Call us, helplines urge troubled teens

1a) List two reasons why teens are reluctant to call helplines despite the promise of anonymity and professional help.

b) According to Ms Lily Chu, how does Touch Leadership and Mentoring prefer to help troubled teens?

2) Have you confided in your friends or family members about the problems you face in school/ life? Why or why not?

Have you been betrayed by your friends before? If yes, how? (You may change the names of the people involved for privacy)




1a)List two reasons why teens are reluctant to call helplines despite the promise of anonymity and professional help.

They do not trust stranger and they would rather trust their freinds and teacher than strangers.
They also feel weird talking to someone they do not know. They prefer to talk to their friends as it is easier to communicate.Oit of 46 students surveyed, 44 of them choose to talk to their teacher and friends and only 2 choose to call the helplines. If helplines want to receive more calls they must know what to expect.

b) According to Ms Lily Chu, how does Touch Leadership and Mentoring prefer to help troubled teens?

According to Mrs Lily Chu, the Touch Leadership and Mentoring prefer to help the youth through more direct, effective means, such as educational workshop in schools, face to face counselling and home visit.

2) Have you confided in your friends or family members about the problems you face in school life? Why or why not?

I have confided in my friends and family members about the problems i faced in school and life as i trust them. i am also not used to talking to stranger i never met and spoken to before. No body have every betrayed me before

PM's 4 BASIC RULES FOR RELIGIOUS HARMONY

Straits Times Reflection
Term 3 Week 8
2E/NA


1a) What are the 4 rules for religious harmony?

b) In your opinion, how can we maintain a common space in schools?

2) Do you respect other religions? Why or why not?
What do you think of children who stay away from their parents' funerals because they believe the traditional rites are against their new religion?

1a) The four rules for religious are:

1)All groups have to exercise tolerance and restraint
We must share this country with other people. Each group of people have different teachings and practice. we must learn to be tolerant and be patient with each other.Hence the rules that apply to only one group of people cannot be enforced
2)Keep religionseperate from politics
Religion in Singapore is different from religion in America and Islamic country.This is tom prevent crash from different religious groups
3)Goverment must remain secular
The Goverment authorities comes from the people and it has to be nuetral and fair.The laws passed by the parliment are elected by people.They dont come from a sacred book. They are not against any religion, they uphold sound moral values.All races are treated equally.
4)Maintain the common space that all singaporean share
The common place we share meals,schools and workplace has to be neutral and secular

1b) In your opinion, how can we maintain a common space in schools?
We must respect and tolerate people of different religion. School must be neutral and secular. Everybody must also have equal treatment.

2) Do you respect other religions? Why or why not?
What do you think of children who stay away from their parents' funerals because they believe the traditional rites are against their new religion?

I respect other religion. I treat all religion equally and respect them. I that the children does not respect their parents religion . These children are also unfillial.

Elderly Falling Prey to 'Volunteer' Ruse

Term 3 Week 6
Home Section page 1

1a) What is the modus operandi (method of operating) of the con artists?
They pretend that they are volunteers from Lions Befriendes Association and ask them to open the gate so that they can go inside the house to clean up their house. When they go into the house, they pretend to clean the house up but they are actually stealing money. The con artist is a plump in her 30sor 40s and speaks in mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien. Ocassionally she also pretend to be a health official.
b) What are the Lion Befrienders planning to do to ensure the old folks do not get conned again?
They are reminding the elderly that before letting a stranger in the house, ask for their identification pass bearing the vistors name and Befrienders` logo. They would also ask older volunteers to introduce new volunteers
2) Do you like doing social work? Why or why not?
I not like doing social work although it is meaningfuland a good thing to help the elderly, i find it boring and a waste of time.

Hawkers fall prey to brazen break-ins.

Questions
1a) What is the Geylang East Central Merchants' Association going to do about the break-ins?
b)Why is it easy for burglers to break into stalls at the two markets in the Kallang area?

2. What do you think should be done to tighten the security of the markets? What do you think of the burglars who brazenly break into the stalls?


1a) The Geylang East Central Merchants` Association held a meeting a week after the July 8 burglury and will be in touch with the relevant authorities, such as NEA and town councils, to look into improving security, possibly by modifying stall layouts and designs. Hawkers are also advised not to leave valuables in their stalls and to buy insurance to guard against theft.

1b) It is easy as thieves got i the stalls byy open ceiling, getting a leg up on the pipes or metal bars running along the walls. There are also little security there.They are also blatant that they sometimes leave footprints and handprintson the wall as well as all over the floor.

2)I think that the should install cameras like cctv to prevent people from stealing from the hawker stall.

Straits Time E-forim reflection

In Section Page 83 Cheers for the Team

Questions
1) (a) Why is cheerleading an expensive sport?
(b) What makes cheerleading such a tough sport?
2) What is your opinion of cheerleaders? If given a chance, would you join cheerleading? Why/ why not?

Answer

Why is cheerleading an expensive sport?

Cheerleading is an expensive sport as it tailoured costumes is very expensive, it cost around $100 to $400 each. Price depends on material and amount spend on embroidery. Some teams even hire tailors from Thailand.It takes up $10,000 to $20,000 to set up a cheer squad. Cheerleading also need to go for gymnastics classes and workshopes. Tights cause from around $2-$25. A training mat cause $50 and the number use in a competion is 144. A shoe which is imported from united states and taiwan cost $90-$150 a pair. Nutrion supply cost $50-$100 per bottle. Hair products and medical insurance are also expensive.

What made cheerleading such a tough sport?

It is such a tough sport as it is hard to perfect each high flip lift and tumbling stunt and it was part of their routine. It also require a lot of team work. There is also a high risk of injury. It also require resilince, perserverance, and passion. Cheerleading is a sport that need hefty financial conmitment and it also need a lot of time and effort to do cheerleading. Cheerleading migt cause a lot of injuries.

What is your opinion of cheerleaders? If given a chance would you join cheerleading? why/why not?
My opinion of cheerleaders is before I read this article I think that cheerleading is a boring sport and is very easy. After reading this article, i think that cheerleading is a difficult and dangerous sport. I would not want to join cheerleading as it needs finiancial commitment and a lot of time, i also find it very troublesome.

Minister questions plans to separate conjoined twins

(Part A – Prime – Page A1 & A6)


Question 1
What are some of the problems involved in separating a conjoined twin?

Question 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

What are some of the problems involved in separating a conjoined twin

Three of four twins joined at the head who were seperated in operations here are dead, and the fourth is not in good shape.Seperating a conjoined twin has a great risk as most of operation to seperate conjoined twin failed, surgeons might also have to pick one twin to die to save the other,even those who survive would often be left with a brain damage. International studies have shown that the chances of surviving surgery for 40 pairs of twin joined at the head was rated 50:50. That is why Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan suggested thar docters should reconsider plans to seperate yet another pair of such conjoined twins. Mr Khaw also said that docters would likely end up harming gthe patients and should not attempt such opperations. He also said that the outcome of the two opperations in Singapore "reafirmed these awful statistics". But for twins joined at the head, Mr Khaw hoped the ethics committees in hospitals would dissuade doctors from attempting to seperate them. He told the docters that although life as a conjoined twin would appear to be intolerable, there are conjoined twin who have progressed to adulthood. Thus in some situation, it may be better not to operate on these patients. To change the course of nture may do more harm than good. One of the major problem during the operation is making sure that blood supply to both brains is maintained at all times.I think that further test and investigations should be done before the docter decides whether surgery can or should be done, even one of the most extreme forms of congential malformation and deformity should be given a chance to live a normal life.


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?
If i were a part of a conjoined twin, I would not like to stay together with my twin for the rest of my life, i would rather risk both our lives to go for an operation. Although going through the operation could be dangerous, but living together with a twin is very inconvienient, we must do every thing together . We will not have our own privacy and it would be very troublesome.

Businesses are still big on doing good

(Part B – Home Section – Page B6 – The Home Market)

Question 1
What are big companies doing in order to be more socially responsible?

Question 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?

Answer 1

AMID the gloomy economic out-look, big businesses are not cutting down on their Corporate Social Responsibility (csp) programmes.Companies have stepped up their efforts according to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Asia, a Hong Kong based firm. This programme is often defined as how strategically manage their businesses to bring in profits.Sing Tel`s CSR programme is divided into 4 parts: Community which supports initiatives focusing on youth and education; environment, which aims to reduce carbon emmissions and cut down on paper usage; Market place which involves corporate governance; and workplace, which provides learning and development opportunities and quality work-life balances for it staff. McDonald is trying to get sustainable supply chain, environmental and community responsibility, nutrition and well being and employment are equally important as philanthropic activities.Major businesses here are also committed to raising funds for charities despite the downturn



Answer 2


It is very important to be socially responsible as if all the companies are not socially responsible it would be terrible, all the companies would`nt care about the environment and care only about their profit. Yes i think it is possible to make a social impact during a recession as their are many company making a social impact during a recession. I think they are able to do that because they are doing well or they want to make a social impact for some reasons.

Save the planet? This is a job for school kids…

ST ONLINE REFLECTION
TERM 2 WEEK 3
SEC 2E/NA

Question 1
What are some of the things that schools in Singapore are doing in order to take care of the environment?

Question 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?

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Question 1
What are some of the things that schools in Singapore are doing in order to take care of the environment?

Schools are stepping up emphasis on issues like energy conservation and climate change. Schools are asking their student to bring electricity bills from home to track their month-to-month energy use and are teaching them to save enrrgy. For instance, Lakeside Primary School aims to have at least half its b 600 primary 4 and 5 pupils take part in such an exercise. MOE has also designated two schools as centres of excellence for enviromentally education,the ministry also said that enviroment education has always been a part of itrs geography, science social studies.

Question 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?

Yes i think that one person`s effort in reducing and recycling will make a difference in saving the enviroment because every person effort counts. There are a few steps that i have taken are switching off electrical appliances when not in use, do not leave electrical appliances on standby- mode , reuse plastic bag, donating books away instead of throwing away them, etc.

Reforming sex offenders

(Part B – Home Section – Page B5 – Law & Order)

ST ONLINE REFLECTION
TERM 2 WEEK 2
SEC 2E/NA

Question 1
How does the treatment programme of the Singapore Prison Service help sex offenders?

Question 2
Do you think that sex offenders should be given a second chance in the society? State your reasons.

Answer 1

How does the treatment programme of the Singapore Prison Service help sex offenders?

Not all sex offenders are put through this programme. Only those that are only likely to re-offend will be only then put through this programe.The programme helps sex offenders learn about the way they think and how their actions flow from this, an awareness of this process is supposed to help them choose not to commit sex offences when the urge arises again.The first stage of the three-stage course, inmates learn to defeat the secrecy, shameand denail surrounding their acts and to "own up" what they did. In the second stage of the programme, the inmates break up their sex crimes into "little bits " so that their "thinking errors" can be identified and addressed. In the final stage, inmates develop a "relapse prevention plan" for themselves.So far, Bala Kuppusamy is the only known offender on whom the programme has failed to work.

Answer 2

Do you think that sex offenders should be given a second chance in the society? State your reasons.

Yes, they should be given a second chance in society. We should`nt judge a person of what he did in the past, he might have already turn over a new leaf and decided not to do things against the law. We should be forgiving and help them get into the society. Everyone makes mistakes, as long as they are willing to change, they should be given a second chance in to the society.

Man and beast face off in Sumatra

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/E
Term 1, Week 10 (9th March 09)

Man and beast face off in Sumatra (World Page A8)

QUESTIONS

Q1) What is illegal logging?
Q2) What can you do to stop the Sumatran tiger from extinction?

ANSWERS

Q1) What is illegal logging?

Illegal logging is the cutting of wood illegally. Illegal logging is one of the main cause for the loss of habitats like the sumatran tiger. Illegal logging has also cause a tiger-human conflict in a Indonesianisland of Sumatra. Since Janurary, the big cats has already killed nine people and authorities are preventing illegal loggers from entering the tiger`s habitat. The Sumatran tigers are critically endangered, with estimated less than 400 left in the wild. The tigers are not guilty for attacking the people as people the incide4nt happened in their natural habitat. These are the information for the recent tigers attack:JAN24-A tiger ambushes and kills a rubber tapper near a river in Sungei Gelam district of Jambi province, JAN28- A tiger pounces through a thin roof of a hut, killing a 50 year old man and his 21 year old son who are sleeping in the same area. FEB21-A tiger mauls and kill to illegal loggers also in Jambi province. FEB22-A tiger attack and kills a man carrying logs near an illegal logging camp. march1- A tiger attacks to illegal loggers in their forest hut and mauls them to death. MARCH3-A tiger mauls an illegal logger to death. The authorities believed the death toll would be higher as this some attacks go unreported. Villagers also kill this tigers as they are afraid that they might attack them.

Q2) What can you do to stop the Sumatran tiger from extinction?

Educate the public to stop illegal logging, bring all the tigers to a nature reserve as villages might kill them. Employ more forest rangers to patrol the jungles and for illeal loggers and preserve their habitat

It Will Knock You Out (02/03/09)

ST Reflection 2009 – Secondary 2NA/Exp
Term 1, Week 9 (2nd March 09)

Ketamine (In Control pg 3)

QUESTIONS

Q1) What are the different forms of ketamine?
Q2) What would you do if you knew your friend took ketamine?

ANSWERS

Q1) What the different forms of ketamine?

Ketamine is an anaesthetic to reduce pain- on both human and animals, but some drug abusers take it illegally. It is also known as K, Special K, Kit Kat. This drug, Ketamine is often taken at nightclubs and dance parties called raves, it is like a "party drug" like Ecstasy. There are a few forms of ketamine, liquid form, powder form or tablet form. Doctors and vets use it legally usually in an indictable liquid form. People consume the drug because they want to get high. Ketamine also come in powder form which users snort up their nostrils. It also comes in tablet form that are swallowed. Drug abusers often get more then they bargain for, because ketamine has several dangerous and unpleasant effects. People who take it could feel unable to move, bleed from the nose be overwhelmed with fatigue or have trouble sleeping. They may also feel confused and experience hallucination. They can also get "flashback" experiencing these symptoms days or week after they take the drug.

Q2) What would you do if you knew your friend took ketamine?

I would advice them not to take ketamine as the aftereffect is terrifying, being not able to move or talk as if you are paralysed, bleed from the nose, be overwhelmed with fatigue or have trouble sleeping. You may also feel confused and experience hallucination and could also get these experiencing symptoms days or week after they take the drug. I would also tell them that it is against the law and if you are found taking it, you can be sent to jail for up to ten years and fined $20,000. If they didn`t listen to my advice, I will talk him into going for drug rehabilitation, if that doesn`t work, I will inform the authorities. But mostly I would talk my friends out before they touches them

Getting in to the heart of Total Defence (23 feburary 2009)

THE STRAITS TIME
Monday, feburary 23 2009
Home - Youththink page B7

Questions

Q1) In the last line, what did the writer mean by suggesting that “he may have found more porcupine then rats?"

Q2) What’s worth giving up your life for?

Answers

1. In the last line, what did the writer mean by suggesting that “he may have found more porcupine than rats?"

Rats are scardy cats who scurry away at the sound of foot steps while porcipine bristle to warn their aggressors away. The writer means that the evidence from this year`s Total Defence campaign suggest that the writer found that when there is trouble, the people who will stay in the country and fight against or warn their aggressors of attackers away with their life`s is more the the people who will flee from the country when their is a threat that will cause their life. The writer describe them as porcupine and rats as porcupine will bristle to warn away their enemys while rats will run away when they feel threatened.

2. What’s worth giving up your life for?

I will defend a few things with my life. The first things are my family and friends and myself. Although one of the National Education shared values are " society above self " but I cannot imagine myself laying down my life defending people outside my family circle. I would also prevent race riots and defend racial harmony with my life. With different races living together in Singapore, harmony between different races is crucial to the continuity of peace and properity. I friends from different races and I`ll never trade this bunch of friends with anything in the world. I will also defend Singapore with my life as Singapore is my future and is a future worth defending.

No Loitering After School (16 feb 09)

Q1) Why Coral Secondary School forbids students to idle around near their school in their school uniform?

The rule, imposed several years ago, also forbids students in uniform from hanging out anywhere in the neighbouring housing estate. Only the libary is not on the list of fobidden places.
they could only go if they fill in a form and get it approved by the Discipline Mistress or Operation Manager.Teachers also patrol the housing estate near the school to makesure students are not idling there.They fobids their student to loiter as loitering would lead to trouble and because Coral Secondary places much on emhasis on incucating in our habits like using time prudently.

Q2) Do you agree with this rule? Explain your answer.

I agree with this rule as loitering might lead to trouble and i would rather spent my time doing other things then loitering as it is a waste of time.

Master of one (9 feb 09)

1)What was Jack Neo’s vocation when he was serving the nation?

2)“Hard work leads to success.” -To what extend do you agree with this statement?

ANWSERS TO QUESTION:

1)What was Jack Neo’s vocation when he was serving the nation?

Jack Neo was an infantry officer when he was serving the nation and he got posted to the army`s and drama company which he did a part time acting, emceeing, singing, comedy skits on TV and live theatre and getai shows.He also conducted a drama -training classes ; produced karaoke music videos; recorded best-selling comedy albums and published a comic book. Three years after he signed on with the army, Lieutenant Neo Chee Keong, who had been a quarter master, then a platoon commander at an infantry unit was posted to the SAF ` Music and Drama company. He contributed cartoons to the Pioneer magazine published by the Ministry of Defence for its troops.Pioneer interviewed him as they were intrigued by an officer who was an amateur cartoon artist. Coincidentally,the Music and Drama company was looking for a drama director, so and employed him.That was how he started his job as a drama director.

2)“Hard work leads to success.” -To what extend do you agree with this statement?

I agree with this statement,"Hard work lead to success", very much. If you don`t put in any effort doing something, you will probably not succeed, but if you put in effort , you will succeed. This statement has the same meaning as the statement,"You reap what you sow".let`s take a example , if we want to do well for your examinations, we must always do our homework, pay attention in class, jolt down notes when teachers are teaching us a new chapter, revise what the teacher had taught us when we reached home. We must do these things everyday if we want archieve good results for our test, all these things are hard work.if you don`t do all this things, we won`t be able obtain good results as there is no hard work.

Golfers,youth in brawl on green (2 feb 09)

Q1) How did the teenagers trespass into Singapore Island Country Club?

They were just finishng drinking in Vivo City,and they were walking around the Macritche Reservor when they wandered into a private property. A golf ball hit them and that is how the golfers and the teenager stated fighting.

Q2) Is underage drinking correct? Explain your answer.

No it is not. Drinking underage is illegal and harmful to the body underage drinking could also leads to fights as drunk people gets easily irratated and angry.Drinking underage could get them addicted and could lead to various health problem.