Preface: This is a reflection on Professor Zhou’s inspiring lecture about “Unraveling the Mysteries of Drug Discovery Through AI-Driven Protein Structure Prediction” during science week. The familiar “Blue Piano Piece” echoed through the hallway. Following the hurried crowd, I left the classroom, but instead of rushing back to the dormitory, I joined another stream of […]
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Over the past year, our school’s Service-Learning Division has collaborated with various departments and ECA clubs to conduct a range of charitable activities, showcasing the unparalleled compassion and generosity of our students, parents, and teachers. These activities not only reflect our school’s core values and assist students in realizing their self-worth, but they have also
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As a member of the Art Academy, I feel privileged to share my personal reflections on the three days we spent with the artist Gail Deayton. I would cover fewer details when introducing the experience and focus on my thoughts and feelings instead, which are much more worth sharing. The school invited Miss Gail Deayton,
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Since I was a toddler, I have harboured a deep interest in the realm of science. Searching through my memories, it was the vibrant colours produced by the reaction of solutions that filled me with joy; it was the simplicity of F = ma which never failed to evoke profound feelings in me; It was
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At SCIE, Senior Week is not only a symbol of academic achievement but also represents the blossoming of joy and youth. Water Fight: After a post-rain sunny day On Monday, April 22, 2024, as the end of spring recedes and the prelude to summer gently begins, we commemorate the start of our seniors’ new chapter
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As Earth’s resources becoming increasingly scarce, the concept of the circular economy has emerged as an inevitable trend in global development. However, public understanding and acceptance of the circular economy seem insufficient. In anticipation of Earth Day, I decided to promote the concept of recycling in a unique way—street art. I chose this form because
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Last month, the CS&Maths Week was conducted by the SCIE Maths and Computer Science Faculty, where several fun activities related to Maths and CS were organised during the week. Let’s follow the students to join this fun week! Competitive Robots Building Competitive Robots Crafting a competitive robot is an exciting blend of innovation and precision engineering. From
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During the Spring Festival holiday, my father was invited to teach a doctoral course on cultural heritage and rural tourism at Silpakorn University in Thailand. Curious about what doctoral classes entail, I decided to attend. After several days, I gained a new understanding of tourism and heritage, as well as how tourism development can benefit
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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
