Reaction on my assigned Topic , Martin Cooper-Wireless mobile Inventor

                

                Everyone has a chance to make a big history in the society. History that may change the lifestyle of a person, most especially in comfortable usage of the technologies. Technologies are increasing day by day that makes the lifestyle of the person became easier to handle with. More technologies to use the more life have less time to hurdle. The power of electronic and non-electronic devices cannot outwit the fact that the people are like scientist who never stops inventing things for self-satisfaction.

               As part of the subject matter of English for Specific Purposes, knowing the life of the great wireless mobile inventor is truly an inspiration. I really salute his indulgence that really raised the ignorance of idea of the society during 20^th century. He contributed very huge resources that could be great help in all kinds of transactions. I think, my mother wouldn’t be able to reach on time whenever there are many problems without the use of the mobile phones. Our world nowadays of being: on the go and always rushing to do something, mobile phones became a necessity. Today, when an occupation is found on the net or a plane did not take off  because of the precise weather conditions forecast,  a long-suffering patient reaches hospital on time for surgical treatment, and a crime is solved or prevented, Dr. Martin Cooper ‘s mobile phone innovation may encompass a noteworthy role.

               As a third year student and as a teacher to be, may I can make a big difference in the history of education in terms of learning dilemmas, just like Martin Cooper. As time will come, may I can be an inspiration in learning not only contributing an important matter in the civilization but also a significant role in booming the world of education to stardom for a righteous liberty of the future generations.

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

                                       BLOG POST ASSIGNMENT:

Direction:   Answer the following evaluation questions (MINIMUM OF 5, MAXIMUM OF 10 SENTENCES PER EVALUATION QUESTION):

AFTER 2 MONTHS OF CLASSES:

1) What is your insight about English 11 subject in terms of subject content, lesson sequence, degree of difficulty/ease?

In having these 2 months of class, I came up a realization that I am so blessed. It is because, it is an opportunity that, I myself, is being trained to be an effective teacher someday, which is under the supervision of teacher Marian. Since, our English 11 is the teaching of speaking, the way ma’am Marian render to us the different topics on this subject matter, really trains us on how to become an effective speaker as an English major teacher. We had taught on how to pronounce the words properly, how to blend and also the different techniques on how to do some certain thing just like, Ma’am Marian give as the link on how to put some tune on our song.

For the lesson sequence, she taught if what are the different scenarios or the sequential activities that we’re going to do which is our training ground on some speech classes. First we’re going to line the students up in the lobby and next give the different rules in the classroom, some specific directions on how they’re going to put their shoes leaning on the wall, let them fix and settle themselves for the class session; they will be given some drills and activities after the class’ topic orientation and lastly by the end of the session, they will instructed on the way they leave the speech laboratory. At first , from the very beginning , For me the degree of difficulty that was being surpass to us is the beginner’s type of degree or the kind of the system approach.

2) What can you say about your learning environment in terms of classroom appearance and functionality, location, noise level, light/ventilation?

As one of the learners in class, everything in the room is really remarkable. The classroom appearance is really very amusing and that’s one reason why I love to go to the class. The functionality of the room especially the devices in the room can some and somehow are manipulated just like the microphone. Through the microphone ewe we’re able to answer vigorously on the subject matter. The location of the speech laboratory is on the second floor of the new building. And which is also very safe especial on the little kids who happen to have also their class in speech. The noise level and the light/ventilation are also a very good training ground for the learners.

3) What can you say about your classmates in terms of attitude towards others, subject, group work?

There were varieties of attitudes that were being manifested by my classmates especially in the attitudes towards others. Some of my classmates are very caring to the others needs. Some also are very snob to those classmates of mine who happen to consult him/her for subject matter purposes. And also some also cannot control his/her in appropriate behavior most especially when our teacher will discuss her lesson. In terms of the subject matter all of us tend to seclude ourselves especially while having the discussion. In this way, we manifested that we really have the remorse of excitement whenever our teacher will having he discussion. In having some group works, some of the group mates is really very eager to help the group, and some also don’t have.

4) What can you say about your teacher in terms of teaching style, lesson delivery, and rapport/attitude towards each students, communication skills, personality and manner of dressing, classroom management?

My teacher is really distended to be a teacher. Because she could reach our way of our understanding in terms of learning incapacities that we have as a learner. In her teaching styles, she really sees to it that all of us could reach those specific standards in which she is more on , on drills and activities that could harness our abilities as the future teacher someday and in 2 months time, it was really very effective. Her lesson delivery, she really makes sure that we will not feel bored in her class. In her rapport/ attitude towards each student, she’s really ready to lean on, on whatever spaces the students have in learning. For her personality and the manner of dressing, she looks formal in which she manifested her seriousness in the class and her effort and loving heartfelt way of educating her students. And lastly , for her classroom management, the way she manage the class is just like thinking that she’s not just an educator but a friend that who could be there in times of necessities of learning.

5) What can you say about yourself in terms of attitude towards content of subject, level of understanding of the lessons, level of improvement in skills?

As a student, I really have an attitude that I am always willing to learn and cope up the different aspects that will be rendered to us especially to me. And there is really likeness and excitement whenever the day of the class comes. In two months, I think my livel of understanding is not that really high enough but naturally below or in just an average level. I think it really increases because of the likeness that I have manifested/feel. For my level of improvement in skills , I am proud but humbly say that with the help of my teacher and classmates who’s there in me in times of needs , my learning/skills  that I had, really improved not just a student but also as a person.

6) What are your recommendation/s?

         For me, as a student, I can recommend that, in this subject which is English 11 –teaching in speaking, there should be more drills other than tongue twisters or on how to pronounce the words properly. I think , it is also a best way in having some drills on the different exercises on the pronunciation and the ways on how we’re form the different parts of speech. It is also great to see a movie or film showing.etc…

2-stanza RAP SONG that reflects my view on my 2nd chosen gibran poetic essay.

     Feeling pain is a gift, wrapped in a curse.,ah ha (2x)

When I feel pain, it's my body telling me,

 something is wrong, 

make it stop before it gets worse. 

If I didn't feel pain anymore,

sure I could do a lot of things where pain would have stopped me before,

 but not for very long, because I'd probably die,

                                  not knowing how much is too much ,ah ha (2x).yeah..

Another gibran poetic essay that interests me most

On Pain

Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

God's love versus Human love

                (   A short essay that strikes me most   )

                When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."

                                                                     - Love, Kahlil Gibran

                            In life, we tend to distinguished our love from others. We try to ask ' "Is he love me ?" or "do I love Him?".

                      That line really strikes me most.  If we are going to allocate the scenario into human perspective,Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next.We must say never say "He is in my heart" but we must rather say that,"i am in his heart, because you can never tell weather he  really loves you in a way that you really love him.  

                 And while on divine ,humane perspective,when the Scriptures say, "God is love," they aren't telling us that God is some nebulous, warm fuzzy feeling of love. God defines love. And when we say that God defines love, we don't mean that He defines it like Webster might define something -- we mean that God is the very definition of love itself. There is no such thing as love without God. As hard as we might try, we cannot define love outside of knowing God. 

Love

Kahlil Gibran

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."

And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.

And with a great voice he said:

When love beckons to you follow him,

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,

Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him,

Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.

He threshes you to make you naked.

He sifts you to free you from your husks.

He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."

And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon [Lebanon was a Turkish province part of Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) and subjugated to Ottoman dominion]. His mother Kamila Rahmeh was thirty when she begot Gibran from her third husband Khalil Gibran, who proved to be an irresponsible husband leading the family to poverty. Gibran had a half-brother six years older than him called Peter and two younger sisters, Mariana and Sultana, whom he was deeply attached to throughout his life, along with his mother. Kamila's family came from a prestigious religious background, which imbued the uneducated mother with a strong will and later on helped her raise up the family on her own in the U.S. Growing up in the lush region of Bsharri, Gibran proved to be a solitary and pensive child who relished the natural surroundings of the cascading falls, the rugged cliffs and the neighboring green cedars, the beauty of which emerged as a dramatic and symbolic influence to his drawings and writings. Being laden with poverty, he did not receive any formal education or learning, which was limited to regular visits to a village priest who doctrined him with the essentials of religion and the Bible, alongside Syriac and Arabic languages. Recognizing Gibran's inquisitive and alert nature, the priest began teaching him the rudiments of alphabet and language, opening up to Gibran the world of history, science, and language. At the age of ten, Gibran fell off a cliff, wounding his left shoulder, which remained weak for the rest of his life ever since this incident. To relocate the shoulder, his family strapped it to a cross and wrapped it up for forty days, a symbolic incident reminiscent of Christ's wanderings in the wilderness and which remained etched in Gibran's memory.

At the age of eight, Khalil Gibran, Gibran's father, was accused of tax evasion and was sent to prison as the Ottomon authorities confiscated the Gibrans' property and left them homeless. The family went to live with relatives for a while; however, the strong-willed mother decided that the family should immigrate to the U.S., seeking a better life and following in suit to Gibran's uncle who immigrated earlier. The father was released in 1894, but being an irresponsible head of the family he was undecided about immigration and remained behind in Lebanon.

On June 25, 1895, the Gibrans embarked on a voyage to the American shores of New York.

The Gibrans settled in Boston's South End, which at the time hosted the second largest Syrian community in the U.S. following New York. The culturally diverse area felt familiar to Kamila, who was comforted by the familiar spoken Arabic, and the widespread Arab customs. Kamila, now the bread-earner of the family, began to work as a peddler on the impoverished streets of South End Boston. At the time, peddling was the major source of income for most Syrian immigrants, who were negatively portrayed due to their unconventional Arab ways and their supposed idleness.

In the school, a registration mistake altered his name forever by shortening it to Kahlil Gibran, which remained unchanged till the rest of his life despite repeated attempts at restoring his full name. Gibran entered school on September 30, 1895, merely two months after his arrival in the U.S. Having no formal education, he was placed in an ungraded class reserved for immigrant children, who had to learn English from scratch. Gibran caught the eye of his teachers with his sketches and drawings, a hobby he had started during his childhood in Lebanon.

Gibran's curiosity led him to the cultural side of Boston, which exposed him to the rich world of the theatre, Opera and artistic Galleries. Prodded by the cultural scenes around him and through his artistic drawings, Gibran caught the attention of his teachers at the public school, who saw an artistic future for the boy. They contacted Fred Holland Day, an artist and a supporter of artists who opened up Gibran's cultural world and set him on the road to artistic fame...

Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist.

Gibran's works were especially influential in the American popular culture in the 1960s. In 1904 Gibran had his first art exhibition in Boston. From 1908 to 1910 he studied art in Paris with August Rodin. In 1912 he settled in New York, where he devoted himself to writing and painting. Gibran's early works were written in Arabic, and from 1918 he published mostly in English. In 1920 he founded a society for Arab writers, Mahgar (al-Mahgar). Among its members were Mikha'il Na'ima (1889-1988), Iliya Abu Madi (1889-1957), Nasib Arida (1887-1946), Nadra Haddad (1881-1950), and Ilyas Abu Sabaka (1903-47). Gibran died in New York on April 10, 1931. Among his best-known works is THE PROPHET, a book of 26 poetic essays, which has been translated into over 20 languages. The Prophet, who has lived in a foreign city 12 years, is about to board a ship that will take him home. He is stopped by a group of people, whom he teaches the mysteries of life. 

                                                                              

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                                                                               http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/gibrn.html