https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur Janet Kiri Yidi en-us 2017-10-20 23:11:19 UTC 2017-10-21 13:48:46 UTC hello@padlet.com JanetGao https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199225886 Escape from Raqqa: how my three-year ordeal in the Isis stronghold ended

Tim Ramadan

]]> 2017-10-20 23:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199225886 JanetGao https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199225892 flicker (v.):
Original: The flames of the candles flickered with the breeze that came in through a hole created by shell damage to the house......
My own sentence: Looking through the window I saw the flicker of flames.
flick: strike with fingers.
Synonyms: flash, gleam, shimmer.

vow (v.n.):
Original: After vowing that I would stay until the fall of Raqqa, I feel sadness at missing the moment when the black flags were taken down and the hated Isis were driven out. 
My own sentence: We should vow to protect the environment because we only have one earth.
vower: the people who make promises.
Synonyms: assertions, pledge


volatile (adj.):
Original: The situation remains volatile inside Raqqa, with Kurdish-led fighters still clearing militants and landmines.
My own sentence: Alcohol is easy to volatile if it exposures in the air.
volatility:  evaporate quickly, not stable
Synonyms: eruptive, unstable, unsettled.

]]> 2017-10-20 23:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199225892 JanetGao https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199225899 Discipline: Narrative
Summary: The author basically describe a special experience as a Syrian journalist based in Raqqa, a place fraught with gunfires and endangered by ISIS . He met a family including mother, father and their four children. Even though one of the kids got serious illness, the father did not want to take the risk to take all of four children to flee because he did want make all of them in danger. However, the author decided to help the family to escape from Raqqa in order to treat his son. They began to flee before the sun rise. Running with big fear under the danger of shot, they arrived the safe area and got treatment for the boy. The experience strengthened the author's ambition to go back to Raqqa, even though there was still full of danger.
Response: There are so many descriptions in this narrative, because the author is a journalist and his task is to observe and state what he saw and experienced. The author directly starts his narrative with some background descriptions that takes the readers into the setting. To describe food they ate in the Raqqa house, he successfully introduces the dilemma in the Raqqa. When he talks about the process he took the family to flee, he describes the environment and their movements that reflects their intense emotions and let the readers be engaged in the situation.

DQs: 1) What do you think about author's job? 
2) Have you ever experienced a frightening situation? How did you deal with it? 
3) Do you agree that to help those people in danger is the duty for everyone in the world? What can you do for them?]]> 2017-10-20 23:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199225899 cydchen https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228099 baffle(v.):
Original: .....a response that baffled everyone, for now could a man not be hungry in Raqqa?
My own sentence: Sometimes, the math question baffles me a lot.
Baffle(n.) : a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy.
Syn: perplex, stick

]]> 2017-10-21 00:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228099 https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228125 military(n):
Original:The conversation moved to the military developments and where the battle lines had reached.
militaristic(adj)
Definition:imbued with militarism.
My own sentence:The military regime in power was unpopular and repressive.
Synonyms: armed forces]]> 2017-10-21 00:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228125 kiribi1202 https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228386 military(n)
Original:The conversation moved to the military developments and where the battle lines had reached.
militaristic(adj.)
Definition:associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians.
My own sentence:The military regime in power was unpopular and repressive.
Synonyms: armed forces.

]]> 2017-10-21 00:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228386 kiribi1202 https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228561 preordain(v)
Original:Whatever God has preordained will happen.
Definition:foreordain or determine beforehand
My own sentence: Illness and suffering seemed preordained to be her lot.
Synonyms:Predetermine]]> 2017-10-21 00:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228561 kiribi1202 https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228755 Response: After reading this article, the atmosphere become somber. I was wondering the lives of refugees for many times, but this was the first time I get to know them. What they went through and what they carried on. In Raqqa, people spend a hard time just for living. And thinking back what I have now, I feel like I really appreciate the life that I am living now.
Answer1: As far as I am concerned, I think the author's job is really cool. One hand, he let us know the cruel world in Raqqa. We can feel the helplessness in refugees' heart. On the other hand, It makes us appreciate more about the life we are living now.
Answer2: I met with the earthquake when I was in Japan in 2013. Different from the frightened situation in Raqqa, people in Japan is very calm, and they help each other selflessly.

]]> 2017-10-21 00:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199228755 cydchen https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199229990 astonishment(n.)
Original: He looked at me in astonishment, asking me if I was joking or serious.
My own sentence: To my astonishment, he ate 7 plates of food.
astonish(v.): to surprise someone very much.
Syn: miration, stound.

]]> 2017-10-21 00:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199229990 cydchen https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199230311 1)  Every job has its own duty. The author’s job is to record and show the world the true situation in Raqqa. He is very brave and conscientious that he wa under the war and tried his best to rescue and give a family hope.
2) I have not experienced a frightening situation. But I always think about such situation before I fell asleep. If I were in such situation, I would try to make myself calm down first and analyze the current situation, and to find out the solution that could make me get rid of it.]]> 2017-10-21 00:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/JanetGao/w3d3affgdgur/wish/199230311