June, 2008

who stays who is leaving

June 23rd, 2008 June 23rd, 2008
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As strong as you are,

tender you know

I’m watching you breathing for the last time

A song for your heart

But when it is quietI know

what it means,

andI’ll carry you home,

I’ll carry you home

—-<Carry your home> James Blunt
I KNOW THE DEEP MEANING,CUZ I WAS  JUST LYING
YOU ARE LYING IN MY ARM,I TRY NOT TO HARM.
FOR YOU WARM LIPS, MY LAST TENDER KISS
ALL THE PLACE YOU WANT TO GO,FOR THE TIME NOW ALL SHOULD BE FORGO
I AM HOLDING YOUR HANDS,WE KNOW NOTHING FOREVER LASTS
I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE DAY YOU SAY I WILL
I CAN NOT SHARE THE CALM NIGHT WITH YOU
I CAN NOT BE BACK TO THE HOMETOWN WITH YOU
HOLDING TEARS ,WITH FEARS
FOR THE LAST TIME,YOU SMILED,
AND SAID
“find me, till the end of time”

 
 

 

Grammar 3–done!!!!

June 17th, 2008 June 17th, 2008
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Instructions: using the internet, make notes on the following words in bold.

“MY NOTES” REVIEW:

PARTS OF SENTENCE:

SUBJECT:

The grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

 

PARTS OF SPEECH

VERB:

A word that shows an action or movement

 

 

NOUN:

A word can be used to refer to a person or a place or thing

 

ADVERB:

A word that modifies something other than a noun

 

 

ADJECTIVE:

A word that expresses an attribute of something

 

CONJUNCTION:

A word that connecting two different words

 

PREPOSITION:

A word that combines a noun or pronoun or noun phrase

 

ARTICLE:

A word that combines with a noun to signify the type of reference being made by the noun.

 

 

Understanding Subjects and Verbs

Instructions: For each sentence in the article “Racism in Australia”, highlight the verb(s). Then, ask “who is doing the verb?” which tells you the subject.

  

Racism in Australia

In Australia, racism is inextricably linked to the history of colonisation and migration.

The original inhabitants, Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people, were dispossessed of their land and were discriminated against by the first British and European settlers. For some Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, the process of colonisation has been perceived as invasion. Racial discrimination has continued to influence the lives of Indigenous Australians in the two centuries following white settlement.

The migration of peoples from all parts of the world led to the increased cultural and linguistic diversity of the Australian population. Prejudice and discrimination have been directed towards many groups who arrived in Australia, in particular towards groups from language backgrounds other than English, despite the fact that many government migration schemes invited people to settle in Australia.

Until recent years, racist policies and practices were also embedded within Australian laws and institutions. The most telling examples of these were the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and the denial of full citizenship rights to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people. Similarly, the White Australia policy aimed to restrict immigration by people from non-European backgrounds. Historically, rises in unemployment have often led to calls for immigration restrictions and in some cases led to the scapegoating of people who were seen to be different to members of the dominant culture. While legislation now exists to protect the rights of all citizens, there is a continuing legacy today from the effects of these racist practices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grammar 1–Philadelphia!!!!

June 17th, 2008 June 17th, 2008
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Philadelphia is ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬__a__1993 drama film revolving ______around__ HIV/AIDS and homosexuality. It was writt¬¬¬en___ by Ron Nyswaner ¬¬¬____ directed _by___ Jonathan Demme. The movie tells _the__ story _of__ Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks), a senior ___associate __of_ the largest corporate___law_ firm _in__ Philadelphia. Beckett hides his _______homosexuality________ and his status as ___ AIDS patient __from__ the other members of the law firm. _on___ the day Beckett _is__ assigned the firm’s newest __and__ most important case, a partner in __the__ firm notices a lesion __on__ Beckett’s ___fore_head. Although Beckett attributes the lesion to a racquetball injury, it is actually due __to_ Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a form of cancer marked __by__ multiple tumors __on__ the lymph nodes and skin. Shortly thereafter, Beckett stays ___home__ from work for several days __to__ try _to___ find a way to hide __his__ lesions. While __at__ home, he finishes the paperwork __for__ the case he has been assigned and then brings it to his office, leaving instructions for his assistants _to___ file _the___ paperwork the following day, which marks the end __of__ the statute of limitations for the case. Later __that ___ morning he receives __a__ call asking for the paperwork, as the paper copy cannot __be__ found and ____there__ are no copies on the computer’s hard __drive__. The paperwork __is__ finally discovered in an alternate location and is filed __with__ the court _at___ the last ___possible______ moment. The following __day__ Beckett is __fired___ by the firm’s partners. Beckett believes that __someone_____ deliberately hid his paperwork to give the firm an excuse to fire __him__, and that the firing is actually as a result of his diagnosis _with___ AIDS. He asks several attorneys to take his case, including personal injury __lawyer______ Joe Miller (Denzel Washington). Miller is an admitted homophobe and knows little __about_____ Beckett’s disease. After declining to take the case, Miller immediately visits _his___ doctor to find out if he could _have____ contracted __the__ disease. The doctor __ex__plain___ the methods ___of_ AIDS infection. Unable to find _a__ lawyer willing to represent _him___, Beckett _is___ compelled to act as his __own__ attorney. While _re__searching a case at a law library, Miller sees Beckett __at__ a nearby table. After a ______librarian_____ announces that he __has___ found a book on AIDS ___crimination for Beckett, others in the library begin to first stare and then move __first____, and the librarian suggests Beckett _re__tire to a private __room____. Disgusted _by___ the other people’s behavior, Miller approaches Beckett, reviews the material Beckett __has___ gathered, and takes _the___ case. As __the__ case goes before the court, the partners __of__ the firm take __the__ stand, each claiming _that____ Beckett __had__ incompetent and that he deliberately tried __to__ hide ___his__ condition. The defense repeatedly suggests that Beckett _had___ invited his illness through _his___ homosexual acts and was therefore __not___ a victim. In the course of testimony, it is revealed that _the___ partner who had noticed Beckett’s ____lesion___ had previously worked __on___ a woman who had contracted AIDS after a blood transfusion and so should have _re__cognized the lesion as relating to AIDS. According __to___ that partner, __the___ woman was an __innocent victim, ___unlike Beckett, and further _____testified that he did not recognize Beckett’s lesions___. To prove that the lesions would have been visible, Miller asks Beckett to ____unbutton his shirt while on the witness stand, revealing that his lesions were indeed visible and recognizable as such. Beckett eventual__ly_ collapses during __his__ trial. During his hospitalization, the jury votes __in__ his favor, awarding him back pay, damages for pain and suffer__ing__, __and___ punitive damages. Miller __vi_sits the visibly failing Beckett in the _the______tal after the verdict and overcomes his fear enough to touch Beckett’s face. After Beckett’s family leaves _his___ room, he tells his __part___ner, Miguel (Antonio Banderas) that he is ready to die. The movie ends with a reception at Beckett’s home following the __fu_neral, where many mourners, including Miller, view home movie_s__ of Beckett as __a__ healthy child.

grammar 2-bismarck!!!

June 17th, 2008 June 17th, 2008
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The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warship of the Second World War. The lead ship of her class and named after the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck displaced more than 50,000 tons fully loaded and was the largest warship then commissioned. Her chief claim to fame came from the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 _______ which the battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship of the Home Fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, was sunk within several minutes. In response, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the order to “Sink the Bismarck”,[2] spurring a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy. Two days later, with safer waters almost in reach, Fleet Air Arm aircraft torpedoed Bismarck and jammed her rudder, allowing heavy British units to catch up with her. In the ensuing battle on the morning of 27 May 1941, Bismarck took heavy punishment for nearly three hours before sinking.

B [How the ship came to be]

 

Design of the ship started in the early 1930s, following on from Germany’s development of the Deutschland class cruisers and the Scharnhorst class “battlecruisers”. Construction of the second French Dunkerque class battleship made undesignation necessary, and Bismarck’s displacement was increased to 41,700 tons. Officially, however, her tonnage was 35,000 tons to suggest parity with ships built within the limits of the Anglo-German Naval Agreed/Agreement (1935) that allowed Germany to build up to five 35,000-ton battleships, the maximum displacement agreed by the major powers in the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922. Fully laden, Bismarck and her sister-ship Tirpitz would each displace more than 50,000 tons. The prototype of the proposed battleships envisaged under Plan Z, Bismarck’s keel got laid down at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg on 1 July 1936. She was launched on 14 February 1939 and commissioned on 24 August 1940 with Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann in command.

 

 

C [the strength of the Bismarck]

 

This formidable ship, the largest warship then commissioned, was intended primarily as a commerce raider, having a broad beam for stability in the rough seas of the North Atlantic and fuel stores as large as those of battleships intended for operations in the Pacific Ocean. Still, with eight 15 inch main guns in four turrets, substantial welded-armour protection and designed for a top speed of no less than 29 knots (she actually achieved 30.1 knots (55.7 km/h) in trials with the calmer waters of the Baltic, a significant advantage over all comparable British battleship), Bismarck had capability of engaging any enemy battleship on reasonably equal terms. Her range of weapon could easily decimate any convoy she encountered. The plan was for Bismarck to break out into the spacious waters of the North Atlantic, where she could refuel from German tankers and remain undetected by British and American aircraft, submarines and ships, while attacking the convoys.

movie review (Hana&Alice)

June 16th, 2008 June 16th, 2008
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Hana&Alice is a  japanese movie made by Shunji Iwai.it’s mainly talk about the life of two gril–Hana &Alice.they feel stressd with their relationships when they move to highschool and mainly talk about the love story between them and another boy.

this movie is full of colours. the director use carmera language to give us the impression of the confusions between the young girls.and what kind of life they are really experiencing.