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...
Superstitions The dictionary definition of superstition is ‘credulity regarding the supernatural, irrational fear of the unknown or mysterious, misdirected reverence’. It is not altogether satisfactory, because it fails to lay due to emphasis on the disastrous results of superstitious beliefs and practice in the lives...
Thankful Emir saw the trip as the perfect opportunity to cap a year of hard work on his research. He had spent so much time studying the volcanic activity of Mount Kilisaro in Indonesia via the computer and other sources that to actually go there...
The Beasts of Burden From the earliest days, man has needed the power to carry out the tasks of transportation and agriculture. Primitive man used the power of his own muscles, but the human body is inadequate for prolonged and heavy work. So eventually, natural...
The Causes and Consequences of Erosion Erosion is the eating or wearing away of land features. It is caused by a variety of factors, some natural, others man-made. The consequences can be serious both for the natural world and for the man himself. The natural...
The Dawn Few people appreciate the simple joys of just witnessing something beautiful. The fact that some of these are free is probably what makes people ignore them. I cannot understand people who will pay large amounts of money to travel all over the world...
