Any forms of gambling hurts in the end. Lottery is one of them. In fact the harm lottery has is even higher than other forms of gambling given that it is affordable, has a lot of outlets to put in the bets and the high frequency is betting sessions. Lottery is also highly addicitive as people tend to bet collectively and becomes more of a social event. Usually people progresses to other forms of gambling such as majong, horse betting, casino from lottery. Addictions catches on very fast and hard if the person has a lucky streak and wins a few times.

Although part of the money from the lottery is given to charities, lottery poses more harm and creates more social issues than the good it does by contributing to the charities.

"Once addition is form it will take a lot more effort and resources to break it. Along the way, families and friends of the addicts suffers." Yes, we must not be addicted to gambling. We must have control ourselves from buying too much as it is affordable and easily addicted.

My Favourite Poet- Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born 26th March 1874 in San Francisco, America. He was the first child of Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost. 1881, Frost enters second grade. Baptized in mother's Sweden-borgian church but droped out of school in the following year. After being dropped out of school, he is educated in home. His father dies of tuberculosis on May 5, 1885, leaving family with only $8 after expenses are paid. The whole family family moves to Lawrence to live with grandparents. Robert and Jeanie, his younger sister dislike grandparents' sternness and rigorous discipline. Enters third grade after testing, while younger sister enters fourth grade.
The next year, they moved to Salem Depot, New Hampshire, where their mother began teaching the fifth to eighth grades. Frost and Jeanie enter the fifth grade.
1890, Frost published his first poem "La Noche Triste," based on episode in Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, and then appeared in the Lawrence High School Bulletin in April. He also published his second poem, "The Song of the Wave," appears in the Bulletin in May.
He did well at his college but left the college to support his growing family. Before his grandfather had died, he purchased a farm for Frost and his wife. The farm is located in Derry, New Hampshire. He worked in the farm for nine years and he wrote poems every early morning.
His farming proved no success. In 1912, Frost and his family sailed to Great Britain and published his first book of poetry ' A Boy's Will" The next year. He returned to America due to world war 1.
Frost died in January 29, 1963.

Robert frost's Personal Life

His personal life was filled with loss and grief.

His father died of tuberculosis in 1885, when Frost was 11, leaving the family with just $8. Frost's mother died of cancer in 1900. In 1920, Frost had to commit his younger sister, Jeanie, to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later. Mental illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and his mother suffered from depression, and his daughter Irma was committed to a mental hospital in 1947. Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.

Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: son Elliot (1896–1904, died of cholera), daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983), son Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide), daughter Irma (1903–1967), daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth), and daughter Elinor Bettina (died three days after birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived their father. Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of heart failure in 1938.

The reason of I liking this Poet

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." The first poem that I have read is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I liked it very much and decided to surf the internet to look for more poems written by him and his biography. His poem were all very interresting and meaningful. The most major thing that I admire this poet is, when he met any failure or loss, he will not give up and be upset but he will work harder to achieve success. He can write such good quality of poem when he was a farmer. He had just a little time at the early morning to write poem and he could produce such good quality of poem.

His Poems

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Links

http://www.ketzle.com/frost/frostbio.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_frost.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Gold_Can_Stay_(poem)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_(poem)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquainted_with_the_Night

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(poem)

Poetry- The Road Not Taken

Recently Mr. Lundberg instructed us to complete a task on poetry. The question is


The poem I choosed is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

1. How is figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is, and why the poet chose to use this figurative language.
One of the figurative language used in this poem is symbolism. The writer uses the figurative language by using "roads' to describe "choices". I think that he is describing himself as a poet. He relates this 'road' to his real life.


2. Tell us why you like this poem in no less than 100 words.

I like this poem because the meaning of the poem is very obvious and make reading more easily. Besides that, the poet uses imagery to potray the scenes in the woods to make people imagine the beautiful scenes in the woods. Furthermore, the poet uses quite many of figurative language to make the poem more interesting. He can relate this poem to his real life which is not easy because he use symbolism to bring up the "hidden meaning".

A Book That Impacted My Aunt The Most

My aunt likes to read all kinds of books as she has a lot of books in her house. One book that impacted her the most is Angel and Demons by Dan Brown. This book is publicated on May 2000. My aunt was around 19 years old that time.

This book is about CERN, a facility at Switzerland dealing with particle physics has one of its most brilliant scientists, Leonardo Vectra, most brutally murdered and branded with an ancient symbol used by an ancient underground organisation, Illuminati, which is believed to have extinct. A world renowned Harvard Symbologist, Robert Langdon, is immediately called in to give insights to the death as he has done extensive research on the subject and has the right credentials. When he reached the facility, he discovered that the dead scientist and her daughter, Vittoria Vectra, has managed to create and contain Antimatter at a sizeable amount and one unit has been stolen. Just days before this, it was announced that the Pope has died and on the day of Leonardo Vectra’s murdered, the cardinals will perform Conclave and elect a new Pope. The creation of Antimatter at this amount is the re-creation of the exact moment of Creation itself. Traditional Catholics see this as a direct challenge to the Christian belief that god created the world. More progressive Catholics see it as a bridge between Science and Christianity.

Leonardo Vectra, who is also a Father, and the recently demised Pope are such progressive Catholics. Both Vittoria and Robert went to Vatican when news of the lost canister was found in the Vatican at a location that is not known. Linking the Illuminati, the news of the kidnapping of 4 Cardinals and the message from the kidnappers, Robert beliefs that the carnister is in the Church of Illumination. Therefore. Robert and Vittoria went on the search for the path of Illumination, hoping to find the Church of Illuminati, a place where the members meet. The message for the path is embedded in the work of Galileo (which is kept in the Vatican archives). This work was put in a material so fragile that it can be easily destroyed. This path is also a test to allow only the right and worthy is admitted into the brotherhood.

The search on the path of illumination involves entering the Vatican archives, searching Rome for the Symbols placed by the Illuminati. The Symbols are the basic elements of life: earth, air, water, fire. One feature of the illuminati is their ability to create Ambigrams. Ambigrams are words curved into symbols that look exactly the same when you turn it 180 degrees. Ambigrams are believed to have been created for the words Illuminati, earth, air, water, fire. There is also one more Ambigram that is made for the Illuminati Diamond.

Robert and Vittoria managed to follow the path of illumination and found the symbols but are unable to save the 4 cardinals who are killed and branded by using the Ambigrams. When they at last found the church of illumination, they, the cardinals and the world are led to believe that the Camerlengo was sent by god to unite the church against the age old enemy, the Illuminati, only to discover a sinister plot behind and the real villain.

This is all about the book.

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My aunt feels that this book talks about an aged battle between Spiritual belief and Science and these makes the story interesting by showing the contrast between Spiritual belief and Modern Science.

She also thinks that this book is very amazing. The amazing part of this book is the amount of research that has been done on very difficult topics: particle physics, Biophysics, Church proceedings, Christianity history, Christian Symbols, and the art work of the masters like, Raphael and Bernini and linking them up to form a seeming credible story.

It is also highly accurate in its description of the locations, Art Work, and facts; even CERN is a fact. This is a very distinctive feature in all Dan Brown’s books. Dan Brown’s books also have another one distinct feature. Everything happens in 24 hours. That’s why my aunt loves this book.

Furthermore, there will be in the cinemas soon. My aunt is planning to watch it.