The Lamb of the Slaughter
In Nefarious November, we will study four of the most well-known stories around the world. For two of the stories that I’ve learned, all of them are very frightening and very interesting. The two stories were written by Roald Dahl. Both of the stories, he uses two main kinds of literacy devices, which helps to make the stories more interesting and more suspense to the readers. Irony is one of the device that we learned from the story called “The Lamb to the Slaughter“. To make our understanding of irony deeper, I was asked to write a pace response explaining examples of ironies used by Roald Dahl in this story. So, please take a look at my pace response.
There are three types of ironies that were used throughout the short story “The Lamb to the Slaughter” written by Roald Dahl. Irony is a literary device that display a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result. Roald Dahl uses many ironies because it makes the readers feel excited, angry, shocked, or sometimes relieved to the story. The three types of irony device are verbal, situational and dramatic irony. Situational irony occurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be. One of the major section of situational irony is found in the introduction of the story when Mrs. Mary Maloney depicts as a calm, loving lady, who really miss her husband and show a lot of career. However, after the story progresses, we saw a shocked result, in a moment of madness, she then killed her husband without regretting. “She laid aside her sewing, stood up, and went forward to kiss him as he came in. … She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel – almost as a sunbather feels the sun – that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together.” In the introduction, Dahl presented Mary Maloney who obsessed with her husband and nothing is more comfortable and more meaningful than having Mr. Patrick. Then, after having some conflict, she killed him with a frozen leg of lamb: “At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.” Verbal irony occurs when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying. “The man glanced around his shop. “How about a nice big slice of cheesecake? I know he likes that.” “Perfect,” she said. “He loves it.” The fact that she said he love it is completely opposite of what she mean. Her husband already died, but she still want cheesecake, which no one was going to eat it. And saying he loved it, but maybe in her mind said he hate it. Dramatic irony occur the most in this story and it happened when the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie or novel does not. For example, when Jack Nooman, a police detective said, “Get the weapon, and you’ve got the man.” The reader knew that the weapon that killed Patrick is the frozen leg of lamb. However, Jack doesn’t know that, so the lies in better the two action is a representative of the irony.
Past tense and Irregular verb story
To practice the past tense and irregular verb, I wrote a short story in past tense about one of my favorite childhood memories. The paragraph below is my story:
About six years ago, I was a grade four student in my local government school in Takeo province. I walked to school throughout my life as a student since the start of the first grade to the end of 3rd grade academic year. Sometimes while I walked from school back to my home, I felt upset about myself because I did not get access to transportation so I couldn’t go out with friends. however, rather than allowing this problem to stop me from working hard, I kept myself strong and instead I pushed myself to tried harder and helped with my mom’s business more and more. I was shocked when I saw my dad bought a brand new bike as my birthday present. At that moment, he made my dream came true, so I grabbed his face and kissed him for the first time of my life. At my first day of 4th grade, I rode my bike to school for the first time. When I rode my bike, I thought about all the work that my parent has put into getting this bike, which made me cried every time I’ve thought of it.
Learning how to a better waste management
After the exploration end, so I started to work on project as an expertise. This is what I usually felt at Liger, there were many wonderful projects that has stop as the exploration end. Nothing big happen or other word the exploration taped haven’t complete the mission. I said to myself that I can’t let this one happened the same as the other, because the potential changes that this project could bring o the world is big. The mission is to create a liable cost compost design that both strong and large storage. Therefore, in this expertise, we kind of approached two main path to do this. The first essential thing that we did is finalize the design and calculate the price of all type of materials. Second thing that we also did is working planning a system that would work for the school. Sorry to say this, but the school aren’t do a good a job at compost our own house wastes. We are trying to help other, but we haven’t help ourself. So currently we have the first prototype, which is cost about 50$ for a size of 1.5meters square and a height of one meter. This size can store at least 200 kg of compost. I have come across and realized that inventing an effective design is not easy, there are many aspects to it such as the strength, foundation and appearance. But, the best thing is that we can always make changes to it to make the best of our ability. We only have one hour a week, and if we want to see this change our community, we have to push through our own time.
The PHYSIC Behind Swimming
Nefarious….
As I carefully entered the haunted house, the door shut behind me and I saw a shadow walking behind as I walked. I was terrified, my heart was pounding rapidly. As I continued to walked, a creaking noise came from above my heart. Spine-chilling wind blew across my pale face. It seemed that there were eerie footsteps following me as I examine the dark corridor. “Is anyone out there?”, I screamed from far away. A moment of silence, the creaking noise and the shadow were gone. All I heard was my own heart beat. “ARGH! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?” I shriek. There is a gross slimy cold hands that has this putrid aura to it. I screeched a kitty on the table and suddenly it turn to be an repulsive creepy woman. It’s look like a evil bloody rapscallion. It has huge slimy eyeballs with blood running down its face. There were no nose but long sharp teeth were sticking out of its mouth. I have no clue what I was going to do next. I can’t even screamed or move my legs. It’s like sleep paralysis where I can’t do anything, After that monster scream, I manage to run away, I then feel extremely confident and tell her to go and take shower. She denied my request, I was so mad at that ghost, so I decided to carried her and threw her into the swimming pool, “SPLASH!” Hehe. The swimming pool turned red because of the blood. I though she is already drown but she did come back up and pulled me into swimming pool too, But it turned out that, I was on my bed.
Scarcity and Choices
I love learning about economic. I think that economy involve in everything we do in life, making choice, spending money, etc. Learning economy has help me a lot with deciding the best choice and always aware of what to spend my time for. Personally, economic is the study of scarcity and choice. It is basically study how individual, firm and society deal with scarcity. Because, I thought that economic is a very essential subject to know, I decided to spend most of my free time to learn all of these through various sources such as Edx, my learning facilitator, ACDC econ youtube video, and mainly from the textbook called the Krugman_s Economics. There are two main types of economic, microeconomic and macroeconomic. My favorite economic division is the macroeconomic because it a study of a large economy as a whole or economic aggregate (the whole amount). From all what I’ve learned so far, the two main three main takeaways are trade off, opportunity cost and TINSTAAFL (There is no such thing as a free lunch). I believe that economic will help me to make a better decision in life and gain my skill as a leader.
Creative Technology Expertise
This engineering expertise is not like other, it is called the creative technology, meaning that it includes five main subjects, which is science, technology, engineering, ART and math. From all of these subjects, the most focused subject area for this expertise is the art of design. Design is the most important aspect of engineer, everything need design, from the frame/shape of the object to the very tiny complex electronical part. Getting the right design for a system will make those product run smooth and have the least error, which is the key to success. There are a lot of critical thinking involving in this expertise. Finding problem is also very essential when testing a prototype. These past few weeks we had working on designing an Arduino car frame and reprogramming the micro-controller. We had build a lot of electronic skill building such as learning how to code (Javascript) and electronic circuit.
AP Statistic
We has jump another big step in Math. This year in Math essential, I’m taking a college course, AP Statistic, which is a very challenging and involve a very high critical thinking skill. Not like other math we are doing, AP stat is quite fun, it is more to thinking about all world data rather than calculating the math like algebra. Moreover, I personally think that AP stat course will be more applicable to me in everyday life and in my further work. AP Stat is a lot of looking a bunch of data from whatever you want to investigate and analyse the association of those data. For example, I can collect data of people from various level of education and their income, then I can uses these data to analyse the correlation and the association between these two variables. The two main textbooks that we used to learn the materials are The Practice of Statistics and the Barron AP statistic test book. However, as we learning the concept, we realize that it is not enough, therefore, we uses many more online resource such as Khan academy, Edx course video and many others worksheet out there. So far, we finished four chapter:
- Chapter 1: Exploring Data
- Chapter 2: The normal Distribution
- Chapter 3: Examining Relationship
- Chapter 4: More on Two-Variable Data
Out of all these four chapter, my most favorite is the examining relationship between the explanatory variable (independent variable) and the response variable (dependent variable) to determine the correlation, form, strength, and the observation association. But the most exciting part of that chapter is finding the least square regression line, which is the line that predicted a response variable at a given response variable. This course will be one of the course that I will put a lot of effort in order to succeed in the AP test, but especially understand the idea behind those data.
Coefficient of friction lab
A lot of what we are doing in the Physic essential is learning physic concepts from the textbooks, online resources, and looking at the problems to those concepts. These few weeks we have studied concepts of static equilibrium, friction and inclined plane, all of these materials are related to force. But, the most enthusiastic part of this lecture is that we got to do an experiment that determined the coefficient of static friction for various different elements. We experiment on five different types of sandpaper, paper clip boxes, and cloth. To achieve the results of coefficient of each supplies, We got a plank of woods and raise it angles to identify the greatest angle that will require the object move. Then we record the average total trial angles and work the way through to find the coefficient of friction of the object. When we are done, we look at results and put the materials in order from the largest coefficient of friction to smallest. Then we compare with other groups, the result is not the same, this is because of the difference factor in real life that might affect the response variable, which is the angle. Those effects are:
- The arrangement of the object
- The measure of the angle of the object
- The movement of when we raise the angle of the wood, sometime it isnot smooth
- The way we stick our platform, sometime not plat which might has an effect the movement of the object.
- The movement of the board is not always stable
Many of us, as we were working, noted things such as “the way we place the box on the wood affects the way it slides”, or noticed that if you turned the box different ways, it affected the experiment. This is unavoidable in an experiment. However, in class, we make many of assumptions. For example, we assume the box is a “perfect” box—its symmetrical, with all the weight distributed, and is smooth (it has no coefficient of static friction of its own). This is not the case for any of the objects in the real-life experiment. Some of the assumptions we’ve made are:
- Assume that the objects that used in the problem is smooth which, has none coefficient of static to it at all. However, this is not true in the real world because the object itself has a surface that got friction to it.
- If the Fmax equal to Fg parallel the object will move
- Placement of the object does not matter
Based on the experiment this is the data we’ve got:
| Material | Trial 1 | Trail 2 | Trail 3 | Avg. angle | Coefficient of static friction |
| Sand paper #4 | 55 | 54 | 56 | 55 | 1.42 |
| Sand paper #2 | 48 | 53 | 57 | 52 | 1.27 |
| Sand paper #1 | 43 | 46 | 58 | 49 | 1.15 |
| Sand paper #5 | 54 | 48 | 44 | 48.66 | 1.13 |
| Sand paper #3 | 57 | 41 | 47 | 48.33 | 1.12 |
| Clothes | 43 | 38 | 35 | 38.66 | .8 |
| Wood | 28 | 35 | 33 | 32 | .66 |