The day before GP CTs

Tomorrow afternoon will be the time when we get grilled for 3 1/2 hours doing the GP paper. And so there is no better time than now to do some last minute GP stuff, just anything that will get me into the mood to do the paper.

Article:
Contemporary society generally views family as a haven from the world, supplying absolute fulfilment. The family is considered to encourage "intimacy, love and trust where individuals may escape the competition of dehumanising forces in modern society”, and providing love and protection from the rough and tumble industrialised world, and as a place where warmth, tenderness and understanding can be expected from a loving mother, and protection from the world can be expected from the father. However, the idea of protection is declining as civil society faces less internal conflict combined with increased civil rights and protection from the state. To many, the ideal of personal or family fulfilment has replaced protection as the major role of the family. The family now supplies what is “vitally needed but missing from other social arrangements”.
Social conservatives often express concern over a purported decay of the family and see this as a sign of the crumbling of contemporary society. They feel that the family structures of the past were superior to those today and believe that families were more stable and happier at a time when they did not have to contend with problems such as illegitimate children and divorce. Others refute this theory, claiming “there is no golden age of the family gleaming at us in the far back historical past”
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family#Contemporary_perception

Reflections:
This article gives a very neutral view of the contemporary family and whether families of today are being less and less important to people of today. But one takeaway i had from this article is knowing more about how the ideal family might look like. The loving mother, the protecting father, and the warmth and understanding from this societal arrangement all seemed to paint the picture of a perfect family, and might be useful in comparing with the families of today.

As for the GP common test, I'm worried. We didn't do well for the essay on technology and the leadership compre as well. Lets hope we do better for CTs! Haha...