провидение - A Silver Lining

Yesterday, i attended провидение - A Silver Lining

It is a collaboration concert between HKMOY and HCISO.

The concert started promptly at seven pm, and ending only at nine-thirty at night.

For those who have missed his enchanting experience, allow me to fill you in with what happened.

It stared off with a bang, with students from the Hwa Chong String Orchestra strumming to different tunes of different melodies, enthralling the whole audience.

Many different melodies were played, and the audience, even though not knowing what was being played, enjoyed it thoroughly.

It then continued with the students from the Hong Kong Music For Our Young Foundation, which consists of the Belilios Public School Symphony Orchestra and Beijing Military Music and Arts Academy.

They played on for an hour straight, though it felt only like minutes.

In the end, they got together for a solid half-hour collaborated performance.

Unexpectedly, it ended with them playing the school song, causing the whole auditorium to rise to their feet.

It was definitely an enthralling and exciting performance, and one i would definitely attend again in the future.

Earthquake in Hati

Today i will be blogging about the earthquake that struck Haiti. Just talking about it scares the living daylight out of me.

On January 12th, the worst earthquake in 200 years - 7.0 in magnitude - struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

On that fateful day, all hell broke loose.

The initial quake was later followed by twelve aftershocks greater than magnitude 5.0. Structures of all kinds were damaged or collapsed, from shantytown homes to national landmarks. It is still very early in the recovery effort, but millions are likely displaced, and thousands are feared dead as rescue teams from all over the world are now descending on Haiti to help where they are able.

There was great damage to the infrastructure, roads, houses and most importantly, the lives of the people.

Those who were unfortunate enough to have their houses destroyed had to relocate to other places to sleep such as on the streets, roads, etc.

The situation there is terrible.

People are even fighting for a simple cup of water, places to sleep, and some even go to the extent of taking off clothes of dead bodies to wear as they have nothing to wear.

People have been seen queuing up with pails to collect water to use.

Most people have been left under the rubble to suffocate and die.

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I feel that the earthquake in haiti was really a bad disaster.

However, things like this cannot be prevented.

The people there are really unfortunate that an earthquake like this has happened to them.

I hope that more aid would go to them,and help them with all their necessities, such as the building of their houses, roads, and more importantly, help them recover from the physical shock they face.

To Kill A MockingBird

today i will give a brief summary of the novel, To Kill A MockingBird.

in the next few blog posts, i will give more details such as characters, themes and so on.

it is lengthy, but it is the whole story in detail.

To Kill A MockingBird.

S cout Finch ( Jean Louise Finch ) lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley Place. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, Arthur (nicknamed Boo), has lived there for years without venturing outside.

To the consternation of Maycomb’s racist white community, Atticus agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping a white woman. Because of Atticus’s decision, Jem and Scout are subjected to abuse from other children, even when they celebrate Christmas at the family compound on Finch’s Landing. Calpurnia, the Finches’ black cook, takes them to the local black church, where the warm and close-knit community largely embraces the children.Scout goes to school for the first time that fall and detests it. She and Jem find gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the Radley property. Dill returns the following summer, and he, Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley. Atticus puts a stop to their antics, urging the children to try to see life from another person’s perspective before making judgments. But, on Dill’s last night in Maycomb for the summer, the three sneak onto the Radley property, where Nathan Radley shoots at them. Jem loses his pants in the ensuing escape. When he returns for them, he finds them mended and hung over the fence. The next winter, Jem and Scout find more presents in the tree, presumably left by the mysterious Boo. Nathan Radley eventually plugs the knothole with cement. Shortly thereafter, a fire breaks out in another neighbor’s house, and during the fire someone slips a blanket on Scout’s shoulders as she watches the blaze. Convinced that Boo did it, Jem tells Atticus about the mended pants and the presents.

Atticus’s sister, Alexandra, comes to live with the Finches the next summer. Dill, who is supposed to live with his “new father” in another town, runs away and comes to Maycomb. Tom Robinson’s trial begins, and when the accused man is placed in the local jail, a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus faces the mob down the night before the trial. Jem and Scout, who have sneaked out of the house, soon join him. Scout recognizes one of the men, and her polite questioning about his son shames him into dispersing the mob.

At the trial itself, the children sit in the “colored balcony” with the town’s black citizens. Atticus provides clear evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying: in fact, Mayella propositioned Tom Robinson, was caught by her father, and then accused Tom of rape to cover her shame and guilt. Atticus provides impressive evidence that the marks on Mayella’s face are from wounds that her father inflicted; upon discovering her with Tom, he called her a whore and beat her. Yet, despite the significant evidence pointing to Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts him. The innocent Tom later tries to escape from prison and is shot to death. In the aftermath of the trial, Jem’s faith in justice is badly shaken, and he lapses into despondency and doubt.

Despite the verdict, Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and he vows revenge. He menaces Tom Robinson’s widow, tries to break into the judge’s house, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween party. Boo Radley intervenes, however, saving the children and stabbing Ewell fatally during the struggle. Boo carries the wounded Jem back to Atticus’s house, where the sheriff, in order to protect Boo, insists that Ewell tripped over a tree root and fell on his own knife. After sitting with Scout for a while, Boo disappears once more into the Radley house.

Later, Scout feels as though she can finally imagine what life is like for Boo. He has become a human being to her at last. With this realization, Scout embraces her father’s advice to practice sympathy and understanding and demonstrates that her experiences with hatred and prejudice will not sully her faith in human goodness.

this being my first post, i will talk about some admin stuff first.
today i will brifey talk about Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.^[1]

Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and was best friends with her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.

In 1944, Lee graduated from Monroe County High School in Monroeville,^[2] and enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery from one year, and pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, pledging the Chi Omega sorority. Lee wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, Rammer Jammer.^[3][4] Though she did not complete the law degree, she studied for a summer in Oxford, England, before moving to New York City in 1950, where she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC.

Lee continued as a reservation clerk until 1958, when she devoted herself to writing. She lived a frugal life, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York City and her family home in south-central Alabama to care for her father.

To kill a mockingbrid won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961.