Item 1: Poem
You can if you think you can
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.
~ C. W. Longenecker ~
Rhetorical devices:
- Repetition: “If you think”, “you”, “you’ve got to”, “you are”
- Rhyme: “don’t- won’t”, “find- mind", "rise- prize”, “man- can”
Message: Life depends on our outlook. If we have beliefs, we are through all the obstacles and hardship in life.
Item 2: Story
The house with the golden window
The little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill and as she grew she would play in the small garden and as she grew she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill – and this house had golden windows, so golden and shining that the little girl would dream of how magic it would be to grow up and live in a house with golden windows instead of an ordinary house like hers.
And although she loved her parents and her family, she yearned to live in such a golden house and dreamed all day about how wonderful and exciting it must feel to live there.
When she got to an age where she gained enough skill and sensibility to go outside her garden fence, she asked her mother is she could go for a bike ride outside the gate and down the lane. After pleading with her, her mother finally allowed her to go, insisting that she kept close to the house and didn’t wander too far. The day was beautiful and the little girl knew exactly where she was heading! Down the lane and across the valley, she rode her bike until she got to the gate of the golden house across on the other hill.
As she dismounted her bike and lent it against the gate post, she focused on the path that lead to the house and then on the house itself…and was so disappointed as she realized all the windows were plain and rather dirty, reflecting nothing other than the sad neglect of the house that stood derelict.
So sad she didn’t go any further and turned, heart-broken as she remounted her bike … As she glanced up she saw a sight to amaze her…there across the way on her side of the valley was a little house and its windows glistened golden …as the sun shone on her little home.
She realized that she had been living in her golden house and all the love and care she found there was what made her home the ‘golden house’. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!
Rhetorical devices:
Metaphor: 1. the girl’s poor house- the things we already have.
2. the house with golden window- the dreaming things not with us.
Message:
Happiness is not from others, it is always around us. We should know and appreciate what we have in present, instead of dreaming about what others have.
Item 3: Cartoon
Rhetorical devices:
Metaphor: 1. Osama Bin Laden: terrorism
2. shark: threatening
3. Goddess of freedom and skyscrapers: The United States of America and many other countries.
Message: In spite of the fact that the master terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed and thrown into an ocean in Arabic, the United States of America and other countries are still on the edge of being attacked by terrorism.
References:
