Different kinds of pronunciation

              In the words we use, we can somehow notice if I have the right way of pronuncing. Therefore are the pronunciation differenciatable.

letter /e/
/ae/ - bat, stand, sat, nag, had, sand, dad, spank, ban, hang, lad, mat, pack, rag, mass
/e/ - bait, sway, sate, nail, hay, sane, dave, sake, bane, hail, late, mate, pay, raid, maze
/E/ - bet, sweat, set, neck, head, send, deaf, speck, ben, hell, led, met, peck, red, mess

letter /i/
/i/ - beat,sweet, seat, kneel, heed, seen, deep, speak, bean, heal, lead, meet, peak, read, mean
/I/ - bit, switch, sit, nil, hid, sin, dip, spick, bin, hill, lid, mitt, pick, rid, miss

The Lottery Ticket

Written by: Anton Chekhov

               Ivan Dmitritch was a middle-class man with his salary 12,000. He had a wife named Masha with his children. He had no belief in the lottery luck nevertheless, he always try the lottery one though it fails.
               One day, while he was checking the numbers of the lottery tickets, he saw the number that matches the number written in the newspaper. He ran to his wife Masha to talk about this. Carelessly, Ivan came to think the money he would gain from the lottery ticket leaving his wife's suggestion to recheck. Both Ivan and Masha came to think what to do with their money soon coming.
               They kept imaginning the goods and conviniences they would gain from the lottery. In the end of the thoughts, he also thought their relatives as soon as they get the money will they hang on the money and from Masha's relatives. That made a quarrel.
                At the end of a quarrel with a happy imagination, finally, rechecking the matching lottery ticket, he realized that the one he has, doesn't match with the number should be the one.
                After all, they went back to their lives, grumbling of thier environments.

Our Lady's Juggler

Written by: Anatole France

                 In the days of King Louis, there was a  poor juggler named Barnabas, he perfomed juggling city by city. His juggling abilities were no different of those jugglers walking on earth but he had a special juggling skill that everyone waits, that is juggling six copper balls and 12 knives on his feet.
                 He was poor, always hanged in hunger and thirst, though that case had no tempt by his pure heart with a firm belief in God and His words. He kept and did not go astray from the holy Ten Commandments, he prayed to holy virgin marry.
                 Along the way with his materials on his shoulders, he met a monk, getting into conversation. The monk, seeing Barnabas' way of talking, thought of the Lord's Word: Let peace be with them on earth. The monk brought Barnabas into monastry.
                 Barnabas saw skillful monks who were given knowledge from God.
                 The prior wrote books, Brother Maurice rewrote those books, Brother
 Alexandre painted the books while Brother Marbode, carved to the holy image of virgin marry.
                 Barnabas grieved of his power that cannot give any goods for his god.
                 One night, monks assembled to topic a monk who could no longer recite, he died with a five roses on his mouth which represents the five letters of maria. Barnabas heard what monks assembled for.
                 Barnabs, joyed and chanced to do the job of the dead monk in his stead. Barnabas showed the juggling tricks before the image of virgin. When the monks saw Barnabas, they had in mind deriving him out of the chapel but the image of virgin descended on Barnabas wiping his sweats.
                 prior bow down on the floor and repeated saying : blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Propaganda

            When a writer wishes to persuade you to think or feel the way he/she does, his/her work is called propaganda

Kinds of Propaganda:
1. Name Calling - This is used when to persuade through one's unexact exterrior and interrior characteristics.. It means "get personal"
2. Hast Generalization - This is a statement without basis.
3. Testimonials - A statement that is recommending for its proved goods.
4. Bandwagon - A statement that persuades through most-followed thing.
5. Transfer - is the technique whereby the propagandist makes you accept a person, idea, or thing by showing that it is related to other persons, ideas, or things that have proved to be good or beneficial.
6.Card Stacking - Is deliberately withholding information, manipulating or "correcting" statistics, or even lying about a product, a person, or an idea.

Major Writers of Rome

              Virgil - Virgil was the greatest writer that Rome produced.
              Horace - a great lyric poet of Rome.
              Martial

Greek Lyric Poetry

           Greek Lyric Poetry came to be developed, by singing with emotions and soul. They are:

               1. Sappho - acknowleged as head of a school of poetry, she was called "the Tenth Muse".
                                  She wrote: Hymn to Venus, A Girl In Love, One Girl and etc.
               2. Anacreon - He worte about love, wine, women and social enjoyment.
                                  He wrote: Old Age, The Wiser Part, Nature's Gift and etc.

Greek Drama

                  The drama was the crowning glory of the Athenian Age.

Major Dramatists of the Athenian Age:
             1. Aeschylus - father of tragedy.
             2. Sophocles - famous of his good-looking face.
             3. Euripides -
             4. Aristophanes

Odysseus and Polyphemus

              After the Trojan war, Aeneas with sword of Troy and his people escaped from the peril. Then they sailed on the land of the Cyclopes, to ask for some helps.
              When they arrived, they first have break on the pasture. They climb up to tops of hills where Cyclopes usually live in, to meet them.
              Polyphemus, a name of a cyclope, has eyed on the Aeneas and his people and called them strangers killing them without mercy, squeezing the head eating organs. blocking the rest not to come out 'till he got hungry again.
              By the chance, one of a comrades of on the ship, Noman tries to bribe Polyphemus the wine. Tho' it worked successfully, no mercy found from Polyphemus that he would be eating Noman at the last of the comrade.
              Noman spear the Polyphemus' only eye to blind him with the burning sharp olive stake. So Polypehemus was no longer a cyclope with an eye.
              By that, Noman and all his comrades were able to flee with the foods.

Iliad(epic written by Homer)

                  The trojan war was taken place by Zeus, the father of the deities. For Zeus had known what was happenning to the earth. To solve the proble of overpopulation.
                  Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, came out from marriage between a minor goddess, Thetis and a mortal, Peleus.
                  Paris, who was given a privilage through a golden apple, was to choose the most beautiful goddesses of the three who were Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. Each goddess promised Paris greatest wealth on earth, in which Hera promised Paris power, Athena, the wisdon while Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful woman in the world. Thus, the golden apple was awarded to Aphrodite who promised the most beautiful woman in the world.
                  Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, was however already married to Menelaus, king of Sparta. By the help of Aphrodite, Helen was taken by Paris. Menelaus was enraged that he banded with Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae to have Helen back.
                  While the battle, Patroclos, friend of Achilles, breathed the last breathe by the sword of Hector. For Hector was as skillful as that of Achilles.
                  Hector's wife Andromache, worried Hector of the peril of the battle.
                  When the battle for Hector and Achilles came,  Achilles won by of its imortal body, then he take the body of Hector moving by the dusts of the ground, when Hector's father Priam was watching all over the battle, even the death of his son and the pitiful result.
                  Afterward, King Priam went alone to Achilles' tent to return his son's body. He even kissed the hand of a man that brought force to kill.
                  Hecuba, mother of Hector, Andromache and Brieseis joined the lamentation for the death of the greatest warrior, Hector.                

Ancient Greek Art and Literature

Ancient Greek Art and Literatrue

              Greek has produced the poet that is no compared to the world. This peotic Greek is known as the forms of art at that time and still at this time too.
              The history of Greek Literature is divided into three periods.
        1st : the Pre-Homeric Age and Homeric Age(484B.C.)
        2nd : Athenian Period(323B.C.)
        3rd : the Period of Decline(from the death of Alexander the great to A.D.1453)

We cna say that Greeks are as following:
  1. Permanence and Universality - Greek literature is still alive tho' it was written more than 3,000 years ago.

  2. Essentially Full of Artistry - Greek literature is a product of a people who purposely and conscientiously developed their physical and intellectual  powers.

  3. Originality - Greek literature has such originality for of its great contributions.
 
4. Diversity of Talent - Of their never-stopping mind, they cultivated all literary types to perfection.

  5. Intellectual Quality - Greeks have brought challenges to bring some inner transformation.