Band: ISKL Mission Statement

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides (silence) an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop (silence) the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become (silence) a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I put the silences where they are because it is where the readers are wanting to know what ISKL provides and the outcome of it. The void takes place when the readers are anxious to find out what they expect and what they provide. They also want to know what their children understand what to become.

Steve McCurry

‘A great photograph really needs to say something about a person or give some insight into their life or how their life is different than yours and mine. A good picture makes us curious and makes us want to know more.’

Steve McCurry is an amazing and very famous photographer. He was born in Philadelphia(1950), and he graduated at the College of arts and architecture. He is known for taking photos of war and the dead.

‘He captures the essence of human struggle and joy.’

The main themes in his photos are poverty and loss.
He would wait until everyone went back to their normal routine until he could take the photo. That makes it much more powerfull.

‘People will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.’

This picture shows a man that was in war lying in the lake hoplessly. I believe that McCurry was trying to emphasize the thought of war and death. I also think that he was trying to let people know that war shouldn’t be something that people don’t care about. For example if there was a war someplace, people won’t care about it because they are not in the war. This picture kind of makes people understand what it going on around them. That is why this picture is very powerful. The use of color highlights the mood becase there really isn’t any yellows or reds or oranges. There aren’t many bright colors in this picture.

I have learned that McCurry takes photos of things that inspire him are very meaningful. Like I said earlier, people will start to realize that there is war in the world. That is how his photography brings change. A great photo includes meaning weather it is in contrast, color, position, or even point of view. The color really makes the photo endure because the color kind of gives you the story. So I read the story by the different colors. His work reflects on a journey because he is going to different places where there is poverty and war so that shows that he is taking a long journey around the world to help people understand.

Holocaust- 10 questions

1: Click on 'For Students' under Education. Then click on 'Introduction to the holocaust'. In the first photograph, do you think the babysitter was Jewish?
2: What does the word 'Holocaust' mean and what language does it come from?
3: In the third paragraph, how many Jews did the Germans kill?
4: How many soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment?
5: Define: - ideological
- incarcerated
- ghettos
- exploit
6: What is the place called where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities?
7: Click on 'Death Marches' and explain where they are going to, how they get there (car, plane, ect.), and ect.
8: Go back to 'Introduction to Holocaust'. What is a 'Displaced Persons Camp'?
9: Scroll all the way down and click on Children during the Holocaust. Look at the first picture and read the caption. How do you feel about this?
10: Overall, what do you think about the Holocaust? Explain how you think that you could feel if you were one of the Jews.

Band: Power of the void

I would call this story 'The Lottery' because all of the tension is being caused by the lottery that happens towards the end of the story. I thought that they would stone someone. Some hints in the story are when it says 'the kids picked up a few stones'. I don't think that they would just be playing with the stones. I felt really angry and anoyed because when I read, I cant put the book down so I was really worried when the story taken away from me. I was worried about what would happen. I felt really excited when the paper was handed to me because I knew that it was the rest of the story so I really wanted to open it and check. But I read the rest of it at 8:00 pm that night. I like surprises so that is why I waited untill after 5:00 to read it. I felt really scared and I was also very quiet and still while figuring out who it was just like the people in the village. I felt kind of empty and sad because that it where the story ends. It seems like the auther would say more about after the death of her. The auther left these voids in the story so that the reader would continue reading it. The power of the void in this story is bery powerful. We weren't given a title, there was no ending for us to read (at the time), the clues and foreshadowing throughout the story made the void even more powerful, and the ending which was the end of the void.

Curiosity Leading to Change

In the Greek myth, Pandora and the African myth Orphan Boy, curiosity is a major theme. Both myths lead to punishment and/or change because of a lack of trust. In Orphan Boy, the magic was initially peaceful, but when the old man destroyed the trust by following the boy, everything went wrong. His cows became thin and his cattle died. Also his crops dried up. So, Pandora has everything that she ever dreamed of and she is beautiful, newly married and happy. But then she looked into the box that the gods told her not to. She was so curious that she couldn't help it. So this is were all of the change comes in.

Creation Myths Paragraph

People have always and will always still wonder how the earth was created and what was in the beginning. In creation myths there are quite a lot of common elements (but I am going to stick with only three for now.) The first common element is chaos to order, second punishment, and third earth diving. An example for chaas to order can be seen in Phan Ku (Chinese) because there was nothing in the beginning. And then the creation myth, Elohim the creator. This uses this theme because it says that in the beginning there was nothing and then at the end there was everything. The last example of chaos to order is the creation myth because it also says that there was only chaos in the beginning but at the end there were sacrifices so there was everything.
Now the second common element, punishment. One example is in the christian creation of Adam and Eve. Another example is the creation myth concerning punishment is called the first man becomes the devil (Ulgen the creator). THis is because the man wanted something different from the got that was in charge. The third example is Phan ku because he sacrificed his body to the world and that is when there was punishment.
The third common element is earth diving. The first example for this is The Turtle that went to the bottom of the sea. So that he could start to form earth. And the last example is from the Japanese myth, but the god didn't pick earth up he just scuped earth in his hands.
It is clear that there are many different creation myths that all explain how the earth was created. Many of these contain common elements which is amazing because there are so many different ones and how all of them connect.

Journeys

I chose this quote because it is very incomplex ,although, it tells a lot about how you seek journeys. The image that I have selected has been illistrated by Monet. I was determined that was the picture because it has boats and you can go on a journey while ridding a boat. This relates to the quote because some people are looking at it as if their desire is to go on this journey while others are disagreeing and away from it going to some other place quite formal.
I rekoned the connection between the quote, painting, and the Grade 7 Humanities 'Journeys' is that journeys don't have to be apart and to be mythical but also, a journey, with your, imagination.