Mr Generous

Who is this Mr. Generous that I am talking about and why is he so generous?

Okay readers, I call this man generous because he was willingly share his knowledge with me and my classmates. During an hour session, he had deliver the lesson on effective argumentation. He explain precisely o argumentative writing, the elements of good arguments and how to argue effectively. After he finished explaining the lesson, he asked us to do some exercises. Through the exercises, i am able to identify the claim, data, warrant, backing, rebuttal and qualifier. Other than that, this generous man also provides an argumentative checklist so that we can grade a passage accordingly. Lastly, he treats us with KFC snack box!

Thank you Mr. Vahid Nimehchisalem (T_T)

Merry Maid

My classmates and I have discussed the issue in one of the short story in order to give us the gist on the position paper.

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The title of the story is

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Merry Maid by Dr. Jayakaran Mukundan

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During the discussion, Dr.Jaya distributes the handout on quotes. These quotes is related to the themes that can be found in the story. The following quotes are the most suitable quotes that I think directly related to the story.

1. Jealousy

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own" -Harold Coffin

2. Possession

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor" -Alexander Smith

3. Time

"Man talk of killing time, while time quietly kills him" -Dion Boucicault

4. Superiority

"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seem to be altogether peculiar to ma, and speech is the great instrument of ambition" -Adam Smith

5. Vanity

"Vanity is so secure in the heart of a man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this or you who read this. -Blaise Pascal.

Precious

Claireece Precious Jones

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By reading this beautiful name, the reader might get the idea of a beautiful girl with a beautiful life. However, the reality for Precious is really opposite to that. She leads a poor life where she is abused sexually by her own father, being beaten by her own mother, and illiterate.

This movie is about Precious and her hope.

"dont lie to me, love aint ever done anything for me, it beats me down."

The sentences that had been uttered by Precious brings me close to tears.

From a teacher perspective, the first thing that a teacher needs to do is to make them feel loved by you. The teacher herself need to show the affection towards the students so that they will believe in you and open up to. As in the story, Ms.Rain had done a good job because she kept telling Precious how "precious" she is and make her believes that she is able to be loved.

Documentary

Freaky documentary on teachers

with the theme of

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"50% of teachers quit within their first three years"

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The first sentences shown on the screen really scares me. In that instance, I think I will contribute to that possible 50%.

This documentary is about four teachers with different challenges that they need to overcome. One of them having problem in teaching itself. He is inexperienced teacher who kind of awkward in teaching because he never teach before. So, he end up being bully by his students and go through the hard experience in getting his students attention.

Other than problems with teaching, these teachers also experience the problems with their peers (another teacher). This increase the tension among these teacher, and later affects their relationship with their love one.

From this documentary, I found that you need to have brave heart in order to be a teacher. It wasn't as easy as it may seem, because there are lots of challenges that you need to face. A teacher also need to have faith in their students so that they will achieve what you wanted them to achieve. One more thing that hinder some teacher from quitting is;

The Passion;

to be a teacher.

That is the one thing that i never have (T_T)

Finding Forrester

In this movie, the racial prejudice is once again been highlighted.

Jamal Wallace, able to attract the attention of a prestiges New York prep school because of his scores in standardized tests.

However, that is not the only thing that gives Jamal advantages. He is a good basketball player, which is the main reason for his acceptance to the school.

Later, Jamal befriend with a famous writer who lives in seclusion. Jamal's life in school is hard because plenty of students didn't like him because of his color. The situation get worse as his teacher also show the racial prejudice.

The moral value that I can get from this story is to never underestimate your students' ability. Other than that, both teacher and student are able to make some changes in each other's life. Jamal had gain skills in writing and at the same time he changes Forrester's life.

Position Paper

In writing position paper, there are two texts that can be used which "The Merry Maid" or "The Great Injustice". I choose to work on "The Great Injustice" because this short story had never been discussed in the class.

The first step in writing position paper is deciding the arguable opinion about an issue or opinion. In "The Great Injustice", the issue of oppression within the society. Ah Nya, the main character had put the blame the on society for her action (abortion). This statement is arguable because the society serve it purpose as setting the boundary according to culture. It is the real issue with genuine controversy and uncertainty.

By addressing this issue, the two distinct position can be create which is the side that agree the society as an oppression or the society as the culture preservation.

However, I am not sure whether this issue is narrow enough so that I manage to write about it concisely.

Project Paper

"Writing Style in two novels by Cecelia Ahern"

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Greetings. I am half way through my project paper. I choose to work on the novels by Cecelia Ahern because I like her works. Her works is really inspiring and suitable for the teenagers to read on.

Cecelia Ahern is an Irish writer who has successfully gains special place in the reader’s heart through her series of interesting novels. Her first novels “P/s I Love You” was published when she was 21 years old, is a great success to her career. The novel was being sold to over forty countries and had become the bestseller novel throughout Europe, USA and Germany. Her second novel “Where Rainbows End” was also successful when it has been listed as one of the international bestseller novel.

In every pieces of creative writing, the writing styles of an author play a major role. The appropriateness and different set of writing styles that the author posses is the reason for successful in her writing. Through it, the author will be able to express the theme of her works to the reader clearly in the interesting way.