Knowledge

Last year, I created a little document about Knowledge. This was during Year 7, and was the longest piece of writing I have done in Year 7. Although it seems very short, at the time I was very proud of this accomplishment:

“Knowledge is the psychological result of perception, learning and reasoning. In other words, knowing facts and information and the ability to do something is what a common definition of what knowledge is. Intellectually, knowledge is the awareness and understanding of facts, truths or information gained in the form of experience or learning, or through introspection. Knowledge is an appreciation of the possession of interconnected details, which, in isolation, are of lesser value. Knowledge is organized or contextualized information, which can be used to produce new meanings and generate new data. It is the act or condition of knowing something with a familiarity gained through experience or association.”

Good knowledge is hard to find. You can acquire knowledge by experimenting with things or by looking at things around you, or by reading information, watching T.V. etc. You can explore things, and gather new knowledge along the way. You can also gather knowledge by having conversations with knowledgeable people. In other words, knowledge can be taught through different types of media or acquired through experiences. As such, knowledge can be transmitted the same way.

I think that acquiring good knowledge is difficult. Things around us can all become good knowledge. Things that help us understand are true knowledge. What others tell you are not necessarily good knowledge, until you consider it and try it for yourselves, then it becomes true knowledge. You gather knowledge everyday, although you may not know, you gain knowledge bit by bit, and you acquire more of it, as you get older. You can also acquire knowledge in almost any activity that is if you are eager to learn. Knowledge is simple, look around and you can find it.

 A person, to begin with does not understand anything, but with gathering of knowledge, he will start to know more about this world. With more and more knowledge, a person will be more accurate and smarter, on every decision he makes. It is however wise to share one’s knowledge with others. Through this sharing of knowledge, human race would move forward. One can say that the person, who acquires knowledge, is also the owner of this knowledge. As all knowledge, are embedded in his mind.

Knowledge is a very important thing in life, in fact it maybe one of the most important. Without accurate knowledge, you would make wrong decisions, and the outcome could be disastrous. The more accurate knowledge you know, the better.

Knowledge is power.

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

Socrates

“All men by nature desire knowledge”

Aristotle

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it-this is knowledge.”

Confucius

Drama Classwork - Othello Lesson 6

Our Drama lesson objective for this lesson was to: highlight the theme of Redemption, but in our own modern day context from Othello.



I do understand that this text can be seemingly similar to a chunk of boring text. But I would like to share with you my work. As this is the longest piece of writing I have ever written so far, and it analyzes how I have created my drama performance.

I am also very proud of this, and I have spent quite a lot of time on this.

Please enjoy.

Representation in the Media

Today in ICT we took notes about how media is represented.

Media can be fake, yet it can be real. It is not controlled by us. It is controlled by people or organizations most likely the government. Media does not necessarily have to be the Television News. It can be things you hear on a radio, glossy magazines, newspapers, flyers, posters, etc. And quite a lot of it is artificial. But yet at the same time if we didn't have these types of artificial media, our knowledge is limited. Yet at the same time the media needs to make some sense of reality.

Media can also be bias. You may see in many movies, history programmes or documentaries, that they only show one side of the war. And they say this side is so-and-so cruel because of so-and-so. But then what about your side? You have probably done so-and-so, but they don't reveal this for many reasons including politics. This means that media can be bias. The producers only highlight some of the events that have occurred, and most of the time can be bias. Therefore when receiving media you should consider:

•Who produced it? (Was it a journalist, country, student, organization, etc.)
•Who is in the presented piece of information? (American soldiers in Afghanistan fighting, are civilians included, etc.)
•How is it represented? (Is it represented only from the standpoint of the American soldiers? Are there viewpoints from civilians and fighters in Afghanistan?)
•Why was it presented in that particular form? (Japanese slaughtering dolphins. Why did they present it as a movie. Why not present it as a newspaper article?)

So before taking in what everything the News says, think about the above. And try to differentiate whether it is true or false data.


Things that are included when presenting media (Gender categorization)


When you pick up a newspaper, you literally notice the difference whether it is for boys or girls, or men and women. This is a way of advertising in newspapers, or in different types of media. But gender is not only associated to humans, but it can also be associated with objects.

What makes them appeal to you that it is targeted for men/ women  is simply by presenting it as masculinity or femininity, which determines which audience it is intended for.

Typical masculinity characteristics are often revealed as a strong man with a six pack. A man who is tough, sweaty and hard.

On the other hand, feminine characteristics are often described  fragile, soft and fragrant

For example, in advertisements you will often see a car advert with a man driving the car. But on the other hand, if there were an advert for an airline they would use a female to represent it.

When a female is presented in an advert, they tend to highlight:
•beauty
•size/ physique
•emotional
•relationships

They tend to give the image they are part of a family and they work as part of a team.

Whereas, a male is represented as:
•strong (physical and intellectually)
•physique
•independent

Male characters tend to be presented as isolated, as if they are the 'spotlight' type of person.

Before this lesson, I knew that the media was controlled, and obviously there is lots of bias action that takes place. I did not know that much about artificial material in media as much as I have a understanding now.

I generally don't pay much attention to gender categorization in the media, but after writing down some notes, I now have a solid understanding.

The Mountains Run Along The West - Drew Carver - Peterson

The Mountains Run Along The West is a poem about nature, by Drew Carver - Peterson. In Art I chose to make a collage about my interpretation of this poem:

The mountains run along the West,
The rivers whisper as they flow,
The valleys are green down beneath,
The waterfalls crash as they go.
The rainforests? roofs are quite tall,
The lakes are incredibly wide,
The hills are glowing as they roam,
The plateaus have no place to hide.

We created our own abstract collage of our own interpretation. We were also required to make our own version of our interpretation of this poem. And mine this was my version:

The West they flow on.
Habitats they pass, rivers,
valleys, they keep flow.

Passing and tumbling, thriving to push through,
they plunge vigorously to the
icy cool, cool but not frozen.
Into the cool waterfall. . .

Through the night they flow,
through to the morn of light,
Say 'Hello' to the bright of tomorrow.
And say 'Good night' to the present.

Cause' there lay your mountains,
swooshing water, passes through the forests.
Where trees are high, reaching up into the sky.

Then we lay down our human foot,
tearing down rivers
valleys, and forests for paper.

Will we have mountains,
Will we have mountains, that say untouched?
Will there lay a habitat untouched?

As the mountains run along the west,
we run,
we run and chase.
Chase along the whole globe.
Cutting rainforests,

But the mountains, will still run along the west.

Another version I have written:

The sun rises on the east hiding at noon in the west, 

Running along with the mountains as the rivers drift in peace

Going down an emerald valley,

Changing into a gushing stream, crashing into bends and curves.

The rainforest high above with canopies in the clouds.

The lakes down beneath is boundless space,

As the hills reflects light as they travel along the mountain sides,

The plateaus far away from the shaded tree showing off their freedom space.

W W 1 Keywords

There are a few key words in W W 1 history.

There are fairly simple:
Imperialism - When a powerful, or larger country seizes control of a smaller and weaker country.

Nationalism - When a country thinks that they are very good in terms of military. Such as naval power, army, etc.

Militarism - When a country thinks they are very strong, especially with their military power. Hence they go to war with others.

Alliances - A formed organization or group which countries or people an form a group for his or her benefits.

Features of a Newspaper

This is a list I created about what type of features are their in the South China Morning Post newspaper.

Drama Classwork - Othello Lesson 2

Lesson objectives:

I will have learn how to highlight the theme of difference in Othello using the drama skills of narration and synchronized movements.

According to Shakespeares' play Othello, Othello was a general of the army (this was a long time ago in terms of date), and he had been a hero to the Venice society, he had taken on many larger, stronger and tougher army than his, but had overcome all of them. He brought back victory.

But when he was trying to be social, he was not accepted despite he had victorious fights and clashes with other countries and armies. He was not accepted, because he was a black man (Not at all am I trying to be racist). In the Venice society, he was treated differently because of the difference of his skin color.

Our Drama teacher explained and told us that it is good to be different. If we were no different, we would all have the same color, same eyes, same appearance, same hobbies, same IQ etc. A good example is International Schools, students have different ethnic backgrounds, different cultural religions, come from different countries, different genders etc.

If we were all the same, we would all wake up at the same time, all play football at the same time, would go have a shower at the same time. And in fact, if we were all the same, there would be no difference. The consequence we might need to face if we were all the same were we would all just stand there and do nothing.