English Homework Thread

[Cassandra]

Read pages 158 - 162 of your Elements of Language: Third Course book.

By January 7, 2010 (Thursday).

[Cassandra]

On a 1 whole sheet of intermediate paper, answer page 770: exercise 6 & page 771-772: exercise 8 of your English book.

Deadline is on January 21, 2010 (Thursday).

[Cassandra]

• Bring pictures of political projects imprinted on sidewalks or roofs. (e.g. Ynares Sports Complex, Eusebio Waiting Shed, "GMA CARES")
  
  
• Bring a 200 peso bill.

Due on February 5, 2010 (Friday).

[Cassandra]

Find out who Ramesses II is, in connection to our previous discussion about the 200 Peso Bill & the poem, "Ozymandias".

Date of Submission February 8, 2010 (Monday).

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Information on Ramesses II

[Cassandra]

Please bring the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby and The Sound of Silence on February 18, 2010 (Thursday).

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Eleanor Rigby

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working,darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

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The Sound of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence

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