One of the key trends where population growth is concerned, is that it seems to be increasing exponentially, with more children being born per minute than a decade ago. Thanks to the various advances in the field of medicine, our…
Poverty is a chronic problem that affects billions of people world over; according to UN and various other organizations, nearly 3 billion people live on less than $2 per day and what’s even more shocking is the recent statistic on…
In western societies, children are often encouraged to sleep separately, with their own rooms’ right from the time they are newborn infants. This is done to encourage these children to develop a strong level of independence and to help foster…
Peer pressure is but a fact of life where we get influenced by others around us – especially those we consider as our peers. We often tend to look upon others, observe their lifestyle choices, their mannerisms and tend to…
Fossil fuel is essentially fossilized organic compounds, that have been subjected to extremes of temperature and pressure, which results in these dead organisms (both flora and fauna) being transformed into oil, gas and coal. As a result of earth’s geological…
One of the few nations to have instituted martial law as a normal process or state of affairs happens to be none other than the Philippines. The Philippines, ever since it got its independence nearly a century ago, has had…
All the world economies experience inflation to a certain extent or the other; no single country is exempt from the same. One of the side effects of inflation is the impact it has on the economy as a whole and…