Tâm Thảo - 11 ALN1 by Tâm Thảo https://padlet.com/student242729/hreutjdbhscnk976 en-us 2025-09-14 12:42:33 UTC 2026-01-13 10:00:28 UTC hello@padlet.com ??? student242729 https://padlet.com/student242729/hreutjdbhscnk976/wish/3583834789 I loved watching Spider Man and Iron Man when I was younger. I know it was silly of me to dream of becoming a superhero like them. I was excited to watch the scenes where Peter Parker crafted his own spiderweb shooter and Stony Stark’s smart cool flexible armor with his artificial assistant, and how they used them to save people. I wondered if I could try out making gadgets on my own so I could be a hero, and everyone would admire me. So I decided to make a spider web shooter out of cardboard. I started digging into the mechanism of spring and stuff on Youtube, though I didn’t fully understand them (I felt smart and dumb at the same time). It was exciting at first, and I begged my dad to bring home some high-quality cardboard. But soon I gave up because cutting the cardboard would take like a million years, and my back hurt so bad. I was also discouraged by the fact that I didn’t have magnets to attach to the shooter just to grab small metal objects. But then I got this fantasy about how some mechanisms work, even things like guns. I mean it was just pure curiosity about their mechanism (not to harm anyone) and the gun toys looked so cool. I watched youtubers DIYed cool useless cardboard guns and things like “How guns work”, “The mechanism of guns…” animations just to make a DIY gun toy. I asked my friend to take on this challenging task with me, to craft a cardboard Minigun. “We could use them to shoot at cola cans, it’ll be fun sis let’s see who has better aim”. And she was like, “Are you stupid? We can’t take the rotating motor from my dad’s drill. I’m gonna be grounded.” Plus, we would have had to deal with electricity, so I suggested the cardboard Russian roulette - smaller and didn’t require motors or electricity. We were excited to gather materials and discarded cardboard, printing template sheets. The day finally came, my house officially became our secret base, and we did this in the morning so my parents wouldn’t know. The first step was, again, boring: cutting cardboard. This time was much more difficult due to the terrible cutters and low-quality cardboard. The problem is that the cutter was so broken, I felt like pushing a massive rock up a steep slope and arm-wrestling Hulk while cutting the cardboard. We messed up the whole sections; some pieces weren’t properly cut according to the template. Deep talk? No. We talked trash. It was fun, though. We competed to see who cut faster. I was hopeless, but when we finished the grip and the trigger, we felt like we had just invented the first light bulb. We looked at each other with naive eyes, thinking that we might have made it, because when we assembled the parts together, it actually felt like pulling a real trigger. It might have been because somehow we finally understood a little bit of the trigger’s mechanism that we were so happy. However, it still was not 100% smooth, there were some parts stuck together, probably because we cut them carelessly. After efforts to make amends to the wrong parts, they fell apart and we completely messed up the whole thing this time. Our backs also hurt a lot. She told me that this is another level of engineering, and that we were just students. As a result, we gave up. I hated the boys in my class who could do the hydraulic robotic arm and successfully introduced it to everyone. I mean I envied them. We did try again with something simpler like table hockey for the kids in my neighborhood. It was a shame that we ended up busy with school and prep for the high school entrance exam, so we didn’t have time for that anymore. I still love watching the mechanism of machines like fans, lockers, etc. in vain, hoping that some day I’ll be able to have a proper mechanical project.

]]> 2025-09-14 14:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/student242729/hreutjdbhscnk976/wish/3583834789 MAXIM student242729 https://padlet.com/student242729/hreutjdbhscnk976/wish/3747736795 Example 1:

Journalist : Who are you? 

Ned : Ned Leeds. Spider-Man's best friend. 

Flash Thompson : I'm Peter Parker's best friend. You come at my boy, you come at Flash Thompson. If you wanna read about our inspiring friendship, you can in my new book, Flashpoint. One spider, two hearts, a million crazy-ass memories. Check it out. 


Flash Thompson’s answer is an example of Flouting Maxim of Quantity because he gives unnecessary information about his book. The reason Flash Thompson flouts the maxim is to give information that he has an inspiring book about his friendship and suggest the journalist read his book.



Example 2:

Peter Parker arrived at home and had a conversation with Aunt May & Uncle Ben.

[later at home with his aunt, referring to his beat up looking face]

Aunt May: Oh, my God! What happened to your face?

Peter Parker: Oh, I'm alright. I just...I fell, skating. It's alright.


Peter lied to her aunt because he didn't want aunt May to be worried of him by having injuries in his face. In this case, Peter violates the maxim rules of quality because he didn't tell the truth about the real condition. He was injured because Flash, his friend, hit him, not because falling in skating as he said.

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