“SILLOGISTIC READING”

Silly reading, syllogistic reading, or syllogism is all about the same thing. At the first time heard Mr .Mark pronounce about Silly Reading, I thought it is about reading could make me become stupid or silly, at last I realize that I am totally wrong=) It is actually shows the connection between the premises which are related to each other at the conclusion. It is just like a mathematics formula. Many ways can be used to get the same answer. Same goes to syllogism which requires people to use their logic sense to think of the real meaning at the concluding. Syllogistic reading helps us to voice out our opinion without telling it in obvious way. For instance, Marc Anthony used syllogism method to defend Julies Caesar death in his speech without condemning Marcus Brutus obviously because during that century, the Roman citizen did agree with Marcus even the man was killed his own God Father. However, because of the syllogism Marc Anthony was successful to open the Roman citizen eyes until they realized about the real thing of Julius Caesar death. From my point of view, Antony’s speech is very interesting and he was successful to attract my attention

towards Julies Caesar story and the moment after we learn about his story, the whole class kept using the words like O Judgement, Ettu Brute and many more. We really enjoy learning about Julius Caesar death=)

Elementary Process

Elementary process is the process where we have to take others person perspective into the consideration in order to avoid bias about the person opinion. To consider others perspective we should have our own premises towards the thing that is related with the person opinion, so that we do have our own opinion and not just rely on the same premises which show that we have knowledge about the thing. If we cannot find any premises related with the opinion, therefore, what the person said might be true or perhaps we do not have enough knowledge about the things. Nowadays, it is important for us not to believe others opinion or talks without take it into consideration first because today worlds are full with rumors and liars. Especially the news from TV, newspaper, internet, or magazine because the reporters are skillfully enough to manipulate public people minds only from the piece of their report. Bear in mind, we are product of the environment but remember we have freedom to choose as we have mind to think. Live is about choice. Think first before you decide something.

“Thematic Words and Phrases”

Thematic words and phrases are part of discourse analysis process. From the words used by the speakers, or writers, we can expect what is the writer’s perspective and ideology. In the previous CL class, I had learned many things regarding thematic words and process. I have observed about perspective Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucalt,, Adolf Hitler, Dr Mahathir and many more. Thematic words and phrases require us to learn and understand about particular person perspective. The words and language used by a person shows that who he or she really are. For instance, Karl Marx who is revolutionary and social scientist state that “The bourgeoisie owns the means of production, such as factories and machinery; and that while attempting to maximize profit; the bourgeoisie exploits workers, who must exchange their labor for subsistence wages.” This is a point of view from unconcern social theorist about lower class people. We assume that his ideology towards social stratification is inequality and oppression as inherent in capitalism. This is based from my own understanding about thematic words and phrases. There are many other languages used to show someone identity whether a person is a ruthless person, responsible, concern, greedy and many more. It is depends on how we reveal the thematic words and language used by someone’s into the perspective and ideology.

Film Review (Animal Farm By George Orwell)

This movie is about the animal rebellion in order to fell free from become human slavery. In this story the animal life are so misery as it has to do many work during the day and did not get enough food and always feel hungry. The most interesting part of this story is that the animal can talking and communicate with each others just like human beings. Pig such as Napoleon, Squealers, Snowball, and Old Major were play an important roles in this story. Their leadership was help the other animal a lots to fight human and live freely at the farm without any human. But the happy time did not last forever because Napoleon has break the rules which they has agreed on. At last, the animal have to become human slavery once again and stay hungry like previous time. This story is actually symbolize the human corrupt leadership which always happen in a political world in many countries. It is all about the politics and power. When people has got power in politics, sometimes they can turn to evil and even discriminate their own races, people, and family. This movie also gives an idea that human may become blind because of money. They will kill each other and do many other bad thing just because of money. It is important to remember that to have a blissful country every members need to co-operate within each other and cannot stabbed others back. As for the politicians they have to remember that they hold a big responsibility to lead the country not to destroy it.

Comment on the 1st Assignment

After finish learning about the rules of 10 and having much better understanding about the perspective and positioning which for me are the most difficult part, our fabulous lecturer Mr. Mark was assigned us to do the first assignment. The assignment includes of 4 different article from different writers. By doing this assignment, I manage to explore many interesting thing which I do not even know before. Starting from the first assignment also, I slowly can see the world from many different perspectives rather than just being sceptical towards something.

• The Jews and their Deceits by Adolf Hitler

This is the first article of the first assignment. Frankly speaking, this article was drives me crazy. Even this article is the first page, I prefer to read it last because at the first time scanning and scheming the content I really don't have any idea what the article is all about. Yes, I know it talked about the bad side of Jewish people, but still don't have clear idea about it. After I kept read it a few times, actually more than 20, I have a clear picture

about the author idea. Nevertheless, when it comes to choose which side should I agree with, my head going dizzy once again as I know both of them are evil.

At last, I prefer to choose to disagree with Adolf which means I supporting the Jews. After watching the documentary about the Jews people I think they is more nice than Adolf. This

article teaches me that sometimes people doing something bad or try to become deviance because they have no choices. Meaning that they have to do it in order to survive. For us who did'nt in their shoes, we cant' assume that a person who did a bad thing is a bad person as they might have a good reason why they behaved so. For instance, the Jews they become evil because they are so desperate to have a motherland and live freely in the world like other races in the world. For Adolf Hitler, it is easy for him to manipulate others mind by condemning and destroy other races as he got a huge power to make sure he will always win no matter in what situation. Hence, it is not easy to fight with an evil person who got power and everything in his life.

• The Influence of heredity on the Malay Race by Mahathir Mohamed

This is my favorite article and perhaps the writers too. I think this is the most critical article for me to decide weather to agree with or not with the writers opinion. Because if I do agree with Dr. Mahathir, it means that I condemning my own races but if not I am not applying the rules of 10 which thought me to be fair in judging something or someone by looking at both (-) and (+) effects. So that, I choose to agree with the writers. Why? Because for me all the writer"s statement about Malay race is almost true because me myself as Malays experience it. It is normal when we can't accept people criticizing us although the things is true. However, criticizing actually help us become better. Even we feel mad when people talk bad about ourself, but we will slowly change the bad behavior as we don't want many more people will hates us. I remember what my Ustaz told me during my schooldays, he said that we should thank to our enemy because they has helped us a lot to change by telling us the truth about ourselves.=)

• The Value of Television by Paul Robinson

I totally agree with the author as for me TV did'nt give any benefits for audience. Me,myself rarely watching TV. In a week I just spent about 2 hours for watching TV. I only spent my time to watch Spongebob cartoon and sometimes Berita Utama TV3. That is. For me watching TV is just wasting my time and only help to increase my glasses power. Even there are an educational program like Academi Al-Quran, Jejak Rasul, and many others for me TV cant help to educate people because the educational program only shown less hours compared to non educational program. PLus, the audience for the values program just an adult. Teenagers specially did'nt really interested with such a program. From my P.O.V, most of the Malaysia TV program don't really educate the audience as many of the program are ineffective for example Malay Drama and Malay evening cartoon Slots at TV9. For me, reading a book are much better tham watching TV.

• What Steve Jobs really means to say...by Kumi Naidoo

At the earliest of CL class, we do learn about the Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford. The speech really help me to gain my spirit to success in my future time like Steve Jobs even I am Just studying at the common college like KPM. However, after read Kumi Naidoo argumentative article about Steve Jobs , suddenly I realize that yes, sometimes people may used his past experienced to sell something like Steve Jobs. I am not suppose to supporting him as it will give him many benefits especially in terms of business profit and the profits did'nt helping Muslims at all. In addition, Steve Jobs is non Muslims, so why should I make him as my idol to success in life. I should proud of Muhammad (May God bless upon The Messenger) because he also come from poor family and has go through many obstacle to spread the da'wa.

The Myth of the Cave

The Allegory of the cave, The Myth of the Cave, Metaphore of the Cave, The cave analogy, Plato’s Cave, or the Parable of the Cave is a parable written by Plato which explains about the world as a human is like a dark cave. He used metaphore and analogy to relates human life with other things like fire and light. For instance, human will sit around the fire, staring into the light. The human cannot see one another, don’t know the nature of reality, or the heavens with any great of understanding in such a dark and cloistered environment. In addition, Plato also point out that any individual who dwells in real life can have some feeling to use the metaphore by separating the gesture of goodness in the name of physical action alone from actual. It means that, gesture of either selfless love that does not demand a reward or enact a real or physical result in the world than simply obey a social code. This metaphore is a positive and active approach for human philosophy because it is suggest that a complete form of understanding is possible despite the pain it may cause. From this thing, I have discovered about using a parable to deliver a story and represent it by using a symbol which is related with it. I tried to use Plato’s parable to deliver a story about Palestinian war with Israel which I have found out some symbols that can represent the Palestinian, their spirits, and the soul.

Fire: Palestinian spirit to survive in their live and win the war.

An Old Man: The people who are fight for Palestine right.

The prisoners: The Palestinian

The puppets: Palestine Prime Minister (Salam Fayyad)