Mirror, Mirror on The Wall : 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Mirror mirror on the wall, do you know any two similar movies?

The 1st movie we are going to discuss about Deep Impact.

The poster of the movie Deep Impact (credit to www.impawards.com)

It was released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8th 1998. Deep Impact grossed over $349 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget.

Abusing and Killing Innocent People. Mirror Mirror on the Wall, What's Your Opinion on This Topic?

Abusing is an act of misconducting power or authority given to certain people towards another kind of people. Usually, the abuser is someone who has the upper hand in a situation in which he or she decides to use the advantage to bully the targeted subject. Similar as abusing definition, bullying is an act of a person who is powerful in term of energy or back up from other sources in which he or she decides to do bad things to a weaker person for the sake of pleasure by using foul language (communication) or hitting (physical attack). The later bullying type could lead to injury or even death by the result of hitting or suicide act by the victim oneself.

Some people think that bullying in school is common, as example a senior instruct a junior to do something for him or her and risk to be punished if the junior decide to act otherwise. However, we need to prevent this kind of abuse from school so that the person doing it will not repeating the act and as a result the way of his or her life walks around by abusing people to gain benefit as a habit.

The act of bullying and abusing should be handled
since school to avoid unwanted habit in the future
(Picture credit: wikipedia.com/bullying)

Words Behind Poverty

Poverty, by definition from United Nation, is lack of basic capabilities to participate effectively in society. Poverty in this modern days is usually related closely to possession of money in order for a person to buy something such as clothes, house, food, transport and many more.

We all have felt shortage of cash at times. This kind of experience is based on individual experience. However, the main topic to be discussed here is broader which is the poverty of a society or a country in a certain place with different background when we compare to the other developed country such United States of America, The United Kingdom, Japan, and so on. Poverty, as many other problems, has it root of factors leading to it.

Factors of Poverty

Credit to cec.vcn.bc.ca

Poverty on global scale has many historical stories behind it; colonialism, slavery, war and conquest are some of the examples. There is an important differences between causes and what we call factors that maintain conditions of poverty. It is well known that many nations in the world faced the aftermath of wars such as World War I and II. In fact, Malaysia was one of the country that had been taken over by Japan and

British during the World War II. People were reduced to living on charity, barely surviving. We also know that many other nations remain in the same state and poorly developed till now. The question is, what is the problem with the countries that couldn't go on even after they have support from charity and aid?

The factors of poverty as a social problem are listed as ignorance, disease, apathy, dishonesty and dependency. These five factors contribute to other additional causes lead to poverty such as lack of markets, poor infrastructure, poor management and leadership of a government, lack of skills, under-employment and many other. Each of these are social problems in a country, and each of them contribute to the longevity of a nation's poverty.

Mirror mirror on the wall, what's your favourite fairy tale?

A fairy tale can be defined as a type of short stories that usually features folkloric and fantasy characters such as fairies, dwarves, giants, mermaids and gnomes. A very important literature genre, fairy tales exists in all cultures worldwide. Distinguishable from folktales, the author of fairy tales is known and they are written down, while folktales are spread by word of mouth and have no author. In comparison to legends and myths the time and place where it happens are not defined.

It was not until 17th century that folktales were written down and preserved for future generation. Initially,adults were the audience of a fairy tale just as often as children. Literary fairy tales were featured in works intended for adults, but in the 19th and 20th centuries fairy tales became associated with children's literature.

Good and evil in fairy tales is usually clearly separated, often in good and evil characters. In the fairy tale Snow White, the good character is clearly Snow White while the bad character is her step mother, the queen. The content of fairy tales usually has a hero at the center and a conflict between good and evil, natural and supernatural forces.At the end, good is rewarded, and bad is punished.

The fairy tale choose to discussed about is Cinderella. Cinderella was written by the Brothers Grimm, they are probably the best known story tellers in the world.

The Brothers Grimm
(credit to www.worldoftales.com)

Culture Diversity: Elephants and Kui People

Kui Clan: A Proud and Distinct Clan of Thailand

The Location of Kui People(credit to:www.thailandsworld.com)

Kui people can be found in a small rice farming village in Thailand’s northeastern. They can also be found in Laous and Cambodia. Kui people also known as Suai and Kamen-boran. The Kui language is Mon Khmer but in some places they are no longer using their own language. There is no written form for their language and traditions while knowledge are handed down orally from one generation to the next.

kui lady(credit to: www.thailandsworld.com)

‘Baby - Dumping’ issues in Malaysia

Our country unmarried teenage pregnancies has a chronic increase recently and many young mums to be are estranged from their families. As a muslim, we believe that child is a priceless gift from Allah SWT. However, lately the baby dumping cases happen almost every day. Teenage parents give birth in a motel room and leave the child for dead in a garbage. A girl gives birth in a school bathroom at night and throws the baby into the garbage. These stories relate to one of the most frightening realities of our culture today.

Mirror Mirror on the wall.Would you like us to introduce ourselves?

Well, well. Let's move on to the first person.

Jaudat bin Hamidon

Hi! My name is Jaudat Bin Hamidon. I was born on 3^rd of February 1988 in Assunta Hospital in Selangor. I was raised in Petaling Jaya. I’m the 3^rd child of Hamidon bin Abdul Aziz and Hawa binti Said. I’m the 3^rd child out of 4 in my family. I have one older brother, a sister and one younger brother.

This picture was taken back in 2010, when we were celebrating Hari Raya in Singapore.

Top row: me, my eldest brother, my younger brother.

Bottom row: my father, my mum, my elder sister and her husband.

I went to Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Sri Petaling and then I when to SMK (L) Bukit Bintang. After that I continued my studies in UITM Penang and I took Diploma in Chemical Engineering. I spend 3 ½ years there then I graduated on 20 May 2011. It was one of the proudest moments of my life and it was the 1^st time in my life that I received a bouquet of flowers. Hahaha!

Nurul Rabiatul Adawiyah Mohammad Hakimi

Hi! Call me Nurul

I love my life and everything in it! Hi. My name is Nurul Rabiatul Adawiyah Bt Mohmmad Hakimi and I am from Sungai Petani, Kedah. My hobbies are reading book (for self motivation), listening to music, collecting quotes, and playing bowling. I’m actually good in playing bowling!

My bowling team

Next, we have this one guy.

Ahmad Tawfiq Abd Aziz

Gallery Exhibition somewhere around Seoul.

Greetings. My name is Ahmad Tawfiq bin Abd Aziz. I'm from Kulim, Kedah. I am the sixth child of ninth in my family. I have three brothers and five sisters; they include one younger brother and two younger sister. It is quite a big family, but to be honest, we couldn't often meet for an event and for us to meet together somewhere at a same time is like a rare occasion. My father's name is Abd Aziz bin Tajuddin while my mother's is Zailan binti Mansor.

Male members in my family along with in-laws and some nephews

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