2011 begin...

Huhuhu... I miss this blog.. Surely, one day i will refresh back my memories regarding of this subject..but 1 thing for sure, i would like to say a million Thank you to sir mark for being my great lecturer until i get A for this subject and thank u so much for teaching my friends and I and resulted to a good performance at the end.. =)

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VIVA PRESENTATION... Cont'd...

Based from my observation, i can say that the best presenters goes to Zaidi and Rashidah since both of them are very good in stated their opinion on the selected articles. Thus, they know how to attracted the audience by provided some examples which is relevant and logic. The voice projection and body language, both are good and the most important thing, the contents of their presentation are easier for us to understand.

VIVA PRESENTATION

I don't expect that the 1st assignment will be used in viva presentation. This kind of presentation was really helpful and useful for me in the future. It is all about how u attract your audience with something that they don't even think about it. Thus, the presentation is about how you stick with your opinion and decision based on your belief and perception although you had being psycho during the Q & A section by the penalize.

So far, i enjoyed myself doing viva presentation since i love to present something in front of audience especially if it involves logically thinking and does make a sense. Thus, i can say that my classmates done their job well where most of them are really good in giving the evidence based on the articles.

As for me, i had chose the article "The Value of television by Paul Robinson" because the contents of the article is true and i am totally agreed with the author. In addition, television is a medium that one's addicted of. Nowadays, many beneficialness programs can be seen at television. In order to change the perception of my classmates that television would give more advantages, so I had stated several evidence based on their experiences as well. However, this is really good and enjoyable moment when there is an argument to improve one's knowledge. Finally, i hope that Mr Mark will teach us again in different subject soon and give us more knowledge to adapt in the future.

Do you know about the Discourse Analysis?

Discourse analysis means point of view and ideology

During lesson, Mr Mark has given us an article, "So Long Old Friend!". The article is about teenagers, smoking habit and cigarette. It is obviously cool because the author is Mr Mark himself. There are many euphemistic language examples that can be found in the article, for example, blue capos (the prefect of school), euphoria (weird), mischievous (naughty boys), john (the toilet) and Pak Mansur (the Prime Minister). Logically thinking, i never thought that the 'John' is actually referred to toilet and blue capos is prefect. At that time, we has given a task by Mr Mark to identify the thematic words and phrases, point of view and ideology based on the article given. Some of the examples that can be found are;

Thematic Words & Phrases	Point of View	Ideology
1.“Stay the hell away” 2.Long lecture 3.Rascals 4. Mischievous	1.Concerned parents about the dangers of smoking towards their children	1.Smoking is a dangerous habit. 2.Smoking can influence people especially the youth to negative actions.
1.Boys will be boys 2.Bad guy 3.Tender age 4.Machismo 5.Flocking around 6.Wise guy 7.James dean 8.Steve Mcqueen	1. Immature teenager 2. Impressionable youth	1. Smoking is an exciting way to gain social acceptance from peers and the opposite sex.

What is Language Perspective and Ideology?

When first time being introduced by the perspective and ideology, i was quite surprised because the last time i heard of these two words is when i was in form 5, learned about the history of Malaysia. The language Perspective and ideology

involved several skills that has been taught by sir Mark during semester 4. For instance, thematic words and phrases, elementary process and discourse analysis. For this topic, 'the language perspective and Ideology', I've learned about how to judge something based on what people said. For example, in a video about ISLAMOPHOBIA, the President of United States, Barrack Obama said that Islam have their right to apply their religion in US. However, i can say that although the contents are positive, but he still show his true color at different way, where people hard to identify what is actually the hidden agenda. Thus, many famous politician gave their opinion and said that a mosque cannot be build at Ground Zero to respect the tragedy of 11 September. In my perspective, i would say that they are afraid if more Catholic converted to Islam. Hard to believe, but this is the truth.

ISLAMOPHOBIA... Cont'd..

Have you ever heard about Lauren Booth? She is an American woman, Catholic of course.. who converted to Islam. If the Jews said that ISLAM is TERRORIST, then why Lauren Booth chose to converted to Islam? News that Lauren Booth has converted to Islam provoked a storm of negative comments. Here she explains how it came about – and why it's time to stop patronizing Muslim women.

Lauren Booth : 'How hard and callous non-Muslim friends and colleagues began to seem'.

It is five years since my first visit to Palestine. And when I arrived in the region, to work alongside charities in Gaza and the West Bank, I took with me the swagger of condescension that all white middle-class women (secretly or outwardly) hold towards poor Muslim women, women I presumed would be little more than black-robed blobs, silent in my peripheral vision. As a western woman with all my freedoms, I expected to deal professionally with men alone. After all, that's what the Muslim world is all about, right?

This week's screams of faux horror from fellow columnists on hearing of my conversion to Islam prove that this remains the stereotypical view regarding half a billion women currently practising Islam.

*This is the latest evidence that people don't have to feel fear to Islam. Islam is beautiful... If not, why a famous people like Mike Tyson, the late Micheal Jackson and Lauren Booth were converted to Islam? Think about it.