Entry no.1_Dao Thi Them

  

                    Item1: Poem

Hell and Heaven

Hell is other people who

No matter what you do

Always find something to judge

They drag you through the sludge

And see through your thin disguise

As they shred you with their eyes

All their faults and lack

They place upon your back

Unable to see their own transgression

It becomes their only obsession

To find all of your flaws

And all your broken laws

And they won’t even let you live

Because they refuse to forgive

Heaven is other people who

No matter what you do

Choose to see the best

In you and forget the rest

They don’t dwell on your sin

Since they want all to win

They don’t create divisions

By their prideful derisions

Of those with whom they differ

 For they know that the transfer

Of their own guilt to another

Will come back and smother

Their efforts to be free

And their search for unity

• Rhetorical

• Rhyme: who-do; judge-sludge-disguise; lack-back; transgression-obsession; flaws-laws; live-give; best-rest; sin-win; divisions-derisions; differ-transfer; another-smother
• Symbol: heaven( a place of great happiness); hell( a place of evil, misery)
• Metaphor: sludge( what cover your faults); the eyes( the bad manners to run your sin down); the rest( your mistake); unity(condescending).
• Parallelism: They don’t dwell on your sin

                          They don’t create division.

• Message:

 Heaven and hell  revealed our relationships. As we communicated and connected, our thoughts, words, and actions have a very real influence on others. We value and affirm ourselves and others is that we create heaven on earth. Which we emphasize the mistakes of ourselves and others is that we create hell on earth.

                                           Item 2: Cartoon

• Rhetorical devices:

• Overstatement: a lot of parts of computer was carried for a business trip
• Metonymy: it is necessary for businessman to improve business as well own a laptop for the business trips.
• Message:

                   The life is more complex, humankind needs more modern technologies.

                                     Item 3: A short fable

One day a fox was traveling through the forest, when she entered into a clearing and saw a rabbit busily working a typewriter. Naturally, this unusual phenomenon intrigued the fox. So she approached the rabbit and instead of immediately eating her, asked what was going on.

"I'm typing my thesis," said the rabbit.

"What is the topic of your thesis," asked the fox.

"It's called Why Rabbits Eat Foxes."

"That's crazy," said the fox, "everyone knows that foxes eat rabbits, not the other way around."

"Why don't we step into my den and discuss this," the rabbit said, and the fox agreed. Time passed. Soon the rabbit emerged from the den, but the fox did not.

The following day, a wolf came into the same clearing. Same story, except this time the thesis title was Why Rabbits Eat Wolves. Same outcome: the rabbit came out of the den but the wolf did not. The day after, there was a similar occurrence with a weasel.

All this time an owl had been watching all this, she wondered why all the other animals had not come out, and said to herself "I must see what is going on here." So the owl crept up very quietly to the entrance of the rabbit's hole and peered in. After her eyes became accustomed to the darkness, she saw in one corner a neat pile of fox bones. Nearby, another pile of wolf bones. And in the middle of the den was an enormous, mean-looking Lion, who was just finishing a nice weasel dinner.

• Rhetorical devices:

• Metaphor: Rabbit( spokesman); fox, wolf and weasel( protester); lion(advisor).

• Message:

Some argument topics are led to wrong conclusions because of choosing wrong advisors.