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.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Homework.!
Topic
The article focuses on invasion of the body snatchers where child abductions seem rampant. But what about the other “lost” children? The writer tell us about what actually had happened to the lost children because they do not just had been lost, but some other how had been killed too.
Content
The article covers about the missing children that they all are an innocent children that just play around their house and suddenly had been kidnapped by the snatchers. The media is just sarcastic where he only point on the missing children, but neglected about on how to prevent this issue.
Source
The article comes from the TIME newspaper in the view point column, dated August 26, 2002, page 40 and the writer is Walter Kim.
Audience
The article is written for media people in order for them to know what actually had happened in the crime world nowadays.
The rhetorical function
The article designed to alert all the media people so that they will take a quick action.
Purpose
The article aims to tell that there are lots of children missing out there, but there are still no solutions to prevent this issue. It focuses more to the media people because only they can help to solve the problem.
Perspective
The stance taken in the article is the writer tell us about why is it the children easily get kidnapped. This issue had already happened for a long time ago, but still no solution in order to solve this crime.
Positioning
The article describes about many years that all the children had been missing, but until now they cannot be found. Some of them had already lied and some of them who are survive, but in the bad emotion.
Impact
The effect on readers likely to be on the media people will open their eyes because this is such a serious issue that cannot be neglected.
Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because this article had been published in the view point column whereby it has in large font size of title that will attract the audience. Not only that there are picture of two girls shows about missing children and at the bottom there is a caption describes about the picture make people concern more about this issue.
The article focuses on invasion of the body snatchers where child abductions seem rampant. But what about the other “lost” children? The writer tell us about what actually had happened to the lost children because they do not just had been lost, but some other how had been killed too.
Content
The article covers about the missing children that they all are an innocent children that just play around their house and suddenly had been kidnapped by the snatchers. The media is just sarcastic where he only point on the missing children, but neglected about on how to prevent this issue.
Source
The article comes from the TIME newspaper in the view point column, dated August 26, 2002, page 40 and the writer is Walter Kim.
Audience
The article is written for media people in order for them to know what actually had happened in the crime world nowadays.
The rhetorical function
The article designed to alert all the media people so that they will take a quick action.
Purpose
The article aims to tell that there are lots of children missing out there, but there are still no solutions to prevent this issue. It focuses more to the media people because only they can help to solve the problem.
Perspective
The stance taken in the article is the writer tell us about why is it the children easily get kidnapped. This issue had already happened for a long time ago, but still no solution in order to solve this crime.
Positioning
The article describes about many years that all the children had been missing, but until now they cannot be found. Some of them had already lied and some of them who are survive, but in the bad emotion.
Impact
The effect on readers likely to be on the media people will open their eyes because this is such a serious issue that cannot be neglected.
Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because this article had been published in the view point column whereby it has in large font size of title that will attract the audience. Not only that there are picture of two girls shows about missing children and at the bottom there is a caption describes about the picture make people concern more about this issue.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Topic 6
In this reading 5.3 we had learned about Types of Exposition: ‘persuading that’ and ‘persuading to’. There are four types of it which are analytical, hortatory, reasoning and also personality exposition. For analytical usually it is a thesis where something we persuade that or to explain why things are as they are. While hortatory is to explain why they should change or in other word to persuade to. We can found this in political speeches and debate. Reasoning in exposition is same like hortatory that are about why, but reasoning in speech and in writing is very different.
I only understand about what Maryam had explained in the class, but for Fandi and Hafiz presentation I am a little bit confusing. Maryam explained about metaphor in ‘nuke speak’ – the language of nuclear weapons or ‘nuke speak’. There are wide variety of metaphors, different levels and many different perspectives. The metaphor is a ‘nuclear weapons are part of nation’s industrial output’, whereby it is clearly crucial to the way in which we talk about and construct our world. Not only has that metaphor drawn on our knowledge of the physical world of concrete objects and spatial relationships in order to structure a great variety of experiential domains.
I only understand about what Maryam had explained in the class, but for Fandi and Hafiz presentation I am a little bit confusing. Maryam explained about metaphor in ‘nuke speak’ – the language of nuclear weapons or ‘nuke speak’. There are wide variety of metaphors, different levels and many different perspectives. The metaphor is a ‘nuclear weapons are part of nation’s industrial output’, whereby it is clearly crucial to the way in which we talk about and construct our world. Not only has that metaphor drawn on our knowledge of the physical world of concrete objects and spatial relationships in order to structure a great variety of experiential domains.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Topic 5
The article is argued about body language that people had done to attract the muggers. There is evidence that shows why is it muggers tend to do so. It is because there are 26 movements that form basic components. Researchers had done a survey and it already had been proved. I am really agree with this article because we ourselves who is really attract the muggers and not because the muggers who is attract with us.
What can I understand about evidence is evidence sometimes can be trust, but sometimes cannot be trust. It is because people nowadays are very cleaver and there is no such thing that they can create the evidence. Other than that mostly they prefer testimonial evidence rather than circumstantial evidence. For example, eyewitnesses, who testify that they themselves have seen the accused commit the crime. The most famous country that had lots of murderer is Chicago.
Statistic can be defined as the art and science of statistic. Researchers always sticked with statistic although it always been misused. There are lots of common statistical slips and it has to show the statistic clearly in order to show the result. For example, unqualified averages, fallacious sampling, percentages unaccompanied by actual numbers and also misleading presentation.
Crooked and fallacious thinking had lots of subtopic. The first one is transfer device which is to attract people by using ambassador. While circular argument is the first impression or stereotype. For false analogy is to evaluate something or somebody based on their expectation, whereas either – or assumption is the thinking there is no middle ground between two entrance. Equivocation is a complicated thinking which can leads to misunderstanding. For crooked thinker it can switch the words to make it difficult to understand whereby as we all know that fallacious means false.
What can I understand about evidence is evidence sometimes can be trust, but sometimes cannot be trust. It is because people nowadays are very cleaver and there is no such thing that they can create the evidence. Other than that mostly they prefer testimonial evidence rather than circumstantial evidence. For example, eyewitnesses, who testify that they themselves have seen the accused commit the crime. The most famous country that had lots of murderer is Chicago.
Statistic can be defined as the art and science of statistic. Researchers always sticked with statistic although it always been misused. There are lots of common statistical slips and it has to show the statistic clearly in order to show the result. For example, unqualified averages, fallacious sampling, percentages unaccompanied by actual numbers and also misleading presentation.
Crooked and fallacious thinking had lots of subtopic. The first one is transfer device which is to attract people by using ambassador. While circular argument is the first impression or stereotype. For false analogy is to evaluate something or somebody based on their expectation, whereas either – or assumption is the thinking there is no middle ground between two entrance. Equivocation is a complicated thinking which can leads to misunderstanding. For crooked thinker it can switch the words to make it difficult to understand whereby as we all know that fallacious means false.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Topic 4
The article describes about six – year – old Scarlett Finney as if she was able to go to the school she would love to do so. Her parents had bought this case for the judgment, but still they do not have enough evidence to sue the school. Here, the writer had quote what Scarlett had said about the school which is the school once had wrote in a book that they do take children with disabilities. Scarlett’s parents kept wondering why is it the school just cannot take the disabilities student even though they had lots of specialties and also facilities for all of them.
The second article is about youth suicide that had been increased nowadays. There are survey that had been conducted by Bheard. In this article stated that lots of reason why is it youngster tend to do bad things especially kept suicide. They thought that if they took action all the problems that occur will gone just like them that already committed suicide. Why it is all things happens maybe because they do not have people to talk with or to tell what exactly their problems are. Lots of things to do in order to prevent this issue from become worse.
On this reading article it tells about five elements that included in the linguistic tools which are genre, field, mode, ideology, and tenor. Each of it has its own characteristic. For text A it combined about information where the ideology is in it, mostly about discussion, advantages and disadvantages. While in the text B is about report that usually straight forward. The writer tries to proplematise the texts, dig out about ideology positioning, provide basis of informed debate, analysis and critique, providing analytical tools, enabling people and react as ‘text analysis’, and illustrate some explicit knowledge about language.
The second article is about youth suicide that had been increased nowadays. There are survey that had been conducted by Bheard. In this article stated that lots of reason why is it youngster tend to do bad things especially kept suicide. They thought that if they took action all the problems that occur will gone just like them that already committed suicide. Why it is all things happens maybe because they do not have people to talk with or to tell what exactly their problems are. Lots of things to do in order to prevent this issue from become worse.
On this reading article it tells about five elements that included in the linguistic tools which are genre, field, mode, ideology, and tenor. Each of it has its own characteristic. For text A it combined about information where the ideology is in it, mostly about discussion, advantages and disadvantages. While in the text B is about report that usually straight forward. The writer tries to proplematise the texts, dig out about ideology positioning, provide basis of informed debate, analysis and critique, providing analytical tools, enabling people and react as ‘text analysis’, and illustrate some explicit knowledge about language.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Topic 3
The writer supports the stance taken by Dr Cross that this issue is very serious if there are no actions taken. There are lots of disadvantages when children had been bullied. For example, traumatic and not only that the victim can get symptoms such as panic, anxiety and headaches. The victim felt afraid to tell about what really had happened because they can feel what will be if they tell the truth. To avoid from this thing happen is not that easy because people out there tend to do bad things although they know that there is no benefits at all whereby is just for fun.
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