SUBJECT: ENGLISH

Can Ultimate Frisbee Save the World?

One group is using it to bring Israeli and Palestinian youth
together. So far, it’s working.

They’d gathered for supper one night in July, at the summer camp at the Kfar
Silver school, in Ashkelon, Israel. For the last couple of weeks this group of
kids — some from Israel, some from Palestine — had been trying to learn
something about conflict resolution, by playing Ultimate Frisbee. Some of
them had become friends.

That was when the air raid siren went on.

The rockets came from Gaza, part of the ongoing clash between Hamas and
the Israel Defense Forces. The missiles didn’t land in Ashkelon. But they did
score a direct hit on the hopes of some of the people who had looked to the
camp as an oasis of peace.

“Well, we’re not trying to bring peace to the Middle East,” said David Barkan,
who volunteers as the chief executive of Ultimate Peace, which sponsored
the camp. “That’s not the goal. It’s about changing a mind-set through the
values of the sport that we know leads to peace between people.”

As I interviewed Mr. Barkan by phone last week, I felt the temptation to roll my
eyes. As he described his hope of changing hearts and minds through Ultimate
Frisbee, all I could think about were those incoming rockets, and the long tragic
history of that endlessly conicted region. I struggled to imagine how Frisbee —
seriously, Frisbee? — might succeed where a half-century of diplomacy had
failed.
 And yet, when Mr. Barkan talks about “the values of the sport,” it’s not just idle
talk. Ultimate — which is kind of a combination of football, basketball and
soccer — has a unique twist: There’s no referee. The sport is wholly
self-regulated by its players, and competitors from opposing teams are called
upon, when there’s a dispute upon the eld, to come to an agreement among
themselves before play can resume.

I asked another Ultimate player, Steve Mooney, to explain this to me. (I’ve
known Steve since the late 1970s, when we were both students at Wesleyan,
and my roommate, David Gareld, was one of the game’s pioneers.)

“Let’s say I’m about to catch the disc and you hit me in the arm,” Steve said. “I
say it’s a foul, and you don’t. The game stops, and we essentially have a
conversation, you and me, over whether it was a foul or not. And at most levels
of the sport we resolve it.”

If the conflict can’t be resolved, the disc goes back to the thrower, and the play
starts over. But most of the time, the players work it out together. Occasionally,
members of your own team come over and tell you, “Actually, I think you did
foul him.”

While Mr. Barkan and Mr. Mooney were shepherding their campers, I was watching the
World Cup — with its opening and shirt-pulling and endless deceptions. The sport they
were describing seemed to belong to a whole different universe.

Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/opinion/israel-palestine-ultimate-frisbee-
peace.html

Q: 1.1
[2.0]
Comment on the ways in which ultimate Frisbee is considered as a sport to “save the
world”

Q: 1.2
[3.0]
Analyze the mood created in the below lines. (3 marks)

“And yet, when Mr. Barkan talks about “the values of the sport,” it’s not
just idle talk. Ultimate — which is kind of a combination of football,
basketball and soccer — has a unique twist: There’s no referee. The
sport is wholly self-regulated by its players, and competitors from
 opposing teams are called upon, when there’s a dispute upon the eld,
to come to an agreement among themselves before play can resume.”
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And this place could be much
Brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try
You'll nd there's no need to cry
In this place you'll feel
There's no hurt or sorrow
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make it a better place
For you and for me
If you want to know why
There's love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares of joyful giving
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel
Fear of dread
We stop existing and start living
The it feels that always
Love's enough for us growing
So make a better world…
Q: 1.3
Outline the themes brought out in the
song by quoting a film technique. (2
marks)
Q: 1.4
Examine the ways in which the song
video connects with the
audience(3marks).
Q: 1.5
Compare and contrast how the writer
and creator create a sense of
community in each of the texts.