.the gal shadow.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Modern Technology has created more problems than solutions in society

Employment (solution and also problem)
• Modern technology has increased the productivity of the employers. Most of the employers have high education and can manage the machines very well
• However, for some lower education workers, modern technology is a burden for them and they may be easily substituted by machines. In this case, they may lost their jobs

Health and medicine enhancement (solution)
• Some incurable diseases now can be cured with the modern technology
• Longer life expectancy

Enhance extensiveness of the global network/communication (solution)
• Disparity between difference nationalities can be reduced significantly
• People maybe in a different country from another, they can easily communicate through the internet

Travel/leisure (solution):
• The distances between countries are shortened and people can travel more conveniently, thus people get to experience what it is like in another country
• For example, the television and computers make people’s lives more interesting. They get to know what is happening around the world

Promotes anti-social behaviours (problem):
• Certain people will choose to socialize in the virtual world in this digital era
• People may become unable to communicate with people in the real world and attach to the digital friend

Technology in weapon (problem):
• Destruction of people’s lives
• For example, nuclear bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima which destroyed the cities totally and caused millions of people to have radioactive effects
• If the control is not rigorous enough, nuclear technology may fall into the hands of terrorists which would further worsen the problem of terrorist threat. If terrorists use the nuclear technology, they would cause mass destruction and bring about another tragedy which would be even more devastating than the September 11 incident

.she screamed today .

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Discuss the view that children always suffer when both parents work.

In the most developed countries today, both parents are economically necessary to work if they want to lead a tolerable good live. Women also have the right to pursue their careers rather than staying at home to be merely good wives and mothers. The traditional way of men going to work and women being housewives seems thousands of miles away from us. But will their children be affected when both parents work? In this essay, I am going to discuss about this.

Singapore, like any other developed countries, has developed a new sub-culture called “latch-key children” which means children look after themselves at home. The more fortunate ones will have maids to look after their daily needs and others have baby-sitters. It is commonly seen that young parents carrying their sleeping infants in the morning and send them to child-care centres before leaving for work the day. No wonder the child-care industry has sprung up so fast in this society. In some cases, parents would put their young children in their parents’ care and take them home in the late evening or even only during on weekends. However, this affects the children negatively. They are not able to receive own parental care from young and this may result in serious development problems such as autism and reticent.

However, there is no doubt that it is ideal for parents to look after their children themselves, but there are no obvious ill effects in children taking care of themselves. There are no larger numbers of drug-abusing or juvenile crimes in Singapore, at least not larger than the times when the mothers stayed at home. Of course, it does happen occasionally that a teenager steals a packet of potato chips from a convenient store due to boredom. But frankly speaking, there are definitely less juvenile crimes nowadays than in the “good old days”. At that time, gang fights were commonly seen at the dark corner of the streets and offended crimes were more serious.

In the olden days, less educated parents tended to have large families and there was only one bread-winner in the family, thus the children ended up with sparingly allowance. The children were also sometimes neglected by their mother as they had more children to take care of. Thus juveniles turned to crime in the earlier days because they had been neglected. Seeing that this neglect took place even when one parents stayed at home, so it can be easily argued that suffering of the children does not depend on whether both parents are working or not, but rather on the amount and quality of the care they give to their children. As both parents go to work, the children will be able to have more spending money and less inclination towards crime and delinquency.

It is not a new phenomenon that children are left in the care of other people. More and more countries, throughout history, left children in boarding schools. However, to put children in a boarding school does not mean that the children are hopeless, but mostly are academically inclined. Such good example will be Winston Churchill. Thus it seems like children with better care are likely to do well than those who do not. This better care may and may not come from the parents. In fact, in some families, even though the mothers are at home, they will to neglect their children and leave them on their own.

So we may safely conclude that harm to children arises out of the lack of care given to them, rather than both parents are working. Hence, children do not always suffer when both parents go to work.

.she screamed today .