Reading log: 3
Text title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author/Director: Charles Dickens
Text Type: Extended text
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris in 1859 during the French revolution. While reading you can picture in your mind how life during revolution was before and the amount of order and protection to justify much nationality gloat, and how families were cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture and belongings. It describes the lives of several protagonists through these events. Mainly Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton.
Some of the literary features of this book is the opening sentence which has a lot of metaphors, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief...,...we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way." The book also has a lot of alliteration for example "Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight". There are many other literary features in this book and i think they are really affective in the story because they introduce the sense of suspense they also let you understand the story more. What I have done that is similar to the characters is that I have stood for my right in many situations in my life, whether it was at school or in normal everyday life. But I wouldn’t connect any character to me, because all the characters in the book are adults who have gone through a lot in their lives. Although I would like to have Sydney Carton as a friend to his acts in the story and how he should his braveness and scarification for the people he loves.
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
The Kite Runner
Reading log: 2
Text title: The Kite Runner
Author/Director: Khaled Hosseini
Text type: Extended text
In its own way, The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini's novel adopts a semi-mythical storytelling mode that runs through the life of its main characters, Amir and Hassen. Amir is the son of a wealthy man whom he calls Baba, and as we see throughout the first few chapters, they do not have a great relationship. Hassen and his father Ali are the polar opposites of Amir and his father. Ali is a poor man who has a disease which effects his leg and his appearance, making him the subject of jokes and ridicule, but still loves and cares for his son. This is a story of a childhood betrayal and eventual redemption that is as realistic and unrealistic as the expectation of redemption itself. The author shows a social divide in Kabul between the Hazara and the Pashtuns through the harassment of Hassan and other Hazara. It seems that the author attemps to create the mindset in the readers that the Pashtuns are insulting and ignorant while the Hazara are being repressed, for example, "They chased [Ali] on the street, and mocked him when he hobbled by. Some had taken to calling him Babalu, or boogeyman. 'Hey, Babalu, who did you eat today?' they barked to a chorus laughter." This is an example which really shows the extent of what Ali has to live with, and not only does he manage to live with such a devastating disease, but he also remains kind to others around him.
The Kite Runner is warm with sense of old Kabul and the Afghan community in exile, drawn from the author's experiences. The accuracy of Afghan courtship are captured in a San Jose flea market, as Amir first approaches his beloved, "Up to that point, our encounter could have been interpreted as a respectful inquiry. But I'd ask her a question and if she answered, we'd be-well, we'd be chatting. Me a morjarad, a single young man, and she an unwed young woman."
A great deal of the novel lies in the richly detailed characterisation. Baba is emotionally complex, a compelling and troubled man at home and abroad who despairs when he cannot get his bookish son to enjoy watching football, let alone play it. Meanwhile, Amir's parents-in-law are telling social stereotypes: the woman forbidden her one passion (singing) who puts all her energy into her family and the once great man who refuses to damage his reputation with menial work while he waits for the call to return to the old country.
Hosseini loses his grip on events, however, in the final third of the book. Determined to thoroughly redeem his protagonist, he creates a series of parallels that allow Amir undo some of his wrong doings, and a series of cringe making coincidences that brings the story to a full circle.
Text title: The Kite Runner
Author/Director: Khaled Hosseini
Text type: Extended text
In its own way, The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini's novel adopts a semi-mythical storytelling mode that runs through the life of its main characters, Amir and Hassen. Amir is the son of a wealthy man whom he calls Baba, and as we see throughout the first few chapters, they do not have a great relationship. Hassen and his father Ali are the polar opposites of Amir and his father. Ali is a poor man who has a disease which effects his leg and his appearance, making him the subject of jokes and ridicule, but still loves and cares for his son. This is a story of a childhood betrayal and eventual redemption that is as realistic and unrealistic as the expectation of redemption itself. The author shows a social divide in Kabul between the Hazara and the Pashtuns through the harassment of Hassan and other Hazara. It seems that the author attemps to create the mindset in the readers that the Pashtuns are insulting and ignorant while the Hazara are being repressed, for example, "They chased [Ali] on the street, and mocked him when he hobbled by. Some had taken to calling him Babalu, or boogeyman. 'Hey, Babalu, who did you eat today?' they barked to a chorus laughter." This is an example which really shows the extent of what Ali has to live with, and not only does he manage to live with such a devastating disease, but he also remains kind to others around him.
The Kite Runner is warm with sense of old Kabul and the Afghan community in exile, drawn from the author's experiences. The accuracy of Afghan courtship are captured in a San Jose flea market, as Amir first approaches his beloved, "Up to that point, our encounter could have been interpreted as a respectful inquiry. But I'd ask her a question and if she answered, we'd be-well, we'd be chatting. Me a morjarad, a single young man, and she an unwed young woman."
A great deal of the novel lies in the richly detailed characterisation. Baba is emotionally complex, a compelling and troubled man at home and abroad who despairs when he cannot get his bookish son to enjoy watching football, let alone play it. Meanwhile, Amir's parents-in-law are telling social stereotypes: the woman forbidden her one passion (singing) who puts all her energy into her family and the once great man who refuses to damage his reputation with menial work while he waits for the call to return to the old country.
Hosseini loses his grip on events, however, in the final third of the book. Determined to thoroughly redeem his protagonist, he creates a series of parallels that allow Amir undo some of his wrong doings, and a series of cringe making coincidences that brings the story to a full circle.
Thursday, 1 June 2017
Perthes Disease
Reading log: 1
Text title: Perthese disease
Text type: short text
In the article about Perthes Disease it states that "it's not curable" and this is because they don't know what causes this to happen. "Perthes disease is when the femoral head stops getting blood supplied to it which causes it to deform and die. This is a self-limiting disease of the femoral head comprising of necrosis, collapse, repair and re-modelling." I know this is 5 times more common in boys than in girls. It also often affects children who are very active, even athletic. "There are fewer than 5% of people who are effected in both hips. Patients who are affected commonly have the same trait of short stature, delayed bone age and hyperactivity." The symptoms involved are "limping gait and pain radiating to the thigh, knees, groin or even buttocks." The pain does get worse with activity. The treatments depend on the age of the patient. I can relate to this because I am one of these people who has this rare disease and it is rare because it says "it effects an estimated 1 to 3 in 1,200 children under age of 15 and for girls it is 1 to every 4 boys."
This has effected my life majorly because it took a while for the doctors to diagnose me with the disease because they weren't listening to my mum. When they finally diagnosed me they put me down for an emergency surgery when I was 4 years old. With this emergency surgery it happened close to when I was starting school and caused me to start school in a wheelchair and got me a lot of bullying. It is hard going through school because the teachers don't really care or pay attention to it. I had to give up some sports because of the constant activity and pressure put on my hip. I ended up with hospital appointments until I was 10 or 11 years old and still have them only when it is most needed. I feel pain most when it is cold and when I move to much, I sometimes feel the ball of my hip and the socket grind against each other after I sit down for a long time. The ball and the socket grind against each other because of the deformity of the ball now and because it is much bigger than the other. With the surgery it should of been a 2 and half hour surgery but turned into a 5 hour surgery because they had to push my leg up and cut of the top part of my leg. That being said my left leg is shorter than my right. A long-term effect of this is that it takes affect on my future. Pregnancy would be a lot harder than it should be because carrying the baby would put pressure on my hips mostly on my right hip even though it is my left hip that is effected. This is because when my left hip is higher than my right and will push the baby over to the right side and put pressure on it causing damage to it. To give birth naturally rather than having a Cesarean would be extremely painful and it will be possible that my left hip will pop out of place and with the damage on the right hip I would have an emergency surgery to replace my hips. I will also need to have kids earlier on they say from the age of 19-25 years old. With the deformity of my hip it could cause me to have arthritis in the hip if I don't have surgery later on in my adulthood.
Text title: Perthese disease
Text type: short text
In the article about Perthes Disease it states that "it's not curable" and this is because they don't know what causes this to happen. "Perthes disease is when the femoral head stops getting blood supplied to it which causes it to deform and die. This is a self-limiting disease of the femoral head comprising of necrosis, collapse, repair and re-modelling." I know this is 5 times more common in boys than in girls. It also often affects children who are very active, even athletic. "There are fewer than 5% of people who are effected in both hips. Patients who are affected commonly have the same trait of short stature, delayed bone age and hyperactivity." The symptoms involved are "limping gait and pain radiating to the thigh, knees, groin or even buttocks." The pain does get worse with activity. The treatments depend on the age of the patient. I can relate to this because I am one of these people who has this rare disease and it is rare because it says "it effects an estimated 1 to 3 in 1,200 children under age of 15 and for girls it is 1 to every 4 boys."
This has effected my life majorly because it took a while for the doctors to diagnose me with the disease because they weren't listening to my mum. When they finally diagnosed me they put me down for an emergency surgery when I was 4 years old. With this emergency surgery it happened close to when I was starting school and caused me to start school in a wheelchair and got me a lot of bullying. It is hard going through school because the teachers don't really care or pay attention to it. I had to give up some sports because of the constant activity and pressure put on my hip. I ended up with hospital appointments until I was 10 or 11 years old and still have them only when it is most needed. I feel pain most when it is cold and when I move to much, I sometimes feel the ball of my hip and the socket grind against each other after I sit down for a long time. The ball and the socket grind against each other because of the deformity of the ball now and because it is much bigger than the other. With the surgery it should of been a 2 and half hour surgery but turned into a 5 hour surgery because they had to push my leg up and cut of the top part of my leg. That being said my left leg is shorter than my right. A long-term effect of this is that it takes affect on my future. Pregnancy would be a lot harder than it should be because carrying the baby would put pressure on my hips mostly on my right hip even though it is my left hip that is effected. This is because when my left hip is higher than my right and will push the baby over to the right side and put pressure on it causing damage to it. To give birth naturally rather than having a Cesarean would be extremely painful and it will be possible that my left hip will pop out of place and with the damage on the right hip I would have an emergency surgery to replace my hips. I will also need to have kids earlier on they say from the age of 19-25 years old. With the deformity of my hip it could cause me to have arthritis in the hip if I don't have surgery later on in my adulthood.
Friday, 9 December 2016
PBL evaluation
My group did homelessness for our project base learning. We were successful in basically everything from the research in the beginning to the action and the presentation. I am not quiet sure what we were not successful in. We were successful because we work relatively well together even though one of us didn't do so much. The only reason we weren't successful was because of someone in our group not contributing to it and expecting us to do all of it.
Our group achieved our goal, I think so anyway. We achieved it by working together and making a plan on our action and when it's going to happen. The only way we wouldn't of achieved this goal if we didn't commit to it like we did.
We ended up getting someone from city mission to come in and talk to the groups doing homelessness for PBL. Gray from City Mission told us sad stories about what people are going through here in Christchurch. He gave us ideas on how we can help out but we have to do it when we are 18 and over because of the dangers. While he was here other groups gave food supplies for the homeless and others asked for ideas on what they do to help when volunteering to help provide food around Christmas. We also gave Gray a box of roses to thank you for coming in and telling us what is happening here in Christchurch.
I don't know what I would do differently next time because I did not necessarily like this PBL stuff. But if I were to do it again I would make everyone in the group do a reasonable amount of work instead of relying on others. To have better time management.
Our group achieved our goal, I think so anyway. We achieved it by working together and making a plan on our action and when it's going to happen. The only way we wouldn't of achieved this goal if we didn't commit to it like we did.
We ended up getting someone from city mission to come in and talk to the groups doing homelessness for PBL. Gray from City Mission told us sad stories about what people are going through here in Christchurch. He gave us ideas on how we can help out but we have to do it when we are 18 and over because of the dangers. While he was here other groups gave food supplies for the homeless and others asked for ideas on what they do to help when volunteering to help provide food around Christmas. We also gave Gray a box of roses to thank you for coming in and telling us what is happening here in Christchurch.
I don't know what I would do differently next time because I did not necessarily like this PBL stuff. But if I were to do it again I would make everyone in the group do a reasonable amount of work instead of relying on others. To have better time management.
Thursday, 1 December 2016
pbl log 5.
Having to take photo’s and inserting them to powerpoint or google slides. Taking photos with city mission and while he’s explaining it. Barrier- We don’t have a device to use for the photo’s.
Overcome- Using a camera from someone that was using one for their film they were making. Our group. 9/12/16
Overcome- Using a camera from someone that was using one for their film they were making. Our group. 9/12/16
pbl log 4.
Preparing to greet the person from city mission. Mr p will help us setup anything that needs to be set up and we will help with anything that city mission needs to set up. Barrier-mr p isn’t capable to help us out. Overcome- try and do it ourselves and prepare for the greet. Our group. 6/12/16
pbl log 3.
Letting the teachers know about city mission coming on tuesday the 6th of december. By emailing the teachers on tuesday period 3. Barriers-The teachers forget to talk about what is going to happen 3rd period next tuesday to the year 10 classes. Reuben. 30/11/16
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