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| A picture that helps display what is going through kaelyns Mind as this story concludes. |
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Conclusion BLOG#6
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
ISU blog post #5
Article: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10800
why I chose this Article?
I chose this article because it is an article about an unusual and forgotten part of society. In modern day society we in our mind believe as if the world is all connected as one, as if all countries are modernized but this articles helps us see otherwise. In the article they talk about an island that has never ever had any forms of communication with the modern world, keeping it totally isolated. Due to this isolation it is hard for these islanders to accept that other people from around the world should be welcomed on their land, so in ways they attack in attempts to defend whats rightly theirs. When they are met with these people from the outside world, they attack the authors and in attempts to defend themselves continue to attack and threaten the author due to the fear of them taking over their land. This article describes how isolation can lead to severe aggression towards others.
How it relates to my article?
In my article it relates by showing the aggression people have become possessed with due to the fact they are isolated. On the island they have had generations on generations live their, and for a couple of people come with what seemed alien technology (e.g. a helicopter and camera) they are very surprised and in fear of an attack, so in their minds best way to resolute the problem is to attack them so they will not arrive. On the other hand, the novel shows aggression towards each other due to the fact they have been isolated, its a battle between one another. The people break into one another homes, business and anything that seem valuable in order for their families to survive.In the article however the island works as a team in order to fight off these unknown strangers and achieve success. In the novel though, the people team up in different ways, such as Tracey and kaelyn teaming up in order to help Kaeyln father uncover a vaccine in order to fight of this virus. When tracey tells Kaelyn " This is not a game anymore, its a fight for survival and we are the ones surviving." and this quote reveals just how serious this so called small virus was getting and was only leading to more isolation and aggression of the people of the island was just to protect themselves just like the islanders did.
why I chose this Article?
I chose this article because it is an article about an unusual and forgotten part of society. In modern day society we in our mind believe as if the world is all connected as one, as if all countries are modernized but this articles helps us see otherwise. In the article they talk about an island that has never ever had any forms of communication with the modern world, keeping it totally isolated. Due to this isolation it is hard for these islanders to accept that other people from around the world should be welcomed on their land, so in ways they attack in attempts to defend whats rightly theirs. When they are met with these people from the outside world, they attack the authors and in attempts to defend themselves continue to attack and threaten the author due to the fear of them taking over their land. This article describes how isolation can lead to severe aggression towards others.
How it relates to my article?
In my article it relates by showing the aggression people have become possessed with due to the fact they are isolated. On the island they have had generations on generations live their, and for a couple of people come with what seemed alien technology (e.g. a helicopter and camera) they are very surprised and in fear of an attack, so in their minds best way to resolute the problem is to attack them so they will not arrive. On the other hand, the novel shows aggression towards each other due to the fact they have been isolated, its a battle between one another. The people break into one another homes, business and anything that seem valuable in order for their families to survive.In the article however the island works as a team in order to fight off these unknown strangers and achieve success. In the novel though, the people team up in different ways, such as Tracey and kaelyn teaming up in order to help Kaeyln father uncover a vaccine in order to fight of this virus. When tracey tells Kaelyn " This is not a game anymore, its a fight for survival and we are the ones surviving." and this quote reveals just how serious this so called small virus was getting and was only leading to more isolation and aggression of the people of the island was just to protect themselves just like the islanders did.
Sunday, 19 April 2015
ISU Blog #4: Over Populated hospitals
Article: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/hospital-attacked-in-india-after-car-crash-victims-arrive-to-find-no-doctors-1.2335714
Why did I choose this article?
This article was chosen due to the similarities it posed to the novel in events of an unexpected illness and a non supporting hospital. This article explains how in a remote city in India, an accident had occurred which involved a school bus full of children. In the event of the bus getting involved in an accident, nearby witnesses decide to take actions towards a hospital once they found out there was no body that could help these children in critical condition. When the accident occurred, the hospital would not answer the calls for an ambulance to be displaced so instead nearby on lookers rushed the children to the hospital, and withing minutes it was obvious there was no doctors present at the hospital and it was basically closed. This is a great representation of showing how a government funded hospital was not operated in proper procedures and that many hard working citizens who had payed for this service with their tax money were in fact being scammed.
How this relates to my novel?
This relates with my novel because they both represent improper procedures in running a hospital and not providing the people in need with immediate health care. In the novel it was clear that the hospital was soon becoming over limit, the government would take no actions to set up a secondary hospital yet alone a temporary hospital in support of the demand. In both cases the people who are injured or diagnosed with the illness have only one form of surviving and that is to receive immediate medical care but since the hospital had not properly been set up for an outbreak it was completely the governments duty to finding a way to resolute the problem that would actually save peoples lives. In India when the local citizens found out that the hospital in which they had been funding numerous amounts of money towards and turned out to be a scam, the citizens were up roared and decided to riot towards it throwing rocks and burning the vehicles nearby leading to complete chaos. In the novel the same occurs once the hospital reaches full capacity, and people were refused entry the people would throw a complete chaos due to the fact the government would not set up another hospital to supply demands and has in fact quarantined the island not allowing anyone to leave the island in hopes of receiving medical assistance. It is extremely disappointing in both cases because in an event of an emergency these people have put faith towards their government that they would be there to help support the situation but to find out they are left on their own without any assistance it creates an up roar amongst the people normally leading to riots. In the novel people would throw flares towards the hospital in tempts of burning it down, and some would use weapons such as axes and bats to break in for entry which would only worsen the situation and in India locals would protest on what an outrage the government caused by blocking traffic and destroying the unused hospital. In the articles case the government was able to hear about the outrage they had caused and worked on creating a resolution in hopes of preventing it from happening again, but in the novels case the government had cut off all communications from the island making it impossible for the head personable in charge, Kealyn's dad, to communicate with the mainland so that they could assist in controlling the situation. In both cases there were gruesome events that had to be taken place due to the fact the government had failed in supporting the people in an unfortunate yet critical situation .
Why did I choose this article?
This article was chosen due to the similarities it posed to the novel in events of an unexpected illness and a non supporting hospital. This article explains how in a remote city in India, an accident had occurred which involved a school bus full of children. In the event of the bus getting involved in an accident, nearby witnesses decide to take actions towards a hospital once they found out there was no body that could help these children in critical condition. When the accident occurred, the hospital would not answer the calls for an ambulance to be displaced so instead nearby on lookers rushed the children to the hospital, and withing minutes it was obvious there was no doctors present at the hospital and it was basically closed. This is a great representation of showing how a government funded hospital was not operated in proper procedures and that many hard working citizens who had payed for this service with their tax money were in fact being scammed.
How this relates to my novel?
This relates with my novel because they both represent improper procedures in running a hospital and not providing the people in need with immediate health care. In the novel it was clear that the hospital was soon becoming over limit, the government would take no actions to set up a secondary hospital yet alone a temporary hospital in support of the demand. In both cases the people who are injured or diagnosed with the illness have only one form of surviving and that is to receive immediate medical care but since the hospital had not properly been set up for an outbreak it was completely the governments duty to finding a way to resolute the problem that would actually save peoples lives. In India when the local citizens found out that the hospital in which they had been funding numerous amounts of money towards and turned out to be a scam, the citizens were up roared and decided to riot towards it throwing rocks and burning the vehicles nearby leading to complete chaos. In the novel the same occurs once the hospital reaches full capacity, and people were refused entry the people would throw a complete chaos due to the fact the government would not set up another hospital to supply demands and has in fact quarantined the island not allowing anyone to leave the island in hopes of receiving medical assistance. It is extremely disappointing in both cases because in an event of an emergency these people have put faith towards their government that they would be there to help support the situation but to find out they are left on their own without any assistance it creates an up roar amongst the people normally leading to riots. In the novel people would throw flares towards the hospital in tempts of burning it down, and some would use weapons such as axes and bats to break in for entry which would only worsen the situation and in India locals would protest on what an outrage the government caused by blocking traffic and destroying the unused hospital. In the articles case the government was able to hear about the outrage they had caused and worked on creating a resolution in hopes of preventing it from happening again, but in the novels case the government had cut off all communications from the island making it impossible for the head personable in charge, Kealyn's dad, to communicate with the mainland so that they could assist in controlling the situation. In both cases there were gruesome events that had to be taken place due to the fact the government had failed in supporting the people in an unfortunate yet critical situation .
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| The scene in which locals burned the fraudulent Hospital |
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Journal Entry & Characters chart
Characters
chart:
Bernard:
·
Bully
·
Does
not like when people disobey his orders or go against him
·
Does
not show sympathy toward Ender
Rose the Nose:
· Enders commander in the rat army
·He tries to control Ender before letting finally realizing Ender should not be controlled.
· Enders commander in the rat army
·He tries to control Ender before letting finally realizing Ender should not be controlled.
Alai:
·
Bridge
Between Ender and Bernard
·
Bernards
“Best friend”
·
Practices
with Bernard and the launchies in the battle room
Bozno:
·
Leader
of the salamander Army
·
Hates
Ender because he is no use for his army and wants to get rid of him
Petra
Arkanian:
·
A
girl in the Salamander army
·
The
best shooter in the salamander army
·
Helps
ender learn to shoot by privately training him
Dink:
·
Enders platoon leader in the rat army.
·
Helps
train ender
Mazer Rackam:
·
The
one who defeated the buggers
·
Known
to be the best commander of all time
·
Was
the one who helped defeat the Buggers last war
· Respects Ender a lot and despite not showing any compassion towards him, Mazer is fully interested in Ender and does love him.
· Respects Ender a lot and despite not showing any compassion towards him, Mazer is fully interested in Ender and does love him.
Ender:
·
6
Year old boy who is the third child and has two sibling( Peter his older
brother and valentine his older sister)
·
He
is currently enrolled in battle school
·
Was
in the salamander army but was later on traded for Rat Army.
Meeting a person from a foreign
country could be a very exciting experience. By meeting a Person from a foreign
country I would be able to share my experiences. In grade 8 I had met a kid who
had come from China. By meeting the kid I was able to interact to him and talk
about what is was like to come to Canada. Being from China, the boy had a very
unique yet difficult to understand accent which made it somewhat hard to communicate.
By interacting with the kid I was able to learn about how it is to live in
China. He told me off all the great places in china, and since he lived near
China’s capital; Hong Kong, he told me about how hard it was to get from one
place to another due to the tremendous traffic. He also described how in Hong
Kong, there would always be smog in the air which would make it hard to
see. I asked him why he moved to Canada
and he told me that in China there was a lack of jobs in his dad’s profession
so his dad wanted to find a country where he could easily get a decent paying
job and have a better living standard. He told me also that his dad was fed up
with the fact that it took near 45 minutes for him to travel to the local
market and his school because of the large traffic density and grid lock. His
family decided to immigrate to Canada once his dad had got a job at Hydro one,
meaning they would sell everything back in china and come to Canada to start a
new life. When he asked what was unique about Canada I had told him about all
the cool stuff that you could do in Brampton let alone Ontario. Our school
offered a trip during the winter where we would travel to horseshoe valley and
go skiing, skating and even tubing which would be very exciting for him considering
he would have never seen snow before and it would be his first time
participating in such activities. Since
he came from a religious family he told us how his city would offer this
tremendous parade celebrating the new years (Chinese new years of course) and
how there would festivals and great religious festivities he would celebrate.
At the time I had heard about Chinese new year’s but have never really
understood why they separate new year’s being celebrated on January 1st with
their own separate date and he told me because Chinese New Year marks the first
day of the New Year in the Chinese New year’s which differs from the Gregorian calendar
and every year is represented by a different animal zodiac sign. It was very
interesting learning about how they would celebrate North American holidays
such as Halloween and Christmas. I had always wondered what it was like to live
in China considering I see a lot of "Made in China" items I wondered
if there would be a lot of factories rather than recreational centers and parks
and what not, but to my surprise I was wrong. Apparently many factories were
located in remote parts of China and away from densely populated areas so that
there would not be a lot of pollution and he told me it was quite similar to Canada
but rarely were there any houses just many apartment buildings. Him being new to our school he was able to share his fascinating stories among us and making sure he felt that he fit in with everyone and not be an outlier, being in a school environment, there were many other kids from a foreign country to, so it was easier for the kids to transition into being included and not feel as if they did not belong. It is a very
unique experience being able to communicate with a person from another country
and be able to communicate with them learning about what their life and country
was like.
Friday, 10 April 2015
Isu Blog Post #3
Why did I choose this article?
I chose this article due to the
similarities it poses to my novel. In my book a quarantine zone is set up for
the island, allowing no one to enter or leave, expect the authorized personnel.
In the article It describes how actions were being taken to make sure any
country known to have a case of Ebola it
would be essential to cut ties with it from the outside world. This was done to
ensure that a possible outbreak would not occur due to the extremely high level
of contamination and the ability to catch Ebola. In both the novel and the
article it explains how people were confused as to why such actions had to be
taken by the government, and was it really necessary that people who were perfectly
safe from the virus had to be contained in the same area as the infected. In
the article the severe outbreak illness is Ebola, and in the novel its a
mystery illness but both have their similarities. Ebola and the mystery illness
kill humans within a certain time period, the symptoms are almost identical and
the chaos caused is very similar. This article helps connect back to my novel
with many similarities.
How it connects to the social issue of my
novel?
It connects to
the social issue in my novel by explaining how one outbreak can cause so much
chaos and turn a discreet island into a quarantined mayhem causing isolation. Since both article
and novel seem to be talking about how creating quarantine would be a great
solution to isolate them from the illness, the only problem of that is being
isolated from the rest of the world. In the novel it’s a fight for survival,
and food because the government has left the small island all by itself without
any support and created total chaos. Africa being a continent with a vast amount of land but very little development it is hard for them to ensure that they can resolve the issue, just like in the novel the Island at which the story takes place is a very old, classic island where everything is either under developed or very limited resources. In both cases it creates more of a issue because being isolated it is harder to keep resources abundant, and ensure that there is enough support to resolve the issue because everyone is left on their own. In Africa many doctors had to be sent from around the world to help cope with the vast expansion of the illness in hopes of creating a cure, but in the novel Kaelyns dad is the only one who has any education on medical and being one of the only three people on the island who even have a chance at recovering a cure it is increasing difficult because they do not receive support from the mainland(Government).Easy tasks such as communicating to other places outside of the area and having connection to the internet and TV are all seized from the quarantined island in hopes of cutting ties with them, and in Africa many countries already have very limited communication considering the countries mainly decide what the citizens are allowed to view. When Kaelyn and her friend Tessa are attempting to find a way to solve this issue before everyone on the island dies, she goes beyond her way to communicate with the governments in hope of a resolution, also what the citizens of Africa did when they found out they were being even more isolated than they already were. Surely in the countries of Africa being
quarantined, the same situation must have occurred due to the panic of people
and being isolated from the outside world leading people to believe they would
have to protect and survive by themselves.
Quote relating to my novel:
“No one can live entirely on their own, nor can
any country or society exist in isolation.”Daisaku Ikeda
( http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/isolation.html )
This quote is an
amazing way to summarize that isolation does not provide neither parties a successful
resolution to any issue. Isolating only means that the country is left to
survive on its own, which in today’s present world would me mere impossible
considering just how dependant every country is amongst themselves. People would
panic, considering they have heard of
how governments can just leave a whole country to survive on its own, by not
providing any more necessities such as food or healthcare. Connecting to the
book in both cases we can see that isolating both the island from the novel and
countries in general would only lead to chaos, and the destruction of a
developed society.
Picture relating to Novel:
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This picture shows a well developed
island, which I will be representing as a fully developed country, if an
isolation as shown above was to occur it would mean that this island has now
cut off all ties with any other country, which means that they must do everything
on their own. As time progresses even the most of developed countries will
eventually fall due to isolation, such as the island that was quarantined by
the government in the novel, leading it to eventually destroy itself. As shown below, this would be the likeliness of the isolated country into becoming ruins.
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Slam poetry
Death
It's everywhere, whether you accept it or whether you escape it's reality.
Does everyone really need to face ones consequences in order to be equal or is it fair for the innocent to be punished.
Isolation leads to nothing but discrimination, what good does either create towards humanity only leads to insanity.
When you feel is all well that's when people rebel, it is not your fault just assault on the government who are just covering their mistakes by shaking the living hell of the people.
Guns create violence, government creates sadness all because we want what they can not provide, is freedom so hard that it must create a beacon alerting the ones in charge that the citizens are on a dishonorable discharge.
Isolation is like a fish, without the sea, it is worth nothing much more than a snow pea but when a fish is within a group of dozens its worth more than just killing it.
people who stand up to the fight are the ones who show the most might, the ones fighting for their isolation to turn into intimation.
Depression, suppression and aggression are the forms progression because in the end the ones who fight will persevere.
Isolation leads to nothing but discrimination, what good does either create towards humanity only leads to insanity.
When you feel is all well that's when people rebel, it is not your fault just assault on the government who are just covering their mistakes by shaking the living hell of the people.
Guns create violence, government creates sadness all because we want what they can not provide, is freedom so hard that it must create a beacon alerting the ones in charge that the citizens are on a dishonorable discharge.
Isolation is like a fish, without the sea, it is worth nothing much more than a snow pea but when a fish is within a group of dozens its worth more than just killing it.
people who stand up to the fight are the ones who show the most might, the ones fighting for their isolation to turn into intimation.
Depression, suppression and aggression are the forms progression because in the end the ones who fight will persevere.
This poetry describes the emotions of what it would feel like to be isolated in the novel due to the government taking indecisive decisions, The ones who fight are the one who cause a change to the world which seems to be dead to many, some fight in order to provide freedom to the others.
Friday, 13 March 2015
Blog 1 for ISU
Article:http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-03-24-environmental-disasters-that-drive-nigerian-politics
Why did I choose this article?
I chose this article due to the similarities it poses to my novel. In my book there is a great up riot of chaos and aggression towards the government due to a mystery illness. In my article it describes how environmental disasters have caused great political and social issues in the country of Nigeria. It explains how actions were being taken by the political parties of Nigeria in ways of contributing to helping people who are facing these environmental disasters a form of relief, but in most cases the government has only led to aggression from the citizens. In both the novel and the article it explains how people were confused as to why such actions had to be taken by the government, and was it really necessary that people who were perfectly safe from the disasters had to face the consequences financially as well as socially.Violence and crime is at an all time high due to the lack of support being provided from the government in order for the Nigerians to provide themselves support, just as how in the novel the island is basically surviving for themselves. Due to lack of support we see that both Nigeria and the issue in my novel are equivalent with both having similar actions towards resolving the issue which include rioting, violence and outrages rebellion towards the government.
How it connects to the social issue of my novel?
This article connects to the social issue in my novel by explaining how one issue can cause so much chaos and turn a once populated and densely visited area into a isolated island with nothing but citizens living in fear. The social issue of my book and the article is lack of support from the government due to an environmental disaster. Since both article and novel seem to be talking about how violence and crime rates are rising is due to everyone feeling isolated and helpless, so people will do whatever it takes for themselves to survive wheter it be stealing, fighting or escaping they will do what is required in order to survive. In the novel its a fight for survival, and food because the government has left the small island all by itself without any support and created total chaos. surely in Nigeria the same must have occurred due to the panic of people and being isolated from the outside world leading people to believe they would have to protect and survive by themselves. In both cases an unexpected illness appears (in the article: malaria and other tropical illnesses, the novel: A mystery illness) and just like in the novel how the government attempted to help contain the problem by quarantining the area but supplying them with necessities. But in both cases, the citizens attempt to riot and protest over the fact they were being isolated, so the government decides to stop giving them support leaving them to survive for themselves. When Kaelyn and her friend Tessa are attempting to find a way to solve this issue before everyone on the island dies, she goes beyond her way to communicate with the governments in hope of a resolution, also what the citizens of North Korea did when they found out they were being even more isolated than they already were. Since the government leaves the citizens with a lack of support it is up to the few individuals ( Kaelyn, Tessa and Kaelyns dad, and the environmental scientists in the article) who are the ones ready to take on the risks and challenges to ensure that they will resolve the issue and in hopes of re-communicating with the government in hopes of uniting ties again and re-gaining the support.
Quote relating to my novel:
"This place is Hell’s waiting room."
— Steven Ramirez (Tell Me When I'm Dead)
This quote is very imaginable and connecting to both article and the novel by allowing us to picture a symbolic image of what it is really like to be quarantined. It explains how being quarantined is like hells waiting room, of course hell being used as a negative aspect describing no one really ever wants to wait in hell. With all that is going on it is only certain people in the novel believe there so called beautiful island is now hell.
Picture relating to Novel:
This picture hows how a dog is isolated from the rest of the world and how it is trapped from going out beyond the cage. The people who are quarantined are feeling the same way, they feel trapped and opposed to being trapped in a place where they are not allowed to leave. Isolation later on leads to great mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and stress.
Why did I choose this article?
I chose this article due to the similarities it poses to my novel. In my book there is a great up riot of chaos and aggression towards the government due to a mystery illness. In my article it describes how environmental disasters have caused great political and social issues in the country of Nigeria. It explains how actions were being taken by the political parties of Nigeria in ways of contributing to helping people who are facing these environmental disasters a form of relief, but in most cases the government has only led to aggression from the citizens. In both the novel and the article it explains how people were confused as to why such actions had to be taken by the government, and was it really necessary that people who were perfectly safe from the disasters had to face the consequences financially as well as socially.Violence and crime is at an all time high due to the lack of support being provided from the government in order for the Nigerians to provide themselves support, just as how in the novel the island is basically surviving for themselves. Due to lack of support we see that both Nigeria and the issue in my novel are equivalent with both having similar actions towards resolving the issue which include rioting, violence and outrages rebellion towards the government.
How it connects to the social issue of my novel?
This article connects to the social issue in my novel by explaining how one issue can cause so much chaos and turn a once populated and densely visited area into a isolated island with nothing but citizens living in fear. The social issue of my book and the article is lack of support from the government due to an environmental disaster. Since both article and novel seem to be talking about how violence and crime rates are rising is due to everyone feeling isolated and helpless, so people will do whatever it takes for themselves to survive wheter it be stealing, fighting or escaping they will do what is required in order to survive. In the novel its a fight for survival, and food because the government has left the small island all by itself without any support and created total chaos. surely in Nigeria the same must have occurred due to the panic of people and being isolated from the outside world leading people to believe they would have to protect and survive by themselves. In both cases an unexpected illness appears (in the article: malaria and other tropical illnesses, the novel: A mystery illness) and just like in the novel how the government attempted to help contain the problem by quarantining the area but supplying them with necessities. But in both cases, the citizens attempt to riot and protest over the fact they were being isolated, so the government decides to stop giving them support leaving them to survive for themselves. When Kaelyn and her friend Tessa are attempting to find a way to solve this issue before everyone on the island dies, she goes beyond her way to communicate with the governments in hope of a resolution, also what the citizens of North Korea did when they found out they were being even more isolated than they already were. Since the government leaves the citizens with a lack of support it is up to the few individuals ( Kaelyn, Tessa and Kaelyns dad, and the environmental scientists in the article) who are the ones ready to take on the risks and challenges to ensure that they will resolve the issue and in hopes of re-communicating with the government in hopes of uniting ties again and re-gaining the support.
Quote relating to my novel:
"This place is Hell’s waiting room."
— Steven Ramirez (Tell Me When I'm Dead)
This quote is very imaginable and connecting to both article and the novel by allowing us to picture a symbolic image of what it is really like to be quarantined. It explains how being quarantined is like hells waiting room, of course hell being used as a negative aspect describing no one really ever wants to wait in hell. With all that is going on it is only certain people in the novel believe there so called beautiful island is now hell.
Picture relating to Novel:
This picture hows how a dog is isolated from the rest of the world and how it is trapped from going out beyond the cage. The people who are quarantined are feeling the same way, they feel trapped and opposed to being trapped in a place where they are not allowed to leave. Isolation later on leads to great mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and stress.
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