Dunia sastera, khususnya masyarakat drama/teater, pasti mengenali Zakaria Ariffin (ZA), tokoh drama Melayu yang berasal dari negeri Pahang Darul Makmur. Dilahirkan di Kuantan 49 tahun yang lalu, beliau mendapat pendidikan awal di daerah kelahirannya sebelum menjadi kerani sementara di Kementerian Pertahanan di Kuala Lumpur. Anak muda yang sejak di sekolah rendah lagi bercita-cita ingin menjadi dramatis ini meninggalkan ...

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Pelajaran vernakular diperkenalkan oleh kolonial British untuk memberi pengetahuan kepada anak-anak orang Melayu supaya mereka boleh membaca dan memahami arahan. Sekolah-sekolah vernakular yang diperkenalkan hanya bertujuan menyedarkan orang Melayu tentang kebolehan membaca, menulis dan mengira. Tahap pelajarannya hanya di peringkat rendah sahaja. Kemudahan yang ada di sekolah-sekolah yang dibina di kampung-kampung amat kurang dan hanya sebagai memenuhi tanggungjawab sosial kolonial British. Kurikulum yang dilaksanakan juga amat rendah tahap akademiknya. Mata pelajaran yang diajar di sekolah rendah berkenaan tidak mempunyai hala tuju untuk meningkatkan taraf akademik anak-anak Melayu ke peringkat sekolah menengah kerana pelajaran vernakular berkenaan terhenti di peringkat rendah. Kebanyakan mereka yang tamat belajar hanya layak memegang jawatan paling rendah dalam pentadbiran kerajaan kolonial. Akhirnya, lepasan pendidikan Melayu berkenaan kembali semula kepada pekerjaan asal keluarga .....

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Thiourea is known to be a unique class of organic compounds especially acylthiourea since they consist excellent Hbonds donor and acceptor where it has strong ability to form metal complexation with various metal salts. Therefore, six members of acylthiourea derivatives (TH1-TH6) have been successfully synthesized and characterised using selected spectroscopic and analytical methods namely Fourier-Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, UV-visible (UV-vis) spectrophotometer, and CHNS elemental analysis. In turn, all the synthesised TH1-TH6 were used to investigate the anti-bacterial activity towards selected bacteria of both Gram-negative and positive namely Salmonella typhi and Bacillus cereus respectively. TH1-TH6 revealed to have good activity towards S. typhi and B. cereus with specific and broad-range spectrum activity...

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This research project investigated the value on interpersonal communication of social media through the aesthetic of display within Facebook activities. The concept manifests a sense of interconnection, interpretation and manipulation toward freedom of creative communication. The research project focused on vast aspirations and interactions of experiences through overloading information in our contemporary life in through cyber space. The key elements in the research consist of people emotion, sensation, behavioral pattern, manipulation in social interaction. The key artists within the research project are Kurt Shwitters, Barbara Kruger, Lilian Schwartz, Laurence Gartel, Tomako Sawada, Robert Silver and Ismail Zain. The reference of artworks carried out a suggestion on how the digital system with the presence of active participants involvement had been projected and developed to a new digital phenomena through various issues such as freedom of voice, communication without boundries, an.....

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