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Inter-school Debates

Monday, June 15, 2009

11:36 AM

2 weeks of study break starting from now till 28th June 2009 :D

Heh. I’ve been selected to represent NYP’s School of Chemical & Life Science for the inter-school debates competition 2009 :D

I’m super excited! Nope, I don’t know what the topic is yet.
The topic will only be released 30 minutes before the start of debate.
That means we will only have 30 minutes to prepare everything we want to say~
But our debate coach told us 18 possible topics that will come out for the competition.
So we have to research and read on all 18 topics before the day arrive.

Here are the 18 topics:
A) Sex
1- Whether we should lower the age consent of having sex
2- If your HIV status should be shown in your I.C
3- Abortion

B) Beliefs
4- Whether we should band religious items in public schools
5- Use of public or government money to fund religious schools
6- Whether those majority religious schools should receive more funds

C) Economics & Finance
7- Effects of stimulus package
8- If development should be tied to countries’ track record with environment
9- Involvement of government in private business

D) International Politics
10- USA sanctions on Cuba
11- Impact of war on terror
12- ASEAN and Myanmar

E) Education
13- Look into the sale of contraceptive in public schools
14- Exams: Keep it or get rid of them
15- Receiving educational subsidies for serving the nation/country

F) Law
16- Convicted criminals and if they’re allowed to vote
17- Sale of violent video games to minors
18- Registering child sex offenders in national database

Lots of reading and research to do. Wish me luck :D
I really really really really x 1000 pray that I could at least squeeze into the semi finals :D
Gotta go for trainings during this period of time to practice, train and discuss with my team members before the competition~
Preliminary rounds are on 24th June 2009.
Semi finals and grand finals are on 26th June 2009.
Do pray for me! :)