Entry 1_ Đinh Thị Thủy

Item 1: Cartoon

Uganda – 1980

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/famine-in-uganda/

The small hand: the poor people in Africa

The big hand: the help from kind people in the world

Message:

This is the picture about famine in Africa. It discribled atrophy hand of a child who was being moribund in a United Nation’s member’s hand.The child was not able to wait anymore. Although the help is late, it made us hope about a better place in the future.

Item 2: Story

Mothers day

A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars." The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said, "Yes, please! You can take me to my mother." She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.

Rhetorical devices:

Metaphor:  

The girl: people who felt the missing her mother’s love and caring 

The man: people whose mother are alive. He always received his mother’s love. 

Message:

Our  love to my mother or father is not big things we give them. It is simple our action, gesture and words. The love is from the bottom of each person’s heart.

Item 3: Song

 

Never Say Never

See I never thought that I could walk through fire
I never thought that I could take the burn
I never had the strength to take it higher
Until I reached the point of no return

And there's just no turning back
When your hearts under attack
Gonna give everything I have
It's my destiny

I will never say never! (I will fight)
I will fight till forever! (make it right)
Whenever you knock me down
I will not stay on the ground
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up up up
And never say never

Ne-Never say never(Never)
Ne-Neve r say never(Never)
Ne-Neve r say never(Never)
I never thought I could feel this power
I never thought that I could feel this free
I'm strong enough to climb the highest tower
And I'm fast enough to run across the sea

And there's just no turning back
When your hearts under attack
Gonna give everything I have
'cause this is my destiny

I will never say never! (I will fight)
I will fight till forever! (make it right)
Whenever you knock me down
I will not stay on the ground
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up, up, up
And never say never

Here we go!
Guess who?
JSmith and Jb!
I gotcha lil bro
I can handle him
Hold up, aight?
I can handle him

Now he's bigger than me
Taller than me
And he's older than me
And stronger than me
And his arms a little bit longer than me
But he ain't on a JB song with me!

I be trying a chill
They be trying to sour the thrill
No pun intended, was raised by the power of Will

Like Luke with the force, when push comes to shove
Like Kobe in the 4th, ice water with blood

I gotta be the best, and yes
We're the flyest
Like David and Goliath
I conquered the giant
So now I got the world in my hand
I was born from two stars
So the moon's where I land

I will never say never! (I will fight)
I will fight till forever! (make it right)
Whenever you knock me down
I will not stay on the ground
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up, up, up
And never say never

I will never say never! (I will fight)
I will fight till forever! (make it right)
Whenever you knock me down
I will not stay on the ground
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up,
Pick it up, up, up
And never say never

Rhetorical devices:
Overstatement:
See I never thought that I could walk through fire
I never thought that I could take the burn
Repetition:
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up up up
…….

Ne-Never say never(Never)
Ne-Neve r say never(Never)
Ne-Neve r say never(Never)
Structure:
I never thought I could ………
I never thought that I could…..
Comparison:
Now he's bigger than me
Taller than me
And he's older than me
And stronger than me
And his arms a little bit longer than me
……….
I'm strong enough to climb the highest tower
…………..
Like David and Goliath
Rhyme:
Never_ forever
Hand_land
Back_attack
Down_ground
Power_tower
Burn_return
Fight_night
Thrill_will

Message: This meaningful song “Never say never” is from the famous film called “ Karate Kid”. It told about the difficult life of a Detroit child in a new land- China after his father’s death. The pressure is seem too big for a kid. However, he overcome any pain to be the winner. The song’s lyric is the massage which the film’s director want to tell: “never giving up till the last second, you will win yourself”.
Note:
David and Goliath: David is a young teenager conquered a Philistine giant call Goliath who make everyone scared with only slingshot and stones.

Story: David and Goliath
http://christianity.about.com/od/biblestorysummaries/p/davidandgoliath.htm
Sources:
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/famine-in-uganda/
http://mp3.zing.vn/bai-hat/Never-Say-Never-Justin-Bieber,Jaden-Smith/ZWZAEI9B.html
http://www.indianchild.com/mothers_day.htm

entry 1 Đào Thị Mỹ Hạnh

Item 1

“Mình là ta đấy thôi, ta vẫn gửi cho mình.

Sâu thẳm mình ư ? lại là ta đấy !

Ta gửi tro, mình nhen thành lửa cháy,

Gửi viên đá con, mình dựng lại nên thành.”

                                ( Chế Lan Viên,Ta gửi cho mình)

Rhetorical device :

         rhetorical question and paradox  

 rhetorical question :« Sâu thẳm mình ư » 

paradox : “tro”- “ lửa cháy”,  “viên đá con”- “ thành”

Message: love has a great power, once two people become stimulated, anything even is out of date, they can make the wonderful things by love.  

Item 2:

Rhetorical divices:

Symbol: image of % (interest rate), money ( price, money value), a person( businesspeople)

Overstatement: the interest rate up to sky that means it is very high

Message: inflation causes high interest rate, money value goes down rapidly and the businesspeople have to try to keep their money

Item 3

“I never killed a deer before but I took a shot at it”

Rhetorical device:

Pun: “take a shot”: shooting or taking photo

Message:

There are two ways to understand. Firstly, the author takes a photo and doesn’t kill deer. Secondly, the author has to shoot by gun in order to kill the deer

Entry no.1_Nguyen Thi Ha Vy

Item1: Poem

Bánh trôi nước

Tự tình II - Hồ Xuân Hương

Thân em vừa trắng lại vừa tròn

Bảy nổi ba chìm với nước non

Rắn nát mặc dầu tay kẻ nặn

Mà em vẫn giữ tấm lòng son

Rhetorical devices:

Rhyme: “tròn” – “non” – “son”

Personalization: “thân em”: floating water cake

Idioms: “bảy nổi ba chìm”

Metaphor: “rắn”: happy; “nát”: unhappy; “kẻ nặn”: fathers, husbands, feudal rites or fate

Message: Expressing the sympathy and pride of fate, destiny and the quality of Vietnamese women, it has a very distinctive human values.

Item2: Cartoon

 Source: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhZetWXC1XO1GPoXwLRc2ae1qGpFICDQXTBZZHQvOkUul8CmuLOT2rKJ13-7QVfgwy3sy1r34TF8al1-EfjjuTbYap0oIZ-dZJojIvsGtKwtIIaGKHI_TB31C42dG3FPJsr1BBgzIRHyU/s1600/Meaningful+Cartoon.jpg

 Rhetorical devices:

Personalization: Short man: salary; tall men: fuel, bread, meat (goods)

Metaphor: “short”: not growning; “tall”:growning

Message: Reflect the reality that while prices of all commodities are increasing very fast, just salary keeps increasing slowly.

  

Item 3:Song

Stay the same

Joey Mcintyre - www.nhaccuatui.com/nghe?M=sUUXKuVkCj

Don't you ever wish
You were someone else
You were meant to be
The way you are exactly
Don't you ever say
You don't like the way you are
When you learn to love yourself
You're better off by far
And I hope you always stay the same
'Cause there's nothing 'bout you I would change

I think that you could be
Whatever you wanted to be
If you could realize
All the dreams you have inside
Don't be afraid
If you got something to say
Just open up your heart
And let it show you the way

Believe in yourself
Reach down inside
The love you find will set you free
Believe in yourself
You will come alive
Have faith in what you do
You'll make it through

Oh,

Don't change!

Rhetorical devices:

Repetition: The question “Don’t you ever…”; “Believe in yourself”

Rhyme: “be”- “exactly”; “say”-“way”; “are”-“far”; “same”-“change”; “realize”-“inside”-“alive”; “do”-“through”

Message: Just be the way you are! Be good but don’t change anything to be someone else.

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

entry 1_Lê Thị Thủy

Entry 1_Le Thi Thuy Jannuary 31/ 2012
 Item 1

 Forest Lake

 *** by : Edith Sodergan    
 I was alone on a sunny shore by the forest's pale blue lake, in the sky floated a single cloud and on the water a single isle. The ripe sweetness of the summer dripped in bead of every tree and straight into my opened heart a tiny drop ran down.

 Rhetorical devices: • Consonance; sky-single, sweetness- summer • Alliteration ; sunny- shore • Assonance; sweetness • Repetition; a single • Rhyme; , sky-isle Message; It is an excellent scene of nature – the beauty of sadness like the sorrow in the heart of people. Standing ahead of it , people feel small. However they still want to be there , to enjoy sky and land.

Item2: slogan

 Message: Being born is a valuable gift for every one. Although we sometime have difficulty in life we still go ahead. Because life is ours we need to protect
it.
 Rhetorical devices: symbol : the heart stands for life





Item3: picture

 Message: call for help It is clear that the picture show the appeal to help childern in the poor coutries, especially in the African. They are hungry and live in the poor condition. A small help from us can give them happiness.
 Rhetorical devices: symbol : the photo is only a small corner of life in Africa but it reflects the poor living standard of the poor in the world. Not only the children but also the rest are suffering that case.

Entry1_ Le Thi Thai Hang

Entry 1 – Lê Thị Thái Hằng

Item 1: Poem

 FIRE AND ICE

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost Submitted Date :  Friday, January 03, 2003

Rhetorical devices:

-         Rhyme: fire- ice- desire- fire- twice, hate- great, ice- suffice.

-        Metaphor:

                                    *fire: anger, hatred, desire, lust…

                                    *ice: hate, coldness and indifference… 

Message:

We are suffering from the pain of desire and hate. These two elements can be very strong and both can give you the strength to hold on in difficult situations. However, they are so dangerous that they can destroy us, destroy our beautiful world. The poem still has a hidden criticism that there is too much hate in this world. Hate that maybe once will ruin the world....

Item 2: Picture

Rhetorical devices:

-          Overstatement:  OXY  1.000đ/phút

-          Symbol: place to sell petrol turns into place to sell Oxygen because of air pollution.

Message:

 In the future, the air pollution( smoke and dust from transports) will make people have no oxy to breathe. 

Item 3: Song

WHAT ARE WORDS?

                               Chris Medina

Anywhere you are, I am near
Anywhere you go, I'll be there
Anytime you whisper my name, you'll see
How every single promise I keep
Because what kind of guy would I be
If I was to leave when you need me most

What are words
If you really don't mean them
When you say them
What are words
If they're only for good times
Then they don't
When it's love
Yeah, you say them out loud
Those words, They never go away
They live on, even when we're gone

And I know an angel was sent just for me
And I know I'm meant to be where I am
And I'm gonna be
Standing right beside her tonight


And I'm gonna be by your side
I would never leave when she needs me most
I'm forever keeping my angel close.

Rhetorical Devices:

- Rhyme: see- keep- be, right- beside- tonight, leave- need,

- Repetition:

            + Anywhere you…

            + What are words if…

            + And I know….

- Metaphor : angel: the author’s beloved darling.

- Rhetorical question:

+ What are words if you really don't mean them when you say them?
+ What are words if they're only for good times then they don't?

Message: whatever happens, “ I” always be there for “she” because “she” is an angel of “ my” life.

……………………………………..

Source:

Item1: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice/

Item2: http://www2.vietbao.vn/images/viet1/cuoi/11031186-Biem-hoa8.jpg

Item3: http://www.directlyrics.com/chris-medina-what-are-words-lyrics.html

Entry 1_Bùi Thanh Nga

Entry 1

(Message analysis)

Item 1: Picture

Rhetorical Device:

Symbol: the big question mark is the symbol of the large amount of knowledge that people desire to learn.

Message:

There is a lot of knowledge that we have not known yet, what we have known is only an extremely small part. Therefore, we should not be proud with what we have, have ambition to conquer the knowledge and try our best to learn.

 Item 2: Poet

Your Smile

Keep smiling while you can
Be kind and loving to everyman

If you really think about it
Nothing matters one little bit

Of one, nothing ever remains
Except as yesterday's stains

For, no one wins the race
Against Time and Space

So, while we are here only for a while
Why not enjoy life and wear a broad smile?


***************

Your smile is like the sunshine warming my day.
Your the first and last thing that makes me feel this way.

Our love is more then affection.
Our love has the lords protection.


***************

Happiness comes at times to all
But sadness comes unbidden

And sometimes a few tears must fall
Among the laughter hidden.

So when friends have sadness on their face
And troubles round them piled

The world will seem a better place
And all because you smiled.

***************

A smile is a sign of love
A smile is a sign of care

A smile tells how much to others
You are important and also dear

A smile is a sign of cheer
A smile is a sign of trust

A smile shows how you can
Be happy even in hard crust

Rhetorical devices:

-         Rhyme: can-man; it-bit; remains-stains; race-space; while-smile; day-way; affection-protection; all-fall; unbidden-hidden; face-place; piled-smiled; dear-cheer; trust-crust.

-         Parallelism:  A smile is a sign of…

-         Simile: Your smile is like the sunshine warming my day.

-         Rhetorical question: Why not enjoy life and wear a broad smile?

Message:

Keep smiling because your smile can be very helpful. Smiling makes our lives better and happier.

Item 3: Song

Heal the world

There's a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place could be much
Brighter than tomorrow.
And if you really try
You'll find there's no need to cry
In this place you'll feel
There's no hurt or sorrow.
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space, make a better place.

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for
You and for me.


If you want to know why
There's a love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares for joyful giving.
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel
Fear or dread
We stop existing and start living
Then it feels that always
Love's enough for us growing
Make a better world, make a better world.

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race.
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for
You and for me.

And the dream we would conceived in
Will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in
Will shine again in grace
Then why do we keep strangling life
Wound this earth, crucify it's soul
Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly
Be God's glow.


We could fly so high
Let our spirits never die
In my heart I feel
You are all my brothers
Create a world with no fear
Together we'll cry happy tears
See the nations turn
Their swords into plowshares
We could really get there
If you cared enough for the living
Make a little space to make a better place.

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for
You and for me.

There are people dying if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me.
There are people dying if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me.

You and for me / Make a better place
You and for me / Make a better place
You and for me / Make a better place
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children

Rhetorical Devices:

-         Rhyme: try-cry; tomorrow-sorrow; place-race; giving-living; face-grace; fear-tear.

-         Repetition:

            + Heal the world / Make it a better place

            + There are people dying if you care enough for the living / Make a better place for you and for me

            + Heal the world we live in

            + Save it for our children

Message:

Let’s keep the world peace. People all over the world need to unite and love the others, heal the injuries together, remove all distance and discrimination in the world.

Source:

(1): http://viztac.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/question.jpg

(2): http://www.allbestmessages.com/poems/short-poems/Short-Similes-Poems.php

(3):http://www.lyrics007.com/Michael%20Jackson%20Lyrics/Heal%20The%20World%20Lyrics.html