In late autumn, when the cold air and breeze blow the cheeks, with the cooperation of divisions and ECAs, the annual Mental Health Week arrived! I would like to capture fragments of joy during this week through this article. Emotional Wall In front of the volleyball court, there is a whiteboard covered with cute memes […]
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To meet the needs of students for diverse curriculum, besides Cambridge International courses, SCIE also provides Pearson edexcel English, Japanese, Drama, PE and EPQ to students. In 2023, SCIE students got 32 Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards in total. Recently, SCIE got another exciting news that 4 SCIE students won the Outstanding Pearson Learner Awards. Among them, Emilie Xiao won
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Dreams will come to earth and settle into the frost of the morning. The trophy MEDALS shone and were held aloft above the stadium. Here has the most vivid colors in late autumn, wanton smear youth, surging crowd or hustle, laugh aloud. Here are our most wanton laughter tears, dream songs resounding, rushed to the
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Day 1 At noon on Friday, we met at the south gate of the school, did the final check before departure, and then took the bus to Shenzhen North Station and boarded the high-speed train from Shenzhen to Guilin. About three or four hours from Shenzhen to Guilin, we arrived at the destination of the
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Fashion show has always been considered the highest standard of all events held in SCIE. With the highest technical difficulty and the most complex organization. Famous for its innovative clothing designs, professional stage, and powerful technical support. Fashion show provides a perfect proving ground for students who are applying for clothing design. This event is
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“What is iGEM? Is it fun?” If you ask Baidu, its answer is: international Genetically Engineered Machine competition. iGEM, which has the same age as our school SCIE, has nurtured over 4,300 synthetic biology projects and more than 20,000 genetic Parts worldwide in the past 20 years. It has also witnessed the six-year growth of
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On Thursday, 19th October, the drama department put on an Internacia Agado or International Performance. The programme consisted of several items from different cultures presented in various languages. Drama teacher Nicola Howard said she was inspired to create performances in different languages after visiting some of the language classes at SCIE and seeing how well
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Whilst saner students were off taking a break from the rigours of schoolwork during the National Holidays, those of us who chose to undertake the Silver IA were instead engaged in battles of will and wit with our horses by day, and enduring subzero temperatures in Mongolian yurts by night. Nonetheless, we did so happily
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
