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August 03, 2004
Pa & Ma, look at this!
Hey, to mum and dad back home, just to tell you both that I've found 2 samples for the letter of recommendation I'm supposed to compose myself. Call me lazy or what I don't care, but I'm not writing my own letter of recommendation. It's just too spurious to cap a tall hat on myself. I mean, I can't write anything about myself. I think it's up to the principal, councillor and bio teacher to express their most genuine impression of me. I'll just compile the things that I've done throughout 5 years of my life in High School and then hopefully I can send it plus the 2 samples to you by tomorrow. One thing though, I'm not sure about the format, maybe I'll check with the officers and give you the answer via e-mail also. Sorry for the trouble :)
I just want to dedicate this whole week to prepare the dossier for university applications which is due next month. I'm hard-pressed for time to complete an assignment by "Theology & Philosophy" class too. It's a group project and my group is supposed to come up with a 15-page written work on challenges of men living in this world. The topic is so wide that we are disconcerned which area to cover. Are past challenges like quests and conquer relevant? How about the problems we face today like hunger, poverty, war, terrorism, diseases, ailments, political unjust, discrimination etc.? Are these counted as challenges? These are just some questions that arise in the course of discussion. Then we decided to categorise the challenges into 3 main parts, namely economical, social, and political challenges. I'm in charge of social challenges, the most extensive one. Guess I have to slog through this weekend...
Posted by peixin at August 3, 2004 01:43 PM
Comments
What's the letter of recommendation for?
Posted by: zx at August 3, 2004 06:53 PM
IMHO, you've gotten the most extensive and most difficult of the assignments. Since you didn't say anything about the timeframe(I assume anything in the past 300 years relevant) so some suggestions would be :
The ending of slavery(does the New World ring a bell?),
Discrimination(racial, social status(eg. India) and religion),
Clash of the civilisation(and more recently closely tied with religion partly resulting in terrorism),
Poverty espcially in the Third World,
The digital divide(between rich vs. poor, developing & Third World v.s. Developed countries)and looking foward to the present and future,
The New World Order(Globalisation).
But above all else the biggest challenge lies in the constant element in life that is the uncertainty that lies before hummanity( dig up your GP files as it's in there!)
Posted by: Prometheus at August 3, 2004 07:24 PM