Entry 1 - Phạm Thị Thanh Tuyền

by Critical Thinking 10e14 on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8:34pm ·

    ENTRIES 1: PIANO

by Lynn Smiley

My soul is the piano, his words are the keys.

Together we compose, the best of symphonies.

How my soul replays his words of the day.

Like a composer writing a play.

I hear the music, as he strikes a key. a

n orchestra, is what I see.

Two soul that share a common ground.

a friendship they have found.

What is a piano, without the player.

It's like a soul, without a desire.

It sits alone in the dark, 

waiting for someone to light a spark.

A hope or a desire, 

waiting for someone to inspire.

To play a song of the heart, 

a song of two souls that will never depart

Message: Common passions can bring two people together, and unite them in a unique, on-line friendship. 

Rhetorical devices: - Metonymy: +, my soul-piano 

                                                    +, two soul- two friends 

                                  -Simile: +, How my soul replays his words of the day.                                                     Like a composer writing a play. 

                                    +,Hear the music as strikes a key.

                                    +, A piano, without the player.                                          It's like a soul without a desire.

Source: http://100-poems.com/poems/friendship/0420001.htm

ENTRIES 2:  THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN YOUR LIFE

          A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks about 2 inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up the box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course rolled into the areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor picked up the box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with the unanimous “yes”. “Now” said the professor “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things- your family, your partner, your heath, your children- things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter-like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff.” He continued “If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same go for your life”.

Message: If you spend all the time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Rhetorical devices: - Repetition: +, He then asked the students again if the jar was full.

                                                        They agreed that it was

                                                     +, Picked up the box of…

                      -Parallelism: +,Your family, your partner, your heath, your children.

                                           +,Your job, your house, your car.

Source: http://academictips.org/blogs/moral-tale-the-important-things-in-life/

ENTRIES 3:  CARTOON

The food of giant pandas (only live in China) is now the dollar

Source :http://vnexpress.net/Files/Subject/3B/A1/A2/B9/Mlive.jpg

Message: Painting the American irony of China's largest debtor

Rhetorical devices: -overstatement: panda can’t eat dollar bamboo leaves.

                                 -Metaphor