Discuss the merits and demerits of the education system in your country.

Required readings:

• Singapore's Education System
• Recent Developments in Singapore's Education System
• Singapore's education system works @The Straits Times Forum http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=7271
• Singapore's education to focus more on producing global players
• Problems of Singapore's Education System @ Newsweek http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=1509
• Singapore's Education System @ SGForum http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/1639
• Singapore's Education System Ensures Equal Opportunities
• Singapore's Education System Works
• Can the Singapore Education System Produce Entrepreneurs
• The School System in Singapore
• Singapore's Education System must move beyond an emphasis on results
  

You should also spend some time looking at the private education system in Singapore. This will include international schools as well as the universities. You should also google MOE, SOTA, La Selle SIA College of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the Singapore Sports School for your own enrichment.
Best wishes

Best wishes
Mr Low

Juvenile Delinquency - who is to blame?

Instuctions:

• Prepare an essay outline for the above question.
  
• We will review this question on 21 June.
• DO NOT LEAVE THIS TO THE LAST MINUTE

Online Readings (I have only linked you to a home page or main page. It is your duty to explore each site fully.):

1. About Juvenile Delinquents


2. The Suboridnate Courts of Singapore: Juvenile Justice Division


3. The National Committee on Youth Guidance and Rehabilitation


4. http://fcd.ecitizen.gov.sg/TeenageNYouth/ParentingTeenagers/JuvenileDelinquency/


5. Apathetic? Not us!


6. Factors Affecting Adolesent Delinquency in Singapore


7. Armed and Dangerous: the new reality of teen crime


8. Islamists target teen crime gangs in London


9. Immaturity may spark teen crime


10. About.com: Juvenile Crime and Issues

Your Crime and Punishment Package (Always a reliable source for readings):

1. Justice for the young - a question of age


2. No mercy for Iranian minors


3. Why they kill

Further Online Reading (only to be done after you have completed the above):

1. The case of Lizzie Borden


2. The case of Mary Bell


3. Lionel Tates


4. 9 year old girl accused of killing playmate


5. Celebrity Mugshots


6. 102 Juvenile Crime Facts (USA)

Looking forward to your essay outlines!

Mr Low

Important Reading

1. Singapore youth teeming with ideas to create their own future
2. Future Of Singapore’s Youth Looks Bleak
3. Youth.sg
4. National Youth Council
5. Singapore YOG
6. Family Values: the importance of strong family bonds
7. Importance of Family
8. The Importance of Family Values
9. The importance of family meals

Essay Term 2 Week 9

Dear A03

In order to see a tangible improvement in your grades, you need to
(1) revisit the processes of question analysis,
(2)plan your essay seriously using the outline
(3) read, read, read, read, read to secure relevant evidence (data, case studies etc) to substantiate your essays.
You must also remember both the structures of a paragraph + the essay.

Recall that the essay titles due for class on Thursday 21 May 2009 are:

1. Are the poor an inevitable feature of any society?
2. Is Singapore a good place to call home?
3. 'You can tell the aspirations of a nation through its advertisements.' Discuss with reference to your country.
4. Discuss what our society can do to help the elderly enjoy their 'golden years'.
   

Each group prepares one essay outline for presentation.

For your own benefit, find time to complete the following required reading:
Poverty.com
Global Issues
Third World Network
Make Poverty History
The World Bank The Singapore Government
Statistics Singapore
Contact Singapore
Uniquely Singapore

You need to source your own supplementary reading to substantiate your case.
Best wishes
Mr Low

2 Photos, 2 Kinds of Goodbye

This is Steve saying goodbye to his brother who is off to Iraq. The second photo is Steve months later at his brothers funeral. Saying goodbye for the last time.

Here is a link to a video about our soldiers living conditions when they came back from the war.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46vYZF...

Here is a link to the video Iraq for sale. A revealing documentary about the war in Iraq and what is really going on.http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...

credit: therealweeklynews @ youtube

Population Reduction Coming To A Store Near You!

Saw this video and think it's very interesting.

According to this video, world population will reduce by 90%!
Seems like food isn't as simple and mundane as it looks to be. It can be used as a 'weapon' too.

Enjoy and be enlightened.

Description

U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.

Federal and industry officials say they don't know the extent to which pharmaceuticals are released by U.S. manufacturers because no one tracks them — as drugs. But a close analysis of 20 years of federal records found that, in fact, the government unintentionally keeps data on a few, allowing a glimpse of the pharmaceuticals coming from factories.

(read more)

Credit:
http://www.tyspk.com
ellis@tyspk.com

Poverty versus Affluence

Dear A03

I will like you to watch both videos carefully.
When you are ready, I invite you to comment on your reactions to these videos, taking into consideration these points:

1. What is the purpose of these videos?
2. What assumptions / implications are made by these videos?
3. What else can the mass media do besides raise awareness?
4. Is raising awareness enough?
   

Please leave your comments by Sunday 19 April 2009

A Day in the life of Kaisong




Teenage Affluenza



Best wishes
Mr Low