Liberal Studies F4 Second term—Hong Kong Today Indicators used to understand poverty in HK Income Health Education Living conditions Employment Community / family support Section 1—Poverty Disparity / discrepancy between rich and poor Gini coefficient - Range from 0 to 1 0 = income distribution is absolute equal 1 = income distribution is absolute unequal Challenges faced by poor people Employment - usually contract staff‚ low income‚ lack labour protection
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The world that we live in today is a far cry from what previous generations have come to know about. The dynamics of interaction is no longer confined and limited to the physical person to person interface. Far greater distances have been crossed‚ language barriers overcome and time differences bridged. All of these and some more‚ in their present day sophistication and complexity‚ have not been possible and available a few generations back. Although computers have been around since 1837‚ with the
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The United State is a country that thrives on competition. We idolize our sports stars and practically make major athletic events holidays. Children grow up with their favorite athletes plastered to the wall of their bedrooms and dream that one day they will be the next Barry Bonds‚ Shaqullie O ’Neal‚ or Tom Brady. Professional athletes train year-round to be in ideal psychical shape in order to perform their best. But what happens when their best just isn ’t good enough? We expect our sports stars
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The film “A Vision of Students Today”‚ give us an opportunity to glimpse into the mind of today’s students and share some of their thoughts‚ both good and bad. The film lets us know that all of the information learned in a classroom is not relevant to everyone. Some individuals do the work‚ but will never benefit from it. It also tells us that in some cases a textbook is a large waste of money‚ because some classes never actually use them or the student never needs it. We discover
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Hamlet is one of many stories that Shakespeare wrote that plays a major role in society today. Hamlet’s play is a great example of corruption in the government‚ friends and family that can be hidden for so long without people knowing. Hamlet also shows us the what happen when we try and get revenge and how it can backfire on us when we least expect it and it can go so far as death. Hamlet is an example of how the play is an influence on us is when people like to test others to see their reaction
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Our Environment Today Our environment is getting worse day by day‚ and we are suffering for other peoples and our mistakes. It’s getting harder and harder for our families to stay healthy with all the bad things we are around every day. We are affected by our environment‚ and more people are getting sicker and sicker. This could affect our families and our future one day. We might not be able to see all of the bad things in our environment‚ but they are for sure there. “Although certain groups
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selection procedures so admiringly that the British‚ and later the Americans‚ adopted modified versions of China’s system for the selection of civil service personnel (Wiggins‚ 1973).” (Psychology Core Concepts pg. 38 of 92). Intelligence tests today are used to measure the intellect of a human being (child or adult) to identify mental retardation or giftedness. With mental retardation being below an IQ of 30 points and giftedness being above 30 at 130 IQ points. The
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Education Today in USA With so many sides to the story‚ it’s difficult to truly know the status of education today. The truth is‚ there is no right answer. The status of education in America varies from state to state‚ sometimes even in a micro scale. Status of education can vary from school to school or from one county to another. Some schools in rural populations may be doing not so good‚ but in other places of the country education could be improving. The indicators highlight the fact that rural
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in the victims as well as in the practitioners. No two writers agree on what is terrorism. Even the U.S. government cannot agree on one single definition. The old adage‚ "One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter" is still alive and well today ("Terrorism Research Center: Definitions" 1). Although many people believe that terrorism is evil‚ it is merely misunderstood because there is no set definition. Terrorist are responsible to most of the freedom movements in every country. Terrorist
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media serve the public or the government? 4. Advertisement exert more positive impact or negative ones? 5. Which media method(s) should be highly expanded? Why? 6. Besides the common media methods‚ what new approaches can you suggest? Mass Media Today Transient transparent THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA The term mass media refers to the channels of communication (media) that exist to reach a large public audience (the mass of the population).Mass media includes newspapers‚ magazines‚ television‚ radio
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