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 .

The scene in which locals burned the fraudulent Hospital 

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.

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.

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. 

Isu Blog Post #3

Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32016394

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:

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.