Colours (Narrative)

The walk in the cold winter night seemed very refreshing as white feather-like snowflakes gently kissed my cheeks and melted. There were many squares of warm yellow light and families enjoying cups of hot chocolate as they watched movies or looked into the flickering orange flames of the fireplace. I walked on. The strong wind tossed the snowflakes with more force against my face but it did not deter me. Within a few minutes, the wind turned into a snarling beast hurling tiny bullets of pain at my cheeks. I turned for home which was around the corner. The coat, hat and gloves that seemed so warm when I had left home now gave no resistance to the monster trying to kill me with its breath of wind and ice. My numb feet slipped and slide on the sidewalk. Excitement mixed with fear dawned me towards home. Home is where I could shut the door on the howling beast of winter.

Before I could step into the house, I saw her. She was sitting by the tree with her bright yellow coat trying to keep herself warm. Her hair, which was as black as coal and contrasted with her pale skin tone, was tied up into a neat ponytail. She must have caught him staring at her because she turned around and smiled at him. He did not expect that as his face flushed bright pink. He walked up to her and offered her to go into his house to warm herself up. From then on, they started to talk to each other more often and developed a relationship.

Orange was not a colour that fit him, or so people had always told him. Although she never commented about how he dressed, he assumed that she would think the same way as the others. She had been with him for over a year now, and he absolutely fell in love with her. From her striking sky blue eyes, to her hair which was a rich shade of mahogany. Had she smiled, the world would sigh with contentment. Had she laughed, the world would laugh with her. And had she wept, the whole world would want to comfort her.

A few years passed by, she was walking down the aisle, linking arms with her dad. He was standing on the opposite side of the room, awaiting her soon to be father in law to hand his daughter to him. She was in a pearl white wedding dress that made her look like as if she was a princess. It was as if she just walked out of a fairytale. He could not be any happier.

Ways To Make Time For Creativity When You're Busy

We all get busy during the week whether it is our jobs, school and many more. There are many ways to make time for creativity when we're busy.

Firstly, instead of unplugging, use your smart phone as an advantage. For example, you should jot down your ideas into your smart phone. This would help you think more and give an idea on what you want to create or invent.

Secondly, hold yourself countable and join or signing up for a class. This will help you be committed into helping you be creative. Edumatarians did a research and proved that creativity is a nature for human beings. Since the caveman era, we would draw on the caves and dance. It does not matter whether you're good at it or not but it is highly recommended that everyone expresses yourself to be creative. By joining a class, you would be able to socialize and be around people that are as creative minded as you.

Thirdly, cut out a corner on the internet for part of your creative workplace. Platforms such as Tumblr are great for exploring your own creative interests. You connect with people online that share your interests and can remain anonymous if you don't want the other person to know who are you.

Social Media Addiction

With social media being used by 1/3 of the world, they have clearly had a big impact on society.
Surprisingly, most internet users are not able to control how much time they spend online. Though it is more of a psychological addiction as suppose to a substance addiction, brain scans show that these people have the addiction similar to those who are addiction to substances such as drugs, alcohol and so on. This is because social media rewards society with very little effort required and that makes the brain rewire itself making you desire these stimulations. You then become to crave all these neurological excitement after every interaction. This makes it sound very similar to a drug.

Teens nowadays use social media because they are needy. It is something that they think will complete them as a whole. It could also be because they have a lot of doubt in them and they are then searching for confirmation.

It does not mean that if you are on social media all day that it makes you addicted. You cross the line when you realize that you cannot go an hour or even 30 minutes without checking your social media. This is a problem that occurs to people nowadays. For example, you might notice that you are texting a friend although they might be right next to you. Interacting behind a screen will not make a person sociable or friendly.

In the end, I learnt that we have to limit and discipline ourselves the amount of time we go on social media a day. Social media addiction has became a big problem and people should start looking up from their phones and realize that there is a big world out there to explore.

Colour

According to the dictionary, colour is defined as the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light. Life would be terribly drab if colours did not exist in this world. I cannot imagine a world where there are no colours. Everything will look very dull and it would be very sad to live in such a place. Landscapes and seas take life from the different shades of greens and blues, the colours of the rainbow, the different colours of fishes in the sea, and the multicoloured flowers.

We only start to realize what colour truly means in our life on a grey winter day, when it is cold and the sun does not shine. Here we stop to think what the moon must look like in all colours of grey or how tiring it would be to live on the sun with its constant red firery colour. Based on a study, psychologists believe that in northern countries there is a large number of people who commit suicide simply because there is an absence of light and colour for such a long time, because of the cold and dark winter all day long. It is advized for people to paint their homes in "happy" colours such as yellow and green to prevent someone from being depressed. Just imagine how happy we will become when we see a beautiful rainbow in the skies. All those colours make up for the dull coloured skies and makes the world a much happier place.

Colours bring a lot of imagination for painters. Painters would not exist if there were no such thing as colours in this world. Many painters often copy the pictures of nature and wildlife, other times they imagine a scenery and paint it with unique colours. They light up our walls with pictures. Colours in the advertising business is extremely important. The use of certain colours and not others will attract the attention of a buyer more than words in an advertisement. The wrappers that covers tinned and canned foods at supermarkets also play an important role in the sales business and all this is because of colours. Photography is also a very wonderful art especially when a moment in nature becomes immortalized by a clock of a camera.

If there is an absence of colours, the world would not be like what it is today. In other words, we should appreciate the fact that we are able to see such amazing and unique colours till this day. The world would be such a dull place if colours did not exist.

News Article: Mom and child died inside car while dad cleared snow around them

Recently, I was reading this news article about how a mom and her child died inside a car while the dad cleared snow around them.

This incident takes place in New Jersey. A mom and her 1 year old son died in the car while the dad was clearing snow around them due to the heavy blizzard. As the mom and her children, a 1 year old boy and a 3 year old girl tried to huddle for warmth, the dad, a man who was not identified, told them to turn on the engine so that they could on the heater while he was shoveling the excess snow that was piling outside the car. He was shoveling about 20 minutes and when he checked on them, they were all unconscious. 

He then quickly called 911 for help. The ambulance then rushed to the hospital and the mother and her 1 year old son was pronounced dead while her 3 year old daughter was facing serious injuries. 

They were unconscious due to the clogged tail pipe. The tail pipe of the unfortunate families car was clogged with snow and because of that, carbon monoxide managed to seep through the ventilation and got into the car. Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas that hits quickly with no signs of warning. 

In my opinion, I think it was very unfortunate for this to happen to this family. We should always take safety precautions and make sure that your car is working smoothly as something bad might happen. Instead of staying in the car, the mom and her children should've just stayed in the house until the man finished shoveling the snow before driving off as it would be warmer and much safer. Due to the heavy blizzard, I think that it is advisable if they should just stay home and not go out. I give out my condolences to this family for this tragic accident.

Freedom Writers

Describe how writing in journals (in The Freedom Writers) helps transform the lives of the students. How does writing "free" the students from their pain?

The movie, The Freedom Writers, is about a young teacher, Erin Gruwell who was enthusiastic to start teaching. She is then challenged when she realized that her students self-segregate into racial groups within the classroom. Erin was then determined to gain the students trust on a personal and academic level but she only got to do so with the help of a few people. When she finally gained the trust of the students, she buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they start to open up and talk about their experiences being abused, seeing their friends die, and being evicted. Meanwhile, Erin asks them to write and share their stories in a book form. She then compiles all of their work and named it "The Freedom Writers Diary". Writing helps "free" the students from their pain as they are allowed to express how they feel without being judged. Coming from an unfortunate background, the students spend all their time protecting themselves and the ones they love and all the anger piled inside them will lead to doing bad things. Writing will then help them ease the pain so that they do not resolve to doing bad things.

New Classmate

Classmates are a fellow member of a class. There are 40 students in my class. I would generally describe my classmates as a mirthful bunch. Recently, a boy from another class transferred into my class. He is known to have disciplinary problems that is why he was put into our class. He is known as Zaki. Since it has been 4 months into the school year, everyone has their own bunch of friends that they hang out with. Therefore, it was hard for Zaki to mix around. He is usually really quiet in class and only talks to a few people. I do not know him that well but I would say he is a decent person. I hope he could blend into the crowd and be more involved in the class.