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.