Horoscope for the week ending January 30, 2010.
Unfair as certain situations seem, each is forcing you to adopt an unaccustomed perspective. This offers potential solutions and, better yet, personal insights that could revolutionise your approach to life itself. The actual circumstances you’re dealing with are in transition, which means you’re making changes that, only recently, you’d have regarded as completely unacceptable. Soon, in fact, they’ll rather intrigue you.
1. Summary
This is a horoscope for a Scorpio, a Scorpio’s anniversary is between the 23rd of October and the 20th of November. My birthday is on the 13th of November, so I’m a Scorpio too. So for this week ending on the 30th of January the astrologer predicts that I’m offered potential solutions and personal insights.
2. Why did you choose this text?
I’ve chosen this text, because a horoscope is different than just a regular news article. Actually I don’t believe in horoscopes, they aren’t based on facts so you never know if these are reliable. I’ve chosen the horoscope of a Scorpio, because as I’ve allready said I’m a Scorpio.
3. Typical examples of vocabulary and style
Horoscopes are looking into the future. They predict what is going to happen in your life. So the future and present tenses are used. Horoscopes include personal problems, so words like: solutions, personal insights, dealing with, changes, etc. are used in a horoscope.
4. Type of text
This is a horoscope, a horoscope is a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets. I think a horoscope is a form of mass communication, because a horoscope reaches a lot of people. Horoscopes can be read in magazines, internet and in newspapers.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/ horoscopes/article6998779.ece
woensdag 27 januari 2010
donderdag 21 januari 2010
P!nk - Dear Mr. President
Dear Mr. President, come take a walk with me
(Take a walk with me)
Let's pretend we're just two people and you're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror? Are you proud?
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye? And tell me why?
Dear Mr.President, were you a lonely boy?
(Were you a lonely boy?)
Are you a lonely boy?
(Are you a lonely boy?)
How can you say, no child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind
(We're not blind)
They're all sitting in your cells while you pave the road to hell
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work
You don't know nothin' 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work
How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President, you'd never take a walk with me, would you?
1. Summary
This is a song by P!nk featuring the Indigo Girls, they released this song in december 2006. Pink said that the song is an open letter to the then President of the United States, George Bush. Also she says that this song is one of the most important songs she has ever written. She also said it would never be released as a single in the United States because it was too important to be seen as a publicity stunt.
With this song she critices George Bush. It starts for example in the first stanza she says: Let's pretend we're just two people and you're not better than me, so she states that Bush thinks his status makes him a better person and more important than other people.
In the next stanza she asks to Bush: What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?, I think she wants to let him know how he has let people down, did nothing to homelessness, does he feel guilty when he looks in the mirror? In the refrain she asks: How do you walk with your head held high? She wonders probably how he can be so proud on the United States while there are so many problems.
I think in the sixth stanza P!nk wants to show how he thinks about abortion and gays. Would he also be against gays if his own daughters were gay?
In the seventh stanza she probably wants to say that most people in the US are working so hard for some money, while he’s doing nothing to national problems and gets paid a lot.
She ends with: Dear Mr. President, you'd never take a walk with me, would you? He probably never wants to take a walk with P!nk, because all the things P!nk said made him open his eyes.
2. Why did you chose this text?
Well, I’ve chosen for a song lyric, because it’s something different than a news article or a recipe. A song lyric has mostly a message. I’ve heard this song a lot so I was very interested to the message of these lyrics, why P!nk wrote this song, etc.
3. Typical examples of style and vocabulary
Rhyme is used in this song lyric, just a few examples: cry-goodbye, high-why, away-gay, etc. She also uses repetition, for example: take a walk with me, were you a lonely boy, we’re not blind, let me tell you ‘bout hard work.
4. Type of text
This is a song lyric written by P!nk, a song lyric belongs to poetic communication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oegoI80t6WE&feature=related
(Take a walk with me)
Let's pretend we're just two people and you're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror? Are you proud?
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye? And tell me why?
Dear Mr.President, were you a lonely boy?
(Were you a lonely boy?)
Are you a lonely boy?
(Are you a lonely boy?)
How can you say, no child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind
(We're not blind)
They're all sitting in your cells while you pave the road to hell
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work
You don't know nothin' 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work
How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President, you'd never take a walk with me, would you?
1. Summary
This is a song by P!nk featuring the Indigo Girls, they released this song in december 2006. Pink said that the song is an open letter to the then President of the United States, George Bush. Also she says that this song is one of the most important songs she has ever written. She also said it would never be released as a single in the United States because it was too important to be seen as a publicity stunt.
With this song she critices George Bush. It starts for example in the first stanza she says: Let's pretend we're just two people and you're not better than me, so she states that Bush thinks his status makes him a better person and more important than other people.
In the next stanza she asks to Bush: What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?, I think she wants to let him know how he has let people down, did nothing to homelessness, does he feel guilty when he looks in the mirror? In the refrain she asks: How do you walk with your head held high? She wonders probably how he can be so proud on the United States while there are so many problems.
I think in the sixth stanza P!nk wants to show how he thinks about abortion and gays. Would he also be against gays if his own daughters were gay?
In the seventh stanza she probably wants to say that most people in the US are working so hard for some money, while he’s doing nothing to national problems and gets paid a lot.
She ends with: Dear Mr. President, you'd never take a walk with me, would you? He probably never wants to take a walk with P!nk, because all the things P!nk said made him open his eyes.
2. Why did you chose this text?
Well, I’ve chosen for a song lyric, because it’s something different than a news article or a recipe. A song lyric has mostly a message. I’ve heard this song a lot so I was very interested to the message of these lyrics, why P!nk wrote this song, etc.
3. Typical examples of style and vocabulary
Rhyme is used in this song lyric, just a few examples: cry-goodbye, high-why, away-gay, etc. She also uses repetition, for example: take a walk with me, were you a lonely boy, we’re not blind, let me tell you ‘bout hard work.
4. Type of text
This is a song lyric written by P!nk, a song lyric belongs to poetic communication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oegoI80t6WE&feature=related
woensdag 13 januari 2010
Obituary Miep Gies
Gies was the last of the few non-Jews who supplied food, books and good cheer to the secret annex behind the canal warehouse where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jews hid for 25 months during World War II.
After the apartment was raided by the German police, Gies gathered up Anne's scattered notebooks and papers and locked them in a drawer for her return after the war. The diary, which Anne Frank was given on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life in hiding from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.
Anne Frank died of typhus at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, just two weeks before the camp was liberated. Gies gave the diary to Anne's father Otto, the only survivor, who published it in 1947.
After the diary was published, Gies tirelessly promoted causes of tolerance.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" was the first popular book about the Holocaust, and has been read by millions of children and adults around the world in some 65 languages.
For her courage, Gies was bestowed with the "Righteous Gentile" title by the Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. She has also been honoured by the German Government, Dutch monarchy and educational institutions.
Nevertheless, Gies resisted being made a character study of heroism for the young.
"I don't want to be considered a hero," she said in a 1997 online chat with schoolchildren.
"Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary."
Born Hermine Santrouschitz on Feb. 15, 1909 in Vienna, Gies moved to Amsterdam in 1922 to escape food shortages in Austria. She lived with a host family who gave her the nickname Miep.
In 1933, Gies took a job as an office assistant in the spice business of Otto Frank. After refusing to join a Nazi organization in 1941, she avoided deportation to Austria by marrying her Dutch boyfriend, Jan Gies.
As the Nazis ramped up their arrests and deportations of Dutch Jews, Otto Frank asked Gies in July 1942 to help hide his family in the annex above the company's canal-side warehouse on Prinsengracht 263 and to bring them food and supplies.
"I answered, 'Yes, of course.' It seemed perfectly natural to me. I could help these people. They were powerless, they didn't know where to turn," she said years later.
Jan and Miep Gies worked with four other employees in the firm to sustain the Franks and four other Jews sharing the annex. Jan secured extra food ration cards from the underground resistance. Miep cycled around the city, alternating grocers to ward off suspicions from this highly dangerous activity.
Touched by Anne's precocious intelligence and loneliness, she also brought Anne books and newspapers while remembering everybody's birthdays and special days with gifts.
"It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts," Anne wrote.
In her own book, "Anne Frank Remembered," Gies recalled being in the office when the German police, acting on a tip that historians have failed to trace, raided the hide-out in August 1944.
A policeman opened the door to the main office and pointed a revolver at the three employees, telling them to sit quietly. "Bep, we've had it," Gies whispered to Bep Voskuijl.
After the arrests, she went to the police station to offer a bribe for the Franks' release, but it was too late. On Aug. 8, they were sent to Westerbork, a concentration camp in eastern Holland from where they were later packed into cattle cars and deported to Auschwitz. A few months later, Anne and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen.
Two of the helpers, Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman, were sent to labor camps, but survived the war.
Around 140,000 Jews lived in the Netherlands before the 1940-45 Nazi occupation. Of those, 107,000 were deported to Germany and only 5,200 survived. Some 24,000 Jews went into hiding, of which 8,000 were hunted down or turned in.
After the war, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam and lived with the Gies family until he remarried in 1952. Miep worked for him as he compiled the diary, then devoted herself to talking about the diary and answering piles of letters with questions from around the world.
After Otto Frank's death in 1980, Gies continued to campaign against Holocaust-deniers and to refute allegations that the diary was a forgery.
She suffered a stroke in 1997 which slightly affected her speech, but she remained generally in good health as she approached her 100th birthday.
Her son Paul Gies said last year she was still receiving "a sizable amount of mail" which she handled with the help of a family friend. She spent her days at the apartment where she lived since 2000 reading two daily newspapers and following television news and talk shows.
Her husband died in 1993. She is survived by her son and three grandchildren.
1. Summary
This is an obituary for Miep Gies, a woman born in 1909 in Vienna. She moved to Amsterdam in 1922 to escape from food shortages in Austria. In 1933 she took a job as an office assistant in the business of Otto Frank. In July 1942 Otto asked Miep to help his family with hiding above in a canal-side warehouse. Miep had to bring food and supplies to the family. In those days Anna wrote down everything in her diary.
On one day the German police raided the house of the family. They were sent to a terrible concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen. Miep Gies gathered up all Anna’s notebooks and papers and put them in a locker, to save for Anna’s return. But Anna never came back, she died of typhus at the age of 15. Gies gave all her saved papers to Otto, the only one of the family who survived, and he published the diary. So Miep Gies is seen as a hero, although she doesn’t think so.
2. Why did you choose this text?
Well, I’ve chosen this text because this is something I’ve never analysed before. I heard Miep Gies had died, so I wanted to know more of her life. For example why she was so special for Anne Frank, why she is seen as a hero, etc. Now I know she is a hero, because the diary of Anne Frank has been sold in so many different countries and languages. This because Miep Gies was the one who saved all the papers and notebooks of Anne Frank. I think she can be seen a hero too
3. Typical examples of Vocabulary and Style
An obituary says for example, date of birth (Miep Gies: 15 February 1909), what that particular person has done in his/her life (Miep Gies: worked as an office assistant in Amsterdam, she had one son and three grandchildren, etc.), why that person is so special (Miep Gies: is seen as a hero, because she saved all the notebooks and papers from Anne Frank). This obituary includes phrases Gies had once said, for example: "I don't want to be considered a hero," she said in a 1997 online chat with schoolchildren. This is probably her reaction about everyone seeing her as a hero.
4. Type of text
This is an obituary. An obituary is a published notice of someone who has recently died, which includes a biography. This an obituary of Miep Gies, she died on the eleventh of January this year. This is Professional Communication.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/6970925/Obituary- Miep-Gies.html
After the apartment was raided by the German police, Gies gathered up Anne's scattered notebooks and papers and locked them in a drawer for her return after the war. The diary, which Anne Frank was given on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life in hiding from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.
Anne Frank died of typhus at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, just two weeks before the camp was liberated. Gies gave the diary to Anne's father Otto, the only survivor, who published it in 1947.
After the diary was published, Gies tirelessly promoted causes of tolerance.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" was the first popular book about the Holocaust, and has been read by millions of children and adults around the world in some 65 languages.
For her courage, Gies was bestowed with the "Righteous Gentile" title by the Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. She has also been honoured by the German Government, Dutch monarchy and educational institutions.
Nevertheless, Gies resisted being made a character study of heroism for the young.
"I don't want to be considered a hero," she said in a 1997 online chat with schoolchildren.
"Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary."
Born Hermine Santrouschitz on Feb. 15, 1909 in Vienna, Gies moved to Amsterdam in 1922 to escape food shortages in Austria. She lived with a host family who gave her the nickname Miep.
In 1933, Gies took a job as an office assistant in the spice business of Otto Frank. After refusing to join a Nazi organization in 1941, she avoided deportation to Austria by marrying her Dutch boyfriend, Jan Gies.
As the Nazis ramped up their arrests and deportations of Dutch Jews, Otto Frank asked Gies in July 1942 to help hide his family in the annex above the company's canal-side warehouse on Prinsengracht 263 and to bring them food and supplies.
"I answered, 'Yes, of course.' It seemed perfectly natural to me. I could help these people. They were powerless, they didn't know where to turn," she said years later.
Jan and Miep Gies worked with four other employees in the firm to sustain the Franks and four other Jews sharing the annex. Jan secured extra food ration cards from the underground resistance. Miep cycled around the city, alternating grocers to ward off suspicions from this highly dangerous activity.
Touched by Anne's precocious intelligence and loneliness, she also brought Anne books and newspapers while remembering everybody's birthdays and special days with gifts.
"It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts," Anne wrote.
In her own book, "Anne Frank Remembered," Gies recalled being in the office when the German police, acting on a tip that historians have failed to trace, raided the hide-out in August 1944.
A policeman opened the door to the main office and pointed a revolver at the three employees, telling them to sit quietly. "Bep, we've had it," Gies whispered to Bep Voskuijl.
After the arrests, she went to the police station to offer a bribe for the Franks' release, but it was too late. On Aug. 8, they were sent to Westerbork, a concentration camp in eastern Holland from where they were later packed into cattle cars and deported to Auschwitz. A few months later, Anne and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen.
Two of the helpers, Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman, were sent to labor camps, but survived the war.
Around 140,000 Jews lived in the Netherlands before the 1940-45 Nazi occupation. Of those, 107,000 were deported to Germany and only 5,200 survived. Some 24,000 Jews went into hiding, of which 8,000 were hunted down or turned in.
After the war, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam and lived with the Gies family until he remarried in 1952. Miep worked for him as he compiled the diary, then devoted herself to talking about the diary and answering piles of letters with questions from around the world.
After Otto Frank's death in 1980, Gies continued to campaign against Holocaust-deniers and to refute allegations that the diary was a forgery.
She suffered a stroke in 1997 which slightly affected her speech, but she remained generally in good health as she approached her 100th birthday.
Her son Paul Gies said last year she was still receiving "a sizable amount of mail" which she handled with the help of a family friend. She spent her days at the apartment where she lived since 2000 reading two daily newspapers and following television news and talk shows.
Her husband died in 1993. She is survived by her son and three grandchildren.
1. Summary
This is an obituary for Miep Gies, a woman born in 1909 in Vienna. She moved to Amsterdam in 1922 to escape from food shortages in Austria. In 1933 she took a job as an office assistant in the business of Otto Frank. In July 1942 Otto asked Miep to help his family with hiding above in a canal-side warehouse. Miep had to bring food and supplies to the family. In those days Anna wrote down everything in her diary.
On one day the German police raided the house of the family. They were sent to a terrible concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen. Miep Gies gathered up all Anna’s notebooks and papers and put them in a locker, to save for Anna’s return. But Anna never came back, she died of typhus at the age of 15. Gies gave all her saved papers to Otto, the only one of the family who survived, and he published the diary. So Miep Gies is seen as a hero, although she doesn’t think so.
2. Why did you choose this text?
Well, I’ve chosen this text because this is something I’ve never analysed before. I heard Miep Gies had died, so I wanted to know more of her life. For example why she was so special for Anne Frank, why she is seen as a hero, etc. Now I know she is a hero, because the diary of Anne Frank has been sold in so many different countries and languages. This because Miep Gies was the one who saved all the papers and notebooks of Anne Frank. I think she can be seen a hero too
3. Typical examples of Vocabulary and Style
An obituary says for example, date of birth (Miep Gies: 15 February 1909), what that particular person has done in his/her life (Miep Gies: worked as an office assistant in Amsterdam, she had one son and three grandchildren, etc.), why that person is so special (Miep Gies: is seen as a hero, because she saved all the notebooks and papers from Anne Frank). This obituary includes phrases Gies had once said, for example: "I don't want to be considered a hero," she said in a 1997 online chat with schoolchildren. This is probably her reaction about everyone seeing her as a hero.
4. Type of text
This is an obituary. An obituary is a published notice of someone who has recently died, which includes a biography. This an obituary of Miep Gies, she died on the eleventh of January this year. This is Professional Communication.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/6970925/Obituary- Miep-Gies.html
woensdag 6 januari 2010
Dan Lepard's chocolate brandy layer cake recipe
Dan Lepard's chocolate brandy layer cake: get your festive mouth round this little beauty over the holiday period.
A chocolate layer cake for Christmas with a doubly rich gianduja filling.
75g unsalted butter
50g cocoa
125g plain flour
5 large eggs, at room temperature
375g caster sugar
300ml milk
25g cornflour
300g Nutella
100g good milk chocolate, chopped
50ml brandy
150g double cream
100g toasted hazelnuts, chopped
Line the base and sides of a 30cm x 40cm Swiss roll tin with nonstick baking paper, and heat the oven to 180C (160C fan-assisted)/350F/gas mark 4. Melt the butter in a pan, then set aside. Sift half the cocoa and the flour into a bowl. In a clean bowl, beat the eggs until frothy (use an electric whisk). Slowly beat in 175g of sugar, a third at a time, until the mix is thick and the sugar dissolved, then fold in the flour. Fold in the butter, spoon into the tin and bake for 25 minutes. Remove and leave to cool.
Over medium heat, whisk the milk, 25g cocoa, cornflour and 50g sugar in a pan, and bring to a boil. Off the heat, beat in the Nutella and chocolate, and leave to cool. Boil 150g sugar and 50ml water, then add the brandy. Trim the edges off the cake, cut horizontally into three and spoon syrup on each layer. Beat the custard and cream till thick, spread on each layer, sprinkle with nuts, then stack.
1. Summary
This is a recipe, from Dan Lepard, to make a chocolate brandy layer cake. You need a lot of ingredients, including: cocao, milk, Nutella and chopped hazelnuts. The oven has to be at 180C/350F or a gas mark 4. There are two recipes: one for the chocolate cake and one for the chocolate layers. At the end you have to spread the chocolate over the chocolate cake and sprinkle it with the chopped hazelnuts.
2. Why did you choose this text?
I’ve chosen for this text, because at first I really love chocolate! Also I’ve chosen this text, because before I’ve done a lot of news reports so I thought a recipe is something new and different. I love baking too, so that’s why I’ve chosen for this recipe. Maybe I’m going to try this recipe, cause it looks very nice on the picture.
3. Typical examples of vocabulary and style?
If you read these words: ‘heat the oven’, ‘melt the butter’, ‘beat the eggs’, ‘whisk the milk’, etc. you can see this is a recipe. Step-by-step is told how to come to this beautiful chocolate brandy layer cake. So this recipe is in chronological order and is told in a present tense.
4. Type of text
This is a recipe, which belongs to; mass communication. On the site of guardian, everyone can read this recipe and bake this cake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/19/chocolate-brandy-layer-cake-recipe
zondag 3 januari 2010
Humiliation for a seven-year-old who was playing with her hair, as teacher cuts it off...
Seven year old Lamya Cammon seems to be a confused, and not very happy little girl. According to the Message from Montie blog at Chicago Now, and in the report you can see above from the US, the little girl was playing with her hair in class, and that apparently frustrated her teacher. Fair enough, I suppose, as fidgeting and fiddling about can be irritating. Not so fair is what happened next - the teacher picked up a pair of classroom scissors and cut off one of Lamya's braids.
"I went to my desk and cried", the first grader tells the reporter in the news item above, and now the story has grown and grown. It's being loudly tweeted on Twitter, and has even been investigated by Milwaukee Police, who went into the school, Congress Elementary, to see if they should bring charges of physical or mental abuse of a child against the teacher (they decided not to).
The teacher in question, who's not been named, has, however, been issued with an $175 ticket for "disorderly conduct" and the school is said to be taking action as well. Lamya's mother, is, unsurprisingly, furious, and I have to say that I am siding with her. I realise that teachers are under a lot of pressure, but that doesn't excuse this behaviour. You can't wield scissors around with a seven-year-old and you certainly can't go around cutting off her hair. It's madness. Don't you think?
1. Summary
A 7-year old girl, Lamya Cammon, was playing with her hair at school. The next thing a teacher did was cut one of Lamya’s braids off, because it frustrated her. Now this story is spread on Twitter and has been investigated by Milwaukee Police. This story is also lengthy talked about on the news. Lamya’s mother is furious and the teacher has to pay $175 for treating Lamya in a disorganized way.
2. Why did you choose this text?
Of course Lamya’s mother’s reaction is understandable, but I think it’s a bit exaggerated to speak about this story on the news, on Twitter, etc. It’s abnormal to cut the hair off from a child, but teachers can get frustrated too.
3. Typical examples of vocabulary and style
Vocabulary
It’s an easy use of vocabulary. Nothing that really got my attention.
Style
This text, I think, is informal because the writer gives obvious his or her opinion, mainly in the last paragraph. The feelings of the writer are expressed there. The writer leaves you with the question: ‘Don’t you think?’ to get to know if the readers are sharing the same opinion. Well, I don’t agree with the writer. I think it’s madness to read these things lengthy on the internet.
4. Type of text
This text belongs to mass communication. It’s an news article, it’s read by many people on the website of the Times. In this article is partly factual information given, for example: the $175 ticket for the teacher. But in the last paragraph it’s mainly the opinion of the writer: ‘Lamya's mother, is, unsurprisingly, furious, and I have to say that I am siding with her. I realise that teachers are under a lot of pressure, but that doesn't excuse this behaviour. You can't wield scissors around with a seven-year-old and you certainly can't go around cutting off her hair. It's madness. Don't you think?’
http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2009/12/humiliation-for-a-sevenyearold-who-was-playing-with-her-hair-as-teacher-cuts-it-off-.html
"I went to my desk and cried", the first grader tells the reporter in the news item above, and now the story has grown and grown. It's being loudly tweeted on Twitter, and has even been investigated by Milwaukee Police, who went into the school, Congress Elementary, to see if they should bring charges of physical or mental abuse of a child against the teacher (they decided not to).
The teacher in question, who's not been named, has, however, been issued with an $175 ticket for "disorderly conduct" and the school is said to be taking action as well. Lamya's mother, is, unsurprisingly, furious, and I have to say that I am siding with her. I realise that teachers are under a lot of pressure, but that doesn't excuse this behaviour. You can't wield scissors around with a seven-year-old and you certainly can't go around cutting off her hair. It's madness. Don't you think?
1. Summary
A 7-year old girl, Lamya Cammon, was playing with her hair at school. The next thing a teacher did was cut one of Lamya’s braids off, because it frustrated her. Now this story is spread on Twitter and has been investigated by Milwaukee Police. This story is also lengthy talked about on the news. Lamya’s mother is furious and the teacher has to pay $175 for treating Lamya in a disorganized way.
2. Why did you choose this text?
Of course Lamya’s mother’s reaction is understandable, but I think it’s a bit exaggerated to speak about this story on the news, on Twitter, etc. It’s abnormal to cut the hair off from a child, but teachers can get frustrated too.
3. Typical examples of vocabulary and style
Vocabulary
It’s an easy use of vocabulary. Nothing that really got my attention.
Style
This text, I think, is informal because the writer gives obvious his or her opinion, mainly in the last paragraph. The feelings of the writer are expressed there. The writer leaves you with the question: ‘Don’t you think?’ to get to know if the readers are sharing the same opinion. Well, I don’t agree with the writer. I think it’s madness to read these things lengthy on the internet.
4. Type of text
This text belongs to mass communication. It’s an news article, it’s read by many people on the website of the Times. In this article is partly factual information given, for example: the $175 ticket for the teacher. But in the last paragraph it’s mainly the opinion of the writer: ‘Lamya's mother, is, unsurprisingly, furious, and I have to say that I am siding with her. I realise that teachers are under a lot of pressure, but that doesn't excuse this behaviour. You can't wield scissors around with a seven-year-old and you certainly can't go around cutting off her hair. It's madness. Don't you think?’
http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2009/12/humiliation-for-a-sevenyearold-who-was-playing-with-her-hair-as-teacher-cuts-it-off-.html
zaterdag 2 januari 2010
Polar bear is joined by Santa as another orphan of Global Warming
1. Summary Santa Claus and a polar bear are seen on this cartoon, drifting on a piece of ice on the North Pole. This is a consequence of global warming as the title, Polar bear is joined by Santa as another orphan of Global Warming, says. Through the Global Warming, the ice is melting on the Poles.
2. Why did you choose this cartoon?
I've chosen this cartoon, because a cartoon is different than an article from a newspaper. Global warming is since a few years a lot in the newspapers, on the radio and on the internet. It's a world problem, so everyone has to help to reduce the global warming.
3. Typical examples of vocabulary and style
This is a cartoon where only an image is seen. There is no text, so no vocabulary, etc.
4. Type of text
As I've said several times, this is a cartoon. It belongs to poetic communication.
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