S'pore youth savvy with finances: survey Daniel Buenas 392 words 8 September 2005 Business Times Singapore English (c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited SINGAPORE'S youth value education and family, have entrepreneurial tendencies and are not ignorant when it comes to financial choices, a survey has found. In the face-to-face survey of 1,400 Singaporeans aged 15-29 by Ngee Ann Polytechnic, it was found that 44 per cent had life insurance, and of those who did, a quarter had between
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borders which was never before known in the annals of pomologieal science. Strange, indeed, that it should be left for us of this new world to establish the first great National Society for its promotion - a society which embraces in its organization the largest area and the most varied climate and soil of the globe, where almost all fruits may be grown with success. The progress of fruit culture in our land is indeed wonderful. To encourage this by a cordial spirit of intercourse, to elicit and disseminate
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Marmena Shenuda T. Manzing History 1 20 May 2016 The Most Dangerous Woman in America Emma Goldman was an American anarchist of Russian origin who is credited to have contributed immensely towards the development of anarchist political philosophy in America and Europe. Born in Russia, she emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. She became involved in politics after the infamous Haymarket affair after which several prominent anarchists were sentenced to death.Emma Goldman was born into an Orthodox
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could riding a bike be so hard?” I asked my twelve-year-old self while hauling the rust-covered contraption out of my shed and onto the soaked grass. This is the story of how I used perseverance, passion, and fortitude to unearth the actions one would need to know to ride a bike. To start off with, I used perseverance, the steadfastness in doing something
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as different people can perceive it In different ways. Alexander pope had initially meant that learning is dangerous when it is incomplete. This quote is similar to another "I know just enough to be dangerous". Again this means in some areas you may need to take precautions to stay out of danger. The way I see It is some people will think they understand a subject fully, when in reality they only know an imperceptible amount. They will then use their minimal knowledge, perhaps developing an ongoing
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voice echoed with an obvious startle: “come and see something mysterious.” Without a second fiddling of the chorused call we rushed in our crowd of four; soon we were standing gaped before a halved orange tree, stricken with a fatigue that expired a need to mouth something. “How did this happen?” I finally said with a stutter, for I couldn’t seem to find a better expression at the moment. “Oh my God!” my aunty yelled and annexed a “Blood of Jesus” to the creepy sight, with this abridged version of
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natural childhood development. There are many reasons why our children are growing up so fast, but in most cases the parents must take the blame. Maybe they are using the example by which they were raised; maybe they feel that they should just be friends with their children, or maybe they are too young themselves and don’t know how to raise children. Whatever the reason, the children are the ones suffering. We have a God given privilege to raise our children and it comes with responsibility. God expresses
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INTRODUCTION Social networking consists of wide and diverse issues which concern the lives of individuals resulting to the blast of online socializing. Due to the impacts it caused to the public, this research paper tackled about the effects of social networking and its influence to the society. It also includes the issues about the threats and security of the social networks as well as the changing behaviours of people caused by the growing popularity of social networking. Remember the early
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("Interpersonal attraction," 2010) Affiliation Needs As Aristotle called humans “the social animal”, indeed we have an intense need to belong – to connect with others in enduring, close relationship(Myers,2007). Around the world and across age-groups, most people spend about 3/4 of their time with others. People want not merely the presence of others but close ties with people who care about them. Two theories explain the reasons for our affiliation needs: 1. Social comparison Theory 2. Social exchange
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after death? In ancient times several centuries before the birth of Christ, there were two Greek philosophers who sought the answer to one question. Thucydides and Plato’s ventured to know what is a “good life”; is it having everything you want or need through whatever means necessary? Is it an enlightenment of the mind, body and soul? These two philosopher’s ideas of what the “good life” was differed greatly. Through Thucydides perspective during the Peloponnesian war. Living a good life meant
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