Christine Pelly is a working in TWC2, with the goal in mind of supporting and helping Transient workers realize their rights and making sure they have all of those rights, whether it is being paid on time or being treated an equal. Originally, I had imagined that organizations such as these just provide financial aid and temporary shelter. But it was much more than that. Her talk raised a question in my mind, do the employers really realized the damage they are doing to the transient worker’s lives due to their actions, and if they do, why do they not bothered to change? In my mind, I think this problem is quite big, and with the current state of the modern society, the number of transient workers will only increase. But it seems that no one knows much/anything about this problem, and this made me realize how self-centered humans are.

Deborah Emmanuel told us the story of her upbringing and the rough life she had, not being able to fit into any ethnic subgroup, she felt alone and different from everyone else. She found it hard talking about her problems and therefore she decided to write poems inspired/about her life struggles. She expressed herself through literature and by this, she was able to find a solution to her problems and find a new path in life. This is an example to everyone who is struggling but is not open with their experience and emotions if you find it too hard to express yourself verbally/face-to-face, using literature can be very effective. Through art, you are able to unite people with similar/same problems whether it was in the past or present, and these people will help you overcome your obstacles.

Robyne Haynes is a child-rights activist specializing in child-marriage. Through this writer’s fortnight, Robyne Haynes talked to us and showed us the reality of child-marriage and how common it actually occurs in the modern world, originally I did not often think about child-marriage often and I assumed it was not as big as a problem. Robyne Haynes explained to us the reality of the problem and the conditions that the victims live through, through photographs. She asked child-marriage victims to take a photo of something and explain to them the photo to her, and by this, she was able to give them a voice, as many of the victims became victims because they did not have a voice. With the underlying theme of ‘One picture is worth a thousand words.’ I learned that people often it hard expressing themselves through words, and words can only say so much. But by utilizing photography people can be much more open and alongside that, you can extract much more information from one photo.

I use to think that in the writing world, you want to find the best illustrator in the market and the highest quality publisher if you want to aim for the top prize. But Shweta Bhatangar has changed this thought of mine. In literature, it is not about who can write the best description, but who can make the book the most relatable. By having Jiya as her illustrator instead of a professional, allows the readers (who are children) to connect with the book much easier due to the child like drawings. Having someone who has experience/is similar to the readers is a major advantage as they know what the reader prefers and how their mind behaves. After all, the quality of your literature is determined by the audience, not by the dictionary. This is a true fact which I have not realized until now, as whenever I write literature I always write for the same stakeholder and thus I do not have the experience.

Chetan Bhagat is a renown author with many of his novel receiving film adaptations, in 2008, The New York Times commented that Chetan Bhagat is “The biggest selling English language novelist in india’s history.”

I use to think that literature was physical written works such as books, and I expected that he would teach us how to draw people into reading your books, but instead, Chetan Bhagat taught us that literature is anything with language in it, and it is a fluid term. Meaning that literature is defined by the people. If the majority of people prefer to read and write on social media sites, that is the literature of today. If people prefer to read books, that is literature. Therefore instead of drawing people to your literature, go to their literature. This will allow you to maximize your potential and reach the most people you can.

I use to think that interviews are all based on how good the questions you ask are, but now I think that the presentation of your question also plays a major part in getting a good answer.

 

Sand:

To interview someone takes a lot of skill, it is not simple to create a good interview.

Shoreline:

The session clarified to me that journalist not only asks questions but also have to analyze the interviewee’s mood, to decide what is the appropriate action.

Ship:

All of what Steve Dawson has said will stay with me as I find all of them valid and necessary, to create a good interview. Especially using the term ‘How do you feel’, as I feel that it is normally overlooked but has a lot of potentials.

Filtered Four:

The first icon, the guitar represents the need to analyze what is happened and take apppropriate action, much like how in a improvisation, you need to listen to the music and play accordingly.

The megaphone is for listening to the answer, if you do not listen to the interviewees answer your cannot ask a follow up question

The third icon, the dice represents that an interview is not based on chance, it is your decision whether you are able to get good answers.

The last icon, the keys, representst that to get a good interview you need to have effectivly used many different skills, represented by the multiple cuts on the key.