so•cial hous•ing |ˈsō sh əl ˈhouzi ng| (noun) housing provided for people on low incomes or with particular needs by government agencies or non-profit organizations. by Hsuan Luo Most of us think of social housing as housing for poor people. This conception is correct to a certain degree, since much of the time social housing serves as a relief policy. However, there is more to social housing than that.
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by Ching-Yuan Huang According to the latest assessment released by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 27 September, more and more people are convinced of the possibility of the dangers of rising sea levels and other water issues, all of which represented a significant UN theme during the past year. And to Taiwan and its citizens, the issue of water is all the more important. Not only will increasing sea levels submerge a quarter of the island, but global warming and extreme weather will cause more water shortages, serious droughts, and more sudden occurrences of much stronger typhoons.
But identifying the impact of the sea-level rise is not a straightforward matter in Taiwan. El Niño, a weather pattern which causes the equatorial Pacific’s warmer waters to flow east, can trigger floods and droughts across the region and affect sea levels as well. With Arctic icebergs continuing to melt, fears are generated that people living in coastal areas may become climate-change refugees. Leading climate scientists say that human behavior is the main cause of global warming, bringing rising sea levels to swamp coasts and low-lying islands. by Jocelyn Jo-Hsuan Chung What’s wrong with you? Why are you still single? These two questions are the most frequent sasses bombarding people who are not in a relationship.
Underlying these questions is a silly assumption that all singles are sad and isolated, and they must have something wrong with them that traps them in this miserable status. But in fact, there is actually something really right about being single. Being single is not kissing romance goodbye, but it is about living your own life to the fullest before you embark on a journey of two. by Olga Bessarab People are somehow always rushing. They rush everywhere. Into the bathroom, into bed, into careers, into unemployment, into relationships, into heartbreak, into therapists’ offices, into retreats, into new jobs, and back into bed.
It’s not surprising. Just look at the advertisements around us. How many of them assure us that if only we were to subscribe to their ideology, our lives would be faster, hence more efficient? by Stuart Iiro was a 9-year-old Finnish boy who suffered from syndactyly, a congenital defect characterized by fused fingers or toes. He was sent to the hospital to undergo surgery. But unlike children of his age, who tended to cry and be terrified by medical treatment, Iiro was completely obedient to his doctors and nurses as if he were eager to be operated upon. Although his obedience made him well liked by the hospital staff, they also wondered whether there was more to the boy than meets the eye.
Subsequently, Iiro was introduced to Dr. Donald W. Winnicott during his visit to Finland. Winnicott was a greatly influential British psychoanalyst in the mid 20th century. He gave Iiro a consultation in the form of a squiggle game. In this game, Iiro and Winnicott took turns drawing some squiggly lines while the other made them into whatever occurred to his mind. The game was simply a safe setting for Iiro to be creative. Once he felt safe, Iiro began to grow conscious of the inner self behind his compliance. By Li Lian This past summer, I took an internship as a part-time teacher in a kindergarten, because I wanted to find out more about patterns of learning in children to help me in my research on museum education. Luckily, I was able to observe a new education system with which I was previously unfamiliar, the Montessori system.
The Montessori system was established by Mrs. Maria Montessori, an Italian pediatrician who credited her success to an excellent education provided by her own family when she was a child. In medical school she specialized in embryology and evolution, and after completing her education she became an assistant pediatrician in the University Children’s Hospital in Rome. She paid great attention to mentally-challenged children and did further research on treatment which could help these children have a better life. She felt sorry for them, treated with no dignity and living in unsanitary conditions. She called for establishing special schools for abused children. She believed that dealing with mentally challenged children was an education problem instead of a medical one. From 1903 to 1907, Montessori developed a theory of human biology and pedagogy, after gaining insight from working in a Children’s Home. She then taught neuropsychiatry and became an experienced educator who found a pattern to children’s learning at different growth stages. Montessori developed the Montessori education method in 1896. Many children were taught by this method, although it was abandoned in the 1940s by most hospitals. However, it is still widely known and implemented across Europe and the USA. by I-Ping Ou Remember the 2009 hit Taiwanese drama Queen of No Marriage? The protagonist Shan Wu Shuang, a 33-year-old career woman, is a hard-working senior editor for a magazine, but her successful career brings not only glory but also the hindrance of finding a suitable mate. This is a very accurate portrait of Taiwan’s current marriage situation. Indeed, according to the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of the Interior, the average age of first marriage for women has risen by two years since 2002. This phenomenon, woman marrying later or not getting married at all, is not restricted to Taiwan. Actually, the whole of Asia is going through the same transformation. Why? Let us review the history of marriage in Taiwan and see what can be said about this phenomenon’s Taiwanese origin.
We can divide the history of marriage in Taiwan into three periods: pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. In the pre-modern period, patriarchy made women subordinate to men. Under Confucian ethics, women have to be obedient to their husbands and take care of all the housework. Also at this time, polygamy was still common, and women were even tradable if the family was in need. |
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