Doctors are required to deal with many challenging situations throughout their career and I have witnessed the harsh realities of the healthcare system when my father was required to have a heart bypass. Witnessing the professionalism of the doctor and bonds formed with him highlighted to me the privilege of such a stimulating profession. This inspired me to want to pursue further knowledge and experience […]

Attracted by the belief that hard work and ingenuity should be rewarded, I think meritocracy is a compelling ideal which justifies a degree of inequality. Yet it is difficult to reconcile this view with the subjective nature of ‘merit’ and the randomness of circumstance. Ultimately, it is the inevitable association between wealth and opportunity, recognised in Stiglitz’s The Great Divide, that makes me cynical about […]

While growing up, my family never practiced any religion or even thought of there being a higher power, so when given this assignment I didn’t know how to feel about it. But whilst talking to a relative about this assignment, I came to the realization that this was a great opportunity for me to explore a religion and maybe even adapt it into my life […]

Having been raised up in an academic teaching environment by my parents, who are mathematics teachers, as well as my early fondness for explaining intellectual concepts to my classmates through elementary school, had founded an immense desire in my character to be a professor after graduating. Besides, working as a mathematics and physics tutor to high school and undergraduate engineering students during my 5 year […]

Introduction The words “leader” and “leadership” are often used wrongly to describe people who are actually managing. These people may be highly skilled, good at their jobs, and valuable to their organizations – but that just makes them excellent managers, not leaders. Leadership can be hard to define and it means different things to different people. In the leadership model, leaders set direction and help […]

Sister Lilith is a short story written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers that tackles the reconfiguration of the origin of man’s existence on earth. The character of Lilith, the first wife to Adam, functions as the protagonist and narrator of the story. She gives the reader a contemporary and feminist perspective on her life with Adam and how she came to be replaced by Eve. The […]

Dengue Fever Virus (DENV) is one of the life-threatening diseases which are caused by pests that transfers infectious agents from a living organism to another that causes serious illnesses. It has become the most endemic tropical disease in the Philippines especially during rainy season, starting from the month of June to August where optimum transmissions of pathogens occurs. According to the Department of Health (DOH), […]

Migration theories can be classified according to the level they focus on. Micro-level theories focus on individual migration decisions, whereas macro-level theories look at aggregate migration trends and explain these trends with macro-level explanations. The meso-level is in between the micro and macro level, e. g. on the household or community level and can explain both causes and perpetuation of migration. Macro-theories of migration The […]

Based on past and current research we noted that it has been an interest statistically throughout the world to try to analyse and determine the factors that influence National Basketball Association (NBA) player’s salary rate. It is of great importance in light of financial constraints to denote whether it will be their skills, scoring, wins, loose and even fouls that may significantly contribute to determine […]

Hotels, with the most crucial objective to provide customers with a feeling of home by offering quality services and products. To achieve this goal, we firstly need a bunch of productive, qualified and satisfied employees to manage the hotels and produce all these. However, in the 21st century, having only talented workers is definitely insufficient for a hotel to survive in an industry with a […]