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Friday, September 5, 2008

Answers on the 4 Questions

QUESTION:

(1) Why is it important to have a newspaper that is not biased in report of events?(Pg 138)

It is important to have a newspaper that is not biased in report of events so that the people can know about the truth of certain events. Other than the internet, newspaper is the other important way to let the people know about things that are happening around the world.If we have a newspaper that is biased in report of events, we would be given the wrong information about the event but would still have the "everything newspaper say is true" thinking and just believe what the newspaper had reported.At the end of the day, those people in the wrong would be believed to be the innocent if the newspaper were to report about his innocence and vice versa. Therefore,having a newspaper that is not biased in report of events would be important so that people would be given a true and full coverage about the events.

(2)How is English used as the language to link different ethnic groups?In what situations?

In 1996, students were expected to learn english and their own mother tongue. This is also known as the policy of bilingualism. With this policy, english is used as the language linking the different ethnic groups. As english is a non-active language for all the ethnic groups, nobody has any sort of advantage over others. It has helped to improve the communication among singaporeans.English is used as a language to link different ethnic groups in situations such as improving communications among Singaporeans.

(3)What is common space?What are some examples of common space in our school?

The common space refers to the time and space that different races of people come together.This space provide us the opportunities for singaporean to interact and for us to understand different races of people.This can also deepened the understanding of different races and the bonding of singapore .The most common places of common space is school where different races of people study, learn , and play together.This can help them to understand from the young age where they would not be baise between one another.

4)Answer the SBQ question on page 152.

Base on both sources , they are comments about the bonding of singapore among residents in public housing.

soucre C said that the spirit of togetherness in housing estates is very strong as the residents frequently contact with one another as their daily path cross.this encounter enable residents to recognise one another and exchange greethings, from which some develop stronger spirit of togetherness.The source also tells me that the residents between them are closely bonds and very friendly between one another.

But in source D ,they compare the spirit of togetherness between a village and in HDB flat, and also said that the spirit of togetherness is stronger, which is different to what source C wants to said.This can be proved that they said that there is no community spirit in the HDb estate as there is no sign of togetherness.Everyone has it on progamme that does not care about the other like not friendly and did not exchange greeting between one another, not like in the village.'Only the kids in the playground in the afternoon have togetherness' , this shows that the spirit of togetherness and social bonding have to learn and pratice from young. Hence, people are not socialised and they would not get to understand each other well to create harmony between people.
In summarise, Source C tried to say that the spirit of togetherness is strong whereas Source D tries to say that the spirit of togetherness is weak in HDB estates.

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