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| Rating: 5 |
| Votes: 5 |
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still can not vote for u>"< |
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I can't see the line for voting. It's weird. Maybe some other contestants have the same problem as yours. I think you have to tell the staff about this error. |
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oaww.Hot topic. It seems to be essential for education now, I highly appreciate your speech and your suggestion.!Good job. Huyen.! |
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you are, as always, Huyen, lovely voice, very good topic and confidence, all of which makes you special and why else i can do now, hehe. vote for you but i dont know how to vote, so just give my vote here. Good luck, i believe u r a winner
Rank:5
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Woah!! Is it possible for me to vote more than 10000n times for just you, lady? Becuz if this site allows its members to vote for one person more than 1 time then it’s definitely what I’m gonna do now. <3333
I’m so in love with your topic. Such a great idea to choose this one since it’s no wonder a very hot issue nowadays. I think the figures you provided are very persuasive and how you interpreted them are very good as well. Your pronunciation is really good and how you expressed the emotions in your speech made it so much more enjoyable for the listeners. I didn’t have the feeling like I was listening to a long and boring lecture but instead, a very interesting talk from a very interesting lecturer, and I think most ppl will agree with me on that.
I listened to some other contestants but you are my most favorite, and I’m quite positive that the award will be yours, my dear! Keep up the great work, can’t wait to hear more great topic from you. Good luck with the contest, girl!!! Aja aja, hwaiting!!!! *let my baby Seung Ri sing his “Strong baby” for you to cheer you up ^^*
PPL, PLZ KEEP VOTING FOR THIS WONDERFUL GIRL!!!! |
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Hot topic which young people need to hear!^^
Good luck, Huyen! |
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I admire you for starting discussion about a very sensitive subject anywhere, even in USA. you know, sex education needs to start at home. |
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I didn't only mean "your writing" , I mean your interpretation and organization of the topic, the way you handled it in 5 minutes. Just because my fucking network's unable to load your audio ( email me please), so I had to read your script.
Again , rank : 5 |
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I'm in love with your writing and I'm fucking convinced , baby. Now I'm considering to take a course of this matter to study , can you be my instructor ? hehe. Anyone wanna join ?
Grap the award , baby !!!
Rank : 5
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To Nordon: I'm deeply indebted to you. Thanks, may thanks for your great suggestion : )
To lily, hoang, javamaster, sourire, the sun, tranmy: What else could I say but thank you very much for your all profound interest taking.
*Smiles*
To khoaanh: Just 1 thing I wanna say "Great mind thinks alike" ( Sorry thesun for my words' stealing with copyright :D ) |
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Hi all!
I'm back. Things get worse here. I don't know how to fix the voting section either. Perhaps it's a destiny :D
" God, where are you when I need you"? This time, I'd like to modify this saying a bit more " KP, where are you when I need you?" lol. j/k |
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My comment will be short, Huyen and sorry for that.
I like your style of delivering your speech and in my opinion, you are the best speaker of your class. Believe in yourself and my opinion as well. I will vote for you asap. |
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I have listened your talk and I like your voice so much. It is clear enough to be understand and impressive. Good luck! |
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I can't vote either, but I love ur presentation. Confident and properly pronunciation.
Brilliant idea Norton
5 stars 4 Huyen
Admin pls fix this error ASAP. |
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Vote 5 stars 4 ur idea, Norton.
Vote another 5 stars 4 HUYEN. |
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anyone, I have an idea. If no one can vote for her by casting the vote, we can vote manually. The vote is use 1-5 ranking scale. You can just leave a comment with your rank. After that, if the admin fix the error, Huyen has an evidence to prove that she actually got those vote, otherwise, it is too unfair for her.
Let me start first.
Rank: 5 |
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gud luck! I really like ur voice |
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but How can I vote for U? hasn't there been anyone doing something so far to help??? |
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actually, at first I intented to join this contest and talk about the same topic as U:sex education. But unfortunately, this idea wasnot (and may be never) transfered into a full, complete speech by me 'cause after I listened to ur talk, I know that never can I do as a good job as U did.congratulation! and very happy because I have found someone that thinks like me. can I call it " great minds think alike "???^^ vote for U! |
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I already listened to many other contestants and u re the one I like the most. Really love the way u present ur ideas and ur voice then ( so adorable). Great job, girl !!!
P/S: I want 2 vote 4 u but something's wrong with the rating. Anyone can help 2 fix it cuz I know many many ppl outhere want 2 vote 4 her too |
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"So it’s quite easy to understand that you have been suffering seriously from the occupational disease", PhươngHuyen said. I admit that I got that kind of disease (if u call it so), because every time I make a proposal, or an essay, I have to support my arguments with facts and figures, and academic reference. Anyway, I like your comments. |
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There’s some points I don’t think I agree wz Norton:
The figure 1.4 million here is the annual abortion in Vietnam, and surely it can not totally belong to teenagers. Let’s say it could be either teens or adults, but what I try to mention here is: it’s abortion rate. Then why do they need to apply abortion while they can prevent being pregnant at the time of having sex? Is it bcoz they at first loved to have a kid (?!?), then later decided not to have one bcoz to raise a kid is too costly???? No, no. It’s merely bcoz they have no knowledge or, their knowledge of sex is limited. And due to it, female of the figure 1.4 million got pregnant after having sex, then they tried to fix the problem this way. In other words, using the figure 1.4million here to illustrate the point is relevant.
Also, about the fact “Sex is taboo in Asia”; actually we need to read or listen more carefully b4 giving comments. Having a look at the transcript, it’s written that “Sex is taboo for public discussions in many Asian countries” (ah hah, it is MANY ASIAN COUNTRIES, not THE WHOLE ASIA. And of course many countries here include: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, etc. _ it wud take a day to list them all here), and why not Vietnam a country to be listed in this “taboo group”? Just try to bring up the sex topics to discuss in public places in Vietnam, and how many students around us can feel free to talk about it? Obviously it’s culture barrier which has existed in our country quite long.
One more thing, I don’t quite think the ministry of education in VN do care about the sex education. I can’t see any improvement on this lately, bcoz if they care for it that much, there would be more than textbook but a figure of investment shown in public on which we can see what kind of research they are making and how would they design the sex courses for students basing on their serious researches?
What I can see from the request of this contest is it doesn’t actually ask for true facts or numbers. For the 3 Parts: Economy, Education, and Vietnam, just simply raise your idea. But I can see many speakers here make great effort in inputing some more realistic information and that indeed makes the competition more practical. This speech is the first case the speaker did apply her own research rather than basing on that of newspapers around. And I don’t think there’s anything much concerning whether or not to care about sweet voice or sth similar. In case u do care for it, one more mark should be plused in our vote to her.
Voted 4 u, HUYEN!
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Btw, i can't vote 4 this one, while other speeches I can. Isn't there some errorS in here? Perhaps the admin should have a look at it. |
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To Norton:
OMG, thanks ever so much for your comments :D :D I’m just home and eager to sign in to see how my speech has been going. I immediately see your text and it makes me blissfully happy because there are still those who truly care about the content of the submissions rather than its exterior. Now I’d like to give you my comprehensive feedback. Analyze it cautiously and you will see how it works towards your queries ;)
1. About the number 1.4 million (annual abortions in Vietnam), I thought it’s quite clear to grasp the meaning behind this number. However, according to your texts, the number on the surface doesn’t raise a strong voice, so I’d like to explain more elaborately about it.
- “…the number 1.4 million is excellent, but I would like to know more about that figure. For example: how many of them are teenagers, because you focus on promoting sex education for teenagers, you should stress that a bit more. The data is meaningless, unless you interpret it.”_ Norton said.
To be frank, you didn’t understand fully the implication of the number 1,4 million stated here. The thing you wonder is that amongst these 1,4 million abortions, the number of teenagers (aged 9-17) is quite small or in other words, they are not the majority. Is it what you meant? If so, here comes my explanation. It’s definitely true that all of them USED TO BE TEENAGERS and when they were young, they also weren’t TAUGH ABOUT SEXUALITY AT SCHOOL. As a consequence, they will lack needed information on this matter when they grow up, particularly on the ways to avoid unintended pregnancies and HIV-STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). That’s partly why they choose the worst course action: Abortion. So the figure 1,4 million I take advantage here is always appropriate in supporting the fact that teenagers in the current time and in the past have aborted partially owing to the lack of information about condoms ( a typical example representing for the simple and effective contraception).
- “For me, I might think 1.4 million adult abort because they don't want to have baby, or by some other reasons.” _ quoted from Norton’s post.
I have nothing to do with the “reasons” here. Because the matter that I wanna stress on is about SOLUTION, regardless of why they have an abortion. Just the way they DEAL WITH the unexpected foetus. That’s why my research was given birth. Certainly prevention is better than cure. But once, things happen already, abortion is not advisable to be the best remedy to an expectant mother. So sex education (condom using method, for example) should be provided before abortion is chosen.
- “Next, you mention sex discussion is taboo in Asia. The question is how you can make sure about that? Did you do any social research or base on anybody's social research to come to that conclusion? It is not a common sense so that every people may agree.” _ Norton commented.
This factor is so clear-cut. I agree with you that more back-up ideas will make the point stronger, however, with the time limitation of 5 minutes only, do you think we can add all evidence right after each point? It’s really redundant and unnecessary, esp. for something so emerging like “Sex discussion is taboo in Asia” ( Norton, I think you mis-quoted my point, it should be “Sex is taboo for PUBLIC discussions in many Asian countries”). In case you are still doubtful about this fact, I’d be very willing to share with you a pile of materials that I used in the process of doing my research (a primary research and a secondary research in which the issue “ sex topics are avoided to be discussed in public in oriental countries” is clearly analyzed and explained). For more information, here is my email address raven.none16@gmail.com. Contact me if you need anything so-called “a reference about that research in order to support your argument” : ) : ) I’m afraid that it could take you so much time reading them all because they are too many. Lol. Let me give you one for instance (I strongly recommend this online article as a reference): Malikaew, S. (2005). Health: It is easy to leave sex out of sex education. Retrieved April 16, 2008 from http://www.newsmekong.org/health_its_easy_to_leave_sex_out_of_sex_education
2. “Your idea is not new, ministry of education has already been aware of the importance of sex education. People have already carried some sex education, but they have failed. Have you done a research about their failure? If you want to make your theory come true, at least you have to stress more the reason to make people believe it will succeed.” _ quoted from Norton’s text.
Before I go straight to answer your question, let me tell you one thing. I know your are a software developer (because we are close friends online, aren’t we :D). So it’s quite easy to understand that you have been suffering seriously from the occupational disease. To every question, you also wanna find an EXACT or a PRECISE answer. But pls bare in mind, this topic is not an exercise of Maths. It’s surrounded with CULTURE. With regards to culture, NO RIGHT AND NO WRONG ANSWER, because the concept is ranging from country to country. What I’m doing here is giving out a FACT then proposing A POSSIBLE SOLUTION then. You are contrary to yourself when addressing my idea “a theory”. If it’s a theory, then it can’t be something that “…ministry of education has already been aware of the importance of sex education”. It’s A FACT indeed.
- “In my opinion, I think the point number 2 is a bit difficult at least at that point of time. I feel sorry for you because you missed the point number 1. You did a very good research about sex education in 2008, why didn't you do a little bit research to give more figure to support your argument?” _ Norton said.
So sorry but this comment doesn’t make any sense to me really. I also do carry out a big project on this issue “Sex Education in Vietnamese Schools” consisting of several research papers. I’m not allowed to go beyond the framework of this contest to provide you all aspects of this matter. So again, if you are interested in that, just feel free to contact me via my email or cell phone (you already got my number, right? dear,lol).
Finally, pls allow me to offer you a warm hug, my friend in distance :D. Though we are rather far from each other and disconnected sometimes, you still show your care towards me by dropping some valuable comments on my incomplete speech. Thanks again, mate! Thanks for giving me the chance as well as space to express more about my ideas. Very nice to have such a discussion with you today! :D :D hugssss!!!
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Nice topic, nice try. However, there are something I would like to comment about your speech:
1. Your argument is not strong enough to support your main point, to promote sex education. For example, when you talk about annual abortion in Vietnam, the number 1.4 million is excellent, but I would like to know more about that figure. For example: how many of them are teenagers, because you focus on promoting sex education for teenagers, you should stress that a bit more. The data is meaningless, unless you interpret it. For me, I might think 1.4 million adult abort because they don't want to have baby, or by some other reasons.
Next, you mention sex discussion is taboo in Asia. The question is how you can make sure about that? Did you do any social research or base on anybody's social research to come to that conclusion? It is not a common sense so that every people may agree. You have to put a reference about that research in order to support your argument.
2. Your idea is not new, ministry of education has already been aware of the importance of sex education. People have already carried some sex education, but they have failed. Have you done a research about their failure? If you want to make your theory come true, at least you have to stress more the reason to make people believe it will succeed.
In my opinion, I think the point number 2 is a bit difficult at least at that point of time. I feel sorry for you because you missed the point number 1. You did a very good research about sex education in 2008, why didn't you do a little bit research to give more figure to support your argument?
Anyway, I love your voice, very sweet.
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To Tu: I think sex education should be considered an essential part of the curriculum and removing it would be voluntarily putting our teenagers in danger. It’s more than a counseling program. Teachers should cover knowledge about sexuality as one the main subjects at school. Thus, its content should have been comprehensive like you said, esp. for female students because they are more vulnerable to predators. You have just mentioned morning pills, yeah, one of the most effective contraceptions. Though it sounds simple and easy to use but quite many young female students mistake them and the result comes adversely afterwards. So I agree with you on the point that girls’ manner ought to be the main focus in sex education scheme. Girls are no longer passive. Now they need to be active to make healthful, responsible decisions regarding their sexual behaviours.
Many thanks for your sharing : )
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To fancom: I’d view your comment as an encouragement : )
To lan_nguyen: Ironically it’s true. I myself have experienced it at the age of 14. J/k :D
To ngocnguyen and cothom: “Love me, love my dog”. U guys love my speech, that’s enough for me : D
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I do like your speech and your sweet voice as well. Good luck! |
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Good luck, I love your idea :x |
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also, I like how you carried out your research - very admirable! |
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I really love your voice and tone - it carries so much emotion! :)
Have you thought of counseling programs in addition to an official classroom training? Another thing about sex education is how to balance between teaching students, especially to girls, the tactics (using morning pills, etc.) and how to enhance their beliefs about their own self-worths and that their bodies are something that they have rights to care and protect. |
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Your speech is very practical! I love your idea! |
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Lol hilarious, but a little hard to believe =P What 9th grade kid still believes that kind of thing
Anyway I like your speech, really practical, voted ;) |
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Hi there,
This is the part I play in this contest. And following is the transcript for better understanding or in case you find my speaking too bad to catch up :D. Hopefully my speech may draw much of your interest. Thanks for your listening :).
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“Dear diary, oh my god, I’m gonna die. Why did he touch me like that? I hate that bastard. Why me? I’ll get pregnant and my parents will kill me”.
All right, what you just heard are a few lines quoted from one of my students’ blog entries. She had kept her blog private until she told me the story. The incident took place in a physical class. A boy in her class accidentally touched her chest when catching a basketball. And it’s not funny at all when she is already in 9th grade.
The issue I’m trying to discuss here is sex education at schools in Vietnam. Let’s imagine how differently she would have behaved if only she had been taught about sex at school earlier. In a research on teaching and learning about sex in Vietnam that I and a group of students carried out in 2008, It did not come as a surprise that only 25% of respondents reported that sex education was included in their curriculum at school. The remaining 75% replied that they had never been taught about sex. Moreover, amongst these 25%, most of them said their school-based sex education is not comprehensive. This feedback can be the result of 2 main factors: unsuitable curriculum and culture barrier.
Let me start with the biggest difficulty for students in acquiring sex education. The content of sex education curriculum is increasingly becoming unavailable and inadequate. Many school systems completely omit sex education from their curricula and others attempt to avert controversy by allowing only discussions of safe and familiar topics, such as sexual orientation or basics of reproduction. But the most effective way of avoiding unintended pregnancies and HIV –that is using condoms, was not mentioned at all. This factor leads us back to the disturbing figure of 1.4 million annual abortions in Vietnam. Should we be proud of this figure which has made Vietnam have one of the world’s highest abortion rates? The answer is no, totally not.
Besides the unsuitable curriculum, the culture barrier is also a drawback of serious concern. Sex is taboo for public discussions in many Asian countries and Vietnam is not an exception. A large number of Vietnamese elderly claim that sex education could promote sexual activities. That partially has a detrimental influence on the youngsters, especially teenagers. They might feel shy and uncomfortable exchanging information about sex in public places including schools.
After listing some possible reasons, I strongly believe Vietnamese schools should put into practice some improvements in terms of sex curricula and teaching strategies. More practical issues should be added such as the use of condoms and the resistance to peer pressure to have sexual intercourse. In addition, teachers need to join in training courses in order to gain more knowledge and skills. Only then will they be more likely to be open-minded and willing to deal with all students’ questions. Teaching equipment and tools such as illustrations or videos, plastic parts of human body, are suggested to be the means to support the theoretical lessons. Personally, I’d take it as a good sign if someday we could see a few c-u-c-u-m-b-e-r-s in sex education courses. I think vivid lessons will be more interesting and understandable for students rather than simply dry literary textbooks.
Last but not least, I wanna stress on the importance of sex education. If we deny its influence towards our teenagers, we are, in a sense, sheltering them from harsh realities they are bound to encounter. As the saying goes “Bring grist to somebody’s mill”. But this time, we all should bring grist to teenagers’ mill with a relevant purpose, and that is helping them to find the right way. |
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It'd say hilarious, but then, to keep it appropriate, just excellent job then :) Hope you get thru. |
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