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DEBATE: Should humans eat to live or live to eat?

Having a balanced and pleasurable relationship with food is a challenge for the majority of the people. It’s a challenge that most people have come to believe is “just how it is” when it comes to food but in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. As a culture, we have a bit of an extreme relationship with food, our expectations and behaviors bouncing between two ends of the eating spectrum. What we see in these two extremes is that many of us eat in a way that reflects how we feel about ourselves deep down. We use food to cover up feelings, to numb out, to feel better about ourselves, to get thin, to stay thin, to unwind, to lessen our guilt or any number of other ways we’ve come to distort our relationship to our most basic nourishment. The majority of us fall somewhere in between the two extremes, but regardless of where you are on the spectrum, the diet culture we’ve gotten so used to creates a mindset, often unconsicously, that our appetite is something to ...
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HOW TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILLS

Speaking is often the hardest of the four language skills. It's one thing listening and understanding, or even reading and writing, but it's another talking to a native speaker and not getting all flustered and experiencing brain shut down. But with the right tricks (and constant diligence), you can get over the learning curve with ease. 1. Expand your vocabulary Learn New Words Every Day Gleaning new words day in, day out is a good way to widen your vocabulary. Commit to a suitable target: it can be three daily words or it can be ten daily words. Even if you only have time to learn one new word per day, it is still worth trying. By learning one word every day, after one year you will have learned 365 new English words. Write the number down to remind yourself frequently. If you have a learning partner, share it with her so that she can check on your progress. Some good resources for words are the news, songs and TV shows, depending on your daily habits. If you love lis...

DEBATE: Are textbooks obsolete?

Textbooks are artifacts which authors pour thousands of hours into creating and are a wealth of knowledge.  Their format is precisely what was intended by the author and publisher to convey a message efficiently.  However, advanced textbooks may be unreadable by a student without the help of a teacher.  The teacher is heavily reliant on the textbook to teach a class, and if the student can't read the text by the end of the class, something went wrong.  After all, it takes a semester just to figure out what the stuff in the book means, and you're supposed to spend more hours outside of class studying than in class, so that's a lot of time spent with a book for one particular subject.        But it’s about more than just thrills and fun. Today, technology in schools is helping students to grasp complex subjects by allowing them to interact with educational content in a way that best suits them. Not only does this approach lead to increa...

BE THE MINDSHIFT

MINDSHIFT: A mindshifter is one who professes such change your approach towards life needs a mindshift. Do something you feel strongly about by allowing a mindshift that capaign was a true combination of a mindshift A shift in your mind set caused by creating something, etc. At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, being a mindshift can uncover and develop talents we didn’t realize we had—no matter what our age or background. We’re often told to “follow our passions.”. Profiling people from around the world who have overcome learning limitations of all kinds,  Our biggest stumbling blocks can be our own preconceptions, but with the right mental insights, we can tap into hidden potential and create new opportunities. HOW TO BE THE MINDSHIFT: Be confident                     ...

DEBATE: Are single sex schools more effective than co-ed schools?

Arguments around single-sex schooling can be highly emotive. However, perception is not always the reality. To put it simply, there are good single-sex schools but there are also some pretty poor ones. The same applies to coeducational schools.       David Robertson, headmaster at Shawnigan Lake School, a coed boarding high school in BC , says boys and girls ultimately have a more enriching educational experience when they get to learn together. "There's a cross-pollination that goes on in the academic environment," Robertson says. "The diligence and attentiveness of girls positively affects boys, while the liveliness of boys inspires girls. They learn from and are inspired by each other." Coed schools better prepare girls and boys for post-secondary school and employment by providing ongoing opportunities to work together, he adds. "They learn to work together productively, which is what they will be expected to do throughout their life. So the...

DEBATE: Which is more complicated gender: men or women

Being a woman is absolutely harder. In a developing country, this is pretty obvious. Women typically lack freedom in many respects, to the point of being blamed for being raped. But, even in a developed country, there are many disadvantages to being female: 1.          Women perform 66% of the world's work and produce 50% of the food but earn only 10% of the income and own just 1% of the property. 2.          Despite progress, men still outnumber women in paid work, and women are often relegated to vulnerable forms of employment, with inadequate earnings, benefits and working conditions. 3.          Every 90 seconds, a woman dies in pregnancy or due to childbirth-related complications. That is more than 350,000 deaths each year, 99% of which occur in debeloping countries: nearly all are preventable. 4.       ...

DEBATE: Technology has changed family relations

(introduction, argument 1): A powerful tool, that contemporary society uses not only to entertain but also to communicate and educate is “Technology” However, there’s no doubt technology within family life has its conflicts. Technology can have a positive and negative effect on family closeness, it’s basically depends on their use. We live in an era where communications make life easier: cell phone, chat, the Internet, social networks, etc., a group of innovating advances have made our daily lives a wealth of possibilities that did not count our ancestors. Technology in today’s world offers a plethora of ways to communicate effectively, so that every member of family can keep in touch, from text messaging, skype, webcams, facebook, twitter and e-mails, the facilitation of communication has never been more available and we must take advantage on it. (argument 2 rebuttal): The irony of our time is that even though we have all the possible systems and many ways to conne...