Dealing With Various Themes And Issues
Social Issues
The Basic Concept Of Social Networking
Sep 1st
With more people getting into the Internet nowadays, it is not just surfing and getting or sourcing out information from the net. But it can be used for more important and relevant business and social activities such as networking, marketing, promotion, sales, dating, and many more.
Indonesia Favors Bahasa Over English In All Schools
Aug 3rd
When Indonesian nationalist took independence from Dutch rule in 1928, it has chosen Bahasa as the national language out of the countless ethnic groups with different dialects and culture that Indonesia has.
They have good reason to do this, they need to promote among themselves civic unity which is important in forging a national unity and identity as a nation.
Is Trust Triggered By Hormone Oxytocin?
Jul 23rd
Trust they say, is the foundation in building a relationship that bind us into a coherent society. Distrust is a lesson learned from one’s bad experience in some way and that too much trust to anyone is not healthy because it can breed abuse and deception.
Japan Bracing To Resolve Low Population Growth
Jul 7th
Japan is experiencing low birth rate, an aging population and it will come soon generally, a decline in population. In Japan’s population data of 2005 census, records have shown that unmarried males increased from 14.30 percent in 1975 to 47.10 percent and unmarried females increased from 7.70 percent to 32 percent.
Since the start of the global financial crisis, a decline in marriage rates also noted. Resident sociologists wanted to resolve low population growth which considered at present a serious social problem in Japan.
Is Multitasking Makes One Productive?
Jul 1st
While many people say multitasking makes them productive, research shows, however, in the contrary. Scientists say that people with multitasking to attend to experienced more stress, have trouble of concentrating and more than ever confining themselves to irrelevant information.
Scientists further discovered that even multitasking activities end, fragmented thinking and lack of focus persist. It is like your brain off computer that you need to defragmentized, connect and devoid them from error.
On DNA Samples – The Right To Information Is What Donors Wanted
Jun 28th
There’s a gap between scientist and donors who happen to be the Havasupai Indians in the Grand Canyon over the handling of their DNA samples taken from them some years back where permission was obtained other than finding a solution for type 2 diabetes which the Indians are in high rates.
When they learned years later that their donated DNA samples had been used things they found offensive, they felt betrayed.
Is Personal Privacy No Longer That Important?
Jun 23rd
There’s a number of web start ups aim to help people indulge their urge to divulge about themselves, from site like Blippy which used to broadcast people’s activities; to Skimble, an iPhone application that people used to reveal of how they had spent their time; to Foursquare, a mobile social network that allows people to announce their precise location to the world; Swipely a site similar to Blippy; and others.
Is The Roman Catholic Church Now Ready For Transparency?
Jun 7th
With the recent sex scandal the Roman Catholic church is facing, it is a clear issue of a communication breakdown within the church itself of not defining its stand per se in handling pedophile bishops and priests within its hierarchy.
More sexual abuse victims have come forward to expose the three bishops for pedophilia with the pope meeting the victims.
Is College Degree Nowadays A Necessity To Success?
Jun 4th
It has become a traditional idea that earning a college degree could be translated into as the key to an individual’s success. Though at some point it is true, but it is not always the case.
According to the statistics of the Department of Education, more than half of those students after high school who have taken a four year bachelor’s degree in the US would get the degree within six years.
But for those who are bottom quarter of their high school classes, the statistics are even more staggering: 80% will never get a bachelor’s degree. It is an unfortunate scenario that a lot of tuition has been spent by these students and yet no degree has been achieved to boost up their credential.
Is Kidney Transplant Recipient’s Death A Case Of Medical Malpractice?
May 30th
Jurors began deliberating a unique case that happened to a man who had gotten a kidney transplant from a woman donor who had uterine cancer. The case of medical malpractice was filed against NYU Langone Medical Center.
Vincent Liew, the kidney patient decided to keep the kidney after his transplant surgeon concluded that there was a slim chance he could be sickened by the feminine cancer.