Twitter Weixin Weibo The fantastic annual Christmas celebration and concert is back once again, better than ever. The delicious smell of homemade apple pies, hot chocolates and other winter delights wafted through the fresh evening air. Friends and families of the SCIE students and staff gathered around the field and the pleasant sound of Christmas […]
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Twitter Weixin Weibo 2019 MyFitCollege International Awards go to five recipients (teams) from four schools. MyFitCollege International Awards aim to promote and advertise good practices in international education, and therefore improve the overall standard of international education in China. The awards focus on three aspects: school management, university application and teaching quality. • Principal’s Award
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Twitter Weixin Weibo A statue of a bull named Pioneering. Students are taking photos of the statues. Mrs. Xu and students are in front of the gate of Shenzhen Museum. Students are learning, discussing and taking notes about the development history of Shenzhen. Students are learning the development history of Shenzhen. A statue in the
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Twitter Weixin Weibo Previous Next About iGEM iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition) is a top-of-the-line science and technology competition in not just the developing field of synthetic biology but also the world. The competition itself is highly interdisciplinary, involving cross-cooperation in biology, mathematics, computer programming and so on. The competition is founded in 2003
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Twitter Weixin Weibo Previous Next Christmas party for the full-time residents was held this past weekend for the students that can not go home. There was Pizza, BBQ chicken, Cakes and of course some healthy fruits as well. We listened to Christmas music, we talked, got to know the students and one of the students
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Twitter Weixin Weibo Previous Next Although I still had loads of tasks unfinished, I still couldn’t stop myself from stepping into the auditorium on the night of SGT. The audience gradually inched up the stairs of the entrance, both hands stuffed with drinks and cakes, glowing sticks tucked under their arms. The white door opened,
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Twitter Weixin Weibo The China International School Competitiveness Ranking·2019 is announced officially by Kinglead on Dec 3rd, 2019, and the ranking has been released for two consecutive years.The ranking is based on publicly available data and utilizes quantitative model and compositive weighted score to reflect international schools’ comprehensive competitiveness from three core dimensions : international
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Twitter Weixin Weibo It’s the last flag raising in 2019 in which all students and teachers showed up. Although the weather is getting colder, the atmosphere on the campus is still warm. After flag raising ceremony, the heads of the Prefects, gave a brief summary of the past and upcoming events for everyone. Major Events
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Impact of Social Medium Twitter Weixin Weibo https://www.scie.com.cn/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1575249604474225.mp4 Report on Metal 2 form meeting, Nov 27,2019 [Video / Elaine Liu] With the development of science and technology these days, social media has gradually become popular and become an indispensable part of our daily life. However, every coin has two sides. In this speech, we will explain our
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Last week, the prefects launched a series of activities on campus aiming to fight against bullying, titled “Anti-bullying Week”. On Tuesday, the whole school contributed towards a “Sorry” Poster. During Wednesday’s PSHE session, all students and their form teachers discussed various topics concerning Anti-bullying, and on Thursday, the Prefects put up a Charity Shop and
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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
