Sample post for CAS-season 1&2

Activity-Karate

East Karate offers students the opportunity to study the Japanese martial art of Kyokushin Karate. Martial arts train the body, mind and spirit and are beneficial to anyone of any age. Established at East in 2010, East Karate is run in conjunction with the Singapore Budokan Karate-Do Kyuokushinkaikan Club whose instructors run training alongside Shehan Chua, 6th Dan. More information about the club is at www.karate.com.sg Gradings take place twice a year, or three times if the students attend the outside club training which they are free to do; however, Karate is a journey, not a destination, and we aim to develop martial artists for life at East Karate. 

Activity-Animate

“ANIMATE – Light painting – animation – performance” ANIMATE is an experimental light painting and animation group activity whose main aim is to perform live using an iPad and Tagtool app to illustrate and animate in real-time, using buildings or stages as a canvas, exploring ephemeral art in motion. Rimiyoho example The ANIMATE group will ultimately collaborate with the music department spreading light and colour to musical performances. 

Service-Music for All with SGM Murni

This Service partners with SGM Murni Childcare Centre to empower children from lower income families in Singapore to be more confident and self- aware. In 2012, PAP listed 317 non- profit childcare centres, about 290 are situated in HDB residential blocks. This centre supports working parents from a lower income with affordable cost. SGM aims to provide holistic education that emphasises on social, emotional, cognitive and physical and with affordable cost. Students in this service will work with SGM Murni child care centre to boost preschoolers’ (aged 5 – 6 years old) confidence through gymnastics and movement activities. Our contribution empowers these children to embrace challenges, be receptive to changes and learn to have fun in sports and movement, building agility as well as having fun and keeping fit. This service is designed to meet the vision and mission of SGM Murni Child Care centre, which is to nurture young children, with a focus on learning through music. UWCSEA students will learn how to lead activities and introduce rhythms and beats with simple movements. They will collaboratively plan with the teacher facilitators and lead fun activities.

Culturama-Italy

Culturama is our school’s annual dance performance, usually held in October. Each dance has different themes. This year’s theme is the traditional culture of different countries, and the culture of each country must be a long time ago tradition. I was selected for Italian dance this year. I practiced busy but interesting. It was a great pleasure to be selected into culturama.

Practice extended essay reflection

8 key terms from my essay–A Comparative Study of French Romantic Art and British Romantic Art

Decomposition: the state or process of rotting( decay ).The aesthetics of decomposition: a study into the representation of the process of human decomposition within a fine art context, and its symbolic connotations to aspects of the human condition.

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Medieval: of or relating to the Middle Ages, In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or medieval period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery

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Rationality: the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic.A classic from Isaac Asimov, posted by Jeremy Bruno:

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.”

Enlightenment: the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.Art During the Enlightenment. Previous to the enlightenment, the dominant artistic style was Rococo. When the Enlightenment and its new ideas took hold, Rococo was condemned for being immoral, indecent, and indulgent, and a new kind of instructive art was called for, which became known as NeoclassicismImage result for Enlightenment in art

Nostalgia: a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.A look at art that uses the aesthetics of 1990s graphic design to become new. … Nostalgia is an intellectual and aesthetic crutch that prevents cultural artefacts from reflecting their own epochs.Image result for Nostalgia in art

Aesthetic: concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement. Aesthetics is for the artist as Ornithology is for the birds. Some separate aesthetics and philosophy of art, claiming that the former is the study of beauty while the latter is the study of works of art. It examines topics such as aesthetic objects, aesthetic experience, and aesthetic judgments.Image result for aesthetic art

Diagonals: a straight line joining two opposite corners of a square, rectangle, or other straight-sided shapes.Art Composition Structure #3 – Diagonals. Diagonal lines in paintings are great for creating a dynamic design. They create tension, and thus a visual interest, in a painting that is different from horizontal and vertical lines.

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Exoticism: Scholar Alden Jones defines exoticism in art and literature as the representation of one culture for consumption by another. An archetypical example is an artist and writer Paul Gauguin and his representations of Tahitian people and landscapes for a French audience.

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Science individual essay

Through the project, I learned that sustainability is the ability to protect the environment, ecological footprint can show the natural resources that people spend in their daily life.Sustainability is inseparable from the ecological footprint, cause one aspect of sustainability can be seen from the ecological footprint, thus people can improve what they are doing in lives, base on that, they might try to find the way to think out the way to change something in their life style to help protect the environment.So everyone can achieve the protection of the earth to protect the environment and save natural resources.

Above is my footprint result, as you can see, I am not a very sustainable person.In the result, I realise two of the habits that contribute the most are travel and services.I do this footprint calculator based on my life in China, for the services, I think it relates to the waste in my daily life.Normally there are 3 or even 5 people living in one house, because of the number of people, so our rubbish is more than our neighbours, and most of the trash are about food waste, clothes that can’t be worn anymore, and some plastic water bottles without water inside and can not be recycled.I have learned that most of the garbage is destroyed by incineration, and the incineration itself causes damage to nature. If plastic is burned, the plastic will produce toxic gases such as hydride, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide when it burns. A large amount of garbage is burned, the generated gas will pollute the air and harms the human body. This toxic gas damages people’s lungs, trachea, skin, and respiratory system.During the garbage burning process, the ash produced will fly into the air and pollute the environment.Not all the trash is going to be burned, rest of them is going to be in the ocean, although this is the only way to deal with garbage at present, the damage to the natural environment is very serious.

For the travelling, I need to spend a lot of time on the plane cause I study in Singapore, from China to Singapore once it costs more than 5 hours, at the same time, our school have plenty of vacations, and when it’s time, I have to go back to China cause I am boarder in school and the rule is if we are not scholarship we can not spend our whole holiday in boarding house.All in all, I believe air travel is the biggest problem for me and the services(trash)is the second problem.I search for air travel and the website says:”Unfortunately, air travel is one of the more environmentally damaging activities we can undertake. Globally, the aviation industry is responsible for roughly 2% of carbon dioxide emissions, but that is rising quickly as more people fly more often.”During the flying, it costs lots of energy so plane will release a lot of carbon dioxide in the air, and burning releases greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.

Take it more serious, if everyone is doing the same thing that can causes the pollution, so the seawater is polluted, the air is polluted, so the ozone layer is destroyed, causing global temperatures to rise, icebergs to melt, animals to die, and human life is threatened.

Dealing with the garbage, me and my family will use less plastic water bottles, if we have to use or buy it we can have the type that can be recycled.I think there are many ways that can let us recycle the plastic bottle, for example, I can turn it into watering tool or flower pot.We can use the clothes that we can’t wear anymore to make ‘eco bag’, or donate it to somewhere that the children don’t have enough money to buy clothes.For food, do not over-serve and store food correctly in the fridge to keep food fresh.

Dealing with the air travel, although the air travel is the only way I can arrive Singapore, I can choose direct flights as direct as possible, and compare some different airline and choose a more sustainable one.During the vacation, fly as less as possible, try to avoid flying as much as possible. If I can take the train or bus to travel, I can save up to 90% in CO2 emissions.

If I only have one choice from waste and air travel, I will choose control the waste cause it’s easier to deal with and I can start doing that from some small things in my life.

 

 

 

Science reflection 2

During the project I have learned the details about the explanation of sustainability, and the importance of it.During the process, I found a variety of different methods to improve the environment, also from the preparations for interviews with the audience, I can reflect myself on what is not good enough in my life so I can change it to be more sustainable.

The most challenging thing for me was making the infographic, I was the one who should have the responsibility to finish the infographic but in fact, I spend a lot of time on it and the result was still not so good at I thought.With my group members help, I finished it.Also our client Ms.Cathy Jones has already been a very sustainable person in life, so it was a challenge for us to find the place that she can change.

Personal statement

In my childhood, I dreamed that I will be a designer who can design the most beautiful pink dress in the world so I can put on the dress and walk around to show people that I got talent for it.Through the years, I have grown up, but I still have a designer dream, I don’t know I have it because of my childhood or my reality thinking, but I know if I am going to reach it, I need to spend enough energy and time in art, and I need to let my time become worth it.

When I was studying in junior high school, one of my classmates told me to go to a sketch class, cause if we improve the sketch skills and pass the A-Level of drawing exam, we will get 6 more scores when we have the middle school entrance examination.When I started to learn sketching, I had an impure thought about it, but when I really learned something, I was deeply attracted by it.I believe to help myself achieve the design goal, I need to improve my basic drawing skill and my self-management, also my creativity.Because of an essay, I find that I still can’t understand some art work deeply, I guess it’s because I can’t get the emotion of the artist so I also need to learn about the history of art.

My dream is not going to be design a beautiful pink dress(probability it will become one of the creative thought) but it’s the starting point that let me have the dream and work on it.I am doing well through the term and I am still being enthusiastic about art.

 

Thank you for reading.