Category Archives: English 12

Short Film Reflection—-The Telegram

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIBNoX3bCk&feature=youtu.be

 

We chose the short story The Telegram, by Iain Crichton Smith is because it has a fixed scene setting on the story, which is two women in a village. Thus, we chose to record our film in the cafeteria. The windows there are big enough to see the man passed by their house and two women are having their conversations. This story shows the effects of people caught up in war and made to suffer. The man who brings the news to people brought the pain to two women, so we also want to protrude the surprise ending. From our process of making the film, we tried several ways to do the recording.  Acting is a new experience for me, we have to express the desperate of the old man and show two women’s emotion change. My favourite part is the background music, they really meet the scene. Overall, I enjoyed this project, it is a new attempt and way to understand a short story for me.

 

Narrative Poetry——- FriendSheep

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A wolf wants to be friends with sheep，

His purpose should not exist.

He has been happy,

But for the desire to lose reason.

He is wiping the windows.

He is falling but only halfway.

Wind steals his white cap,

Just the same as his bad life.

Hunger, tired, yelling,

Through the glass of the building.

He sees sheep are inside,

They live a happy life,

This is what heaven’s like.

Wolf made up everything,

His resume is a shame,

Entered the company is a waste,

The old sheep knows this is not a game,

But passionate one becomes his aim.

She gives him the “Happy Dog”,

The wolf found his passion.

His start to love his colleagues and his position,

Because “happy Dog” leads him into a beautiful imagination,

Raining day, Empty cabinet Blank space lit his thoughts.

Hunger, tired, yelling,

He seems to forget the passing day.

What he did is sorry to say,

But to our dismay.

The wolf eats sheep on the last day.

Finally, he loses the job

Go back to the life he had

The dream is admirable,

But the reality is brutal.

If he wants his dream to come true,

He still needs to struggle.

Why do we have to know the historical background in the novels?

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Understand the historical background is important. The novel is based on real experiences from the writer, get to know his culture and historical background can help readers to bring himself into the story. Also, the way of expression in different countries and the timeline can affect the way people thinking. At the end of the Middle Ages, during the Renaissance, people were keen to discover the classical works of ancient Greek and Latin writers. They not only study ancient languages, such as the study of words and grammar, they also study the history of the ancient world and the culture of the time.

Persuasive Video- Dark side of Technology

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Technology is bad

The more advances in science and technology. Education, communication, and security are weak, are those progress, or backward? As appealing as technology may be, more and more energy wasted consumed by the human. Industrial, agriculture, office and home automation caused more pollution. Although mechanical automation was more efficient, it also made people had over-reliance on it. Today, more people chose to drive a car and more work is done by machine even sometimes it was unnecessary. The decrease in non-renewable resources contributed to global warming, greenhouse gasses, and carbon emission. Don’t let technologies ruin our world, the most precious thing. The technology was likely to result in less communication between people. The trend led to a less in face to face communication. The way people kept in touch with family and friends were transformed by messages, like Facebook, wechat, or email. However, long-distance communication can’t bring our happiness. On the contrary, it made more people felt lonely and isolated in real life. Nowadays, computers were likely to take over handwriting. Indeed, Handwriting took more time, but it worked better on emotional expression. On the other hand, Long distance learning was also a supplementary tool benefit from technological advancement. Was study is only about the transmission of knowledge? It should foster a mentoring partnership between teachers and students. “The beam light up your appearance of science and technology, but ignores the feeling of the heart”. Finally, Technology caused online fraud problems. Many people’s addiction to electronic entertainment induced them to post their information online, which was unsafe, especially for teenagers. For example, a lot of mobile phone fraud and text message scams were because of some internet users like to share their lives online. Technologies’ develop have positive effects, but people should also value their real life, and our world. Raise public awareness of the importance of real life and traditions are the priority. Then the application of technology can be well suit to the world.