X A ASSEMBLY: YOUth MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
This morning the X A had their
Assembly and had as its theme: ‘YOUth Media & Entertainment.’ The teacher,
Miss Arlene Cardozo and her students prepared a beautiful script on the theme
touching various aspects of Media & Entertainment: Influence by Movies;
Influence by Music; Influence by Video Games; Influence by Social Networking
(Face Book, Twitter, SMS, MMS etc); Influence by New Media.
The students used an idea from
‘Youth Patrol’ to bring out the message they had prepared. Congratulations to
the students who painstakingly prepared the script and together with the script
the video presentation.
The students prepared a video
show with various clips that was relevant to us youngsters showing us how Media
& Entertainment can influence us for the good or for the bad. The choice is
ours and sometimes we are just carried away and are not aware of the
consequences or the dangers that we place ourselves in.
Sharing on Movies they showed how
movies could affect the young unconsciously and had an example of Sunil who
seemed to have lost his respect for his dad, to the extent that his dad lost
his temper and slapped him for being disrespectful.
Sharing on Music, they showed
that though music is a good source of entertainment, it uses vulgar and abusive
language in the lyrics. Some songs even go against people’s sentiments and
religion thus hurting sentiments and feelings.
Touching on Video Games they
portrayed how these games take one’s mind to an unrealistic, imaginative and
virtual world and excess leads to addiction and hallucination.
Social networking sites act as an
impetus to sharing and accepting content such as malicious websites and other
such illegal distribution of unwanted matter.
It was a variety of song, dance
and screen play to portray the theme. The students watching the show did really
enjoy it as it carried a powerful message and was humorous too.
We would like to congratulate the
students of X A and the teacher for placing before us a lot of food for
thought.
The Compere ended by telling us
that our minds are like clay, open to impressions until the final moulding. It
is up to us to decide and choose the right thing in life.
Fr. Rector in his talk to the
students stressed on our lives being like a field and just as a farmer reaps
what he has sown in the field our lives too reap what we have sown. If we have
sown seeds of goodness, kindness, compassion, generosity we will reap those
fruits. If we have sown hatred, bad habits and abusive language etc we will
reap just such bad fruits.
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