Because You Are Here With Me

I saw

Big waves came to approach

Being frightened

I was drowned

I saw

A ship of hope

You waved

You rescued

I see

The way back home

Reaching the final destination

Because you are here with me.

A point of view

The first semester is going to end soon. English studies is one of the subject that I enjoyed studying during this semester. This subject is special in its own way. With Mr. Camillus Ong, my lecturer who is unpredictable and knowledgeable who made the lectures very interesting.

During lectures we were supposed to analyse short stories. Almost all of the short stories has either a sad or a tragic ending. Death, sorrow and gloomy. A part of them, my knowledge of literature expanded. From my secondary school, I have learned a few literary devices. But this class opened my eyes. I thought I've learned everything back then but actually there are more than 20 literary devices. I am glad that I entered this class. The short story I like the most is "Lamb To The Slaughter". I love the way how the story line goes. It is very smooth and made me feel interested to finish the story. It is a very interesting story indeed.

Besides short stories, me and my course mates analysed poems too. But it is very sad for me because i could not join the class.

In a nut shell, English Studies is a subject for English lovers like me. I hope for the next semester i will learn this subject again with the same lecturer.

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                                                           What do you say, sir???

                After analysis 10 short story and 12 poems, I do find that a lot of literature input. From the story of an hour to the extra reading short story, the chrysanthemums. A lot of style and themes had been present by the author. A lot of hidden message had been inserted in the short story. Some of the writing is influence by the West and East culture.  To understand the writing, I had realised that a little knowledge on the background of the author and the time and situation during the writing is needed in order to understand the writing and the issue being press in it. My favourite short story is “ The Jade Bracelet” by Mary Frances Chong. Mary is an Malaysian writer. She project the culture of Chinese and the suffering of a typical Chinese women in her writing. As we proceed into the poems, we analysis 12 poems, I realised that there are only two main themes in it, love and death. I do find the joy in analysis all the poems as for me, it required me to do a lot of research on the poems, from background of the poem and purpose of writing. Most of the poems are difficult to understand but a lot of research will help in understanding the poems. Overall, this course had open my view on the field of English. Now I realised that literature is fun. We can express our self freely. Do enjoy literature.!! J  

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Overview of Course

Overview of the Course

By Angela Devung Dennis

The learning of literature during English Study class had taught me a lot. I had been presenting a few of poems and short stories in front of the class with my other group members. It was such a meaningful learning process. To be honest, I was not interested into literature. I love reading stories but I never have sense to learn them deeper. However, after undergone a have-to-learn months, I have been changed. I started to learn seeing from different perspectives. I learnt how the background of the writer may affect the writing. Now, English Study is my favorite subject. Moreover, Mr. Camillus is the best lecturer for this course.                                               

Standing in front of the class to present used to frighten me. I was a type of girl that lacked self-confidence. However, the experiences of presented for the past few months is enough to increase my level of self-confidence. My course mates are also very cooperative and did help a lot during the presentation. They learnt and responded to our slides. The background of our presentation was also being commented for several times. From the comments, I learnt on how the background of a presentation should be.

After done a lot of researches, I learnt that literature is a good way to express the feeling. Sometime, there is something in our heart that is cannot be expressed by words. This is the situation where literature should be the best tool to express those. I learnt to practice critical thinking in my daily life. For an example, I learnt that death is not something bad. I learnt this in a poem ‘Don’t Go Gentle into That Good Night.’

As a conclusion, literature is my best teacher. It taught me a lot about life. I hope I can improve myself in many aspects of life as time passing by.

Overview of the Course

            I have learnt a lot of things in the English Studies class. To be honest, it is such a hard lesson to learn but I have try my very best to understand it and love it since I am not interested in literature. Luckily, I have very cooperative yet playful group members and they help me a lot during our discussion and presentation. We had learnt about short stories and poems in the past three and a half month and for me it is very fun to learn literature. Mr. Camillus had explained a lot to us regarding all of the short stories and poems.

            Presentation is one of my enemy since I am lack of confident when it comes to talk in front of many people. Thank God, I have very supportive group members. They encourage me and I feel like I have changed a lot. I am more confident to come in front and present but I still do not speak a lot. I just read what was on the slide because most of the time Albinus will explain it. For now we have done three presentation and we manage to do it quite well. Honestly, there are some mistakes on our slide such as spelling error and wrong pronunciation, but Mr. Camillus reprimand and correcting our mistakes.

            I understand that every short stories and poems have it deeper meaning. Before, I just read short stories and poems without have the interest to know deeper about it, who wrote it, what it implies to and what it means to the writer. But, after i going through three and a half months learning lesson, I realize that different short stories and poems implies different meaning and moral values but some of it have the same theme such as death. During our lesson, A Rose for Family, The Story of an Hour, Lamb to the Slaughter, Suicide Notes and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night brings the same theme which is death but it still have different meaning.

I hope that I can improve much better in English Studies next time and manage to make my own poem.  

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                                                                                                         Kelly Katty Jameson

OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE (task)

I’ve learnt many things through English Studies course. I never liked literature since high school, but now I developed a liking for it. However, I understand now why it is important to learn literature. Mr. Camillus is very nice. He often uses words that have a literal meaning which I had a hard time to understand. The way he teaches inspire me to be a better person .

                Literature for me is a very beautiful thing. It needs deep thinking but we are using it everyday in our daily lives without we even notice it. It can revolve on any aspect of our lives. For example, death, love and even the foods that we like.

                The short stories and poems that is in the book that we use throughout this course is all interesting. I’ve learnt many moral values from it. All the short stories is related to issue that may happen and is happening in our daily lives such as death, love and cultures. All the poem is very beautiful and have a very deep meaning. Now I know that everyone can write a poem if they have the story and feeling to share it with other people.

                I also learn how to present better in front from this course. Now I have the confidence to talk in front of people and watch out for my grammar when I am talking. It is important for a teacher to have a good communication skill and confidence so the message that they want to deliver to the students are clear and understandable.

                Overall, I am happy to be in this course and I hope I will become better in English Studies from time to time.

                                                                                                                                                                  

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                                                                                                                                                                      Elfera