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=﻿English Assignment 4=

( Revised ) 20/30
====It has been argued that being able to tell lies occasionally is important to maintain a healthy relationship. However, I do not agree because not all lies can help to maintain a healthy relationship. People in a relationship will usually lie to cover up the negative sides of their personality to avoid rejection from their peers or partners. Even though it maybe a white lie like telling you friend his clothing looks nice even though you do not think so, your friend will ultimately still feel hurt and sad when the truth is unravelled. This is all due to the fact that the people who tell lies have trust issues or they want to safeguard their own interests. Statistics show that about one in every five adults in monogamous relationships have cheated on their current partner and a survey showed that people guessed that twice as many people are having extramarital affairs. From this, it can be deduced that an estimate of 44% of married men and 36% of married women are unfaithful. These couples have not realised that when this lie is uncovered, the love and trust between the two will be destroyed and more misunderstandings will follow. Hence, I can conclude that lying does not help maintain a healthy relationship.====

====It has been 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 because students in the past also have to face different forms of stress. In the past, students met with many difficulties like financial problems or the inability to do much because of the lack of technology. The students who were poor have to work as they have bigger responsibility of supporting their family and this added role of breadwinner places extra stress upon their shoulders as compared to most students in the present who are fortunate to have education as their main and only concern. In addition, the money earned from work then would be used to fund their families and not go towards their necessities in school. The other problem contributing to stress is the poor technology during that time period. The students would have to go to a library to do research for projects or homework which is considerably time consuming as the students would have a mound of information to sieve through before being able to find what they need unlike search engines like Google which helps to narrow down the workload for us now. This would result in much less free time for themselves to relax as they would have to work part time to support their family or do house chores. This shows that being a student in our parents’ time is more stressful compared to being a student now.====

It has been 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 there would be an increase in the number of problems. Buyers who are on the waiting list for months, become desperate and their frustration may lead them to break the law. For example, these buyers might turn to the black market, which is able to provide organs for them more quickly. But during the illegal trading process, some sellers do not hold up to their end of the deal and trade a contaminated or unverified organ instead of the promised one. This would not help the situation and only serves to worsen it as buyers’ health will worsen. In Iraq, people sell their organs for monetary gain in order to survive as the unemployment rate is as high as 18%. This shows that the people are actually driven by poverty to sell their organs to make a living. However, they are also unaware of the health risks, some of which could be fatal. Also, putting a price tag on an organ is the same as saying a life can be bought and sold with money, some of the organs which are not legally attained also violate the buyers’ human rights. Hence, organ trading is banned in Singapore to prevent such situations where the buyers are unable to make informed choices and incur medical risks as a result.

=English Assignment 5= =( Revised ) 19.5/30=

====I do agree that allowing casinos in Singapore was a correct decision. Statistics have shown that there is a 20-precent increase in tourism after the casino in Universal Studio opened. This would benefit Singapore’s tourism industry as there would be more tourists coming to Singapore, thus providing more business opportunities; for example tourist agencies. Due to the increase in tourism, there would be a boost to the economy in Singapore. This would result in many immigrants, who are wealthy, coming to Singapore. The financial consultancy Pricewaterhouse said that the casino gaming market in Singapore is estimated to be $2.8 billion in 2010. Not only do the tourists help in the economy level, they also help to fuel Singapore’s 14.7 percent gross domestic products (GDP) in 2010. This would help to promote Singapore, thus causing developed countries like the United States of America to want to do business with us.====

====Casinos in Singapore would also provide more job opportunities. Statistics have shown that casinos help to increase the employment rate by 1.7 percent. This would provide jobs to the jobless and enable them to provide for their families.====

====It has been argued that allowing casinos in Singapore would increase the number of gambling addictions. However, this argument could only be applied to the minority. This is because the Singapore Government has imposed rules such as an entry levy of $100 for Singaporeans to enter a casino and the people who enter the casino without paying the levy or overstaying would be fine of $1,000. As the people who want to go into the casinos need to pay an entry levy of $100 that is very expensive and they would be discouraged from entering. With such expensive fines, this would result in people thinking twice before going into a casino. Another example of the rules the Government has imposed on is the Casino exclusion orders. Casino exclusion is a social safeguard that can help stop problem gamblers and those in financial hardship from entering the casinos in Singapore. This is beneficial as it helps to prevent people, who have financial difficulties, to increase their troubles and thus help to decrease the number of people who have gambling addictions.====

====Hence, I can conclude that allowing casinos is a correct decision as this would increase the tourism rate which would then help to increase the economy level and it also increases the employment rate. All these would help promote Singapore and thus make more people from other countries want to do business with us.====

=﻿English June Holiday Recording=

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