Why ASEAN is not successful as other integration Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Once hailed as perhaps the most successful example of regional organization in the developing world‚ ASEAN is now widely perceived to be in decline and ineffective. ASEAN‚ Association of Southeast Asian Nations‚ was founded in August 1967 to fight with an overwhelming threat of communism in Southeast Asia. The founding members were Thailand‚ Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ Philippines‚ and Indonesia. Since the Vietnam
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technology being released each day‚ it’s fair to compare the digital development rate to the rate at which humans are being born. Each day we are a step closer to some undefined goal regarding how advanced our commodities are; how many pixels a screen can be‚ or how fast a processor is. Life and our daily tasks have become simpler‚ quicker‚ and more convenient with devices that aid us in transportation‚ communication‚ and access to information such as cell phones‚ computers‚ and televisions. However‚ these
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members of the floor. I as the 3rd speaker of the negative strongly disagree with the motion for today which is SUCCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAPPINESS. As such‚ I am bound by my duty to rebut‚ refute and expose all three points brought forward by the affirmative. After that‚ I will reaffirm the negative’s stand on today’s motion‚ which is “HAPPINESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SUCCESS” Allow me to first and foremost rebut the elaborations made by the third affirmative speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen
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As the government‚ I fully agree that the SPM examination does more harm than good. The low standard of one of the most important subject in the world‚ English which is without a doubt the actual universal language is insulting and ridiculous. The standard of the questoins asked in the examinations are fixed easily by the ministry so that students from rural areas who are struggling with the language can atleast pass the subject. Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language
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literature “tell the truth” better than other arts or other areas of knowledge? John Stuart Mill once proclaimed that there are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. This means that one cannot perceive the truth without understanding it. For example one cannot know the truth of Pythagoras’s theorem being that a right angled triangle’s hypotenuse’s square value is equal to the squares of both its other sides. This is because one would
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Cheyenne Keyes The topic I will be addressing is “Pluralism is a better approach than exclusivism for religion in the twenty-first century. I mostly agree with this statement because of their definitions. Pluralism is the belief that many religions are true based on their own terms and exclusivism is the belief that only the religion you follow is the true religion. I also believe that pluralism is better than exclusivism because there are so many different religions throughout the world and we have
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Nicoară Cosmin – CFM RO – an 1 European cinema is more complex than American cinema. The above statement does not entirely reflect the reality. At the level of creative expressions‚ the relationship between these two continents has always been‚ to say the very least‚ a two-way road. The exchanges concerning Hollywood and the international cinema scene are long-standing and deeply rooted. During the formation of classical Hollywood cinema‚ many of its key architects were in fact European emigrants
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edition). To define society‚ the expression‚ individual‚ has to be used and therefore this could suggest that one cannot survive without the other‚ rather like the chicken and the egg scenario; which came first? Durkheim‚ a sociological posivist‚ believed that society was the creator of individualism and to prove this‚ he utilised and investigated into the reasons why individuals committed suicide; whether it was an individual act or a rebellion against society. Looking at Durkheim’s study will enable
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Many children and adults play violent video games on a regular basis‚ but are they doing more damage than people think? The amount of time teens spend hours playing violent games in a day is shocking. Everyday locked in their rooms‚ with their highly addictive simulations can do more harm than we think. Though creators state their games improve children’s mental skills and reflexes‚ due to the different tactics involved‚ this can be expressed in different ways‚ making one believe that violence is
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harmless as some of us would like to believe. Although Spanking has long been accepted as normal‚ it is harming todays children‚ and needs to
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