HI group project 2017 2 Opal by 2017S2-OP John, Zin Thant, Phil, Sin Yee, Qian Ying https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw Made with the best of intentions en-us 2017-09-12 01:05:55 UTC 2017-09-27 11:42:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Aspect: Food g1152350t https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186608605 I can infer that there was insufficient food to feed themselves and people needed to work in more jobs to earn money to buy more food for themselves.
From source 31 TB pg 39, it says that "Our food sources were running Low. There was this idea that somebody would have to find a job...Being in government service, I was given additional food. This increased our supplies at home."
This shows that they had not enough food for themselves and their family and needed to work to earn or get food from the Japanese.

-Sin Yee]]> 2017-09-12 01:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186608605 Aspect: Food g1152350t https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186610729 I can infer that the aspect of life was not easy as the people of Singapore had insufficient food to depend on for survival and had to make use of the food they ate.
Source 33 states that 'food was scarce 'and to survive people had to 'make use of every part of the food' they ate and 'you can even eat the shells of ground nuts.
This source states how people survive on food ,which matches to the aespect of life that I am focusing on which is food .

-Zin Thant]]> 2017-09-12 01:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186610729 Aspect: Recreastional Activities g1152350t https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186610769 I can infer that during Japanese occupation recreational activities included vital to the amusement park

From Singapore national museum source 5006. The source states that "...the park was popular for its opera performances, cabaret dances and boxing matches, and had a famous restaurant naans Tiptong." 
This showed that people went there to watch performances and to restaurants to enjoy themselves during their free time.

-Phil ]]> 2017-09-12 01:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186610769 Aspect: Education g1152350t https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186610829 I can infer that students had a tough time studying during the japanese occupation ,as the japanese were trying to promote their culture and was disrupting their studies  during that time 
From history textbook pg30 , the evidence "the japanese tried to cultivate a sense of asian consiciousness and pride by promoting it through education in school and made students learn their culture and language"
This shows that the japanese had gave the students and the peope a hard time as they need to learn everything in japanese  and how the japanese treated students with japanese education

-qian ying

]]> 2017-09-12 01:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/186610829 Aspect: Working Conditions g5248919p https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/188383411 I can infer that the working condition of the 'white men' during the Japanese Occupation was much more worst than before.
From an online source, it state that 'more than 50,000 British, Australian and allied soldiers, including women and children, were imprisoned. They were sent to work on the Death Railway in Thailand. Many died of infectious disease / harsh living conditions.' 
Before they were regarded very highly where as during the Japanese Occupation they were ask to do inferior job.


-John Galina

]]> 2017-09-18 09:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/188383411 Essay: qianzzz2003 https://padlet.com/g1152350t/ypvfx3pz6xaw/wish/191573511 From all the sources, we can infer that the people living in Singapore was living a very tough life during Japanese occupation. Food was scarce as most of the food or goods were sent to the Japanese army because they had war in other countries so they needed resources for war. Therefore, food was rationed every month. If the Japanese soldier liked you, you will get more food but if u were not liked, food will be lesser for you. People had to find more jobs to work for so that they can earn more money to purchase goods or food in the black market as they were sold at a higher price there. They also used whatever they had to make more food for their families so that they can survive. During Japanese occupation, schools were also disrupted but after the Japanese reopened the schools, the students were forced to study everything they had from English to Japanese as the japanese wanted to promote Japanese  culture. They also taught propagandas in their lessons about how ‘NICE’ the Japanese were. The working conditions were made hard for the POWs, which were the British soldiers/Europeans that were captured during the occupation. They were ordered to do menial tasks and so of them even died due the heat, poor sanitation at the place they worked at and malnutrition, but before Japanese occupation, they were regarded very highly but those non-european people in Singapore. Although, the occupation was harsh, there were still places where the people in Singapore can enjoy themselves like the amusement parks that were built before occupation but did not get closed down during the occupation.
From this, we can see that although the lives of the people were very hard,they needed to obey the Japanese all the time and they lived their lives in fear during Japanese occupation, but some also enjoyed themselves in the amusement parks built.


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