Making the Invisible, Visible: The first step…

Domestic Work, 1937

                                         Natasha Trethewey

All week she's cleaned

someone else's house,

stared down her own face

in the shine of copper-

bottomed pots, polished

wood, toilets she'd pull

the lid to--that look saying

Let's make a change, girl.

But Sunday mornings are hers--

church clothes starched

and hanging, a record spinning

on the console, the whole house

dancing. She raises the shades,

washes the rooms in light,

buckets of water, Octagon soap.

Cleanliness is next to godliness ...

Windows and doors flung wide,

curtains two-stepping

forward and back, neck bones

bumping in the pot, a choir

of clothes clapping on the line.

Nearer my God to Thee...

She beats time on the rugs,

blows dust from the broom

like dandelion spores, each one

a wish for something better.

from Domestic Work, 1999

Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minn.

  

1) What is the issue or challenge you are addressing? Explain.The challenges we are addressing are Domestic Worker. Domestic Worker is the worker that works in the employer household. Unfortunately, some of them got abuse and they don’t have a very fair wages. And even sadder, some of them couldn’t even contact with their family back home or died in an accident during the training period. 

2) Why is this important to you and your community and who does it impact? Explain.It is important to my community to work with together with me and help the Domestic Worker because every year, an estimate of 300,000 domestic worker in Malaysia and mostly got abuse and even got killed. But we can make a different by do something to make the world know that Domestic Worker are not slave for us to abuse them and we should not rely on them every time.

 

3) What kinds of surprises have you encountered in your research?Before I studied this unit, I didn’t know that most of the domestic workers got abuse even though some of my mom side’s aunts/uncles are a domestic worker. But after learning and discussing about these issues, I was kind of shock and thinking that the news that I found was unreliable, because since my country is a resourceful place to get domestic workers, we could meet many of them in the airport when they return home at the end of the year. But they had never spoken about “abuse” or anything that would harm them only that the life condition was not as good as they expect plus that usually when people think about Malaysia, they would think about the nice side of it not the bad side.  

4) How does learning about this issue make you feel and why?From learning about this issue, it make me feel sad and feeling quite ashamed of how people like me or anyone could have stand up and speak for Domestic worker rather than being a bystander, because as I said up there, every day about 300,000 domestic worker got abuse and the number might get rise if we don’t stop the issue. By that as the Human Rights declare “all human are set to be free” therefore domestic worker should have more freedom simply because they are human like us and they are worthy to have a life like all human do.

Finding Fast Food is Another Way of Finding Dead

"I don't like to eat snails. I prefer fast food."Roger von Oech. People should increase eating healthy food rather than Fast food. “Every month, Kids between the ages of 6 and 14  eat fast food about 157,000,000 times”-Links. To let the people in the world knows how much injurious fast food can cause, a guy call Morgan Spurlock created a document call “Supersize Me”. His goal is  to warn people to stop eating fast food in order for them to maintain a healthy life. Eating healthy foods is important  therefore people should choose healthy foods to eat. People need to know about  what diseases fast  foods can cause and also some recommendation of food they should take.

People today in the world should knows which food is harmful for them and that they shouldn’t eat. Mostly all the people know that fast food are unhealthy but still they move the information to  aside and let their bodies absorb all the unhealthy fats. “In America, 30.6 percent of the population is obese, more than anywhere else in the world, while 68 percent are considered to be overweight”-Supersize me  movie. The reason that they are chose fast food is because they don’t know the correct way to eat or in the other way they don’t know how whether the food they eat is healthy or unhealthy. Each of a teen visit purchased from 800 to 1,100 calories which then will stay underneath their skin and created a fat layer of calories. This calories which then turn to fat and would lead to obesity and this disease would stay with them until dead. Not only that fast food have a lot of calories in it but there are also many chemical inside too. fast food restaurant put a type of chemical which will make you feel like you want to eat more and more.links. They put this chemical in the food so that once you started eating fast food frequently, this chemical will affect you and make you feel like you want to eat more and more again. By that the many people would come to the fast food restaurant and they would earn a lot of  money. Fast Food affect a lot of your health issues. But not to say that you could not eat fast food anymore but this meant that you should eat fast food rarely like once a month in order not to easily get affected by disease.

Nowadays, people should know some recommendation of food they should take rather than fast food. It is not that you can’t eat fast food forever of your life, but on the other side, you could find another smart way to buy a pack of snack food that doesn’t have a lot of calories. You could always buy something that is a smaller amount and it is much less calories than the supersize one. The reason of buying a smaller pack of fast food is because then you will get less calories and other fats in to you and also to bring less disease to you. For instance you could always buy an original mcdonald which is much smaller amount of calories that is 260 calories than the McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese which is 730 calories. By buying smaller pack of fast food, you just help yourself to become a stronger and healthier person. Not only just to have a smart choice of ordering in the restaurant, but you could do a bit more research to find out more information. You could always watch some documentary or read some books to increase your knowledge about healthy food and other facts about fast food. We should read books or watch documentary so that we will have a better understanding about the foods and why it is so unhealthy. Once you started to realize which food is bad, hopefully you might realize that fast food is bad so that you could decrease the amount of time you would go to fast food restaurant. All things considered, fast food is a type of food that is really harmful to your body. But if you are a clever person and chose a smart choice, you have save your life from harmful disease that might affect you

In conclusion, Fast food is very tasty, eye catchy, and convenience  for the busy people. However, this food could cause a serious health effect. So now is the time for us to restrict  eating fast food. Being a leadership of restricting fast food make more and more people realize the harmful side that fast food can create and from there  people can reduce eating fast food in their life.

Picture sources:http://youthvoices.net/sites/default/files/image/10960/may/fast_food_kills.png

Linh

Period 1 and 2

Mrs Peters

17th/Oct/2012

Mayra The Key of Freedom

“About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations” (poverty.com). Provided that in the world that we are living, over 3 billion of people live on less than $2.50 a day. At the same time, “1/3 of Brazilians live in extreme poverty, for whom drug trafficking and crime seems to be the most financially and socially rewarding option. This has created an unofficial civil war between the state and its poor” (Global Giving).  Mayra is the only one girl who lives in one of the most violent place call favela’s in Rio, to fight against the violence she leads protests to stop the violence between the police and the drug cartels and give thousands of children a chance to be educated.

At 15 years old, Mayra gathered hundreds of children  protesting against the police and the drugs cartels to stop fighting while school hours. Mayra was born in a place where there is civil war happening between the police and the gangs. “Unlike the other town, The neighbourhood was cut off and became virtually inaccessible to medical and teaching staff. As a result, schools and clinics were closed”.(Winner of children peace prize) As the favela was close off by civil war between the police and the drug cartels, school also got closed because teacher could not reach them. Therefore Mayra and other students in Favela were force to stop school. But this did not stop Mayra from going to school. She refuse to accept this situation and chose another school outside Favela to study. For this reason, Mayra gather and march and “their direct demand was that the police should stop patrolling around schools during the times that children walk to and from school”(Mayra Avellar Neves). Mayra is a very idealistic and selfless girl, she gather all the student to take a major march to fight back against the police and the drug cartels to get their school back and children would have a chance to get back to study and have a better future.

Mayra did not became a bystander but instead she stood up and gave chances for students to be educated. She gather people from Favela to a protest which demand the police for children to go to school. “Do something instead of nothing.”(video)Mayra is a very persistence girl, she put her heart and her soul into the hopes of giving back the freedom and peace so children in Favela could go to school. By that, instead of doing nothing, she mobilised more than 300 people to protest against the police. As the result, the police accepted her demands and Mayra and other children got their chance of going to school again. Alongside, peace should be for everyone and everyone have to work for it. Instead of just standing there and see what happen, Mayra take in action as an upstander. She create a march and make people understand that children also need their education, in order for them to make a difference for the world. Mayra also believe that peace is not a privilege, peace should be for everyone and everyone have to work for it.(video) That's mean that without supporting and hard working of people in Favela to have a protest. She herself could not bring the peace back together and student in Favela would not have a chance to go back to school.

Through her hard work and never gave up even once, Mayra is still working to help every children from Favela to go to school and keeping peace between the police and the Cartels. "These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country." Harry Belafonte. By doing this she could give more hopes and chances to younger student, so that one day they could help the other children whose having the same life as them to go to school just like what Mayra has done. For this reason, I think we also should start a new way of thinking of how to help people in the world who had a hard life so that they could have a chance to study and able to earn money to live. With the effort and courageous, Mayra is worthy undertakings the Children International Peace Prize of 2008.

Where I'm From

I am from a noisy place,
where town and cities never sleep.
I am from outdoor,
when all day playing with kites and planes.
I am from that square,
where everyday children gather together
enjoyed our childhood.

I have enjoyed through four season,
summer, autumn,winter, spring.
from the big community,
with flat surface.
My house is like a technology centre
where cartoons has been shown.

I am from the parents,
who who hits me with a tiny cane
Friends who annoyed and play with me.
And also I am from the school
where teacher who treats me like a bunch of rats

I am from the place,
where candies and treats are made into animal shapes.
I am from the place,
where hotdogs, and dumpling are 24 hour available in front of school
And I am from the place
where my mum has to force me eats all kind of vegetable.

Lookings back from the memory box,
childhood is the best memorial  part of my life
through the image of growing,
i found out that  is the best place in the world.

Propaganda mean the information that is spread for a purpose. people that This image was taken in a book “How to Tell a Jews.” by Julius Streicher and publisher of Der Stürmer.

This image was set up in a classroom when a teacher just drawn several picture about Jews like their nose, eye and there arm band. Then he called a student up to talk and describe it. The teacher look straight forward to the student who stand up. They are all Aryan and Wearing German cloth.

From this book, the audience that intended the most is German Citizen (mostly children). Because they are too young to read this. when they read this, they will miss understand about the Jews. The author of this piece intend to express that Jews are very dangerous. We as a German shouldn’t play with them. They will harm us and killed us. There body and facial expression are very ugly, hunched back and ugly nose. After reading this, This message might influenced the German as scared of them and hate them because of there body. They need to get far way from them and hate them. Also to treat them as an animal.

Lastly in my opinion, this picture is negative. It tell us how to treat bad thing to Jews and also never to be friendly with them. But instead killed them or treat them as animal. Also we should punish them and take there jobs away.

Boy In the Stripped Pyjamas

Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas was written by John Boyne based on two boys " Bruno and Shmuel" and their friendship. Bruno was really sad when he heard his parent planning about moving to a place where there is boring and sad. Near his new home is the concentration camps where he found Shmuel who follow Jews. Although they live in two different part of the world where both people from other religion hating each other, but still they was best friend.

For me I think it is not the right thing to bringing such danger on one's relatives and friends by challenging the forces of law and order. "I've never spoken to him," said Bruno immediately. "I've never seen him before in my life. I don't know him."-172. This happen while Shmuel was taken to Bruno house to clean some glasses. But then Bruno found out that his friend is at his house working. Bruno came in and gave food to Shmuel. Unlucky Kotler saw those boy talking together and he cut the conversation. I think what Bruno did is wrong because he is causing his friend in to trouble by lying. I think the right thing that Bruno can do is to tell the truth. Because if he tell the truth, then everything will be a bit easier and Shmuel don't get to punished that badly. Also i think that to your friend just to save you from punishment, then your friend will get even worse punishment and they will hate you.

Picture URL: http://planetbooks.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-book.jpg

Profile MM

To begin with, today Mr Whiting came to our humanity class to test our domiknow again because we might be different from last year. In 6th I did with Ms Nadarjai and mine result was II. But this year things change. Instead of II now I am MM. That mean that now when I am stress or learning new thing, I have no access to the other hemisphere that is Logic.

Being in the profile MM, Is better for me to sit in front unless I don't annoy other. For me I am sure that I am an left ear learner. Every time when my cousin talking about something, I would let my left ear closer to them so I can hear it properly. Or also in the class we did like if you want to know what your classmate next door is talking about you and you can't go in or see them so what should you do? So I ran up and I heard it with my left year. I think it is important for me to know what ear I am good at so that I can hear clearer every time my teacher speak. Being an MM, I must able to see, hear, move and verbalize the context before I learning details. My left eye look from left to right, so I is hard for me if I read English or other language that write from left to right. Or sometime, I might change the orders of the letter or numbers.

When I'm relaxed, my movement is being spontaneous or fluid. But when I'm stress, may move forward with caution, or I could feel clumsy and stuck. I have difficult following instruction that go by step by step. I started by imagining the end result.

Something I want my teacher to know about me is I want everything to go by step, I don't want to describe thing really much just keep it simple and I want to show big picture.