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Stoke Park Post 16 Literary Journal PDF File Post 16 Literary Journal December 2020 Volume 1 1 Welcome! To the 1st edition of the Post 16 Journal Firstly, we would like to welcome you to our very first edition of the Post 16 Journal; a collection of the best literary pieces in our community. When we were beginning to collate this edition we were shocked at how many of you actively engaged with it and produced some outstanding pieces that we’re sure will entertain, inform and provoke profound thinking. For us this has been a chance to discover hidden talents and embrace those passionate about writing, giving them a space to express their devotion to the arts. It’s also been a chance to reflect, obviously this year has been difficult and as we close the book on this hellish chapter we hope our journal will be a chance to consider what it really important and the changes that have come with 2020. As editors, we are so excited to bring this to you and we hope you love it as much as we do. We have been working on this project since September to ensure this is the most entertaining and beneficial to us as young adults, this has included an emphasis on politics to get you thinking about your voice when the time comes to vote. It was also important to us that we embraced the creative side of writing, for academia so often doesn’t recognise it; this has included a submission around loss to coincide with Remembrance Sunday and some incredible photographs depicting nature in its glory, when this year so many of us have been forced to turn away from social media to the real world and in our temporary release from the confines of our home, nature has been at the forefront of our minds. Contents: We would finally like the thank all who contributed for they have truly made this issue what it is and say thank you to you all for reading! We are very ex- cited to be releasing our next issue soon. From your editors, Carys, Chloe, Jen and Louise 2 • Colourism in Films — Kaira- Lily • Trumps Effect on Politics— Kate • Death Sentences—Pavan • The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict—Jaskirat • Home (Remembrance) • Titanic—Adrian • Birth Stone—Molly • Photo Gallery—Sara What happened in the news and why you should care? Corona Virus vaccine: • The first Corona virus vaccines have been given out! • The vaccine come from the company Pfizer and are slowly being rolled out to those who need it most throughout the country. 3 • For the vaccine to work you need two shots two weeks apart. • We’re still not quite sure how long the vaccine will give immunity for but either way this vaccine would be the quickest way to create herd immunity and drop the rate of infection to below one. Why should you care? The more people who get the vaccine the sooner lockdown can become a thing of the past and we can return to some kind of normal. National Lockdown: • England has now been placed into a tier system • In all tiers, shops, hairdressers and other similar thing remain open. • However, the system limits the amount of people who can meet up with up to 6 people outside being the strictest rules (tier 3 which Coventry is now in) • There is some hope though, Coventry is on the very edge of being in three and could be moved into tier two shortly. • Additionally, between the 23rd and the 27th of December up to three households can form a bubble and meet indoors households for 5 days. • The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson has confirmed that all four UK nations are trying to work out a plan to allow families from to travel across the country to meet for Christmas 4 Why should you care? Well, this mean that you can continue shopping and going to school as normal but still can ’ t meet up with friends or family in rd large groups. Although from the 23 you can spend Christmas with two other Family Christmas: • BBC health correspondent has said that any rule change would only last for a limited time (no more than a week) Why should you care? It means that whether you celebrate Christmas or not for a few days at the end of December you might be able to meet up with close family and friends and celebrate the end of 2020. American Election: • In the simplest of terms, Biden won, and Trump lost. • However, Trump still refuses to concede and is staying in the White House until January 16th and continues to threaten lawsuit. • Realistically, there is no way Trump could sue Biden out of presidency. Come January Biden will move into the White House and Trump’s presidency will be over. Why should you care? There’s a couple thing which could come out of this for Britain. As we near the end of talks for Brexit the trade deals we make with other countries outside of the EU are incredibly important. We may end up relying on America for any imports we used to get through the EU. So, having a President who is willing to build ties with the UK is really important. No deal Brexit: • To be honest the EU currently has the upper hand in Brexit negotiations. Britain is relatively at the mercy of the EU any deal we propose has to be 5 accepted but the EU doesn’t have to accept anything they don’t want to and are well within their rights to just leave us without a deal. To make matters worse UK chief negotiator Lord Frost, is not optimistic about the UKs chances of finding a deal that everyone is happy with and says that talks are essentially “over” Why should you care? Being a part of the EU trading agreements means that we all share the same rules on the standards of products. This means that the thing we export to the EU are of the same quality as the things we import. With this not only would it become more expensive to sell British products abroad and more expensive to buy European products in Britain, but we no longer have the quality of products guaranteed. Without a good deal any product coming in from the EU could be way too expensive for half the quality. It also could make it much harder and more expensive to travel to Europe Ban on petrol and diesel cars: • Under the prime ministers new Green Plan cars solely powered by petrol and diesel will be banned by the year 2030. • Some hybrid cars will still be allowed but the PM is calling for what he calls a “green industrial revolution” • However, critics say that the PM has not allowed nearly enough money to create change on such a huge level. And of course, this alone won’t be enough to prevent or even reverse climate change and if we don’t implement a sustainable source of electricity across the country then this change will have no impact at all. • But it is predicted that the plan could create 250,000 jobs. So, anyone considering a career in engineering can look forward to a range of different future prospects 6 Why should you care? Cutting carbon emission on such a huge scale is the type of action we need to truly slow down the effects of climate change. But plans such as these coming from the government are a step in right direction, being an island nation climate change is something that we really have to prevent unless we are prepared to live under the ocean. Also, it is a great time to be preparing to study engineering. 7 I Colourism in Films By Kaira - Lily f you’ve been paying attention to your screens or binging Netflix recently (which I’m sure most of us have been over quarantine) you might have noticed a popular trope rising in your favourite teen dramas. The Token Mixed Character. Why is it such a popular trope for there to be a typically lighter skinned character accompanying the main, predominantly white, character? My guess is to throw in some kind of diversity points without casting dark skin actors or actresses. There is also a huge issue with casting black actors in general, a technique called the Paper Bag test is often recognised in casting in shows such as Grown-ish where most actors are no darker than a paper bag. Coming from a light skinned/racially ambiguous aspiring actor, I recognise this ‘trend’ will probably make it easier for me to be cast in a role compared to my dark skin counterpart, which is horrible and disgusting to think about, but is unfortunately true. I think about cases where a darker skinned actor would have been more appropriate e.g. Amandla Steinburg in The Hate U Give or Zendaya in The Greatest Showman, but lighter skinned actors where given the role, simply because they have the ‘Hollywood Look’. Now that movies and shows can’t get away with having an all-white cast with very little representation, instead they cast ethnic actors who are white-passing or are closer to the euro-centric beauty standards to get away with being ‘diverse’ without damaging their chances of their art being consumed by a white- dominated audience. Which makes sense, right? Because white people make up a majority of the population, why wouldn’t they want to cater more to that audience? The problem is by doing this, it almost denies the existence of other races and creates a colourist beauty standard that is already so prevalent in many cultures.
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