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Novel Review: Wonder by R. J Palacio

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  Tittle                 : Wonder Author              : R.J Palacio Translator         : Harisa Permatasari Publisher          : Atria Year                 : 2012 Pages                : 220 (original version)                           428 (Indonesian version)     “My name is August, by the way, I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you are thinking, it’s probably worse.”                    ...

Simple yet Beneficial, Solving a Rubik's Cube

              Rubik’s Cube, was first called ‘Magic Cube’, is a three-dimensional puzzle invented by Erno Rubik, Hungarian sculptor and architecture professor, in 1974. Rubik’s cube was not meant to be a toy, but a prototype for three-dimentional concept to help Rubik’s students understand three-dimentional problems. It was kind of unique prototype because its each faces can be freely rotated without falling apart. The interesting thing is that even the inventor of Rubik’s cube, Rubik, could not solve his own cube at first. It took him about a month to solve the cube. When he was creating that cube, he did not think about whether he could solve his cube or not, but to think about the methods to solve it. That’s why it took him long enough to perfectly solved it. In 1975, Erno Rubik lisenced his ‘Magic Cube’ to be sold as toy. Magic Cubes were getting more popular in 1979 until brought to an International Toy Exhibition. In 1980...