History also suggests that self centered and antisocial beliefs and behavior lead to a numbing of our individual psyches and fractionalization of the community. Instead of seeing ourselves as a group of people working together for the common good, we may see ourselves divided up into pieces and parts battling each other for resources. This type of national psychology is most certainly the beginning of the end as the past tells us that nation’s with this type of divide will ultimately fail and fall in upon itself..

David mentions his parents frequently every childhood holiday seems to have involved wildlife spotting somewhere around the world. When he was 17, though, and got his first ramshackle car, ‘I said to my dad, “Look, could I have the money for car parts and skip the holiday?” He replied, “Oh, you don’t have to come on holiday with us any more but don’t think for a minute that I’m going to be paying for your car.”‘ David laughs, but his dad’s attitude clearly helped to instil a work ethic that has only increased over the years. Plus he was secretly relieved to join them on that holiday because they went to see the brown bears of Alaska, something he was still able to rave about recently 20 years on when he met Sir David Attenborough..

Social networks and social capital have emerged as concepts of great interest and potential to help understand and explain how social structures impact political, social and business practices at the collective and individual levels. The basic premise is: investment in social relations will yield expected returns. Existing research has largely focused on the West; our knowledge of how social capital plays out in the Middle East is limited.

Those “rare” scenarios you refer to are not that rare. My mother gets her glasses from WP, and they end up costing several hundred Canadian dollars, about the same as Costco. My mother prescription is also not that strong or unusual; like most or a lot of old people, she is both near sighted and far sighted, and while bifocals might be an option, most people seem to prefer transition lenses (I think that what they called)..

British education became solidified into India as missionary schools were established during the 1820s. New policies in 1835 gave rise to the use of English as the language of instruction for advanced topics. British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay succeeded in implementing his ideas on education in India through his famous minutes of February 1835 and the following quote which has been mentioned in various text books, “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief.