Resolved Question: Did Enron teach Labour or did Labour teach Enron?

When it comes to creative accounting, it seems no one can hold a candle to UK Gvmt statistics. They keep insisting the UK went into the current recession with the lowest budget deficit of the G7 but they're leaving out huge swathes of taxpayer liability. If any UK, EU or US corporation tried that and presented those figures in their annual return, they'd end up in prison. Why don't the opposition parties ever pull them up about this? more

Resolved Question: Help with English creative writing?

I'm currently at a grade B in english and my teacher has asked me to re-do my creative writing in order to get me to a grade A (I'm in year 11) I had this idea that I could combine fiction and non-fiction by basing my piece of work on anorexia, I'd basically begin writing in a first person view of a teenage girl/boy suffering from anorexia and throughout i would switch points of views by writing as if i am this persons friends/family/teacher/etc and in between these parts i'd have non fiction parts with statistics and things about how the media influences people etc Do you think this is a good idea? And do you have anything else I could add to this, or something I could do to improve it? Thanks xx (Also, as a past sufferer of anorexia I thought this would be quite an easy topic to write about which is why I picked it) more

Resolved Question: how to avoid vaccines?

i have read this recently: Six Reasons to Question Vaccinations 1. Vaccinations are forced. For example, there are compulsory vaccination laws in every state. If something is good it doesn't have to be forced. 2. Vaccinations are toxins by definition. 3. Vaccinations are indigenous to only one model of healthcare--the allopathic medical model--and its practitioner's particular understanding of disease phenomena. 4. Vaccinations are promoted by fear, guilt, and 'creative' statistics. 5. Vaccinations are represented as safe and effective when evidence suggests they are neither. 6. Vaccinations are aggressively pushed by public health departments and other government agencies as though they were a public health issue when they are not. This is done to insure a high rate of compliance. Ten Reasons to Just Say 'No' to Vaccinations 1. Vaccinations are toxins by definition. 2. Vaccinations are aggressively promoted by those who have a financial stake in their consumption. 3. Vaccinations are promoted using fear, intimidation, and coercion. 4. Vaccinations are big business. 5. Vaccine manufacturers are nearly liability proof for their products. 6. Vaccinations are not only forced upon us, but those who deny us the exercise of our free will refuse to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. 7. Evidence suggests that vaccinations damage the immune system, the nervous system and the spirit-mind-body connection. 8. Compulsory vaccinations ignore biochemical and psychospiritual individuality. 9. Vaccinations are misrepresented by government agencies as a public health issue which they are not. 10. Vaccinations are heavily subsidized, heavily propagandized and can be seen as a wake-up call for us to see how we allow ourselves to be programmed by huge vested interests. Walene James ---------- Walene goes on to say: Perhaps more important than anything else is for our group to consider the larger picture: What lessons do we need to learn trying to stem the tide of coercion from an out-of-control medical-pharmaceutical industry and the Mass Mind that allows this? How does understanding and working with the vaccination issue contribute to our maturation as spiritually aware and fully alive human beings? Here is a list of questions to ask your ped.. Questions For Pediatricians About Vaccines Dear Pediatrician, You say there is no link between MMR and Autism. But then, 1. What is causing the epidemic of autism cases? 2. Why are children with autism testing positive for mercury? 3. Why is the measles virus found in the guts of autism patients? 4. Why is chelation (heavy metal detoxification) the most effective procedure (30% results) in treating autism cases? 5. You pediatricians say that autism appears "at around the time the MMR vaccine is given. In many cases older children have regressed into ASD after getting the MMR shot. How can you explain this? 6. Why don't you stop the MMR or break it up? Surely Measles and mumps are curable diseases and far more benign than autism and other PDD and neurological disorders? 7. What makes you doctors so special that you know better than the patients who are suffering and trying to get across the source of their misery to you people? 8. Why is it that vaccine manufacturers are now keeping aside around 60% of the MRP of vaccines to fight court cases? 9. Why are vaccines mercury free in the US now while the mercury laced vaccines are being peddled in the Third World countries? (my note, what is the real concern here? Saving money or saving lives?) 10.Do you inform the parents of vaccine dangers, and the side effects of the vaccine ingredients? 11.Why are long term tests on vaccines not being conducted? 12.Why have vaccine manufacturers influenced US politician Mr. First to make them immune from law suits? 13.Why was the immunity clause introduced clandestinely? 14.Dangers from vaccines have been discussed in medical circles since 1909. Dangers from mercury in vaccines have been discussed since 1938. Why was the public not informed about the results of these discussions. Even today vaccine dangers are discussed away from public gaze. WHY? 15.The Vaccine Development Report 2006, acknowledges the public furor over Thimerosal and yet vows to continue the use. Why? 16.Why is mercury so essential for vaccines? Why are carcinogens and potent toxins used in vaccines? 17.What is keeping the US and other governments from testing the long term effects of ethyl mercury? 18.Why are tests on mice proving the dangerous after effects of ethyl mercury relegated to the dustbin? 19.What tests have been conducted to prove that the vaccination process is ABSOLUTELY safe and can be given to all children whatever their state of health, medical history and ethnicity? 20.Do the pediatricians keep a watch on the children they have vaccinated? 21.Do they keep track of vaccine after ern babies. Why do they then keep quiet about the mercury INJECTED into the infants BLOODSTREAM of the infants, and in such huge quantities? 29. The EPA warns about trace elements of mercury in tuna fish. Again, what about the mercury INJECTED into the infants BLOODSTREAM of the infants, and in such huge quantities? 30. If the vaccine industry is asked to prepare and distribute vaccines for free, and if the pediatricians are asked to inject them for free then will these groups still be so enthusiastic about vaccines? In India the doctors do not heed the call of the government to conduct and participate in free vaccine camps. But they do conduct paid vaccine camps at the behest of vaccine MNC's. You MUST answer all my questions because autism has progressed from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 166 and is slated to become 1 in 150 and then maybe grip the entire population. It is already being discussed that neurological disorders resembling autism is prevalent in alarmingly large sections of the pffects and report them to the authorities? 22.If yes, then what are the vaccine after effects? 23.Why does the CDC record anaphylactic seizures, shock, encephalitis, meningitis, other neurological disorders as probable vaccine after effects on its website? Why does it warn about "allergies" to vaccines? 24.Do you inform the parents of those children you vaccinate about the above mentioned after effects? 25.Why are parents of children in Third World countries kept in the dark about the above mentioned after effects? 26. And most important, what studies have been undertaken to know how the MMR vaccine interacts with the other vaccines preceding it? 27. The EPA in the USA says that mercury is "safe" up to 0.1 mcg of body weight. By the time children are given the 24 shots, and they receive the flu shot, the mercury in their body may go up to 249.6mcg. How can this be deemed "absolutely safe"? 28. The pediatricians warn of mercury in environment affecting pregnant mothers and newbo more

Resolved Question: Do you think just locking up teen offenders only breeds more adult criminals?

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Ten years ago, teen Daniel Giddings shot a man during an attempted robbery and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison. During his time behind bars, Giddings racked up almost 30 disciplinary infractions, was kicked out of two separate facilities for bad behavior and reportedly spent hundreds of days in the hole because of his conduct.After serving 10 years, Giddings was released last August. According to CNN affiliate WPVI, he allegedly assaulted several police officers days later. Then, in September, he allegedly killed a Philadelphia police officer before being fatally shot by another officer. We see classic cases of repeat offenders like this all the time. A teen is thrown into the abyss of the corrections system and comes back out no better, if not worse. If we had the right intervention for troubled teens, could we reduce their chances of becoming repeat offenders? According to the International Center for Prison Studies in London, England, the United States has the world's highest incarceration rate, with one in 100 adults behind bars. In fact, the United States accounts for less than five percent of the world's population, but almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Considering how much time, energy and money we spend locking people up, you'd expect to see a bigger payoff. But in the United States there are about 16,000 homicides per year, or roughly six per 100,000 people, based on Department of Justice statistics. Compare that to Canada and Britain, which don't even tally 1,000 homicides per year each. Our current system is too focused on tossing criminals behind bars and hoping they get the message instead of rehabilitating them. I'm not saying we need to stop punishing criminals. We just need to start peppering in prevention techniques and using creative solutions to identify red flags early. Missouri's groundbreaking juvenile justice system is the vanguard. It focuses on rehabilitation, therapeutic intervention and conflict resolution rather than force and punishment. Small groups of youths stay in dorms with a couple of adult facilitators to emphasize individual treatment. According to Harvard University's Ash Institute, the youths attend daily meetings with peers, partake in educational and volunteer programs and serve as role models for each other. So how will we get the remaining "tough against crime" politicians to implement similar systems? By showing them how it will fatten up the government's coffers. The Missouri model has been shown to reduce recidivism, meaning states will have fewer repeat offenders to incarcerate. And the best way to reduce prison costs is to reduce incarceration. After all, why should juvenile offenders be the only ones learning conflict resolution and peer counseling? We should offer similar tools -- such as group therapy -- in public high schools to help all troubled kids before a potential descent into criminality.In these school-based programs, no topic should be off limits. Alcohol, drugs, sex, money -- whatever is bothering these children, they should have a place to share experiences, learn to cope with adversity and simply have someone willing to listen. Such a program would also enable children to discuss issues that they are unwilling or unable to share with their parents. more

Resolved Question: What to do in university?

i am currently retaking 1st yr of college/6thform-yr 12. i have always not known what i want to be or what to do in the future. i did ok in my GCSEs where i took: Art-A Textiles-A Mathematics-A Double Science-DD Religious Studies-B Geography-C English Literature-B English Language-C Chinese-A* French-B Statistics-C and as for A-levels last year, i wasn't sure which ones to do as i didn't really enjoy any of the subjects, the only ones i liked was art n textiles n okay...with maths, but as for the others...either i hated them or realy did not get them~science for example. Also, on top of that, i'm a BBC[British Born Chinese], and my parents are the typical type of chinese people,"go be a doctor! go be an accountant! go be a lawyer!!...."i hate scienece, my english is crap! n my maths isn't great. i wanted to do Art/Textiles but it was a clash with Maths in the timetable at the time so i had to forget about them. In the end, i chose Maths, Further Maths, Economics, Geography and Applied Business Studies. i didn't enjoy economics during the 1st 2 months because of all the theories and things, it was too technical for me, but it was too late to drop so i had to stick with it for the year. geography was...ok i would say in GCSE but it was just an extra thing. n with applied business, was also an extra thing as there were 4 blocks which i had to choose. as with further maths, i wasn't going to do it until i asked my teacher on the 1st day of school whether she thought i was capable of doing it, and she just pushed me into the room where she told the people to do further maths to go there. so i ended up doing those 5subjects. in the end i didnt do well.. Applied Business Studies-C Maths[further maths included]-D Economics-U Geography-U so here i am now, in year 12 again doing Maths, Applied Business Studies and Art. i'm doing Applied Business Studies A2 level as there was a clash with maths. and i chose art as i realised i should do something which i enjoy. i only chose 3 subs as i learnt from last time that i am not superwoman n as clever as other people. i was planning to do Management and Korean BA combined degree, but i really don't know whether i will enjoy it or not-whether it is suitable for me. i reaaalllllyy do not want to waste anymore time and pick the wrong thing again. ToT i don't want to do art in uni cos i don't like art as much so that i want to carry it on further in uni, i can see myself working in an office/primary school teacher/air hostess...or if possible in an advertising company where everything is rushy and creative at the same time-but i don't have a lot of contacts...i'm quite shy at times but am willing to help people if can... any suggestions? i know this is reeeaaallllyyy long! i already tried to make this as short as possible! *bows* more

Voting Question: Knife crime in the UK presentation?

I'm doing a presentation on knife crime in the UK and I need a soundtrack to go with it. We have to be able to start a debate with the whole class after they have seen the presentation. So far the slides I have are: - Latest knife crime statistics - Knife crime and gangs - Being in a gang - the fantasy and a reality - Gangs and the law - The UK is the knife crime capital KNIVES AND THE LAW - What is and isn't legal (with regards to knives) - Offensive weapons - The Police's "stop and search" powers - Searches in school and college STABBINGS IN THE NEWS - Cadet Joseph Lappin - Fatal - Amro Elbadawi - Fatal - Rob Knox - Fatal - Nilanthan Murddi - Fatal - Conor Black - Fatal - Ben Kinsella - Fatal - How to stop knife crime in the UK The presentation, has to be on a topic that affects teens in the UK, it seemed to me that knife crime was a good topical choice to make. When looking at video's to put in, I was almost in tears. I want to get the same effect from the class when they're seeing the slides about fatal stabbings. I have a video of Rob Knox's parents talking about him and a video of Brooke Kinsella talking about her brother, Ben. I have the story Ben wrote in creative writing, where he wrote about what being stabbed and dying might feel lie, just weeks before he died. One of my friends suggested that for the six or so slides about stabbings, I should use the new X-factor single Hero, but I don't feel it's completely inappropriate. I feel it could be misconstrued as calling the stabber a hero, rather than respecting the dead. If anyone has any ideas about anything I can add into the presentation that would be great. Ideas on the music to use during the stabbing slides would be greatly appreciated. Simpson: It's a school presentation, I won't be using a venue other than a classroom.Okay so I think I've narrowed it down to: Everybody hurts - REM How do I breathe without you - LeAnn Rimes Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley How can you mend a broken heart? - Bee Gees I will remember you - Sarah McLachlan Fix you - Coldplay Any opinions on these? more

Resolved Question: Can anyone give me some advise please?

I have been living in bulwell for the last two years and fingers crossed ive had no trouble yet.Where i live is ok,it's a quiet street.However the statistics are not good!!!and i have noticed the children do not fare well here.I tend to not leave the house much or go places that i don't know(Personal reasons) I missed alot of school and did not get any qualifications as a result(there are personal reasons for that allso)I am terrible academically but can be very creative.I am 25 and i have a 6yr old daughter who's behaviour has changed dramaticly over the past few weeks in a very bad way! i beleave this is because of where we live(deprived area) I want to give my daughter a better chance at life than i had,im so depressed because i know ive messed up royaly and i want to change it.I want to move us to a better area ie woolaton,beeston ect but when i am able to work i would'nt even have enough to cover the rent! I intend on doing some volentry work to give me the confidence to get a jobWe live in Nottingham.I am 25 have never worked and worry when i do because they will expect me to know what im doing.I feel like a child thats been tossed out into the world to fend for itself more

Resolved Question: Need help as to which A-levels would be suitable to study psychology in furthur education?

I havn't got long to choose my A-levels and i'm stilll unsure of what i would like to do in the future... I love creative, video editing, psychology things and atm ive chosen these four subjects: Biology ICT Maths: Statistics Psychology Do these sound fine for if i wanted to carry psychology further? I'm not incredibly good at maths so im hoping there is a way i could change it for something else? maybe there are maths courses available instead like a tutor and then i don't know which other subject to choose :S? Please help asap thankyou :) xx more

Resolved Question: Are we all just really sad people with no social lives?

I call it creative 'avoidance'! I have 5 million things to do and could be watching tele but I find the questions people ask intruiging and feel really grateful when people take time out to answer my silly questions... Everyone is so honest and most seem to be really caring about others they've never even met! What should you really be doing now that you're 'creatively avoiding' by being on here! I should be studying for a statistics and probability exam! more