Describe a typical day in the life of a teacher in Singapore.
Describe a typical day in the life of a teacher in Singapore. Clad in an impeccable white blouse and tight black pencil skirt, Mrs. Tay walked briskly towards the classroom where her first lesson was to be held. The sweltering and scorching weather was making her feel less than comfortable. She could feel beads of sweat trickling down her forehead. Lifting up her hand, she hurriedly swiped the perspiration off her forehead before it got into her eyes. Pursing her lips in irritation, she stepped into the class of 4E, only to be met with a horrendous scene yet again. Paper planes were flying around the classroom, girls were busy gossiping and giggling and the boys were having an arm wrestling match. The chaotic scene ensued. "Children," she muttered and sighed in annoyance under her breath. Clapping her hands three times, she waited impatiently for the class to settle down. It took a while before the class finally settled down. "So today, I will be teaching you about..." Even though she had taught this lesson many times in her past nine years of teaching, she never once felt bored about teaching the lesson again. Teaching was her passion and she wanted to ensure that her students are able to gain knowledge from her lessons. She always felt a sense of satisfaction whenever she saw her students scoring well for their examinations. Smiling happily, she continued with her
Writing to Argue - Giving Aid to needy
Writing to argue: For or against giving aid to other countries. More and more problems, conflicts and disputes emerge every-day. Sometimes between countries. These matters, at times, lead the world to see something they never even dreamt of. We see wars and invasions take birth. Be it for the right causes/ reasons or not, theses wars and invasions impact a lot of innocent civilians in an enormous way. These innocent people get their shelters, families and even basic necessities of life stolen away from them; they not only require but rely heavily on help from others. The U.N provided 15,000 tons worth of aid to different countries, in just a few weeks, who had suffered some sort of damage. However, this aid only helped 39% of the people who went through some sort of physical loss as a result of perhaps war, some sort if dispute or natural disaster. You may ask yourself, why would a country want to help other countries? Well the answer is simple. You will be credited for saving lives of thousands, if not millions. Furthermore, the help from a certain country might be the only help that they are going to get. Other than that, the citizens who have suffered a huge amount of trauma will be left on their own state. So why don't the politicians do the right and thing and provide a generous amount of aid to other countries, especially when they are in the power. The opposition
Conflict - personal short story
Conflict Wednesday started off as any other average day, a little hotter and more humid than usual but that was all. One could tell there was a storm brewing but not in the way I could begin to imagine. I walked downstairs just as my father was leaving and said a quick goodbye, giving him a kiss on his clean- shaven cheek as he rushed off to his stuffy prison of an office. My mother had breakfast ready in the kitchen, and I smiled as I was greeted with the smells of cooked breakfast and freshly brewed coffee. "Good morning Abi," mum greeted me in a chirpy voice, "Did you sleep ok?" "Yes thank you Mum," I replied. That morning continued with the normal routine of washing, getting dressed and getting ready for school. At eight o'clock mum bustled me into the car and we left for school. We drove down the same road as always with the same bumps down Town Green Road, and as we turned the corner passing number 62 we could hear Mrs. Hensons dog barking madly, as usual. I became bored with looking outside so I began to study my mother. As she concentrated on the road with her crystal blue eyes, a strand of her blonde hair fell from behind her ear. I'd often been told how attractive my mum was, and how lucky I was to be so stunning with a combination of my father and her. I had been gifted in having the best of my mother and father. My mother's bright blue eyes and my father's
Should Governments Prohibit Logging
Should Governments Prohibit Logging? Logging is the process in which trees are cut down for forest management and timber. This process has shrunk many forests around the world and is continuing and is still continuing to do so. Governments consider logging to be a good thing because they can sell the timber and wood to boost their country's economy whereas environmentalists consider logging to be a bad thing because it endangers many species and can aggravate global warming. Logging is not the same as deforestation. Logging is the main cause of deforestation. Deforestation can happen in other ways such as forest fires besides logging. When governments owe banks a huge amount of money, they have to exploit the country's natural resources to pay for the national debt and for their own development. Tropical hardwoods are a resource which is in high demand around the world. Brazil owes the World Bank about US$100 billion. The world demands for US$ 8 billion of tropical hardwoods and in order to pay the debt, Brazil sells their tropical hardwood which is obtained by commercial logging. Also commercial logging is caused by population increase. As the population of a country increases, its demand for wood also increases and thus logging is carried out to obtain the wood. There are many types of logging. The first type is tree-length logging. This process involves the felling,
Internet Essay- The Internet is the Greatest Invention of Mankind- Discuss
The Internet Is The Greatest Invention of Mankind There are two sides to every story, and in this case, two sides to every argument. The above statement poses such questions as: if the Internet is not the best invention of mankind, what is? And, what would life be like without computers and the Internet? I hope to answer these questions and form a fact-based opinion on whether I think that the Internet truly is the greatest invention of mankind. One of the obvious benefits of the Internet is that it provides people with fast accessible information; mainly through search engines such as Google or Yahoo. These search engines are easily accessed, and they provide links to website containing information on what you searched for. Using these search engines, you can also search for images of whatever you want. But, we must ask, is this easy access to images and websites safe for young children? There are many upsides to the Internet. It can be used for banking, for buying products, for helping with revision, for providing information, directions, communication, education, news broadcasts and listening to music. Undoubtedly, it has provided many people with new business opportunities. The Internet has helped many people and since its invention, the Internet has become a household necessity. Over the period of April-June 2003 and estimated 12 million households in the UK could
Woody Guthrie somewhat satirically claims that we share the land in his song, This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land however I do not believe that to be entirely true.
Grapes of Wrath - Essential Questions Response Woody Guthrie somewhat satirically claims that we share the land in his song, "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land" - however I do not believe that to be entirely true. Firstly I believe, that land isn't quite a tangible object for purchase, it really doesn't make sense to me at all how we let people reap the bounties of the earth by buying everything up, chopping down all the trees, paving it with cement & apartment complexes. But if land has to belong to a person, it should belong to the inhabitant - it should belong to someone who cares about the land itself, rather than just the profit. So, in a Grapes of Wrath context, this means that the land should belong to the tenant farmers - that the bankers shouldn't have been allowed to scoop up all the land and sell it to the poor for so much. It also means that the tenant farmers should take care of it because they have been the ones that have so carefully labored over it for months, soothing to bring sprouts, singing to bring stalks, crying to bring rain and fruit. The bankers, the overseers - they do not care about the land, they have really invested nothing except for money, but we all know how tempting that sly chick can be. The government has a huge responsibility when it comes to the welfare of farmers. We have to realize that farming is perhaps, after the
The Lottery: Free choice, self knowledge and Guilt
FINDING YOURSELF THROUGH THE PAIN Based on the Novel: The Lottery By: Beth Goobie Student: Monique Roopanram Teacher: Ms. Kirshenblat Course: ENG1D5-04 Date: Friday, June 8, 2007 There are many instances in our lives which prompt us to ask ourselves the questions: "Who am I?", "What am I doing here?", "Does anyone know I exist?", "Does anybody care about me?", "Why am I doing this?", and "What was I thinking?". Life is full of opportunities to achieve excellence or failure. Some of us choose excellence, some choose failure, and some are not given a choice. In the novel The Lottery, Sal Hanson is chosen as the year's lottery winner at her school Saskatoon Collegiate (S.C.). This role enables the Shadow Council to take advantage of her by making her do their "dirty work". Not only is the role of the lottery winner demeaning, but it also takes Sal on a journey where she learns free choice, self-knowledge, and guilt. Having free choice is essential for individuals in order to define what kind of person they are, and who they aspire to be. After Sal Hanson is chosen as the lottery winner, the luxury of free choice is taken from her. The Shadow Council has control over Sal's choices that, now, consist of following Shadow Council's orders to a tee or suffering the consequence of receiving demerits. "She felt the leash around her throat, tightening like the silence
The poems Strange fruit written by Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allen) 1937 and Still I rise written by Maya Angelou both convey the racism which fell upon the lives of many black individuals.
Explore how the poems 'still I rise ' and 'strange fruit' represent the experiences of the black woman/man The poems 'strange fruit' written by Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allen) 1937 and "still I rise' written by Maya Angelou both convey the racism which fell upon the lives of many black individuals. Abel Meeropol although was not of black heritage was provoked to the hatred of the unjust crimes situated amongst the black race, he also emphasises his hatred for the people who perpetuate the circumstances that they were put under. Maya Angelou on the other hand was from a black heritage, and having been apart of the black race, gave her writing which explored the inequalities of the black female and the black man, a more defiant feel, whereas Abel's outsiders perspective of the black man/woman is not as harsh. The way each poem has been structured was specific to the manner in which both Abel Meeropol and Maya Angelou wanted it was presented to the reader. 'Strange fruit' was written in 3rd person which gave the piece and outsiders perspective, whereas 'still I rise' was written in 1st person this gave the poem a first hand perspective of the piece. 'Still I rise' also uses a 2nd person pronoun, which gives the piece a direct appeal to the reader, creating assumptions that the white man is reading it. This grabs the reader and plays with the reader's guilt. The use of metaphors
Unrelated Incidents And Half Caste Comparison
i) In 'Unrelated Incidents', Tom Leonard expresses his thoughts on how we our characterised by the way we speak. Compare one other poem that deals with similar ideas. John Agard, born in 1949 to parents of mixed nationality came to live in Britain in 1977. Agard's poem 'Half Caste' demonstrates the attitude of narrow minded people he must have met, who consider people of 'mixed race', to be inferior. Agard uses a bit of humour but the anger of the situation is always obvious. Tom Leonard, born In Glasgow, a British Citizen but describes him self as being thoroughly Scottish. Similar to Half Caste, Leonard's Poem is about attitude towards people with non standard accents and dialects and how we are discriminated because of the way we speak. Half Caste opens up with a short, sharp three line stanza in which Leonard sarcastically explains he is 'standing on one leg' because he is half caste; by this Leonard means that if people consider him to be half a person than he would only have one leg. From the second stanza on, the poet addresses the audience in a very direct way, 'explain yuself, wha yu mean'. It is almost as if Agard is assuming that the reader is one of those who look down on mixed race people and use the term 'half-caste'. On the other hand, Leonard's 'unrelated incidents' is about how people have prejudices for and against particular accents and dialects and he
Creative writing involving war
Creative Writing The wailing sirens struck fear into the struggling crowd of panicking civilians. The adrenaline rush filled me as I barged passed all the strangers and knocked an old man off his feet, he tripped into the puddle beneath him launching muddy water into the others surrounding. Nobody cared, I could not help unless I wanted the same to happen to me, but as I turned around an aircraft shot past, a thundering rumble followed and shook the ground. As the old man searched for his walking stick in the marshy ground something caused an explosion; obliterating the helpless man and propelling rock and mud towards me at unbelievable speeds. Everything went black as a heavy rock belted into my face, I lay unconscious between two mangled bodies. I woke up to the same noise; aircraft shaking the earth, bombs breaking the earth and incessant screaming that sends a chilling sensation to your bones and then is silenced by an explosion. Only now the average volume was quieter, the loudest noise was two men shouting at each other. I kept my eyes closed to try and understand exactly what was going on and listened intently. "Open the door what are you doing!?" yells an Arabian man, The other person responded calmly, "We have enough people in here and we don't need anymore blood around the place." "What you're just going to let them die!?" "It looks like it doesn't it?"
