Poem

This is the very first poem I will be writing. It is about a student walking into the staff room.


The Staff Room

Timid like a small rat
I enter the dangerous room
with all eyes facing me
and a cleaner with a broom

My heart is jumping fast
eyes focusing at homework
the teacher starts screaming at me
I regret doing all the housework

With a sword in his hand
hacked his way towards me
feeling very scared
why is it me?

Wishing to turn back
with no possibility
the teacher approach me
I feel with no ability

The fire blast burns my hair
attack with deadly aim
pulling out his shotgun
he continued his game

Tears start falling down
hoping for his forgiveness
he pats my shoulder, comforting me
luckily he still have some kindness

Lesson 5: Poetry on Gambling

1.In the first poem "Tom Beatty" ,the author describes a lawyer who tries his luck to win some money .He finds that the chance of winning are very low. The author writes the lawyer felt despair.

2.In the second poem the author describes the colourful casino environment where there are colourful tips,smoke, dry lips, erratic lights, constrained tones, mesmerizing lights,the author shows a gambler trying to win back his money, even though he is exhausted.

3.The third poem shows how money is wasted when a person gambles, he will bet on anything in order to gamble.

The main difference in the three poem, is the feeling of the author of the poems. For example, the first author is trying to show the feeling of everything that turn against you. The second author, shows the desire to win back the money. And the last author is the feeling of lose of money.

Lesson 6

I do not support the opening of casino. This is one of the quotes from the gamblers "“The longer you gamble compulsively , the more you become a compulsive liar”.

When there is casion, people will be addicted to gambling. As a result, they will start to lie to their family.When the gamblers have won some money, they will not be satisified and will continue to gamble. They will eventually lose all the money they have and may borrow money from loan shark and the consequences will be very serious. The family will be threatened by the loan shark and the family will be in a chaos. Some of the addicted gamblers will rob and steal from others to get the money and continue to gamble. As a result, the crime rate of Singapore will increase in number. The tourists visiting Singapore will have a sense of fear and will not come to Singapore again. It will deeply affect the population of Singapore.

Opening casino will enable more job opportunities, but the negative effects are much greater than the positve effects. Gambling will destroy a family ot their relationship. The consequences are very seerious. All in all, I do not support the opening of the casino.