Term 1 reflections

MSG:3.17

LA:4
Chinese:1
LSS:1
MA:3 (A1 & C6)
IH:9
IS: 1

I think i should have revised more for my first maths test. After i received the paper, i realised that most of them were careless mistakes which i shouldn't have made. I actually understood most of the content and should have gotten an A1, this way, my MSG would have decreased. I also realised that studying too hard the night before the test actually decreases my performance next day.

Another subject i think i need to buck up more is IH. I did not spend enough time remembering the historical evidences, therefore leading to the pathetic result. I should work harder next term, but i so hope i could relax for a day or so during the week-long holiday.

Book review - Twilight: Eclipse

The books talk about a teenage girl named Beka. Her parents lived separately, but it had been such a long time since she had lived with her dad. Beka attended the High School of this new yet familiar place, and been attracted to a boy, Edward. Edward is the most handsome boy in the school, but he was actually an vampire almost a hundred years old. In the first book in the Bekaa and Edward was in love with each other. Vampires are very powerful, very fast, and live forever, but people can not last long, so the Bekaa begged Edward to make beka become a vampire herself.

In the second book, on Beka's eighteenth birthday, Edward and his family held a birthday party for her, but unfortunately, Beka accidentally cut her hand and blood flew out. Edward and some members of his family couldn't resist the temptation of blood, so that Edward realized they are actually risking Beka's life by staying at her side. For the safety of Beka, he endured the pain, and left with his family, hoping that Bekaa will forget him.

When Beka found out that Edward had left, she couldn't resist her tears, and she completely collapsed. Fortunately, her friend Jacob, was always there to comfort her, help her with her play. Beka know Jacob liked her, but still can not forget Edward. Then one day, Beka found out that Jacob was a werewolf! She wondered painfully why her lover and best friend are all not normal human beings... When on a trip of Bungee jumping, Alice thought the Beka couldn't take Edward's silent departure and committed suicide. When Edward learned of this, he realised with Beka, his life was meaningless. He then went ahead to pleaded the most powerful vampire family killed him.

Alice came back to where Beka lived and found her alive, and realised that they had to stop Edward fast, or never see him again. Finally arriving at that vampire's house, the most powerful head of the family discovered the power of the Beka, which is some resistance to the vampire powers. They ordered Edward to transform Beka into an vampire before she turns 18 in order for his release. Who would know that the head of the vampire family actually wanted Beka and Edward, due to their special power, to become his servants one day...

Views on racism

To me, racism is intolerable as people should be treated equally, and not having levels between them. The film Mississippi Burning made me disliked the idea of racism even more. Racism meant that a certain would have more power over the other, and that other race would be neglected and bullied and treated poorly. In Mississippi Burning, the blacks could be buried in a normal cemetery, couldn't drink from a normal water cooler...etc. The whites disgraced the black just because of their skin colour, which totally did not made sense as the black might be better than the white in all jobs if they had received the same education. I think that racism is something i'd wish to get rid of forever from this world if i could.

Run-on sentences

"A run-on sentence contains two or more independent clauses with no connectors between them. If independent clauses are not separated into distinct sentences by a period, then they must be connected by a conjunction or by a semicolon. Eliminating run-on sentences from your writing will make your thoughts easier to follow and understand"

A run-on sentence is two different sentences joint together with no connectors between them. examples are "I want a drink, i like cheese." A run-on sentence is supposed to be separated into two sentences.

Irony

The three types of irony:

Situational irony:

Situational irony is whereby an outcome turns out to be very different from what was expected. It also means the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually did.

Dramatic irony:

Dramatic irony is normally shown by some characters when other characters are not around and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the other characters in the play.

Verbal irony:

Verbal irony is pretty much sarcasm, saying the opposite of what someone actually meant.

Mississippi burning

Mississippi burning was a movie watched these two lessons. The story was about three persons murdered because two of them were black and another was a Jew. They were killed by the KKK who were extremely racist. Two FBI agents were called down to investigate and later found that this town was extremely racist and the blacks drank from different sink from the white, buried in different cemeteries, and lived away from them. This made the FBI's work very difficult as the black would not dare to talk to the FBI because the KKK will attempt to attack them if they do. In the end, the FBI agents set a trap and managed to get hold of one of the KKK, Lester. Through lester, they finally managed to track down the the entire bunch of people in the KKK.

This movie truly reflects how racism can cause hate and fights and deaths. It shows how scary racism is, and how we should try our best to avoid it. We should also learn to respect others no matter what their race is.

Compromise

Compromise is whereby two parties come to an mutual agreement when they adjust their requirements to suit each other. Normally both parties would think they lose out at the end of the argument and wonder if they are at the unfair side. If side a has 4 requirements and side b has 4 opposite requirements, compromising is around taking 2 requirements of a and other 2 from b, and both will have to agree on the decision to be called compromised.