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Skipping out R E a W a K E N I N G T C O N T E N T S S P R I N G / S U M M E R 2 0 1 9 SKIPPING OUT R E A W A K E N I N G T C O N T E N T S Ten stories tha t a r e n ’ t a b o u t B r e x it , Emily Poncia U The supergrass , Emily Sinclair Feminism - the f o u r t h w a v e , Millie Angel O China’s social c r e d i t s y s t e m , Natasha Rubins G The stolen enli g h t e n m e n t , Aybala Rose N I Referenda - ye s o r n o ? Y o u d e c i d e , Ella Shindler N E G Mr Enid Blyton , Raffy Fry K The complicate d c a s e o f S h a m i m a B e g u m , Tilly Sumners A To impeach or, n o t t o i m p e a c h , t h a t i s t h e q u e s t i o n , Eryn Gold W N A Eleven years to s a v e o u r p la n e t , Alice Ryb I E R The loneliness e p i d e m ic , Kate Anderson P In defence of h o b b i e s , Meghan Khan P I C O V E R by Alice Ryb K A B O U T S K I P P I N G O U T Skipping Out is a pupil-led magazine; it aims to give all students in the Senior School a voice and freedom to express their opinions, passions and interests. S D E A R R E A D E R Welcome to our Spring/Summer issue of Skipping Out. We hope it reawakens your interest in politics and cultural affairs. Enjoy! P.S. If you’re interested in contributing to future issues of ‘Skipping Out’, please contact Ms Wilkinson. M E E T T H E T E A M Emily Poncia Emily Sinclair Millie Angel Aybala Rose Ella Shindler Raffy Fry Tilly Sumners Natasha Rubins Eryn Gold Alice Ryb Kate Anderson Megan Khan TEN NEWS STORIES THAT AREN’T ABOUT BREXIT By Emily Poncia It's spring and, as the weather warms up, prompted people all over the world to people of the area to break free from the last thing any of us want to do is read share stories of gratitude and inspired the cycles of drought and poverty, as another story about current affairs many to promote the fact that kindness the seed require much less water than (especially the B-word) so here’s ten news costs nothing. other grains. stories that are not about Brexit in any way. Thought to be extinct The news that a giant tortoise, believed to be extinct for over 100 years, has finally been discovered on the Galapagos Island of Fernandina is very welcome in a world where it seems a species becomes extinct every day. The announcement was made by Ecuador’s Floating bins environment minister Marcelo Mata and The Seabin is a brand-new technology seems to carry a message of hope. The that has been set adrift in Sydney last known sighting of this type of Caring for Carrara harbour to act as a vacuum and suck up tortoise was in 1906, over 100 years Carrara marble is a highly prized and upto 20 kilos of rubbish, including tiny ago. expensive item, from the mining of plastic microbeads. ‘The Seabin Project’ which many foreign companies benefit. was started by two brothers on a However, the industry is extremely crowdfunding website and they now Communicating across barriers harmful to the local area with the town have 35 sponsored Seabins being In Newton, Massachusetts, lives two- of Carrara itself being polluted by launched in 25 different countries. The year-old Samantha Savitz. Samantha is marble dust and mining waste. It is also device causes no harm to marine life deaf. Realising that the normally bubbly being subject to hydrogeological through mechanisms which discourage girl might become withdrawn and upset instability that causes many floods. The fish from approaching and could save as she got older and struggled to people of this area have pulled together the future of beautiful bays all over the communicate, her neighbours rallied in an initiative called ‘Salviamo le Alpi world. around her and a whole community began learning sign language. Thanks to Apuane’ (Save the Apuan Alps) to build this initiative, Samantha is able to talk to a growing network of farms which A heartfelt thank you all the members of her community, allow the locals to break free from the showing a prime example of ‘love thy harmful industry, as well as reawakening VHS tapes, along with all kinds of retro neighbour.’ the traditions of the area. paraphernalia, are coming back into fashion; however, for one man in Phoenix, Arizona, it was much more The crop initiative A gift from a stranger than trendy nostalgia that was A Chicago school teacher recently reawakened when he bought a VHS In an act of reawakening the ancient found herself in luck when, on board a player. In a heartfelt and handwritten traditions of the Indonesian people, flight, she was handed a generous gift of note to the employee who sold it to Maria Loretha travelled far and wide in $500. The stranger who gave it to her him, he detailed how he was able to order to find the sorghum seed, which had overheard her conversation with watch tapes of his wedding, retirement had all but died out. Maria has another passenger about how hard she party and travels, and how grateful he mobilised women all over the found it to work in an underprivileged was for the experience. The employee Likotuden area to plant 30 acres of the school where supplies were rare. The took to social media and the letter crop. The seed produces highly teacher took to social media, thanking quickly gained notice, with more than nutritious grains which not only revive the stranger and promising to use the 300,000 likes on Twitter in two days. It ancient customs but also allow the money to buy books for her pupils. THE SUPERGRASS By Emily Sinclair Pictured Stephen Mellor (r) and Gary Haggarty (l) Like most things in our lives the past There have been several supergrasses has a place. It belongs in history lessons, throughout The Troubles, one of the Saved in a heartbeat museums or just generally not in our more notable ones being Christopher Technology seems to able to do present. There are moments, however, Black, in 1981, whose testimonies led to when the past not only repeats itself the arrest of thirty eight people. This anything nowadays, especially for a man but fully reawakens. seems fundamentally different to the in New York whose Apple Watch Haggarty case. Whilst both potentially saved his life. The watch can detect In January 2018 a man called Gary risked their lives to reduce their heartbeat, amongst other capabilities, Haggarty admitted to over five hundred sentences, only Black’s seems to have and it alerted him to seek medical help crimes that he had committed from made a large difference to police when his heart rate crept dangerously 1991 to 2007; this included five counts investigations. This could link to the high. He was rushed to hospital where of murder and five counts of attempted rising crime rate within England and it was discovered he had a ruptured murder. During ‘The Troubles’ in Wales, yet a percentage fall in the Northern Ireland Haggarty was a number of crimes that culminate in ulcer and he would have died had it not member of the Ulster Volunteer Force charges. True, this could just be been for the crucial gadget. who sought to combat Irish nationalism. because the methods of recording Classed as a terrorist group by the crime have improved and more people, British government, the UVF supported particularly with things such as sexual a union between Great Britain and offences, are coming forward to report Northern Ireland and would use violent them. methods in order to achieve this; as a result the group were responsible for It is clear that there is more of a focus the murder of over five hundred on rehabilitation rather than retribution people, over two thirds of whom were or deterrence when it comes to Irish Catholic. Originally, Haggarty was criminal charges, but is serving hardly given a thirty five year life sentence, any time at all, like Haggarty did, really Girl power which is understandable seeing as the the best way? list of his charges is eighty two pages Under Armour, a popular sportswear long. However, Haggarty became a so An example of true reformation, thanks brand, released a new range of girls’ called “supergrass”, which meant that to the prison system, is Stephen Mellor, shoes dubbed ‘United we win’ on he willingly gave up information to the who was imprisoned in February 1997 International Women’s Day this year. police that could help in their for the murder of a rival drug dealer. investigations. He studied throughout his fourteen This comes after Riley Morrison, aged years in jail and received diplomas in nine, sent a letter asking Steph Curry of Over the course of 1,015 police Personal Training and Sports Under Armour why his shoes only interviews Haggarty gave up the names Psychology.
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