Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts

Friday, 15 February 2013

Oscar Pistorious: Blade Runner or Blade Gunner ?

  Sportsmen are considered as role models for the coming generation. Watching their athleticism and focus in the sport excites and attracts the future generation of sportsmen to play for their country. Sportsmen are role models, they are expected to set up examples for the future sportsmen. They have many followers, and each move they make is watched by all of their fans as well as the whole world.
  Oscar Pistorious, the very famous Paralympic Superstar who participated in the London Paralympics last September was all over the news. Oscar Pistorious the South African Paralympian was the first Paralympian to participate in an Olympics race. Pistorious was amputated from his knee since birth.
  The History making Paralympian's actions have left every one in a shock. Fans of Pistorious and the whole South African nation are in a shock. Oscar Pistorious Who was a gold winner in both 100 metres and 200 metres as well as 400 metres in his Paralympics career disappointed the crowd when accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorious's girlfriend Reeva, a model was to debut on a television show. But fate had something else for her. The Famous Paralympian Oscar Pistorious shot her at his home in Pretoria.
  The authorities found the body of Reeva Steenkamp in a pool of blood in the family's home in Pretoria.He is being accused of "Premeditated Murder". The penalty if the charge is proven will be Life Sentence. It will end the careen of the Golden Boy of South Africa.
  Oscar Pistorious was a nation's hero. He was nick named Blade Runner or Blade Gunner after the incident. The whole community loved him, the world liked him. He was a history maker in the world of sports. Records can be broken but the firsts always remain firsts, no one can overcome that. He was supposed to be an example, a role model to the whole world. Not only to the disabled but even to the able-bodied he was an example.Pistorious's action had taught everyone to respect the disabled and for the disabled the message was to dream and to work for that dream. But the incident which occurred recently has sent a shochwave to the community. The sports community is in real disbelief. The South African and it's generations to come had a hero. Now they have someone... (No on Knows what? )
  Actions like the ones of Pistorious if done by someone famous can harm the society. Bad examples will be taken and ultimately it will effect the society. The society already has enough bad boys. It needs good examples, decent examples and the celebrities, whether movie stars or Paralympian stars should feel responsible for what they do. Each and every action of these people become an example for the society.

Sunday, 3 February 2013

Opportunities: Fighting for the Right

  Opportunities, a word taken for granted by some, while some might have never heard of it. Education opportunities, Job opportunities... does every one have equality in it?
  Opportunities are not equally distributed to everyone. Everyone has different sets of opportunities, and at some point everyone has to step back. Opportunities differ due to ethnicity, region race and even genders.
  Today, in the modern era we might think that difference has ended and everyone has been given equal rights, but their is always someone superior and someone is always inferior. The world today has many examples which we might ignore but the ones who are lacked of the opportunities know what it is like.