Topic: Illegal Immigrants Right-Side Media: Hoards of undocumented immigrants caught near the Mexican border trying to steal our jobs Left-Side Media: Migrants trying to find a living across the border

Is Ismene a weakling, a mere fence-sitter, or does she represent a reasonable position? Support your ideas with textual evidence. Ismene, the sister of the main character Antigone, acts as a foil to her sibling in many regards. She is known to be a stickler to the rules, accepting higher power and authority, as compared … Continue reading Antigone, The Burial of Thebes – ELP Post 3 →

Where should Isma’s loyalty lie: with her brother or her country? This question highlights the subjective nature of the topic at hand, the influence of ethics and morals we have inherited as children, and the role they plan in our decision making. There is no right or wrong answer when asked this question. It is … Continue reading Home Fire, Antigone, Philosophy and Ethics →

What does the play say about obligations to family and obligations to authority? Throughout the play, there are some key characters who have opposing views with regards to obligations and responsibilities to family and authority. Potential characters who deem it more important to be loyal to the family predominantly consists of Antigone, who persists in … Continue reading Antigone, The Burial of Thebes – ELP Post 2 →

How should we regard the character Antigone? As prideful and reckless? As heroic? As an innocent victim of tyranny? As a martyr? As an idealist? Antigone is the main character in the play, and has parallels to Aneeka in the book Home Fire, written by Kamila Shamsie. While Ismene seems to be the more independent … Continue reading Antigone, The Burial of Thebes – ELP Post 1 →

Recently, I conducted an interview with a woman in the Singaporean community who practises Islam, and wears a hijab on a daily basis. I decided to keep the focus of the interview on specifically why the lady wears a Hijab, the symbol behind the object, and possibly question the discrimination and prejudice she has faced … Continue reading Interview with a Muslim Woman in our Community →

This is a political cartoon that focuses predominantly on stereotypes that Muslims have to face in society. There are 4 individuals in the picture, all men, and it looks as if one of the men are teaching the others how to operate a bomb. The others watch eagerly and curiously. The picture is quite barren, … Continue reading Political Cartoon Annotation and Commentary →

In this post, I will be focusing on the topic of prejudice, which is a preconceived opinion that is not based on factual reasoning, as this concept can be easily identified and analysed in the photojournalistic works of Yumna al Arashi and Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire. Subconsciously speaking, the notion of Prejudice can … Continue reading Yumna al Arashi and Home Fire →