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Assignment 4 corrections 1. It may be argued that being able to tell lies occasionally is important to maintain a healthy relationship. However, I do not agree as when a lie is uncovered,it can shatter every shred of trust that was built between a man and woman in partnership. Lying is also a form of betrayal. Being honest with your partner is the most respectful thing you can do for them in love. If you lie to someone to save them, the only thing you are saving them from is yourself. It is better to hurt a partner in the beginning by being honest upfront than in the end with dishonesty. For example, if the female partner asks the male partner if she looks fat in a dress and the male partner says no just as to not hurt her feelings when the truth is that she looks fat, he has told a white lie and when people start staring at her, she would feel weird and eventually find out in the end and feel very hurt and betrayed when she could have been told the truth and changed into something else. And that would harm a relationship.

2. It may be argued that it is better to be a student in our parents' time as students nowadays have to face too much stress. However I do not agree as nowadays, technology is advanced and children can relieve stress by playing computer games or chat with friends online. During our parents' time, they would not even have a computer to use. Increasing number of children also have mobile phones to use, but during our parents' time, very few people had it. Having a mobile phone would be useful to students as it would be easier to communicate with each other to settle a date to do projects during holidays and the students can do some work online like ace-learning and the Internet would be useful for research of projects. :)

3. It may be argued that Organ trading should be allowed in Singapore as nothing can be more important than saving a life. However, I do not agree as 4.7% of organ donors have suffered complications after they traded their organ and human organ trading may lead to exploitation of the poor and of socially disadvantaged donors who are unable to make an informed choice. In the trade of organs, the poor will never a chance for him to enjoy himself to enjoy a better life, only a chance for him to redeem his family of poverty. A donated organ can save a life but at the expense of the donor. A person could have been duped, coerced, pressured, offered incentives or even killed to have their organs extracted for the recipient, and most donors would have been given adequate information, and made to understand what life would be after post-transplant surgery rather than living in regret and depression and ailments common to post-transplant surgery.

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Assignment 5 corrections

3. Since early 2010, the casino in singapore has been operating and many people have been talking about the bad effects of the casino. However, I do not agree with them as I think it is a correct decision. The opening of the casino meant that they would need people to work there. So jobs are created for people. The casino would need dealers to operate the games, casino pit bosses to watch over the dealers, security guards to ensure the safety of the people and to take down the cheaters and the managers to run the casino management. Statistics show that after the casino opened, the unemployment dropped to 2.1% from 3.4%. There are also other jobs that are indirectly created, like in Marina Bay Sands. They would need hotel staff and managers and also chefs and waiters for the restaurants. It is irrefutable that tax revenues and tourists are the resulting benefits of casinos. The google news webpage reported that resorts world sentosa recorded 149,000 visitors of the casino in the first week after the opening. There was a significant increase in the tourist arrivals in February. Referring to straights time web page, 857,000 visitors arrived and visited singapore in February for the first time, which is an increase of 24.2% in comparison to the same month in the recent year. February was also the third month with a record of visitor arrivals. This indicates that the tourism industry is starting to improve. Additionally, visitor arrival in march in increased by 17.3 percent compared to the recent year. It was the best recorded for the month of march. Apart from tourist arrivals, hotel occupancy had a surge of 1.4% with a 3.3% rise of average rates in march, reported by singapore tourism board. Having looked at the above mentioned statistics, the conclusion is that casinos bring about positive economic effects such as an increase in tourist arrivals and hotel occupancy rate. This can therefore imply that foreigners spend money within the area and as a result of this, there is money inflow into Singapore. Since the occupancy rate of hotels increased and generated revenues for the hotels, the hotels can invest money I other areas within the hotel development to appeal to tourists. Furthermore, one of the two casinos, marina bay sands, is located in the Singapore financial region and it offers high technology exhibitions and convention facilities.doubtlessly, this will attract the interest of many business groups and people, to hold their international meeting in marina bay sands. Some may argue that opening the casino would cause social implications like gambling addiction. However, I do not agree as that only applies to the minority and statistics show that only a small minority of 2.1% of people are at risk of being addicted to gambling. Not all gamblers will become gambling addicts and neglect their family as most of the gamblers go to the casino for leisure to try out what the casino has to offer. Therefore, allowing the casinos was a correct decision and I recommend you to go there to experience it but not get hooked onto the games.

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