Chủ Nhật, 5 tháng 2, 2012

Entry 1_Bui Thi Hang Nga


Entry 1_Bui Thi Hang Nga
Item 1: Story
Two wolves
A Cherokee elder sitting with his grandchildren told them, "In every
life there is a terrible fight - a fight between two wolves.
One is evil: he is fear, anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment,
and deceit.
The other is good: joy, serenity, humility, confidence,
generosity, truth, gentleness, and compassion."
A child asked,
"Grandfather, which wolf will win?" The elder looked him in the eye.
"The one you feed." 
Rhetorical devices:
-          Metaphor: + two wolves( two opposite sides of a person: Bad and good)
         
-          Antithesis: evil>< good; anger>< joy; envy>< serenity; arrogance>< humility; self-pity>< confidence; resentment>< generosity; deceit>< truth.

-          Parallelism
Message:
    Your character which develops day by day in your life is the way you choose to do. In other words, it depends on each person’s actions every day. Thus, let’s build good character right now when you are a child by choosing to do good things or become a kind person.
                                              Items 2: Lyrics
We are the world
There comes a time
When we heed a certain call

When the world must come together as one.
There are people dying
Ooohhh and it's time to lend a hand
To life, the greatest gift of all.

We can't go on
Pretending day by day
That someone somewhere will soon make a change.
We are all a part of
God's great big family

And the truth
You know
Love is all we need.

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving.

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives.
It's true we make a better day
Just you and me.

Well
Send them your heart
So they know that someone cares
And that life will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
And so that we all must lend a helping hand

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we make a better day
Just you and me.

When you're down and out
And there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we could fall
Well now now now let us realize
Ohhhh that a change can only come
When we stand together as one yeah yeah yeah yeahh

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving.

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives.
It's true we make a better day
Just you and me.

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving.

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives.
It's true we make a better day
Just you and me.
Rhetorical devices:
-          Repetition:
                        + We are the world
                             We are the children
                             We are the ones who make a brighter day
                             So let's start giving
                           There's a choice we're making
                              We're saving our own lives.
                              It's true we make a better day
                             Just you and me.
                           + when; there
-          Rhyme:
                            Call- all
                            All- fall
-          Parallelism: We are…
                    We are…
                     We are…

Message: All people in over the world are big family and love is the most important thing in our live, so we need to take care of each others. Let's together help the poor, children, or those who have difficulties in their lives. Do it together!
                                                         Items 3: Picture

 

Rhetorical devices:
-          Pun: leadership- which is joined by two words: leader and ship. Leader is the man in the picture and “ship” has the nearly same pronunciation with “ sheep”.
Message:
The leadership is an important thing that decides whether something is successful or not. Therefore, leader must be a really brilliant person.


Message: The overdevelopment of technology makes people forget the other work by hand. In other words, people nowadays abuse of technology too much, they seem to forget the other use of their hand.
http://savannahrayne.blogspot.com/2012/01/typo-tuesday.html





2 nhận xét:

  1. I disagree with you about some points:
    I think on first and second item, author did not use the "parallelism".
    The message of 1st item: inside each of us there are always two existing sides: evil and good ; they fight against each other. however, it is up to you to becone a bad or good one.

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  2. About your story:
    In my opinion, you should make the "message" more condensed. I suggest: "The fact that a person becomes a good man or a bad one depends on every action he do every day".
    (Furthermore, the brief answer the elder gave his grandchildren - "The one you feed" will win - is very interesting to me. This is because the answer is very condensed, and it reflects deeply the story's message.)
    About your second item:
    - "Heart" in "Send them your heart" is the symbol of love.
    - "turning stone to bread" is a kind of overstatement.
    About your third item:
    From my point of view, you should reconsider the message you infer from the image. It is not really relevent. In addition, this image also involves irony.

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