The Union's 2023 College Panel invites 6 top US university applicants from Stanford, UPenn, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Yale, and Dartmouth to share their insights and...
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The Union International is thrilled to announce the launch of UNITE – a special initiative aimed to raise the voices of young changemakers and accelerate change.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG, and many more. All of these books have been written by the British author Roald Dahl, many of which you may have heard of or even read as a child. Born in 1916, he became famous for his children’s literature, before passing on the 23rd of November in 1990. However, recent changes made to these stories to make them more “acceptable” in the modern world have brought on a flood of conflicting complaints and support from critics, fans, readers, and writers alike.
Imagine working a 10-hour shift only to come home to a space the same size as your cubicle at work. While this may be hard to imagine for some, this is common in Hong Kong due to the exponentially increasing population and the limited space. To create a coffin home, flats were illegally subdivided into around 15 partitioned units, sharing a kitchen and bathroom. Each home is usually only large enough for a bunk bed which is surrounded by a metal cage. Not only does this bed have to hold one's basic necessities, it also has to function as sleeping quarters. Therefore, for many, these coffin homes only allow for the uncomfortable position of bending their legs in an almost fetal-like position while lying down.
In our society today, getting into a top-ranked university has become a “be-all-end-all” of sorts. Certainly, having “Harvard” attached to your resume can get you a long way in life, whether you aspire to inherit your parents’ million-dollar business or work in Fortune 500 companies. This, however, has created a billion-dollar beast of its own: the booming tutoring industry. Take Thailand, for instance, if you have ever walked around Siam Square, you have probably seen at the very least three large, colorful billboards advertising tutoring services, promising top marks in standardized exams like the IELTS or SAT. Sure enough, the stats paint the picture even better; according to OPEC (Office of the Private Education Commission) 2,600 tutoring institutions were operating as of early 2020 in the nation; In the same year, the Kasikorn Research Centre reported that an average household spent 1.77 million baht every single semester on tutoring for their school-age child. Most of you may not think much of this, but if you have the money, go for it right? Well, that is exactly the problem. Not everyone has the money.
2022 can be described as a year mired with exacerbations of supply chains, rapid inflation, and shrinking economic growth worldwide. In China, the notorious Zero-Covid policy severely restricted the movement of Chinese citizens, for millions, this led to forceful quarantine in fever camps or being confined in apartments for weeks on end.
