RONGYUN is my name (=
-is currently 17years old
-is a Capricorn
-Loves to:
shop
go out with friends
daydream xD
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Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 11:08 PM Are teenagers taking their lives too lightly?
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 9:02 AM Study: Sons more likely to swindle their mums? I have recently read this article and found it quite interesting. So it is true? SYDNEY (AFP) - – Sons are more likely to cheat their elderly parents out of money than daughters, according to an Australian study that indicates the financial abuse of seniors may be on the increase. With Australians generally living longer and becoming wealthier, the issue of how families handle inheritances and the transfer of assets is becoming increasingly important, the report for Victoria's State Trustee found. "The data we were able to find confirmed that the majority of older people coming to the attention of organisations because of financial abuse are women," the report released this week said. "And that the people most likely to be perpetrating the abuse are sons and, to a lesser extent, daughters." "And that the people most likely to be perpetrating the abuse are sons and, to a lesser extent, daughters." The average age for the senior subjected to swindling was around 80, with nearly a third older than 84, and some suffering from dementia and other illnesses, it said. Forgery, misappropriating pension funds, pushing someone to change their will and transferring property titles are among the problems reported to the trustee, which manages the affairs of some 9,000 disabled Victorians. "It's the State Trustees' experience that these crimes are increasing, but that's anecdotally," manager Steven Cowell told AFP on Tuesday. "And disturbingly, it appears to be sons rather than daughters." Cowell said adult children often showed no remorse over their financial crimes, believing they were entitled to their parents' assets. And he said rising property prices were contributing to the problem. "A workman's cottage in the inner city of Melbourne, which wasn't worth much in 1950, is now a million dollar opportunity," he said. "It's easy wealth." He said while adult children often set out to manage their parents' financial affairs in good faith, over time it could become confusing over who owned what and sometimes elderly parents were left with nothing. "The tragic part of all these crimes is that monies are rarely retrieved," he said. After reading the the above article, I felt that regardless of son or daughter, we should not even think about cheating other people, because it is not moral. in this case, it is even worse as we are talking about cheating our parents, the ones, that gave birth to us, this is not just about moral;it is about fillal piety. It is very inhumane to cheat our parents, when they are the ones who took care of us when we were young and made us what we are today. When they grow old, it should be our chance to return their concern and take care of them. And is materialistic stuffs so important that you have to swindle even our own kin? It would be very disheartening for parents to know that their precious child had cheated them when they took pains raising him/her. I saw a very touching video on the internet and feels that it teaches us a very important lesson and it is related to this article too, so I would like to share it with u all. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1308457511436 Therefore, we should learn to treasure our parents. |
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Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 1:48 AM Effective Oral Communication  Photo editing -how much is too much? The fashion industry is known for airbrushing photosof models, sometimes to extreme disproportions. How much digital photo editing is too much? Here is the link for the article: http://www.digitalone.com.sg/features/article/11161/1 I recently found this article on the Internet and I would like to share it with you all, because I think that this issue concerns many of us, especially in a technology-savvy 21st century. With the rise of the use in social networking sites, like Facebook or Blogger, it is common for many of us to upload our photos online. And with photo editing softwares, like Adobe Photoshop easily accessible, how many of us do edit our photos before we upload it? Why is photo-editing a problem? Some of you all may think that photo editing isn’t much of a problem because the photos belong to us and the photos are normally for personal use, with only friends and families viewing it. It is also human nature that makes most of us wanting to look beautiful; photo editing does exactly this by enhancing the image, who doesn’t want their photos to look nice? Personally, I feel that editing photos to look photogenic is acceptable as long as we don’t go overboard and we end up looking like a different person from how we really look. It is not such a good thing to look too beautiful in photos than in real life, because when others see you on the streets, they would get a surprise, and it wouldn’t be a pleasant surprise, right? However, photo editing done by the media poses a serious implication to the public because media is part of our everyday life, media is all around us, in television, advertisements and newspaper. Media strongly influenced our views and they set our standards of what is deemed as beautiful or attractive which caused the public to aspire to be like the “perfect models” we see. This is not a healthy image being portrayed, as mentioned in the article, for example, Ms. Filippa Hamilton’s photos were edited unless the extent that the model’s head is wider than her waist, even though she was a healthy size 8. One example is the picture below:  In conclusion, I think that the media, as one of the key influence over society today, should try to set an example by not editing photos excessively and they shouldn’t over- publicize stick-thin figures or models with completely perfect features and skin. Instead they should portray a healthy and realistic image. For us, the public who are exposed to all these media, we also must learn to differentiate between realistic and idealistic beauty standards. There is nothing wrong with wanting to look nice, but we must also understand that most of the times, beauty comes from within. |