Quote - Learning - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Person: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Job: Philosopher, Poet
Background: 
Objective: Everyone has a value, which exceeds us in one way or another
Value: Value people as you can always, definitely learn something from them. From unlikely people in unlikely place, only when you have the right attitude.


Philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked, "I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular."

Quote - Perspective - Abraham Maslow

Person: Abraham Maslow
Job: Psychologist
Background: American
Objective: Perspective is the key to any reaction we take.
Value: Consider the big picture when making a decision or an action or a reaction!

Psychologist Abraham Maslow observed, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Quote - Hate

Person: Hermann Hesse
Job: Poet
Background: German
Objective: Hating is an act of disapproval of something that we have deep inside.
Value: Get rid of the hates. If anything, hate the act, not the person. Even better, fill up the world with love and respect and empathy and mutual understanding.

German poet Hermann Hesse said, "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Storytell: Abortion is a crime

Title: Abortion is a crime

Tag: abortion, crime, pregnant, baby, storytell

Objective: To illustrate that an act of abortion is the same as killing a person.

Value: Take pre-caution steps when engaging in sexual act, or regret later.

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said:

'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together.'

So the doctor said: 'Ok and what do you want me to do?'

She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.'

The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.'



She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request.

Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care of 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms.'


The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child!'

'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.'

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The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point.

He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same!

Word-Recap

So, we have learned four words this week.

They are: froth, muddle, repatriate, and exuberant.

Froth means bubbles. Mass of bubbles. Usually created by a melange of warm water and soap in a bath tub. Can also be found on top of a beer in a glass. Frothing can be considered as a verb, similar as bubbling. But frothing works in a sweeping manner. Consider while walking near a beach, where sea would sweep you endlessly. You can say the sea froths you as well, as bubbles are usually formed as a result of it.

Muddle can mean a lot of things. It can be used to represent a state of confusion. Or if combined with through, as in muddle through, can represent the meaning of battling through and succeed. He muddles through the players to get a touchdown. Everything is in a muddle, we need to fix this mess now!

Repatriate means send something back to its origin. French gov seeks to repatriate thousands of Algerian refugees. As you can see, you don't need to mention "back" or where to. Though you can I believe. A repatriate is a person that is sent back home to his or her original place.

Exuberant. Overwhelming! Plentiful! Overflowing! It just shows. The excitement, the energetic radiance. It's bouncy! In fact, this paragraph is littered with exclamation marks to describe the meaning of the word exuberance itself! Exuberant crowd, exuberant cheerfulness, exude exuberance (excitement etc.). The grapes plant has grown exuberantly, covering the six feet fence in just one week!

Word-a-day: Exuberant

Exuberant children of Indonesia

Exuberant.

An adjective. Means overwhelming, plentiful, and abundant. Lively energy and excitement. Something to do with vitality as well. To live life to the fullest is being in a state of exuberance.

Something may exude exuberance.

Exuberant joy, exuberant cheerfulness, exuberant confidence.

Giddily exuberant crowd!

She exudes exuberant cheerfulness when her best friends are around.

The rock concert was filled with exuberant crowds.

Synonym: overflowing, luxuriant, lavish, bountiful and bouncy!

Word-a-day: Repatriate

Repatriate.

What does it mean?

It means sending or bringing back something to original country. That something can be a person or even money.

For example, The French government seeks to repatriate Algerian refugees this year. As you can see, no need to mention back or their country. We know where they are from from the adjective of Algerian.

Similarly, the foreign companies decide to repatriate their investments amidst the financial crisis.

Repatriate can also represent a person (a noun). Perhaps a refugee.

Words that have the same definition as repatriate?

Extradite or deport in a way that it shares the definition of trying to send back someone against that person's will.

Story-a-day: Romance-Reporter-Priest-Greed-Delhi

Introduction

So, I am trying to do the exercise in Your Writing Coach by Jurgen Wolff.

The chapter that I am doing is 4, which concerns about generating ideas or an endless of ideas.

One of the tools that is used to train our brains to come out with ideas is the story generator game. Refer to page 49.

So here we go.

Genre: Romance

Parent: Reporter

Second person: Priest

Emotion: Greed

Location: Delhi

So, how do we create a story out of this?

A reporter has been despatched to Delhi to cover a story about a new church being built amidst slums in Delhi. There, she meets a priest who was in charge of overseeing the development of the church. The priest is greed person. The money received from the foundation who funds the church is always used to satisfy the priest's unnecessary spendings. Thus, the project is delayed for years, as the priest continuously asks for more funding and money. The reporter realises this and tries to write a piece about it. But the priest knows the reporter's intention and hires a killer to assassinate the reporter. As the fate turns out, the assassin falls in love with the reporter. Their romance blossoms. Later, to her horror, the reporter realises that her lover is actually an assassin hired to kill her.

It should be a 5-minute rule. And I think I have exceeded that. Maybe I'll try doing another one later!

Anyway, need to learn more about active and passive sentences. Feels so unnatural when reading that.

Word-a-day: Muddle

Muddle

It has different meanings. The word is mostly used as a verb.

Muddling can mean confusing. Trying to confuse two things.

Muddling through means barely finishing something, or achieving something. Meaning success has been attained but not without challenges to wear it out. The success is this case is not really a high success. It's more like a low quality success, but a success nonetheless.

For example, I finally muddled through the exams with minimal preparation.

He muddled through the player to get a touch down.

He muddled through mud to finally reach the finish line.

As a noun, it means a confusing state, or disorganised state (lack of organisation).

His finance is in a muddle.

Words that have similar meanings, yet are used in different occasions:

jumble, hodgepodge, conglomeration, mélange, farrago and disarray.

Word-a-day: Froth

Froth

It means bubbles. Like foams. Can be a mass of bubbles on or in a liquid.

It has the same meaning as suds or soapy foam.

3 examples of usage:

1) There are froths on top of the glass of beer over there.

2) The sea froths over my feet.

3) The boiling water was frothing.