Term 3 Week 9

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Call us, helplines urge troubled teens

1a) List two reasons why teens are reluctant to call helplines despite the promise of anonymity and professional help.
Students from secondary three to four would mostly choose to tell their secerets to their friends,parents,siblings,
b) According to Ms Lily Chu, how does Touch Leadership and Mentoring prefer to help troubled teens?
According to Ms Lily Chu they prefer to help youths by a more direct , effective means , through programmes like workshops in schools , face to face counselling and home visits .
2) Have you confided in your friends or family members about the problems you face in school/ life? Why or why not?
Both I can say but lesser percentage of me going to my parents even I have problems I will tell my cousin first than rather straight and tell my parents unless the matter is too large I will have to tell my parents but if it is a small matter it will waste their time . While with friends I will tell my friends about my family problems but if it is too huge I would tell my cousin as she is in my family and will try to help me.

Have you been betrayed by your friends before? If yes, how? (You may change the names of the people involved for privacy)
Yes of course as in primary school there will be alot of betaraying of each other but primary school is for fun but in secondary if you betray a person you might regret as it may cause you being beatean up as children forgive each other but when they are teenagers they change .

1a) What are the 4 rules for religious harmony?
The 4 rules are all groups have to exercise tolerance and restraints , keep religion seperate from politics , government must remain secular , maintain the common space that all singaporeans share .

b) In your opinion, how can we maintain a common space in schools?
We could have more activities that concern the different culture and religion like have a racial day at the end of every week . Test on these question and those who got correct get prizes to the winners,activites and community involvement projects which help all ethnic groups open a space of communcation to bring about special relationship and frinedships .This will bring the races together and make them feel united.

2) Do you respect other religions? Why or why not? What do you think of children who stay away from their parents' funerals because they believe the traditional rites are against their new religion?
I do ,as we together must fight against the terrorist that might cause danger to Singapore so we must stay united together or there will be many dangerous events like racial riots.I do not think that this will be accepeted as their own parents are those who feed them from small to big and now they are ungrateful to their own parents even if they have a different religion that does not allow they will have to pray respect to their own parents they will have to break the rules to pray to their parents .

ST Reflection Term 3 week 7

ST Reflection

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1a) What was the reason for building the platform doors at the MRT stations?
It is to prevent people from commit sucide and some people from accidentally falling into the MRT tracks and some might drop something into the tracks and it will reduce the number and cases.
b) Which other countries already have such doors installed at train stations?
As case study says that the number of people falling on the tracks are on the rise.Other countries such as Paris and Taipei are currently seen using these doors.
2) What is your opinion of commuters on trains who disregard the rules (no eating/drinking, give up seats for the elderly/ the disabled/ pregnant women etc.) on the train?
They are all incondsiderate people and selfish as they do not think of other people but themselves,and on my opinion on commuters who do not give up their seats, i find that it is pretty rude not to give up our seat to people who need it more than us.I often try to give seat to the more needed commuter but not pretending to sleep or reading books,newspaper.As,I or my family also do not want to be treated like this as we will grow old and need a seat and nobody wants to give you a seat that time you will feel how they feel now.

Article: “Government acts to curb younger smokers” (Pg A1 & A4)
Questions:
1)What are some measures by the government to curb smoking?

Some of the measures are to increase the fines for underage smoking , giving ban on the certain sales of tobacco and also barring some places from selling them , lower the rate of permitted nicotine and tar allowed in the cigarettes. These could further reduce the number of people smoking not just in the public places and also in smoking restricted areas . Fines imposed on such smokers thereafter will go up from $300 to $500.Cigarates will be sold only in packs of 20 instead of 10 ($8) to price them out of reach of buyers, especially young ones. A packet of 20 ciggarettes costs $11.60 on average.

2)How successful do you think these measures would be?Support your answer with reason
These could further reduce the number of people smoking not just in the public places and also in smoking restricted areas . Because of this some smokers will have to curb it as the sales of cigarettes have been lowered and now not any nearby minimarts as ban as the banning and barring of the cigarettes have led many smokers to have trouble purchasing it . These could further reduce the number of people smoking not just in the public places and also in smoking restricted areas . These could further reduce the number of people smoking not just in the public places and also in smoking restricted areas . However, I think that the measures to prevent smokers in Singapore will help to lessen down smokers in Singapore eventually. Regarding the limit of tar and nicotine in each ciggerette, it will stop people from buying too much cigarates.