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I know of a common thing
We see it everyday
It has not two
But four legs
Yet it cannot move
It might be made of
Wood, mahogany, glass
And I am even using one right now!

The answer is : TABLE (HIGHLIGHT THE SPACE TO SEE THE ANSWER)

Reflection

7. Congratulations you're done. I would just ask for your assistance with one final matter-- your first blog entry for term 3. This is a first-time experience for teachers and students, working online for one week. In order to help us refine the process will you please do a blog entry of (the usual) 200 words in which you address

Reflections on E-Learning:i) Overall did you put in more hours per day with E-Learning or a regular school day with homework?

ii) Were you able to complete the Language Arts assignments in about an hour each or did they take longer?

iii)Which assignment(s) did you like the best and which one(s) did you like the least? Explain why.

iv)My suggestions to make E-Learning better are...

v) A general reflection on how you feel the week went. Please share your honest opinion as ALL feedback is critical at this time.

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Well, i spent more time doing homework as compared to e-learning. This is because we can choose when to do our work. For example, we can do tomorrow's work today! Even though I took a longer time than one hour to do each assignment, i still had enough time for i took a headstart and started doing at Sunday!

The assignment I liked most would be the first one. This is because it was the most meaningful out of the six assignments. It was also quite easy to do. The one i disliked the most would be the fifth one. This is because the assignment was boring and not as meaningful as the rest. It only asked us to compare the stories and the poems.

I feel that for e-learning, the teachers should post less homework or easier ones. This is because if there is very often a lack of time to complete our work and we had to use our half and our break to do work. Even that is not enough, that is why today i am still doing my blog entries! However, overall, i prefer doing e-learning than going to school. When we do e-learning, we can enjoy the comfort of our home.

Lesson 6: Compulsory Blog Entry

2.The casino being built in Singapore is supposed to be a money-maker and job creator. However, many people have spoken against it. Talk to a parent or adult and get their view on the casino. Listen to the NPR and YouTube offerings and choose one that substantiates your viewpoint and include a quote from it as well. Your blog entry has to be at least 200 words and you must either support the casino or condemn its construction and ultimately the hardships it will cause in Singapore.

I personally feel that there should not be a casino in Singapore. Having a casino in Singapore might be a bad influence and ruin Singapore reputation. For example, people might think that Singapore supports gambling for they had build a casino. This is not the case and Singapore is merely using the casino to earn more money and create more jobs for locals.
It is also quite puzzling to me as to why the government do not encourage Singaporeans to patronise the casino and only allow tourists to come. This means that the government did not want Singaporeans to gamble. In a way, this is good for it shows the government care for the locals. Then why did they build a casino in the first place, and in Singapore too? The point is that they only want tourists to come and gamble and not locals. However, does this means that gambling will not be detrimental to the tourists? As a matter of fact, it willl still be!
Well, gambling is detrimental to everyone. It is also inevitable that some Singaporeans would come to the casino to gamble. All the hard effort the government spent on anti-gambling would be wasted. So, why build the casino at all? Of course it will boost Singapore's tourism and create more jobs, but is it fair in the expense of "harming" some people so as to do this? I don't think so...

Poem

2. In The Green Clothes, green is the color of envy, greed and money! This poem is thematically similar to Paper. Even though the poem takes place at a roulette wheel the gamblers from the short story and the poem have similar experiences. Explain how tips, dry lips, and all that was spent in vain could apply to the short story Paper.
The tips would represent Tay Soon's initial earnings. Dry lips would represent all the stress on Tay Soon after the stock market crashed and he had lost all his money. All that was spent in vain would represent all his life savings were lost when the stock market crashed and his dream house was finished as he failed to sell his stocks, and only had "paper money". He eventually loses his life as well due to the stress and thus, "paper money" could only buy a paper house, which was also burned in the end.

3. Ah Boh in Lottery has about one dollar, there’s a “blind man,” the number 13 and ultimately zero dollars to bet. These last examples are taken from One-Dollar Gambler. Show how they also relate to Ah Boh.
The "blind man" represents Ah Boh, for he did not know if he will win or lose in the lottery. The number 13 represents his unluckiness. It also relates to her superstitions regarding gambling. Zero dollars to bet would mean that Ah Boh had gambled all her money eventually and was left with zero dollars.

Gambling~EDITED~

Little Ironies(Paper)
In the Paper, the irony of the story is "paper gains, paper house". When we buy stocks, the gains made is called paper gains for it the "money" is only on the certificate until we sell it to get real money. Thus, for when Tay Soon started buying stocks and gained money, he did not sell it and wanted even more. As a result, his dream house was also made of paper.
Stock is also like gambling, for it depends on your luck whether the stock prices increase or decrease. And once you start it, you cannot stop it.

The Rocking Horse Winner
The ultimate fault is himself. Paul had probably died from some sort of feverish exhaustion. He spent so much time riding the horse, and being obsessed about making money and being lucky for his mother, that he physically wore himself down. He didn't sleep or eat enough, and overexerted himself on the rocking horse. Thus, he died because of his own fault, for he had a choice to stop all these and did all these out of his own will. It was mainly because of his greed, or materialism that killed little Paul. His mother constantly sought out more and more money. Paul already sense that she "could not love" him, so, in his mind, he thinks that if he can be lucky, and make money, then she will love him. His desire to be loved was spurred on by her materialistic greed. Even when he does win money for her, it does no good. It in fact was detrimental to her, greed, she longed for more money. Even some might say it was her fault, but Tom in the end had the most power to stop what he was doing.

Analyzing poems

SCHOOL
Holidays are out and over
Like the sand between my toes and fingers.
Now it's time to go back
To the deathtrap known as school.

Make new friends
Break school rules
And use our very own money to spend
On the food they sell there.

The teachers are like creatures,
And murderers who kill you
By giving homework
Out of the blue

Friends is someone we treasure,
For our friendship is a gift.
And make the world we live in,
A better and happier place

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The Son is in Secondary School by Affran Sa’
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

The poet is reminiscing about the times, both good and bad, he had in Secondary School. His badge, which probably meant a lot to him, gave him hope to do stuff. Then, when black crows tried to interrupt the National Anthem, he was relating the fun times he had in Secondary School. "The Malay chauffeurs who wait for my schoolmates sit on the car park kerb telling jokes to one another" probably states the close bond between schoolmates. At the last few lines, when his "best friend did a heroic thing once shaded all A’s" for the exam papers and the photograph with the poet's eyes closed indicates the joyful and wonderful times he had.

Famous Poets(Edgar Allan Poe)

Edgar Allen Poe had actually led a very tough life! He had been criticized by
many people. However, his poems are not at all half bad! They have many figurative lanuage in it, and also rhyming words. The works of Edgar Allen Poe cannot stand to be a comedy triumph, because his pieces of work are too powerful to be even close to funny. Thus, I feel that his poems are very

impactful and outstanding. Besides this, there is a "real" emotion in it and
one could almost feel it. In addition, the use of figurative language makes

them fun to read!

BIOGRAPHY

Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, January 19, 1809, and after a tempestuous life of forty years, he died in the city of Baltimore, October 7, 1849.

In 1829 he published "Al Aaraaf, and Minor Poems." "This work," says his biographer, Mr. Stoddard, "was not a remarkable production for a young gentleman of twenty." Poe was ashamed of the volume.

After his stormy school life, he returned to Richmond, where he was kindly received by Mr. Allen. There, he took up literature as a profession and created lots of new and famous poems.

Poe has been severely critisized by many writers for his wild and stormy life, but we notice that Ingram and some other prominent authors claim that he has been willfully slandered and that many of the charges brought against him are not true. His ungovernable temper and high spirit led him into disputes with his friends, hence he was not enabled to hold any one position for a great length of time. He had faults in personal life, but his ungovernable passions are sleeping, while the sad strains of "The Raven," the clear and harmonious tones of "The Bells," and the powerful images of his fancy live made him one of the world's most famous poets.

Some of his poems...

Alone

From childhood's hour

I have not been

As others were;

I have not seen

As others saw;

I could not bring

My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Then- in my childhood, in the dawn

Of a most stormy life- was drawn

From every depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still:

From the torrent, or the fountain,

From the red cliff of the mountain,

From the sun that round me rolled

In its autumn tint of gold,

From the lightning in the sky

As it passed me flying by,

From the thunder and the storm,

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view.

Song
I SAW thee on thy bridal day -

When a burning blush came o'er thee,

Though happiness around thee lay,

The world all love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light

(Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight

Of Loveliness could see.

That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame -

As such it well may pass -

Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame

In the breast of him, alas!

Who saw thee on that bridal day,

When that deep blush would come o'er thee,

Though happiness around thee lay,

The world all love before thee.

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow--

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand--

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep--while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

References:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/