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Covering a Topic Episode 1: Biased Olympics

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The Dilemma of Caster Semenya’s Participation/categorization Disclaimer: as a blogger, when I try to talk about a topic. I do it to not only enhance my knowledge on the subject but to also understand and be empathetic towards all viewpoints and perspectives, I have tried to be completely unbiased while presenting the facts on whether Caster Semenya should be allowed to participate in these athletic events. Caster Semenya , an athlete who has shined as a beacon of hope and idolization despite all the controversy that she is constantly wrapped in, had this to say about the challenges that she had to face just in order to compete in something that she holds immensely dear, “I am Mokgadi Caster Semenya. I am a woman and I am fast. You try to be in front of me, I jump you, I keep running.” I would also like to add that “gender” would be used to refer to the way she identifies herself, whereas the term “sex” would be used to discuss about the biological aspects of her identification...

Technology and Its Impact On Global Economy

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Technology and Its Impact On Global Economy The following is a work based thing, which means it was part of something at school and since I write best when I am on Blogger, I thought why not write this over here. Enjoy me writing about the impact of technology on the global economy: Positive edition. We live in the era of the most rapid growth of technology, it is believed that we have made more technological developments in the past 10 years as compared to the amount of development mankind had ever made in the previous centuries. We are growing at such a rate that it seems almost impractical to believe that we can develop further. I mean what is the limit? Flying cars? robot servants? a sustainable model of fuel? at what point can we be able to consider ourselves as living in the ultimate future? Positive Effects of Technology on the global economy. Technology has had a very positive impact on the global economy, though we could argue otherwise as well, first let us ...