Posted by: Moallima on: September 16, 2009
Should the students be required to wear uniform at college?
People ought to decide whether students should wear uniform at college or not. Some people think that wearing uniform is a good thought because it allows everybody to feel equal, while others oppose the idea, pursuing the taken freedom of students. As far as I am concerned, I believe, it is more appropriate to wear uniform at college or any level of schooling.
Firstly, if students are given the freedom to wear what they like, they will for sure spend time on thinking about what to wear next, or how to dress to kill, though it’s plainly futile. It is known that teenagers tend to show off and do every possible thing just to look finer than others. In this baffling worry, they forget that the foremost purpose of going to college is education, not dressing smartly. And to be simple enough I must say, by paying less attention on clothing, one can focus harder on studies, rather than being busy in choosing the best to be dressed to the nines.
Another good thing about it, is that students do not bother to buy fashion and expensive clothes, and won’t go for shopping every other day! A positive point for parents I believe! Obsession of fashion in colleges ruins students’ mind-set and grades equally. Students who can allow their selves to wear fashion clothes can upset and discomfit those students who haven’t got enough money to buy them. Thus, uniform can help the poverty-stricken students to avoid uneasiness imparted from the side of their moneyed classmates. And so, similarity in appearances depicts an atmosphere of equality. As Sir Robert Baden Powell says and I quote, “The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all difference of class and country “. Although mediocrity in status must not be an issue among students, but every one of us knows how students fail to understand this fact and drown into inferiority complex.
I strongly believe that a defined uniform helps to develop an understanding of self-discipline as well, which will help us in future. Let’s take an example; if going for an interview to get a job, it would be ridiculous to come in jeans with a bright yellow t-shirt and sneakers, isn’t it? No doubt! It will be absurd. We should know the scope between official and unofficial styles, and that is what a uniform teaches us. Being deliberate and organized!
Some people believe that wearing a same dress daily makes the students’ mood dull and takes away their right to express their personality in terms of appearances. And to give it a second thought, it is believed that freedom of students is taken from them by forcing them to wear uniform. But does the expression of personality merely depend upon dressing attractively and fashionably? No. Wearing a tidy, creased uniform equally shows how precise and groomed you are!
I would like to conclude with a wonderful quote of Block Floro, which lets us know how the uniform of any institution makes up a community and makes the members of that community responsible for the respect and name of the institution. Block Floro says and I quote, “We didn’t play as a team. So we got together and decided to wear our uniforms to school today. We wanted to do it together, as a team.” Therefore, I think we should keep to the uniforms at college level even, so that we raise more responsible and professional citizens of tomorrow.
Posted by: Moallima on: August 26, 2009
We have all come across coincidences in our lives. To some they are amazing and worthy of note, to the skeptics, it is just the law of probability. Check out these 10 examples of coincidence and let me know what you think.

A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number. When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they discovered that

In 1893, Henry Ziegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend.
Tragically, his girlfriend took the news very badly, became distraught and took her own life.
Her distressed brother blamed his sister’s death upon Henry, he went round to Henry’s house, saw him out in the garden and tried to shoot him.
Luckily, the bullet only grazed Henry’s face and embedded itself in a nearby tree.
In 1913, twenty years after this incident, Henry decided to use dynamite to uproot a tree in his garden. The explosion propelled the embedded bullet from the tree straight into Henry Ziegland’s head – killing him immediately.

On December 5th 1660, a ship sank in the straights of Dover – the only survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams.
On 5th December 1767, another ship sank in the same waters – 127 lost their lives, the only survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams
On 8th August 1820, a picnic boat capsized on the Thames – there was one survivor – Hugh Williams.
On 10th July 1940, a British trawler was destroyed by a German mine – only two men survived, one man and his nephew – they were both called Hugh Williams.

Mr McDonald was a farmer who lived in Canada – nothing extra-ordinary in that – until you learn that his postcode contained the letter sequence EIEIO.

In 1996, Paris police set out to investigate a late night, high speed car crash, both drivers had been killed instantly.
Investigations revealed that the deceased were in fact man and wife.
Police initially suspected some kind of murder or suicide pact but it became apparent that the pair had been separated for several months – neither could have known that the other would have been out driving that night – it was just a terrible coincidence.

Michael Dick had been travelling around the UK with his family to track down his daughter, Lisa – who he had lost contact with ten years earlier.
After a long fruitless search, he approached the Suffolk Free Press, who agreed to help him by putting an appeal in their newspaper.
Fortunately, his long lost daughter saw the appeal and the pair were reunited. The odd thing was, his daughter had been right behind him when the free paper took the photograph – shown in the photograph above. What are the chances of that!

A fifteen year old pupil at Argoed High School in North Wales was to sit his GCSE examinations in 1990.
His name was James Bond – his examination paper reference was 007.

In 1965, at the age of four, Roger Lausier was swimming off a beach in Salem – he got into difficulties and was saved from drowning by a woman called Alice Blaise.
In 1974, on the same beach, Roger was out on a raft when he pulled a drowning man from the water – amazingly, the man he saved was Alice Blaise’s husband.

British cavalry officer Major Summerford was fighting in the fields of Flanders in the last year of WW1, a flash of lightning knocked him off his horse and paralysed him from his waist down.
He moved to Vancouver, Canada, six years later, whilst out fishing, Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralysed.
After two years of recovery, it was a summers day and he was out in a local park, a summer storm blew up and Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again – permanently paralysing him.
He died two years after this incident.
However, four years after his death, his stone tomb was destroyed – it was struck by lightning!

Businessman Danie de Toit made a speech to an audience in South Africa – the topic of his speech was – watch out because death can strike you down at any time.
At the end of his speech, he put a peppermint in his mouth, and choked to death on it!
Posted by: Moallima on: August 23, 2009
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