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“A poison is a substance (solid, liquid or gaseous), which if introduced in the living body or brought into contact with any part thereof, will produce ill health or death by its constitutional or local effects or both”.[1] It is often difficult to draw a boundary line between medicine and poison because medicine in large doses acts as poison and that a poison in a small dose is a medicine. The only real difference in the legal sense is the intent with which they are purposely and not…

how differences in gender and class have profound effects on individual transitions from the educational system to the labour market and further into establishing themselves in the labour force. Employment is an essential part of life providing a source of sustenance and identity. Transition into work from education is seen as a marker of adulthood. However, over the past decades, the labour market has undergone complex and drastic structural changes. The reforms in the market have gravitated…

Herein contains personal thoughts of learning technologies as used for academic purposes and broad-spectrum primary, secondary and tertiary education. The terms education and technology are currently, the penultimate buzzwords. If one was to reach for a new source or social media outlet one could come to the belief that six-year-olds can build their own Deathstars out of marbles and pre-chewed marshmallows because of the power of technology and its implementation of educational domain. Children…

in response to a growing trend in Thai students, as more of them are seeking to undertake international tertiary education. 24,491 Thai student studied overseas in 2012, with only 2% of them studying in New Zealand. The alternate countries Thai students chose were, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. For New Zealand, Thailand can be a small but important source of international students, as Thai students account for approximately 3.3% of the international…

Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of cognitive development began in the 1920’s. His partner, Theodore Simon, designed a standardized test that was meant to measure a child’s intelligence and how his/her age could be responsible for the nature of the mistakes made. Piaget found this test to be too constricting however, and so created a revised version. With this less rigid version, Piaget studied a child’s intelligence and their reasoning for the errors they made. He found that, if they did not…

An individual’s perception of real and remembered landscapes is dependent on their past experiences and memories which reveal inextricable concepts of how landscapes are a metaphysical realm upon which we project our expectations. “The Art of Travel” by Alain de Botton and “Aquifer” by Tim Winton explore how landscapes are reflective of an individual’s needs as they are characterized by the values we lack. The abstract representation of landscapes as a realm that exists within memory or…

Introduction Gender inequality in the workplace has continued to be a contentious issue. Increased government policies in the US and across the globe aiming at increasing transparency around pay and calling out for more women in the company boardrooms are in play. Gender discrimination was highlighted in a series of high-profile lawsuits. Data from a 1998 census revealed that women made 73 cents per dollar paid to men; this has been the case until today where there is a great discrepancy in…

further disadvantages and causes further reasons of the GPG e.g. low paid employment. However, in developed countries, where education is equally accessible for female and male residents, and women have even outpaced men in terms of graduating from tertiary education institutes (Blau and Kahn, 2007; European Commission, 2015b), the GPG remains on a slightly better level than in developing countries. Above…

Introduction The article being critiqued is Globalization and Inequality, published by Oxford university press in 2009, is written by Melinda Mills, who is a professor teaching sociology in Oxford University, editor in chief of European sociology review and also a board member of European consortium for sociological research. She finished her higher studies at the university Gronginen in Holland and PhD at Oxford University. Melinda also accumulated vast research experience at Universities in…

Vulnerable Population: Obese Children Childhood is fraught with many struggles which can be exacerbated by being obese. Children are a vulnerable population because they rely heavily on their caretakers and society to help them make healthy and safe choices. The number of factors that contribute to the current childhood obesity problem are numerous and beyond the scope of the following analysis. However, this analysis will provide the reader with an introduction for this and an understanding…