My Vission Statement

Wherever the path leads to, wherever I might go, I will have a burning eagerness to carry on and keep the flow. I will take it upon myself to strive for each day. To make the most come out of it I’ll stand in Gods way, with hands open wide I know he will help assist me in my mission. I hope to gain respect. May my character outshine the stars and my belief be as strong as the sun. I pray for my future and hope my Aaghirah is as promising as the moon is every night. I know Allah will help me; He’ll assist me in my fight.

My Mission Statement

I want to achieve greatness and only I know what it means. I want to gain knowledge and skills, it’s a promising dream. I will excel in my strengths and improve on my weaknesses. Ill go out and grab every opportunity, it comes in no sequences. I’ll seize every moment, own it and hold it and make the most of it. What is meant to be for me will be. I know I can achieve as much as I want to. Everything is possible if you put your mind to it.

Read Between The Lines

How failure to do so, by misinterpreting and assuming, has grave consequences.

Have you ever been in the situation where people read you wrong and fail to comprehend your point? Where they refuse to understand and quickly base their views on a simple but yet silly assumptions. Yes, I believe we have all been in a similar situation at least once in our lives.

As we see in the play Julius Caesar, the reason to murder Caesar is based on an assumption made by the conspirators. They believed Caesar was becoming too powerful and if he accepts the crown he might snatch away the people’s freedom.

Much of the play deals with the characters failure to interpret correctly the omens that they encounter. The same goes for today. We often misread situations and the consequences are so great they can be life changing or life threatening.

Another problem which also arises from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar is that the people often confuse their private selves with their public selves. They simply do not know the barrier between the two and then begin to combine the two. We can use Brutus as an example: regardless of the fact that he was a good and close friend of Caesar, he goes ahead with the murder thinking he is doing it for the good of the people of Rome. This confusion assists in our failure to recognize, read certain actions and events which again leads to assumptions and misinterpretations.

Many of the world’s life changing events have been related to such topics, all which can be related to Julius Caesar. For example, the murder of Caesar and the assassination of the thirty-fifth president of the United States. As the authorities have made assumptions about Caesar, similarly the authorities of the U.S have had certain misunderstandings of John F Kennedy and therefore had him killed. Although Oswald is known to be his assassinator, there is reason to doubt as some still believe his death was a result of a conspiracy. A similar story can be told of the Princes of Whales, Lady Diana, who was also believed to have been murdered in a conspiracy plot.
Another valid reason why we as people fail to read between the lines in interpreting situations correctly without making assumptions is a lack of communication. When there is a gap between communication there is automatically going to be misinterpretation of the situation and then any further views would now be based on assumption.

This shows the importance of communication between you and your associate. In order to bridge the cap one should not be afraid to ask questions and in doing so one should be upfront and clear. Once this gap is bridged and we are now able to understand the next person’s views it now becomes easier to relate to that person and we then begin to interpret the situation we are in correctly.

As a leader and as a person, one should stand firm on ones feet and should not be swayed easily. Once we begin to confuse, misinterpret and assume we, to a certain point, loose the plot we were initially striving for. Let us not be caught up in this situation again and if so that we are, we can detangle our selves easily.

Joburg City

It’s a city with a rhythm,
It’s a city with a vibe,
A city with undercurrents
That makes you want to drive.

Everything, though, is not always well and good.
There’s murder, theft and rape.
You’ll find it everywhere.
From newspaper headlines and the ally way under the night sky,
To the vast veldt in broad day light.

There is the rich, there is the poor,
And the struggle to survive is to work for.
The rich do coffee shops,
The poor do the streets.
We all live our lives,
There’s nothing worth risking it for.

Drive through its streets
And you will find happiness
Within the heavy mists of unfortunates.
It’s a great city
A city worth seeing.
It is Joburg city,
A city for me.

A city full of hope
And great expectations.
A city which is developing
And won’t hesitate to produce successes
It is Joburg city.
For you,
For me,
For everybody.

Propaganda

Propaganda is the art of indoctrination and manipulation. It is used to persuade a mass of people into believing a certain thing by using a one-sided argument. This is accomplished by distorting or not revealing the entire truth. Propagandist use all sorts of communication including speech and the Mass Media

A summary on propaganda:
¨ Distorting or not revealing the entire truth.
¨ Use of indoctrination.
¨ Very subtle and inviting.
¨ Use of jargon.
¨ Mass Media in media campaigns.
¨ Persuade a mass of people into believing a certain thing.
¨ Shape and manipulate peoples believe by using a one-sided argument.

My first impressions of Animal Farm

At first I was not too impressed when I heard that the story was all about animals on a farm. I took it to be a very light, easy study, nothing too intense or highly captivating.

After the introduction of Animal Farm (28 April 2008)-the 1st lesson- my perspective of the novel changed dramatically.
We had the brief history of George Orwell presented to us. This gave us the essential background knowledge to why the novel was written and what it was intended to do.

I came to learn that the novel actually combines 3 literary forms:
1. Fable
2. Satire
3. Allegory
Learning about this has played a key role to my perspective of the novel as I now know what Orwell intended us to see and learn. We accomplished all of this by taking a deeper look into meanings and references made in the novel.

My first impression on Animal Farm

At first I was not too impressed when I heard that the story was all about animals on a farm. I took it to be a very light, easy study, nothing too intense or highly captivating.

After the introduction of Animal Farm (28 April 2008)-the 1st lesson- my perspective of the novel changed dramatically.
We had the brief history of George Orwell presented to us. This gave us the essential background knowledge to why the novel was written and what it was intended to do.

I came to learn that the novel actually combines 3 literary forms:
1. Fable
2. Satire
3. Allegory
Learning about this has played a key role to my perspective of the novel as I now know what Orwell intended us to see and learn. We accomplished all of this by taking a deeper look into meanings and references made in the novel.