literature

The ageless children's story Beauty and the Beast is one of the finest parables we have about the transforming qualities of love -- and about one of life's most important lessons: things are not always what they seem.

If I’m not mistaken, I watched this animation movie in 1991. I was carried away by the story. I was so impressed with the film even though it was only an animation movie. The camera work, the plot and all the characters were so amazing. The scenery pictures were like real pictures. They looked alive.

What I want to discuss today is about the moral value behind the film. Who’s the real beast in this movie? Is the beast the real monster? Are monsters another kind of God’s creation that forms the variety of beings in the universe? However in Beauty and The Beast , Beast ( the doomed prince) and Gastone ( the villagers’ favorite guy) are non other than human being. Thus, what contributes to the distinction between human beings and monster? There is the difference between the villagers’ perception of a monster and that of Belle (the pretty and innocent girl). The villagers take the Beast’s unpleasant look as the ticket to his monstrosity while Belle sees Gastone’s inhumanity that makes him a monster.

In real life, people are always confused by the appearances. The question of appearance, hence , relates to the idea of beauty. Perhaps, the title of the story itself – The Beauty and The Beast – and not “ Belle and the Beast” – is made to highlight the distinction between one appearance to another.

How many girls out there are as wise as Belle? How they judge people, how they see beauty, how they move beyond appearance and how they choose love? What has become a monster to some people could be a beauty to some other. Indeed, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and so as monstrosity.

Things are not always what they seem. In fact, things are almost always different from how they appear to the eyes and how they sound to the ears.

Reading “The Pencil “ By Ali Majod really remind me to be really careful when making any judgments to our students. We might be the one who have the impact on their life.

There have been many people who have influenced me and those who have set great examples in my life. Many of those people were teachers that I have had from primary to the university time. If I had to choose one who has had the greatest influence, it would have to be Mr. Dollah Bakar at my Primary school. He put much effort and time in teaching English, Math and Science subjects when I was in standard 4 and standard 5. There are many reasons why he was my favorite teacher of all times, but there is not enough space to share all of these here, so the main reason is he gave his all into teaching us.

Mr Dollah Bakar was an excellent and fabulous teacher. He has made an impact on my life, and by his doing so, I hope that I can pass the same qualities on to children I am teaching.

Thank you Mr Dollah Bakar, for the impact you have had on my life.

Do we have such strength, determination, and strong will as Phoenix Jackson, an old colored woman in the story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. This story really touches my heart and inspires myself to gather all my strength I have, to do my first degree after last 14 years I obtained my diploma. There are a lot of changes and new experiences in my life.

With this undying passion for continual improvement and enrichment, I chose to do PJJ TESL, UPM Program. As a wife to a husband, a mother to four children and an employee to an organization, the thought of studying in this program really blends me with excites and worries which I couldn’t express in words.

Now I realize that what we need is to love life without getting tired. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other that will help to forget your pains. There's a wish in every heart. Do what we love to do but make sure we are focused on what is really important to us.

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

Gina Gershon

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

–Rudyard Kipling

As a child…

When parents love their child, do they write down everything they bought for the child and say, "It cost this much." When parents love child, they want to give him or her more than a prince or princess of the world has, and they are sorry that they cannot give enough. Parents are always thinking, "I want to give more, better things to my child."

When was the last time we called our parents? Hugging them? Make sure we remember never to take the people we love the most for granted. One day we may wake up and the opportunity to show our appreciation won't be there. Don't live in regret, and show our parents that we love them every day!

As parents....
God has chosen us to be the parents of our children. He could have placed them in anyone else’s care, but He chose us. Parents' unconditional love is the most necessary to them. Whether a child is good or bad, well or ill, smart or has special needs the love parents is always there. Children seem to need it the most when things are not good for them. It seems that a child may test our love. Some days they are the worst children they have ever been but parents love is still there, and children need to know that. Those of you who have children would know. You want to feel happiness from their happiness through the children you have raised with such sincerity.

"Take a child by the hand and you take a parent by the heart."