Monday, 25 June 2012
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Chapbook
I decided to choose travel as my theme. I enjoy it to the fullest and wish it upon everyone. There is something about learning the ways of other peoples lives that makes you appreciate your own much more. Whether it be looking through mountains and forests, or walking through the poorest of poor towns, you are always going to learn something new about yourself and the world around you.
Quotes for travelers
Quotes taken from here.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
The Journey by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Travel Poem by C.S. Lewis
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder,
What would have followed if you had.
Life Is A Journey by Leo Zhang
Life is a journey.
It is very short and
Each of us only gets to make this journey once.
Enjoy the journey!
Life is a journey.
Life's journey is filled with choices.
Whatever choices we have made,
We should be responsible, calm and even brave
When facing the results brought by our own choices.
Life is a journey.
Now my life's journey continues...
Enjoy the journey!
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Read this one,
you need not.
Because it is
taught a LOT!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
These Roads by Amanda Testino
meeting crossroads of hope and some of loss
will i take the right road
will i venture into the curves and bumps carved into the foundation formed from years of repetitive travel
I am not the only one who travels these roads
passing by with tears in their eyes are ones who travel with hope in their hearts to find that glimpse of happiness and sanity in for which they look
I must indure my sentance of weary travel
my friend we shall not travel this road alone
take my hand for we shall walk this road together till we reach the end
LOVE THIS ONE!
Travel to the Place by Divyesh J. Shah
Travel to the place
Where mind set to peace,
No one can see,
Feel us free.
Travel to the place
Where we can breathe,
Fill our desire,
We wish; we aspire.
Travel to the place
Where we have silence,
Flower of fragrance,
And nature to admire.
Travel to the place
Where we can write,
Lines of rhyme,
At any time.
Travel to the place
Where we have enough space,
Work without race,
No tension on face.
Travel to the place
Where we can dance,
Sing at glance,
Bit of time to romance.
Travel to the place
Where we spread love,
Freedom to serve
And land to move.
Travel to the place
Where we can live,
Of joy and sprinkle its grace,
And do anything, anywhere.
Looking Away By Fraser Sutherland
When we talk you’ll notice
I do not look directly
at you but downward or ahead, my good ear
inclined toward your words, now
and then glancing briefly at you to affirm
I am still listening, still there.
If I should look into your eyes
the chances are I am bored or indifferent,
my face a mask and not an ear,
but looking away I am looking into
what you will say next.
At this moment you may be sure
I am with you and that I find
the truth a foot in front of me,
two feet from you.
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Web Quest #3
1. All of the articles talk about an "omnibus bill" being passed by the Canadian Parliament that will greatly affect many things like Employment Insurance, and retirement age. Each article touches on different aspects of the bill, one of them talking about past bills, another focusing on the Employment Insurance aspect of the bill, and the last speaking of how fast members of Parliament are trying to have the bill passed.
2. The easiest article to read would be the Toronto Sun. The vocabulary is not particularly tough in it, and it touches on a subject a lot of people my age will care about.
3. The most complex article is the one from The Globe and Mail. I didn't personally have any problems reading it, but it is much harder to digest than any of the other three.
4. The pigs in Animal Farm eventually started acting just like humans, so I believe that they got the newspapers to try and learn how the corporate world is run. They were able to add their own twist into how they would decide for the farm to be run, and ultimately just wanted to find out ways of making the most amount of money with the least hassle from the other animals.
5. Vocabulary is the easiest way to express how you feel. Even now I watch people struggle to find the word of what they are trying to express, or give the wrong message by using a word that lessens what they mean. If words are destroyed or dulled down, then it becomes litterally impossible to express what you are trying to say properly.
6. Facebook can be a useful tool to expand your vocabulary greatly, however my Facebook newsfeed is filled with small, weak words, abreviations, spelling mistakes, and improper grammar all over the place. A lot of people over 60 would not even come close to understanding some of what is on my newsfeed. Unfortunately my vocabulary is lessened by Facebook, so I try to stay off of it.
2. The easiest article to read would be the Toronto Sun. The vocabulary is not particularly tough in it, and it touches on a subject a lot of people my age will care about.
3. The most complex article is the one from The Globe and Mail. I didn't personally have any problems reading it, but it is much harder to digest than any of the other three.
4. The pigs in Animal Farm eventually started acting just like humans, so I believe that they got the newspapers to try and learn how the corporate world is run. They were able to add their own twist into how they would decide for the farm to be run, and ultimately just wanted to find out ways of making the most amount of money with the least hassle from the other animals.
5. Vocabulary is the easiest way to express how you feel. Even now I watch people struggle to find the word of what they are trying to express, or give the wrong message by using a word that lessens what they mean. If words are destroyed or dulled down, then it becomes litterally impossible to express what you are trying to say properly.
6. Facebook can be a useful tool to expand your vocabulary greatly, however my Facebook newsfeed is filled with small, weak words, abreviations, spelling mistakes, and improper grammar all over the place. A lot of people over 60 would not even come close to understanding some of what is on my newsfeed. Unfortunately my vocabulary is lessened by Facebook, so I try to stay off of it.
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Web Quest #2
1. Both the descriptions of Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451, are accurate. I would have liked to see a little more on Fahrenheit 451 though, as the description is quite small.
One article I read on Fahrenheit 451 was this. I also read this one, and this one.
Animal Farm had references from here, here, and here.
All these articles seem to me to be quite reputable.
2. We included these two pieces of literature, before 1984 because they deal with the same subject matter. In all three pieces, a sort of government control is set over a population. The population is lead to believe in a different way of life rather that what we know in the lives we live today. Each of these pieces brings up valid scenarios in what could happen for a government to take control over a population, and one may even argue that some of those things are being practised within our own country.
3. Dystopia - A state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation, oppression or terror.
In different terms, dystopia means a place where you can not live a free, willing, or happy life. Things are unnecessarily bad in one or many ways, and every day of life would be hated by almost every being.
A place I have recently learned about where I found the conditions were particularly bad, would be Rwanda. I have heard many things about Rwanda, but could never have imagined the reality of what those people went through, and are still going through today. Rwandans were segregated by certain physical aspects, that were in reality imaginary, and the minority group was slaughtered off by the majority. Many people have tried stopping this civil war, but have had little success in it.
4. An event in the movie Fahrenheit 451, an example of their "mindless entertainment" would be how they watched t.v. People were called on the phone, and told they would be part of a program set to air at a certain time. The citizens would proceed to watch the show and answer questions that the television directed at them. Another example, taken from Animal Farm, would be what the sheep were taught to say. The sheep constantly blurted out "Four legs good, two legs bad" throughout the book, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. In fact they were taught this to keep their minds occupied with nothing but a dulled down saying that granted instant satisfaction for them.
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One article I read on Fahrenheit 451 was this. I also read this one, and this one.
Animal Farm had references from here, here, and here.
All these articles seem to me to be quite reputable.
2. We included these two pieces of literature, before 1984 because they deal with the same subject matter. In all three pieces, a sort of government control is set over a population. The population is lead to believe in a different way of life rather that what we know in the lives we live today. Each of these pieces brings up valid scenarios in what could happen for a government to take control over a population, and one may even argue that some of those things are being practised within our own country.
3. Dystopia - A state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation, oppression or terror.
In different terms, dystopia means a place where you can not live a free, willing, or happy life. Things are unnecessarily bad in one or many ways, and every day of life would be hated by almost every being.
A place I have recently learned about where I found the conditions were particularly bad, would be Rwanda. I have heard many things about Rwanda, but could never have imagined the reality of what those people went through, and are still going through today. Rwandans were segregated by certain physical aspects, that were in reality imaginary, and the minority group was slaughtered off by the majority. Many people have tried stopping this civil war, but have had little success in it.
4. An event in the movie Fahrenheit 451, an example of their "mindless entertainment" would be how they watched t.v. People were called on the phone, and told they would be part of a program set to air at a certain time. The citizens would proceed to watch the show and answer questions that the television directed at them. Another example, taken from Animal Farm, would be what the sheep were taught to say. The sheep constantly blurted out "Four legs good, two legs bad" throughout the book, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. In fact they were taught this to keep their minds occupied with nothing but a dulled down saying that granted instant satisfaction for them.
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