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Travel makes the mind sharper?

Whenever the conversation of cultures sensitively comes up it is always inevitable that someone will mention how important it is to travel to be able to understand and respect other cultures that are different to your own.

This has sadly made it somewhat of a cliche amount certains group of people, especially as one might expect, among those that have yet to be able to travel much themselves. This is a real shame and perverts the hopes of those sharing this point of view, really achieving the opposite of what More

Vocational Studies – More Valuable than Ever

I ran into one of my old university professors the other day and posed him a question – why are most of the people I studied with working in posts that have nothing to do with their chosen degrees?The answer – they chose the ‘wrong’ degrees. Well, not wrong in the strictest sense of the word, but according to him it is in fact those choosing skilled, focused and vocational degree courses that are today finding excellent posts in the fastest times and in the most suitable industries. And where does this leave the rest of us? Sadly, perhaps right where we are right now.

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University Education in the UK – an Informed Choice and a Prerequisite for Successful Careers

University education in the UK is the choice of a large number of students, both British and foreign ones, and the primary reason for their choice of higher education is that they will gain new qualifications which will enable them to consider better job opportunities and career prospects on graduation. Furthermore, education in colleges and universities enables young people to make new contacts which can develop into lasting friendships or business partnerships. University education in the UK is a personal choice, unlike secondary education which is mandatory in most countries. Students are now regarded as responsible, fully fledged adult persons who are aware of the benefits of their choice and have control on the place and time of their study, in order to make the most of it and prepare the grounds for their success as professionals. Students pursuing their university education in the UK do not need to pay their fees upfront. They can take out government loans to cover not only their tuition fees, but also their living costs. Some students are eligible for maintenance grants.

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Are University Extra Curricular Activities Necessary

If you listen and watch the worldwide press these days chances are you will be thinking that college and university clubs only foster stupid behaviours, alcoholism, and date rapes. With so many instances of these kinds of unruly behaviours it is difficult to ignore the public sentiment. Yet when you speak with business owners who are looking to hire these university graduates they will tell you that they find many of them socially inept, lacking in initiative with their trainability a challenge.

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Anti Capitalists Around the World

In the current economic climate, pressed by financial developments not dependent on their vote and pressured by the circumstances arising in banks and not the streets, people are getting more and more skeptic about capitalism and its mutation that led to the ’perverse'condition of the financial system today. Places such as London, New York, Sydney, Frankfurt and Paris became centers of discomfort and places for people to actually express their concerns about the condition of the world market.

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50 Years Later

Today, the 13th August 2011, is the day we mark a dark anniversary – fifty years ago, on this date, the Berlin Wall was completed and the separation of Germany was a fact. Berlin is today full of people enjoying their unity and safety, but it is also full of people placing flowers of what remains a wreck in the middle of the city. Because of both people, a day of recalling the events around the Berlin Wall is important – and again because of them the value of the world peace is what needs to be constantly remembered.

Berlin wall divided Germans for generations. Today a separation is still observable – Eastern Germany is still marked by the signs of social dominance while the West remains happily developing. The Economist magazine points out that despite being one country, the communism regime had shaped the Germans from the east as individuals who would need to undergo another five decade assimilation into the world of modern democracy.

No matter whether such claims generate any truth, today is a remembrance of what peace used to mean before – it used to be a definition of super powers to cover their power behind peaceful purposes. Today, the situation might be rather different but the same motives can be observed – the wall nowadays separates Eastern and Western Europe once again. The first are rapidly struggling to escape financial difficulties while the latter are quite happy to be among the most developed countries in the world.
And while today many would seek to find advice on accidents at work compensation schemes and not even see that it is the date when one of the greatest monstrosities in Europe was completed, others would place flowers over the remainings of the Berlin Wall hoping that this time peace would last for longer.

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Rape in South Africa

Today, I came across an article on the BBC News website which didn’t surprise me at all. That, in itself, shocked me to some extent. I knew what my reaction meant: it meant, in no uncertain terms, that I had come to expect seeing such horrors as an every day thing. That concerns me a little. It makes me question what kind of a world we live in when surprise isn’t something that even occurs any more…

The story was about rapes in South Africa, the so-called ’corrective rapes’, to be precise.

lesbians are being persecuted by the thousands over there as we speak. Not just persecuted but raped, beaten and routinely killed

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Financial Stability

It is no surprise that the EU is developing a serious financial fever that might let it down in the future. Greece is falling apart and unfortunately it is pulling the whole Euro zone back. But this is not the only problem, the lack of some serious regulatory measures allow abuse of Union law and thus countries from the Eastern European region continue the abuse of financial means granted to them in strategies developed by the Union institutions.

To be equal, peoples need to be treated in a similar ways. However, this seems to be the wrong position according to the Union. The institutions still treat differently different Member States. Little has been done for the integration of countries like Bulgaria and Romania. The two states suffer from economic deficit and what they need is economic support. However, the what the Union does is pour production in these countries that replace their own on the domestic market. Thus people that produce in the country cannot sell their goods. This is the reason why the goods freedom needs to be controlled in favor of markets with more serious financial problems.

Furthermore, the distribution and allocation of funds in the Union is uneven. It is true that some states need more years of participation in the Community if the want to be treated in a better way. However, while in countries such as Germany even the tiniest part time Teaching assistant jobs are quite well paid and many EU programs operate in their favor, high positions such as lawyers are still underestimated in Eastern Europe and people need private businesses if they want to progress in life.
So the conclusion is hard to chew but easy to comprehend – the problems with the EU are inequality and uneven treatment of actors. Huge players like Germany and France still continue to determine the future of smaller and less powerful states that need desperate attention and financial support.

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The Dawning of a New Age

There was a great joke that Obama was too busy finding Osama to get his paternity tests and birth certificate. It is a difficult time and people are having to take difficult decisions. Yesterday, the news was released that Al Qaeda acknowledged the killing of Osama bin Laden and then uttered some horrible words to follow it up. What I think is interesting in the difference in how the United States government decided to not publish certain images that would inflame emotions and how the BBC has published a direct quote from the leaders of Al Qaeda which will serve to utilize the BBC to spread a message of vengeance around the world. By publishing direct quotations that call for vengeance the BBC knowingly or unwittingly serves as a distribution network for the terrorist message. Obama on the other hand said that the voice of dissent for the Islamic world is now coming from Tahrir Square and not terrorists. For more than a decade there was a collusion between fundamentalist imams and repressive regimes to direct the anger of the disenfranchised towards the United States and not towards the autocratic regimes. Obviously, the west has supported these autocratic and repressive regimes to secure the supply of oil, but that phase of foreign policy came to an end with the historic speech that Obama made in Cairo towards the beginning of his presidency. The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are far from over, but hopefully they were mean a new age of democracy and freedom in the middle east.

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Death Penalty – Justified?

Whoever claims that the deprivation of life is a justified approach to dealing with individuals, might have lost a certain sense of humanity. However, we, as socially responsible individuals and as people capable of realizing the good and bad features of a legal system, are well aware that human rights protection is what we all rely upon in different situations – when having an immigration dna test, when signing an employment contract and even when peaking into the neighbor’s house. Then how can their gross violation be justified in a fact of taking a life away.

True, a justification is that a murder, who took life, deserves to be treated the same way. But this is a rather emotional approach to the matter. If you need to punish someone, you do not simply kill him, you do not even have to change him – you can simply take away his liberty. Being locked up is worse than dieing – the reason is a psychological because being unable to exercise yourself as an individuals leads to the assumption of a pointless life.

This is the main reason why the imposition of liabilities such as 230 years of prison is more reasonable than the electric chair. People with more serious crimes than murder, because such exists, need not be treated differently. A punishment enough is a deprivation of liberty. However, taking life away is messing up with another type of laws – the laws of proclaiming power over the significance of human life. If a country kills for a killing, this means it would respond to a provocation with a provocation. Where is the personal peace going then, and what would be the aspirations of such a country as the majority of people fear to commit a crime not because they will harm but because they will die?

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