Month: March 2015

Most people would agree with me that the years of which children become adolescents are the best time to expose them to the company of the other gender, in order that they may learn each other’s’ behaviour and be better prepared for adult life.Furthermore, even if girls naturally perform better in an environment without boys, they need to learn how to perform just as well with boys. Dr. Alan Smithers, a respected British schools expert, declared in a 2006 report that ‘distraction by boys was a myth’ and that ‘half a century of research has not shown any dramatic or consistent advantages for single-sex education for boys or girls’.

Secondly , Men always say that they do not understand women, perhaps because they were sent to single sex schools. Research has proved that boys who went to single sex schools as opposed to mixed schools are more likely to get divorced and suffer from depression in their 40. This is proof that we should school our children in mixed schools in order to give them the best bill of emotional health. Dr. Diana Leonard, who presented the findings, concluded that ‘Boys learn better when they are with girls and they actually learn to get on better.

In despite of the fact that some people may say that girls would be distracted from learning by boys ,as they would want to look good to impress other boys in there classes , this should be a subject in which teaches both boys and girls to adapt to each other and show a level of immense maturity.

HWK4 PROP AND OP

STORMBREAKER BY ANTHONY HOROWITZ : When his uncle dies in suspicious manner, Alex Rider who is fourteen years old finds his world turned upside down for the worst to come. As forced to recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in this heart-wrenching SAS training exercises. A short while after, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he’s off on his first mission to Cornwall, where Middle-Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle is producing his state-of-the-art Storm-breaker computers. Sayle has offered to give one free to every school in the country – but there’s more to the gift than meets the eye.

A Spy Among Friends By  BEN MACINTYRE : Along with his ‘friends’ Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton, Kim Philby was one of the rising stars in the intelligence world during the early years of the Cold War. The three spies drank in the same bars, wore the same suits and spoke with the same accents, but Philby had one secret he never revealed to MI6 agent Elliott and CIA agent Angleton – he was covertly working for Moscow.

The link between the two texts are that they are both about the life of spies and precautions they have to take to save peoples lives and well-being. Even the though they do this the spies have to go through immense training to succeed in their missions .  By Kelvin.