I've Found My Thesis Statement...

This is the fourth week of the semester. And finally I have decided to do my position paper on Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and I have come out with one thesis statement which is “Despite being a cure to heartache, passionate love could be a dreadful misery too.” I think this could be a good point to argue about because in this novel, the emphasis is put on the theme of disguise. Although there are many examples of love story as well in the novel but I think the point that love brings many troubles had not been such an issue. That’s the reason why I chose to do my position paper regarding this matter. I am so lucky too that my tutor gave me a nod to work on this thesis statement and move on with my supporting details. After all I just hope that I could at least come out with the outline of my position paper right after this Chinese New Year holiday. Because I know that there are many other things that I have to do later on. So, I would try my best to finish as soon as I could all the things that my tutor asked me to do.

Icarus??? I Got You.

This is the third week of our fourth semester in UPM and to be honest I still could not find the right topic for my position paper. Or in other words, I am clueless about what to write as my thesis statement. And I am getting very worried about it already. Not that I am delaying my schedule of work but I just want to find the best thesis statement without having to do it for several times. I want to find the most acceptable and strong standpoint before I start doing my position paper. And I really hope that the next meeting with Mr. Omit will help me sort out this problem of mine. This week during Monday’s lecture with Dr. Edwin, we had discussed about the three tales that he assigned us to read last week. And they are The Son of the Turtle Spirit, The Mahabharata and the last one, Ovid – Daedalus and Icarus. Personally, the lesson had given me a lot of input about tales. All these while I thought that tales is just something that we usually read before we went to sleep. But now I know that tales could also be very educational and can serve the purpose of instruction as well other than it had been long as one of the entertainment source.
In addition, I also got to know a new term during the lesson. And it is Romantic Spirit. It is associated with the character of Icarus in one of the tales that we discussed on that day. And having talked about Icarus, we also had to show to Dr. Edwin the picture entitled, The Fall of Icarus that we have downloaded from the internet. The funny part was, most of us show different pictures to him and many of us downloaded the wrong picture but we thought that the one that we had was the correct one. And I had done the same mistake as well. However I was kind of lucky that I taken the correct poem that matches the story of The Fall of Icarus. What a relieved. Then, we also get to know that there are another poem entitled Break, Break, Break by Tennyson that can be connected to the story of Icarus. Nonetheless, while I search in Google I got to know that there is a song entitled The Melting of the wax by Throne that tells the same story of Icarus as well. All I can say is that, this week lecture was interesting and so informational and had geared me up for the next lesson.

new semester with literature..

Literature comes again... and in this semester, we are taking EDU 3234 which is Reading and Project Work for Teaching Literature in ESL.. This course requires us to create a blog, then write a position paper and not to forget, a research paper..
honestly when i first listen to the course name, i was so afraid that this course will really consume all my energy for this sem. But after the first lesson that we had with Dr. Edwin, that feeling just walked away. The explanation that he gave about the course outline ease me a lot then. But still, i realize that i could not take this course for granted. Although there is not going to be any test or exam for this course but... The position paper and the research paper do play the major roles in determining the grade for this paper.. I hope that i will be able to come out with a thesis statement by the end of this week. And hopefully the thesis statement can be accepted. Or else, i really need to scratch my head all over again. And i also hope that the next meeting with Mr. Omit will help me bulding up the paragraph already..