Qualities of a good global citizen.

Global citizen is a new and popular phrase that is not only using among the youth in Vietnam but the youth in all over the world as well. Using this phrase quite often, but many of us still do not understand exactly about global citizen. Who are they? Of course we can answer directly that global citizen are people who live, study or work in many countries; they can speak different languages ,and have lots of nationalities. However, Are these enough to build a good global citizen? In fact, these are just the need factor not the enough one. Base on the attitude towards oneself and society we need three qualities _self fulfillment, empathy, awareness _to become a good global citizen.

The first quality is the self-fulfillment. We can understand this quality as the willingness to improve ourselves. It means a global citizen always try to strengthen his weakness; to be more dynamic, knowledgeable, confident; actively take part in social activities; creatively working with new ideas; joining in some skill clubs or social campaign; confide in ourselves and dare to talk what we think. These days, more and more improvement book are published; the proportion of people take part in social club is rising. They are strong evidences show that the youth now concern much about self-fulfillment. We should put effort to improve our weakness. As Asian people, we have to pass over the destiny, the shyness that are settled in our mind for a long time. To do that we can live openly with others to absorb new ideas, participate with them to improve cooperating skills. We need to define our goals and try to reach them. Indeed, many young people can do it. Ky Anh, Lam and Trieu_three students created the Chat Ola_ is a symbolic example. They formed the idea of application software from a common demand that is chatting freely with the lowest fee. This demand became their motivation, and the result takes time, but if we do, our house will stay long with the time.

Another quality of a good global citizen is the empathy. Empathy is our attitude towards people’s sorrow and depression; the feeling that other’s pain is like ours. Through the mass media, we know that every day more and more people have to face with the hunger; millions died of AIDS; uprisings occur and lead people to the homeless state… If we feel sorry to see these sorrows, that means we have possess the empathy. In our country, some young students volunteer to bring knowledge to children in highlands, others spend their free time to look after victims of Agent Orange or play with children in orphan homes. They are worthy of being a global citizen. It means not only these works are worth, but any actions no matter how they are if we do with all our empathy are all worth. In brief, global citizens are empathetic with other’s pain and try to release it.

Finally yet importantly, it is awareness. How can we understand about the awareness? Awareness is something relate to our moral. It is the aware of what is right, and what is wrong; what we need to do, and what we should not do. From this awareness, we can see our responsibilities and our duties not only for ourselves but also for the world. Being a person in this world, we have to pay attention to global problems like the pollution, shorted of fresh water, climate changed…, and have attitude about them. A person who is knowledgeable, good at foreign languages, goes to many countries is not a global citizen if he lives in this world but do not care about the world just lives for himself. On contrary, a 70-year-old man can be a global citizen though he cannot speak any English words, never goes out of his village because he and others in the Green Campaign join hand to grow trees .Although the work is very small, it shows his awareness about his duty to solve a global problem.

To become a good global citizen, we need many factors, but viewing on the side of the attitude, the self-fulfillment, the empathy, the awareness are three main qualities we must archive. Being the future of the society, we should join hand with the youth in all over the world to make our planet better and better.

How students can survive from the context of inflation.

Inflation occurs and causes many problems in which price rising is the biggest one. It affects many people especially the students. Depending on family in finance and now facing with the "price storm", students have to undergo a difficult period. Besides concentrating on study, they have to care much about the cost of living which is rising every day. How can they do to survive from this stage? As a student, I found that inspite of difficulties, students as you and me still can survive if we know how to manage our budget, try to get a part time job and start saving money.

With the same budget as in normal stage, it is not easy to spend in high inflation time, but if we know how to manage our budget, we can balance our life without difficulties. To do this, we can measure the amount of money we need for a day after that divide our budget into many parts depends on days of a month.This way helps us balance our money in a month. Many students spend too much money at the begining of the month, and the result is they have to use instant food in some days at the end. Other thing we should know is how to distinguish things we need from things we like for not waste money on unnecessary things. It seems very easy,but it is not easy at all especially for girls; they are often attracted by lovely things and waste money on them which are almost worthless. Next, before going to the supermarket, we should make a list of things we will buy. Doing this has special meaning; it does not only save time but also prevent us from spending more money than we suppose. After buying something no matter it cheap or expensive, we should note down it into a notebook for checking if things we bought are worth or worthless to cut back them next time. These managing budget ways are not too difficult, but they are really usefull for students in this high inflation.

Finding a part time job is the permanent solution that every students think about in this stage. To have chance to get a job, we have to have free time and know our strengh. Some common part time jobs are tutor, waiter, babysister, casher...These jobs are often annouced on TV or in the newspapers; we should pay attention to these and choose one suitable. A part time job helps us a lot in this stage; we can support ourselves in finance and cut back the burden on our parents' shoulder. Inflation does not affect students only, it also affects other classes in society and their parents are not exceptional. Once we can get a part time job, they are released from the financial care for us. Having a job is good, but we have to concentrate more on our study if we do not we may fail the exams and have to pay much money for studying again.

You wonder how can we save when the budget we have is not enough for us to use? We absolutely can if we find the right ways. We should check our pockets, bags or other coners of our flat regularly to collect coins and exchange money that will make us surprisesurprised; we can collect and keep them in a box to save. Another way is cutting back money for clothing, shoes and only buy things we really need. Some girls spend too much money on clothing, but they do not use them at all; there are some clothes they even never try. These days the petrol and gas price is rising rapidly, we can use public transportation instead of using their motorbike to save a great deal of money for petrol. The last way also the most effective one is using secondhand products. For example, if we need CDs or books, we can find them in secondhand shops. These products will be much cheaper than those in the bookstores while their quality is still guaranteed. Having these effective ways, we can save a big amount of money even when we have to frugal in our living.

How students can survive from the context of inflation.(OUTLINE)

Introduction

Inflation occurs and causes many problems which affect to all social strata especially to students

As a student, I find it is not too difficult to survive from this state if we know how to manage our budget, try to get a part time job and start saving money.

Body

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How can we do to manage our budget? To do this we have to distinguish what we like and what we need for not waste money on useless things.

+Things we like often useless. We are impressed by its interesting function or its nice outlook.

+ What we need is something really essential for our life.

If we do not know this, we will run out of money soon.

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Inflation can last long, so the permanent solution to live with it is getting a part time job. There are many jobs for us to do and with the wage we can quite independent in finance.

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Saving is very necessary because in some situation we can solve finance problem by our savings.

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Conclusion

Surviving from the inflation is not a big problem anymore if we know the way to manage our budget, have a part time job and save money. Being a student in inflation period, I tried and found that these ways are really helpful. To survive is difficult, but it does not mean impossible.

BROAD STATEMENT

Inflation occurs and causes many problems in which price rising is the biggest one. It affects to many people especially to the students who live far away from home. Depending on their family in finance and now facing with the “price storm”, students have to undergo a difficult period. Besides concentrating on their study, they have to care much about the cost of living which is rising every day. How can they do to survive this state? As a student, I found that in spite of difficulties, students still can survive if they know how to manage their budget, try to get a part time job and start saving money.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST.

Inflation makes our life more difficult than ever. In the past, the price, the cost of living, everything is suitable. Parents can support their children who are students and live far away from home to study without any difficulties. With 200thousand VND, they can live in one week but now, in the context of inflation with the price goes up rapidly, this amount of money is not enough. Everything is rising but the salary is not. It means that the cost of living is really a big problem for both parents and students. However, students can survive and help themselves by manage their budget, save money and try to get a part time job.

QUESTION

What can we do with 200 thousand VND? For a student, with its amount of money, he can live in one week, but this is only true in the past-just three months before- when there is not any inflation at all, and the cost of living is not expensive like these days. Now, the global commercial has trouble; inflation occurs and makes the price higher than ever. The money spend for food, drink, clothing, health care, personal products is rising everyday while the wage is not. This is really a big problem for people especially for student who live far away from home and mostly depend on their family. Many of them have to be frugal in living, save money and get a part time job to survive and improve their life in this context of inflation.