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Should Turkey join the EU? 14 Replies
Started by Yellow Elephant. Last reply by Mansikka Oct 1.
Religion and school 14 Replies
Started by Kalle Vahtera. Last reply by Mansikka Oct 1.
Theme 3: equality 32 Replies
Started by Henriikka Laiho. Last reply by Mansikka Oct 1.
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War and Peace
During a peace time people forget how frightening, dangerous and destructive war is. At school people learn about wars and theirs consequenses but people cannot really understand how inhibitive war times must be. People of my generation have been lucky, because we have been able to live in a peacuful world. Of course some parts of the world are fighting right now, like religious wars, but luckily Finland has been spared of wars, which is a huge relief in my oppinnion. Thinking back to the past a… Continue
Posted by Karkki on September 20, 2009 at 8:18pm — 16 Comments
My opinions about voting
I think that voting is right and everyone should be able to vote. It shouldn't depend on your nationality, religion, social status or capital. However there are many countries where everybody can't vote. But I won't write abou that now. I want to think about situation when people can vote but they don't do it.
In finland peolple can vote when tehy ar 18 years old. So I have had one time chance to vote and I have used this possipility. Why then so rare people vote? For example only 43% of Europea… Continue
In finland peolple can vote when tehy ar 18 years old. So I have had one time chance to vote and I have used this possipility. Why then so rare people vote? For example only 43% of Europea… Continue
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Posted by expert navy seal on August 18, 2009 at 10:01pm — 1 Comment
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After this, you can customize your own page to make it look yours. By Clicking settings and appearance, you can choose another template if you wish, control the colours and move items by dragging them to the place that you want.
Remember that this is a public site! Everyone, including your employer, your parents and your friends, has free access to this site. If you want, you may use a nickname or your first name only. There is an additional question about your real name, but it will be seen only by the teacher.
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Theme 2: War and Peace
Theme 3: Equality
Theme 4: Individuals in a Crowd, Crowd control, Collective Responsibility
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I agree with that Turkey shouldn't join to the EU.
The culture is way too different and they are not simply on the same level that the other countries in EU.
And actually Turkey isn't located in Europe so where comes the name European Union?
It really is everyone's own decission to choose if you believe in God or not, mut I think that those religion classes in school are more likely cultural and they are telling some information about different religions.
And they are increasing our g...
Equality is very important issues, but still we have to admit that there's still too many inequality in our society.
Of course there's so many cultural differences in different countries so it's hard to compare those to each others, for example th...
I think that voting should be everones right, no matter who are you or where are you from etc.
Sure I think it's true that under 18 years olds are not enough mature to vote, and most of them would just vote because it's allowed and wouldn't think ...
I think that stupidity grows in group. Bulling is propably the nastiest form of it. It's hard for one person to oppose the crowd that wants to do something stupid. Nobody really accept bulling, but it's for many easier choise than oppose it.
The o...
Equality is a very big queston. And I think that there are far more bigger equality gap between poor and rich than men and women. I saw a movie called '99 francs'. The movie itself was bad, I didn't like it but when it ended there were text witch ...
Like Miina said it was shocking to see that there are people who don't know that they can vote!!
I think that everybody should be able to vote when they are old enough. And I thinks that 20 would be good age for voting because most of 18-20 years...
Well i think that it's great that you can choose either a course of religion or ethnics. But I don't see any point why schools should give up on religious traditions. And as many in here has said, there aren't so many of them so why would we have ...
Yes this is a very complicated thing. Like Kalle said I understand that some people thinks that it should be your own choice. But to me it´s ok that there is evangelical lutheran education in public schools in Finland.
(via NewsShare)
Like Raul Blanco, I think every citizen should know the basics of ther own political system. It´s even a little bit embarrassing if you are an adult and you don´t know what´s happening in your own political system.
I also know for example many yo...
As many of above comments say, there have been always wars and will always be. Even in The Old Testament are many wars betveen peoples. Israel has have many conflicts in its history, because it has been only Christian country in the Middle East. R...
Finland's transition from a poor country in which citizens are fighting against each other into a welfare state is an example of how the efforts of a country to reach social equality can support its economic growth.
Despite its poor starting point...
In my oppinnion it is very important that we have freedom of choice, because people who do not believe in God may choose ethics. I think that it is good to have religion classes in puplic schools. As Emma mentioned it could be better to have only ...
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