A family strives to survive to provide a better and satisfying life. The father, as the breadwinner, earns less in carpentry to support the needs of the family. The mother, a housewife, tries to find a job to sustain their financial needs. Working as a house helper is the only means of getting employed. They are renting in a small room. They do not have electricity and they get water from the well. The family depends much on the father’s income. What he earns is spent on their basic necessities and that alone could not send their four children to school. Two of the children were able to study until grade two. The eldest, sixteen, is helping his father in carpentry. While the second child, aged eleven, stopped schooling due to inability of parents to pay her school fees. The two younger ones, ages nine and six have not studied yet. The children shows interest to go to school but their parents could not afford their school expenses. Instead, they are left at home to do household … [Read more...]
Major Changes in the Bar Examination: Impact on bar exam review and coaching – Part 1
My good friend, Prof. Manuel Riguera of Jurists bar review Center has emailed me an article he has personally written on the “major major” changes in the bar exams and the impact of bar exam review and coaching. As most of you already know, Prof. Riguera is a well known bar exam reviewer and author of book entitled “Primer Reviewer in Remedial law.” He is also one of the owners and founders and currently the review director of Jurists Bar Review center, the pioneer of the very well known “coaching style bar exam review with mock bar exams” concept. The article, discusses the changes in the bar exams and Professor Riguera’s commentary on these changes. He further highlights the greater need for coaching when preparing the bar exams in the light of these new changes. Without further adieu here is part 1 of this three part article which is better than free beading projects. Major Changes in the Bar Examination: Impact on bar exam review and … [Read more...]
Will Korea go to war?
The world's eyes are now fastened on the Korean Peninsula as the two Koreas, North and South Korea, is determined to make history. As to whether this will result to a third world war, a regional instability brought about by a war or it ending in a peaceful resolution of the conflict will be remain to be seen in the coming days. North Korea has been taunting South Korea and other countries for the past decades. For several years now North Korea has been accused of abducting Japanese and South Koreans alike. North Korea has been under repeated sanctions by the United Nations Security council, for developing nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction and continuing on their nuclear testing. Despite this the North Koreans won’t budge and continues to defy the world’s super powers. There seems to be a lot of indication that the tension between the two Koreas will escalate into a conflict. Last March 2010, a North Korean submarine sinks a South Korean Navy ship killing several of … [Read more...]
Solving Asia’s Poverty Problem – Part 3
This is a continuation of my on solving Asia’s poverty problem which is my official entry to the Asia Challenge 2010. Click here to view Solving Asia’s Poverty Problem – Part 1 and click here to view Part 2. Poverty is a world wide problem no doubt, and it should be solved at a world wide scale. However it is important to focus our solution in Asia since Asia encompasses half of the world's population. Solving Asia’s poverty problem would help solve the poverty problem of the world. But what is the solution to the poverty problem? The United Nations, the World bank and various non-government organizations as well as governments all over the world has been trying to solve the poverty problem for several decades now. Billions of dollars has been spent in trying to do research on how to solve the poverty problem. The greatest minds in the world have tried to solve the problem, but it seems we are making a little progress after decades of research and after spending billions of … [Read more...]
Happy Mother’s day to Russian mothers
Mother’s day is usually celebrated on March or April in most countries and you might be wondering why I have greeted Russian mothers a happy mother’s day. Well that is because in Russia, Mother’s day is celebrated on the last day of November. Russia is one of the few countries that celebrate their mother’s day other than March or April. Majority of countries like the U.S or the Philippines celebrate mother's day usually in the second Sunday of May. By the way you might be thinking of sending Mother's day flowers across the US if your mother is in the U.S during that special day. It used to be that there is no Russian Mother’s day. The closest they have to a mother’s day was the United Nation’s declared International Women’s day in March. It was said that in the 1940s, this day was very popular to Russian women as this holiday originated as a day of rebellion of women struggling for equal rights with men. According to Wikipedia “Demonstrations marking International Women's Day in … [Read more...]
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