Entry 8-General Comments on 4 Articles

 Simpe Assalamualaikum for this time to start the entry. In this entry I have to give my general view on the 4 article which written by four well known writer.

The 4 articles are Thinking Folly by Echart Tolle, The Degree of Happiness by Betrand Russell, ...man and women are merely players by Robert Greene and the last one would be The Jews and their Deceits by Adolf Hitler. These 4 articles have driven me crazy plus I have to write The Rules of 10 for of it. It really challenges my ability to critically think about the topic and I have to make decision, to choose side which one I would like to support and totally make my wreck of. The four writers have written a really good article indeed. They make me confuse and think twice before decide which side to be hold up. The 4 articles are hard to argue on because I have to make some research on it to make sure I am on the right track. 

Eckhart Tolle

Betrand Russell

Robert Greene

Adolf Hitler



Have you read those four articles?? Read now!! And start critically think about the topic discuss. Let see how creative and brilliant you are in giving out opinion and choose side.

Entry 7-Plato's Myth of the Cave

Does anyone know about Plato’s Myth of The Cave?? No?? Let me brief you what it is all about.

Plato's analogy depicts a group of people being imprisoned in a cave and being tricked into thinking shadows cast on a cave wall are all reality has to offer (they lived their entire lives this way, they've never been outside). But if you can somehow escape, you'll get out of the cave. For the first time, you will see sunlight and 3 dimensions and such, and your mind will be blown; you'll be blinded and confused. Then, you'll want to free others. But the majority of prisoners will not leave with you no matter what you say, convinced that the shadows are the real world.

The cave is an analogy that is trying to make a point about the real world. Consider a philosopher in a world of ordinary city people. Ordinary people don't realize how blind they are in their daily lives. If one such person suddenly started seeing truth, they would at first be blinded and confused. But then they would try to show others. But others won't really listen. If he pushes too hard, they will label him crazy and shun him, preferring to keep their lives comfortable.

It's a bit hard to come up with a "new interpretation" for the myth. This is the intended interpretation; scholars agree this is what Plato meant to suggest. A new interpretation would be ascribing something other than what he meant onto his story.

The movie "The Matrix" is a giant reference to Plato's myth, with the Matrix as the cave, and Neo being an escapee. Neo's first words outside of the Matrix are "My eyes hurt..."

Source: Yahoo Answer

Well back to the questions that I have been ask to do. These are the four questions and the answers:

1.      Choose a setting/reality that is similar to this story.

Well, I would change the setting to the smaller scope which is unrequited love.

2.      In your opinion what do these object symbolizes:

                               I.            The prisoners-the person with unrequited love, the person who still hope for the love

                            II.            The chains-the feeling of love

                         III.            The fire-feeling of love which is not reciprocated

                         IV.            The shadows and the images-shadow of a love one

                            V.            The puppet players-the person that play’s with the person feeling

                         VI.            The old man-parents

3.      Based on the setting/reality which you have selected, why do you think the prisoner hurt his eyes when he first liberated?

The person cannot accept another person other than the person that he love very much.

4.      In the context which you have selected, why do you think that the prisoner still insist that the images which he has seen before are much real that the statues?

The person is used to the shadows and the image of the person that he love, so he can’t believe any other things even it is real.

Entry 6-Simile and Metaphor

As for this time, I was asked to write as many as i want about the simile and metaphor as to indicate that I understand the topic thought by the lecturer. For the first time I was confused to differentiate between simile and metaphor even I have done this in my school days. Madam Choong Lai Guan (my former English teacher), I am sorry. Well, as to make sure that I get what my lecturer said in the class, I have decided to talk about my little sister using those simile and metaphor. Sounds interesting? Let's take a look!  

NUR SYAHIRAH BINTI SHALLAHUDDIN

SIMILE

• as shy as a violet
• as sweet as honey
• as cute as a cupcake
• as clever as a fox
• as childish as she supposed to be

METAPHOR

·         she is a flower in the meadows

·         she is the apple of my family’s eye

Entry 5-Most Likely to be Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

The best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story. Other nicknames used for the killer at the time were "The Whitechapel Murderer" and "Leather Apron".

Criminal Profiling

1.    Surgeon doctor

2.    Mental illness

3.    Wealthy( upper class)

4.    A man

5.    Hate towards women(misogynistic)

6.    Local English man

The Canonicals Five

1.     Mary Ann Nichols

2.     Annie Chapman

3.     Elizabeth Stride

4.    Catherine Eddowes

5.     Mary Jane Kelly

In my point of view Thomas Neill Cream is the most likely to be Jack the Ripper because the features that he have suite the criminal profiling the most. The first thing is he is a doctor secretly specializing in abortion. Means that he had the skill of handling the knife and he knows human anatomy. The second one is he had a record of murdering his mistress’s husband then arrested and sentence to death on 15 November 1892. The killing of the canonical was around late August 1888 and end at early November 1888. So Thomas Neill Cream has insufficient time to kill those five victims. Donald Bell suggested that he could have bribed officials and left the prison before his official release. While, Sir Edward Marshall Hall suspected that his prison term may have been served by a look alike in his place. Furthermore, according to some sources, his last words were reported as being “I am Jack the....”,interpreted to mean Jack the Ripper. At that particular Jack was synonym with Jack the Ripper.

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

Entry 4-Plan 9 from Outer Space

”Only because it's so awful, it's good”. That is one of the comment for Plan 9 from Outer Space movie which was published in year 1959 that I have read in the rottentomatoes.com. The movie was categorized as science fiction/horror film genre. It was directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. and starring by Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tom Keene, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee, John Breckinridge, Vampira, and Bela Lugosi. What is so awful? And what is the good one? So, this time I have given a task to comments on the Plan 9 from Outer Space.

First things first, most of the commenter’s from the rottentomatoes.com seems extremely detestation the movie because of its illogical story board but some quite love the story like the commenter I quote earlier. Well, looks like everybody has its own opinions and reasons why they like or dislikes the movie. In my point of view, I love the message that the story gave me and thought me in the way that I have never thought before. Overall, the movie thought me to be aware of my surrounding and behave I mean in term to save the earth from damage. One of the actor in the movie (I forgot the name already) said that human activities will harm the whole universe. At this particular time, human is critically wounding the mother earth such as illegal activities of human. For instance, wrestle against each other to construct skyscrapers. Well that is the good one from my point of view.

The awful one is the film editing. The proficiency of the editor is not enough to produce film for public watch. Well, it is just a comment from me as a public and the viewers of the story (me myself does not know how to edit the movie). To be honest, the satisfaction as the audience is not there. The editor should improve more to make sure that the editing work is excellent.

However, great job and credit to this movie. I will rate for three stars!

Entry 3-Superstitious

Here we go for the third entry for my task is all about superstition. Roger Sperry said once that our brain have two atmosphere which is right brain hemisphere and left brain hemisphere. Then I understand why a lecturer of mine gives me this task. I have to give the thinking of right brain which I have to be emphatic to other’s concept of right and wrong as the basis of one’s reality. In other word, it is interpersonal skills which I have to project myself in another side of view. While for the left brain thinking I have to be in tune with only one’s very own concept of right and wrong as the basis of one’s reality or to put it more simply it just consider my own view only. Well my opinion for both left and right will be thinking about the superstition that I have chose. Not one, but two superstitious that I will be emphatic and criticize. The superstition that I chose would be for pregnancy women. I am interested to the saying and I chose to take it as my work and to share and with my reader especially my lecturer. It is not because I want to be pregnant as my friends told me because I love baby so much. Nonsense! This is not the time yet, dear friends. Now, let’s begin with my thought or judgment for these things. 

“It is believed whatever affects mother’s mind will also affect the baby. If the mother cries a lot, then the baby will always have a sour face and always cry” 

I have got the message! It is from my right brain. Well it says be emphatic! Let’s see why a father to be create this kind of saying and make a mother to be believe this. Indeed, I do not even know who create this saying but in this is just in my point of view and according to the logical thinking. Maybe this saying is right because the baby is in the mother’s womb and whatever the mother did will be follow by the baby. For instance, my mother told me that I am quite good in English because while she was carrying me inside her, she was teaching and always read English books and always plays with English language. She is an English teacher indeed. Then, when I arrived in this world, my mother kept teaching. Is it making any sense?? For me absolutely yes! Other emphatic words would be the emotional state of pregnant women is important and that is why they should stay as much as possible. Well, let’s look from the left brain thinking. From the logical thinking, I am criticizing this! How come the baby will always cry if the mother did the same thing? The baby knows nothing about the outside world. If the mother talk, it is possible for the baby to hear but the baby do not understand even a word indeed. Then the same goes with the cries, the baby only cries when he or she turns up in this world. Crying is normal for the baby because it shows if the baby wants something from the mother. It do not related to the mother while the mother carrying the baby. The baby cry asking for something, the baby cannot talk yet right?? So, the only way for the baby to communicate is by crying. Move on to the second superstitious.

“To protect the unborn baby from evil spirits, pregnant women are advised to place a knife under their bed” 

I heard screaming in my head. Right brain and left brain fighting over to give an opinion to me. Guys, Stop it! I will write every single opinion. Haha..Just release my tense while writing this task. Back to the story, the emphatic words for this saying would be the knife would be the saviour for the mother and the unborn baby. Well, maybe the evil spirits afraid of the knife and run away from disturbing or taking the baby away. I kept asking myself why under the mother to be bed?? Then I got this, evil spirits will disturb pregnant women while they are sleeping. So, I think that is the reason why a pregnant woman has to place a knife under their bed. Progressing to the next opinion which is the criticize side. I would like to say that this particular saying is nonsense! We should not believe this kind of saying because it against our religion. There is such thing like evil spirit, but we should not believe this. In fact we should pray to Allah to make sure that the unborn baby is saved and protected. Only Allah can give ensure the safety of the mother to be and the unborn baby. The knife will only harm the safety of the pregnant women. The knife can harm the pregnant women as the knife is sharp. The mother to be would tend to be hurt by the knife.

In a conclusion, superstitious is not something that you can believe it for granted. Investigate the background of it before you ended up like blindly follow it or else it will harm you.

Entry 2-Mnemonic

This is my second entry for my blog. This will only talk about mnemonic. I am quite sure all of you know what is mnemonic right?? Mnemonic is something connected to the ability to remember things in my point of view. It makes easier for us to remember things that important. I often use mnemonic in primary school and continue using it in the secondary school without realising that it is mnemonic. Let me give an example, the 7 colours of rainbow. To memorize it, I have created mnemonic to make sure I remember it when the teacher ask or I can use it when I am in the examination hall. So, my mnemonic for the 7 colours of rainbow goes like this “Mat, Jenin, Ke, Hutan, Bawa, Ikan, Ulam”. It represent the 7 colours of the rainbow which is in Malay merah, jingga, kuning, hijau, biru, indigo and ungu. Now in the college I have really discover about the mnemonic and I have given a task to create a mnemonic for the “Rules of 10”. They are

Tiqah

Can’t

Sleep

After

Robert

Pattison

Purpose from different

Perspective

In

Venice

 Indeed, I am not the big fan of Robert Pattison but it is just the letter suite them.The real word for the “Rules of 10” is “Topic, Content, Source, Audience, Rhetorical Function, Purpose, Perspective, Positioning, Impact, and the last one is Visual Literacy”. “Rules of 10” is actually used to criticize the essay for instance. It also can be used to criticize an article or something related to the writing whether the writing is good enough to be written or just says critical thinking about the writing.

Entry 1- Eureka Moment

Eureka moment?? What does it means by Eureka moment?? It is actually a combination of left brain thinking plus right brain thinking and it is equals to synergistic, holistic moment or just simply says Eureka!! It is first quoted by Archimedes. That is what I have learnt and discover in Sir Kamaraziz class. Basically that is my understanding of what Eureka is. Now let’s read from my experience of Eureka moment. First things first, thanks to TV series in TV3, “Hani” because introduce me about the book which title “Bercinta Sampai ke Syurga” without any conscious. My first impression on the book read by one of the actor in the TV series is that love book. It must be full version on how to love until the end of time. Well, as a matter of course as a girl at young age of 19, I am attracted to read the book. Plus the colour of the cover excites me and makes me eager to know what the content is. Later on, I managed to get the book. My father (I call him Abah) bought me one while we went to the book store in the vicinity. But still he is blabber me for what reason I am so excited to have the book. At the moment, I cannot really answer my Abah question because I have not read the book yet. He thought that I am currently fall in love, deeply fall in love with someone. So, my life was a little bit changing after read the book. Do you know why?? In point of fact, the book is not really talk about love but the writer, Hasrizal Abdul Jamil or known as Abu Saif who owns the saifulislam.com blog talk about how life should be, it is a motivation book for teenagers. Especially teenagers who want to know more about expedition of real life from Islam point of view. Love is just the attraction in this book. Can you imagine how intelligent he is to attract the reader to buy and read his book? Even my Abah and Ummi (my mother) said the book is love book and my friends who saw me read the book, says the same word too. Soon after finish reading the book, I realised the book is the second version of “Aku Terima Nikahnya” and “Murabbi Cinta” is the latest version. I have been to several book stores before I meet them and buy them with my own money. Gotha! I see you smiling! I know what you think of. It is all about love, isn’t??  Try to read some and you will know the journey of the book. Well, that is the end of my Eureka Moment. Hope you enjoy it! Last but not least, thank you to the writer because writing such amazing books for teenagers like me, who is in confuse in choosing the right path to be follow and thank you to my Abah and I love you so much because you bought me that special book.

Introducing CL 4623 Blog

Starting my academic blog with the said "bismillah" which means in the name of Allah, I am Nur Atiqah binti Shallahuddin will start to write about the subject CL 4623, Critical Literacy. This is part of my task given by my lecturer name Sir Kamaraziz. Basically, this blog will only talk about the subject and what I have learn in the class for the whole semester. Hopefully I'll be given a brilliant idea to keep on writing to complete all my task. Good to know that you are one of my viewer.Thank you.