Maroon 5 Daylight

"Daylight" by Maroon 5 is currently (week 06, 2013) in the HOT100 Billboard charts at position 14.

Here I am waiting, I’ll have to leave soon, why am I holdin’ on
We knew this day would come, we knew it all along
How did it come so fast
This is our last night, but it’s late and I’m tryin’ not to sleep
‘Cuz I know, when I wake I will have to slip away

And when the daylight comes I’ll have to go
But, tonight I’m ‘gonna hold you so close
‘Cuz in the daylight, we’ll be on our own
But, tonight I need to hold you so close

Oh whoa, oh whoa, oh whoa
Oh whoa, oh whoa, oh whoa

Here I am starring, at your perfection in my arms; so beautiful.
The sky is getting bright, the stars are burnin’ out.
Somebody slow it down.
This is way too hard, ‘cuz I know when the sun comes up I will leave
This is my last glance that will soon be memories

And when the daylight comes I’ll have to go
But, tonight I’m ‘gonna hold you so close
‘Cuz in the daylight, we’ll be on our own
But, tonight I need to hold you so close

Oh whoa, oh whoa, oh whoa
Oh whoa, oh whoa, oh whoa

I never wanted to stop, because I don’t want to start all over, start all over
I was afraid of the dark, but now it’s all that I want, all that I want, all that I want

And when the daylight comes I’ll have to go
But, tonight I’m ‘gonna hold you so close
‘Cuz in the daylight, we’ll be on our own
But, tonight I need to hold you so close

And when the daylight comes I’ll have to go
But, tonight I’m ‘gonna hold you so close
‘Cuz in the daylight, we’ll be on our own
But, tonight I need to hold you so close

Oh whoa, oh whoa, oh whoa
Oh whoa, oh whoa, oh whoa
Oh whoa, (yeah) oh whoa, (yeah) oh whoa (yeah) (yeah)
Oh whoa, (yeah hey) oh whoa, (yeah hey) oh whoa

I know there are something...

I know there are some things you can't 

change. I know there are some situations

 where apologies hold no bearings. I know 

that twists of fate bring people together, And 

sometimes Everything happens for a reason

 can tear them apart. I know that I will never

 forget you, for you will always have a place

 in my heart.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When your interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When your committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.–Kenneth Blanchard

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains–Anne Frank

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right–Henry Ford

It always seems impossible until it’s done–Nelson Mandela

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on–Alan H. Cohen

How Sweet

how sweet they are!

Sample of Character Analysis

    

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

             I chose Allison “Allie” Hamilton and Tilo to analyze their characters from the novel “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks and “The Mistress of Spices” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Allie has a sweet yet vulnerable personality but she conquers all just to be happy and be together with the love of her life. She symbolized the development of real love from a potential summer fling through a tough decision to a career-creating relationship that yields children who are the product of that committed love. Her relationship with Noah reveals the essence of true love where one is able to develop one's own talents, skills, and abilities. Allie is able to develop as an artist, and a better character, because of Noah's love for her. Yet, she is not dependent solely on Noah, for she makes important decisions she chooses to seek him out, she chooses him over Lon, and she chooses to write an emotional, an insightful letter to Noah in order help him deal with her illness. The end of their love story is tragically altered by Allie’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, but even that has no power over their love. While Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. She has the ability of foreseeing the future. Her parents were killed and she was kidnapped by the bandits but escapes and is raised by the First Mother in a sort of traditional cult of spices. She becomes the Mistress of Spices and is sent to the Spice Bazaar in San Francisco.

Allie is a protagonist in the novel since she is the partner of Noah. They are very much in love, but nearly lose each other because of societal influences. They ultimately find the courage and the strength to be with each other. I include Anne, “Allie’s mother” as the antagonist. Although she works to keep Noah and Allie apart, she cannot be considered a villain because she is the way why those letters reveal to Allie. Anne represents the difficulties that many parents have when trying to steer their children to adulthood. She attempts to atone for earlier mistakes, first by preparing Allie for Lon's impending visit, then by offering her support without being pushy. I can also consider Anne as catalyst because by giving the letters to Allie the situation changed. Eventually she encourages Allie to follow her heart.

 On the other hand, Tilo is a protagonist in the novel “The Mistress of Spices”. She become as the mistress of spices and helps her costumers to satisfy their needs and desires, such as protecting against from the evil eye. She gives everything she can, through the help of spices.

Allie, the daughter of an affluent parents, she comes from privilege and has been tutored to prepare her for an Ivy League University. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, has a main weakness in her family. She is being controlled by her parents. She got flaws that really made her suffered in a long time. And that is, engaged to another man, but as time passes by she realizes that the original passion she felt from Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape.

On the other side, Tilo is a young woman who has the ability of foreseeing the future. She has a weakness in love. Why in love? Because as she met Doug, an American and an architect, her life takes a turn on that moment. She feels romantic attraction. Her life changes when Doug touches her and begins to fall in love to each other. But because of that, she begins breaking the rules. She got flaws in that matter which makes her costumers complain about the bad things happen to their family.

             Allie’s core goal is to be an artist and to be with her one and only love Noah. But her parents are against with their relationship. When Allie is being apart from Noah and found another love from Lon, she always thinks Noah and remembers how sweet their love was. Her parents love Lon because he is a young lawyer who is handsome, sophisticated, charming and comes from old Southern money. Eventually, she sacrificed Lon just to be with Noah. She is confused but willing to fight her love for him even though her marriage with Lon will be complicated.

            While Tilo’s core goal is to help her Indian brothers and sisters from any circumstances that may come anytime. Even those strangers who are badly need a help like Doug. At the very first time, she sacrificed her own desire for the spices. She is willing to give herself to the spices but fortunately the spices are good enough to understand the desire of Tilo that they cannot give. The spices give way for Tilo without taking back the ability of foreseeing the future.  

 Being apart from Noah and her mother’s opposition, she continues to study and doing many things to forget Noah because she thinks that he doesn’t care or even writing letter to her. Allie becomes a volunteer in a hospital for wounded soldiers, where she meets an officer named Lon. Nobody reminds her that she likes to paint or she is an artist. Allie remains humble and happy despite her heart is aching and the back of her mind she still loves Noah. She gets along well with her mother and father; she has many friends and living in the high class family. She got that kind of job though she is capable of doing pleasurable thing towards herself since she is a daughter of rich family. While Tilo get pressured when she noticed the consecutive flaws of her spices. A lot of complain, murmur and mock she encountered from her costumers but she still continue serving them even though she has in her heart that is so hard to give up.

The symbolism and motifs in the novels (“The Notebook” and “The Mistress of Spices”) are: The letters are a recording of their feelings for one another, memories together, and their time apart. The letters symbolize their true love for each other in the past and the present. They will forget how much they love each other because it is recorded on paper. The letters being kept represent them never throwing their relationship away.  The Nature, which I believe that through this quote Noah had thought about the days and nights that Noah and Allie had spent together, just surviving and loving each other in nature with no technology needed. Noah remains to live without this, and probably continues to wonder what Allie is doing, and if she has changed. Swans are birds that mate for life and once they have a partner they will never leave their side. Noah and Allie are like this in that they fell and love and both of them know that they never really stopped loving on another. When the birds are forced to move away, they are bothered, this is also like Noah and Allie's relationship because they are forced to move away from each other because of social status, but never lost love. The spices, which symbolizes the real and pure love of Tilo and Doug. They found love in a romantic situation because of the spices. They found the real love which comprises a lot of unexpected things which both of them have shared in the end. It puts up the confident and sweetness of love which reveals whenever you once triggered. Like Tilo, she is beautiful creature that sleeps in a long time and the trails that widely awake her was the presence of Doug.   

The Notebook happened in 1940’s, that people differentiate the rich and the poor. The women must follow their parent’s command and aspiration. Men almost have no choice and enlist to fight in World War II. If a rich young woman will fall in love to the poor young man, the woman’s parents will definitely hinder their love. Men know how to build houses by their hands and content of what they have. Compare to the people in the 21^st century, we have freedom to choose our love and things to do in our lives. Many technologies could acquire the needs and wants of the people. There are new laws to defend people’s rights. Unlike to The Mistress of Spices (2005), it happened in the present. Perhaps, the novel is much more precise and modernizes in the way it presents its content. Tilo and Doug meet just once but there is already sparks both of them. They haven’t involved their parents unlike to The Notebook. They just allow destiny interfere their future and owned their desires. It portrays the modernize image of love and expectation to it. It is eligible to show up the reality of love today. It is prevalent to say love at first sight like in the novel.

Despite of Noah and Allie’s struggles they are still together. Allie doesn’t indecisive in following her heart because she knows that’s her happiness-to be Noah. She leaves Lon and makes a choice that would last forever. She won’t remember anything. Allie forgot everything that makes her relapse and panic. Fortunately, Allie got into herself and able to converse Noah about their feeling towards each other. Eventually, after a moment of time they died with ecstasy in their both hearts because before they lose their breath there still sparks in both hearts and able to fascinate the world of love. “Allie questions Noah about what will happen to them when she won't be able to remember anything anymore, and he reassures her that he will never leave her. She asks him if he thinks their love for each other is strong enough to "take them away together"; he replies that he thinks their love could do anything”.

            At the side of Tilo, she fulfills her own desire by the allowance of spices to be with her love and only love Doug. She tries to follow what is right for the spices but they (the spices) are looking forward to the pleasure of Tilo. Her feeling is like a blast. Blow up the feeling of solitude and get up from the coffin of loneliness and prepared the life that is really for her.  

 (I)Allie is very fortunate of having Noah in her life. Noah is the prototype of what women desire in a man. He has these characteristics to win Allie’s heart and men should have these: 1.) Men who are willing to makes fools of themselves to show how much they want to be with you. The power of the public grand gesture. 2.) Men who do the loving thing even when it hurts. Noah wrote Allie for a year without a response. This shows us that your hopes aren't easily shattered, and even after it all, you are not bitter. 3.) Men who esteem themselves not because of worldly accomplishments but in the accomplishment of loving another deeply. 4.) Men who would tell the truth, risk hurting your (girls) feelings, and fight with rather than withdraw and brush issues under the rug to preserve peace. 5.) Men who are realists. They believe that it will take work and that it will be hard. Love is work; it isn't leisure. They don't buy into an easy, pain-free "happily ever after." It shows us that you are in it with earthly expectations and that you are not just in love with the high of being in love. It shows us that you are willing to work at love and that hard times will not make you hardened. And lastly, 6.) Men who really want “till deaths do us part”. Forever isn't scary; commitment isn't scary. We want to believe that it is natural to want forever, to want commitment because it's with us.

No matter how independent and self-sufficient we are, it is still nice to be looked after and to be loved unconditionally. It provides a sense of security, similar to that of when we were young and our parents looked after us. In the film, Noah loves Allie at her best and at her worst and he stands by her no matter what. The film literally takes the traditional marriage vows and has Noah live by example with them 'in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer'. To see that he has stood by her like this makes women melt at the knees. However, it is important to remember that the film leaves out a good portion of their lives together, to which, who knows what happened between them.

I learned from Tilo how passionate and loyal she was (to the spices). Since the novel has a slight part of cult but still I admired Tilo. I want to be like her, whatever circumstances will try to hinder there still the faith and loyalty to my God. Nothing will change and ready to offer myself just to please the Mighty One. No matter how hard it is but all you can do is to accept and stick on it. Like what the spices did, they gave Tilo what is really for her. So, God won’t hesitant in giving our desire if we just serious and have faith on it to achieve and to be given by Him. Also God will give if we have good desire.

The both novels have changed my opinion because I do believe now that Love conquers all. Although this idea is sometimes overworked, in this particular work, it is the most prevalent theme of all. The only thing that I didn’t like from the story was why people or parents hinder their offspring’s love and why there is hinder if in the end you still be the winner or in the end you still have what you wanted.

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Subject-Verb Agreement

Basic Principle: Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs. My brother is a nutritionist. My sisters are mathematicians.

See the section on Plurals for additional help with subject-verb agreement.

The indefinite pronouns anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody are always singular and, therefore, require singular verbs.

• Everyone has done his or her homework.
• Somebody has left her purse.

Some indefinite pronouns — such as all, some — are singular or plural depending on what they're referring to. (Is the thing referred to countable or not?) Be careful choosing a verb to accompany such pronouns.

• Some of the beads are missing.
• Some of the water is gone.

On the other hand, there is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb — unless something else in the sentence determines its number. (Writers generally think of none as meaning not any and will choose a plural verb, as in "None of the engines are working," but when something else makes us regard none as meaning not one, we want a singular verb, as in "None of the food is fresh.")

• None of you claims responsibility for this incident?
• None of you claim responsibility for this incident?
• None of the students have done their homework. (In this last example, the word their precludes the use of the singular verb.

Some indefinite pronouns are particularly troublesome Everyone and everybody (listed above, also) certainly feel like more than one person and, therefore, students are sometimes tempted to use a plural verb with them. They are always singular, though. Each is often followed by a prepositional phrase ending in a plural word (Each of the cars), thus confusing the verb choice. Each, too, is always singular and requires a singular verb.

Everyone has finished his or her homework.

You would always say, "Everybody is here." This means that the word is singular and nothing will change that.

Each of the students is responsible for doing his or her work in the library.

Don't let the word "students" confuse you; the subject is each and each is always singular — Each is responsible.

Phrases such as together with, as well as, and along with are not the same as and. The phrase introduced by as well as or along with will modify the earlier word (mayor in this case), but it does not compound the subjects (as the word and would do).

• The mayor as well as his brothers is going to prison.
• The mayor and his brothers are going to jail.

The pronouns neither and either are singular and require singular verbs even though they seem to be referring, in a sense, to two things.

• Neither of the two traffic lights is working.
• Which shirt do you want for Christmas?
  Either is fine with me.

In informal writing, neither and either sometimes take a plural verb when these pronouns are followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with of. This is particularly true of interrogative constructions: "Have either of you two clowns read the assignment?" "Are either of you taking this seriously?" Burchfield calls this "a clash between notional and actual agreement."*

The conjunction or does not conjoin (as and does): when nor or or is used the subject closer to the verb determines the number of the verb. Whether the subject comes before or after the verb doesn't matter; the proximity determines the number.

• Either my father or my brothers are going to sell the house.
• Neither my brothers nor my father is going to sell the house.
• Are either my brothers or my father responsible?
• Is either my father or my brothers responsible?

Because a sentence like "Neither my brothers nor my father is going to sell the house" sounds peculiar, it is probably a good idea to put the plural subject closer to the verb whenever that is possible.

The words there and here are never subjects.

• There are two reasons [plural subject] for this.
• There is no reason for this.
• Here are two apples.

With these constructions (called expletive constructions), the subject follows the verb but still determines the number of the verb.

Verbs in the present tense for third-person, singular subjects (he, she, it and anything those words can stand for) have s-endings. Other verbs do not add s-endings.

He loves and she loves and they love_ and . . . .

Sometimes modifiers will get betwen a subject and its verb, but these modifiers must not confuse the agreement between the subject and its verb.

The mayor, who has been convicted along with his four brothers on four counts of various crimes but who also seems, like a cat, to have several political lives, is finally going to jail.

Sometimes nouns take weird forms and can fool us into thinking they're plural when they're really singular and vice-versa. Consult the section on the Plural Forms of Nouns and the section on Collective Nouns for additional help. Words such as glasses, pants, pliers, and scissors are regarded as plural (and require plural verbs) unless they're preceded the phrase pair of (in which case the word pair becomes the subject).

• My glasses were on the bed.
• My pants were torn.
• A pair of plaid trousers is in the closet.

Some words end in -s and appear to be plural but are really singular and require singular verbs.

• The news from the front is bad.
• Measles is a dangerous disease for pregnant women.

On the other hand, some words ending in -s refer to a single thing but are nonetheless plural and require a plural verb.

• My assets were wiped out in the depression.
• The average worker's earnings have gone up dramatically.
• Our thanks go to the workers who supported the union.

The names of sports teams that do not end in "s" will take a plural verb: the Miami Heat have been looking … , The Connecticut Sun are hoping that new talent … . See the section on plurals for help with this problem.

Fractional expressions such as half of, a part of, a percentage of, a majority of are sometimes singular and sometimes plural, depending on the meaning. (The same is true, of course, when all, any, more, most and some act as subjects.) Sums and products of mathematical processes are expressed as singular and require singular verbs. The expression "more than one" (oddly enough) takes a singular verb: "More than one student has tried this."

• Some of the voters are still angry.
• A large percentage of the older population is voting against her.
• Two-fifths of the troops were lost in the battle.
• Two-fifths of the vineyard was destroyed by fire.
• Forty percent of the students are in favor of changing the policy.
• Forty percent of the student body is in favor of changing the policy.
• Two and two is four.
• Four times four divided by two is eight.

If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject.

• The department members but not the chair have decided not to teach on Valentine's Day.
• It is not the faculty members but the president who decides this issue.
• It was the speaker, not his ideas, that has provoked the students to riot.