Interpersonal

What is your view on prejudice?
Prejudice is found everywhere and has been in existence since the beginning of time. As long as there are people, there are prejudices. It is inevitable that prejudices exist in our daily life but we ourselves must be able to manage our own as well as society prejudices. It is neither right or wrong about having prejudices but we must constantly be aware of its existence.

Can you list some examples of prejudice?
There can be prejudices about race, religions, social economic background, physical appearance, gender.

What is your view on discrimination?
It is neither right or wrong about having discrimination but we must constantly be aware of its existence. If we were to adopt a positive attitude towards ‘perceived discrimination”, we will not be angry at all times. We must find the root cause and try to correct it through persuasion, education and even through legislation. We must try as much as possible to provide a level playing field for everyone. It may not be perfect but we must still have faith in it and persevere to achieve it.

Can you explain the different forms of discrimination?Examples of positive discrimination is when we encounter people who look down on our social economic background. If we were to acknowledge this action as a challenge for us to work harder than others, in this country we have the opportunity to excel and possibly reach the same level.
Examples of negative discrimination is when somebody exhibit discrimination towards a another person through words or actions. The recipient react through it using violent means to even out. This just reinforced the subject of negative discrimination.

What will you do if you come across discrimination?

I will try to stop the act within my means if not I will seek assistance of the police. I will not use violent means to resolve the discrimination as it is wrong and sending the wrong message across. Throughout history, too many lives have been lost because of acts of discrimination.

Naturalist

The mockingbird lives in Maycomb as it eats ants, beetles, grasshoppers, seeds and berries which can be found in Maycomb easily. As Maycomb has farms, the mockingbird likes to live there as it likes to eat the vegetables the farmers grow.
The mockingbird likes to live in open ground where it can hunt for food and roam about, it does not like to live in dense forests.
The climate in Maycomb is suitable for the mockingbird to live in.
The mockingbird lives in many countries as it does not need many conditions to survive. Maycomb has mockingbirds as it is a common bird which can breed in many countries.

As mockingbirds are especially fond of invasive multiflora rose thickets, I think that there are multiflora rose thickets in Maycomb. There are many small animals such as grasshopppers, beetles and ants in Maycomb as part of the diet of the mockingbird are grasshoppers, ants and beetles. There are also trees which produce berries as mockingbirds feed on berries.

Multiple Intelligence test

After completing the BGfL Multiple intelligence exercise, I am both satisfied by the result and have a better understanding of my own strengths and areas for improvements. It provide a summary of my different attributes in which I will work and seek guidance for my shortcomings. I will constantly take note and must not allow the result to determine who I am and will be in future. I agree to certain extent the results which reflect both my innate and externally acquired characters. The results allow me to further develop my interest in a particular area. I will work on my shortcomings and improve them.

Book Review " The Theif Lord"

Bo and Prosper are brothers running away from their rich aunt, Esther Hartlieb and their uncle. Their aunt and uncle wanted to adopt Bo after Bo and Prosper mother died. They did not want to adopt Prosper; they wanted to send Prosper to a boarding school. Prosper did not want to be separated with Bo and thus brought Bo to a station and together went to Venice. They imagined Venice to be a wonderful place as when they were young; their mother told them stories about Venice. Bo and Prosper met Hornet, a girl who brought them to her and her friend’s hideout. Hornet, Riccio and Mosca are children who lived together at a movie theatre. Scipio who calls himself the thief lord brings them blankets, pillows and almost everything they needed. He steals items and brings them back for them to sell. Bo and Prosper’s aunt and uncle went to Venice and hired a detective, Victor and asked him to find Bo and Prosper. Victor later met Prosper and followed him but he lost trace of Prosper after Prosper and Riccio took a boat. Prosper was given his first task to sell the items Scipio stolen to a man called Barbarossa who always take advantage of the children by buying their items at a low price and selling them at a price ten times the buying price. Prosper helped the children to get more money from Barbarossa by bargaining with him. After some time, Victor managed to find out almost everything he knew from Bo who told him everything including where they lived. Victor fell into a trap set up by the children and his wallet was stolen. He was accused of trying to kidnap a child and was brought to the police station. He was freed later. Victor found out where the children were staying, a movie theatre that was abandoned and was called Stella. Victor found out this information by going to the owner of the movie theatre’s house. Unfortunately for him, the son of the owner was one of the children who tricked him. He went to the theatre before Victor and told the children to escape. But they did not have time to escape and thus they set up a trap. Victor entered the theatre and saw Bo. He walked towards Bo and was captured by the other children who jumped onto him. With Prosper and Hornet holding one of his hands each and Mosca and Riccio grabbing on to one of his leg each. Scipio jumped onto him and the group tied Victor with a rope, stuffing a rag into his mouth. They placed him at the men’s toilet and locked him there with Mosca as the watcher. Prosper crept into the toilet and spoke to Victor. Victor told Prosper things he did not know like Scipio was actually a rich man’s son and all the stolen items were from his house. The next day, Mosca untied Victor and Victor helped him fix his radio. Prosper told his friends about the incident and went to Scipio’s house. Victor escaped when they went. Prosper found out the truth and went back to the theatre with his friends. They decided to bring forward their plan to steal a wing for someone and earn some money. Prosper however did not want to steal the wing and he woke up at night discovering that all his friends including Bo was gone , together with all the equipment. He rushed to the location and decided to help steal the wing as Bo would not leave. The children crept into the house without Scipio. They were caught by the owner called Ida and Scipio stole the wing and they met. The owner did not call the police and told the children a story about the wing. The owner agreed to give them the wing provided they allow her to follow the person who wanted to buy the wing. The children agreed and they ignored Scipio as they had found out his lie. They brought the wing and exchanged it with money. Ida followed the Conte, the person who had bought the wing but she went back after finding out that the person on the Conte’s boat had a gun and was firing at them. The children found out that the money given to them was fake. They also found out that Hornet and Bo were missing. Hornet was sent to a home and Bo was sent to live with his aunt. Ida and Victor rescued Hornet. Bo came back to them after a while but Prosper was already gone with Scipio to the island which had the merry-go-round that could make you younger or older. Conte let Scipio take a ride so that he can be older but Prosper did not want to become older. Barbarossa came to the island and took a ride on the merry-go-round and came down when he was very young. He was tricked and he broke the merry-go-round. The Conte being young already was very angry and wanted him to compensate, Barbarossa had no choice but to give the Conte all his money. Barbarossa did not want to sleep in the shop and Prosper allowed him to sleep in Ida’s house. Prosper found Bo and was elated. They followed Scipio’s plan and tricked Esther into coming to their house. Esther adopted young Barbarossa and went back to Esther’s house where he stole items from Esther and was sent to a boarding school where he made everyone call him the thief lord. Prosper, Bo and Hornet stayed with Esther, Mosca and Riccio went somewhere else and lived there while Scipio worked for Victor.