When the blazing of summer has just elapsed , there were senses of coolness mixing in the air. Everything was quiet and peaceful , including the indigo sky , the breeze , and the scent of cereals. It has been a long time for us to feel the nature. On 3rd and 4th November 2022 […]
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There was already a little autumn smell in the wind. October stepped on the fallen leaves quietly passing by, the footsteps of Halloween slowly approaching. Different from the previous tweets written by the seniors, this time, I would like to stand in my own position and record the late October feast. This is the first
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Here comes the Mental Health Week shortly after the A2 test week. Here with the breeze of autumn that relieves our stress and tiredness. With the theme “Back to Basic”, the Peer Support division successfully hosted Mental Health Week with the cooperation of the Red Cross Society and Bridge from October 17th to October 20th.
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The Canadian Chemistry Olymplad(CCO) is an annual event that aims to promote interest in chemistry amongst high school students.Participation in the Canadian National Olympiad Finals or an international Olympiad is a tremendous experience and a unique opportunity to travel and meet fellow students from around the world who have similar interests. SCIE students won 44
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Cambridge International Exam Results are the important factors for A Level students to apply for the universities. Therefore， the international exams held by Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) are the most authoritative exams set for students in the global IGCSE and A Level system, which directly reflect the students’ academic competitiveness and the quality of
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On Thursday, September 29th, the A2 drama students gave an “initial performance” of the devised pieces that will constitute part of their final A-level drama exam. The pieces were based on Henrik Ibsen’s famous play “A Doll’s House”, which shocked the audience when it premiered in 1879. The students devised the pieces in the style
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Stanford e-China endowed me with a lifelong thinking-into-action mindset—Design Thinking. Over the ten weeks,” Stanford e-China (SeC) exposed us to cutting-edge technologies touching the many corners of the global society: health tech, green tech, finance tech, artificial intelligence and on and on. Sitting in front of our small display screens, we travelled miles and miles
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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
