Task two: Template analysis

Poem 1: Children in the Darkness
This analysis aims to go deeper into the poem, children in the darkness.

It is in the point of view of someone who is aware of how 'normal' children are supposed to behave and what they are meant to be doing. This can be seen by how the persona draws comparisons between the children in the darkness and normal children. This way of writing puts both the persona and the readers in the same shoes, as they see how the other children are suffering while they can still live a blissful life as a normal child.

It is in the situation of war, and this poem reflects the feelings of the usage of young children in war when their youth was meant to be enjoyed. This can be seen in line 13,"Or will a war consume them" and also in other parts of the poem, where the constant bloodshed is shown, as in line 15-16. War is a hopeless affair and one where both sides, the victor or the defeated, will suffer execrable losses. Thus, this situation can evoke sympathy in the readers, as children, who are stereotypically young and innocent, are not only exposed to the extreme depravity of war, but also made to join in this bloodshed.

Language and diction is used to great extent here. Firstly, in its repetition of the word darkness. Light is usually a symbolism for hope. Light is used once in the whole poem at the start whereas darkness was repeated four times throughout the whole poem. This word positioning shows that darkness, in this case, war, will overwhelm hope in the end. Satire is also used in this poem, with words like 'blood', made more gory by its emphasis with the words 'endless' and 'thirsty' which shows the unquenchable thirst for blood that war has.

Personally, I feel that this poem connects me to the reality of other children. While 'rich' kids like us get to lounge around in a safe city like ours, there are other children who deserve the same fate as us, but instead, due to a miserable twist of fate, end up fighting neck to neck with an enemy that they don't even know about. True, some of us may not have the luxuries others have, like television and handphones, but still, our life is still a haven as compared to the tiredness and weariness of the lives of those poor suffering children.

Poetry Analysis: Children in The Darkness

Source: http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/2010warpoetry.html

There aren't many websites analyzing this poem and i only found slight background information about this poem from the website on top. However, since this is a one-star difficulty poem, I shall analyze it myself instead.

This poem is written by Henry M Bechtold in 2010, a very recent poem. Just before christmas, he was in Saigon, a place in Vietnam and was trying to write poems there. He often goes back to Vietnam because his "soul lives in Vietnam." This could imply that he himself was one of the soldiers fighting in the war then and as with many war veterans, they find it difficult to adapt back to their own homeland after the suffering they had seen. This poem was written after Henry watched the television and saw the picture of a small boy with a helmet and an automatic rifle.

This poem shows conflicting images of the author's mindset of what should actually be the life of a child in contrast with how the children suffering in war really are. The first stanza shows the ignorance of a child, in the sentence, "have not seen the light." This probably means that they are young and still in a state of darkness and ignorance, and thus, this stanza evokes sympathy in the reader as in their unknowing state, they will have to be "teach to fight." Soldiers usually fight out of a sense of patriotism or loyalty, but this children, completely unaware of anything are being taught to fight, the only thing they are learning.

The first line of the next stanza states that "chalk and blackboards will not be" contrasting the reader's view of school with the way these children are taught. The next three stanzas are extremely strong as they are written by an American. Americans are known to be pursuers of "Freedom", something that they sincerely believe is their right to upkeep. But this fighting is the complete opposite. The children fighting have no ability to be free, taught to fight, this is their only way of life, to be involved in war and probably die.

The next stanza asks rhetorical questions, whether the children can be taught what 'normal' students are taught.

The next stanza shows their true fate and why they cannot be taught what normal students are taught, in other words, it answers all the rhetorical questions. They could never be taught all that, because they will be consumed in war, 'their body and soul' will be given up to war and their blood and life will be 'poured down some endless thirsty hole.' Satire is used here to a small extent, with words like blood,poured and endless, making it seem like blood is being constantly poured and bloodshed is rampant.

The last stanza more or less concludes the whole poem, by saying that these children could not possibly be like normal children, they have no hope , which is symbolized by light, to live a normal life as it has been destroyed by the circumstances of war.

Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon

The movie starts in a viking village, where the two main opposing factions are the vikings and the dragons. The dragons steal the Viking's livestock and burn their villages, in return the vikings kill thousands of the dragons. The village is filled with blood thirsty vikings, all strong, battle -ready and knowledgeable about the dragons they want to kill and the tactics required to kill them. All except one of the dragons, a night fury, apparently the most legendary and deadliest of dragons. Compare this to the protagonist of the story, Hiccup, son of the mightiest viking and the chief of the Vikings, who is considered an anomaly among the vikings. Nerdy, weak and unable to kill a dragon at all, he is still determined to prove himself as a powerful viking and during a dragon attack, he managed to shoot down a dragon. However, no one believed him. The next day, Hiccup went to look for the dragon and found that it was a night fury. Unable to kill it, Hiccup freed him and soon the two develop a friendship as Hiccup started to train it secretly. But secrets dont tend to be kept secret for long and the story end explosively as the two enemies realize they had to team up together to fight the biggest foe of all.

The best thing about the film was the plot. I thought it was a very deep plot, showing Hiccup's moral courage to go against the Vikings, proving to them that dragons were never bad. Despite the fact that all the other vikings were massacring dragons, he dared to be different and train them instead. This kind of courage is evident in our literature text, To Kill A Mockingbird, too.

Another thing about the movie that i love so much is the graphics. Other cartoon movies give you paper cut outs and animations, but this movie really went beyond the limits. The dragons seem to have the ability to look extremely real in battle, as did all the Viking's battle ships. And the 'Ultimate enemy' really did look extremely life-like. All the fireballs thrown and catapults shot in the movie were all incredibly real and life-like.

If there was any problem with the movie, it was that such a great movie should have the potential to be way longer, so many more adventures could have taken place within the span of the entire movie instead of just spending such a large part of the movie on showing Hiccup's attempts to befriend and train the dragon. But still, I consider this a small flaw in comparision to how great the movie is.

The character's were also well portrayed and managed to show the theme, which was that the dragons were essentially good, well. Other than the protagonist, there were other characters in the story who played a major part in the movie, mostly by turning from the typical, dragon-hating vikings to people who have understood the dragons and made peace with them. One of these people would be Astrid, Hiccup's girlfriend in the end but enemy at the start. After hanging out with dragons for so long, Hiccup had learnt methods to subdue dragons peacefully without any harm to either party and his ability caused him to be well-known and respected in dragon-training class. Astrid, who was as good as any other boy,or even better, was none too happy about this as she wanted to be number one in the class. Soon, her desire to find out what led to Hiccup's sudden improvement made her stumble on the truth by accident and she soon changed her mindset about the dragon who Hiccup had aptly named "Toothless"(for apparent reasons). Another person who had undergone massive change in mindset towards dragons was Hiccups father, the chief of the Vikings. At first, he was upset with Hiccup's inability to kill or even hate dragons. When Hiccup became a hotshot in town for supposedly "subduing" the dragons in training class, he was extremely elated. However, the relationship between the two deteriorated when his father found out that about the means his child used to subdue the dragons, in other words, peaceful means without bloodshed or weaponry. In the end however, Toothless helped save the tribe from the 'enemy' and Hiccup's father's mindset finally changed, as could be seen from him freeing Toothless from the restraining harness.

Overall, i feel that this is a wonderful movie and i would really recommend families to watch it together.

Rating: 4.2/5

P.S I'm aware that this movie isn't sci - fi but i already had intention to do a movie review on this even before you listed it out as an ACE opportunity. But I won't mind even if this post isn't considered for ACE.

My Baby Cousin

She comes every single week ever since she was about 9 months old. She's real cute and fun to play with but recently, im starting to find her an irritant. My parents overly pamper her and always call her things like "my baby." Creeps me out sometimes because I think that my baby cousin, Hazel, should be spending more time with her own parents. True, she only spends the weekends over at my house, but hey, weekends are for bonding periods with your own family right? My parents tried to reason with me by saying that her parents cannot occupy her whenever it's the weekends cause of work, or other reasons. But is this what my parents want? Every single weekend, do they want Hazel over? It might seem like they're okay with it now but what about when Hazel grows older and less fun? Do they expect her to keep on coming over?

And another thing, my parents often tell me to do things for her because when we bring her over, we should all take care of her. Even now, im babysitting her. I never asked for her to be here. And they bring her over every single week and expect me to do things for her. Go to the car and grab a balloon for her, babysit her, try and put her to sleep, etc. Weekends are supposed to be my day off, yet every weekend, i have to take time off to take care of her. I understand that my parents like her to be here and most of the time, i try to be accommodating to her. Yet sometimes, i wish she wouldn't come every single week. Sigh... guess ill have to try to bear with her...

Linguistic ( a )

I would choose to be friends with Dill. The world is quite evil, any way you look at it. Evil in fact is quite a general term. To take a life is evil. To kill a tree, that is also evil. Evil is all around us, it cannot be measured. Dill takes a light view of everything. He chooses to laugh at everything instead of being too serious about it. Dill is innocent and in a way naive. He does not bother much about the world and no matter what happens, he always has a way to make light of it. He even wants to be a ' clown ' that cheers people and himself up. Thus, it would be great to have a friend like him who can cheer me up even when I am down.

Naturalistic(Mockingbirds)

Natural Habitat: Open Woodland; open country with thickets; gardens; orchards

Distribution: Southern Canada; Most of USA and Mexico; Parts of carribean

Maycomb is a pretty poor country and I suppose much of the revenue in Maycomb is generated through farming or other agricultural activities. Large spaces of empty farmland are very suitable for Mockingbirds to breed and crops from the farmland can help feed the mockingbirds. Also, as shown from the distribution above, Mockingbirds are often found in America, which is where Maycomb is located at.

Some extra things I have found out about TKAM:

One of the definitions of a mockingbird in the story is "good being destroyed through contact with evil." Under this definition, a good example would be Jem Finch. But even his name has a reason to it. A Finch is also a kind of bird, a small bird, which could possibly be used to show the vulnerability to the evils of the world. Mockingbirds are also very territorial creatures and are also very brave, sometimes even fighting(and failing) dogs and cats who intrude their territory. This is seen in some parts of the novel where Jem himself attempts to fight of any who might bring harm to his family and also where he stands up for his father in spite of the country waiting to lynch him.

What do I feel about the Multiple Intelligence Test?

According to the test, I am intrapersonal and naturalistic. I feel that this is very true as i feel i do know about myself quite well, my strengths and my weaknesses. That is not to say that I can manipulate my strengths and weaknesses well enough. I am also a very naturalistic person.I may not necessarily be a very outdoor kind of person but i still feel a strong connection to nature.

Modern Fashion Too Casual?

Singapore has a fashion sense that is more often than not casual. Go to a wedding? Should I wear a tuxedo? A suit? No!!! The best would be a Polo Shirt and jeans. What about a opera? A buttoned-up suit? What about a double-breasted suit? No!!! The best would be perhaps a shirt showing your favorite band and trousers.

These habits may seem odd but they are happening in Singapore. In the past, people often felt that their dressing was their number one priority. They insisted on wearing their best, suits and dresses at any time of their life. But if you dress with this kind of 'formality' in contemporary society, you will immediately stick out like a sore thumb in a bunch of people. So what happened in between the past and now? Have people lost their respect for dressing? Or perhaps, as Singaporeans often say, they dress like this because 'its too hot?'Or perhaps, the answer is simpler than this. In the past, people will dress more or less the same. Men in button-up suits and women in flowery, flowing dresses. Whether there is a difference in colors, in quality or material, the people of the past dress more or less in the same way. In other words, whether they are doing it consciously or not, they are following a hidden protocol.

In a way, so are we. Our dress styles may seem weird to people of the past, but then of course, their dress styles weren't exactly normal to us either! I mean, girls nowadays dress in flowery dresses only for extremely important things like weddings and boys nowadays dress in suits only for important events like funerals. Other than that, we dress in our own style, to our own liking. But like the people of the past, we too are following a hidden protocol. This would be the 'trend.' Trends change as time pass, girls may change their jeans for shorts and pants while boys change suits with tees. One day, orange spectacles may be very fashionable and the next day, it could be black. Trends change and people are simply adapting.

Thus, to conclude, i do not agree that modern fashion is to casual. The fashion changes with time and we are not any more casual than people in the past are any more formal. We are simply defining our style as the trend goes.

Exam Preparation

 After an entire year, it's finally reaching our end of year exams. Naturally, to ensure a good grade, i will have to study hard for the test. However, unlike Math and Science, Language Arts cannot be memorized. It requires reading up of different methods, committing them to memory and emulating them.

For paper one, I will be reading up on some of my own compositions as well as those from others who have written well and will try to emulate the methods that they used. I will also study the formating for situational writing.

I will reread animal farm as well as memorize the necessary  quotes in the animal farm that questions in the exam might make use of.

I will study the different poetry and prose analysis methods and decide which kind i will want to tackle during the exams.

These three are the main components that i will study. As for the rest, like comprehension open- ended, i see no way to study them since they are basically a test of our identifying of answers and applying of knowledge, together with other methods like inference.

My weread

I forgot the password to my previous account but here is the link to my new one: http://weread.com/iread_index.php

MBA- Who am I?

Song Used:Where is the love?
Artist: Black Eyed Peas
Lyrics: What's wrong with the world mama?
People living like aint got no mamas
I think the whole worlds addicted to the drama
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma
Overseas yeah we tryin to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin
In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And if you hatin you're bound to get irate
Yeah madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
You gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach or
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?(where is the lovex3)(the love2x)

It just ain't the same all ways have changed
New days are strange is the world the insane?
If love and peace so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones
With ongoing suffering
As the youth die young
So ask yourself is the loving really strong?
So I can ask myself really what is going wrong
With this world that we living in
People keep on giving in
Makin wrong decisions
Only visions of them livin and
Not respecting each other
Deny thy brother
The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover
The truth is kept secret
Swept under the rug
If you never know truth
Then you never know love
Where's the love y'all?(I don't know)
Where's the truth y'all?(I don't know)
Where's the love y'all?

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can practice what you preach or
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father father father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?(where is the lovex3)(the lovex2)

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people get colder
Most of us only care about money makin
Selfishness got us followin the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema
Whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality
Instead of spreading love, we're spreading anomosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down
It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
I gotta keep my faith alive, until love is found

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach or
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?(fade)

Analysis: This song is mainly stating the evils of the human race. This song really represents what i believe in, in other words, like the singers, i really hope to change the world to be a better place, not the one that the singer is describing and which unfortunately, is the real world we are living in.

The first two lines of the first stanza end with the same word,"mama."This is a bit of a paradox as the first sentence potrays a little kid asking his mother what is wrong with the world, when in fact, everyone was living like they had no mothers to teach them right from wrong.The following lines show the current evils of the world. Problems like terrorism and racism are shown. "Love" and "hatin" are two words used by the songwriter. This two words may be contradictions of each other, but they're are actually used to show the balance between the love for your race and religion. Loving your own race and discriminating other races are signs of racism and like the songwriter, I do not believe in this. "Love" is repeated three times to show the different things. It's used to show the love for your own race that causes discrimination. The other two times it was used,however, are used to show that love can be used to solve the problems that the previous kind of 'love' caused. In this case, repetition is used to emphasize on this word and to show the pains and joys of 'love.'

The next stanza is the chorus. The words used inside the chorus potrays the main theme of this entire song. A large part of this stanza actually makes reference to religion, with words like "Father", in other words,God, and also "Preach", which is reminiscient of preachings and sermons made by the church. I strongly believe in what this stanza says, as it questions humans atrocities and killings and also thier heartlessness with the simple question,"Where is the love?" 'People killing people dying/Children hurtin you hear them crying' may seem like satire but this is actually the truth and it is being used to evoke negative emotions of the human race.

The next stanza writes about the wars that are happening. This may be reminiscient of the atomic bombings by the U.S.A, a historical event that has scarred the roots of Japan for a long time. I feel the same way as the songwriter. Is this really neccessary? Or was it just because people are making the wrong descisions? If love,peace and harmony are so important, why must such a tragedy be caused? Near to the end of the stanza, the sentence 'The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover' states that the war is going on for no reason at all. This further evokes the negative emotions as even though there were bombings and chemical raidings, this cruel things happened for no reason at all.

The second last stanza potrays the human in a very bad light. It states that humans are greedy and are only interested in making money. They fail to understand each other, leading them away from unity. As time passes, everyone gets colder, forgetting the values taught to us by our parents.

To conclude, this song really shows what i belive in, a better, harmonious world without these mass killings and acts of cruelty. A world with humanity, not senseless barbarians and most importantly, with love.

Blog Assignment:Poetry

There's a dragon in my house

It lies asleep in the kitchen

It's quiet like a mouse

Until it's dinnertime

It shoves food in at furious rates

Yet,the dragon never breathes fire

Instead all food that goes in

Will freeze in a cold so dire

Lesson Five:Poetry On Gambling

1. The poem, Tom Beatty, and the story, the rocking horse winner are in complete contrast with each other. In the poem, the main gist of the story is to know your limits and leave when you lose instead of staying and hoping to strike it lucky. The poet said that in the opera house, you have seventy years to play and whether the gambler wins or loses is controlled by either the lord or devil. Paul, on the other hand, had much less time than seventy years. After losing two horse races in one row, he did not stop. Rather, the loses fueled his desire to earn money. This caused him to become delirious ultimately resulting in his death. It may be a blessing in disguise however, to die so early. Like Paul's mother said, "My family has been a gambling family, and you won't know till you grow up how much damage it has done." If Paul had not died, he might grow up to become the man who "curse his losses, leaden-eyed,  whining to try and try." It may have been sad that one should die so young because of his parent's greed and desire for a high social status, but at least he had not grown up with this gambling addiction or he would be a big dent to society.

2. Just like the short story, paper, the person in the poem could not give up his gambling, no matter how big his losses are. The stocks in paper are the same, and no matter what we do to try and control or manipulate the stock market, it still remains vulnerable to changes. Unfortunately, when people lose in either the roulette or the stock market, they tend to harbor a "one last time feeling." In other words, they always play one last time in the hope of earning all their money back. Green is a color that can represent this as it shows greed and envy. In comparison, greed causes the gamblers to keep on playing, ultimately losing all their money. 

3. The one-dollar gambler has a relation to Ah Boh in the sense that no matter how much she has, there will always be money to bet or gamble with. She may have zero dollars to spend on food, but even if she is clean broke, she can never forget that that zero dollars will also be used for gambling. She often fails in her bets, as shown in the phrase,"empty hands" but keeps on betting again and again. This shows that the notion of gambling is embedded so deeply in her mind that she can never stop gambling, even if she has zeo dollars.

IT lesson 4:Gambling

2. Ah Boh was addicted to gambling and her addiction and obsession led her to believe in many suspicions. Due to her hope of 'striking it big', she doesn't even give money to her own mother. She also believed in suspicions like babies will bring her good luck and copied car plate numbers of cars involved in collisions to buy the lottery with. All these unconventional suspicions lead her to believe that she had a chance of gaining overnight wealth. She was not even remorseful when her mother died in a car accident and only thought of earning money through lottery to pay for her funeral. Her addiction will be the death of her sooner or later.

3. Paul's death was indirectly caused by his parents. He had never dreamed of using the money he earned for his selfish desires and only gave it to his parents. He had been haunted by the everlasting whispers of money. These whispers were actually a sign of their parent's greed. They lead a good life but there wanted money to earn a higher social status. To be respected, leverage is required and to them, money is leverage. Thus, Paul's parents desire to earn money resulted in his urge to earn money, causing him to become delirous and  ultimately resulted in his death.

Lesson 3: The Son is in Secondary School by Affran Sa’at

My badge has a Latin motto
Hope for the future
The future is hope
Or something
At times black crows try to interrupt
When we sing the National Anthem
It is difficult to maintain
The whiteness of my shoes
Especially on Wednesdays
I must admit there is something quite special
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts
The Malay chauffeurs
Who wait for my schoolmates
Sit on the car park kerb Telling jokes to one another
Seven to the power of five is unreasonable
On Chinese New Year Mrs Lee dressed up In a sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawan Solo
The capital of Singapore is Singapore
My best friend did a heroic thing once
Shaded all A’s
For his Chinese Language Multiple-choice paper In our annual yearbook
There is a photograph of me
Pushing a wheelchair and smiling
They caught me
At the exact moment
When my eyes were actually closed
1.He was talking about his primary school days and relieving memories of his youth.
He was probably missing primary school life and was probably feeling sad that he could no longer go back to his youth.

2.
My primary school days
Seemed so long ago

Life was simple
I was carefree

Gone out with friends
Played together after exams

Never could forget PSLE
But I did well in it

Lesson 2:Favourite Poet

I don't really have a favorite poet but after reading ahead to lesson 3, i thought that one of the poems there were pretty interesting. So, I decided to write about the poet, David McCord. He was a famous prolific poet, and he wrote many poems for children. He was also a philanthropist and fundraiser, earning money and donating them to his college. He was noted for his creative, rhythmic, and often whimsical poems. He was also said to write in ways few others do. He even invented his own way of writing, symmetric, to accommodate his way and style of writing. He was born in New York but spent most of his childhood outside portland. It was there that he developed his love for words.He entered Harvard with the intention of becoming a physicist and concentrated in physics. His love of physics and astronomy stayed with him and found its way into many of his poems. As World War I wound down, he served briefly in the military. In 1922, he became associate editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, now the Harvard Magazine. He was editor of that publication from 1940 to 1946. He also taught poetry to many people and lived by a motto of ,"fishing with a barbless hook" to say that his aim in everything he did was to make friends, be it fundraisers or making poems. He died at a ripe age of 99. Even now, Harvard still respects him for being one of their best students ever.

THIS IS MY ROCK

"This is my rock, 
And here I run 
To steal the secret of the sun;

"This is my rock, 
And here come I 
Before the night has swept the sky;

"This is my rock, 
This is the place 
I meet the evening face to face."

EVERY TIME I CLIMB A TREE

"Every time I climb a tree 
Every time I climb a tree 
Every time I climb a tree 
I scrape a leg 
Or skin a knee 
And every time I climb a tree 
I find some ants 
Or dodge a bee 
And get the ants  
All over me

"And every time I climb a tree 
Where have you been? 
They say to me 
But don't they know that I am free 
Every time I climb a tree? 
I like it best 
To spot a nest 
That has an egg 
Or maybe three

"And then I skin 
The other knee 
But every time I climb a tree 
I see a lot of things to see 
Swallows,  rooftops and TV 
And all the fields and farms there be 
Every time I climb a tree 
Thought climbing may be good for ants 
It isn't awfully good for pants 
But still it's pretty good for me 
Every time I climb a tree"

Summer Shower

Window window window pane:
Let it let it let it rain
Drop by drop by drop by drop.

Run your rivers from the top
Zigzaggy down, like slow wet forks
Of lightning, so the slippery corks
Of bubbles float and overtake
Each other till three bubbles make
A kind of boat too fat to fit
The river. That's the end of it.
        Straight 
        down
        it
        slides
        and
        with
        a
        splash
Is lost against the window sash.

Window window window pane:
Let it let it let it rain. 

sources:http://www.embracingthechild.org/bookspecialmccord.html

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html

http://www.k12.hi.us/~shasincl/poems_prop_cycle_weather.html

IT emergency lessons 1

Before the Worst by The script

1.It's been a while since the two of us talked 

2.About a week since the day you walked 
3.Knowing things would never be the same 
4.With your empty heart and mine full of pain 
5.So explain to me, how it came to this 
6.Take it back to the night we kissed 
7.It was Dublin city on a Friday night 
8.You were vodkas and coke, I was Guinness all night 

9.We were sitting with our backs against the world 
10.Saying things that we thought but never heard 
11.Who would have thought it would end up like this? 
12.Where everything we talked about is gone 
13.And the only chance we have of moving on 

14.Is try to take it back 
15.Before it all went wrong 

16.Before the worst, before we mend 
17.Before our hearts decide 
18.It's time to love again 
19.Before too late, before too long 
20.Lets try to take it back 
21.Before it all went wrong 

22.There was a time, that we'd stay up all night 
23.Best friends talking till the daylight 
24.Took the joys alongside the pain 
25.With not much to loose, but so much to gain 
26.Are hearing me? Cause I don't wanna miss, 
27.Set you a drift on memory bliss 
28.It was Grafton Street on a rainy night 
29.I was down on one knee and you where mine for life 

30.We we're thinking we would never be apart 
31.With your name tattooed across my heart 
32.Who would have thought it would end up like this? 
33.Where everything we talked about is gone 
34.And the only chance we have of moving on 

35.Is try to take it back 
36.Before it all went wrong 

37.Before the worst, before we mend 
38.Before our hearts decide 
39.It's time to love again 
40.Before too late, before too long 
41.Lets try to take it back 
42.Before it all went wrong 

43.If the clouds don't clear 
44.Then we'll rise above it, we'll rise above it 
45.Heavens gate is so near 
46.Come walk with me through 
47.Just like we use to, just like we use to 

48.Lets take it back 
49.Before it all went wrong 

50.Before the worst, before we mend 
51.Before our hearts decide 
52.It's time to love again 
53.Before too late, before too long 
54.Lets try to take it back 
55.Before it all went wrong

Line 4 - With your empty heart and mine full of pain 

Hyperbole - used to contrast the two parties emotions

Line 8 - You were vodkas and coke, I was Guinness all night 

Symbolism - used to show that both parties were drunk

Line 29 - I was down on one knee and you where mine for life 

Metaphor - one party was proposing and the other accepted

Line 43-44 - If the clouds don't clear 
Then we'll rise above it, we'll rise above it

Hyperbole - used to show the determination between the two parties,

no matter what the future is

Line 45 - Heavens gate is so near 

Symbolism - They are seeing a paradise

Book Reflection:Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony

Just a note:This isn't really required hw but after reading Artemis Fowl and the eternity code, i got hooked on the series and brought practically every series of it.So here's another book reflection for those who ran out of stuff to read and give them a preview of what they can expect in this amazing book.

Artemis Fowl was a child genius and criminal but lately, he has became obsessed with fairies and trying to exploit them.But now,he is no longer the only mud person(fairy slang for 'human')to know of this race.A young french girl,Minerva,has found out about these fairies,and to make it worse,she hopes to capture a demon,the most human-hating of all fairies.An ancient time spell keeps the demons from humans,but unfortunately,the demon warlocks who casted the spell were long dead.Or are they?The first fairy caught by minerva turned out to be an odd-one-out among the others as he wasn't bloodthirsty like other demons.Soon,the demon warlock,N01,was plunged into adventures with Artemis and his fairy ally,Holly.Together,they must stop Minerva from revealing the demon to the masses and to stop Leon Abbot,a crazed demon intent on controlling his race and killing all humans.Artemis had finally found his match,but this time,his match might prove too much for him. 

P.s.This time I made sure to keep the word limit under 200,so if you count it,there should only be 150 words exactly 

Book Reflection:Artemis Fowl and The Eternity Code

The story's plot was rather simple. A criminal mastermind, Artemis, creates a super computer,namely the c-box. It was extremely advanced technology and thus, when Artemis meets Chicago businessman Jon Spiro to show him the c-cube, Jon attempts to steal it. Artemis bodyguard, Butler, was killed by one of Spiro's Staff. However, he was revived by fairy magics from Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon squad. Unfortunately, the healing causes him to overage and leaves him unable to do his duties. However, his sister, Juliet, agrees to help recover the stolen computer. With the aid of the LEPrecon team and the dwarf, Mulch Diggums, they broke into Spiro's company and rescued Artemis. Even though Spiro had advanced security devices and the vault containing the c-cube was nearly unbreakable, the fairies technology was better, and they managed to get the cube. Artemis lets Foaly, the centuar who was the technical specialist of the LEP, take the c-cube and tricks Spiro into going to a rival company to sabotage their projects and gets him arrested by the Chicago police.I would seriously recommend this book to fantasy-lovers as it is very interesting and covers the many adventures that Artemis goes through. A good read!

Mercurial Tom

Brotherly Rivalry

Today's the day!

On a mission!

Mixed emotions ran through him.

He finally knew how to get promoted to chief.

Remove all obstacles.

Even his brother.

Opened the door.

Bang!Silence.

The body fell to the ground.

Smiling,his brother put alway his gun.

He always knew someone would want to usurp his position.