Tuesday 26 April 2011

Cosmetic Surgery

http://www.fazeteen.com/issue13/teen_cosmetic_surgery.html

Bodies Under Construction, Teen Cosmetic Surgery

What’s the article about?
The article informs us about the use of cosmetic surgery that is getting popular nowadays within teen society.

When? Not mentioned in the article. It just mentions “nowadays”.

Why? There are an abundance of teens nowadays who are using cosmetic surgery to fix their beauty, including their unsatisfying body parts.

Who?
The article tells us about the teens society nowadays, whose doing surgeries.

Where?
The use of cosmetic surgery has been a popular widespread around the world (Britain, China, New York , etc.)

The following article I chose, informs me about the popular use of cosmetic surgery in nowadays teen society. It is being explained in the article, the reasons of why the use of cosmetic surgeries is getting more popular in teens society. Low self esteem is one of the issues, teenagers often don’t feel confident about their looks, and keep comparing themselves with other people. This self esteems issue, cause teenagers to take a cosmetic surgery to fix their beauty. Cosmetic surgery’s popularity is starting to widespread globally, including in Asia, Britain, and US.

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Heroic George

1) George has some heroic qualities that includes; bravery, strong-willed, risk-taker, and loyal.

2) “Of Mice and Men” story firstly happened when two of the men (George & Lennie), were exploring through the river and forests. They were on their journey to proposing for a job in a farm, where it all was beginning to messed up. They met many people in the farm, and started to face obstacle, until Lennie accidentally killed Curley’s wife which was the climax of the story. The story was ended in a result where Lennie was shot dead by George, in a purpose to end Lennie’s misery.

Character’s Name: George


Physical characteristics: small, short, petite.

Personality: responsible, brave, strong-willed, empathetic, assertive, risk-taker, loyal.


Major challenges/problems: he has a problem in handling Lennie’s autism, and controlling the surrounding situation, helping Lennie to adjust himself with the situation.

3 new titles for the story: Lennie & George, The Journey of 2 men, 2 is Better than 1

I would like to spend a day with George, since he is seems to be a fun man and to spending time with, and has a good will.