Education is COOL!

We used these symbols: flames, diary, picture of Anne, Jew star of David, blood, Nazi flag, picture of concentration camp, picture of people dying, Boom! The song, and glass shattering. Flames is hope, the diary and the piture of Anne shows the soul of a young girl going through, the Jew Star represents the discrimination against Jews and the Nazi flag describes Hitler. The sounds were shocking, thrilling. On the other hand, there was one that is soothing, soft and melodic. We gathered, analyzed and processed information from a variety of sources, being critical thinkers.

The flames that burn the diary symbolize hope and happiness. When the blood drips onto Anne’s diary, it’s supposed to be like someone dying and their blood is dripping on her diary. When the glass breaks, the sound, is supposed to show that there is violence, and glass is getting broken. The Nazi flag shows that the Nazis were a big part of this, along with everything they did. Just as the Jew’s Star of David was supposed to symbolize the Jews and their role in it. Anne’s diary symbolizes her love for writing, and basically how all this information was found out. All the pictures of the gas chambers showed how the Nazis showed no mercy for Jews and how they just stuffed them all in rooms, making them think that they were going to get a shower, but instead they were getting gassed. At the concentration camps, they shoved a whole bunch of people in one little room.

As I don’t have much taste in music, so Catrina and Ahbi searched through millions and millions of websites to dig out heaps of good songs. At last, they found some really great songs such as boom! by System of a Down & 100 Years by Five for Fighting. Boom! is a fast beat song and its lyrics are suitable to the condition going on through the second world war. While 100 years is a slow peaceful song about being fifteen and wishing about the future. Music is important but there’s more than that to make one perfect, the symbols. We’ve used the fire, blood, the Nazi flag, the Jew star and the Anne’s diary as our symbols. Fire symbolizes hope, blood shows death and helplessness, The Nazi flag represents Adolf Hitler. The Jew star represents the discrimination of Jews. It starts off when glass shattered and blood flows; this indicates the disability of the Jews and how helpless they are. In the end, death is the only option and that’s exactly what they get. The beat is fast and the song is clear which makes understanding an easier job. The beats give one nervousness and frightening thoughts. I’ve look through lots of websites to access information showing that I’m a Academic Achiever.

100 years is a soft and peaceful song played when it’s showing all that has she thought of in the ‘Secret Annexe’. All about her life was expressed through simple but meaningful quotes. The song Boom! is all about being fifteen and thinking about the future which what’s Anne is going through the whole time. This is the chance for the audience to be in Anne’s shoes. This song has the lyrics describing on how war went on; when millions were spent on bombs leaving many starving (4000 hungry children leave us per hour, from starvation, while billions are spent on bombs, creating death showers.). The strongest part of the song is the last part when they sang-Whyyy…must weee…kill ooour own kiiind…? (Why must we kill our own kind?) This goes to show that we’ve been critical thinkers by understanding and use the songs and related it to Anne Frank. I feel very certain that the lyrics of this song is suitable for what’s going on during WWll. Whenever the audience listen to what was sung, they would understand the whole situation and be experiencing the pain and sense the suffering through life in the concentration camps; what it feels like to be treated as animals or maybe be worse. This way, we demonstrated the skills of being Involved Citizen by being aware of Anne’s situation. All this makes the crowd both excited and feels uneasy. It starts off when glass shattered and blood flows; this indicates the disability of the Jews and how helpless they are. In the end, death is the only option and that’s exactly what they get. When the Nazi flag and the Jew star merges, his shows how they are similar and connected to each other. At he end, the diary burns and all the pain she had suffered is now gone and hope is near. By using technology to project all this is a tool of communication, which also falls under being Effective Communicators.

The video starts off with a picture of Anne, this is the first step into the movie creating an impression for the audience. Abhi, as usual, being his creative self, created the entire movie using various sources provided by Catrina and me. Abhi did an amazing job with the movie. In my opinion, the sound effects were truly fascinating as it was accurate to the scenes. Besides that, the images were clear and the fonts were big enough, everything is really smooth.

By doing this project, we demonstrated the ability to work both independently and collaboratively because we worked as a group to finish the project made of independent parts of our work put together. Abhi made the flash movie, while we helped edit parts of it and Catrina and Eugene wrote this write up.

After discussing with Catrina (Abhi is away), we decided to give ourselves the grade we deserve. For knowledge, we did a good job on describing the symbols and what they mean. We did a good job on identifying the sounds. We discussed the symbols, images and sounds carefully and did an outstanding job on their meanings; which falls under comprehension. On application, we did an outstanding job on describing the symbols and how it will affect the audience. For analysis, we tried to work hard on comparing but it wasn’t really clear, so I think we only did a good job on it. Last but definitely not least, synthesis, which is based on the movie; Abhi did an amazing job on it and it turn out to an interesting project.

Hey all, my name is
Eugene and I’ll be writing about my life so I hope you all would sit back and enjoy, although it may be quite dull. First of all, I just turn 14 last December and I’m Chinese-Malaysian. I’ve spent half of my childhood in
New Zealand since I was born there in
Auckland 1992, December 15^th. I’m not quite sure why it was such a pain in the neck to fly all the way but I’m guessing it’s because my parents had jobs they much prefer there. I can’t really remember anything because everything was so blur since my parents were still having their life before serious parenting. All I recall is that I have a few good friends there but sadly I forgotten their names. The only thing I remember clearly is the one thing that haunts me for the rest of my childhood. I was five, on that one stormy night; I lurked through my uncle’s house in Epsom,
Auckland. I discovered his office room; I always wanted to enter that wide space of opening. I decided to sneak into for a quick peek. Some how, I was attracted to a huge shiny wood carved table desk. It had a cover which opens to a small capacity to store stationeries and such. Suddenly, something shimmering caught my eye; it was a silver hook to support the table cover. Curiosity got the better of me and I touched it. BANG! The support broke the cover came smashing down my finger. Deep red blood trickled down my ring finger; I wasn’t in much pain but seeing blood was not a good thing at my age. I was admitted to the hospital and needed a bandage to stop my bleeding. Me and my bandage flew to
Malaysia and stayed there for few months. During the year 1999, which was the year my sister, Eileen (who is 8 years old now) came in. Somehow we had to return to NZ and my mom given birth to her. After all that, we settled down in MS and I started schooling at the age of 6. Frankly, I’m actually doing quite well in my studies. About my hobbies, I’ll tell you mine. It’s simply the same among any boys, having fun outside, playing video games and stuff. Recently, I have also developed a passion for c-walking, although I’m not really good at it but it’s enjoyable and somewhat entertaining. Like other kids, I enjoy music like rock and heavy metal and as a fact, it’s what kept me energize or just calmed.

As I’m growing and experiencing the real world bit by bit, I have some concerns about technology, educations and natural disasters. I’m quite sad about the fact that
Malaysia’s technology isn’t as advanced as
Japan. It seems to me that MS lacks of more advanced technology in daily life. Take their phones for example, MS’s handphones are not as durable and flexible as
Japan’s handphones.

Have you ever wondered how our lives are going to be like if we lack of education, but not profession education or subjects we learn in schools, but financial education? I’ve been thinking quite a lot on this topic, and even searched through books and websites explaining this subject. I’m so used to being told, ‘study hard, go overseas, get a PHD, shine your future” that I’m sick of it. By some means, has it ever occurred to you that financial education is as important to us as education we get in school? To me, I don’t want to grow up working for money, I don’t want to be a slave to it. So the only way I can avoid it is by controlling it. And that’s where financial skills come in handy.

To those who aren’t living in MS, Johor is the south state of the
Malaysia peninsular. Lately, there have been extremely terrible floods there going up to 15 feet. Estimated 140 million ringgit (39million
US) worth of property was destroyed by the floods. It has been a very sad case and severely affected the economy. That goes to every region all over the world, we should do our best to prevent these disasters from destroying properties and taking lives away.

Well, that’s all I have to say about myself and I hope you enjoyed it too.