Youth World
The One Time You Do Want Your Mom In Your Room: Dorm Cleaning Tips
Yes, even your dorm rooms need a good spring cleaning. It has taken a beating from you and your roommate and it gets no love—dirty clothes strewn across the floor, bedding that never gets washed and a three-week old pizza box...
Photographic Trick to aid Children fight Child Abuse
How can organizations aimed at putting an end to child abuse send a message to children without also tipping off adults? It might be as simple as creating an ad that only children can see. A Spanish organization called Fundaci...
The question with a D’lemma – Foundation or A levels
It wasn’t long back (just a year ago), when I was thinking about my University options I literally had a panic attack! All I had in my head was, “What if I don’t get accepted?! What if I don’t get in any...
Population Concentration and the Standard of Living
As of 00:00 on 10th April 2013, the world population count reached 7,109,330,000. The exponential increase in the human population, not only calls for the increased resources, but also the management of resources. Cities have ...
Beating Online Bullies: Fight Fire With Education
Let’s say you’re a kid and you’re perusing you’re favorite site with a Facebook tab open in another window. You hear the familiar “blinngk” noise that sounds when someone wants to talk to you. You ...
Multiculturalism
Have you ever thought about the social environment that you currently reside in? -The different cultures, nationalities, lifestyles that we are exposed to in a cosmopolitan city like Dubai? The United Arab Emirates is one of th...
Youth around the region kick-start their social enterprise
PepsiCo and Al Ahli Holding Group’s CSR Division gathered nearly 200 youth interested in social entrepreneurship at Business4Change, a two-day conference aimed at inspiring, developing and supporting young social entrepreneur...
A Thin Line Between Expectation & Hope
An opportunity knocks at your door. Life gives you a second chance. Do you hope, or do you expect to make it better? Does hope for a better life sound good enough, or an expectation sounds appropriate? Well, till sometime back,...
Curiosity: The quest of the curious
Now, I have a huge confession to make. Well, curiosity is something that I can’t really help, aside from the non-stop verbal diarrhea. When it began it was as misty as a fading memory skipping on old stones in a running brook...
Night Before Exams
Must study….must study…..!!! This is it…. I prayed…really really hard…then I sat on my cozy bed, prepared to study for my forthcoming exams …I just have to start with History first, then Political Science, Geography...
Take Time to Reflect
Last weekend, I did something I rarely do… I took 36 hours off to reflect. Off-off. No cell phone. No lap-top. No Google analytics. No Twitter or Facebook. Nada device-related input. And when we do that, we have the chance t...
Cut Cake, Not Wrists: A Speech for Teenage Depression
Hello, my name is Dean Beirne, and I’m here to talk about this one word we fear: depression. I feel you should listen to me as I am not some old adult who has succeeded in life, but I am a teenager like you. I have gone t...
LinkedIn Super Secret!
Sending someone a “Connect” invite on LinkedIn? Chances are they have very little time to check their LinkedIn “Connection” Requests (they likely have many of them), and if they don’t THINK they know you, don’t re...
2012 – Year in Review
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darknes...
Amanda Todd and Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is a crime! It happened with Amanda Todd, a 15 year old girl from Vancouver, who was cyber bullied so much so that she had to change schools, had no friends to talk to, was left all alone and humiliated by a numbe...
How to make use of wasted time?
At times when I ask my friends about how their day was, some of the most common answers I hear are “Ah! We had nothing much to do. Slept and ate all day”, or “It was boring! Not much to do anyways” or &#...
How to manage people who bother you?
Have you ever come across people who bother you? I am sure most of us have faced such people before. At times, its alright if we face them once or twice, but there are times when such people appear during every stage of our lif...
How to expect less from people??
Much of our sadness comes from expectations, such as the scenarios in our minds about the possible outcomes of certain situations. This could be regarding how careers will work out, how long relationships would last, or will a ...
How to quit your bad habits?
It is never too late to quit your bad habits, and even more important, it is key to have a happy and a healthier life, both in the present and the future. Below are some of the bad habits you might want to refrain from, and fol...
Hope – The Answer to a Perfect Life
“My life is perfect” is a phrase that one tends to say when they get everything they want from their life. A good job, a great family, a sweet partner, amazing friends and so on! Above all, you are happy with how yo...
