The issue of moral dilemma in my project paper

Moral dilemma; is the major issue being highlighted in my project paper. It is typical yet crucial to be discussed. I would like to deliberate the literal meaning of moral dilemma. According to Concise Oxford Dictionary, Tenth Edition, moral is an adjective that defined as “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour and the goodness or badness of human character” or “adhering the code of behaviour that is considered right or acceptable”. Meanwhile, dilemma is described as “a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives”. i would rather said that this issue is an imperative issue that need to be given the greater importance on especially for the students in the stage of adolescent.

In both short stories “A White Heron” and “Hills like White Elephant” have brings out the issue of moral dilemma to the students and how the dilemma resolved; most importantly the students will look on how the action done by the characters based on the right decision made that will actually brings something prominent and would give a greater effects for their next coming future. Therefore, I am gravely believed and convinced that both texts are very reliable and very good to be used as the teaching materials especially for the secondary school. Firstly because both texts have encircle the most important basis of literature; where it fits well with the three literature model (personal growth, cultural and language model). Secondly for it provides vast of knowledge for the students to grasp some meaningful values emerge from the texts.

Approaching the end of the semester...

It was the second last class of EDU 3234 Reading and Project Paper for Teaching Literature in ESL Contexts. and i do learn about the great speech of Martin Luther King. It was tremendously terrific speech indeed. i was captivated with the usage of binary opposition he used in the speech that represents the dream and the hope of African American in the US. Hmmm..thinking of another week to go, i would definitely miss this as analyzing the language in literature class really prompt me into higher level of thinking that it would lead me to a broader horizon as it enables me to see things differently and understand things clearly.

What a teacher is?

This is definitely an interesting class of all. ~grins~ It was fun, entertaining and thoughtful. How each of us perceived what teacher is (the metaphor of a teacher) is creatively thought and differently seen by each of us. Well, I have listed few of the metaphors; most of them are common like candles and light in the darkness. Once it’s my turn, I then said the teacher is like “blood”. Everybody goes like “blood?” and they were laughing themselves out. Hello? I have reason and sturdy justification guys! Blood would be the indicator of sustenance that actually provides nutrition and nourishments to the souls of a student. Where it becomes the source to enable students to “breathe” and without the blood that circulating inside our body that bring oxygen, we would be dead. Without being educated, we are futile. Apart from that, after the class I think of another metaphor which I think it is better than blood, heh. A teacher is like an airplane. Airplane does bring us to further destination in quick time rather than any other transport. Here, teacher could be seen as a means that could figuratively leads students from the state of not knowing to the state of knowledge. Airplane flies in the sky, so definitely the views would be completely different. A long the journey towards, gaining knowledge, teacher actually show the way and giving us ample space of going to the same destination yet with different ways of looking at things. I believe this would be the greatest impact that the teacher would have on the students since the chance given to constantly looking at things in different ways, will establish who you are. How we think made who we are, and thoughts and ideas we utter show who we really are – through the endless guidance of the teacher.