answers for online task 4

SPEECH is one of the interesting alternative text to be used in the literature classroom. The speech provided for you in the module is one by Martin Luther King.

Question:
1. Think of at least 3 benefits of using speeches by famous figures, in the classroom.

1.        To inspire students as the way the famous figures inspire all in our daily life.

2.       To let students know better about the famous figures and their deeds.

3.       To motivate students to learn better and excel in their studies.

2. Go to www.youtube.com and find the audio-visual on the speech. In not less than 50 words, state would the audio-visual be of any use in helping understand the speech better? State your reasons.

Yes, I think the audio-visual definitely helps in understanding better about the speech as by hearing the speech, students may listen and understand better on what is he or she talking about in his or her speech.

Students may understand through the tone of the speech, the way the speech is given, how fast is the speech, what particular of the speech seemed to be very important and being repeated and stated over and over again and stress of the speech given.
Through audio-visual, students may understand through his or her mood, stress, desire, hope, inspire in his or her speech.

Through audio-visual, students may see clearly how he or she delivers his or speech, the way he or she presents his or her speech, the gestures as well as the body language as well as eye-contact.

With the help of audio-visual, students are more interested in learning about the topic introduced. They learn better, understand better, observe better and of course listen and see better about the topic given.

3. Who is Martin Luther King?

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

4. Based on the questions below, analyse the features of the given written speech:

a. What is the purpose of the speech?

The purpose of the speech is to mention about little black girls and boys joining hands with little white girls and boys. King also shared his dream for equality and freedom for all people, regardless of the color of their skin.

b. What is the tone of the speech?

The tone of the speech is persuasive, motivational, strong, sincere, humble, hope, calm and powerful. The mood or tone of each dream is unique to the dream. A "dream within a dream" is a fiction popularized by the film "Inception" and the earlier film "Paprika".

c. What interesting major feature(s) can you see from the speech? (i.e.Repetition of phrases, emphasis on certain things said etc)

Speech words	Analysis
I have a dream that one day	The dream is a frame for the future and sets the stage for the rest of the words. 'Dream' is vague aspiration. 'one day' starts to make it specific.
this nation will rise up	A hint of revolution, a threat to white people, that may be scary but is tempered by subsequent words.
and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."	A direct quote from Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President and author of the Declaration of Independence. Will be accepted as right by everyone. Lends gravitas to the speech. 'Creed' has religious connotations. Implication that this is not true today, over 150 years after it was said.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia	Repeating the 'dream', hammering home the hope for the future. 'red' hints at blood, implying pain, struggle and injustice. Georgia symbolizes the South.
the sons of former slaves	'slaves' implies injustice and is a highly evocative word for both black and white people (albeit in different ways). Bringing up slavery suggests that it is still relevant today.
and the sons of former slave-owners	Slave-owners were white. Black and white are thus brought together. Repetition of 'slave' hammers home the point. 'Sons' implies both the weight of the past and the familial obligation.
will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.	After the tension of the previous words, this offers reconciliation. 'Table of brotherhood' is a homely metaphor (both table and brother) and triggers feelings of comfort.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,	Repeating the 'dream' phrase again to complete a triple. 'even' implies that Mississippi is one of the worst examples of racism. Yet this, too, is included in the dream. 'state' points at the formal State organization, noting that racism is institutionalized there.
a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression,	The southern state is hot. This is converted into oppressive heat in this powerful metaphor.
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.	Release again. After a tension-filled early part of the sentence, it ends with hope. 'transformed' implies deep change.
I have a dream that my four children	The dream metaphor again. Now it is turning from a triple into a theme. Children are always evocative. 'my' makes it personal to King and hence also personal to everyone listening.
will one day live in a nation	Evoking the whole country - not just the south.
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin	'judge' is a word associated with oppression, which is mentioned earlier. 'color of skin' points to the heart of the matter.
but by the content of their character.	Again, a softener at the end. Note the 'c's that alliterate 'content' and 'character'. 'c' is also a percussive consonant that bangs out the message. (the 'b's of 'but by' also have this effect).
I have a dream today.	Ending as beginning, bracketing the whole paragraph. Note that this is said on a rising upswing, not as a declining completion.

This is impressive stuff, but what is missing, that adds even more power?

First, there is the remarkable emotion in King's voice and body as he made the speech.

Secondly was the context, in the heart of capital city, on the steps to the memorial of the President who defeated the Southern states over the issue of slavery.

Thirdly, the zeitgeist of the day, the feeling and flavor of perpetuated slavery of black people in the continued racial bias, their rising up against this and the gradual realization of guilt in white people who stood by and did nothing. It was King's words and actions that prodded Kennedy into taking up the banner.

What was missed by some, was that King's address had a very strong message for white people, possibly as primary targets. Whilst he hinted at revolution, his words were mostly about peace, thus offering a vision into which everyone could buy.

d. Any interesting facts that you can gather based on the background of the speech?

• Fact 1 - Martin Luther King Jr. was the son of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. 
• Fact 2 - He was born in Atlanta, Georgia
• Fact 3 - Date of Birth of Martin Luther King was January 15, 1929
• Fact 4 - Date of death: April 4, 1968 (he died at the age of 39)
• Fact 5 - Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and then Morehouse College
• Fact 6 - Attended Crozer Theological Seminary and was ordained to the Baptist ministry, February 25, 1948
• Fact 7 - In 1951 he entered Boston University and in 1953 he married Coretta Scott and lived in Montgomery, Alabama 
• Fact 8 - In 1955 he joined the bus boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks and then in 1957 formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight against segregation and for civil rights
• Fact 9 - In 1960 MLK was arrested during a sit-in at a restaurant and was sentenced to four months in jail. He was released following the intervention of John and Robert Kennedy
• Fact 10 - In 1960 MLK was arrested again and wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail
  On his release MLK led 125,000 people on a Freedom Walk in Detroit followed by the March on Washington where he led 250,000 people in the largest civil rights demonstration in history and made the famous and  inspiring I Have a Dream speech. JFK was assassinated in the same year.
• Fact 11 - In 1964 MLK was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Fact 12 - In 1966 MLK begin the March Against Fear and starts the campaign to end discrimination in schools, housing and employment 
• Fact 13 - April 4, 1968 MLK delivered the "I've Been to the Mountaintop speech" and was shot and killed whilst standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Fact 14 - Martin Luther King was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize (1964), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977, posthumous) and the Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous)

5. Suggest a while-reading activity that can be derived from this particular speech

    Role -play.

Songs for Martin Luther.

wuthering height By Emily Bronte

In this novel, supernatural being stated from the beginning until the end of novel.

 In chapter three Lockwood is grabbed and pleaded to by Catherine's ghost through a window, and in the last chapter Ellen talks about people seeing the ghosts of Heathcliff and Catherine walking on the moors.  In between Heathcliff tells Ellen about hearing Catherine sighing in the graveyard and sensing her nearby, and when he gives up his plans of revenge he even seems to sees her ghost. Ellen also once sees Heathcliff as a goblin, and wonders if he is a vampire or a ghoul, although she realizes she is being silly. These themes and instances are tied to a spirituality and life-after-death theme in the novel. Edgar and Heathcliff both want to be with Catherine after she has died.  Edgar does not want her to haunt him, but he does look forward to a time when they can be together again.  Heathcliff does want Catherine to haunt him, and she indeed seems to, and he also looks forward to spending eternity with her after death.

supernatural is mysterious. It also talks about life after death. If she said life after death would turn to ghosts, then, in other dimensions, which we can't see with our eyes that they are still the same, doing their own things except that we can't see them. The questions is why some of us are able to visible them and why some can't see them? what are they doing? 

Since many of us can't see them, then why we are able to hear them? Until now, there is still no crucial answers. Singapore has form up the association to search the truth behind as well as Malaysia do.

Because I Could Not Stop for Death” By Emily Dickinson

Because I Could Not Stop for Death” reveals Emily Dickinson’s calm acceptance of death. It is surprising that she presents the experience as being no more frightening than receiving a gentleman caller—in this case, her fiancé (Death personified).  I think she is really brave. Many people would said they are able to accept death but when it is his or her time, they would struggle.  I, myself also feel the same before but when I grow older, the way of my thinking about death changed. People would die one day, it just the matter of time. soon or later. How we die? What is the feeling of dying? What is the feeling before holding the last breath? Where does we go after death?
      When we think of it, we would scare. Me, too, dying is frightening. Just imagine you are about to die, breathing starting to be slower and slower and hard to breath, everything we see will be blur and blur and imagine, this is the worst time and most frightening, I think. You are trying to breath harder and to live and yet, it is time to go and you can't do anything about it. When you are weak, you gone and dead. For me, the process is frightening. Until now, I still can't accept it. It is hard to believe everyone gone through the same process:death. It just the matter the way of dying........The journey to the grave begins in Stanza 1, when Death comes calling in a carriage in which Immortality is also a passenger. As the trip continues in Stanza 2, the carriage trundles along at an easy, unhurried pace, perhaps suggesting that death has arrived in the form of a disease or debility that takes its time to kill. Then, in Stanza 3, the author appears to review the stages of her life: childhood (the recess scene), maturity (the ripe, hence, “gazing” grain), and the descent into death (the setting sun)–as she passes to the other side. There, she experiences a chill because she is not warmly dressed. In fact, her garments are more appropriate for a wedding, representing a new beginning, than for a funeral, representing an end.  
.......Her description of the grave as her “house” indicates how comfortable she feels about death. There, after centuries pass, so pleasant is her new life that time seems to stand still, feeling “shorter than a Day.”  
.......The overall theme of the poem seems to be that death is not to be feared since it is a natural part of the endless cycle of nature. Her view of death may also reflect her personality and religious beliefs. On the one hand, as a spinster, she was somewhat reclusive and introspective, tending to dwell on loneliness and death. On the other hand, as a Christian and a Bible reader, she was optimistic about her ultimate fate and appeared to see death as a friend. 
         She is brave and treat death easily. However, I think how can you feel about the comfortable? The minute it happen. We are gone forever.The minute I die one day, I will be gone forever, Can't see, feel, and so on.the worst and most frightening is where shall I go? The minute I'm here doing assingnment or online networking, the next minute, where shall I be? 

Online task 3:Bio-poem (Nelson Mandela)

Nelson Mandela,

Smart, dreamer, keynote speaker, and justice,

Father of the South Africa,

Who loves drawing, reading, gardening,

Who detest racism, war, and barbaric thing,

Who wants to see peace, equality, human rights and democracy.
Nelson Mandela, peoples' warrior.

Nelson Mandela,

Strength of spirit, integrity, honor, and leadership,

Savior of the South Africa,

Who loves listening to music of Handel, Tchaikovsky playing, boxing and running,

Who hate injustice, violence, inequality of races and discrimination,

Who wants to see joy, happiness, freedom and multi-racial democracy,

Nelson Mandela, inspiration for all freedom fighter.

Nature-By H.D. Carberry

Nature-By H.D. Carberry

The poem tells us about the lush, green of a beautiful tropical island called Jamaica. It has a tropical climate with plentiful of rainfall. In the poems, the poet tells us the sunshine is glorious and amazing. However, there are also days when the rain is heavy and winds are strong. But, like a rainbow after the rain, nature will look fresh and beautiful again when the rain stops.    

Yes, indeed, the poem reminds me about our human emotions. When we are happy, we are glorious , we have joy and laughter, however, when we have difficulties in our life, we need to overcome the obstacles bravely and patiently. After settling all the problems, our emotions will be like a rainbow after the rain, everything looks so beautiful and calm.

It also remind us that we, human are also part of the nature. therefore, it is our human responsibility to take good care of the nature. Nature provides food, shelter, and lots more to human. Human need to appreciate the nature to human.

Usefulness of Blogger

Blogger is indeed a useful networking tools that let all the people around the world share their thoughts and feelings as well as useful information.
 after months that I tried about it, I find that it really useful especially for universities' students. It helps to share the news and information in a short period of time. Assignments, lectures notes, answers for assignments, all sorts of writing can be done with Blogger.
 In my personal opinion, the creation of blogger indeed is smart as through this way, our writing production can post it up and share it to all the person who concern about the topic. It is paperless, can be sent in a period of time, arrive instantly to the desired person, even can share the links from other websites, pictures as well as video. As for teachers, i hope one day, our education system will change to paperless system. Teachers post their lecture notes, assignments, homework and so on through the blogger. It is simple, easy to use, able to link, to share pictures, to view videos and lots more can be done.  All the information being put up on the blog and students will have more flexible in doing their tasks.Students' results, their view about the topic, their comments, thoughts and feelings can be done here. through this way, I think, students will improve their writing skills. having different ways in teaching will arouse their attention and interest to learn better instead of traditional way of teaching and learning process going on. They might feel bored and uninterested.

I believe that if everyone in the world go paperless,it is one of the effective ways in prohibiting chopping down trees to be processed into paper. Lots of paper can be saved and so for the money to buy the paper.Why not?
Go green and save our Earth.

Pip and Estella in Great Expectations.

Pip and Estella in Great Expectations.

Pip indeed love for Estella at the first sight from young to adulthood. Pip determined to change his life to be able to provide better life for Estella. Both of them are fate to be together as if Pip did not being sent to Miss Havishams’ house, Pip will never meet the girl. As he meets the girl, he determined to change his life. As named Great Expectation, he is inherited a large sum of money. He makes use full of the money to make his dream come true. He himself goes for his friend to learn to become a gentleman.

He goes back for Estella as now he is a wealthy man. He thinks that Estella will change her mind for her as now he is a rich man. Pip just keeps quiet when she insults him. For so long, I think only Pip is able to stand her behavior. Even when he finds out that she is actually being used as a tool for revenge by Miss Havisham to break mens’ heart. Pip believes his feelings and confident to her.

Pip is upset when finally Drummle knows Pip like Estella and steal her heart and make her become his wife. Drummle does not love her. He only just used her to take revenge on Pip. He tortured Estella and hit her. Estella finally realized about Pips’ love to her.

Pip still single for years until he accidently sees Drummle tortured her. Drummle died years later. Pip still visits her and touched her heart. Estella asks for his forgiveness. Pips forgive her and accept her.

Pip indeed loves Estella. His love to her would never fade away. Even he is rich, he still have heart with Estella. He can choose any girls that he likes as he is a rich man. However, he does not. He continues to be single, unmarried bachelor for years for he thinks of being single for the rest of his life. One can substitute her in Pips’ love. Pip wins her heart in the end of the story.

DEAD CROW- By A. Samad Said.

DEAD CROW- By A. Samad Said.

The poem 'The Dead Crow' is about what has happened to our environment due to neglect and abuse by Man. The poet voices his anger about what we have done to our environment. It is mentioned clearly about the victims of pollution are old man, a baby and a crow.

The poem deals with pollution and the environment. Environmental problems and pollution are happening everywhere, everyday. The pesona notices that a crow is dead  in the drain. “an old man is gasping for air’, a baby having difficulty in breathing, and a crowded clinic. The environment is a threat to animals and people. The persona is fearful that the air would no longer clean, forests would be destroyed, rivers being polluted and cannot flow freely, trees are not allowed t grow and are felled, and the earth is no longer green. The persona is worried that there would be nothing left for the next generations to appreciate the beauty of nature if the damage to the environment continues.

In my personal opinion, saving our Earth is indeed everyone’s responsibility. Through the poem, people should aware of the consequences of the pollution towards the Earth.  We are all educated. Be nice to Our Mother Nature or we will be punished one day.

Ethnic minority group: Native American story

Ethnic minority group: Native American story

In the story about the choosy girl who was not satisfied with everything.  In my personal opinion, the incident happened to her is part of the work of God to make her realized. She did not satisfied all the time, she complaint this and that, she never satisfy before. Her parents would like her to marry a good man, however, after seeing men, she would complaint about this and that. For example, “he is not handsome enough, he is too fat, and he is too thin…”

This girl never thinks of that if she is choosy and how about other people? Other people also choosy on the girl. It tells us that if you choosy and picky in someone in marriage, someone would also choosy and picky and they have rights not to choose the girls as well. All have the equal rights to choose and pick the best. We have lots of chances to meet the one that really fit for us.

Indeed the girl is also irrational don’t have any common senses as she never thinks of her own situation when she saw the handsome man. she make decision to follow and marry him without knowing this handsome man. Her parents even advise her to consider thoroughly before making decision. She refused to listen to her parents and making her own decision by marrying the man whom he did not know.

The girls also only look for the man physical appearance. She quickly promises to marry the man as he is so good looking and soft talking to her. I think this is what the girl wants. The handsome man and be nice to her and talk politely and treats her well. She is willing to leave her parents with the man whom she did not know. This is terribly dangerous.

The girl reflects to the teenagers nowadays. They think they are knowledgeable enough to survive in the community, they think that they are big enough and they are better than their parents.  

Once parents can’t meet their wants, therefore, they think that they are not satisfied, they need more freedom. They want to live on their way of life, not being supervised by their parents. Especially girls are dangerous.  They may be cheated by the talk of t he men or the men just treat them nicely , having their wants fulfilled, then, ask the girls to do something in return. Now, the girls are running away from house to the men. Many cases from newspapers being reported that missing girls or runaways girls from home usually end up being slave of the men to earn money for them. If they tried to run away, they will be kicked or being beaten up. So girls are more to be careful.