SCS
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
I am sorry for this late update. It's an honest mistake. Let's move on.
Reasons for the late update:
1. Game commence: I went on Mon afternoon, and stayed until 6pm, only to find out that she was busy the whole day with meetings.
So I spoke to her at the end of the day, and she said she would be free on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.
2. I went on Tue afternoon, and stayed until 6pm, only to find out that she was busy the whole day, with her sec 2s and meetings.
So I spoke to her at the end of the day, and she said she would be free on Wednesday morning, from 11am to 1130am (as she had a meeting in the morning). She said she had meetings on the whole of Wed afternoon. (whether you believe it or not is up to you)
3. I went on Wed morning. Finally I saw her appear and talked to her with Liu Chang for about 10min. Then at 1110am, she said she had a leasson,and disappeared back into the staff room. I was bewildered, as I thought her lesson was at 1130am and I still had some questions to ask her. So I waited until around 1220pm and saw her appear. Apparently, she didn't hear me calling her and disappeared into the staff room. I waited for awhile and called her using the phone. A teacher, souding like Ms Lily Kan, said she was busy. So I left. Game over.
Extra information:
I saw Huishan on Tuesday. We were studying together and Ms Teo was sitting behind us with her s2s. So we waited and when she left, Hui Shan called her. Apparently, she didn't hear Hui Shan calling her and disappeared into the staff room. Hui Shan chased after her, and she said "I think you all may not be able to see me today"...
Liu Chang saw her leaving the school today morning at 8am. He chased after her, and she said she had a meeting until 11am. Looks like she's a really busy person...
She did advise emailing her questions, but I doubt that she has time to reply. As I recall, some time ago, Hui Shan emailed her some questions, and she said that she did not receive the email.
You all can try emaling her if you want, and see whether she replies or not by tonight.
Note: there is no answer for SS, because she was too busy.
Here are my answers, which I passed to her to mark on Monday. She said she would look thorugh them on Tuesday, as she had to settle her s2s first. So i only got them back today.
How true is it to say that the building of the dam is a mistake for China?There is a certain amount of truth ("It is true" got cancelled) to say that the building of the dam is a mistake for China, as
sources A,B,C and E are criticising the dam for its negative impact on the lives of people. The people cannot "change anything" after the dam is built, and they had to live with the fact that their "houses were demolished" and accept that the dam will result in a "posioned river" and "loss of historical artefacts". Hence,
as the building of the dam disrupted the lives of the people physically (circled), psychologically and mentally, they had to suffer for the rest of their lives. Thus the building of the dam is ammistake for China, as it desttroyed the welfare(circled) of the people.However, the truthfulness of
the sources are limited. Source A,B and E are by the West, who feel
threatened by China's growing power in Asia. So they may be
biased and undermine China's accomplishment in the buulding of the dam, to ruin the reputation of China such that their status as world power is protected.
Source C is by a Chinese, who intentionally wrote a book to criticise the Chinese government, so he is also biased.Besides that,Source D shows that the building of the dam had positive impact, such as "
generation of electricity and flood control", so the dam is not completely a wrong decision.Hence,it is true to say that the building of the dam is a mistake for
China due to its negative impact on the people, but it is
not a mistake (circled) in terms of the
benefits the dam brought to the country.Blue- underlinedRed- circled/ her commentsDISCLAIMER: she said it was "okay" when I asked her about it. If anything goes wrong during the exam, please don't look for me.For the India question, it is a little ugly and due to lack of time, i won't post it here.I could show it and the India SBQ answers tomorrow if necessary, not that it will help much.