At the beginning of this year I was part of the running hour service which ran at 7pm to 8:30pm on a Thursday evening. In this service we would run laps around the Singapore national stadium track with people who have mental disabilities. This service was in place in order to help these people get Read More…
T.O.K Homework on Mathematics
The mathematical method is the way that we use the theory of mathematics in order to help us get a better understanding of certain things that need numbers in order to become more comprehensible. For example in school we use the mathematics of time in order to make sure we are not late for our Read More…
CAS Reflection 1: Basketball Preseason
So far during the IB I have taken part in preseason basketball because basketball is one of my hobbies and doing the preseason to it is the stepping stone to making the U19 A team. For this activity we have practice every Tuesday morning and Thursday evening as well. There was also an extension to Read More…
Mindsets
In school I only have one subject where I have a fixed mindset because I am generally a person of growth and the subject where I can’t see any is french. It is a course with teachers who have very closed minds and it is a subject where you either get the content or you Read More…
PSE Reflection
During our PSE course we have learned about identity, personality types, emotional intelligence, and grit. Whilst all of these topics relate to me and are very important, there is one that stands out and is something I have related to all my life, which is grit. Since I was a young child there has always Read More…
Mass Communication
For this task we had to pick a current news article that reached all of Galtung’s and Ruge’s 12 criteria for a news article to be posted. Galtung and Ruge’s criteria for an article relate very strongly to the people or countries involved relevancy and power. The news article had to impact a powerful nation Read More…
Identity
My name is Robert Stefanos Kynigos. It is my grandfathers first name combined with my fathers first name. It is very unoriginal but I am quite happy with it. Ever since I was a young boy my mother started calling me Bobby because it is technically a shortened name for Robert. Another contributing factor to Read More…
Poverty Simulation Reflection
Why are the shopkeepers so powerful? The shopkeepers are so powerful because they have the money. The money is what these families need in order to survive and the shopkeepers have all of it so if the shopkeepers want a certain type of bag at a certain rate, then the families are going to have Read More…
Global Perspectives
I think I am more anthropocentric as I believe that what we do as humans affect the environment, but what the environment does to us does not affect us as much as we affect it. There is nothing on this planet that has a bigger impact than humans so I am more anthropocentric rather than Read More…
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