ToK Essay

Now its time to talk about the essay...my essay was on the following topic:
"To understand something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge?"
And my concluding paragraph was all about Slumdog Millionaire...which failed to impress me. I know this might be suprising because probably you all found it great but this 8 oscar winning movie potrayed India in sucha negative light!

I'm not a huge fan of India due to various reasons but this was just unacceptable for me. When the movie came out everyone asked me various sorts of questions like "Is India all slums?" "Do they have houses in India?" "Police has the right to beat ppl for no reason?!" "Do they actually put acids in the eyes of the kids?"

There was no stopping! It frustated me great deal whenever I heard ppl talking about how good the movie was...i found nothing too exceptional about this movie. This movie played a great role in my life though..i had a huge fight with one of my closest friend ever (not the one i worked with for my ToK presentation)..he just would not stop talking about how amazing the movie was and this was a huge mess in the end with 4 ppl arguing against each other..

I wonder if this movie would have been as big of a success if this was directed/produced by an indian...a white ma comes into our country portrays all the slums and bags 8 oscars...this is annoyes me soo much i have no words for that. What annoyes me even more is that the novel, on which the movie is based, is writted by an indian and no bloody indian could come up with the idea of making this movie!!!

Slumdog Millionaire or rather scumdog billionaire!

Thoery of Knowledge Presentation

This is one of the mandatory courses of IB Diploma. We have to do a presenation and plus write an essay (1600 words)

Last year when i did my presenation we got 11/20...it was an aweful presentation which lasted only 13 minutes (it was supposed to last 30 minutes)!!

However, we got another chance and I worked with one of my best friends...our presentation was on legalising prositution and questioning ourself of how do we know if the act of prostitution should be legal or illegal...i had soo much fun working on this presentation. Plus we got a 17/20 i was sooo happy to get a 17...i think 19 is the highest and only one group got a 19 and thats it...I was sooo soo happy...all the hard work paid off in the end! YAY! =)

After four months i realised that i made a blog!
Oh god i dont know when will i learn how to organize myself!
Anyways lemme tell u guys the highlights of these few months: I handed in all my IB IAs!! IB=International Baccalaureate IA=Internal Assessment.

Now i will post some quickies which will be study oriented but will be fun to read!!