You are a middle-class couple living in Sri Lanka. You have one son who is now approaching the age of 4 and you are making a decision on which school to send him to. Both of you attended prestigious local schools in Sri Lanka and attribute m large portions of your personality and social life to your 1 time in school. Your son also wishes to pursue sports such as cricket and rugby having shown a liking to these sports thus far in his life. However, your son has been diagnosed with mild dyslexia, inhibiting his ability to comprehend things at quick speed. The doctors say he can overcome this as he grows. 

Over the past decade, figure skating and gymnastics have adopted the code of points system that assigns values to individual elements based on their difficulty, with minimal rewards for artistic virtues. This replaced previous scoring systems which awarded scores to routines holistically considering the technical merit of the routine and its artistic elements based on composition, originality, style, and expression.

For the purpose of this debate, a villain arc is a timeframe where a person bounces back from an unpleasant experience (i.e. a breakup) and proceeds to take out those emotions onto day-to-day activities.

You are, Adam, a 23-year-old upper class individual from an ethnic minority living in Sri Lanka, fresh out of a prestigious international university. You have a masters in Political Science and have been offered a job at a large political party, hoping to serve and give back to your community. However, you are aware that given your ethnic background, you are unlikely to reach a senior position in any major party/future government. Your father, Shakeeb, is also an established businessman who owns a restaurant chain with 15 outlets. His passion is in food, but you have no passion in the Industry. He has repeatedly offered you the opportunity to work for him and eventually take over the company as CEO as he is approaching retirement. If you decline, he will transfer ownership of the company to his brother, Abdullah (your uncle).

Banking operates based on three key principles. First, it strictly prohibits the use of interest rates on loans, ensuring that no additional charges are imposed beyond the original loan amount. Second, banks generate profits solely through equity participation systems. Under this model, banks receive a share of a company's profits once the loan is repaid, but they bear the risk of earning nothing if the loan defaults. Finally, islamic banks are forbidden from investing in high-volatility sectors (e.g. energy and technology)

Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics is a political philosophy which argues that the state primarily acts to determine who is and who is not deserving of life. The states function historically has been to provide the conditions of life for some, and allow others to simply die

"Blood tax" was a system of taking away male children, usually between the ages of 8 to 10, from conquered Christian lands in the ottoman empire. The ottomans raised the abducted children in the Islamic religion, usually without any knowledge of their origins. In the ottoman empire, boys received military training and when they reached the age of 20, they would be assigned to elite janissary military units. The ottoman army did not accept boys with serious physical defects (eg. A gouged eye, cut hand, etc.). In order to avoid their child being kidnapped, some families intentionally mutilate their children

Legislative power means that the international organizations can pass laws that countries must follow. For example, the EU can pass laws which countries must follow or can issue mandates where countries must take action but the types of actions are more flexible. Countries will still opt into these organizations.