The study has three points of discussion.

Self-confidence is the core point of this research. Self confidence is a feeling that makes people think that they will do better after their efforts, a feeling that they can know more over time, a feeling that they can change themselves to adapt to the environment.There are three points of discussion under the topic. The first is self-confidence in facing family problem. There is no family without a problem and every single problem could be settled by means of self-confidence. This is followed by self-confidence in love as the second point. Love is a universal nuance that comes to everybody’s uplifting or crushing the person concerned and again by self-confidence love becomes a ladder to betterment in life.  The third is self confidence in self-identity. A man will never be considered a man unless he has self-identity, which may appear in various forms, one of which is social standing.  The main theory of self-confidence in taken from Brown stating that confidence is the belief that one will perform in a correct proper effective way. This research is conducted with descriptive qualitative method proposed by Krathwohl (1998), exploring social issues to be an epitome of guidelines.  The results show that the protagonist has a strong self-confidence in facing family problem, love and self-identity. He faces a lot of problems in his family and this happens because he is an adopted child. However, through his strong self-confidence he could settle all the obstacles nicely and finally his self-confidence gives comfort to him. Key words: confidence, family, love, identity.

This paper concerns with Antagonist’s Obsession to Revenge in V. E. Swab’s novel Viccious. It refers to three points of discussion i.e. his friend’s betrayal, his friend’s injustice, and his friend’s aggressiveness. In analyzing the three points, the descriptive method is chosen as the suitable method to process the data. The analysis indicates that there are two best friends who make a research together and do the experiment on each other. Anyhow, during the experiment, many people around them die as the victims of their research experiment until finally they start to hate each other, and are obsessed to take revenge on each other. The revenge occurs when Elly’s girlfriend is found dead due to the wrong experiment conducted by Victor, and the work of injustice with aggressiveness is done to Victor by a gun shot. The results indicate that someone’s obsession on things can be a serious matter if it is wrongly conducted. The sensitive problems arises from the antagonist’s unfair ways, treating his friend so badly, and being obsessed to take killing action.

According with the development of information technology and the expand of the internet in the community, the need for computers is very important to support the increasingly high utilization of information technology. Processing data and information requires speed and accuracy of data, to achieve it, it is requires an information technology that can support work so the work becomes more effective and efficient. PT. PLN (Persero) Krueng Geukueh District is a company that runs in the area of electricity and provides services to the community in the provision of services related to electricity, which has a large number of customers. The process of managing customer data at PT. PLN (Persero) Krueng Geukueh District has used a customer data system, but still has a disadvantage of requiring more time in searching customer data, to solving this problem, the author designed the development of the system using the string matching algorithm method, which is one of the most important parts in various processes related to data and text types, one of which is the search for words in customer data. The performance of the string matching algorithm is to match a letters per letter with the keywords given by the staff. The results of this study indicate that by using this method, searching for customer data can be easier. With the development of this system, it is expected that staff or admin in the company can do the work more effectively and efficiently.

The objectives of this study are to reveal the causes and negative impacts of overprotective mother’s attitude towards her child in the best-selling novel entitled My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, and to see how overprotective Sara Fitzgerald as a mother who has an overprotective attitude towards her second child. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with library study to find out the overprotective mother and how the overprotective developed by applying internal and external overprotective theory and mother's theory. The primary data used is the novel itself. Secondary data are books and articles relating to conflict theory. The results showed that there was a major problem that caused by Sara Fitzgerald as an overprotective mother and the impact of her overprotective attitude towards her daughter. There are two causes that Sara becomes an overprotective mother to her second daughter: her illness and her recovery and the impact towards her third daughter  is lacking affection and suffering.