English

Autobiographical Essay

My name is Jason Villa. I live in Davao City. I go to school in Ateneo de Davao University.I live in a normal life with my family and i hangout with my friends. My age is 15. I always do the usual things in my life. I always do things for my friends and for other people because friendship are important for me. Rather than do what is for me.I am a simple person and I dont dream to be a great person in the future. Being successful is never that easy because everyone needs to strive harder and needs to undergo failure before success.

I started learning in Ateneo when I was in grade 1. I was happy in that time and I wanted to make new friends. It started a new beginning and a new life. In grade 2 It was my school year in elementary because I had many friends and I was very lucky and successful at that time, because I got high grades. In grade 3, it was my darkest life that I have encountered. Because I have so many enemies at that time and I almost failed on one subject. I blame myself for all the wrong things that I have done. As time passes by... until I graduated grade school and reached high school.

Favorite Literary Text

Epigrams

• "True ease in writing comes from art not chance, As those move he easiest who have learned to dance"(means that if you want to write, you need skills while those who learned to move can dance)
• "And if the means be just, the conduct true. Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due"(means that it is fighting for what is right)
• "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was , nor is e'er shall be."(means that if it is true it is forever true)
• "Be silent always when you doubt your sense"(Dont talk when you are not sure)
• "Honor and shame from no condtion rise; Act well your part, here all the honor lies"(If you act well, others will respect you)

  Trivia on Language or Literature

  • The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
  • The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii.
  • Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
  • "Polish" is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality.
  • "Corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king."
  • The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters.
  • The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
  • The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
  • The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
  • The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go

    Reflections of Life as a Junior Student

    As a junior student, Life is hard because it is hard to achieve the goals that I dreamed of. Being a successful student is not that easy and it takes time to achieve it. We must wait until the right time comes that we will be a successful person. We must work hard for it and do our best to be the best.

    Usefulness of English to other Subject areas

    The importance of English to other subject areas is that English can teach us how to speak words and sentences in correct grammar. It also teaches us how to find meanings of words,lines, and stanzas in every poems. It teaches us the history of English literature of how it was discovered and what is the famous events in history.

    Significant/Appropriate part of the website

    The siginificance of part of the website is to know what Ive learned of how far Ive understand English.