Thứ Hai, 17 tháng 9, 2012

Entry 1_Vũ Thị Thúy Nga



Entry 1
Item 1: Short story

Look inside before  you judge others

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside.
That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"

     Rhetorical devices:
   Metaphor: the women (people who like to criticize and judge others), window(our outlook on life )
         Message: What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. 

Item 2: Cartoon




Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor: the two rabbits (facebook addicts)
- Overstatement: the seriousness of facebook addiction of two rabbits
- Irony: the two rabbits are talking about the disadvantage of facebook  but they are still addicted to it.
Message: Facebook has serious effects on daily communication.

Item 3: Lyrics

Because you loved me

For all those times you stood by me 

For all the truth that you made me see 
For all the joy you brought to my life 
For all the wrong that you made right 
For every dream you made come true 
For all the love I found in you 
I'll be forever thankful baby 
You're the one who held me up 
Never let me fall 
You're the one who saw me through through it all 

You were my strength when I was weak 
You were my voice when I couldn't speak 
You were my eyes when I couldn't see 
You saw the best there was in me 
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach 
You gave me faith 'cause you believed 
Em everything I am 
Because you loved me 

You gave me wings and made me fly 
You touched my hand I could touch the sky 
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me 
You said no star was out of reach 
You stood by me and I stood tall 
I had your love I had it all 
I'm grateful for each day you gave me 
Maybe I don't know that much 
But I know this much is true 
I was blessed because I was loved by you 

You were my strength when I was weak 
You were my voice when I couldn't speak 
You were my eyes when I couldn't see 
You saw the best there was in me 
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach 
You gave me faith 'cause you believed 
I'm everything I am 
Because you loved me 

You were always there for me 
The tender wind that carried me 
A light in the dark shining your love into my life 
You've been my inspiration 
Through the lies you were the truth 
My world is a better place because of you 

You were my strength when I was weak 
You were my voice when I couldn't speak 
You were my eyes when I couldn't see 
You saw the best there was in me 
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach 
You gave me faith 'cause you believed 
I'm everything I am 
Because you loved me 

You were my strength when I was weak 
You were my voice when I couldn't speak 
You were my eyes when I couldn't see 
You saw the best there was in me 
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach 
You gave me faith 'cause you believed 
I'm everything I am 
Because you loved me 

I'm everything I am 
Because you loved me

Rhetorical devices:
-      - Parallelism:
+ “For all those times you stood by me

     For all the truth that you made me see
     For all the joy you brought to my life…”
+ “You were my strength when I was weak

     You were my voice when I couldn't speak
     You were my eyes when I couldn't see…”
-   Rhyme: life - right, weak - speak, reach – believe
     - Overstatement:
“You gave me wings and made me fly

  You touched my hand I could touch the sky”

Message: Thanks to love, people can do everything.




5 nhận xét:

  1. cmt 4 the 3rd item :
    as other english songs, this song also contains a lot of symbols such as wings, stars, skies,...

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  2. - Item 1: I think irony is comprised here.
    Message: Sometimes, people can easily find out the mistakes of others and judge those mistake but they do not pay attention much to their mistakes

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    1. thanks for your comment. I agee with you about irony. About the message, I think that we should mention the "window"

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  3. Item2:
    I think the message you mentioned in this item is partly true.I suggest the message should be Facebook has serious effects on daily communication but people still like.

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  4. I don't think the white rabbit is a Facebook addict, it's just its friend
    I know it is not a real comment, just my observation!!!

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