Post Class Reflection (Week 6, Friday)

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An hour of English in the first hour of our online classes on a Good Friday was all we needed to refresh ourselves for the whole day. One more important yet quite spell binding class of English was attended by all of us. The presentations delivered today were from the Literature part, which I look forward to enjoy it. Today the presentations were Jared Diamond’s “Adaptive Failure: Easter’s End” and Pedro Antonio de Alarcόn, “The Stub Book”.

Firstly of all, the presentation on “Adaptive Failure: Easter’s End” was really engrossing as well as gave a really important message to the entire humanity that how lack of awareness, carelessness of people and over-exploitation of the resources could turn a paradise-on-Earth, Easter Island into a complete wasteland. This was a research based essay and thoroughly described the failure of inhabitants of the Easter Island to take care of their place, due to which their civilization got erased forever. It was an essay for everyone around the globe to take care of the Earth by wisely utilizing the resources, controlling the population and considering the carrying capacity of the Earth.

Next was the presentation on “The Stub Book”, which was equally as interesting as the previous presentation. It was a story about a Spanish farmer, who loved the pumpkins he had planted, took care of each of them like his children but gets stolen away. So he sets on to a market in another town where he identifies his pumpkins and produces inconvertible proof that those pumpkins were his by the help of the stubs that were perfectly fit onto each pumpkin. This story taught us that hard work always pays off.

In this way, today’s class ended with so many lessons learnt that were useful for lifetime. These valuable lessons learnt often comes in use in order to work ethically in life remembering the moral principles. I liked today’s class a lot as the presentations were beautiful and our teacher’s further explanation were remarkable that made these texts clear as water.

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