The Problem of Deforestation. Thousands and thousands of acres of lush rain forests are cleared each year to make way for development. The once beautiful and spectacular forests are reduced to barren landscapes. This is for the sake of development, for the advancement of man....
A famous escape in history or fiction One remembers Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities” for various reasons – for the characters, for the description of the French Revolution but above these for the escape of Evremonde. Charles Evremonde, the son of an aristocrat...
The Problem of Over Population The world today faces many problems despite the fact that it has taken long strides in science, technology, and knowledge. One such problem is overpopulation, especially in developing countries. The population is growing so fast, that it grows in geometric...
The Purposes of Punishment There is a tendency in man to deviate from the right path and act in such a way that the interest of another is injured. Society binds its members to a certain line of conduct so as to ensure security for...
A Brave Deed Ah, Lan was only fourteen and she was small for her age. Sometimes, her friends used to mock her and say, “you’re going to be a dwarf when you grow up. You’re like a shrimp”. All this used to hurt her, especially...
A Bus Ride I was waiting at the bus stop. I was going to school. As usual, the bus stop was crowded with people from all walks of life. There were office and factory workers going to their places of work. There were older women...
A day spent in strange surroundings I have a cousin, Brian, who is a writer for a newspaper in Kuala Lumpur. Last year when I visited him, he told me that he had an assignment to write about life in a remote village in the...
A Family Outing That Ended in Disaster We had looked forward to the weekend outing for quite some time. All of us had been very busy these last two months. We had been busy with our examinations and Dad had lots of government inspectors and...
A Frightening Experience Malika spent a couple of hours getting dressed up in her finest dress, doing her hair, putting make-up on her face and finally coating her lips with bright red lipstick. She then took her purse and went out. She was going to...
A Ghostly Encounter There are people who believe in ghosts and there are people who don’t. I myself was a skeptic a few years ago. All that changed when I had a paranormal experience one fateful Sunday just a year ago. I had gone to...
