Day: December 10, 2020

From the Kite Runner to Bombshell, a journey of reviews

The Kite Runner:

The Kite Runner, a fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini, depicts the kindly love between a well off Pushtun kid, Amir, and his Hazara hireling, Hassan, during the barbarous war among Afghanistan and Russia. Amir and Hassan grow up together simply like genuine siblings. The racial boundary between Pushtuns, who are an unrivaled race, and Hazaras, who are regularly seen as sub-par slaves, doesn’t thwart Amir and Hassan from framing a solid sibling bond. Their relationship is past one of an ace and a hireling; past two colleagues. They are two spirits bond firmly by affection, kinship, and dependability. Nonetheless, much the same as the short smoothness before a tempest, a treachery in a dim rear entryway loosens up the once-unbreakable bond among Amir and Hassan. Their relationship is additionally broken by more forfeits, tears, and lies.

The principle character of the book, Amir, is credible on the grounds that he is balanced, demonstrating both agreeableness and weakness in his relationship with Hassan. Most Pushtun aces aren’t near their Hazara workers and some treat them ineffectively. Be that as it may, Amir, dissimilar to the vast majority of different young men who mortifies the Hazaras, treats Hassan well and builds up a solid friendship with Hassan. In spite of his kind disposition towards Hassan, notwithstanding, Amir additionally shows weakness since he never goes to bat for Hassan nor gives him help when Hassan faces difficulties. Then again, Hassan is a level character, demonstrating just two characteristics all through the book – thought and steadfastness. Hassan consistently aides and takes great consideration of Amir. He additionally remains respectful to his lord in spite of any conditions. Hassan realizes that Amir have double-crossed him, once, yet twice, yet he despite everything treats Amir well and remains faithful to his cherished ace.

I think this book is truly fascinating, or you can say it is near being overpowering, in light of the fact that you can never anticipate what will occur straightaway. Perusing The Kite Runner resembles cruising a yacht in a substantial fog: you can never observe through the hazy thickness yet your pontoon is moving at a fast. So before you understood, you catch “reefs”, or surprising occasions which the perusers will never anticipate. These “reef” occasions consistently give a solid impression about the book’s plot. They additionally give solid inspiration to me to continue turning those pages.

Bombshell: The achievement and embarrassment of Fox News is anything but a new story, yet given reality from the 2016 lewd behavior episodes that tormented the system, the theme is presently grub for a few books, a TV arrangement, and now the big screen.

“Sensation”, which hit theaters this week, recounts to the story from the point of view of three ladies who were vital to outrage – stays Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson, and a youthful and hopeful female news maker.

Having quite recently wrapped a couple of evenings of marathon watching “The Loudest Voice in the Room”, a Showtime arrangement dependent on the 2014 smash hit history about Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes, I was very much educated regarding Ailes’ unpredictable residency in charge of the system. Be that as it may, the arrangement rotated more around Ailes than the casualties of his times of his lewd behavior.

“Stunner” adopts an alternate strategy, following a direct storyline concentrating on the encounters of Kelly (in an astounding exhibition by Charlize Theron), Carlson (played by Nicole Kidman) and the youthful maker (played by Margot Robbie).

The movie opens with Kelly, who talking straightforwardly to the crowd, gives a voyage through the Fox News Channel realm, acquaints us with Ailes (played by John Lithgow), and makes way for the remainder of the film.


Improving Writing Skills through Project-Based Learning

Writing is one of the keys to effective communication. However, we often discover that students face difficulties in organizing their thoughts, conceptualizing ideas, and starting out essays. For most students, writing can be a nightmare that usually causes academic frustrations and mental anxieties. 

David Anderson, an author at IHateWritingEssays review blog, says it is important for the key players in the academic world to provide a conducive learning environment that would help students to embrace essay writing not as a boring task they hate but as a stimulating activity that fosters imagination, self-expression, and creativity. In order to achieve this, teachers must be open to using active means of learning that would ignite the fire of critical thinking and passionate writing among students. 

Project-based learning can help improve the writing skills of students through the following ways: 

  1. Finding the purpose and motivation to write

Most writing assignments are usually given without any prior explanation or conceptual discovery. Teachers or professors could easily instruct their students to write about a particular topic and submit the output on a certain day. This passive and traditional method can be very harmful to students who are not that naturally inclined to writing. 

To correct this, project-based learning can be implemented during the distribution of writing tasks. The class can initially be introduced to a topic of interest through group discussion, film screening, or community immersion. This would build the foundation for a better understanding of the topic. 

If the topic is about animal welfare, then students can be brought to an animal shelter where they could see the plight of the abused creatures. They could also interview animal rights advocates and adopt the same cause as well. This would help the students form a more compelling thesis statement and also give them a stronger motivation for writing. A purposeful writing can result in an immeasurable effectiveness in terms of developing their arguments. 

  1. Discovering other perspectives through collaboration

Writing may be a means of self-expression, but it can also be a way for students to improve their own outputs by incorporating the viewpoints of their team. Since project-based learning basically promotes collaboration and teamwork, then students can capitalize on such experience to reflect on their own writing style. They can also use the input from group discussions to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their own arguments. 

Becoming open to the opinion of other people and accepting certain points for revision can help students enhance their writing potentials. Effective writers must be humble enough to accept constructive criticisms in order to improve their output. 

  1. Expanding the depth of arguments through research

Most writing assignments that are given in relation to projects require the application of ideas in real life situations. Because of this, they are exposed to different research methods that are not limited to reading textbooks and articles that are related to the given topic. In order to come up with more compelling stories and reflective discussions, then students are encouraged to combine different frameworks in the conduct of research.

Writing tasks that are given under project-based learning methods have meaningful purposes in contrast to superficial assignments in traditional settings. When students understand that their writing can potentially address certain issues or solve societal problems, then they are more willing to exert further effort in crafting persuasive essays, informative articles, or any other writing output. 

  1. Infusing their own personality and expressing their own voice in writing

Project-based learning methods result in the discovery of a student’s opinion on a particular matter. Writing without passion necessarily results in boring and ineffectual articles or reports. 

When students are allowed to formulate their own inquiry regarding a particular topic, they are given a chance to follow their own methods and thereby create more personal views on the matter. Incorporating their own personality and voice could be very effective in developing their own writing style. There is no need to be limited by rigorous guidelines, thus they could enhance the output by being more imaginative, creative, and reflective in writing. 

Project-based learning promotes the improvement of writing skills among students of different levels. By creating changes in the educational system and becoming more open to such learning styles, then we could expect to see better writers in the future. 

Author’s Bio: Carol is very keen on teaching students new, effective ways of learning. When not freelancing and blogging on education-related matters, Carol enjoys travelling. She takes immense pleasure of visiting new countries.