Entry 1_ Nguyễn Thị Hoàn

Entry 1_Nguyễn Thị Hoàn

Entry 1

Item 1: Cartoon

Rhetorical devices:

Overstatement the destruction of natural habitats

Destroy natural habitats

Moral lesson:

There are many causes of habitat destruction, including cutting down the forests for agriculture and roads for people to do all their activities. Nowadays habitat destruction is one of the main threats to biodiversity.

Item 2: Poem

If I Could Capture A Moment

If I could capture a moment
I would capture it with you
Wrap you in my arms
And make your dreams come true

If I could capture the moon and it's brillance
I would shine it down on you
To show you how you illuminate
The brightness that is given to you

If I could capture a rainbow
I would put a pot of gold at the end
To wish you good luck
In everything you did

Now I see something I can capture
That smile on your face
I see it with my eyes,
In it's own grace

A beautiful site thats for sure
To trace with my fingertips and explore
And bring to my face
To seal with a kiss
And a warm embrace
This is all it would take
If I could capture a moment with you
Melinda B

Rhetorical devices:

Repetition: If I could capture a + Noun

Rhyme: face-grace ;face-embrace ;rainbow-gold

Moral lesson:

We should spend more time for our love.The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.

Item 3:

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man couldn’t hear the band – he could see it. In his mind’s eye as the gentleman by th! e window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”

Rhetorical devices:

A symbol: wonderful thing outside the hospital window as the symbol of optimism.

Moral lesson:

It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.Living in the world of today, we should keep this thought well engraved in our minds.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” _Winston Churchill