When Talha Speaks...

There is a difference between learning and school. School is where you have info and random facts shoved down your throat and you are forced to memorize them, answer the questions on a test, then you never use that info ever again. Learning is where you go and actually experience the world and you meet people and you learn about accepting each other and standing up for what you believe in and you see new cultures and new things and you LEARN. Seven hours at school and four hours of homework each night isn't going to teach students anything. Several surveys into occupational wellbeing name academics as one of the most stressed professional groups.You need a certain amount of stimulation just to get out of bed in the morning for lectures or work. But how much is too much? Stress can take control of you unless you take control of it. Manage time to manage stress :  Effective time management is a key approach to preventing avoidable stress.  Keep yourself organized and plan ...

Firstly, let me define Economic system: An organized way in which a state or nation allocates its resources and apportions goods and services in the national community. A few years ago one could have indeed argued that capitalism has succeeded in the industrialized countries of the Northern Hemisphere. But even in the countries with high per capita income there were and still are tremendous disparities. Under capitalism wealth is not evenly distributed and even in the USA, 25% of the people live below the poverty line. Can we really say that we have an ideal or even a well-working economic system when millions of people are struggling just to survive? The current global financial crisis underscores the inequality, fragility and unpredictable future of the capitalist economic system.  While the US government gets ready to bail out banks and financial institutions that have failed due to their reckless greed, no one is there to save the thousands of ordinary people who are a...