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Optional assignment 3
For this optional assignment, I chose to write a super short story, and I tried to use many complex words that I’ve learned from Vocabulary.com. What I learned from it was just that I got to know these words and their meaning better.
The horror on the steppes of Africa.
On a balmy summer day on the 23rd of July 1935, Henry Brookfield was a senile individual. He was sitting on a bench in a big orchard located near his home. He had suddenly got the urge to brainstorm outside in the orchard garden. He did that very frequently when the weather was as good as it was on this day.
He sat there for a long while brooding over about the good old days when he was a juvenile nomad in Southeast Africa. He had been traveling alone in Africa for about 2 months. He had met many different clans who lived on the steppes of Africa, and he had gotten to know many of them and learned their ways of life.
One day when he was hunting wild antelopes with a few of his friends, he witnessed something wanton and truculent that he would never be able to forget.
There was a humongous and malformed behemoth with horrible talons looming over in the air. It was looking for some critter to kill and pray on. That beast made some rattling and horrifying sounds while it hovered over the steppe, searching for someone to kill. Suddenly it was like it froze in the air; it was completely still and gazed at one point, which was pretty close to where Henry and his companions were. There he saw a rather large but very young wild boar. It was lying under a big African Acacia tree, trying to get some rest.
Brusquely the humongous beast dove down at a rapid speed. In less than a second, that beast had dug its talons deep into the face of the sleeping boar and started flying up in the air again while having a stranglehold on the boar's face. That poor animal screamed from terror and the horrible pain it felt while having those talons deep inside its eyes and other parts of its face. Once the beast was high enough up in the air, it let go of that poor animal and dropped it to the ground. It lay there inert with almost every bone of its body broken, and its blood mottled all around when it landed on the ground. Then that beast dived down and started feasting on the motionless animal, which was still alive but in agonizing pain and complete shock, so it couldn’t move or make a sound.
This memory regularly popped up in Henry's head, and he always got a nauseating feeling since it was a brutal and horrifying sight which he could never forget.
This memory regularly popped up in Henry's head, and he always got a nauseating feeling since it was a brutal and horrifying sight which he could never forget.
Optional assignment 4
For this optional assignment, nr. 4, I've decided to make a movie review about Twilight (2008). I'm going to use difficult words that I'm having problems with remembering their meaning and how to pronounce, so I think that way I will maybe learn better the meaning of the words and get them to stick to my brain. I didn't know what I should do for this assignment, so my friend gave me this idea, and I decided to choose a movie that I didn’t like at all. I'm not going to write this review seriously or professionally, even though I will use difficult words.
I started by watching the movie since I have only seen it once, a long time ago. To my not so much surprise, it was not better this time than the first time I saw it. Like I said before, I’m going to use words that seem pretty difficult for me to learn. So that is what I'm going to focus on learning by doing this assignment.
Movie review on Twilight (2008)
First of all! He's a 104-year-old very pale and sparkling sanguine
coming on to a seventeen-year-old young lass, and there nothing particularly eye-catching about her. She looks very sallow and feeble and is a super exasperating character to watch and to hark. Now, let’s start by telling how they were gazing at each other at school, and she found him to be this mysterious bad boy with a gloomy
look. The first time they meet is in a science lesson where they talk a bit, and after that, they start to heed at each other, and he kind of starts to stalk her and watch her everywhere she goes. The first time they meet is in a science lesson where they talk a bit, and after that, they start to heed at each other, and he kind of starts to stalk her and watch her everywhere she goes.
First of all! He's a 104-year-old very pale and sparkling sanguine
coming on to a seventeen-year-old young lass, and there nothing particularly eye-catching about her. She looks very sallow and feeble and is a super exasperating character to watch and to hark. Now, let’s start by telling how they were gazing at each other at school, and she found him to be this mysterious bad boy with a gloomy
look. The first time they meet is in a science lesson where they talk a bit, and after that, they start to heed at each other, and he kind of starts to stalk her and watch her everywhere she goes. The first time they meet is in a science lesson where they talk a bit, and after that, they start to heed at each other, and he kind of starts to stalk her and watch her everywhere she goes.
The first time they meet is in a science lesson where they talk a bit, and after that, they start to heed at each other, and he kind of starts to stalk her and watch her everywhere she goes. So as many of you know, sanguisuges and lycans are not very good friends, so there starts to be a lot of drama around that feeble girl. Then other sanguisuges want to drain that girl's blood since she seems to have a very delicious scent.
The filming itself was ok, a real small-town vibe, but the SFX were not very good and way too much bad cutting in the scenes. Maybe the editor got paid for each bad clip he made,
So all in all, DON’T watch the movie, please, for your sake.
The filming itself was ok, a real small-town vibe, but the SFX were not very good and way too much bad cutting in the scenes. Maybe the editor got paid for each bad clip he made,
So all in all, DON’T watch the movie, please, for your sake.
Optional assignment 5
I decided to dissect the lyrics of this song called “Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch.” I chose to do this because this song has a deep meaning for retired soldiers and their life after being in the army. At first, I listened to the song and read the lyrics simultaneously, and I also watched the music video. When I had finished that, I started thinking about what the meaning was behind all this. After watching the video and listening carefully to the lyrics, you get a pretty good idea of what this song is about.
What I learned from this assignment was, of course, the meaning behind it, and I also tried to use harder words, which you don’t see or hear very often.
I spoke to God today and she said that she's ashamed
What have I become
What have I done
I spoke to the devil today and he swears he's not to blame
And I understood 'cause I feel the same
What have I become
What have I done
I spoke to the devil today and he swears he's not to blame
And I understood 'cause I feel the same
Arms wide open
I stand alone
I'm no hero and I'm not made of stone
Right or wrong
I can hardly tell
I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell
The wrong side of heaven and the righteous side
The righteous side of hell
I stand alone
I'm no hero and I'm not made of stone
Right or wrong
I can hardly tell
I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell
The wrong side of heaven and the righteous side
The righteous side of hell
I'm not defending
Downward descending
Falling further and further away
Getting closer every day
Downward descending
Falling further and further away
Getting closer every day