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Children in the Darkness
This poem shows me how pitiful and how the children lived during the Vietnam war. The children live in fear everyday and nobody teaches them how to fight or study. The children don’t have a chance to study or have a proper childhood. The children live in fear of war every day, fleeing day and day, many of which lost their parents in the war, and have to learn to be independent at such a young age.
The poem is written at a soldier’s point of view, of which the soldier was in during the war and he was sitting in a hotel room in Saigon just before Christmas, he looked at the TV and the news was on. He did not know what the news reader was saying but in the background was a photo of a small boy with a helmet and an automatic rifle. The soldier felt that the children were mistreated and they were treated more of like soldiers and weapons rather than children.
The situation and setting is during the war period when everyone is living in fear everyday and tries to save themselves from getting killed in the war. There is fear and unhappiness everywhere.
The language used in the poem is repetition and metaphors; I find this poem disturbing and sympathetic as the children in the poem have lost freedom at such a young age and are escaping from death during the war. The children do not have a chance to study or be able to defend themselves.

A peculiar witch dashes into the outlook.

Interpersonal: a. Conduct an interview with a friend (not from HCI) or family member. Find out from their point of view on prejudice and discrimination. Either record the interview or write out the interview transcript.

Interviewed: Lin Jun Jie

Me: what do you think about prejudice and discrimination?

JJ: I think discrimination is something like you don’t like a certain people because they are different from you and you do things that are against them. Then I think prejudice is a thought about not liking certain people also because they are different. However, I think that discrimination is worse than prejudice because it is shown in action which will hurt the discriminated people’s feelings.

Me: can you give me some examples of discrimination?

JJ: examples of discriminations are some people don’t like certain Indian people because they are put off by the smell of their perfume that the Indians like to put on. Then this people will sometimes purposely do things that will hurt the Indians’ feelings like for example if an Indian sits next to them on bus or train, they will get up and get away from them. I think this is wrong because we should respect each others’ religion and their habits.

Me: thank you.

Intrapersonal: Who would I want to be friends with in the novel? Explain.

If I had the chance I would want to be friends with Atticus Finch.

This is because Atticus is a very wise and knowledgeable man. He knows how to teach his children well and he is also an honorable man based on him defending Tom Robinson in the trial. He had done so because he does not discriminate Blacks and just could not stand aside to see an innocent Black go to jail for a crime he never committed. Thus, I feel that if I am friends with Atticus, I can learn a lot of important values in life which can help me make a lot of important decisions.

Learning Profile

From my multiple intelligence test, I knew that my strengths were in Intrapersonal (myself smart) and Interpersonal (people smart) and that my weaknesses were in Linguistic (word smart) and Musical (music smart). This is because I can understand myself better and that I can also understand other people well. However I hope that I can work on Musical and Linguistic better through more listening to more variety of music and reading more variety of materials available to me. Through this learning profile, I hope that I can improve on both my strengths and weaknesses so as to further make myself a better person.

Today we had CNY celebration in school.
then it ended at 10am.

afterwards, me and kevin returned to woodlands to our primary school.
then, i went playing basketball in my primary school(although it wasn't allowed).
finally, we went to my primary school friend's condo to play tennis...

i am so glad i can see my primary school friends again...

The last few days were really busy!!
they just went by so quickly...
And CHINESE NEW YEAR is around the corner,...
but with tests all around, it just spoils my mood...
lets go back to mugging...

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

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qinxiang
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studying in HCI
cca is track and field
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