We are pleased to provide the salient points or the highlights of the 2012 SONA speech of President Benigno Aquino III delivered at the Batasang Pambansa on July 23, 2012. These were supplied online by reliable and credible sources; netizens in social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, websites, blogs, and other online fora; but majority of the inputs come from this author. President Aquino started to deliver his report to the nation at 4:04 pm. Highlights and salient points of the SONA:
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crime and deviance: A moral panic is the process of arousing social concern over an issue, this is often an exaggerated over-reaction by society to a perceived problem, which is usually driven or inspired by the media. In this situation the reaction ends up amplifying the problem out of proportion to its real seriousness. This creates anxiety amongst the general population, and this therefore puts pressure on the agents of social control to deal with the problem, who then act accordingly to the
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Summary "an air pollution catastrophe" happened in China because of its rapid industrialization. China achieves high economic growth but also led to veiled skies of toxic air and cause health problems. It also leads environmental degradation. This book provides an overview of China’s air pollution problem and describes how and why China is dealing with such a terrible situation as well as the government’s doing to address the problem. It will be difficulties to attempt to reduce the pollution
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lucrative market for businesses, the ecological and social hazards are getting serious in sprawled cities. The unrestrained growth of cities increased reliance on automobile, one hand more carbon emissions have been poured into atmosphere, which is closely related to climate change, and also the car-oriented strategy marginalized other transport alternatives, squeezing out the poor and disadvantaged communities with degraded public transport that leads to social polarization. As these opposite forces of urban
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Medicare and the Economy In order to fully understand Medicare, we first have to look at how the whole Government program started. To do this, we will first look at Social Security. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in August 1935. The first one-time, lump-sum payments were made in January 1937, and regular monthly benefits were first paid in January 1940. (http://www.ssa.gov) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was quoted on August 14, 1935 to say: "This law represents a cornerstone
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contributions to modern day China and defends the theory that China’s difficulties are caused by internal factors rather than external. On the other hand, Joseph Esherick’s Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism argues that China’s economic and social disruptions are caused by imperialism. However, when one examines the evidence chosen and rhetoric of both sides, one may realize the faults in Nathan’s essay which are not shown in Esherick’s. Esherick, as opposed to Nathan, delivers his arguments
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Traditional Education Analyzing Online and Traditional Education Technology is a big part of our everyday lives and has changed the modern world and the way we socialize. The beginning of online education is a characteristic of technical modernization which has developed increasingly in reputation. Online education has helped various groups of individuals have access to an education. It gives an alternate option to the traditional route of education which is economically practical. It also
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1. Inconsistent tense When writing about events in a novel, you must first make the decision whether to use the present or past tense. Generally speaking, either is acceptable, but once you make the choice, you need it be consistent. --Incorrect John decides to go to bed, but then he drank too much coffee and could not fall asleep. He watches television for half an hour, then he finally felt sleepy. --Correct John decided to go to bed, but then he drank too much coffee and could not fall asleep
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Smith’s ‘invisible hand’, liberalism, supply and demand, nationalization, privatization, deregulation, rational choice liberalism, neo-liberalism Between 1970 and the last decade before the millennium, there took place a remarkable and dramatic change in the attitude towards the role of the state in economic activities. According to Shutt (1998), during the late 1950 and 60’s, there developed a near consensus among economists especially those linked to the Chicago School of Thought that laissez-faire
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talk about a people whose culture is under constant treat due to the world that surrounds them. This people have suffered great changes to their society because of influence from the outside world. Many considers them to be savage and should learn to be more civilized, and that the best way to teach them our way of living is to introduce western ideals through modernization and development, bringing means to the restructuring of their society. Let’s have a look at these savage people. The Suri lives
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