Similarities of the Leaders' speech

From the both leaders speech, I found out that both of them are very persuasive and confident. Confident in the sense of they do not have any fillers in the speech to show doubt in what they said. The use of “ummm”, “ahhhh” or long pause will let the audience to fell uncomfortable and doubt about the content. So both leaders didn’t have any filler at all in their speech. They are manipulative in the sense of they managed to make people believe and act as they want them to be. As stated in the speech of Winston Churchill, “I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall proves ourselves once again able to defend our Island home….” On the other hand, for Hitler, he says that “we are now standing on this continent and from where we stand nobody will be able to remove us again.”

Besides that, both leaders speech also condemned the other parties in order to make themselves more superior that the others. By doing so, they will be able to gain people’s trust and respect for them. For example, Hitler condemned about England saying that “England those colonies are useless. They cover 40,000,000 square metres. What do they do with them? Absolutely nothing.” Churchill condemned French who is falling out of the war.

Furthermore, both leaders also use the pronoun “I” I the beginning of their speech to gain people’s respect and attention. “I do not want to explain…” “I can only reply…” “I have said…” “I asked the House….” By using the pronoun “I” here in the speech, it shows us the leader’s power towards the people and to show the people how great they are. Towards the end of the speech, they switched the use of pronoun “I” into “WE”. In my opinion, this is because they have managed to get peoples’ attention and respect thus trying to make a good connection with the audience. “We are now standing….” “We are involved in war…” “We have found it necessary…” “We shall prove ourselves once again…”. It’s a good strategy for both leaders by getting the people’s attention first by showing the leader’s power and then making good rapport with the audience in order to unite them.

Animal Farm Animated Movie

The movie that I am going to review is an animated movie, which is based on the story, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. This movie is about the animals in the Manor Farm which are being ill-treated by their master, tried to rebel and take over the farm. All of them are united in the first place in order to throw the human out but when things are settled, the pig; Napoleon took over the throne and become the tyrant itself. They have made 7 amendments when they overthrow the human. But, human’s nature seems to grow inside Napoleon. Greed, envy, pride and lust filled him up. He chased Snow Ball out; he rules the farm with iron fist and then violated every single amendment that has been set earlier. The human’s ugly nature has been well portrayed through the character of Napoleon, a pig.

Human’s nature is truly ugly but these characteristics are what make us human. So, we will have to learn to live with it and don’t let those ugly nature triumphs over the good nature within us. The example has been clearly set in the story, Napoleon, the tyrant who lets all the ugly nature took control of him finally being rejected and chased away by the other animals. Besides that, the story also shows us that the process of forming government is difficult but it’s much more difficult to keep it running. This is because of human’s nature of greed, corruptions, dishonesty and bribery are everywhere. Thus the nature of love, compensation, emphatic faded in the society. In the story, the animals have made amendments where all of them must follow and all of them are equal. But, the greediness and the nature of envy made Napoleon to violate every single law and order to make his kinds to be “more equal” than the others.

The lesson that I have learnt from this story will be trust. Trust here means trust ourselves in order to make thing straight and right. Trust ourselves to preserve and practice the good human nature. Trust ourselves in order to create a peaceful country where bribery and corruption will be zero percent and last but not least, trust ourselves to play a part in caring and saving the world.

Mona Lisa Smile

The whole movie is about an art professor; Katherine Watson begins her teaching career at the all-female Wellesley College. In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, free-spirited, novice art history professor Katherine Watson begins teaching at the... Besides getting good grades in this college, the girls in this school also being prepared to be a full time housewife. But, Katherine has different view about the role of woman and she tried her best to encourage these women to strive for a more enlightened future, to be what they want to be. For me, the movie is kind of boring, because the movie is all about feminism. The main character, Professor Katherine, she is a strong woman where she believes in everything that she did and she do what she wants to do, ignoring others view or opinion. She tried her best to make her students think creatively and critically by teaching them something out the curriculum syllabus. This is because most of the students have memorized the text and she has to think the other ways to make sure that her students did learn something from her. Moreover, she encouraged her student to be what they want to be, follow their dreams and not just to be prepared to be a housewife.

I think that this movie did help me realize that teacher should be the one who encourage students not demotivated the students by giving them low marks and bad feedback or remarks. This is because, we teacher is seen as a role model and thus the students respect us. By giving them good feedback, praise or just a little tiny present, we will be able to boost the students’ self-confidence. Do remember we are preparing the students to learn and to cope with loads of problems that they are going to face in the future, not just getting straight A’s in examination. If I am gonna relates Professor Katherine to my school teacher, I think “Mr Lee” my Kemahiran Hidup teacher will suits the characteristics the best. This is because; he makes us learn how to do all the things in the curriculum, not just the theories. He talks to us, not giving orders. He discusses the problem that we faced in our studies with us, not ignoring us. He also let us enjoy the time we have to complete the project, guiding us, and giving us good grades on our project that we have done. His motto was, “Learning is a way to grow up”, so I think he did made his point as we did learn something from the subject itself, not just memorizing the theories and facts.

Lessons that I have learnt is taking responsibility. As the saying goes, remember “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - Adams, Henry Brooks. So, the responsibility of a teacher is great and it is not an easy job to uphold it. So, for future teachers, do try our best to make our students a lively student not a memorizing machine.