my strenght..

"Why?
by Mindy Carpenter

I remember his hands hard as steel,
But never was I without a meal.
He was with me throughout my childhood,
His love was unconditional, and he always understood.

A strong love I thought we did share,
But why did he leave without a care?
When he left, I was devastated,,
And a lot of times quite aggravated.

My father gave up everything he had,
Sometimes I think he must have gone mad.
This all from a wonderful man,
In my heart I just don't understand"

My IdOl

Everyone has their own idol right?? There come from the different profession and age. Same goes to me. Some people be the singer, artist, football player, minister and so on.
My idol is quite interesting. I love him because for his intelligence and his generous contributions which have help thousand of people. I know everyone of you want to know about him right?? Here I will share my admired idol who Bill Gates.
Bill Gates was born on 28 October 1955 in Seattle, USA. When he was student in the private La Keside School, he become interested in computer software. He started writing computer programmes at the age of 13. He joined Harvard University in 1973. Two years later, he formed the Micosoft Company which introduced windows to the world.
Today Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. Gates also kind and generous. He has donated billions of dollars to build hospital and provide medicines in India, Africa, and Canada. I hope that I can be successful as him not just in education but also, the kindness. He is one of the person that we must be a role model to sure our future is Flying In Colour.

mOsT mEmOrAbLe ExPeRiEnCe

My most memorable experience was our class trip to the Sentosa Orphanage. It is the first time I am going to orpahanage. Because of that, I want to share my experience at this blog.

We arrived at 8.00 a.m. The children were waiting for us at the gate. A little girl presented a bouquet of flower to our teacher Miss Syuhada. Each of us gave a child a packect of fruits and a pair of sport shoes.

The children wore their new shoes for the games. The funniest game was playing football. It was a noisy match, full of fun and laughter. After the games, we presented a show. Each of us wore fancy costume as a clown or a wirazd. The children enjoyed the magic acts and laughed at the clown. We sang many songs together.

Next we got ready for lunch. Our class had prepared a lot of food. The children wanted to share, too. They took us to thier vegetable garden. Together we gathered the tomatoes, cucumber, and carrots to prepare “Garden Fresh Salad”

Finally, it was time for goodbyes. The children made us promise to visit them again. On the way home, we have score the aim which is made children happy.

mY fAvOuRiTe CeLeBrItY

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American media personality,Academy Award–nominated actress, television producer, literary critic and magazine publisher, best known for her, Multi Award Winning Competition, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest the African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time. She is also was once the world's only Black Bilionnaire. She is also, according to the some assesement, the most influential woman in the world. The reason why I am very admired to her because of her determination on her life. She is work hard with her career. The simple example is, she is not really care with her personality. Although she is fat, she is not shy to perform life in television. Her famous television show is Oprah Winfrey Show. It is a reality show that is discused about person’s life. She will give them motivation, on dealing their life. Sometimes it can make us cry, if we feel with the same situation with the the interviewee.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment..
Oprah Winfrey

mY aCtIViTYy In LiFeTiMe

Everyone have their own activity during the lifetime. Same goes to me. I love to play game during this period of time. There are many activities that we can do. For instance, reading story book, listening to music, and watching the television. For me, I prefer to play Congkak. It is one of the traditional games. Congkak is believed to originate from the word ‘congak’ which in old Malay Language means count. It is believed that the game originated in Malacca Kingdom where it became very popular and spread to the South East Asia region. This spread was due to the many travelers who visited the kingdom because it was a trading city. The Congkak board has fourteen holes in two sets of seven, plus an additional store for each player. Each player controls the seven holes on their side of the board, and their score is the number of seeds in their left-hand store. The pieces are 98 undifferentiated seeds. I will enjoy this game with my youngest sister and sometimes, with my mother.

My FaMilY

The reason I choose to document my family is because my family is the most important thing in my life. They give me the support I need when needed, They help me through the rough times, and not so rough times. If I ever have a question, they usually have the answer. Although my family is strong as a family as a whole, we do have our flaws, like dept, illnesses, accidents, jobs and so on. So I wanted to fulfill my project by emphasizing the way we live as a family. I choose to do my essay on my family because I feel that my family can be seen in many different ways and perspectives, so I wanted to capture it through photography. I guess through out my images you can see my family as a very close family who works a lot. I guess there are really no words for what I’m trying to capture, but hopefully by looking at my images you can see what I mean by my family being seen in many perspectives. So in short words, this is my family, and these are my life, Hate it or love them, they are my family this is where I come from this is who I am.

Drugs and gun is the last article that our class have to learn. From my opinion,in this article the writer want to condemn the African Prime Minister. On the other hand, the writers have been positioned the prime minister and the government as bias. Actually, gun and drug are two issues in African. But the prime minister likes to prefer to deal with gun issue rather than drug. It makes many sides and people appear and give their opinion to the prime minister to take care of drug issue. As the evidence, “The TAC has applied for an order compelling the government to distribute the antiretroviral the transmission of HIV from mother to child. But the government counters that nevirapine’s long-term efficacy has yet to be proved and, in any case, there are insufficient resources to administer the drug on a national basis. But many people were suggested to the government to give attention to drug issue in order to safe the HIV victims.Hence, the minister misuse their position to buy everything that they want.Actually,minister must to show their good role to the society.

TOPIC:The article focuses on the ‘dieting’ issue that is one of the main problems that having to people nowadays. The article also provides up-to date information based on research into weight loss.

CONTENT:The article covers an issue that is hot phenomenon of weight control. It is also relating to physical and mental health, as well as the part played by commercial providers of weight loss products. It is also tell us the way to become slim. Other than that, the article also tells us the effects after practicing the wrong way to
get the body fit.

SOURCE:The article comes from ‘What you can change and what you can’t in The complete guide to self-improvement, by Martin Selingman.

AUDIENCE: The article is written for people who feel they suffer from some social or medical deficiency or condition which negatively affects their life. It is actually to help or give the information to those who want to loss their weight.

THE RHETORICAL FUNCTION:The article aims being to turn these people away from using expensive weight loss products and to make them feel more comfortable with their current weight. It is also want to teach them to loss their weight by the right way. They also will learn and know the effects if practicing the wrong way to loss weight.The stance taken in the article is all about the weight issue that which is weight loss products and of the medical views which support them. He is argues that weight loss products simply do not work. Besides, he is also argues that the medical views which support dietary products are also flawed. Actually the best way to weight to loss their weight by do exercise everyday, doing yoga and choose the right food for their daily meal. They must follow the food pyramid as the guide to eat the nutritious food.

POSITIONING:The article describes the people who are concern about their weight as if they are not choose the right way to loss weight, the writer didn’t stated his comment on this article. The writer also guides that people to not believe on totally to the diet pills. Hence, by the wrong way, that people will get the negative impact.

IMPACT:The effects on readers are likely to be aware and think twice before to loss their weight. It is because by the wrong way, they will get the impact that we don’t want actually. For example, it can cause bulimia. Bulimia is a serious effect that must be avoid by.

VISUAL LITERACY:The visual aspects of the text are significant because, it tell us the way and the effects of loss weight. The title ‘Dieting’ mentioned about the weight problems that having by people among man and woman

The invasion of the Body Snatcher

1. Topic: The article focuses on the invasion of the baby snatchers which become worse recently. The headline of this article “Invasion of the Baby Snatcher “.

2. Content: The article covers a report about child abductions nowadays. The writer also tries to make the readers realize about it by using the mass media as the medium to spread the messages and the latest news about the abduction. For the example, the kidnapping and murder of Danielle Van Dam in San Deigo, disappearance of Elizabeth Smart in Utah, Sarah Payne who left a game of hide-and-seek with her siblings in July 2000 and was found dead 16 days later. Milly Dowler who still missing since her disappearance on March 21 and the most recently Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, two best friends who vanished from Sonam Cambridgeshire on August 4.

3. Source: The article comes from the “viewpoint” section in a magazine title ‘Time Magazine’. This article was published on 26 August 2002.

4. Audience: The article is written for public readers. But this article it is specifically written for parents to be aware about their children safety.

5. The rhetorical function: The writer try to inform the readers, especially parents about the worse of children abduction nowadays. It tries to rise up what happen to the already lost children. On the other hand, the writer does want to warn the parents to be aware of their children safety.

6. Purpose: The article aims to inform advice, educate and warn their readers about the abduction cases that happened recently.

7. Perspective: The stance taken in this article it is likely to inform the reader especially parents about their children safety. It is because there are a lot of cases regarding to the issue nowadays. On the other hand, the writer also warns parents to be more concern about this issue.

8. Positioning: There are many people involved with this issue. They are the invasion, children who had been abducted, the parents, mass media, reporters and editors. This article describes the children as victims that are being murdered and kidnapping, harmed and neglected and being abandoned by their parents. On the other hand, the mass media was pictured as the people which responsible to solve this problems.

9. Impact: The effects on the readers are slightly to be influence and start to think how to prevent this cases and how to help the lost children. Besides, many people will realize with mass media to rich up the finding progress. Since the writers stated that, in the US the press Coverage cyclone kicked up month ago with kidnapping and murder to several children.

10. Visual literacy: The visual aspects of the text significant because, the writer used the image that show the two children that was the victims of the abduction cases. They are look likely very innocent and there is no guilty faces that shows by them. If we go through their face, we feel very sympathy of their luck. Besides, the headline that shows is easy to understand by the readers.

Reading 5.5 & 5.6

This week me myself and Tyxx was presented all about the topic 5.5. Before we presented it we were asking the senior helping. She gave us the full cooperation. This topic focuses on different types of exposition. There are employ reasoning, personality and metaphor. This is also involves the differences between spoken and written language.This types of example is actually function to persuade 'to' or 'that' which is to influence people.Besides, it is also teach us the right way to write an essay. Furthermore, this chapter also discuss the function of the exposition.Not just that this chapter related with the Methadone article. It is distributed by Readers Digest magazine.

Then the next topic, entitle “Metaphor” This topic was presented by Hafiz, Fandi and Maryam. But for the presentation, only Maryam who was presented it. The arrest I don't know why they were not came to the class. Ok back on topic, this topic is actually focuses on the relationship between the choice of metaphor and how these choices may influence the reader. Futhermore this topic, include the role of metaphor in language also the effects to the reader. The bad thing about metaphor is is was able to communicate the sense to others. Also. It is covered all about the 'nukespeak' whick is nuclear weapon

The article entitle Australia's Methadone Mess were storied about a Melbourne University which is David Marx first injected heroin at age 19. He had been doing the habit till waste his money. About $200 a day habit to buy that kind of things.Marx knew he had to beat his addiction and he went to a detoxification clinic for help. The doctor told her to tried methadone as the way to prevent it. Unluckily, Marx unable to forget heroin's uephoric “high” but he stayed kept injecting the drug everyday and now began commiting armed robberies to fund his escalating habit.He is also began injecting methadone to intensify its effects. Thus, this cases is one of the the sanctioned narcotic. This article also discussed all about the the effects and the number addicts on methadone.It is also find the way to prevend that kind of problems.

The next article entitle Out of Puff is storied about Lisa a woman who smokes about a dozen cigarettes a week. She is actually had to face higher risk with someone with lover consumption. It will be effected lung cancer. A recent study by the Institute for Preventive Medicine in Copenhagen, Denmark , found that smoking as few as three cigarette a day doubles a woman’s heart-attack risk. Then, some of the study said it can increased risk of lung cancer also reduced fertility and complication in pregnancy including a greater risk of miscarriage. Yet, thousand of women keep puffing away.

According to the article “Body Language That Speak To Muggers”, it is have the ten elements that i had learnt before this. But, for this entries i just want to focus on argument and evidence. The first evidence is Betty Grayson and Morris Stein, who got “muggability” ratings of 60 New York City pedestrian from the people who may be most qualified to judge. The other evidence is reasercher had a trained dance analyst classify each person's use of 26 movements that form basic components in Labanalysis, a common system for describing a notating movements. Then for the arguments are Grayson and Stein explain the scale to 53 other convicted muggers and ask them to rate each of people on the tape. The other arguments is according to commonsense opinion offered by the Crime Prevention Section of the New York City Police Department, crime victims typically walk around them.

READING 4.3

This chapter which is entitle “ what is the evidence” is tell us about the famous case of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and examine the evidence, wholly circurmstial, that led to the conviction and execution of Bruno Hauptmann. Including historical treatments of past events. In all cases, he argues that a reader should maintain a critical stance towards everything that is read, always asking the question. The circumstantial evidence is not altogather trustworthy as a basic of determaining guilt. They prefer testimonal evidence such as that of eyewitnesses who testify that they themselve have seen the accused commit the reader.

READING 4.4

This chapter will cover on topic “Statistic”. It is all about the concerned with the use and misuse of statistic and is intended to caution readers into a more informed response to texts that link facts and figures it begins by defining terms, mentioning a number of domains where statistic slips that can be made. To look the statistic it can be made by differents way which is graph, charts, and so on. Among the most common statistical slips that might consciously or unconscoiusly be made by the following point. First of all, unqualified average, fallcious sampling, percentage unaccompanied by actual number and misleading presentation.

READING 4.5

This chapter was dissusing the topic about “Crooked and fallacious”it is actually all about the the thinking only evidence of illogical mental processes and poor communication skill bit is also a manipulative tool in the hands of speaker. Besides, in context where there is an intent to persuade someone towards a particular belief or course of action. Not just that it use the differents words to describe another things that have the same meaning. This is the one of the thing that some people use to tell something about someone.

“Please let me go to your school” is the third acticle that I had to examine for this week. The article consists about a children who is six years old was discriminate by The Hills Grammar School. She was competent to give evidence to that case. Scarlett was born with a lesion in her spine that has caused paralysisof the feet and incontinence. But she is disability to walk short distance and use ordinary toilets. So that this is one of the reasons why she is not accept to study in that school. Besides, the school is hardly allowed a voice in that case.
Now lets us go through the next topic which is on reading 3.3. This topic was presented by Fiqa and Faiz. There were two ideal combination I think. They were done very well while present it. Their topic were all about to illustrate the application of the model by using two text. On the text A, it is one type dissussion. It is have 5 elements and all about the field including business and academic. This text also help reader to know more about business. Thus for the text B it is more to report. It is took main point and didn't state negative or positive point in the text. It is also discover the elements of the laguage and find out the ideology that exist.
Then for the next presentation, which is on topic 3.4. it is all about discourse the readers. Actually discourse is a serious conversation. There are sexist of discurse. For the example this sexist is the unfair treatment of people towards Deborah Pery just because she had been convicted murder her collague. Discourse also constructs reading position and subject position for the reader of the text. Both position are therefore closely interrelated. Genre, similary construct reading position. Then for the sub topic language user has experience of all social of genres. Their experience of language user is mediated through their experiece of texts on social occasiasion. I think that is all for this entry. Hope madam will be enjoy to read it. Assalamualaikum......

Hye madam we meet again in the next entry...According to Battling the Bullies article one part of critical literacy that every yext has a particular perspective or stance. The perspective that writer give towards the topic were the victims who is the boy will be traumatic of had been bullied by their friends. in school and life, in general can be traumatic for victims of bullying. They wiil be live un scared and pain situation. Tthey are afraid to have relationship with other people sorround them. Anyway, they go, they will be traumatise. Parent should show their responsibilities to solve this problem also school deal the problems wisely. it is to make sure it is not become worse and disturb children life. I think that is all for now. Assalamualaikum....

This is the second blog...

Hye Madam...Assalamualaikum.......This is the second entries that i want to share with you. How are you today?? hope you are in good condition ok...ok let us get on through the point which is what I am understand with the topic.The first topic is Language, Perspective and Ideology. This topic was presented by Farhana's group. What I am understand is language are use in different way to differentiate people that the text mediates a white than a black perspective. In Tanzanian Daily News, the writer after all is white and he is writing for a white audience. An audiaence that can be assumed to bring a particular set of expectation. It can help people, to know the article is write by whom and actually goes to what people.
Then the next topic entitle text and textualities. The different sorts of meanings that signs generate we emphasised multiple possibilities a sign's meanings it might have. A text it have the myths. It use to be coding of social meanings and values. Myths turns social sign into facts.Then the textual. The analysis moves that get from textualities is it come from sign the connotation and codes will be followed by and next one is denotation. Then it will be represent myths. Then the text maybe invited to accept as true and natural. I think that is all for the second entires for this blog...have a nice day...bye...

First of all,Assalamualaikum to the reader….This week is the second class that I having before the Chinese New Year. I feel so glad, because this week has many activities during every class session. But for this blog, I just want to share my activities in Critical Literacy class which is COM 4623. This class actually conducted by Madam Yaya. She is very nice and friendly teacher. I likes to hear her voice because it sounds so cute…he..he..he..
Along her classes I had learnt about the article of newspaper. It is actually from the daily newspaper. The full title of this article is Convicted Killer Back at Work. This article is all about a nurse who is Deborah Perry the murder of an Australian nurse working in Saudi Arabia. The incident created an international uproar when two British nurses were convicted and then released after payment of money to the victims’ family. After the helping from the King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. But, from the visual literacy that I see, I had analyzed she is actually optimistic and innocent women. I think she is not doing the stupid thing to her patient. Besides, I had learnt how to make a draft for the article also had to know how to analyze an article till dive through. According to the draft, I had learnt ten elements of newspaper article. First of all, about the topic. Then, it is followed by contents and the source. What I am understand from this point is who is the the murder, when it is happend, when did it happend and what let up to the event. Then the source is from the daily newspaper. In addition, audience is the person who is the target that will read this article. Hence, what I am understood from the rhetorical function is the speech acts applies to the article. Is it informing, advising and so on. Not just that, the purpose is what the writer is trying to do to the reader. It is to give some advise to the reader. Then the seven elements is the perspective. From my point of view. it is the the writer perception towards the issue. The other elements is positioning is, the way in which participant are constructed through the text. Besides, about the impact is the impact that the reader get after read the article and last but not least is visual literacy. It is one of the attraction that the writer use to attrack the reader and understand what she or he want to sent sent the message.
Hence, for the next class Madam ask to make a presentation. The presentation is discussed about stories and facts. The first group who are Adini, Epa and Slay. They actually present that topic. Then, for the second group discuss about Rules and Regulation. What I am understood from this topic is how to differentiate how to write the report writing. It is different by the different age and sex. Girl is more close minded and boy’s imagination is wider. Unluckily, in the second topic, I didn’t understood yet about the topic…but I will study it back tyo make sure I will understood that.I think that is all this week..happy holiday!!!!!