Description of Beach LA Week 4

A big, fluffy cloud flew above the green-blue sea which splashed on the shore. There is no on in sight on the beach but there is a resort with a dark gray roof and clean white walls. It also has a wide staircase, a veranda for visitors to view the sea and some triangular shaped walls. There is some trees and a tall hill behind the resort which has an huge area of greenery.

Singaporean identity

- Why did you choose the different pictures or background(s)?

It is to create the setting of a place for the incident to take place.

- How do they contribute to the elements (plot, setting, characterisation) of your narrative?

They describe about the Singaporean identity.

- How did you make use of the different elements to contribute to the theme you have chosen?

The elements show the characteristics of a typical Singaporean.

Prejudice in real life

Have you ever been part of a group of people that were unkind to one or more individuals? Describe the circumstances. What caused you to behave the way you did? How did you feel then? How do you feel about the circumstances / events in retrospect?

There was a guy in 1i2 last year. He seemed friendly for the first week of school(no lessons) but after that, he became very weird. He was often late and sometimes even skipped school, we often laughed and teased him when he came. At first, I did not had such a bad impression of him but I was influenced by my classmates and avoided him like a 3-year old child often pretending to be a sniper holding a rifle making shooting and reloading noises or a wizard with magical powers able to hypnotise people. We then started giving him names, he seemed sleepy everyday and often slept in class which led to bad results.

In the later part of the year, he skipped school more frequently and finally did not come back. We then found out that he was addicted to computer games and slept very late in the night thus he had no energy for the next day.

I think that we should not have discriminated him but instead, try to help him get rid of his addiction. I feel that our discrimination had led him to not coming back to school for the last half year and I regret it. If only we had not done that and put ourselves in his shoes, he might be a normal student like all of us...

What I have learned about prejudice

Prejudice is a internal feeling where you pre-judge someone based on appearances or first experiences, etc which is an opinion of them. While discrimination is the acting out of prejudice which is because of reasons like sexism, ageism and racism. Because of these reasons, people commit crimes from mild cases like taunting to severe cases like genocides. Prejudice creates stereotypes which leads to discrimination of them and leads to more prejudice to the person who discriminates and prejudice leads to more prejudice as people might follow the one who started it. However, stereotypes may not be all negative.

LA week 2 post 1

What do I already know about prejudice? :
Nothing

What do I want to know/learn about prejudice:
1.The meaning of the word
2.How and when to use the word.