A Letter for Prof Cohen

Dear Prof Cohen

I hope this note finds you well.

I am writing you this letter to explain my third assignment.

My third assignment rides on the lessons learnt from previous assignment and exercise we have done for this module.In the early weeks of this module, students were asked to prepare a three-page annonated biobliography and survey of important websites pertaining to natural disaster, genocide and war. The students were required to provide relevant URLs and describe the scope of the most useful websites. What I learnt from this website was what makes a good information website.

Later in the following weeks, students were required to submit a seven-page essay on a genocide. I had written on the Stolen Generation in Australia, but I felt that there was so much information in the mass media about this genocide and it was impossible for me to compress them into seven pages. I wanted to launch polls to gauge public opinion, and show videos related to the incident, but on papers I could not do those and more.

As such, I am using the opportunity in the third assignment to fuse the lesson learnt from the website exercise and the overflow of ideas from the second assignment to extend my thoughts on the Stolen Generation in Australia. In addition to this portal of information, I have also added an Op-Ed on what I think of this genocide. Australia is the only country in the world that is also a continent by itself. To wipe out its people would be to wipe out an entire continent.

Yours sincerely,

Angel Lam, Student No. HT074955R
Master in Public Policy 2007/2009
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore