Tcks

Good afternoon everybody, thanks for receiving me, well many of you don't know why I'm here or what I'm going to tell you today or maybe some of you do, the topic to be spoken is about the third culture kids. This kids are the ones who have being moved and spend their developmental years outside the parent's culture and it's been said that they lose their identity to their culture, they've lose their sense of belonging to their parents home country, but I ask you, is this true? Do they lose all this? and is it good to be a Third culture kid?

I think TCKs have more things beyond their passport to connect them with home, because their parents were born and grew up in a home country so they could teach or show the culture to their kids and tell them where they come from. Maybe, if they were old enough to learn their mother tongue, they could have their language to identify them and connect them to their home country.

This kids gain and lose because they not only belong to one culture they belong to different cultures they can experience lots of thing others can't , learn from other cultures. They gain  a culture made from different cultures mixed into one, thanks to this TCKs have lots of knowledge and a special ability to compare international and local issues, they have a deep understanding of human rights.

This only thing this kids lose is that they do not belong to the same culture as they parents, they lose a little part of them.The thing is that TCKs in a way lose their way to identify them selfs as a person of a specific culture,but what they gain is absolutely amazing, yes is true they don't belong to a specific culture, but they belong to many others, they can identify with the language the tradition they learn from their home country or their parents country ,they understand the world in a way no one  else can but others have to,  they see a more tolerant and open minded world, also a world with endless possibilities that are opened because of their qualities. This kids, they are not just normal kids they are kids that are making a path for the rest of the world to follow, this kids are the future to a more united world a more tolerant world.

After all that's been said I would like to focus in one of the question, is it good to be a third culture kid? my answer is yes it is , this kids, they are the pillars to a different world they posses different qualities that will help them in their everyday, they have different cultures to identify to, they posses a richer culture also a very different way to see the world and is the way we all should do. Think about it and learn about this.thanks for your attention 

written task "to kill a mocking bird" by Harper Lee

Rationale

In the task “To kill a mocking bird” by harper lee. Tom Robinson is a coloured man that has been incriminated with the crime of raping a white girl, crime he did not commit. In this diary entry I wanted to show how Tom Robinson was spending his time in prison, how he reflected about his life, about what could’ve gone different, about the injustice of life and the injustice of the white society in this time. I also aim to reflect how Tom Robinson feeling during this time, how he felt about Mayella Ewell, how he wrote his feelings of anger towards the Ewell for the accusation they made against him and dishonouring him by taking him to court. One last thing I wanted to show is that Tom Robinson was not just a simple character he is something greater, he is a symbol in the novel, he is the representation of the discrimination towards coloured people in this time.

 I’ve being thinking about everything, about my wife about my family, about my life and everything I could’ve done different. I’ve thought over and over again trying to understand how could this happened to me, how could I heard that silly girl asking for my help, that deceiving girl that I once felt sorry, she and her father had been the worst thing that has happened to me in my hole life, they have turned all the white people against me, making them think I’m a criminal, that I raped her and beat her, but the thing is that it doesn’t matter if I didn’t do anything it doesn’t matter what I say, it doesn’t matter what I do, because my word is never going to be heard in this white society, my words will never win a white man’s word because it’s the world we live in. 

In one moment I felt hope, it was after Atticus talked to judge and the jury I thought that he could changed the jury’s mind, that maybe… just maybe he could’ve made the people of the jury see the truth that lay before them and make them act by the law, but the opposite thing happened the jury spend a lot of time thinking of my verdict but in the end the decision was that I was guilty, I think they knew I was innocent yet they chose not by the evidence, not by the law, they voted and declared me guilty because I’m coloured man and a coloured man can’t beat a white man and the jury will never let that happen and I don’t know if that makes me feel yet angry or disappointed or maybe both ,because the evidence was in front of them and everyone knows I could never do something like that to a girl or to anyone.

I’ve being remembering that I always tried to live my life as peaceful and hearty as I could, always following what the law says, but my attempts to achieve a life in a place where I thought more people could accept us failed and what I dreamed that could’ve happened is never going to happen in a place like this or in a time like this. In this moment I feel grateful because of everything Atticus has done to probe my innocence he did everything he could, I’m also terrified to know what is going to happen to me but Atticus said that he was going to send and appeal to my case, but what if it doesn’t work.

This morning I’ve been sent to another jail only god knows where and only god knows why, but I will not fall into despair I will not fail to probe my innocence, I will recover that one thing that a man white or black can’t live without….. Honour . 

Beauty and Youth

BEAUTY AND YOUTH 

1.- How are young people nowadays?
2.- What are the benefits of drinking and smoking? There have no benefits
3.-What is beauty and youth
4.- Do we really now what beauty is?


Picture and information link
http://manu.org.nz/2012/04/22/youth-health-package-just-scratches-surface/

The picture of Dorian Gray, first chapter mind map

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.The main theme of the novel is aestheticism and duplicity (mainly a double life) This is the first chapter of the novel were the main plot is the interactions between Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton and a short story of basil when he first met Dorian Grey.

This is the link for the first chapter mind map:
In the mind map are the following themes 
"all art is quite useless" 
The personality traits of the character in the first chapter (Dorian Grey, Lord Henry and Basil Hallward).
Oscar Wilde
The aesthetic movement 
The Victorian times 

Link:
http://www.mindmeister.com/418062835/the-picture-of-dorian-gray

The novel link
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/dorian-gray.pdf

Bibliography  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray#Themes
http://www.shmoop.com/picture-dorian-gray/basil-hallward.html
http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/britlitweb/cklinb.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature#The_style_of_the_Victorian_novel
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Art_for_art's_sake
http://www.cranleighdfas.org/rev1101.htm