Road Accidents The sight of ambulances and police cars racing to the scene of a road accident in the city or on the busy highway is so commonplace in modern countries that few heads turn even in idle curiosity. This is part of the tragedy...
Running Away Aminah was sad. This was not uncommon. She was sad every day. Her mother had run off with a man she met at her workplace last year. Her father was depressed. He seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Many...
Safety Precautions in The Home Surprisingly and contrary to popular belief, more accidents happen in the home than in the streets. Perhaps this is because most of our time is spent at home. Accidents can cause great sorrow, and taking into consideration the fact that...
Science in Everyday Life In its broadest meaning of ‘knowledge’, science enters the life of even the most primitive human being, who knows the safe from the poisonous berry, who has stored up some rudimentary ideas about building a hut, sharpening a spear, and fishing...
Science in The Detection of Crime Much to his housekeeper’s disgust, the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes carried out scientific experiments in his Baker Street rooms in the cause of solving crimes. Since his day, science had played an increasingly important part in both the...
The Slip Mr Tai, the teacher in charge of athletics at SUKK Temarah, was getting on in years. He had just celebrated his 58th birthday — an age which many would think seriously of retiring. However, it was not so with Mr Tai. He had...
Smoking It is alleged that Sir Walter Raleigh first imported the ‘noxious weed’ into Britain from America and the smoking habit swiftly caught on. Today, the tobacco industry brings employment to thousands in the various growing, picking, curing and manufacturing processes. Most of it comes...
Social Work as A Career To choose social work as a career, a man or woman must have one over-powering desire which is to serve mankind. This idea of service stems originally from nineteenth-century England when many enlightened people, Octavia Hall, Elizabeth Fry and Florence...
The Spies A spy is a person employed to gather information in a clandestine manner as a weapon in a country’s armory against an actual or potential enemy. This information is usually of a military nature, though spying may be industrial. Operating on behalf of...
Strikes The right to ‘strike means the right to withdraw labor for one of several reasons; as a means of enforcing wage increases, of improving employment conditions, of showing sympathy with other strikers, sometimes overseas, of showing displeasure at the employment or dismissal of a...
