18 January 2010
Do Ibans step to the world of modernity?
This question accidentally bumped into my head when I searched and read a blog which is located in www.uchukeling.com.weblog Generally, the impression of modernity does not only refer to the way we are dressing up, eating and memorizing the recipe of making a muffin or changing your set of choices from having “perkasam”-those who like it to “ apple pie cake” and say goodbye and u are not buying a return ticket in order to get back to ur previous menu, having a cuppa, mellow sandwich with tuna PLUS a spanking new ROSE on YOUR bed with ur antic tray- the common traits for those who are “JUST marriage…..This state of affair can be seen when u “put and paste” ur style until it match with those actors in an eminent drama series -Smallville? The more it in the track with the rhythm of western, the more Englishperson you will be. For me all the above features are the need of nowadays and they are not totally about the sense of social changing…Modernity can be classified as the sense of social changing and this concept can be refer to a situation where any changing is a MUST and needed coz we want to change human’s traits to from a DARK screen to a BRIGHT and and NICELY screen..Why am I using the word “screen”? yeah..this might make u be more assiduous and dizzy coz u might think that the word does not make sense to what I am trying to say…Here, screen is a place or situation where it is controlled by us and not by the nature. Besides, all the actors in the screen are also paid based on their performance in the screen. I say so because, in the screen , we are creating the policies and rules in order to maintain and bolster ur quality of life and we are satisfied via the policies and system we have made- if we are following the system so we will be fine and OK but if we are not, so we have to prepare a next plan in order to cope with turnaround events. However, the concept of modernity is more rooted in our mind-set and consequently rational thinking ..These two aspects help u much in order to be more established and realize that the world is not ROUND instead of imagining the silhouette of ur glob is OBLONG….so these two mechanics expand or rejuvenate our old brand and this make us form NOBODY to SOMEBODY…..This can be achieved by recalling back to what or our accentors have created for us so as to be abnormal person rather than a normal and flat person. Here I have found one of relics which is the main pillar and also the most important in Iban’s culture, social, psychological tenets. It is about the system of Iban’s writing system and this research is carried out by Dr. Bromely Philip from UITM Sarawak. It is so hard to comprehend and archaic. Can u just imagine how our assertors ( what ever system of writing do we have coz for sure in the past they are hardly similar to out Time New Roman) memorize various of symbols which represent different meaning during an epoch of DARK SCREEN? Can u imagine how many spaces does rain need to have at that time as the brain have to prepare 4 departments (in term of syntax, semantic, phonology and phonetic) only for a word. Have a look then I will get back to u later on…till then …adios amigos Barbados
Gender or Sex?
Why is feminism talked about so much? Why does it seem to be an important – sometimes the most important, and sometimes the only – factor to look at? Based on the ideas which are stated by Gilbert, i think the answers could be related with feminism and even more to do with the history of gender. Idea of gender happens in cultures where gender configurations undergo changes and budges. Here, the gender configuration refers to social meaning systems that encode sexual difference. Besides, the same is true about idea of race, economics or politic, etc. What’s more, these concepts are reevaluated when social practice shifts. As the result, gender or masculine and feminism qualities, or male and female social roles will come up as an area for us to analysis whenever gender roles are shifting. Besides, gender is often a major focus of deliberation and script when gender roles look as if to change in relation to all kind factors.
In nineteenth century, it also ever-present as a topic of study because of our capacity to deconstruct gender categories and also to defamiliarize what has formerly been seen as natural. In the nineteenth century in
Britain
and
America
, gender was considered as a matter of public discussion and disputation. Based on the writer’s standpoint, the idea of The Woman Question was focused on whether gender should be a factor in granting or limiting right. Also, it was focused attention on male and man social roles instead of questioning the nature and function of gender. Gender became a central feature of all cultures because gender stands as a differentiation on the basis of sex between social roles and functions labelled as masculine and feminine. Here, Gilbert categorizes the definition of feminism into three parts.
First, a feminist is referred to someone who is interested in studying and understanding gender as a system of cultural signs to sexually-dimorphic bodies and also who sees these cultural symbols that stand for gender as having a direct effect on our individual lives and social dealing.
Secondly, a feminist is also considered as someone who sees the gender systems presently in operation as structured by a basis opposition such as masculine and feminine idea. Usually, masculine always has indulgence over the other term and as the result enable men to get position of social power more often than women.
Lastly, a feminist is a person who thinks the above points are wrong and should be changed. This description makes feminism into a kind of academic pursuit, and gives a place to all feminist to study about gender relation. Besides, there is also a political side to feminism which not only to study and scrutinize it but to change it.
Michael Delahoyde also has his own standpoints about this theory which is feminism. Based on his point of views, Feminist literary criticism arises in conjunction with socio-political feminism, appraisals patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these mirror masculine ideology. Also, the term feminist examines gender politic in works and traces the subtle construction of masculinity and femininity. What’s more, feminists also focus on language chooses in any genres. For sure, there is stylistic difference in women’s writing compare to men’s masterpiece. The feminists also notice that women and men be predisposed to communicate differently.
As well, feminist criticism concerns itself with stereotypes depictions of genders. By tracing history of relatively unknown or underrated women writers, it can earn them their impartial place within the literary canon. It also able to help and construct a climate in which women’s ingenuity may be fully realized and appreciated.
So, for me, Gilbert clarifies feminism into three parts and states the environment of feminist theory which is related to certain issues such as biasness, political issues and gender. Michael also includes certain elements such as socio-political feminism, critiques, patriarchal language and literature which are related to the feminist literary criticism. In this sense, Feminist Theory is surrounded by various factors such as biasness, political demission, patriarchal and so forth. Again, Gilbert brings up that this state of affair will be crucial when our culture is able to think of construct and foreground all the issues about feminism and keeps it as a natural mental picture among our society. Thus our thought system and world will view the idea of construction as a various system or as created. In this sense, our culture views that gender category as not a natural or eternal category but it is alterable.
This state of affair shows that women try to express their experience and their role in literary works by composing their own style of writing to illustrate everything under the sun. Conversely, in male’s writing, each word seems to jump from one stanza to another stanza. (Male’s poem- why this can be happened? do read my 1st blog). Conversely, in male’s writing, each word seems to jump from one stanza to another stanza. The connection which bound it up is vogue compare to women’s masterpieces. What’s more, the tone of poem seems to be more colourful and soft.
From my point of view, i am able to see and determine ( i do not mean to show off, but i just want to share what i know about some issues which circulate around the world of gender and i hope that all of you are in the same shoe i do- little bit about the gender in writing,) the role of female in female’s literary work and also in male’s literary work by using such elements, Again the issues of biasness hardly avoid in any literary works. So, again we back to the dirt, why? because, we cannot run from the emblem of gender in our daily routine. And u still do not agree with me, do you? Well, why is SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE the theory of FEMINISM in human epistles?
x0x0x0x Josh
In nineteenth century, it also ever-present as a topic of study because of our capacity to deconstruct gender categories and also to defamiliarize what has formerly been seen as natural. In the nineteenth century in
Britain
and
America
, gender was considered as a matter of public discussion and disputation. Based on the writer’s standpoint, the idea of The Woman Question was focused on whether gender should be a factor in granting or limiting right. Also, it was focused attention on male and man social roles instead of questioning the nature and function of gender. Gender became a central feature of all cultures because gender stands as a differentiation on the basis of sex between social roles and functions labelled as masculine and feminine. Here, Gilbert categorizes the definition of feminism into three parts.
First, a feminist is referred to someone who is interested in studying and understanding gender as a system of cultural signs to sexually-dimorphic bodies and also who sees these cultural symbols that stand for gender as having a direct effect on our individual lives and social dealing.
Secondly, a feminist is also considered as someone who sees the gender systems presently in operation as structured by a basis opposition such as masculine and feminine idea. Usually, masculine always has indulgence over the other term and as the result enable men to get position of social power more often than women.
Lastly, a feminist is a person who thinks the above points are wrong and should be changed. This description makes feminism into a kind of academic pursuit, and gives a place to all feminist to study about gender relation. Besides, there is also a political side to feminism which not only to study and scrutinize it but to change it.
Michael Delahoyde also has his own standpoints about this theory which is feminism. Based on his point of views, Feminist literary criticism arises in conjunction with socio-political feminism, appraisals patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these mirror masculine ideology. Also, the term feminist examines gender politic in works and traces the subtle construction of masculinity and femininity. What’s more, feminists also focus on language chooses in any genres. For sure, there is stylistic difference in women’s writing compare to men’s masterpiece. The feminists also notice that women and men be predisposed to communicate differently.
As well, feminist criticism concerns itself with stereotypes depictions of genders. By tracing history of relatively unknown or underrated women writers, it can earn them their impartial place within the literary canon. It also able to help and construct a climate in which women’s ingenuity may be fully realized and appreciated.
So, for me, Gilbert clarifies feminism into three parts and states the environment of feminist theory which is related to certain issues such as biasness, political issues and gender. Michael also includes certain elements such as socio-political feminism, critiques, patriarchal language and literature which are related to the feminist literary criticism. In this sense, Feminist Theory is surrounded by various factors such as biasness, political demission, patriarchal and so forth. Again, Gilbert brings up that this state of affair will be crucial when our culture is able to think of construct and foreground all the issues about feminism and keeps it as a natural mental picture among our society. Thus our thought system and world will view the idea of construction as a various system or as created. In this sense, our culture views that gender category as not a natural or eternal category but it is alterable.
This state of affair shows that women try to express their experience and their role in literary works by composing their own style of writing to illustrate everything under the sun. Conversely, in male’s writing, each word seems to jump from one stanza to another stanza. (Male’s poem- why this can be happened? do read my 1st blog). Conversely, in male’s writing, each word seems to jump from one stanza to another stanza. The connection which bound it up is vogue compare to women’s masterpieces. What’s more, the tone of poem seems to be more colourful and soft.
From my point of view, i am able to see and determine ( i do not mean to show off, but i just want to share what i know about some issues which circulate around the world of gender and i hope that all of you are in the same shoe i do- little bit about the gender in writing,) the role of female in female’s literary work and also in male’s literary work by using such elements, Again the issues of biasness hardly avoid in any literary works. So, again we back to the dirt, why? because, we cannot run from the emblem of gender in our daily routine. And u still do not agree with me, do you? Well, why is SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE the theory of FEMINISM in human epistles?
x0x0x0x Josh
7 January 2010
friends...thanks...
a love to give and a huge goes halve
Somewhere between the *procrastination* and the homework.. and the incessant forwards and the friendships and the calls to each other complaining about CrUsHeS and BF/GF!! Somewhere between the phone calls to old friends and the "I miss you’s", the "I love you’s" and the "What are we doing tonight’s?" And somewhere between all of the changing and growing… somewhere between the classes and the skipping classes…and the StUdYiNg for teStS…And the PRETENDING to "StUdY" for TeStS… And the downright NOT StUdYiNg for TeStS… I forgot–I forgot what ScHooL was all about. Somewhere between all the appointments, starbuck coffee, and Mc Donald’s… paying bills and then not paying bills… Making plans then breaking plans… Appearing, Disappearing, then reappearing… I forgot–I forgot what it was like to cry. I forgot that pretending to be happy doesn’t make you happy… And that pretending to be SmArT doesn’t make you smart .. I forgot that you can’t just forget the past in fear of the FUTURE… I forgot that you can’t control falling in LoVe.. And that you can’t make yourself fall in *LoVe* …. I learned that I can LOVE… I learned that it’s okay to MEsS UP…. And it’s okay to ask for HELP!!!.. And it’s okay to feel like crap… I learned it’s okay to cOmPLaiN and wHINe to all your friends for a whole day…….. I learned that sometimes the things you want most you just can’t have and the things that you look for are right in front of you. I learned that the greatest thing about HiGh ScHOoL and CoLLeGe and the working world it isn’t about the parties or the DRiNKiNG or the Hookups … It’s the *FrIeNdShIpS*, which means taking chances. I learned that sometimes the things we want to forget are the things which we most need to talk about… I learned that TIME and LOVE can heal all things… I learned that just when you think it can’t get worse - it does! … but with the love and support of friends - you survive… I’ve learned that when you start feeling BaD about L O S I N G touch and about those that you’ve lost! They too, are feeling the same way…. I learned that letters from friends are the most important things. And that sending cards to your friends makes you feel better! But, basically, I just learned that my friends…….. Both old and new….. are the most important people to me in the world AND…….without them, I wouldn’t be who I am today….. So this is a THANK YOU to all of my friends… For always being there. And even if we’re not on good terms or we have lost touch… I will always have an unconditional love for you.. ~Always and forever ~
Somewhere between the *procrastination* and the homework.. and the incessant forwards and the friendships and the calls to each other complaining about CrUsHeS and BF/GF!! Somewhere between the phone calls to old friends and the "I miss you’s", the "I love you’s" and the "What are we doing tonight’s?" And somewhere between all of the changing and growing… somewhere between the classes and the skipping classes…and the StUdYiNg for teStS…And the PRETENDING to "StUdY" for TeStS… And the downright NOT StUdYiNg for TeStS… I forgot–I forgot what ScHooL was all about. Somewhere between all the appointments, starbuck coffee, and Mc Donald’s… paying bills and then not paying bills… Making plans then breaking plans… Appearing, Disappearing, then reappearing… I forgot–I forgot what it was like to cry. I forgot that pretending to be happy doesn’t make you happy… And that pretending to be SmArT doesn’t make you smart .. I forgot that you can’t just forget the past in fear of the FUTURE… I forgot that you can’t control falling in LoVe.. And that you can’t make yourself fall in *LoVe* …. I learned that I can LOVE… I learned that it’s okay to MEsS UP…. And it’s okay to ask for HELP!!!.. And it’s okay to feel like crap… I learned it’s okay to cOmPLaiN and wHINe to all your friends for a whole day…….. I learned that sometimes the things you want most you just can’t have and the things that you look for are right in front of you. I learned that the greatest thing about HiGh ScHOoL and CoLLeGe and the working world it isn’t about the parties or the DRiNKiNG or the Hookups … It’s the *FrIeNdShIpS*, which means taking chances. I learned that sometimes the things we want to forget are the things which we most need to talk about… I learned that TIME and LOVE can heal all things… I learned that just when you think it can’t get worse - it does! … but with the love and support of friends - you survive… I’ve learned that when you start feeling BaD about L O S I N G touch and about those that you’ve lost! They too, are feeling the same way…. I learned that letters from friends are the most important things. And that sending cards to your friends makes you feel better! But, basically, I just learned that my friends…….. Both old and new….. are the most important people to me in the world AND…….without them, I wouldn’t be who I am today….. So this is a THANK YOU to all of my friends… For always being there. And even if we’re not on good terms or we have lost touch… I will always have an unconditional love for you.. ~Always and forever ~
friends...thanks...
a love to give and a huge goes halve
Somewhere between the *procrastination* and the homework.. and the incessant forwards and the friendships and the calls to each other complaining about CrUsHeS and BF/GF!! Somewhere between the phone calls to old friends and the "I miss you’s", the "I love you’s" and the "What are we doing tonight’s?" And somewhere between all of the changing and growing… somewhere between the classes and the skipping classes…and the StUdYiNg for teStS…And the PRETENDING to "StUdY" for TeStS… And the downright NOT StUdYiNg for TeStS… I forgot–I forgot what ScHooL was all about. Somewhere between all the appointments, starbuck coffee, and Mc Donald’s… paying bills and then not paying bills… Making plans then breaking plans… Appearing, Disappearing, then reappearing… I forgot–I forgot what it was like to cry. I forgot that pretending to be happy doesn’t make you happy… And that pretending to be SmArT doesn’t make you smart .. I forgot that you can’t just forget the past in fear of the FUTURE… I forgot that you can’t control falling in LoVe.. And that you can’t make yourself fall in *LoVe* …. I learned that I can LOVE… I learned that it’s okay to MEsS UP…. And it’s okay to ask for HELP!!!.. And it’s okay to feel like crap… I learned it’s okay to cOmPLaiN and wHINe to all your friends for a whole day…….. I learned that sometimes the things you want most you just can’t have and the things that you look for are right in front of you. I learned that the greatest thing about HiGh ScHOoL and CoLLeGe and the working world it isn’t about the parties or the DRiNKiNG or the Hookups … It’s the *FrIeNdShIpS*, which means taking chances. I learned that sometimes the things we want to forget are the things which we most need to talk about… I learned that TIME and LOVE can heal all things… I learned that just when you think it can’t get worse - it does! … but with the love and support of friends - you survive… I’ve learned that when you start feeling BaD about L O S I N G touch and about those that you’ve lost! They too, are feeling the same way…. I learned that letters from friends are the most important things. And that sending cards to your friends makes you feel better! But, basically, I just learned that my friends…….. Both old and new….. are the most important people to me in the world AND…….without them, I wouldn’t be who I am today….. So this is a THANK YOU to all of my friends… For always being there. And even if we’re not on good terms or we have lost touch… I will always have an unconditional love for you.. ~Always and forever ~
Somewhere between the *procrastination* and the homework.. and the incessant forwards and the friendships and the calls to each other complaining about CrUsHeS and BF/GF!! Somewhere between the phone calls to old friends and the "I miss you’s", the "I love you’s" and the "What are we doing tonight’s?" And somewhere between all of the changing and growing… somewhere between the classes and the skipping classes…and the StUdYiNg for teStS…And the PRETENDING to "StUdY" for TeStS… And the downright NOT StUdYiNg for TeStS… I forgot–I forgot what ScHooL was all about. Somewhere between all the appointments, starbuck coffee, and Mc Donald’s… paying bills and then not paying bills… Making plans then breaking plans… Appearing, Disappearing, then reappearing… I forgot–I forgot what it was like to cry. I forgot that pretending to be happy doesn’t make you happy… And that pretending to be SmArT doesn’t make you smart .. I forgot that you can’t just forget the past in fear of the FUTURE… I forgot that you can’t control falling in LoVe.. And that you can’t make yourself fall in *LoVe* …. I learned that I can LOVE… I learned that it’s okay to MEsS UP…. And it’s okay to ask for HELP!!!.. And it’s okay to feel like crap… I learned it’s okay to cOmPLaiN and wHINe to all your friends for a whole day…….. I learned that sometimes the things you want most you just can’t have and the things that you look for are right in front of you. I learned that the greatest thing about HiGh ScHOoL and CoLLeGe and the working world it isn’t about the parties or the DRiNKiNG or the Hookups … It’s the *FrIeNdShIpS*, which means taking chances. I learned that sometimes the things we want to forget are the things which we most need to talk about… I learned that TIME and LOVE can heal all things… I learned that just when you think it can’t get worse - it does! … but with the love and support of friends - you survive… I’ve learned that when you start feeling BaD about L O S I N G touch and about those that you’ve lost! They too, are feeling the same way…. I learned that letters from friends are the most important things. And that sending cards to your friends makes you feel better! But, basically, I just learned that my friends…….. Both old and new….. are the most important people to me in the world AND…….without them, I wouldn’t be who I am today….. So this is a THANK YOU to all of my friends… For always being there. And even if we’re not on good terms or we have lost touch… I will always have an unconditional love for you.. ~Always and forever ~
in an archaic mode
Erm, I have no idea what should I put there…hehehe..seems that I have noting in mind. initiate a new topic I guess? Erm..while writing this blog am listening to my fav song..ArvilL-keep holding on..thanks to Christ..i mean the introduction of this song….ah..bit sleepy..well, new year, new things huh?…so I can put my breath above all..sounds so archaic and am not too old for this … now am searchin for some online edu- tool..and guess what, I found a simple and nice poem here….i am in the department doing some literature project..it’s kinda literature fest..hehe..but it’s stil in an abstract mean la..have to wait.dudes and jazz, this is the poem that I have found..check this out k.. I love the last 2 lines that I have highlighted – keep holding on then it may lasting where ever ur breath is, for tat love, a kiss for tonite-i associate the word “renew” wit a nite as everyting wil be restared at nite before the sun creates other lifes for all seconds long, wil makes u poor if there is no more, for tat kiss a lover may restore, the death comes by, yet ur heart (associated wit the strand) stil have a name upon wat u have assay. Heart is associated with strand..why?yeah, strand has the same element as what a heart has..this combination makes both look flimsy .yeah..no specific parameter can be used to measure the sense of lack of guile in this life under the same sun. trust?is so subjective in anyway it can be…wel, these are only my some intpretations for that 2 last lines..i have more but yeah..u want it?then u name it…here we go..yeah I wil use this poem as my material teaching then.til then..njoy ya.
Edmund Spenser
[One day I wrote her name upon the strand]
One day I wrote her name upon the strand
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize!
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name;
Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
xoxox, Josh
Edmund Spenser
[One day I wrote her name upon the strand]
One day I wrote her name upon the strand
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize!
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name;
Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
xoxox, Josh
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