On Monday, we had our literature test on "Are You Lonesome Tonight?". Mr Chua came into our class first follow by Ms Chala. At first I thought both teachers will be conducting our test together but after Mr Chua gave out the test paper and the test started Mr Chua went off, Ms Chala took over. We do not had any lesson due to test the test. When the time was up we handed up the test paper and we greeted Ms Chala and we were dismissed. Overall for Monday lesson, the test paper was not very difficult, and I hope I could score very high marks.
On Thursday, basically the lesson talk about famine. Famine cause people to die, due to have a shortage of food and etc... Before that Mr Chua had to scolded people for being so ridiculous, to wondering out of the class to check when teacher is coming and if there was any teacher out there and 15minutes of our time had taken away. Mr Chua then gave us a worksheet with a picture printed on the front and there was some question behind the picture. The picture shown a vulture and a African girl lying on the ground.
Mr Chua told us to write 2 thoughtful interpretations based on the picture shown. I wrote: " The Vulture is waiting for it prey to die and the prey is the child" and "Maybe the child is praying for food to eat and water to drink.". Mr Chua then explained a lot about the picture. He also told us that the picture was capture by photographer name Kevin Carter. It won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. After that one of my classmate asked " Is he still alive today?" and Mr Chua said he would answer his question later. He then told us that there were a UN (United Nations) providing food at the food aid station and the food aid station was more than 1km away the little girl. We were told that the little girl was trying to crawl to the food aid station, also the little girl was too weak to walk and was dying, the Vulture at the back of the little girl was waiting for her to die so it can feed on her. Actually Kevin is waiting for the vulture to open it wings and took a photo of it, but he could not wait any longer and took a photo of the vulture without opening the wings and walk off. Mr Chua now then answer my classmate answer, he said that Kevin committed suicide, 3 months later.
Before he committed suicide, these was what he note:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."
I think he committed suicide due to depressed of not helping the little girl to the food aid station and blame by many people. I felt sad for him and if I were him I would help the little girl to the food aid station, also gave her some food and drink while on the way to the food aid station. We should be thankful and grateful for the things we have now and never take for granted of it. Also never waste food even if the food is not nice and take the right amount of food you can take in. To find out more about Kevin Carter, please visit this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
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On Monday, we had our literature test on "Are You Lonesome Tonight?". Mr Chua came into our class first follow by Ms Chala. At first I thought both teachers will be conducting our test together but after Mr Chua gave out the test paper and the test started Mr Chua went off, Ms Chala took over. We do not had any lesson due to test the test. When the time was up we handed up the test paper and we greeted Ms Chala and we were dismissed. Overall for Monday lesson, the test paper was not very difficult, and I hope I could score very high marks.
On Thursday, basically the lesson talk about famine. Famine cause people to die, due to have a shortage of food and etc... Before that Mr Chua had to scolded people for being so ridiculous, to wondering out of the class to check when teacher is coming and if there was any teacher out there and 15minutes of our time had taken away. Mr Chua then gave us a worksheet with a picture printed on the front and there was some question behind the picture. The picture shown a vulture and a African girl lying on the ground.
Mr Chua told us to write 2 thoughtful interpretations based on the picture shown. I wrote: " The Vulture is waiting for it prey to die and the prey is the child" and "Maybe the child is praying for food to eat and water to drink.". Mr Chua then explained a lot about the picture. He also told us that the picture was capture by photographer name Kevin Carter. It won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. After that one of my classmate asked " Is he still alive today?" and Mr Chua said he would answer his question later. He then told us that there were a UN (United Nations) providing food at the food aid station and the food aid station was more than 1km away the little girl. We were told that the little girl was trying to crawl to the food aid station, also the little girl was too weak to walk and was dying, the Vulture at the back of the little girl was waiting for her to die so it can feed on her. Actually Kevin is waiting for the vulture to open it wings and took a photo of it, but he could not wait any longer and took a photo of the vulture without opening the wings and walk off. Mr Chua now then answer my classmate answer, he said that Kevin committed suicide, 3 months later.
Before he committed suicide, these was what he note:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."
I think he committed suicide due to depressed of not helping the little girl to the food aid station and blame by many people. I felt sad for him and if I were him I would help the little girl to the food aid station, also gave her some food and drink while on the way to the food aid station. We should be thankful and grateful for the things we have now and never take for granted of it. Also never waste food even if the food is not nice and take the right amount of food you can take in. To find out more about Kevin Carter, please visit this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
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