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Human Rights In North Korea

I am interested in North Korea as many articles and blog posts say that they violate the most amount of human rights and quite often as well. All basic freedoms have been severely restricted In North Korea, prisoners, mostly made up of impoverished individuals locked up for committing petty crimes. Their efforts to survive, subject them to horrific treatment. Not only this but also their have been cases of Kim Jong Un ordering women to drown their own babies in buckets. I think the reason human rights are violated in this way is because he wants to establish his power. This concerns me because having a mum drown her own baby on demand is truly truly awful and something someone should never have to go through. I think What influenced my perspective on this is the country I live in and the way I am treated and that I have most, if not all of the human rights.

 

https://www.hrw.org/asia/north-korea

Top 3 Countries With the Worst Human Rights Violations

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TWC2, Seema – Writers Fortnight

I thought this talk was the most meaningful because it was a very local issue. I had previously been part of a service “healthserve” in grade 8 in which we helped injured migrant workers to entertain them by playing games and such which would stop them from staying in their hostels alone. I thought it was a very good service and I enjoyed seeing the migrant workers smile and have a good time. Although I was in this service I didn’t quite realise all of the details to this problem and why it was so bad. I was glad to hear that the MOM let the migrant workers have a special pass. But then realise that it doesn’t really help them because they no longer get paid during this period.

One part of me thought that this issue is a very big issue in singapore and as she said it will be a “slowburn” but non the less that doesn’t mean we cant help the process

Another part of me was talking to a classmate afterward and we were thinking that in order for a society and economy to work properly you need cleaners and garbage man and things. Not everyone can be a CEO or Boss. But non the less this doesnt mean that those who are CEO’s have more rights than those working at a garbage dump.

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Deborah Emmanuel – Writers Fortnight

Deborah Emmanuel was certainly one of my favourite speakers from writers fortnight 2018 because she seemed to be the most real. She didn’t really hold back when it came to her thoughts and she just said what she felt which I thought was very powerful. Most of the time she would talk about her not feeling as though she belongs in a community eg Singapore. She told us poems about this and shared a few of her thoughts on the point. I can certainly relate to this and I am sure many other people can because we all have those times when we feel although we don’t belong in a community so then we must try to find one in which we do fit. Kind of like finding friends. Not everyone can be your friend so you have to choose a few that you think you can relate to and like the most. I really enjoyed her poems and I felt like i listened to her more when she was telling her poems as they were more complex and more interesting that you had to be very attentive in order to understand what she was trying to tell you.

“Everything is going to be okay, its not okay because we choose not to think it is okay”

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Robyn Hayes – Writers Fortnight

I personally didn’t even realise that child marriage was such a big issue in the world. Robyn Hayes really did state how it is impacting many many children around the world and I didn’t even know about it. For example she stated the 1/3 children in the developing word are married under the age of 18. She also said the women there are only valued for being mothers and wives. I understood this from the mans perspective but when she said that the woman felt this way too I was shocked. To think that the women themselves only know what it feels like to be a mother or wife is really quite sad as they have no friends and not much of a social life etc. Another big factor that took my attention was that child marriage means that gils cannot have an education which I didn’t understand previously but obviously greatly upscales the issue. I liked how Robyn had a different way of attacking the problem compared to most other people when faced with a global issue. She gave them a voice. I think this is really meaningful as “a picture tells 100 words” so it was very very meaningful to me and I also thought it was a very good way to spread awareness.

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According to new Google research, teens think Google is cool—sorry, “lit”

After reading the article, review the scattergraph.

– To what extent are your brand choices reflected in the scattergraph?

  • I would say it is quite accurate to a certain extent although some of the brands in the graph I would disagree with for example I think as of now many more people are aware of Supreme so I don’t think it should be at the bottom of the graph.

– Do you gravitate towards ‘cool’ and ‘aware’ brands? Why or why not?

  • Yes I think I do because they are the trend and lots of people have respect for you. For example lets use clothes. If you are wearing nice clothes that are in with the trends but then if you get too carried away they label you as “basic” so then I just choose clothes that are nice to wear and stand out from the obvious brands.

– Comment on at least five brands and your opinions about them.

  • H&M – I think H&M is a really great brand especially for us because they sell really nice clothes at a relatively cheap price point.
  • Adidas – I think adidas should be more cool as they have recently been trying to get into the streetwear categories with things like boost and yeezys
  • Nike – Nike I think they are up here just because of how well known they are. If they don’t start trying to create new things they will certainly fall down this chart
  • Netflix&Youtube – I think Netflix and youtube are pretty much under in teh same category. Us teenagers only really use our computers for entertainment and no longer really watch TV so these two platforms is what we really use to entertain ourselves.
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Generation Z Collage

I chose these ten Images because I think they best describe our generation. The biggest one in the middle is the one I think explains the most about us. It is a baby at a computer.

This represents how we have only ever grown up with technology around us and it is a very different childhood in comparison to those in the generations above us

The other images such as the mobile phone, Snapchat, Youtube and Instagram show how we are all connected online and on social media. The Champion Logo and the Fidget spinner goes to show how we are like sheep and follow trends really easily.

The Vegan logo is showing how as a whole we are more accepting of people’s different values and beliefs. Homer lying down as well as the kid getting money express’ how we are lazy and when we are children everything is given to us as if we are being spoon fed.

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Chetan Bhagat – Writers Fortnight

Chetan Bhagat was one of my favourite speakers so far. I really did enjoy listening to him and he did tell us why. He said in order to reach people you must reach them through entertainment. He did this by making us all laugh in the beginning and then since he was “funny” we all listened to him.

He talked to us abut success and how you can get it.

  • A winner is someone who either is better then the rest (eg. Sport) or someone who changes the game (eg. Writing)
  • He used a cockroach analogy to describe how a winner is not the strongest player, it is the one who can adapt to its environment.
  • You always ned to be thinking of new ways to reach people. He did books then Bollywood.

He then talked to us about goal setting and how you need to ad a time frame to a goal or else it is just a dream.

I related to this part a lot due to the fact that I swim a lot. We set a lot of goals and we practice this a lot but I have never heard it been said in this way so it made me think more about my dreams/goals.

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Steve Dawson – Writers Fortnight

Steve Dawson is a Fox Sports commentator. He has interviewed many people throughout his time and has had a lot of experience. I was certainly glad to hear his story. He told us about the 5 principles of a good interview. These were..

  • Ask open-ended questions because it provides the challenge for the interviewer.
  • Set the answers free and don’t limit
  • Don’t interrupt
  • Don’t ask double barrelled questions. (Be a single Shooter
  • Listen to the answer
  • Don’t be a fanboy or a girl

This last one made the most impact to me because he told us a story about his interview with Manny Pacquiao. He could have been a fanboy about it and made a big deal and ask for photos and everything but he was very responsible about it. Then as he was leaving the hotel room Manny said “Steve, come back we need a photo” and from acting professional I learnt that you can build very positive relationships from it.

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My thoughts after the debate

I think after the debate there was certainly a hefty amount of information which I had to process many of which are correct and some which I disagree with. In terms of me, I believe I was born as a boy and had all of the genetics that made me a boy. For example there was a study done in UCLA showing how they studied mice embryos and how there are 54 differing because of gender. Other things such as testosterone and more play a role in making me a boy. Then from there I think it is how society looks and sees you. If you see a boy on the street you would talk to them differently if they were a girl. This relates to the bobo doll experiment and shows how when we are young we act like other people and learn and do things the same as they do. So overall I think the real driving force that starts this off is our genetic and then from there it is how society perceives us and how they treat us that makes us who we are.

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Nature vs Nurture Gpers

After watching the video about how a boy turned into a girl it made me think a lot about my own gender identity

I think as I grew up and of course still am. My environment hasn’t really had that big of an impact on my gender as I feel like I have always been a boy. I have played with boys toys, I did lots of boy things and all of my friends were boys. When I was younger I would often copy a lot of the things my friends do and of course if all of my friends were boys then I would try to be more like them. So that was the only real impact of the environment for me although even still I feel like I have always been a boy.

I think My gender is very important to my identity because immediately when people see my they see that I am a boy and therefore when they meet me they hear everything I say through a filter and that filter being my physical gender. Of course as the person gets to know me they will understand more and more about who I am and how my mental gender may be different to my physical gender.

My gender has certainly shaped the way I think because I talk like all other guys and think about certain things like muscles and things just like they do. But in a way so do the rest of them, they are all trying to be like one another because in this day and age it is really easy just to fit in with everyone and it is much more difficult to be an outlier.

Nowadays there are many things making me look at my gender in a different way because people are now more open about their gender and there are so many different kinds gender that it has made me question myself. Although I don’t think my opinion on my gender has changed and it has stuck the same. Although if in the future I decide that I need to change my gender (which I most probably want to do) then I  will because by that time it wont be a big problem to change your gender and how your world is changing.

So all in all when we look at the nature nurture debate. I believe that their is an element of nature and that when you are born you are either a boy or a girl. But then as you grow up and become more independent you realise that their are some aspects of you that were formed by what influences you.