Assignment o' assignment.

When the first time hearing about Critical Literacy, the only thing pop-up in my head was it will be hard since I’ve watch my friends struggle to the end to finish it. Well, after I officially received the assignment, the first thing to do was to read it, and my lecturer said I need to read it a couple of times to get what the article is all about.

The first article was an excerpt from the writings of 4^th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahadir Mohammad. His article entitled, “ The Influence of Heredity on the Malay Race”. He wrote the article during his young days. This article is a part of his famous book, “The Malay Dilemma” which specifically published for the Malays to think for their future. To condemned the article is quite hard since it will critique my beloved Malay society, but later on when I have fully aware of the problems raised by him, it was that hard anymore.

The second article was by the famous German military leader, Adolf Hitler. He wrote about the Jews that he hated so much. The article entitled, “The Jews and their deceits”. The most interesting info that gained while doing this article was that, many historians claimed that, Hitler is a Jew. While processing that particular info, so may thought have come to my mind. The article clearly shown Hitler’s opinion about the Jews he hated so much his entire life.

Next, on the third article, the writer Paul Robinson wrote about the value of television. Paul Robinson is a lecturer and a historian. In his winning article, he mentioned about the sole purpose of television was only to entertain people and it cannot make people any smarter. This article is really fun to read since it also critique “bad tv” which is know very popular. In the process of finishing this article, lot of thing appear to make some sense to me and what the writer trying to expose is not totally true. The most simple reason is even “bad tv” make people good. It shows clearly my opinion on whether television can educate or not.

Lastly, I’ve to do article on Steve Job, the billionaire founder of Apple. The article written by Kumi Naidoo based on his interpretation on Steve’s speech at Stanford. He, Kumi said that Steve have different meaning or the real intention behind his speech. Without reading this article, my mind would still think that Steve is a good man. These two man have been fighting each other since because Steve lack of awareness on his policy on using hazardous material in his product. Now, I’ve different opinion about Steve after reading Kumi’s writing.

As for the conclusion, these articles give a lot of think to thought about choosing my road to walk in the future. Credit to my lecturer for choosing such good article.