has decided for us look ...

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I'm not anybody for tenth years ago. In my childhood, I just was playing, playing and playing. I did never think of what about my future. In my mind, life was fun. We were given birth to the world for playing and fun.  Day by day went through, I was getting grown up. When I was about five or seven I started to think about why my parents, especially my father should work hard. Every day he went to the garden. work all day in each a single day. In my mind what did my father look for? But why? It made me beginning to think. I began to make a decision on my mind that I didn't want to do like what my father did in a day. I couldn't do it. It made me directly boring in each I accompany him to work in the garden. Then, I began to think that I should look for another kinds of job in my future life hereafter. Finally, I really got my idea that I could not do like what my father daily activities.