“The Singapore National Identity is created by the state.” Do you agree with the statement? Explain your answer. A national identity is a person’s identity and sense of belonging to a state or to a nation‚ a feeling which one shares with a group of people‚ regardless of one’s citizenship status. It is a sense of emotional attachment and as feelings are something that cannot be forced and created by the state but instead must be what an individual truly feels. Hence‚ as the sense of attachment
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Topic: Condoms should be distributed in schools: agree or disagree Narrowed Topic: Condoms are useful in many ways and are a viable way to illustrate proper sexual procedures in high schools in Jamaica. The topic of sex is a very controversial matter especially among teenagers. Teenagers are at a point in their lives where hormones are at a high and they feel the need to indulge in sexual activities. Therefore it is important that teenagers understand the importance of safe sex and the
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How far do you agree with Nick’s view that Gatsby is “worth the whole damn bunch put together”? The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man‚ around thirty years old‚ who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. Indeed‚ Gatsby has become famous around New York for the elaborate parties held every weekend at his mansion‚ ostentatious spectacles to which people long to be invited. And yet‚ Nick Carraway’s description of the protagonist asserts
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until 5pm. Anytime outside of that period‚ except for some rare occasions when they have to work overtime‚ is considered free time or family time. However‚ when people start to work from home‚ they may feel unable to escape their work or separate their life at home from their work. They may start to check their work email first thing in the morning‚ or they may work late into the night. And because getting to work is so easy without having to commute to the office‚ they may actually be working longer
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at an unprecedented speed. So does people’s views toward their jobs. This has aroused a heated discussion whether people’s jobs own more happiness than their social life dose. From my point of view‚ compared with working‚ my social life means more. To begin with‚ admittedly‚ there exist some people who relish their job and consider it whole part of their life. For instance‚ an honorable professor in my university spends all his lifetime with his students and colleagues. He poses all his heart to
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B) What does the word “freedom” reminds you of? How would you define freedom? O) Everything can be defined with its opponent‚ therefore captivity comes to my mind when I think of freedom. Being behind walls is not the only thing that captivity reminds me of. Actually everything that limits us in our daily lives‚ everything that restricts our lives can be considered as something that captures us. Therefore a world without those can be considered as a free world‚ though it cannot be fully possible
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Do you sympathise with Curley’s wife or do you condemn her? Throughout the 1930’s in California‚ where and when the novel "of mice and men" was set‚ women were frequently suppressed and treated as objects. They were put down and often abused. They were forced to do anything their husband says otherwise they were condemned by the family and general public. Several of these issues are reflected in the character of Curley’s wife. This character is portrayed in many different ways in the different
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during their time in government‚ perhaps this is why the Conservatives won the General election. However was this win purely down to the conservatives and their policies or was it down to the failure of the Labour party. In 1978 Labour were met with‚ what could be‚ one of the most catastrophic events of their time in government; the Winter of Discontent. Source 7 expresses that “that winter enabled Thatcher to come to grips with Callaghan…Callaghan tried to downplay the crisis”‚ here Young is expressing
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in Strictly Ballroom experience many challenges in their attempts to fit into the ballroom dancing world. In particular‚ Scott struggles to conform to the restraints of ballroom dancing‚ and this becomes evident in Scene 3. With Les’ words “to pick what was actually wrong with the steps‚ you’d have to be an experienced professional like myself” resonating in his mind‚ Scott begins to dance his own steps‚ which conveys his refusal to conform to the ballroom dancing world‚ and shows his desire to be
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Tactic #1: Presenting the public with two “equal” sides and making the scientific community seem divided. The best way that contrarians interfered with a scientific consensus was to generate doubt within the American public by creating a divide between scientists. For example‚ the harmfulness of acid rain was questioned when Fred Singer1 contradicted the factual evidence of his committee2 by claiming in an official government report that the causes of acid rain were not certain and that a reduction
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