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SEBASTIAN ATKINSTAULL · SYED HAQUE · LOURDITA REMEDIOS · JOSEPH YAMBASU

SIMPLY · TOLD / ISSUE 3 - FEBRUARY 2015

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School

3 | An Extra Mile To Go To Reach The Sun

Some kind advice on work ethic and diligence.

4 | The Chemical Reaction

The effect of chemistry in schools, with Mrs Mehta

5 | Filling In the Blanks: an SLT interview

An in-depth look at David Medway

Current Affairs

13 | Je suis Charlie, et toi?

Terrorist strike in Paris a few weeks ago leaves questions raised about free speech in the west.

14 | Welcome To The Future

3D printer provides hopeful possibilities for medical science.

Comments

19 | Sense & Sense-abilities

Science proves the phrase “seeing is believing” to be a rather misleading idiom.

20 | Radamel Falcao: keep or kick?

Should the Colombian Striker stay or leave?

Culture

23 | Eveline

Short story by James Joyce

F E A T U R E S C O N T E N T S

C O V E R :

SUBMISSIONS

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8 - SCHOOL - SLA for a Day

What does it take to be

a student librarian?

Road

Through

The

Past

What was the World‘s reaction to Ghandi’s death?

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PRINGTIME’S NEARLY UPON us and, for Ark Elvin, it means almost a year since its initial

birth. For the students themselves, it means either the dawn before another holiday, and the slow transition into summer… or it means exam season (woohoo!). But there are other, broader implications, ones that place the image of the future under foggy spectacles... We all have our own unique ways of revision, whether it’s with friends, or in solitude for several hours a day (or the infamous lastminute.com revision plan, which almost never works, so try it if you want to risk failure), but preparations can be draining. No matter how hard-working, or how lazy you seem to be in every lesson, that energy comes from sufficient sleep. And you’ve heard this for the 100th time,

I’m sure, but if you’re taking yourself seriously, you need to make sure you’re taking initiative for your future. There’s only so much Ms Bates, your teachers and Ark Elvin Sixth Form can do so much to help you succeed, but all of that doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t want to help yourself.

BUT, I HAVE SOME bad news; time flies. When you’re at home gossiping with friends until midnight on the phone when you know there’s English

homework to do for the next day, that’s wasted

time. Your parents and carers should already have told you this, but “the phone will always be there”. Unless you’re helping

each other with important issues,

you’ll always be a day closer to the next time you see them again. Because of your wasting time,

you fall further and further behind in your classes, and fail, compared to

the potential success you need. And if you don’t learn from your failures and ask for help, more failures will come.

BUT GOOD NEWS CAN COME OUT OF this too, because the only person stopping you from being great is you. And of course, it’s hard. But keep this in mind for whenever you’re pursuing anything in your life: “Nothing comes easy”. All the lavish lifestyles you see in every social media outlet didn’t fall into the bearer’s lap – even basic living isn’t easy to come by! No matter whether you want your name up in lights or not, the consensus will always be that you need to work to survive. If you’re uncertain where you’ll be in 10 years’ time, don’t let anybody rush you – the clouds will not stay heavy; it’s just an extra mile to go to reach the sun.

FOR THOSE WITH BROTHERS AND

sisters who’re going on to GCSEs, tell them not to listen to anybody but themselves. Not even their mum and dad. For more personal

Keeping your head in a world of

stress, stress and... more stress

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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein

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assistance, get at an Ark Elvin staff member – they’re always willing to

help. ●

- Joseph Yambasu

Buckling down Janeil McDonald revises diligently for an upcoming mock exam

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T H E

C H E M I C A L

R E A C T I O N

The effect of chemistry in schools: An Interview with Science & Chemistry Teacher, Mrs Mehta

First and foremost, I believe

everyone should have a basic

knowledge of the subject. Chemistry

is all around us and it is vital for so

many applications in our daily lives, it

helps to understand how the world

works and why everyday reactions

happen- not just in the science

laboratory. When students enjoy the

subject, they are more likely to read

widely and make progress. It is

important to be able to understand

the concepts and be able to apply

them to exam questions. I would like

all students to develop their critical

thinking skills, to be able to think

analytically and evaluate everything

they read and see. This is what a

robust science education trains us to

do.

I think all the scientific disciplines are

equally important, biology is about

living things, physics is about energy

and chemistry is essentially about

matter. There is interdependence

between the three disciplines and

being skilled in one area usually

enhances skill in another. Chemistry

is my favourite because of the

practical work involved- it’s more

fun, engaging and visually

entertaining. Beyond GCSE, I always

advise students to choose subjects

which they enjoy because that is a

key motivating factor to arouse

one’s curiosity and enhance subject

knowledge.

Teachers want to promote a love of

lifelong learning in all their students.

Humans are naturally inquisitive and

always learning. Studying science

instils a sense of discipline; the

scientific method of predicting,

experimenting, analysing and

evaluating can be used in many

walks of life to make improvements.

Scientists will reject a theory if the

available evidence conflicts with it

and come up with a new theory. This

constant evolving and improving of

ideas is so important and is the

reason why we are making great

strides in science and technology.●

- Syed Haque

W hat would you like to see

students achieve from learning

science and chemistry?

ow would you compare the

importance of chemistry compared

to biology and physics? H

what would you like the students

studying science and chemistry to

achieve at their other subjects?

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Filling In the Blanks

FILLING

IN

THE BLANKS An SLT interview with David Medway

I N T E R V I E WS C H O O L

FAVOURITE FILM?

Yi-Yi (A One and a Two) is the first one that comes to mind. There are lots that are age inappropriate, but any film that says something interesting about what it means to be alive. I loved Berberian Sound Studio, but most hate it.

WHICH SPORTS TEAM DO YOU SUPPORT?

I taught myself to like football because other people did and have been burdened with a geeky enjoyment ever since. If there is ever a right moment, I can bore anyone with a discussion of Liverpool.

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? Writing, when I have time. At the moment I am preparing to get married, but to call that a hobby would send all the wrong messages.

WHEN DID YOU FIRST KNOW YOU WANTED TO BE A TEACHER?

I knew it was what I wanted to do when I was at university, but waited until I had some life experience. At 21 I still had some growing up to do. WHAT’S THE MOST CHALLENGING THING ABOUT BEING AN SLT MEMBER?

Remembering that it's never about me.

STAR WARS OR STAR TREK?

Star Wars toys, Star Trek ethics. WHAT’S THE WORST COLOUR?

For what purpose? I can tell you from bitter experience that fluorescent orange is not a good colour for your coat when you are seven. HOW RELEVANT ARE LEAGUE TABLES IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM?

They are hugely relevant whether we want them to be or not. They provide a really useful comparative for getting better, but if they are what are driving the leadership of a school they can be hugely damaging.

A successful day is when every

single moment is used effectively… “


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WHAT IS YOUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY? Plan with the end in mind and it's not learning if I'm the one doing it.

WHAT WAS YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE LIKE? Initially baffling. I was a fixed mindset child who could not understand why I was no longer brilliant and couldn't just wing it. I needed more clarity and more feedback, but didn't get it. I was once utterly humiliated in a seminar: I had not understood the level of expectation.

I can recommend Bristol: it's just the right size in which to grow up a bit.

WHAT ARE YOUR STRATEGIES FOR MAKING TEACHING FUN? Clarity. Pace. Drawing for understanding. Acting for understanding. Being me so that others can be themselves.

FAVOURITE SONG?

Right now, 'The Beigeness' by Kate Tempest.

WHAT WOULD YOU CALL A SUCCESSFUL DAY/LESSON? A successful day is when every single moment is used effectively for learning and will make a difference for children. The same for a lesson. ●

- Sebastian Atkinstaull

PLAN WITH THE END

IN MIND “”

UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON

Undergraduate Open Day Starts at: 09:00

Finishes at: 15:00 Location: Main Campus Booking requirements:

Booking needed

YEAR 11 PARENTS EVENING

EXETER COLLEGE

Undergraduate Open Day Starts at: 17:00

Finishes at: 19:00 Location:

Sowton Industrial Estate/ Monkerton

Booking requirements No booking necessary

M O N T U E W E D T H U R F R I

END OF HALF TERM

HOW DOES STUFF GET INTO

MUSEUMS? Lecture, Talk,

University College London

Time: 6-8pm Location: The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Malet

Place, London, WC1E Cost: £0

TEACHER TRAINING DAY

CITY UNIVERSITY Law Day

Time: 9:30-16:30

REGULAR SCHOOL DAY

REGULAR SCHOOL DAY

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THE BRITISH MUSEUM

One of the world's oldest museums,

the British Museum is vast and its

collections, only a fraction of which

can be on public display at any one

time, comprise millions of objects.

First-time visitors generally head for

the mummies, the Rosetta Stone,

Lindow Man, the Lewis Chessmen

and the Sutton Hoo ship burial.

Discovering the World in the

eighteenth century is a permanent

exhibition of around 5,000 objects

chosen to cast light on the period

between the mid-eighteenth and the

early nineteenth century, a time of

great discovery and learning when the

British Museum was founded by an

Act of Parliament.

“There are many impressive places in London,

but this is truly incredible. And it’s free.”

www.britishmuseum.org

“Like going on a trip around the world… “

“Puts a mark of perfection on its offer as

a top cultural visitor attraction.”


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On Point A student librarian badge creating a mark of undeniable authority

Photography by Sebastian Atkinstaull


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SLA

FOR

A

DAY What does it take to be a

Student Librarian Assistant?

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HERE SEEMS TO BE A

vacuum in Ark Elvin’s

inner parts. As the sun

ascends and the fog

outside takes its place

among the clouds, mornings in the

academy are followed by the high

strung promenade of yawning

students, their somewhat restless

conversation, the busy rush of

teachers, and the prancing of some

who, perhaps, have too much energy

for the rest of us… But somewhere

midst the clamour of the 8am

procession, a place exists like a tribal

commune – untouched and

somehow undisturbed by the goings

on of civilization. It is the Library.

And that isn’t to say the Library is

undeveloped, crude or unrefined.

But that in it, like a room in outer

space, the noise and dust of life is

made to stir. It neither stays nor

settles since inside is its own society

of members – student librarian

assistants (SLAs) are tasked with

duties some of which are vastly

important to sustain an atmosphere

of quiet concentration. To fumigate

the airs.

IT IS THE FARM OF THE SCHOOL: BOOKS AND

displays are tended to like crops of

wheat or corn; the printer whirs like

the baas of a sheep; the hours are

long and demanding. Jeneil

McDonald, an apprentice leader,

described a few of her duties:

“you’re basically taking care of the

library” she says, “organising,

helping anyone that needs help,

printing, photocopying.” She told me

how patience was the chief skill

she’d learnt through her role. “You

have to remember that it’s not only

you on the team… you have to deal

with other people… you have to

learn patience to deal with everyone

at the same time.” Nermin

Muratovic of the Ark Elvin Sixth form

described to me the amount of

dedication one needs to be in an

SLA. When asked to describe his job

in one word, Nermin simply said

“Work.” However, the work load is

distributed evenly and fairly.

Meetings are held every Monday

and Wednesday where members

are assigned their particular duties,

and recent updates are declared.

“It’s not all fun and games being an

SLA”, says Nermin in a steady

whisper, “one of the major things

I’ve learnt is how to work with

others… As an SLA, all the work is

not dependent on you, you have -

others to help you out [and] tell you

what’s wrong when you do

something wrong, and what’s right

when you do something right.”

While the community provides a

safe net of

encouragement

and criticism for

some, for

others it’s the

part of the job

that makes it

most enjoyable.

Whitney

Williams, one of

the youngest

SLA members

said “you work with different people

who’re in the same year as you but

you maybe didn’t know them, so you

make new friends.”

WHILE A SENSE OF SOLIDARITY IS TRUE OF

the SLA team, there is also an

awareness that everything must play

on the same pitch. Balancing school

life and the duties in the library is

hard work, and asks both discipline

and organisational skills. “It helps you

to learn how to organise yourself,

says Jeneil, “because you don’t want

“Being an SLA

is something

different,

something

unique,

something

amazing, I

would have

to say”

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to spent too much time on work, and

not enough time doing your [school]

duties.” The members must think like

a well-tuned violin so things play

smoothly. “It’s

getting that balance

so you don’t fall

behind in anything.”

WHILE MOST MAY

expect the typical

librarian to be

studious and

academic, the SLA’s are diverse in

their skills and interests, and find

other values in their membership. It

attracts both the artistic and the

ambitious. Some have joined the

library to add credentials to their CV,

as a form of volunteering; others,

however, enjoy designing and

decorating the displays to “get in

touch” with their creative side.

But what is at heart of this silent vacuum, where the frantic movements of student life are rarely felt, is their sense of comradeship. Through their interactions, many who find it difficult to socialise have come to “forget about all that and overcome my fear”. Some feel it has even helped them “progress” as individuals. It provides an enriching experience, one that, as Nermin aptly put it, is something they’ve never

done before… it’s something different, something unique. Something amazing, I would have to say. If anything, it’s made me more responsible.”● - Sebastian Atkinstaull

“It’s helped

me stay in

touch with

my

creative

side”

“One of the major

things I’ve learnt is

how to work with

others.”

Happy Scanning The many jobs of the SLAs are both diverse and enjoyable.


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HREE DAYS OF TERROR, TRAUMA

and excessive police

surveillance. On 14th of

January this year, two unidentified

Afghani terrorists blazed speedily

through the headquarters of French

satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. Given

their controversial content in topics

like religion, people have concluded

that this ‘marauding’ attack was

carried out by aggressive jihadist

gunmen, in light of the tongue-in-

cheek comics about Prophet

Muhammad and Islam.

BLUE-LIGHT

responders have been given training in treating gunshot wounds, and they’ve also been taught how to work in buildings, airports and railway stations that may be armed with improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The existence of the units was Fieschi, until help arrived in time.revealed by Theresa May, the Home Secretary of England, in an update to the Commons. “Future training exercises by police and special forces fire-arms teams will incorporate “specific elements” of the Paris attacks”, she said.

IN A NEW INTERVIEW LAURENT LÉGER, AN investigative reporter at Charlie Hebdo and a survivor of the January 7th assault on the magazine's Paris office, condemned President Obama for his administration's attack on press freedom. "You have to be very happy Obama didn't come to the march in Paris," said Léger. "His administration's actions are an absolute scandal. It's very good he didn't come to the march that day."

LÉGER WAS participating in Charlie Hebdo's weekly editorial meeting when the staff heard what sounded

like fireworks outside. Then, Léger told French radio, a man masked and dressed all in black --

now known to have been either Chérif or Saïd Kouachi -- entered the room, shouted "Allahu Akbar" and began shooting the magazine's staff, killing nine. Léger survived by hiding underneath a table. After the gunmen left Léger held the hand of one of the wounded, Charlie Hebdo webmaster Simon Fieschi, until help arrived in time. ●

- Joseph Yambasu -

JE SUIS

C H A R L I E

ET TOI?

F R A N C E C U R R E N T A F F A I R S

The three days of terror that

echoed through the streets of

Paris - all in detail.

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Copies of the magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' , Jan 13, 2014

A man holds up an edition of Charlie Hebdo

magazine as people gather on the Place Royale in

Nantes, western France, January 7

H A P P E N I N G:

CULTURE: Harper Lee, author of

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, is set to publish a novel in July. Her first new

work in print in more than 50 years

WORLD AFFAIRS:

Russian banks are set to lose 1 trillion

rubles in 2015.

TECH: Project Tango:

Google technology to 3D-scan the

whole world could be in phones this year. The scanner

began as a concept for a

Smartphone which would scan the

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HERE IS NEW HOPE FOR THE FUTURE AS

THE launch of 3-D Printer in

December 2014 has been a

great benefit to biological molecules;

with benefits from improving face

transplant and saving babies lives. The 3-

D Printer might just be the glimmer of

hope that scientists need as this could

one day help researchers design new

drugs that more precisely target spots on

virus molecules or even manufactured

artificial protein sensors. “Proteins often contain thousands of

atoms and the printing method reveals

new insights when two molecules

interact. For instance, many proteins

have long, curvy tunnels within them,

through which molecules pass.

Determining a tunnel’s length and width

can be very tricky on the computer

screen because there’s no way to see all

the way through from any one view. But

measuring its length is exceedingly easy

in 3D printed models” Arthur Olson told

Live Science.

3D PRINTING SOUNDS FUTURISTIC- THE

technology is quite straightforward: it is a

small evolutionary step from spraying

toner on paper to putting down layers of

something more substantial until the

layers add up to an object and yet, by

enabling a machine to produce objects of

any shape, on the spot and as needed, 3-

D printing really is ushering in a new era.

“With 2D computer visualizations, there

are limitations making them hard to

interpret. For instance, when researchers

try to move molecules around in

computer simulations, they often go right

through each other, which wouldn’t

happen in the physical word” added

Olson, a molecular biologist at the

Molecular Graphics Laboratory at the

Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,

California said

“WITH 3D MODEL, THERE’S NO WAY FOR TWO

solid molecules to go right through each

other…the experience itself is very

different between looking at something

on a flat screen, and actually holding an

object and manipulating an object in your

hand”

3D PRINTING HAS BECOME INCREDIBLY USEFUL in

several areas of medical science such as

3D printed hearts, livers and skulls are

already in use to help doctors plan

surgeries.

RECENTLY, SURGEONS DISCOVERED A TWO YEAR

old girl named Mina Khan who was born

with a hole in the walls between two

S C I E N C EC U R R E N T A F F A I R S

WELCOME

TO THE

FUTURE 3D printer provides hopeful

possibilities for medical science.

- Lourdita Remedios

Medical Marvel Mina Khan, a survivor of a 3D printed heart operation alongside her mother.

Future. Now. A 3D heart constructed as a model for a medical operation.

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chambers of her heart and through the

advanced technology of 3D printing

meant that the surgeons were able to

create an modelled replica of her healthy

heart which matches every tiny details of

a baby’s heart, helping surgeons plan

where to cut tissues, reroute piping and

patch holes in children with congenital

heart defects. By viewing the anatomy in

3D, the surgeons said they “could create

a model of her heart and then see the

inside of it with a replica of the hole as it

looked when the heart was pumping. We

could go into the operation with a much

better idea of what we could find.”

“The experience itself is very

different between looking at

something on a flat screen, and

actually holding an object and

manipulating an object in your

hand”

G H A N D I

C U R R E N T

H I S T O R Y

Road Through

The Past

How the world’s

press responded

to Gandhi’s

death 67 years

ago

- Lourdita Remedios

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ANUARY 30TH, 1984 MOHANDAS

Karamchand Ghandi was shot

dead by Nathuram Godse, A

Hindu nationalist, in Delhi. The 78 year

old Ghandi was attacked while he was on

his way to attend a prayer meeting at

Birla House in the national capital. Godse

fired three shots from a pistol. He was

immediately captured and hanged to

death on 15 Nov, 1949 in Ambala Jail,

along with one of his accomplices

Narayan Apte. The death of the

“Mahatma” as the country fondly called

him shook a newly-independent India

and made headlines across the world.

January 30, 2015 marked the sixty

seventh anniversary of Ghandi’s death.

Here are how the press in India and

foreign countries responded to the

catastrophe.

The Times of India

Mahatma Gandhi assassinated at Delhi

“While on his way to the prayer meeting, the

Father of the Nation, was shot four times at

point blank range by a man who sprang out

of the congregation. Three bullets struck the

Mahatma, and he was immediately

taken to Birla House. He passed

away at 5:40-35 minutes after the

crime.”

The newspaper carried a picture

of Ghandi with folded hands on

the left column, next to an article

about his death describing

Ghandi’s death as an irreparable

loss to mankind.

THE CHENNAI-BASED NEWSPAPER SAID

REPORTS of Godse trying to

commit suicide after killing

Ghandi were false. “There is no

truth in the report that he

attempted to commit

suicide by putting a bullet

into himself.”

Here is how it described

the final moments of

Ghandi:

The Hindu

Ghandhiji shot dead

“The last act Gandhiji did was

to lift both his hands as a sign

of prayer in the direction of

the large gathering which had

assembled for the prayer.

Thereafter, he was speechless

and the loss of blood, at his

age and so soon after his fast, made death

inevitable. He was beyond medical aid even

from the start when shock had its effect. Lord

Mountbatten and Cabinet Ministers,

including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel and Maulana Abul Kalam

Azad and others soon arrived. The Ministers

present held consultations among

themselves as to the future course of action.”

THE HINDU NEWSPAPER MADE REFERENCE TO THE

30 year old fanatic man who at

5o’clock in the afternoon

during a prayer meeting

emerged from the admiring

crowed, bowed to Ghandi

before shooting him three

times at point-blank range in the

stomach and chest. Ghandi

raised his hands in front of his

face, in the conventional Hindu

gesture of greeting, almost if

he was welcoming his

murderer, and slumped to the

ground, mortally wounded.

Witnesses said he cried out

“Ram, Ram” (“God, God”)

though others did not hear him say

anything. In the confusion there was no

attempt to call a doctor or get the dying

man to hospital and he died within half

an hour.

The Guardian

Assassination of Mr Ghandi

“The man, who gave his name as Nathuram,

fired a fourth shot, apparently in an effort to

kill himself, but a Royal Indian Air Force

sergeant standing alongside jolted his arm

and wrenched the pistol away. The sergeant

wanted to shoot the man but was stopped

by the police. An infuriated crowd fell upon

the man and beat him with sticks, but he was

apprehended by the police and taken to a

police station.”

AFTER THE TRAGEDY, NATHURAM GODSE

attempted to shoot himself but was

seized and hustled away while the

shocked, hysteric crowd cried out “Kill

him, kill him!” threatening to lynch him to

which he was tried for murder in May

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Road Through

The Past

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“Our light has

gone out, but

the light that

shone in this

country was

no ordinary

light. For a

thousand

years that

light will be

seen in this

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and hanged in November the following

year.

THE ONLY PHOTO THE TIMES CARRIED ON THE FIRST

page of its Jan 31, 1948 edition was that

of Ghandi. The report noted the reaction

of Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister

of India.

The New York Times

Gandhi Is Killed By A Hindu; India Shaken,

World Mourns; 15 Die In Rioting In Bombay

Three Shots Fired

Pandit Nehru arrived at about 6 o’clock.

Silently and with burning eyes he inspected

the spot where Mr. Gandhi was shot and

then went into the house without a word.

Later he stood high on the front gate of Biria

House and related the tentative funeral

arrangements to several thousand persons

gathered in the street and blocking all traffic.

His voice shook with grief and hundreds in

the crowd were weeping uncontrollably.

The piece added:

Pandit Nehru delivered Mr.

Gandhi’s valedictory in his radio

address late this evening. In a

quivering voice he said:

“Gandhi has gone out of our lives

and there is darkness everywhere.

The father of our nation is no

more- no longer will we run to him

for advice and solace. This is a

terrible blow to millions and

millions in this country.”

“Our light has gone out, but the

light that shone in this country was

no ordinary light. For a thousand

years that light will be seen in this

country and the world will see it…

Oh, that this has happened to us!

There was so much more to do.”

Whilst Ghandi’s body was laid out

on the terrace of Birla House,

draped in a white cotton cloth that

left his face uncovered, and a

single spotlight focused the corpse

as all the other lights were turned

off. Speaking on the radio, the

Indian prime minister Pandit Nehru

said: “The father of the nation is no

more. Now that the light has gone

out of our lives I do not quite know

what to tell you and how to say it.

Our beloved leader is no more.”

The following day an enormous

crowd estimated at nearly one

million people lined the five-mile

route of the funeral procession to the bank

of the Jumna River as the body, draped in

the Indian flag, was carried on an army truck

while air force planes overhead dropped

flowers. Repeated incursions from the crowd

meant that the journey took five hours and

the police had to clear space by force while

the bier was lifted onto the sandalwood

funeral pyre and the body was cremated in

the traditional manner. As the flames

burned, the grieving crowd showered the

pyre with petals. The ashes were kept on the

river bank for three days before they were

taken away for immersion at the spot where

the Jumna joins the Ganges.

The Sydney Morning Herald

FOUNDED IN 1831, THE AUSTRALIAN

newspaper ran a report by the Australian

Associated Press on Ghandi’s

assassination accompanied with a picture

of him addressing a prayer meeting in

New Delhi on Jan 14, 1948.

Assassin kills Gandhi in New Delhi

Gandhi was hurried into Birla House, home

of Mr. G. D. Birla,the wealthy Hindu

industrialist. He died there soon

afterwards,without speaking, surrounded by

a weeping crowd of lifelong friends and

faithful followers. Gandhi was 78 last

October.

A state of extreme tension exists in New

Delhi to-night. Rioting is already reported

from Bombay, and police reinforcements

have been hurried to the danger areas.

DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF NEHRU AND OTHER

leaders, violence erupted in Bombay and

elsewhere in India, with riots and arson.

There were attacks on Brahmins, because

the killer was a Brahmin. Police in

Bombay had to open fire on the rioters. It

was an outcome which would have

profoundly horrified Gandhi himself.

Law and Order Scenes from the courtroom

At Rest A garland photo of Mahatma Ghandi at New Delhi’s Birla House on Feb, 6, 1984

You must be

the change you

want to see in

the world.

- Ghandi


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IGHT, TOUCH, SMELL, HEARING

and taste; our source of

assembling sensations and

familiarity in the world come from

our senses but to what degree can

our senses determined the reality of

life? A powerful organ such as the

brain instantly receives electric

signals altered from processed

information (gathered from our

senses) to makes sense of the world

around us. A great deceiver of our

senses and the brain are illusions

which make us realise that things are

never as they seem but also that our

experiences of the world shape our

understanding of it.

AT THIS INSTANT, YOU ARE ENTERTAINING

two realities simultaneously. You see

one reality (a small orange circle

enveloped by large blue circles) but

you also perceive another reality – a

large orange circle bordered by small

S C I E N C E & P E R C P T I O N C O M M E N T S

S

Which blue circle is

bigger? (see next page

for answer)*

MISLEADING

VISION

SENSE & SENSE-ABILITIES

S

How much of what we sense

reflects reality?

blue circles.

INSTANTLY YOUR SENSES IN THIS particular case your sight sends electric signals to the brain which conclude the image on the right to be the bigger circle when in fact they are tangibly the same.

NAMED AFTER THE GERMAN Psychologist, Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909). The Ebbinghaus or Titchener circle illusion exploits our perception of relative size. When an object is surrounded by larger objects, it seems far smaller than it actually is and so our brain causes the illusion in that moment trying to make sense of what the eyes is seeing which ratify Socrates, a Greek Philosopher who said “All I know is that I know nothing.”

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have powerful effects on what we

see and illusions are useful as a

research tool because they tell us

how the brain functions.

BY DRAWING UP RESULTS FROM THE

Ebbinghaus experiment we can

understand that the brain evolved

NOT to see the retinal image (which

is made up of meaningless, or

ambiguous, patterns of shapes) but

to see the world in a way that proved

useful in the past. “These are things

that we don’t experience very often

because the brain is so good at

covering up its mistakes” theoretical

neurobiologist and author of The

Vision Revolution, Dr. Mark Changizi

told Discovery News “The act of

seeing something begins with light

rays bouncing off an object. These

rays enter the eyes through the

cornea, which is the clear, outer

portion of the eye. The cornea then

bends or refracts the light rays as

they go through the black part of

your eye, the pupil. The iris-the

colored portion of your eye-contracts

or expands to change the amount of

light that goes through.

FINALLY, THE LIGHT RAYS GO THROUGH THE lens of your eye, which changes shape to target the light towards your retina, the thin tissue at the back of your eye that is full of nerve cells that detect light. The cells in the retina, called rods and cones, turn the light into electrical signals. That gets sent through the optic nerve, where the brain interprets them. The entire process takes about one-tenth of a second, but that’s long enough to make your brain confused sometimes.” ●

HERE HAS BEEN LOTS OF TALK IN recent months about whether Manchester United

striker Radamel Falcao is staying at Old Trafford beyond the end of the season. The Colombian striker, who earns £265,000 a week, has scored 3 goals in 15 appearances in all competitions, since signing from Monaco in a £6m season-long loan deal in September, with all three goals coming from the Premier League. With the intense competition of gaining a place to lead United’s lucrative attack, injury & fitness concerns, should United keep Falcao or should he go?

HIS MOVE TO UNITED ON A YEAR-LONG loan captured hearts and minds, as a proven goal-getting number 9 should. Falcao scored his first Reds goal in a 2-1 win over Everton in October and, after building up his match fitness, in December he commanded a regular place in the team and proved his poaching prowess with point-saving goals at Aston Villa and Stoke City that could prove to be pivotal at the end of the season for the Colombian and the club.

WITH HIS INJURY AND FITNESS RECORD a cause of concern, Falcao's career at

Old Trafford has been hampered by a calf injury and he has started only nine matches. He was dropped from manager Louis van Gaal's 18-man squad for the 1-0 home defeat by Southampton on Sunday after starting the previous five games prior to the game. Afterwards Van Gaal said there was no injury problem and the decision was tactical.

FALCAO HAS ALREADY DECIDED HE WILL not be returning to Monaco, who he joined for a reported £50m in May 2013 after prolific spells at Atletico Madrid and Porto. 158 goals scored in 215 appearances in all competitions for Porto, Atletico Madrid, Monaco and present club Manchester United since moving to Europe in 2009. This is an impressive stat for a top class striker particularly recognised winning the UEFA Super Cup in 2012 against Chelsea scoring a monumental hat trick for Atletico Madrid as the best highlight of his whole coveted career.

HIS INJURY RECORD AND FITNESS IS A

concern but I would still keep him

because, if he has got over the

serious knee injury he suffered in

January last year, he is undoubtedly a

world-class striker. He needs to play

regularly - if he does that he will *Both circles are the exact same size!

S P O R T S C O M M E N T S

Radamel Falcao:

KEEP OR

KICK?

Should the Colombian

Striker stay or leave?

- Syed Haque

T

- Lourdita Remedios


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produce. If he doesn't play week in,

week out, there is no point signing

him permanently. With also fellow

striker Robin Van Persie, will turn 33

soon after his Manchester United

contract ends in the summer of

2016, his future must be decided

that will determine Falcao’s fate in

the club. I would keep him next

season because he has definitely still

got a lot to offer. But after that, his

age might mean his best days as an

out-and-out striker, who has relied

on his reactions and pace while

playing on the shoulder of the last

defender, are behind him.

S E N D ~ S U B M I S S I O N S ~

TO [email protected]

SO THE END OF HIS CURRENT DEAL MIGHT BE THE TIME

for him to move on and think about a lucrative

move to somewhere like the MLS in the United

States. He has had an amazing career but there

will be no incentive from Van Gaal when the

decision is made.

THEREFORE, FALCAO SHOULD STAY AND SIGN FOR UNITED

permanently because he is a world class striker

at the age of 28, he has couple of good years

ahead of him that will be worth spent in the

biggest club in the world, utilising his prowess

through tearing down the defence with cool

efficiency and frightening power. Once back to

full fitness and playing regularly, he will be

prolific and dangerous in front on goal. ●

Settling the score

Falcao celebrating his hat trick to inspire Atletico Madrid to victory against Chelsea

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HE SAT AT THE WINDOW WATCHING

the evening invade the

avenue. Her head was

leaned against the window

curtains and in her nostrils

was the odour of dusty

cretonne. She was tired.

Few people passed. The man out of the

last house passed on his way home; she

heard his footsteps clacking along the

concrete pavement and afterwards

crunching on the cinder path before the

new red houses. One time there used to

be a field there in which they used to play

every evening with other people's

children. Then a man from Belfast bought

the field and built houses in it -- not like

their little brown houses but bright brick

houses with shining roofs. The children of

the avenue used to play together in that

field -- the Devines, the Waters, the

Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and

her brothers and sisters. Ernest,

however, never played: he was too

grown up. Her father used often to hunt

them in out of the field with his

blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh

used to keep nix and call out when he

saw her father coming. Still they seemed

to have been rather happy then. Her

father was not so bad then; and besides,

her mother was alive. That was a long

time ago; she and her brothers and

J O Y C E

EVELINE

BY

JAMES

JOYCE A short story from his 1914

collection of short stories

Dubliners

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sisters were all grown up her mother was

dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the

Waters had gone back to England.

Everything changes. Now she was going

to go away like the others, to leave her

home.

Home! She looked round the room,

reviewing all its familiar objects which

she had dusted once a week for so many

years, wondering where on earth all the

dust came from. Perhaps she would

never see again those familiar objects

from which she had never dreamed of

being divided. And yet during all those

years she had never found out the name

of the priest whose yellowing photograph

hung on the wall above the broken

harmonium beside the coloured print of

the promises made to Blessed Margaret

Mary Alacoque. He had been a school

friend of her father. Whenever he

showed the photograph to a visitor her

father used to pass it with a casual word:

"He is in Melbourne now."

She had consented to go away, to leave

her home. Was that wise? She tried to

weigh each side of the question. In her

home anyway she had shelter and food;

she had those whom she had known all

her life about her. O course she had to

work hard, both in the house and at

business. What would they say of her in

the Stores when they found out that she

had run away with a fellow? Say she was

a fool, perhaps; and her place would be

filled up by advertisement. Miss Gavan

would be glad. She had always had an

edge on her, especially whenever there

were people listening.

"Miss Hill, don't you see these ladies are

waiting?"

"Look lively, Miss Hill, please."

She would not cry many

tears at leaving the

Stores.

But in her new home, in

a distant unknown

country, it would not be

like that. Then she

would be married -- she,

Eveline. People would

treat her with respect

then. She would not be

treated as her mother

had been. Even now,

though she was over

nineteen, she

sometimes felt herself

in danger of her father's

violence. She knew it

was that that had given

her the palpitations.

When they were

growing up he had

never gone for her like

he used to go for Harry

and Ernest, because she

was a girl but latterly he

had begun to threaten

her and say what he

would do to her only for

her dead mother's sake.

And no she had nobody

to protect her. Ernest

was dead and Harry, who was in the

church decorating business, was nearly

always down somewhere in the country.

Besides, the invariable squabble for

money on Saturday nights had begun to

weary her unspeakably. She always gave

her entire wages -- seven shillings -- and

Harry always sent up what he could but

the trouble was to get any money from

her father. He said she used to squander

the money, that she had no head, that he

wasn't going to give her his hard-earned

money to throw about the streets, and

much more, for he was usually fairly bad

on Saturday night. In the end he would

give her the money and ask her had she

any intention of buying Sunday's dinner.

Then she had to rush out as quickly as

she could and do her marketing, holding

her black leather purse tightly in her

hand as she elbowed her way through

the crowds and returning home late

under her load of provisions. She had

hard work to keep the house together

and to see that the two young children

who had been left to hr charge went to

school regularly and got their meals

regularly. It was hard work -- a hard life --

but now that she was about to leave it

she did not find it a wholly undesirable

life.

She was about to explore another life

with Frank. Frank was very kind, manly,

open-hearted. She was to go away with

him by the night-boat to be his wife and

to live with him in Buenos Ayres where

he had a home waiting for her. How well

she remembered the first time she had

seen him; he was lodging in a house on

the main road where she used to visit. It

seemed a few weeks ago. He was

standing at the gate, his peaked cap

pushed back on his head and his hair

tumbled forward over a face of bronze.

Then they had come to know each other.

He used to meet her outside the Stores

every evening and see her home. He took

her to see The Bohemian Girl and she felt

elated as she sat in an unaccustomed

part of the theatre with him. He was

awfully fond of music and sang a little.

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and, when he sang about the lass that

loves a sailor, she always felt pleasantly

confused. He used to call her Poppens

out of fun. First of all it had been an

excitement for her to have a fellow and

then she had begun to like him. He had

tales of distant countries. He had started

as a deck boy at a pound a month on a

ship of the Allan Line going out to

Canada. He told her the names of the

ships he had been on and the names of

the different services. He had sailed

through the Straits of Magellan and he

told her stories of the terrible

Patagonians. He had fallen on his feet in

Buenos Ayres, he said, and had come

over to the old country just for a holiday.

Of course, her father had found out the

affair and had forbidden her to have

anything to say to him.

"I know these sailor chaps," he said.

One day he had quarrelled with Frank

and after that she had to meet her lover

secretly.

The evening deepened in the

avenue. The white of two

letters in her lap grew

indistinct. One was to Harry;

the other was to her father.

Ernest had been her favourite

but she liked Harry too. Her

father was becoming old

lately, she noticed; he would

miss her. Sometimes he could

be very nice. Not long before,

when she had been laid up for

a day, he had read her out a

ghost story and made toast

for her at the fire. Another

day, when their mother was

alive, they had all gone for a

picnic to the Hill of Howth.

She remembered her father

putting on her mothers

bonnet to make the children

laugh.

Her time was running out but

she continued to sit by the

window, leaning her head

against the window curtain,

inhaling the odour of dusty

cretonne. Down far in the

avenue she could hear a

street organ playing. She

knew the air Strange that it

should come that very night

to remind her of the promise

to her mother, her promise to keep the

home together as long as she could. She

remembered the last night of her

mother's illness; she was again in the

close dark room at the other side of the

hall and outside she heard a melancholy

air of Italy. The organ-player had been

ordered to go away and given sixpence.

She remembered her father strutting

back into the sickroom saying:

"Damned Italians! coming over here!"

As she mused the pitiful vision of her

mother's life laid its spell on the very

quick of her being -- that life of

commonplace sacrifices closing in final

craziness. She trembled as she heard

again her mother's voice saying

constantly with foolish insistence:

"Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!"

She stood up in a sudden impulse of

terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank

would save her. He would give her life,

perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live.

Why should she be unhappy? She had a

right to happiness. Frank would take her

in his arms, fold her in his arms. He would

save her.

She stood among the swaying crowd in

the station at the North Wall. He held her

hand and she knew that he was speaking

to her, saying something about the

passage over and over again. The station

was full of soldiers with brown baggages.

Through the wide doors of the sheds she

caught a glimpse of the black mass of the

boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with

illumined portholes. She answered

nothing. She felt her cheek pale and cold

and, out of a maze of distress, she prayed

to God to direct her, to show her what

was her duty. The boat blew a long

mournful whistle into the mist. If she

went, tomorrow she would be on the sea

with Frank, steaming towards Buenos

Ayres. Their passage had been booked.

Could she still draw back after all he had

done for her? Her distress awoke a

nausea in her body and she kept moving

her lips in silent fervent prayer.

A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt

him seize her hand:

"Come!"

All the seas of the world tumbled about

her heart. He was drawing her into them:

he would drown her. She gripped with

both hands at the iron railing.

"Come!"

No! No! No! It was impossible. Her hands

clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas

she sent a cry of anguish.

"Eveline! Evvy!"

He rushed beyond the barrier and called

to her to follow. He was shouted at to go

on but he still called to her. She set her

white face to him, passive, like a helpless

animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love

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LIFE, LIFE OH LIFE Life, life oh life what a wondrous thing So full of contradictions, surprises, an unexpected twist People come, people go, and you don’t always have a choice One day you meet a new friend; the next day you’re dissed Live in the present, and keep the past as history Because a present means a gift and tomorrow is the mystery People fight and cause wars for no real reason Other than for status, for revenge or for money Climate change is taking toll, floods and eruptions I just wish I could just move to place that’s forever sunny Prejudice and disease just doesn’t want to leave Leaving each and every one of us with reason to bereave The media will play with your mind, warping our world They’ll lie; they’ll hypnotize and tell you a false truth Yet we are not always aware, someone must take a stand We must start to question things and look for real proof They’ll give us products and vices that we don’t even need Poison our minds and bodies, that’s just not a good deed We must learn to live in the moment, and smell the roses Before they die, and we’re left with a barren land We must learn to be grateful with what we already have Enjoy the benefits, and not just the brand Let’s go outside barefoot, and bathe in the sun Come on, leave the burdens behind; let’s just have some fun The rich are real harsh, to us poor innocent victims We’re starving of love and education and our needs If only we’d all realize we all want happiness That we sprouted from the same type of seeds We’re all children of God, we came from the light We are connected; there is no reason to fight Life, life oh life what a wondrous thing We just need to learn to stop and breathe Life, life oh life what a wondrous thing We just have to start to give and receive

- Hayden Evans

P O E T R Y



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P H O T O S



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P H O T O S C O M M E N T S

9 7 2

7 3 2 4 1

4 8

7 5 4

1 9 3 6 8 5

9 2 7

3 2

1 4 7 6 5

2 1 8

8 9 4 7 2

2 5

2 1

1 8 5 4

4 6

4 3 9 5

1 9

6 2

2 3 9 8 4

8 4

6 9 7 4

5 7 4 8 2 6

8 4 5 2

4 2 9 3

2 1 7 6 4 3

6 2 1 8

4 1

S U D O K U Each row, column and 3x3 block must contain the numbers 1-9

8 6 3

4 7 3

6 4

5 4 8 6

4 7

6 3 5 2

5 7

3 1 9

2 8 1

GRADE: hard

GRADE: easy GRADE: medium

GRADE: insane

FOUR FANTASTIC

FACTS

8.2% of people in

Norway eat tacos

every single Friday.

Every Apple iPhone

ad displays the time

as 9:41 AM, the time

Steve Jobs unveiled it

in 2007.

The first president of

Zimbabwe was

President Banana.

40% of the earth's

land is in 6 countries.

C O N T R I B U T O R S

Mariam TORRES – Year 7

Hayden EVANS – Year 12

Special Thanks:

Shereen Gordon, Vy Do, anyone who, though reluctant, gave us permission to photograph and interview them (we literally couldn’t have this issue without you!), and everyone who actually reads all the way through. Hello.

M E M B E R S

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Photographer

Syed HAQUE – Writer, Photographer

Joseph YAMBASU – Writer

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