Reflection on class & subject...

This subject makes me really critical on thinking how to do all the assignment. Once a while it makes me feel that wanted to give up because the topic is really hard to understand. But, after all with the help of Madam Yaya make all the homework and assignment easy. Even though the classes and assignments are very packed and cannot been delayed, I still manage to do all the works that had been given. What I am really love about this subject is it is compulsory to post a blog which is my favorite to online. Haha ….. Truly, not all the entries I post it on time. Sorry Madam, but I never forgot to post it although the due date had past. After all, thanks to Madam Yaya for all your attention towards my friends and I.

Reflection on drugs and guns

Based from what I had read, this article tells about the South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki that he enjoys a position of some eminence, whereas each year spending a noble amount of time on diplomatic visits abroad. Not only that at home he and his government have to contend with two controversies that just won’t go away which are arms and AIDS.
Now Mbeki had faced two difficulties as a president because he had to choose whether to take the weapon or the drugs. For me even war is not always happened in the country, but it is for the own good sake. If the Mbeki choose to put drugs as a legal in his country, I think the impact will become worse rather than impact of war.
As a president, Mbeki has to think more than twice rather to put priority on drugs or guns because for his people drugs are more important than guns. But if Mbeki think further he will choose guns for his country’s future.

Dieting

Topic
The article focuses on dieting where it covers on a wide range of current issues relating to the phenomenon of weight control. The author provides on up – to – date information based on recent research into weight loss too.
Content
The article covers about lots of commercial had been provides due to the weight loss products.
Source
The article comes from the book entitled The Complete Guide to Self – Improvement under the topic What You Can Changed and What You Can’t whereby the writer is Martin Seligman.
Audience
The article is written for people who feel they suffer from some social or medical deficiency or condition which negatively affects their life.
The rhetorical function
The article is designed to attract the reader because they are under the impression that a book can provide them with clues to the solution of their problem.
Purpose
The article aim to simultaneously inform, warm and reassure people who are concerned about their weight loss products and to make them feel more comfortable with their current weight.
Perspective
The stance taken in the article is the writer argues that weight loss products simply do not work. Furthermore, he said that the – more – you – lose – the – more – you – gain and when we try to lose weight, our bodies rebel.
Positioning
The article describes about the weight loss companies as powerful and predatory where the producers will earn lots of money, but the consumers do not get the benefits of the weight loss products at all.
Impact
The effect on readers is likely to be the consumers may debunk some pervasive myths about ideal weight which serve commercial interests and also to reassuring people that there is nothing wrong with their current weight and that they have failed to diet successfully in the past, it was not their fault.
Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are not significant because there is no picture in the article. But, the writer provide with all the diagrams and tables where the readers can take a look at what the information given. This can make the readers believe about what the writer had said in the article.