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Desire

by Clarence Chan

I named the title Desire because the word Desire really means a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen, in this case, Lysander wants to be Hermia’s love and be together forever, the word desire is also more of a determined meaning which I also think that it would fit Lysander’s personality well.

 

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The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho – Theme Summative Assessment

We should respect and love our parents because no matter what pain and sacrifices your parents have to make, they will surely and always chose to save us. The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho, also known as The Story of the Aged Mother, this Japanese folktale narrates the story of an unkind ruler who issues cruel orders, including one demand that all old folks are to be abandoned and left to die. The entire province was given strict orders to immediately put to death all aged people. The story’s big idea is mother’s love, it’s something that no one can explain because it is made with deep care, sacrifice, understanding, and pain.

In the story, The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho, the author believes that mothers love is something that should be cherished by all daughters and sons, we must treat back with positive actions. Before the son was about to leave; his mother still worries about his safety and sets up a path for him: ‘“The mountain road is full of dangers. LOOK carefully and follow the path which holds the piles of twigs. They will guide you to the familiar path farther down”’ (Basho 1 ). Even when it will be the last time the son will see his mother, his mother still shows the love to her son, almost like saying “thank you” to him, and appreciate the care that his mother provided. As the story continues, the son starts regretting his actions and starts to realize how much kindness his mother gave him throughout his life: ‘“oh, Honorable mother, your kindness breaks my heart! I will not leave you. Together we will follow the path of twigs, and together we will die!”’ (Basho 2). Of all the things that the mother has sacrificed and done for the son, is now being paid back to his mother to save her life. This brings out the idea of how we should treat back our parents with positive actions because of all the things they’ve done for us to make our lives smoother.

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Fish Cheeks Found Poem

Fish Cheeks Found Poem:

In the story “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, I think the external conflict in this story is Man vs Society. For example, In paragraph 2 the main character talks about how she is embarrassed by the manners that her relatives have and describes it as “noisy” and “shabby.” She also compares the food that Americans eat and the food that Chinese people eat. In my poem, I use words like “terrible,” “appalling” to describe how the character feels about her own culture, these words I chose are strong and fit in with my the poem well, other words help my poem tell the story, but it is more of an abstract poem. For the background, I chose lined up fishes since the stories climax is where her father passes Amy a fish cheek, and I chose to cut the words out and glue it on the background to make the poem look more dramatic and make it look as if what Amy was thinking in her mind.

Links to more information about the author and the conflict:

  1. https://prezi.com/hkq6bbumme1g/the-fish-cheeks-analysis-prezi/#:~:text=The%20major%20conflict%20of%20this,compared%20to%20the%20American%20one.
  2. http://www.amytan.net/

Dogs and Covid-19

The video  above is part 1

The Video below is part 2

 

Fake or real, that’s the question. News about dogs transmitting the coronavirus actually makes a big impact on owners, shockingly some pet owners abandon their pets or even kill their pets. Found out more by watching the short video.

Myth bust Prototype Dogs and Coronavirus

I wonder how we will film the kind of ad like video and another wonder is if we have enough time to do this, since filming can be a bit hard since we are separated and also if we separately film and the file is too big to send then that is a problem.

 

I feel like that one way to engage our audience is that the introduction has to hook the viewer, or else the viewer may not be interested, another way to engage the viewer is to pop out facts that make viewers feel shocked and surprised, another way we might use is to give information to viewers so they can learn new facts.

Ignite Week Rube Goldberg Reflection

 

My biggest fail for this project was accidentally starting the whole chain reaction when I did not want to. The problem was that I had to be very careful not to knock down the dominoes or a marble, but I learned from my mistake and stopped the problem, instead, I used a blocker so whenever I start a new section I use a block and place it between dominoes so they don’t knock down. In the end, my project was successful.

Ignite Week Rube Goldberg Create and Improve 2

My original goals for today was to finish building and finalizing The Cereal Machine first, then record the machine and fix any mistakes during the chain reaction, and possibly start making the video for the exhibition.

My challenges for today was that I had problems with the video, when I imported the video everything seemed fine, but when I realized that the video somehow skips a small part I knew that the clip or Imovie happened to it and skipped. My other problem is that when I imported the video I had already cleaned up the area where the contraption was, so if I wanted to re-record I would have to restart all over again.

A goal for tomorrow is to finish editing the video I am preparing on Friday.

Ignite Week Rube Goldberg Create

 

My original goal for today was to start building the ramp and fix any loose or unstable ramps, and if I finished

the wall-mounted section I can possibly start a bit of the section on the floor, after building just 1/2 of the contraption I will work on Blog Post 3.

Some challenges I face while I was building was that sometimes I would accidentally knock over dominoes on accident and everything would fall down, but then whenever I was working on a new section I used a cube to block dominoes from tumbling if I accidentally knock some down. Another challenge was space, I originally thought that I wouldn’t have enough space, but once I figured out that I had even more space.

Today I started the wall-mounted Rube Goldberg contraption and also the contraption on the floor, and almost finishing the whole contraption, tomorrow I can finish building the contraption and start finalizing the contraption, and possibly film the contraption.