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- Part 4
Hiba was a little girl who was infected by cancer in her eyes. She loved my sister and she used to play with her whenever she found the time. Even the food, they ate together. Hiba died while my sister was at home, and my mother didn’t tell my sister her when any children died because she will would feel sad. Some people may say it is okay, they are children and they don’t feel and understand, but actually they know and feel the pain more than others. When my sister went to the hospital to see the doctor for her second visiting, she didn’t find her friend “Hiba“ and she asked my mother about her many times until she slept. Children resort to sleep to forget anything that may hurt their little pure hearts. After a few months, the trip course of chemo had started and my sister suffered a lot during that painful trip. I remember when her hair started falling out, and after several months , she became completely bald. When she reached the fifth age five, the cancer had killed most of the children who were in the same ward, but about my sister, she still fights the disease.0 votedAugust 13, 20181 - Part 3
Visiting the hospital became our routine at during that time. I saw many children suffering from cancer too, but they still smiled, and when somebody visited them with candies and gifts they were very happy. I saw different kinds of illnesses, and different people who were living their lives between hope and pain. I couldn’t forget the boy who was suffering from cancer too, but the most dangerous kind is the one that infected the head of a boy. His mother told us that one day he was had recovered, but he was again infected by cancer and this time it was most more dangerous than the last time. He died during the time my sister was suffering from cancer. My little sister had leukemia, and it is less dangerous than the other kinds of cancer, and most people had recovered from it. I can remember the names of some children who died from cancer, like Hiba, Marwa and Hood.0 votedAugust 1, 20182 Miracle from heaven
Part 2
Days passed and no one knew what was wrong with her body - especially her back. One night, we were having dinner with my father when somebody called him from the hospital to inform him about what we were all scared of. My sisters, brothers and I heard nothing, but my father’s facial expressions seemed showed that something bad had happened to my little sister. Just After just a few days, we realized that my sister was the second one who had cancer in my town. The news came like a clap of thunder to us. I went to visit my sister in the hospital and although I was only ten years old, but I couldn’t bear it when I saw her pale innocent face. with She was only 4 years old and she was crying all the time. I have remembered when the nurses came to the children’s ward to give those children who had cancer the injections on their spines. so I heard many painful sounds and they cried bitterly. I felt their pain just by looking at them and my tears immediately went ran down on my cheeks.0 votedAugust 1, 20182- Miracle from heaven
Part 1
It was eleven years ago when that I saw my sister’s pale face for the first time. When I returned from school at 2:00 PM carrying my heavy backpack, I didn’t find anyone but my aunt; I felt an emergency had happened. After a few minutes I knew that my youngest sister was had been taken to the hospital for an unknown reason. At that time, I did nothing but praying for her to return home, since we always have had fun together and plenty of adventures. At During that scary night, I didn’t find my parents next to me, so I was so upset and scared from the about fate and what it could carry for us. I didn’t sleep that night because I was alone with my annoying thoughts. I was ten years old at that time, so I couldn’t understand what happened. When the morning came; everyone was wakeful still awake from the previous night. My parents were still in the hospital with my little sister. Nothing new and no clear results had they had received, but in the evening, the doctor told my father that he had noticed something wrong in her blood. At that moment, my father seemed very anxious but the doctor tried to reassure him by sending my sister to “The Royal Hospital” in Muscat to make sure what was exactly what was wrong with her.0 votedAugust 1, 20180 About Mary Astell's Proposal to the Ladies
Summary from a Mary Astell «A serious Proposal to the Ladies » (1694) excerpt.
Excerpt taken from Estelle B. Freedman’s « The Essentialist Feminist Reader » (2007)
Mary Astell (1666 – 1731) was one of the most famous proponents for women’s education. She proposed to establish a “monastery” or “religious retirement” where women could retire to spend their lives studying and contemplating. She designed these “monasteries” as female communities where Protestant women could enjoy a learned life together, far from both men and insignificant people, and far from all the pomp and pageantry that the rich women she addressed to were used to.
By this confinement, she proposed to women a radical method to amend women’s their condition. If it did not strive conflict against men's authority in their family, her ideal “monastery” would have offered to Protestant women an alternative to men's authority. She wanted to create new ways of life for women who wanted learned lives. She argued that being a soul included a duty to practice contemplation, as God designed the soul for understanding. Therefore, she remarks that without these intellectual efforts, the lack of wisdom can be damaging to religious beliefs. As a matter of fact, she intended this project both to offer women an alternative life and also to improve society by striving against ignorance.
Mary Asteel’s work can be see as a call to women for changes, as her book’s title shows it. However, she never established any “monastery” but she founded with her friends a charitable boarding school where she lived, surrounded by her friends, until her death.Hi Alexandre. We only capitalise the first letter of proper nouns, being the names of people or places (or God), so we don't capitalise monastery or religious retirement. Because "she proposed", we need to use the conditional, "could". Best wishes from New Zealand.
0 votedJune 4, 20181analysis continuation
All the spaces are related to the color red. Then, a slow-motion connects all gestures appearances : the invaders' one, who shoot the arrows, the flying fighters that repel the arrows, and broken-sword who is drawing in the school. All pictures are presented graphically : in the frame are outlined different kinds of lines are outlined. Warriors are on the side of straight lines. When they shoot the arrows, an animated cloud of stream-like arrows strike through the area. The spectator's point of view is focused on one arrow that passes through the frontage of the school, and crashes into a sand-tablet ( which isn’t insignificant ). On the other side, lines are curve-shaped : the movement of traditional dresses, the gesture of Brokensword who is drawing, of his long hair, of his calligraphy, all is about curves. The tension of the sequence is first revealed by the line’s "shape-shock". The arrow that crashed into the sand-tablet is like an ideogram (?) stroke. Arrows are significant, they are dark strokes passing by a red area. In the following sequence, Unnamed brings back Brokensword’s calligraphy to the King he wants to betray. It’s a red curve in a black setting. There is a mirror effect in the lines and colors that compose these pictures, that reveals itself through shapes, a breath, an intention, as calligraphy is supposed to do.
On the other hand, calligraphy is an art of movement and time, like cinema. To Representing calligraphy in cinema isn’t just revealing the drawing in its original continuity. Cinema can disrupt the traditional continuity of calligraphy in order to interrogate its own flux and editing power. During the scene, because of the alternating editing, it’s like as if the rampage lasts the time it requires to draw the ideogram for sword. The fragmented calligraphy creates a progressive climax in the picture, it’s like as if all the elements of the sequence was were taken away in one movement, everything seems to contribute to create the last picture of the sequence : the sign for a sword that brokensword tied up vertically to view watch it, before Unnamed brings it to the king, as we can see in the next sequence.Hi Maeld - This was an interesting read. I love this film! I recognise it from your description, even without reading the first part of your analysis. I wasn't sure whether you meant "stream-like arrows" (like a stream of water), or "streamlined arrows" (streamlined like an aircraft). I changed the case of "representing" to match "revealing". I could equally have made them both infinitive: "To represent c. in c. isn't just to reveal ..." Best wishes from New Zealand.
0 votedJune 4, 20180Musical theory
I've been playing the guitar for a year and a half now. I have two guitars: a classical one and a folk one. I've always loved playing music, composing songs and singing too. When I was young, I didn't want to learn musical theory. It was so boring for the 8 year old kid I used to be. Many years later, once again I have to deal with theory but this time, as I have grown up and have a goal, I know it's going to be very helpful! Today, it's a real pleasure for me to learn musical notation, it's like I'm learning a new language!Hi Christophe
This is so good that my corrections are just matters of style!
"As I grew up" means during the time that I was growing up, e.g. "As I grew up, I tried to learn French, but failed miserably".
I think you meant "musical notation". When we "learn the notes", we are learning the notes of a particular tune. Because notation is abstract, no "the".
Best wishes from New Zealand
0 votedMay 18, 20181How can I improve my English alone?
Could you answer the question, 'How can I improve my English alone?'
Already, I am working with people who are using English. I didn't come into my position in this department by my ability. It was random, so now I have a lot of problems ...... especially listening..... I am afraid when people give up passing their thoughts to me, because of their English, so I already give up to speaking to anyone ....
I'd really like to communicate with people using English, so I joined here.
please help me~-----
Hello!
When we quote someone (or quote yourself), we precede the quote with a comma, and start it with a capital letter, like a new sentence.
"Lots" is plural, but "problem" is singular - they need to match. I changed "lots" to the singular, "a lot".
Best wishes from New Zealand.
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