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Comment on The case against school uniforms by Sonia

Sonia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:32:18 +0000

Well said, even if in “poor English”. LOL

Comment on TED | Talks | Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (video) by Lisa Mineli

Lisa Mineli — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:59:19 +0000

Thanks, some interesting stuff to read here. But i’m having some problems using Opera Browser. Is it only me?

Comment on Quote of the day by keiko

keiko — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:11:40 +0000

One is not born a woman; one becomes a woman(I did not think of this myself-I’m quoting from a feminist).
Admittedly, maybe the genders do tend to think/act the way the post mentioned, but men and women’s ways of thinking are definitely not mutually exclusive and there are just too many overlapping areas. Having unfair gender stereotypes makes a vicious cycle as men and women somehow feel compelled to fit in their gender stereotype, or else feel like an anomaly. Our society is so steeped in with those unfair generalisations that very often, we do not complain about them but just blindly accept the situation! This just reinforces my point about how deeply rooted those old mindsets are. I, a sec 3 student(sec 4 in 2010), can attest to that. I know someone in an all boys’ school, and he and his schoolmates look down upon the boys in Choir(CCA) as they find Choir a ‘gay’ CCA. First, it is apparent that they think that males should act according to what society expects them to do. Second, it is another unfair stereotype that men who may behave more like how a woman is expected to behave are gay.

Comment on Desperate Feminist Wives – Slate by kushal

kushal — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:44:52 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful blog! Keep up the good work. I would like to contribute things from time to time so If you feel its worth publishing here then please do it!

Comment on Teachers by Elim

Elim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:09:01 +0000

wld like to join

Comment on Purposeful reading for GP (updated) by vijaykumar

vijaykumar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:07:46 +0000

DO LET ME HAVE MAXIMUM ESSAYS @COMPREHENSION PASSAGES.WOULD LIKE TO GIVE SOME HINTS ON ESSAY WRITING @COMPREHENSION PASSAGES.
DR VRAMCHURN

Comment on Teachers by vijaykumar

vijaykumar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:21:58 +0000

would like to have as much heilp as possible from contributors to publish a gp txt bearing in mind the new syllabus.contact me on vijay@yahoo.com
any past comprehension passage any gp essay anything will do.
thank you.
vijay

Comment on Evaluation by kuku

kuku — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:00:14 +0000

oots= = nice efforts thumb up to whoever made this…..

Comment on Students of GP by :)

:) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:23:45 +0000

this is a very useful website! if only i found this website earlier and not just three months before As =(

thanks for the tips!

Comment on The hedonic treadmill by the closet academic

the closet academic — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:43:17 +0000

To clarify:

In the “hedonic treadmill” theory, there IS an instantaneous rise (or fall, works both ways) in happiness level. However, it is over time that expectations adjust, resulting in them falling back to the same level of happiness, or adjusting to a certain lower or higher constant level of happiness.

So an example of this – striking 4D/Toto gives you an immediate instantaneous happiness, but discount that over your entire lifetime and you’re not really much happier.

Conversely, if one becomes paralyzed as a result of some accident, he or she will eventually adjust his or her activities and expectations to a certain level befitting his or her current status, and again, over time, he or she is not really much more sad than he or she was before.

Incorporating Behavioral Psychology with Economics is one of the current trends in the study of Economics at higher tertiary level, for those who are interested in pursuing an Economics degree after the ‘A’ Levels.