eng (1113) - CST: atwood 1

we've been doing atwood for the past few days, but not mcuh to say that's not already on the sheets.

she's talking about how many feminists are trying to censor and really narrow the roles of females in literature, especially back in the 1970s. but atwood (speaking in the 1990s) says how that's boring and just like having breakfast, not very exciting.

she argues (and uses a lot of examples from texts) that people need to be bad in order for awesome stories to come about. she talks about being bad being human, and that's what makes life interesting, and that's why men are usually the interesting characters coz they're usually the villains.

today, we reached the point where she lists a bunch of female villains, talking about medea (jason's [as in argonauts] wife) medusa, delilah (as in sampson) goneril and regan lady macbeth and one.. sula.

she also made reference to fairy tales such as snow white, that glorify housekeeping.. but there's also the evil queen whom atwood seems highly interested in, and she talks of cinderella.. we talked about the original story todya in class.. funny coz on a black friday back in feb we talked about the same thing too hahaha.

eng (1105) - CST: suu kyi 2

there's never much i can write about in english these days, not that's not already on the sheets in the booklet.

in the next few pages, suu kyi talks about how women have all these positive qualities and crap and that the home is their realm.

she talks about if women can handle doing all this stuff int he home, then they can bring it to the world and make the world awesome.

she talks abot even men acknowledge tat women should be more involved with government crap.

also, a little on history, burmese girls often flee the country to thailand and become prostitutes.. and somehow tahts a life thats better than staying in burma. shall dig into this further soon

eng (1104) - CST: suu kyi 1

we started with suu kyi's speech today, more about justice etc.

but we went through contextual things first.. about suu kyi, and her house arrest, and inability to see her children and husband and all that.

i actually dont have much to say on this.. what notes can you make that arent arleady scribbled into the book? x.x

just go check it.. waste to double up notes.

eng (1027) - CST: sadat 5

can't really say much.. it was a lot of reading.

we talked about altruism.. which is basically doing things because its the right thing to do, not coz you want to do it.

we talked about sadat being self-righteous, he was confident that what he was saying was right.

we also talked about how he didn't use doublespeak, he claimed so anyway. that whatever he said was honest words.. that he "didnt speak more than 1 language" to quote.

eng (1023) - CST: sadat 4

didn't make much progress today.. coz had to talk about other stuff like classes and rank slips and whatnot.

but we did talk about some contextual stuff.. like jerusalem. home of the ark of the covenant and deathplace of jesus, important to the three battling religions.

we reviewed stuff again, like techniques. repetition, metaphor, simile, anaphora, lexical chains, imagery and quotes, etc.

we discussed what kind of person sadat is, and what we can draw from just 5 pages of his speech. he's a passionate, logical speaker who demonstrates his knowledge and proves he knows what he's talking about with analogies and whatnot. he's religious, in terms of his own, and neighbouring religions, but he is also a proud man. he is dedicated and he is courageous, especially to step into enemy territory and make such claims.

although he offered peace and all these guarantees with israel, he still claimed it all to be arab land, including jerusalem.

apparently both the arabs and the israeli people filmed it, and they edited the speech and camera shots in different ways. the arab takes focused on people not paying attention, and the israeli film showed astonished looks on peoples faces.

also, apparently my level of language has crapped up as my recent essays have shown me, and it has been commented on -.- have to work on that.. i did crap in eng and ext1 eng this yearly.. not surprised im not in top class -.-

eng (1022) - CST: sadat 3

lexical chains (string of words) and anaphora were what we discussed that sadat used today.

he made reference to guys in the old testament, who were known by people of all three religions. he spoke of wise king solomon and king david.

he also made a lot of guarantees with israel, ultimately he was saying that it was arab land.

a bit of a history lesson though, israel had historic claims on the land, and anyone could really coz back in the ancient days, theb oarders were always shifting.