Debate Blog

Earon: The responsibility for listening well is on the listener! Even how the speaker talks to the person who is listening, if the listener do not understand what the speaker is talking about, then it just means that communication is not successful. Listening starts with paying attention, so if the listener don't pay much attention to the person speaking, it is like hearing voices without knowing the words that the speaker is trying to tell. Everything he or she had said becomes useless.


Mouthy: The responsibility for being clear and interesting is on person doing most of the talking! The speaker should share interesting topics as possible so that the listener will listen attentively. Also, being clear should be take into account so that the listener too will clearly understand. Some students don't listen to their teachers because what they are discussing is boring, it is something that the students are not interested in. For the students to listen to the their teachers, the teachers should make lively discussions as possible and think as many ways on how would they catch the students attention. I think that would be one of the good examples.

Media has the vital role to let the people know about what world we are living in. But it has also disadvantages that could lead to judgment of ourselves. Advertisements particularly about beauty is one of the most advertised in television. Media created bullies, do you agree? Women most especially, they look for something good to beautify their selves because they are not contented of the self they’re in, so that people would change their perceptions somehow. Teenagers became cynical because of the bullies in their school. Pressure comes and more women would feel that they are not good enough which results to low self-esteem. And oh, not just women but men are also pressurized because they wanted to be what the women wanted them to be. As to my own “likes” about guys, what I see in television or magazines most likely affected me. If you ask me what kind of guy I like, I’ll say “he would probably be like the guy I’ve seen on television (well usually guys in televisions are hot)”. You see now the effects of the media.

I maybe also one who feel insecure about myself but it’s no use at all. Being me is just the perfect thing. I know many people dislike me, but I don’t care. I have a particular friend of mine, who is actually one of my best friends now, she might not be as beautiful as people think but she always stand with positivity and consider herself beautiful. I really like her because of her attitude and that she’s just being herself. I really do hope that all of us can be like her. There’s no need to photoshop, drink pills and have surgery. Though media had a great effect regarding self-esteem, just always bear in mind that there’s no one more beautiful than you are. Be proud or yourself dear.

Susan Boyle

I remembered her when our teacher showed to us her video in class. An unexpected woman who auditioned in Britain's Got Talent for her dream. " I'm trying to be a professional singer", she said, after that statement I remembered, a lot of people in the audience raised their eyebrows and laughed and treated her like a joke. Reaction of the people was not good at all because it was clearly seen in the video and I was like "people are so mean". But I realized, if I was one of the audience, honestly, I may have laughed too.

If I was Susan Boyle, I would have died on that stage because I couldn't stand seeing people laughing right at  my face. I would be really disappointed about myself, and tell myself that I was stupid and I shouldn't have tried this.

When she started to sing, the crowd came into silence and stunned by her magical voice. If I was there, I would realize that what i did was totally wrong and I feel ashamed of myself. At the first place, I could see that she's really positive about everything, her self- esteem was very high, she even joked about herself! She didn't care what other's think of her at the first place, instead she stood with head held high and took the time of her life.

This 7 minute and 30 seconds video of her taught me two lessons. First, do not judge the book by its cover and second, don't let the "vultures" in my life put me down, instead I should fight over it, I should not allow anyone to make a barrier against the things I want to do. I should never stop dreaming. "I will and I shall go with all my heart and be dedicated like Susan Boyle and of course with God's help".