Some inspirationanl quotes :)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." - Ernest Holmes

"You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it." - Charles Buxto

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth." - Julie Andrewsn

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." - Thomas Dewar

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." - William Shakespeare

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart." - Confucius

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart." - Alan Alda

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." - Zig Ziglar

"We learn by doing." - Aristole

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The only people who never fail are those who never try." - Ilka Chase

"We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start." - Anonymous

"Delay always breeds danger." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity." - Sir Walter Scott

Well, goodnight! and have tons of rest please :)

- P3

SOCIAL STUDIES

Key points for your essay (qn a)

Developments in transportation & communications (t&c):
- globalisation could not have occurred without improvement in t & c technology.
- Perform two different but complementary roles in encouraging globalisation
- people, goods can move about freely.
- information can be transmitted from place to place in form of ideas, instructions and images.

Transportation:
- Improvement has "shrunk" the world = in terms of time taken to get from one place to another.
Eg: Containerization.

• Reduced time and cost of moving goods over long distances
• Greatly simplified transfer of goods
• Easily transferred from ships to trucks

- Increase mobility of goods and people
- Efficient & integrated transportation infrastructure:- airports, railways, highways
-> to facilitate movement
- efficient transport made it possible for goods to be moved around the world easily.
- people can travel easily.
Eg: Businessman from HK can attend morning meeting at SG and be back in HK by evening.

Communications:
- Improvements has made communications among people in different locations faster & convenient
- People across globe can communicate via tools:- phones, video conferencing, fax
- Satellite technology enables messages to be transmitted from one location & receive in another part of the world simultaneously.
-> Live telecast of World Cup at South Africa to Singapore.

- led to invention of internet
- enable consumers to access information about new products & places conveniently & efficiently
Eg: Reservation at hotel is possible thru internet.
- Can also buy ticket via internet without leaving home.
- Transformed way one communicates, conducts business and such.
- this led the TNCs to coordinate and control worldwide activities

=== Developments in T&Cs led to TNCs? or Is a factor to TNCs?

TNCs:
- Large global firms operate in no. of countries
- Have production or services outside country of origin
Eg: Toyota Motor

- Set up operations in different locations around world for variety of reason.

• sourcing for new market
• lowering cost production

- coordinate and control Headquarters, located in country of origin.
- source components from around the world before assembling final product in another country
Eg: Boeing, American TNC, sources aeroplane parts from around the world
- Doors from France
- Tail Fin from USA

(pg 49 of textbook)

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Environmental Degradation:
-> Deforestation & Related problems.

- cut down to make way for development of industries, agriculture, housing.
- govt allow trees to be cut down at rapid rate as economic activities:- mining, forestry can generate revenue for country.
Eg: Brazil`s Beef
- Success as beef exporter.
- comes at price of huge devastation of Amazon forest.
- total area of forest lost in Amazon rose from 41.5 million hectares in 1990 to 58.7 million hectares in 2000.
- suspicion that Brazil`s deforestation rate is due to high international demand for Brazilian Beef.

Global Warming:
- worsened environmental problems
- goods can move freely due to airplanes and ships
-> they produce large quantity of greenhouse gases:- Carbon Dioxide & Nitrogen Oxides
- Factories & different modes of transportation around world emit large quantity of fumes to atmosphere every day.
- Presence of gases in atmosphere leads to increase in average global temperature
Eg:
In 1895: the global average temperature was 13.4 and in 2020, it will be 14.5

night study

hey.

today was the first day of our night study...

and we did our revision!hahas

i know you are tired,worn out and exhuasted.

but don't forget everyone is also tired. Including the teachers and uncles taking care of the keys whom also stayed back with us!

so let's study and work hard !

Drink lots of plain water and have many many fruits

and turn in early after you have reach home from school.

-ham ji peng