The distinction between sacrifice and love

On the 6th week of the course, Dr. Edwin discusses the distinction between sacrifice and love as we are looking at the story The Mahabharata. When Dr. Edwin asks the meaning of sacrifice and love, I kind of create meanings that overlap each other. The distinction between love and sacrifice is very small as they overlap each other. According to Dr. Edwin’s meaning of sacrifice, it means that to give something at a cost and it is not worth the outcomes. When we sacrifice something we would lost something and the after effect of I would not be at worth as much as what you’ve sacrifice. As for love, Dr. Edwin’s definition for it is that to give something and something good happens in return. It is an act of love where we do something that at the end would result in a good way. For example, a mother who spend her whole life caring for her child and not to herself and at the end of the day, her child becomes successful in life, it shows that it is an act of love where she her hard work is worth it. On the other hand, when the child becomes not filial, then it is a sacrifice where she has wasted her time with the child and at the end of the day, the child is not worth the care.

My first meeting with my supervisor

On the 6th week of learning in the course, my lecturer Dr. Edwin had assign our supervisor for the research paper and 6 people including me is assign under the supervision on Dr. Jayakaran Mukundan, our very own lecturer in the Educational Faculty. After we have been assigned under Dr. Jaya, we decided to quickly make an appointment with him so that we could know and expect from the research paper that we are going to do. So, on February 12, we had a meeting with our supervisor, Dr. Jaya at the Educational Faculty’s library. Due to the fact that this is our first meeting with our supervisor, I do not know what to expect from the meeting. That is why when Dr. Jaya asked us on the issue that we want to discuss in the research paper, most of us do not know what to say as we do not prepare the requirement that Dr. Jaya asked us to show. Thankfully that I had done some reading on what issue I’m going to do on and I quickly show it to Dr. Jaya to ask his approval. I wanted to discuss an issue of discrimination on women in Malaysian text and I’ve chosen two particular texts for the research which are “Mala”, a short story by K. S. Maniam and “Confinement”, a short story by Mulaika Hijjas. Dr. Jaya gives his approval on my issue and he wanted me to give some implication of the issue on education. Lastly before the meeting session ended, Dr. Jaya asked us to prepare our first draft for the research paper and pass it up on the 24th of February 2009.

Supporting details for my position paper

After developing my thesis statement for my position paper, the job of finding supporting details for it becomes a little bit easy as I know what I want to search for. As I’ve already mentioned in my previous post, my thesis statement for the position paper is on companionship in “Of Mice and Men”. That is why I try to find characters in the novel that are longing for companionship and I found out that there are quite a lot of characters that have that characteristic. Examples of the characters that have that characteristic are George Milton, Candy, Curley’s wife and also Crooks. Plus, through reading the novel, I can see that even the ranch hands in the story also wanted companion due to their loneliness of working and living alone. That is why; I come out with five supporting details that I think would support my thesis statement of the relation between companionship and purpose in life. My first supporting detail is on George Milton and his relationship with Lennie where their friendship helps George breaks the pattern of the loneliness of human being through the dream that they created together. My second supporting detail is on Candy where he joins George and Lennie’s dream in order for him to have reason of living though he is an old and handicapped man. My next supporting detail is about Curley’s wife and her sluttish way of seeking man’s attention due to her loneliness living in all men world without having anyone to talk to. Crooks also face some kind of loneliness in the story where he is being discriminate due to his race and I use this as my fourth supporting detail. Last but not least, I wanted to write about the ranch hands loneliness in the story and how they also wanting companionship to ease their stress of working and living alone.