'Cannot' is only formulated within the brain

The air is congested with feelings of uncertainty as the year draws to an end and exams are drawing near...slowly but surely we all have to face them. The fear of looking at that question paper and wondering if you know all the answers or even worse...if you know anything!

One thing I believe in life is that, 'cannot' is only formulated in the brain and if one strives to get what they what they will get it. This is not to say that now you can get 100% for that law exam...come on now, you also have to be realistic about things. Dr Enathi will take you through some steps on how to achieve those goals:

1) Imagine...set your mind free and lose control of all those thoughts.

2) Within these thoughts filter a few possibilities that you want to achieve by the end of the year.

3) Take out a note pad and write all of these down.

4) While you are undertaking this task make sure you formulate a method of how you could turn these ideas into a reality.

5) On your wall or somewhere visible, put this quote by Marilyn vos Savant, " Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." With this quote in mind you will think twice about not fulfilling what you set out for yourself.

This is a very broad method of achieving what you want but remember that if you truly want something with no hesitation, you ought to fight to get it. As Brian Tracy states in a book entitled Goals " One of the rules for success is this: It doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you're going. And where you are going is solely determined by yourself and your own thoughts."

Whichever goal you intend on fulfilling may you strive and undertake the task of making it achievable with care. Do it legally, and for all those who will be writing examinations soon...take a stand and prove to yourself that you CAN, after all you are worth the success you receive.

ispeakmymind

Racism (in south african context) is the indocrination of the black men's mind to believe that being called 'black','nigger' or 'kaffir' is an insult and therefore whoever call those names should be punished.

This is pathetic.... WHY?

For non black to keep a black man happy for instance don't dare mention those words. but should a black man mess up the names will come into play.

This puts black skinned in other's mercy

For example to keep a lame/blind person happy one must pretend not to recognise his disabilities but when conflict arise the names come to play, and what a lame man does he lay charges or curse that "your kids will be like me or say i did't choose to be diasbled".

In my way of seeing things its the same for racism it is like saying "i did'nt choose to be black therefore interpealing to the call that black is inferior and has to be continuously proteced from the more 'perfect skinned', some even pray that "Oh god, why I was black in the first place?"

To explain the process of racial reconcilation is not to explai it away.

A racist person is a pretending person, like a first thaught is the true charater of a person.

Of all the cases i have tell of people complain that they have been called 'nigger',I guess it is sometimes about wanting someone's attention.

In many circumstances once a black person get rich he tends to look down to his people and associates himself with white and in doing so he/she tends to forget her colour and when white man pulls the race card he feels offended because he is being associated with people he believe is head and shouldiers above them, i therefore say we should not put a great deal of emotins to race, because it does exist and the only problem with these steriotypic ideas is that they are so entangled to the truth. Be black and proud.

Where is the love?

Why can't the field of journalism deal with issues of the heart? Is it too subjective? Not appealing enough? Has the subject of love gotten so cliché that it is somehow a taboo for me to write about it in a journalism blog? Well if it is- too bad, because I simply cannot keep this in any longer.

You can consider me a hopeless romantic. I believe in true love and am not afraid to admit it. I fantasise about the day I get to grow old with that one person, and am tired of being criticised for it.

The stare I receive from society that insults my intelligence, by diagnosing me with some form of naive abnormality for believing in commitment, tears at me every day. How can anyone believe that the "one night stands", "cheating is acceptable" and "marriage is jail" ideology society has somehow developed in the last few decades, could bring real happiness?

Is it not logical to think that the false ideas of love and the flexibility of social mores in society has something to do with the rising statistics on divorce?

How could something so pure and extraordinary, become so polluted? Commitment has somehow become the little, but very evident, piece of spinach everyone tries to avoid, that sneaks into the gaps of your two front teeth. It humiliates you, and fills you with shame, until you feel nothing but relief when you flick it out and throw it into the wind.

I may be alone in this, but I believe that life is nothing without love. So if my happiness means being an outcast and walking around with an entire vegetable garden between my teeth, I have nothing to say but, "Let's start sowing!"

The increasing of crime and diseases

The first article I read from The Time Online was about a pregnant teenager who died with her baby after contracting swine flu. This article falls under bad news in the news value. I would say that this story is focusing on the resent disease that has hit our countries, for example here they are talking about England and Scotland. Basically in this article they are talking about pregnant people who die before and after giving birth to their children. This article is very much clear and talks about how pregnant women can protect their selves and in these two countries its estimated that there were 100,000 cases of this swine flu in July, this means that a lot more other people are in danger. The other article was from The Herald and it was about three arrested men for selling the RDP houses. Its about three men selling houses that belonged to the government, they sold these houses because they wanted peoples money but in the end they were caught and sent to jail, these men were very old, they were51, 36 and 37.In the end this caused people to be violent( those in the RDP houses). I also read a story from the Grocott’s Mail about a 23 year old guy who killed a local business and his domestic worker. These stories are what is happening in our everyday lives. These stories are like a cry for help, its something bad and people need to be helped.

Bon appatit...

In the world of journalism, interacting with people is nothing but key. This stretches from truly understanding a client's visions for their newest logo design, to needing to fluff up a celebrity's ego to ensure their sound participation in an upcoming interview.

I have about a year's worth of waiteressing experience behind my name by now. And let me tell you something, waiteressing is no different to the sometimes daunting requirements of producing solid journalistic works. Just last night I needed to flutter my eyelids, compliment, and pretend to care about stories, I quite frankly couldn't be bothered about, for the sake of building a relationship with my customer (and of course for a 'solid' tip.) I needed to grasp a comprehensive understanding of the 'feeding' needs of my customers and make sure to present them with dishes that would undoubtedly tantalise their expectant taste buds.

An important lesson that I have only recently come to realise, and you should realise as soon as possible, is that all aspects of your life, feed into the multiple facets of journalism. We, as journalism students, still have so much to learn about this all encompassing subject (we are reminded of that every day) yet opportunities constantly present themselves to us that provide us with the potential to acquire a new set of skills or level of understanding that could make the world of difference to the eminence of our work.

In order to be a successful journalist, we need to, quite frankly, open our eyes. Break the walls of your thinking and allow yourself to experience life on a whole new level. See the world as what it is to a journalist... a playground of endless opportunity.

Education leads to dissatisfaction

It is very demoralizing to find that in certain parts of the country children are not given the opportunity to prove themselves. This is due to factors such as the one in the following article from The Herald. According to the article written by the Herald Reporters the Department of Education will not implement any new steps into improving the current conditions from the Nelson Mandela Bay.

Issues such as these could lead children to quit and give up on school and in actual fact the next President of South Africa could be among these children. Education is very important as without it, there is not much anyone can do. The question is, “when will we allow these children the chance to break free of the ideologies that they cannot do it and they cannot make it big?”

Analysing table 3 from the Department of education statistics for 2009, it is evident that the amount of learners in the Eastern Cape are decreasing and so are the schools being built although the amount of educators is increasing. In provinces such as Gauteng and the Northern Cape the amount of learners is increasing. Therefore the Department of Education needs to uplift the education throughout the Eastern Cape.If need be, they need to increase the infrastructure money within the budget, something needs to be actively done.

Tony Blaire once stated, “The child with a good education flourishes. The child given a poor education lives with it for the rest of their life. "

news commentary

Glenn Agliotti lambasted - headline
This is the headline was in the Mail& Guardian news paper, about the ongoing story of the convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti, a very interesting story. The date was the 14th of October 2009
Effectiveness-the headline to some extent is effective, it drew my attention; Agliotti was called by the state to testify against Jackie Selebi, by reading the headline you get the sense of what is going to follow. He seemed to know more about him and now he is exposed by the court that he is a liar. The headline is related to the story and the incident that happened in court, of him confessing that he lies when it suit him.

Verb-the verb lambasted is very exaggerating and aggressive for instance it’s as if Agliotti has been confronted for lying, also the verb is ridiculous and dehumanising.
Short-the head line is short and catchy; you do not need to read for long a long time. It is just one glance and you got the entire headline.
Attractive -language and raising question: the headline is attractive especially the words and used in the headline. Agiotti has been on the news recently for all the wrong doing so every thing negative about him is interesting to large number of audiences. As people always want to know what is going to come next.

Clear and accurate- it is not accurate why is he lambasted. You have to be someone following the story to understand why he is lambasted, you cannot only read the headline and get the sense of what is going to follow, unless you knew that it was his day in court but the headline is clear, only three words used.

Informative- This headline contain who and what, the where, why and how is not there in the headline. it is informative in the sense that to people who are following every bits of this story they will know what the news is about, but to someone who is not following the story I am not sure that is the case.
An accurate headline would be; Agliotti lambasted in court for lying