Thursday, May 21, 2009
Straits Time Reading Reflection 10
11:35 PM
Questions:
1)What are some of the problems involved in separating a conjoined twin?
2)If you were a part of a conjoined twin, would you rather stay together with your twin for the rest of your life or would you risk both your lives to go for an operation? Why?
Answers:
1)Some problems would be choosing a twin to sacrifice for another. The survived twin might suffer brain damage. If the operation fail, both twin will die.
2)I would rather stay together with my twin. If we go for operation, we might die. I personally do not like to take risk involving life and death.
I Am an Avenger.
Straits Time Reading Reflection 9
11:33 PM
Questions:
1)What are big companies doing in order to be more socially responsible?
2)How important it is to be socially responsible? And do you think it is still possible to make a social impact during the recession?
Answers:
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I Am an Avenger.
Straits Time Reading Reflection 8
11:27 PM
Questions:
1)What are some of the things that schools in Singapore are doing in order to take care of the environment?
2)Do you think one person's effort in reducing, reusing and recycling will make a difference in saving the environment? What steps have you taken in the effort to save the earth?
Answers:
1)Schools have CIP programmes which ask us to clean up beaches, mangrove swamps.
2)Yes. If one person reduce, reuse, recycle, people might get impacted by them and also help reduce, reuse, recycle. As more and more people get impacted, soon the whole world might get impacted and thus it will make a difference. Before throwing things away, i have always look at the dustbin to see what it should contains. I also reuse plastic bags and sometimes bring plastic bags to shopping malls so that they do not have to provide us.
I Am an Avenger.
Straits Time Reading Reflection 7
11:06 PM
Questions:
1)How does the treatment programme of the Singapore Prison Service help sex offenders?
2)Do you think that sex offenders should be given a second chance in the society? State your reasons.
Answers:
1)It helps them to sort through their thinking so that they do not repeat their mistake. The only known offender which the programme has failed to work is Bala Kuppusamy.
2)Yes. Everyone should be given one more chance. They might turn over a new leaf. The world will have no justice if we only give each person one chance. Just because they did a bad mistake, it does not mean that they will repeat it. For those people who repeat it, they should not get a second chance.
I Am an Avenger.
Straits Time Reading Reflection 6
11:00 PM
Questions:
1)What is illegal logging?
2)What can you do to stop the Sumatran tiger from extinction?
Answers:
1)
Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of laws.
2)We can tell Indonesian leaders to stop poachers and clearance of tigers' habitat.
I Am an Avenger.
Straits Time Reading Reflection 5
10:50 PM
Questions:
1) What are the different forms of ketamine?
2)What would you do if you knew your friend took ketamine?
Answers:
1)Ketamine comes in three main forms. The most common form is white powder which is snorted. It looks like cocaine but is smoother and less likely to form hard rocks or a flowery texture if damp.
Ketamine also appears intermittently in tablet or capsule form.Ketamine also appear as liquid form which users normally inject it and would pass out immediately.
2)I would persuade him to stop taking ketamine. If he does not stop, I will ask him to go for drug addiction centers. If he would not go, i will ask the police for help. Even though he is my friend, i should help him instead of harming him by not telling anyone. Telling the truth is important even though he is your friend as you are harming him by not telling anyone.
I Am an Avenger.
Straits Time Reflection 4
10:45 PM
Questions:
1)In the last line, what did the writer mean by suggesting that “he may have found more porcupines than rats?”
2)What's worth giving up your life for?
Answers:
1)Porcupines are brave that will fight back.Rats are timid and will run when they hear footsteps. The writer mean that there are more brave people then timid people.
2)I think that saving love ones is worth giving up my life for.
I Am an Avenger.