In the early of February, I managed to meet my supervisor.
She guided me and we reach into a consensus whereby we are going to meet every Wednesday
afterI have sent my research paper draft.
Basically, I will give the drafts on Monday. Then, on Tuesday she will check and like I said erlier on, she will discuss with me on how to improve my drafts.
I am delightful and thankful to have her as my supervisor. Thankgoodness!!!!
Basically, it is not an easy task to find an apt topic to be discussed, mind boggling!!!
I ought to browse the information through the Internet in order to give the vivid information.
My first topic would be engages with Antigone and King Lear. but, my supervisor wants me to change to another topic. urgh!!!!!
I would never given up sine I am determined person!!!! I will alter my topic
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
position paper
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to. Ideas that you are considering need to be carefully examined in choosing a topic, developing your argument, and organizing your paper. It is very important to ensure that you are addressing all sides of the issue and presenting it in a manner that is easy for your audience to understand. Your job is to take one side of the argument and persuade your audience that you have well-founded knowledge of the topic being presented. It is important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims, as well as to address the counterclaims to show that you are well informed about both sides.
In doing a brilliant position paper I followed some guidelines from the Internet;
"Write a positon paper to
Organize and outline your viewpoint on an issue
Formally inform others of your positionas a foundation to build resolution to difficult problems
Present a unique, though biased, solutionor a unique approach to solving a problem
Frame the discussion in order to define the "playing field."This can put you in an advantageous position with those who may not be so well prepared as regards the issues behind their positions
Establish your credibilityHere you are demonstating that you have a command of the issues and the research behind them, and can present them clearly
Let your passion be demonstrated in the force of your argumentrather than in the use of emotional terms
Guide you in being consistent in maintaining your position in negotiation
The better prepared you arethe more disadvantaged are your opponentsand more likely they will defer to you
Guidelines:
Format should be consistent with guidelines determined by the sponsoring organization or committee
Include topic, date, purpose, etc, and should readily identify you as the author
If the paper represents a group, organization, committee, do not write in the first person (not I, my, mine, etc. but rather we, our, etc.)
Limit yourself to two pages following the format established by previous successful position papers" (Source:http://www.studygs.net/wrtstr9.htm)
Organize and outline your viewpoint on an issue
Formally inform others of your positionas a foundation to build resolution to difficult problems
Present a unique, though biased, solutionor a unique approach to solving a problem
Frame the discussion in order to define the "playing field."This can put you in an advantageous position with those who may not be so well prepared as regards the issues behind their positions
Establish your credibilityHere you are demonstating that you have a command of the issues and the research behind them, and can present them clearly
Let your passion be demonstrated in the force of your argumentrather than in the use of emotional terms
Guide you in being consistent in maintaining your position in negotiation
The better prepared you arethe more disadvantaged are your opponentsand more likely they will defer to you
Guidelines:
Format should be consistent with guidelines determined by the sponsoring organization or committee
Include topic, date, purpose, etc, and should readily identify you as the author
If the paper represents a group, organization, committee, do not write in the first person (not I, my, mine, etc. but rather we, our, etc.)
Limit yourself to two pages following the format established by previous successful position papers" (Source:http://www.studygs.net/wrtstr9.htm)
My thesis statement:
"Antigone's stubborness is one of her tragic flaws in Sophocles's Antigone"
T o make it more meaningful i used several topic sentences, to support my thesis statement. All in all, I am satisfies with the position paper.
Deadalus and Icarus
Basically, I really have the mind-boggling about the epic. Nevertheless, i managed to chec the details about the epic through the Internet.
"In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos "cunning worker" and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer and was even said to have first invented images. He is first mentioned in Homer, where he built for Ariadne a wide dancing-ground (Iliad xviii.591). Homer still calls her by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the Labyrinth" (Iliad xviii.96), which Daedalus had also made, in which the Minotaur was kept and from which Theseus escaped by means of the thread clue of Ariadne. Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice, rather than a single path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end (see labyrinth). Daedalus built it for King Minos, who needed the labyrinth to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur. Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, describes Daedalus as making the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.[1] For Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, Daedalus built a wooden cow so she could mate with a bull; Poseidon had given the bull to Minos so that he might have an excellent sacrifice, Minos had kept it for himself, and in revenge, Poseidon had inspired his wife with a lust that she only managed to assuage by hiding in the cow.[2]
Athenians transferred Cretan Daedalus as Athenian-born, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus, who fled to Crete, having killed his nephew, Perdix. Over time, other stories were told of Daedalus. In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a "historically-intractable farrago of "evidence", heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism" (Stewart). Among these anecdotes, one told that Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of the labyrinth from spreading to the public. He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus. He tied feathers together, from smallest to largest so as to form an increasing surface. The larger ones he secured with thread and the smaller with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird. When the work was finally done, the artist, waving his wings, found himself buoyed upward and hung suspended, poising himself on the beaten air. He next equipped his son in the same manner, and taught him how to fly. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low because the sea foam would make the wings wet and they would no longer fly. Thus the father and son flew away.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (detail) by Peter Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1558
They had passed Samos, Delos and Lebynthos when the boy began to soar upward as if to reach heaven. The blazing sun softened the wax which held the feathers together and they came off. Icarus fell into the sea. His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child. Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus, where he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god.
Minos, meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle. He presented a spiral seashell and asked for a string to be run through it. When he reached Camicus, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, privately fetched the old man to him. He tied the string to an ant which, lured by a drop of honey at one end, walked through the seashell stringing it all the way through. Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over. Cocalus managed to convince Minos to take a bath first, where Cocalus' daughters killed Minos.
Daedalus was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear the idea of a rival. His sister had placed her son Perdix under his charge to be taught the mechanical arts. He was an apt scholar and showed striking evidence of ingenuity. Walking on the seashore, he picked up the spine of a fish[3]. Imitating it, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity, when they were together one day on the top of a high tower, to push him off. But Minerva, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, the partridge. This bird does not build his nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights, but nestles in the hedges, and mindful of his fall, avoids high places. For this crime, Daedalus was tried and banished."
All these were taken from the wikipedia. I view this epic is not so much interesting
"In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos "cunning worker" and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer and was even said to have first invented images. He is first mentioned in Homer, where he built for Ariadne a wide dancing-ground (Iliad xviii.591). Homer still calls her by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the Labyrinth" (Iliad xviii.96), which Daedalus had also made, in which the Minotaur was kept and from which Theseus escaped by means of the thread clue of Ariadne. Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice, rather than a single path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end (see labyrinth). Daedalus built it for King Minos, who needed the labyrinth to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur. Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, describes Daedalus as making the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.[1] For Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, Daedalus built a wooden cow so she could mate with a bull; Poseidon had given the bull to Minos so that he might have an excellent sacrifice, Minos had kept it for himself, and in revenge, Poseidon had inspired his wife with a lust that she only managed to assuage by hiding in the cow.[2]
Athenians transferred Cretan Daedalus as Athenian-born, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus, who fled to Crete, having killed his nephew, Perdix. Over time, other stories were told of Daedalus. In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a "historically-intractable farrago of "evidence", heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism" (Stewart). Among these anecdotes, one told that Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of the labyrinth from spreading to the public. He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus. He tied feathers together, from smallest to largest so as to form an increasing surface. The larger ones he secured with thread and the smaller with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird. When the work was finally done, the artist, waving his wings, found himself buoyed upward and hung suspended, poising himself on the beaten air. He next equipped his son in the same manner, and taught him how to fly. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low because the sea foam would make the wings wet and they would no longer fly. Thus the father and son flew away.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (detail) by Peter Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1558
They had passed Samos, Delos and Lebynthos when the boy began to soar upward as if to reach heaven. The blazing sun softened the wax which held the feathers together and they came off. Icarus fell into the sea. His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child. Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus, where he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god.
Minos, meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle. He presented a spiral seashell and asked for a string to be run through it. When he reached Camicus, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, privately fetched the old man to him. He tied the string to an ant which, lured by a drop of honey at one end, walked through the seashell stringing it all the way through. Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over. Cocalus managed to convince Minos to take a bath first, where Cocalus' daughters killed Minos.
Daedalus was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear the idea of a rival. His sister had placed her son Perdix under his charge to be taught the mechanical arts. He was an apt scholar and showed striking evidence of ingenuity. Walking on the seashore, he picked up the spine of a fish[3]. Imitating it, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity, when they were together one day on the top of a high tower, to push him off. But Minerva, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, the partridge. This bird does not build his nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights, but nestles in the hedges, and mindful of his fall, avoids high places. For this crime, Daedalus was tried and banished."
All these were taken from the wikipedia. I view this epic is not so much interesting
Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut,
I take the issues discussed in this short story seriously. We never know what might happen in the future.The images portrayed in this short story are rather scary. They put emphasis on equality. So much so they would wear mental handicap radio, sashweight, bag of birdshot and even mask. This way, no one is smarter, lighter or even prettier than the other person. Basically everyone is equal in every way no matter what their gender is. This is how they live in the year 2081.I do not like the vision of the future presented in this story. Before reading this short story, I believe that men and women status needs to be equalised. Now, after reading Harrison Bergeron, I wish I never think of the matter. I want equality in life but not as extreme as the one portrayed in this short story. We cannot equalise intelligence or speed. This is because we are made out of different genes. Everyone must have something special and something common in them. A person might be a genius but has problems playing soccer because of his slow reflex.One of the two social questions asked in this short story is about the place of the media in our lives. The media is a very important tool for communication. It also provides us with information we need. It can be a powerful weapon and can be used to influence people. We do not have to wait until 2081 to see this. The media has influenced us for a very long time. A simple advertisement about a toy will drive a kid crazy and thus influence him to get one.Next is the question of our freedom to act as individuals. Are we free to act as individuals? I believe this is not quite true. We are somewhat free to act as individuals. One person can choose to work overtime or not but it all depends on his/her boss. We cannot refuse him/her because we fear we might loose the job. This person is still not free to act as him/herself.I can see both reality and absurdity in this short story. It is already a reality that the media is influencing us. I find it absurd to be equal in all ways. This can never happen. We can equalise weights and intelligence but can we equalise gender itself? The answer is no. It is no loner equal when the duty of giving birth is given solely to female.To conclude, we should appreciate what we have today. It is good that we fight for what we want but sometimes, it is better to just sit back and enjoy everything we have right now.
I take the issues discussed in this short story seriously. We never know what might happen in the future.The images portrayed in this short story are rather scary. They put emphasis on equality. So much so they would wear mental handicap radio, sashweight, bag of birdshot and even mask. This way, no one is smarter, lighter or even prettier than the other person. Basically everyone is equal in every way no matter what their gender is. This is how they live in the year 2081.I do not like the vision of the future presented in this story. Before reading this short story, I believe that men and women status needs to be equalised. Now, after reading Harrison Bergeron, I wish I never think of the matter. I want equality in life but not as extreme as the one portrayed in this short story. We cannot equalise intelligence or speed. This is because we are made out of different genes. Everyone must have something special and something common in them. A person might be a genius but has problems playing soccer because of his slow reflex.One of the two social questions asked in this short story is about the place of the media in our lives. The media is a very important tool for communication. It also provides us with information we need. It can be a powerful weapon and can be used to influence people. We do not have to wait until 2081 to see this. The media has influenced us for a very long time. A simple advertisement about a toy will drive a kid crazy and thus influence him to get one.Next is the question of our freedom to act as individuals. Are we free to act as individuals? I believe this is not quite true. We are somewhat free to act as individuals. One person can choose to work overtime or not but it all depends on his/her boss. We cannot refuse him/her because we fear we might loose the job. This person is still not free to act as him/herself.I can see both reality and absurdity in this short story. It is already a reality that the media is influencing us. I find it absurd to be equal in all ways. This can never happen. We can equalise weights and intelligence but can we equalise gender itself? The answer is no. It is no loner equal when the duty of giving birth is given solely to female.To conclude, we should appreciate what we have today. It is good that we fight for what we want but sometimes, it is better to just sit back and enjoy everything we have right now.
A Common Story
A Common Story by Kassim Ahmad
This story depicts the realities of human life as we see now to quite a great extent. A simple question of "how many of us actually do what we like and want as opposed to what brings food, name and fortune?" is enough to put us in the same dilemma faced by Yusuf.Yusuf lived in a tumultous time, a time when a new nation was to be born and yet, facing one of its greatest challenges to date. Yusuf faced a similar challenge. Coming from a small kampung of illiterate rubber-tappers and padi-planters, he faced a great change in his life. Not many small village-folk had the opportunity of going to a big city,much less go there to study and prepare for a lucrative job. The same can be said now of many young people. After finishing their secondary schooling, many young Malaysians are privileged to further their tertiary education in academia far from their own kampung. Yusuf learnt, saw and experienced many new,unimaginable things. It all helped mould his own mature opinion of the world and its human inhabitants. He was exposed to the "Singaporean conditions of culture which included Beethoven at one end and Bill Haley at the other. In between, there was Hemingway, the Week-Ender, blue films, love-making in the parks" and so on. Like Yusuf, most of the young people are exposed to new cultures and habits that can be both good or evil (new social networks, new habits and new-found freedom, drug abuse etc.)In this story, Yusuf's father and to a lesser extent the village folk ( shown by their concern of Yusuf being "a sort of Communist") had hoped that Yusuf would return with an academic title that would stand him in good stead in his pursuit of money power and fame. Their hopes and aspirations was that Yusuf would return to provide a better future for his family. This is reality. It is seen also in the hopes and aspirations of every parent in the world now to see their children succeed ( rather than their children doing what they want to do for a livng). Yusuf took an uncommon path in his life. Yusuf had seen the best and worst of both the village and city worlds before choosing what he wanted in life. However, unlike most young people nowadays who would most probably choose the first or most promising career that comes before them,Yusuf took the road not taken by most people. He took the road which made him happy rather than the road that society would expect and want him to take
This story depicts the realities of human life as we see now to quite a great extent. A simple question of "how many of us actually do what we like and want as opposed to what brings food, name and fortune?" is enough to put us in the same dilemma faced by Yusuf.Yusuf lived in a tumultous time, a time when a new nation was to be born and yet, facing one of its greatest challenges to date. Yusuf faced a similar challenge. Coming from a small kampung of illiterate rubber-tappers and padi-planters, he faced a great change in his life. Not many small village-folk had the opportunity of going to a big city,much less go there to study and prepare for a lucrative job. The same can be said now of many young people. After finishing their secondary schooling, many young Malaysians are privileged to further their tertiary education in academia far from their own kampung. Yusuf learnt, saw and experienced many new,unimaginable things. It all helped mould his own mature opinion of the world and its human inhabitants. He was exposed to the "Singaporean conditions of culture which included Beethoven at one end and Bill Haley at the other. In between, there was Hemingway, the Week-Ender, blue films, love-making in the parks" and so on. Like Yusuf, most of the young people are exposed to new cultures and habits that can be both good or evil (new social networks, new habits and new-found freedom, drug abuse etc.)In this story, Yusuf's father and to a lesser extent the village folk ( shown by their concern of Yusuf being "a sort of Communist") had hoped that Yusuf would return with an academic title that would stand him in good stead in his pursuit of money power and fame. Their hopes and aspirations was that Yusuf would return to provide a better future for his family. This is reality. It is seen also in the hopes and aspirations of every parent in the world now to see their children succeed ( rather than their children doing what they want to do for a livng). Yusuf took an uncommon path in his life. Yusuf had seen the best and worst of both the village and city worlds before choosing what he wanted in life. However, unlike most young people nowadays who would most probably choose the first or most promising career that comes before them,Yusuf took the road not taken by most people. He took the road which made him happy rather than the road that society would expect and want him to take
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