Void #1

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding (silence) to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.



I think that adding a silence after the word "understanding" creates the most tension because the audience might confused because some people might know that this is only half of the mission statement and others might applaud, thinking that this is the quick ending to the mission statement. People in the audience might also think that there are 2 parts to the mission statement, one being about the students' academic capabilities and the other about their overal capabilities. Others could think that challenges and capabilities are looked at differently in general in ISKL. Some people might think that having a silence after the word "understanding" shows more about the academic things in ISKL rather than the social things.

Void questions and answers

7) Were your predictions correct? How did you feel about that?

No, my predictions were not correct, but they were fairly close, considering that every one of my secondary predictions had something to do with hurting, dying, rocks being thrown etc. I feel that my predictions were the correct thing to predict because others in the class predicted the same. Though at first I thought that it was going to be the man or one of their children, I think it is a logical solution that she herself was stoned because she was the one complaining and not agreeing with the rules of the lottery, that had been there previously for a long time.

4) How did you feel when you were handed the mystery paper? What did you think was in it? Did you follow the instructions? Why/why not?

I felt that this was intentional to make a void in the story and so that one would not want to follow the instructions of the paper and immediately open the paper. I thought that the end of the story was going to be inside the paper, and at that I was correct, though I did not know what the end of the story was. I actually tried to follow the instructions and I forgot about the paper until I saw that the time was 5:00, at which time I opened the paper to discover the end of the much awaited story. I followed instructions to make the end of the story more exciting, or at least when I opened the paper, and to make a void, leaving me wondering what was inside that whole time.

1) What would you call this story? Why?

I would call this story "Lucky Irony", because it involves the lottery, but in a bad way, and the whole time one woman is bickering about the lottery while in the end she "wins" and is stoned, to keep the village's population smaller. Though being chosen to be stoned might be the opposite of lucky, that is another reason for it to be ironic because only one in 300 is chosen, involving much luck, as is in money lotteries, but you are chosen in a bad way, so it's "lucky", but ironic

10) Explain the power of the void in this experience.
C. Text clues and foreshadowing throughout

The continuous text word clues throughout the story hint towards the luck of the woman, because in several occasions the word "lottery" appears, however the silence in the lottery crowd also foreshadows that the "lottery" isn't a good thing to win, but rather an annual stoning instead of someone winning money.

6) How did you feel when you read the end of the story? Explain.

I knew that something bad was going to happen so I did not feel all to excited, but I did have a sense of wondering and really wanted to open the paper, but instead I followed it's instructions. It was not so much that I wanted to know what the end of the story was, seeing as I already knew that, but more that I wanted to see it written on the paper to confirm my predictions and knowledge of the story.

Finally...some progress.

I think it is great that there is finally some progress on the world goals which the world governments agreed to help with by 2015. I think that now they realize that it has been 9 years since they made the pledge and 2015 is getting pretty close. They start to take action because they know the shame, danger and embarassment that they will have upon their own countries if they don't help. Free health care for the needy and 30%-10,000 less people under the age of 5 dying around the world. People are starting to care now..STARTING. They should have started caring long ago, then we wouldn't have had this problem in the first place. Because of the greed, people die every day(deaths lessen every year) and because of those governments who never cared fro their people and only had wars...

Response to Jeremy Gilley video

I think the Jeremy Gilley video was interesting, because he tells that before he thought of it himself, there was no day of peace or date or anything big about peace, so he set out to try and achieve such a feat. I think it is amazing that one person can make such a big difference to the world.

What are global issues and why do I care?

Global issues are like global warming and war, global issues are all issues that are bad to all around the world, things that make everyone unhappy, things that can kill children and adults all over the world. I care because it is unfair to those who don't have money from their government or those who don't have their basic needs, which were supposed to be given by their local government as ordered by the UN(United Nations). All people should be equal and have peace, otherwise there WILL BE global issues! If we make all the world fair (which we won't, because some people just have to be evil to others) then we wont have to have money or anything (Which won't happen). The world will never be fair until there are none who cannot commit to peace, until there are no people that HAVE TO be evil or mean.