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Quick Write : The Fault in Our Stars
I think Peter Van Houten wrote the book “An Imperial Affliction” because he understand what the patients have forced with cancer. He is sympathise with patients with cancer and he writes books for people to better understand what the patients has been through. The book title ” An Imperial Affliction” has show it details that cancer makes them hurt a lot but the patients still hopeful that one day their illness will be cured.
According to a book “The fault in our stars” of John Green. When i read this book, i had more knowledge about cancer’s patients. The patients have been force the cancer illness. Nowadays, cancer is still an illness that most of the doctors can not cure it completely. The title of the book ” The fault in our stars” of John Green, i think “The Fault in Our Stars” comes from a line in a play called Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. The line goes: “The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars / But in ourselves, for we are underlings”. This quote is suggesting that nothing is to blame for all of the world’s evil-nature but ourselves. John Green is suggesting something different- sometimes it is up to fate. Hazel never wanted to have cancer, Augustus never wanted to lose a leg,and Isaac never wanted to lose his eyesight. The whole novel is swarmed with innocent teenagers who had their life destroyed by an inevitable illness they had no input in. John Green wanted to show that despite the fault in our stars, people can still survive.
Vocabulary 6-11
- 1. Aspiring(adj): a person hopes or ambitions toward becoming a specified type of person.
- ex: He is a aspiring person.
- 2. Vernacular(noun): the foreign language by people in a particular country or region.
- ex: The poet writes an poem by his vernacular.
- 3. Premonition(n): strong feeling that something will happen, especially something unpleasant.
- ex: She feel bad premonition about something behide the door.
- 4. Postmortem(n): an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.
- 5.Embedded(adj): fixed firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass; implanted.
- 6.Deadpan(adj): deliberately impassive or expressionless
- ex: Answers his phone in a deadpan tone
- 7.Vacuous(adj): having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.
- ex: She has a vacuous smile
- 8.Gait(n): a person’s manner of walking.
- ex: My brother has the gait of an athlete
- 9.Letterhead(n): a printed heading on stationery stating a person’s or organization’s name and address.
ex:She is writing to the company’s registered office, which you can normally get from their letterhead - 10.Edema(n): a condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body.
- 11.Promiscuity(n): the fact or state of being promiscuous.
ex: Some people fear this will lead to greater sexual promiscuity among teens. - 12.Unprecedented(adj): never done or known before.
ex: The government took the unprecedented step of releasing confidential correspondence. - 13.Perennially(adv): in a way that continues for a long or apparently infinite time; permanently.
ex: A new blow to the perennially struggling economy - 14.Relapsed(v): return to (a less active or a worse state)
ex: He relapsed into silence - 15.Litany(n): a series of petitions for use in church services or processions, usually recited by the clergy and responded to in a recurring formula by the people.
ex: A litany of complaints. - 16.Exclusivity(n): the practice of excluding or not admitting other things.
ex: These banks maintain their exclusivity by setting minimum entry standards - 17.Enamored(v): be filled with a feeling of love for.
ex: It is not difficult to see why Edward is enamored of her. - 18.Unencumbered(adj): not having any burden or impediment.
ex: He needed to travel light and unencumbered - 19.Sovereignty(n): supreme power or authority.
ex: How can we hope to wrest sovereignty away from the oligarchy and back to the people? - 20. Sentiments(n): a view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion.
ex: I agree with your sentiments regarding the road bridge - 21.Disembarked(v): leave a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
ex: The passengers began to disembark - 22.Martyrs(n): a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
ex: Saints, martyrs, and witnesses to the faith - 23.Insidious(adj): proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
ex: Sexually transmitted diseases can be insidious and sometimes without symptoms - 24.Corporate(adj): relating to a corporation, especially a large company or group.
ex: Airlines are very keen on their corporate identity - 25.Liberated(adj): showing freedom from social conventions or traditional ideas, especially with regard to sexual roles.
ex: The modern image of the independent, liberated woman - 26.Picturesque(adj): visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.
ex: The picturesque covered bridges of New England - 27.Lacquered(v): coat with lacquer.
ex: I choose from brushed or lacquered copper - 28.Disengagement(n): the action or process of withdrawing from involvement in a particular activity, situation, or group.
ex: Their steady disengagement from politics and politicians - 29.Anomaly(n): something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
ex: There are a number of anomalies in the present system - 30.Paragon(n): a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
ex: It would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous
Quick Write:the swing set
According to john green’s book, ” the fault in our stars”, the swing set is the symbols of Hazel’s childhood, and how she is trying to get back her childhood years. Augustus helps her get rid of it and she sees that she can only move forward.
Vocabulary Assignment
- Reclusion
2. Decrepit
3. Oblivion
4. Ascertain
5.Denounced
6.Resonance
7.Embellishing
8.Fetishes
9.Doppelganger
10.Perpetually
11.Maternal
12.Fraught
13.Regimen
14.Suffice
15.Narcissistic
16.Coy
17.Bereft
18.Double entendre
19.Sedentary
20.Taut
21.Correspondence
22.Prose
23.Emulate
24.Narcotics
25.Tenuous
26.Prosthetic
27.Misnomered
28.Copays
29.Soliloquy
30.Unadulterated
The Happiness in Our Life
Have you ever had a happy thing in your life? Happiness is the most colourful things in each person’s life. Almost people will have many happiness thing in their life, each person has different ways to make them happy. Usually, happiness as their important things, their favourites, or their successes. There are the most three happiness in my life: my habits, my friends, and my family.
First of all, habits are one of the most happiness in our life. The habits make you feel happy, you enjoys it. For example, my habit is drawing scenery, and i usually draw when i have free time. When i draw, i imagine myself in a picture, and i like dream in the picture. Drawing makes me very happy, it has bring for me a lot of relaxation. In addition, not only the habits make me happy everyday but also my friends bring for me many happiness.
Second, Friends are one of the most important things in my life. They bring for me many happy things. As a result, when I’m sad about something, they come and do some joke to make me smile. When I’m stress, they bring me to go outside to play, to eat together. These things have made me very happy and it will be the most beautiful things in my memory in my whole life. Everyone should have unless a best friend who can understand and respect you. Furthermore, my friends are very important to me, and my family is also important in my heart too.
Third, everyone can have a lot of good friends and relationships in their life, but they just have only one father, and mother. Family is the very sacred thing in my heart because they make you happy, family is the most happiness thing in my heart. I just have the only one family in my life so I have to best regard it. For example, my mother always gives me the best advice when I meet problem. They also try to make me happy and smile, try to tell a fun story, or fun action every day, and that makes me very happy. Besides, my family is very important, and I will do my best to keep my family always warm.
In conclusion, happiness help us in our life a lot, happiness can come from a thing or a person. It doesn’t matter what make you happy. The most important things that makes me happy is my habits, my friends, and especially my family.
Word Count: 335
Relationships
Do you think that relationships with other people should be meaningful? It means you should not be friends with someone if you do not really know who they are deep down. You should not be friends with someone you don’t know them becuse you won’t ever know what they are thinking about. you dont know they are bad or good.
You have to think very carefully when you want to make friends with someone because you won’t know anything from them before, and you can’t know what can they do with you. If they are bad, they may slander you, trick you, or even trample you. A good friend is someone who can do many things for you, not afraid to suffer, not to ask you for money, always listen to you confide, and never betray you.
Thus, how to know who is bad or good? we can’t have the complete answer so I just say what I am thinking that is the answer. the way to recognize is your feeling. You can know when you feel them, the human perception will usually have a certain precision. Besides, If you want to make friends with someone, you need to spend a long time to understand them.
Word count: 211
The poems
Jessie Tran
Instructor : Tara Renaud
Composition 10, Sec 12
5 Mar 2020
“Life”
Life is unfair A
But I don’t care A
Let’s take a rest B
No more nightmare. A
“Raining”
Raining outside the window A
Also inside me B
But when I look at you C
The rain is rainbow. A
Turning Back Time
Have you ever thought that human can turn back the time? If you watch any Science Fiction or read an fiction book, you can see that time travel is a very interesting topic. Then, what will do you if i give you a chance to travel back in time? I will told my answer first like an example for you guys.
If have a chance to travel back in time, I would turn back to one year ago.In last year, i missed a vacation with my friends before i come to canada. I’m really regretful because that is the last time we can go with each other. If i can come back, i will go with them and enjoy a wonderful vacation.
Time travel is something that has been on everyone’s minds for the past few centuries. It has inspired many movies and fictional novels. It has inspired many movies and fictional novels. Many people are particularly interested in traveling back in time due to the urge to join with departed loved ones or to prevent disasters from happening.
In another hand, Traveling back in time is a very interesting topic make many scientist think hardly.
Word count: 206
Interesting poem
Have you guys ever interested in poem? For two to three years ago, I’m a kind of person who very unlike read or analyze poem. I know I’m not the only one think about that. However, few month ago, I have started to read poem, and I’m realize that an poem it has its own special features.
Usually, an poem can express the author’s feelings through each verse. Reader sometimes understand the meaning of a poem faster than the meaning of a song or a story. Normally, the poems will be very meaningful, and it seems that the author wants to tell a story through the poem.
Fig. 2 Your Favorite Poem As An Art Print from: by Minted ” Your Favorite Poem As An Art Print “, minted, https://www.minted.com/product/kids-drawn-art/MIN-XXO-DDA/your-favorite-poem-as-an-art-print?color=A&shape=. Accessed 23 Feb 2020.
Actually, to be able to understand a poem is not easy. We need to read carefully and analyze each verse to know what the author wants to tell us through a verse.
Word count: 150
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