Browsing Category Social Issues
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Pornography
Porn Addiction and the Healing Power of Universal Medicine
What many men call normal, for me always felt like an addiction. I was introduced to porn at the age of 12 when we found some magazines in ...
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Education
Assessing and Marking – Another Way to Connect to Children
The other day I noticed the fun I experienced marking students’ work when I chose to remain open, relaxed and connected to what they were learning. I opened ...
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Education
A True Way to Learn
School is considered a very important, if not the only important focus in a child’s life in the Asian culture. I was never really interested in school – ...
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Education
Raising Boys – Are we Imposing on Them?
A class I recently taught was studying an English unit on Advertising, which looked at advertising of products for children. I enjoy teaching advertising units because I find ...
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Death & Dying
My Dad’s Passing – I Knew That It Was Not Him
Recently my dad passed away and I was able to spend the last two days of his life with him. In the hours before he died I could ...
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Global Issues
Refugees
“Another boat with Refugees found capsized, 55 dead, many of them small children”. (News Headlines) As I walked on one of the treadmills at my local gym today, ...
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Sexism
Gender Equality — It Starts With Me Now
Recently an opportunity presented for me to take a deeper look at whether I was living gender equality in my day-to-day life as a woman. As women, not ...
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Death & Dying
The Quality of Mercy: A New Perspective on Aged Care
The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. [Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice] I love these words. ...
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Death & Dying
Death and Dying – The Cycle of Life and Death
I have often avoided the thought of dying. There are so many beliefs of how one should approach the subject. I had always seen death and dying to ...
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Education
An Awesome Opportunity – Reflection
I was given an amazing opportunity to present to a school on the subject of ‘Reflection’. This school was trying to address some behavioural issues and decided that ...