New Virus pandemic English Assignment.

1) Who are the people involved in this scenario?

•   Get- Global Emegency Transport
•    Researchers of the WHO- World Health Organisation 
•    Researchers of  Switzerland who have came up with a prospective cure for the virus
•   Victims of the virus.
•   The flood responders

2) What are their roles?

• Get- Global Emegency Transport, an organisation that specializes in providing search and rescue, evacuation and relocation for victims during disasters. However, due to the outbreak of the new virus, GET had suspended flood search and rescue to serve as medivac transport for virus patients to emergency medical shelters. Sadly, several GET pilots had contracted the virus and were hospitalized as they were also suffering from the effects of the virus.
• Researchers of the WHO- World Health Organisation  are studying the virus, its spreading and causes, and to reduce the contraction rate of the virus by finding a vaccine or cure and to eventually stop the virus.
• Researchers in Switzerland who have came up with a prospective cure for the virus. This precious medication is called Xifan. They did not wish to release the Xifan as it had a samllstockpile.
• Victims of this virus had sufferd the most. They intially suffer from an array of flu-like such as cough, fever, shortness of breath, headaches, body aches and diarrhea. In two weeks, many would develop pneumonia and/or acute respiratory distress syndrome, which leads to difficulty inbreathing and can result in organ failure.
• Flood responders are the people who helped out after the flood. An estimated 22,000 worldwide volunteers  have responded for clean-up and recue of the affected areas and victims.

3)Identify the key problems.

• Flood responders and GET pilots are also becoming victims to the virus by helping the already infected victims and also by working in the virus affected areas.
• Poor sanitation, crowded shelters. minimal health care has resulted in the increase of spreading of the virus.
• Affected areas are facing shortages of health care amenities.
• The Swiss are hesitant  in releasing the the medication. The cure is most effective when taken within 48 hours of the first symptoms. However, the first few symptoms are similar to a common flu's. There is a samll supply of the medication too, thus they do not want to release the medication for use.

4) Possible solutions for each of the problems.

• To prevent more people from contracting the virus, the flood responders should be properly vaccinated once a vaccine has been created if they choose to continue helping.
• Man power is needed to construct proper temporary shelters and health care amenities, doctors and more flood responders to help combat the porblem of poor sanitation, overcrowding in shelters and minmal health care.
• More money can be invested in the research of a vaccine for the virus so that a vaccine may be created much faster to save more lives.

Group members...
Saurav Ghante
Phua Kia Yi

Thiviyan Paramasivem

Goutham Naidu

Ernest Heng

Blue Nile River Flood

Identify the different group of people in the case study.

     The WHO ( Whole Health Organisation ) is mainly the group of people involved in this case study. The WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nation (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. It is established on 7 April 1948. In this case of the Blue Nile River Flood , they are the group of people that find medication, provide medical needs and to reduce chances of viruses from spreading.

What are the roles of these group of people?

     The WHO give guildline to countries that need medical support. In this Blue Nile Flood for example,they examine countries and provide medical aid to the victims in the country. They also check for cleaniness in the country and whether the country is devastated or severly destroyed. Apart from coordinating international effort to control outbreaks of infectious and contagious diseases such as SARS, TB, HIV and Malaria. The WHO also supports the development and distribution of safe and effective vaccines. In addition, WHO also carries out various health-related campaigns and conducts health research in communiable diseaes, non-communiable conditions and injuries. The World Health Organisation also conduct various data collection platforms such as the World Health Survey covering 308,000 respondant from 70 countries worldwide. Lastly, the WHO also calculated the total number of deaths in a country as well as worldwide.

Identify the problem faced by them

     The virus from the Blue Nile River Flood spreads very quickly in Ethiopia. The researchers and scientist are hesitant to use precious medication because the appearance of symptons is different to differentiate from the flu in its early stages. Hence, it is very diffcult to predict who contacted the virus as the scientist are still unsure about this new virus. Meanwhile, the infection rate is quickly expanding in and beyond the still-dangerous flood zone. To make matter worse, in just a short period of time, the virus had already grown from epidemic to pandemic status. In these flood prone countries, people do not have proper shelter, food and water supply. The virus spread from air and contact via fecal matter, People suffered from poor sanitation, health care and poor living conditions and hence the virus tends to spread more quicky in these areas. There is still no vaccine for this virus and this will take time to make these vaccines. Within this period of time, more people are suffering out there without proper living conditions. As a result, the scientists need to work more quicky to produce a new vaccine to cure the virus.

Suggest/solution for each of the problem.

     I suggest that we should donate money or conduct charity events to help the victims. The government should send more manpower of doctors, nurses and first aider to help the victims and also speed up the process. By sending more people, this reduces their burden and work that they need to carry out. With Singapore's specialised medical facilities and a variety of medicines, they would be able to save more lives and to decrease to the death rate in the country. We could buy food, provide water supplies and proper tentage or beds for the people to stay in. Hence, this will be able to help and provide medical support to those countries which were in danger.


Done by: Foo Shao Kai (9)
               Ganesh Kumar
               David Ng
               Davindran

pandemic flu GET pilots

1)The group of people are the GET pilots,the victims,the researchers at the World Health Organisation(WHO),and the people who have gotten into contact with dead animals.

2)The roles of the GET is that they were suffering from an unidentified ribonucleic acid virus dubbed the Blue Nile.There are patients who had flu-like symptoms.Within two weeks,they will have respiratory distress sypdrome.The researchers at WHO are trying to find vaccines for the virus.They are also trying to find a medication that will slow the virus down.

3)Some key problems are they will suffer from a variety of flu-like smyptoms and within two weeks,they will have difficulty breathing and can result in organ failure.This virus spread around the body very fast as in less than a month,the victim may die.The virus spread through the air and via contact with fecal matter.This is a key problem as there is poor sanitation,crowded shelters and minimal health care after athe flood.This can result in the virus spreading to many people at a faster rate due to the poor living conditions.The other problem is that there is no vaccines for the virus currently.The researchers at the WHO are still finding a way to make the vaccines.Until then,more peo[ple will die as there is no cure.

4)I think we can donate money in funding the people so that they can improve their living conditions which will minimise the number of people catching the virus.We can also donate money to the researchers so that they will be able to make sufficient vaccines to cater to the people.


Done by Tham Tat Keng (37) 3SB

Sec 3 camp Reflection

Sec 3 Adventure camp

Trekking through swamp and mud, firing ballistic water bombs at miniscule cans, and constructing rafts from tyre and rope, welcome to the Sec 3 camp. This both tiresome and enjoyable camp lasted 3 days and as we ate slept, ate, and played, time took off and it was over before we knew it. Our form teacher always wanted us to push through this camp. We have discovered the reason.

Under the instruction of our English teacher, we were required to write a composition on our Secondary 3 adventure camp.

When we met up a fortnight later to discuss about the composition, the discussion ended when we tried to recall those fond memoirs. As time whiled away, we looked back at the camp and analysed our thoughts. We, through all the joy and laughter, somehow managed to compile our thoughts together. We decided to put to use the two examples which show the most interesting and the difference between the class before and after the camp from someone in our class which unfortunately was not able to attend because of a high fever.

Ng Yu Sheng’s recount: The camp was a blast! It was an exceptionally fun and an awesome time for bonding. (Even though it was not as fun as a Scouts camp..) I felt so much team spirit even though we did not get the best group and the other awards, it certainly was a everlasting moment. I guess throughout the whole camp, the most memorable moment was….a close call with a bench! You must be wandering how can it be the most memorable moment but my shoulder was almost crushed by it. I was only saved through a step which allowed me to dodge the 1 metre high falling projectile while I was not even doing anything!

Lim Wei Xiang’s recount: I was astounded by the significant difference before and after the camp. It was like a wall was shattered between them and they were seen to be more bonded and inviting towards each other. The teamwork between the class increased exponentially before and after the camp, working and playing together like the way childhood friends play with each other. They were also seen to be more lively and active during classes.

As much as we want to show you more of what we, ourselves experienced, we can only show you this much. The most memorable activity of the camp was definitely the "Nature Ramble" station... Where people had to overcome their fears, making that 'giant leap' over that barrier of fear... fear of dirt, fear of mud, fear of just being dirty! In the end, instead of dreading this station, we began to enjoy it! Laughing and smiling, throwing mud at each other, and having pure fun. That was the first and maybe last time we could try it in our whole lives!

The rest of the camp's stations were all planned well, and fit for us being one truly, complete team.

The camp tested our endurance, focus and most importantly... our comradary, whether we could bond as a team, and as a class, to complete every task taken, every challenge faced. At the end of it, we sure did bond together as one class! We went out the camp, as class 3SB(BALOO) on our faces was an attitude that we would all have:"ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL!"

Ng Yu Sheng                                     

Isaac Ng

Lim Wei Xiang

Richard ong

Sec 3 camp reflection

Team bonding games

The team bonding games helped us to bond with our new class mates. It taught us the strengths of our classmates and also got to know each other better. It also helped us to trust each other more as we had to play games which had to trust in our classmates a lot.

Nature Ramble

This activity required us to trek into the forest near the camp. Part of the trail required us to go into a swamp that is muddy and sticky. The water level in the swamp was waist high. At the beginning, some of us were scared of getting dirty in the mud but eventually conquered their fear. This taught us to be open minded and not to look at things negatively without first experiencing it.

Campfire

The campfire was probably one of the most memorable activities in the camp. At the campfire, there were two large speakers which played some of our favourite songs and the whole school started singing. It was also the time that the classes presented their own cheers. Each class cheered their loudest and were very enthusiastic. It was also the night that we earned the right to wear our long pants.

Overall, the camp has benefited us and we grew closer as a class. It was a very memorable camp.

By: Aloysius Lee
      Haran Dorairaj
      Amos Tan
      William Winarto
       Joshua Cheong

Do's and Don'ts of blogging

As with most things, when you are blogging, what you should and shouldn’t do is determined mostly by what you want to accomplish. There are some good guidelines and we will discuss some of the more prominent ones here, but do not limit yourself. Use these simply as a place to begin and adapt them to your application using your own priorities.

 

Do blog frequently

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Do not post the same content over and over

There are some rare exceptions to this rule. For example, if a viewer requests the same content or asks the same question, you may want to consider posting links to the past answers or posts or at least use some of the quotation formats that let people know this is a fresh posting referencing the same content.

Do post on multiple sites

If you provide a good post or a good answer, it may have a positive impact on the viewer’s assessment of you and draw other viewers to your own blog. If you post on the same subject in multiple places, make sure you put the address of your site in the blog itself or the tags at the end of each post.

Do talk to others

Converse not only about the subject at hand or common interests, but ask for pointers and volunteer about what you’ve learned regarding blogging.

Don’t be afraid to learn about blogging

Make sure you learn about the techniques of blogging. Most services allow you to create very complete and effective blogs without knowing anything about coding or scripting, but the more you learn the more you will have at your disposal.

Do Listen to your viewers

If you were only creating a journal just for you, you could create it on paper or on a computer that was never connected to the Internet. The fact is that blogs are intended to foster communication, so why not listen to the viewers? You don’t have to completely give the blog to them, but you considering their input may help you to better accomplish what you have been attempting to accomplish through your blog.

Don't be afraid to expand

If you started focusing on a certain subject but then you learned more about it, consider expanding your blog to cover the new material that you’ve learned. If your viewers are asking for more info on what you’ve learned then it might be a very good idea. There will also be times that viewers ask for information on a topic you're not familiar with. If you have a broad audience, feel free to learn about the subject and talk about it. The more fantastic content you put online, the better.

To conclude, blogging has many pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages... But it all comes down to the user. Whether the user chooses to use a blog to do wrong things, or to do a good thing. Overall, blogging is a great way of expressing emotion, but not too much of it, and it will help yourself. So its not entirely bad to blog, unless you want to use blogging as a form of your anger, where only bad results would be achieved.

Ng Yu Sheng
Isaac Ng
Lim Wei Xiang
Richard Ong

Do's and Dont's of blogging

Do's
-write feelings and emotions
-personal opinions
-respect other people's opinions
-be open minded
-brainstorm before you blog
-protect your identity

Don'ts
-use vulgarities
-make fun of people
-make fun of religions
-be racist
-limit your topics
-use web links without giving credit
-be afraid to express yourself
-give out personal information

By: Aloysius Lee
      Haran Dorairaj
      Amos Tan
      William Winarto
       Joshua Cheong