Transcription (3) -Final Presentation

Emma&Ruby: Hi everyone.

E: And I am Emma.

R: I am Ruby.

E&R: our topic is Rare or Well-Done.

E: My side is rare, and rare means university students should take abortion.

R: And well-done means to deliver the child and I think university students should deliver their children. And before we start our presentation, we design a game for you. Emma, can you please tell me how to play this game?

E: then we will give someone a balloon, and you have to pass it on to the person who is next to you. And we will play the music, when the music stops, and you get the balloon, then you are assigned to receive a special mission.

R: And if you destroy the balloon, then it is you that you need to receive this mission. So does everyone know how to play this game?

Audience: Yes.

E&R: let’s start our game.

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E&R: Congratulations! Markenzy and Tim.

R: You got to receive a very special mission, that is, suppose the balloon is a baby, and you need to protect the baby until the end of our presentation. And at the end, we got some questions for you. So now, you just take care of the balloon. Ok let’s start our presentation.

E: ok, I want to ask a question to you. When do you think is the best age to have a child? And Roger? When do you want to have a child?

Roger: In my case, , I don’t know,I think ….. and that does count on an age. Sometimes a person, like is thirty years old, he doesn’t behave a good boy or person, I don’t know. I think that the person should be 25 old enough….

E: okay, it is our outline. But can you guys image that she, such a young girl, she is pregnant! And she is just merely 19 years old. Do you think she should take abortion?

Audience: No.

E: I think she should.

R: About this, I’m going to tell you the reason why I don’t want to take abortion.

Monica: Are you pregnant?

R: Just during the presentation. Few weeks ago, I watched a video on YouTube. The video was about whether college students should take abortion. A girl named Lin Lin argues that if she is pregnant, she will not take abortion because it is a life and she is reluctant to give it up. And she is also afraid of the unborn child becoming a ghost and following her after she takes abortion. And moreover, in the video, Dr. Chen says that university students are special groups. They have higher knowledge background. And so when we encounter pregnant problems, maybe we will solve the problem by ourselves. He also brings up a shocking data. That is, the average amount of abortion is twice as much as the amount of childbirth. And there are 20 percent babies aborted by mothers aged around 18 to 22 years old. According to this video, we can realize abortion may cause eternal mental fear and trauma to the person taking it. And if the baby in the uterus is not moved out completely or during the process of abortion, the doctor hurts the endometrium, it will lead to infertility forever. So, Emma, I got to tell you that after I watched this video, it strengthened my belief that I want to deliver my child.

E: okay, but I saw this video too. And some students think that it is improper for young girls to deliver their child, because their main points are money and marriage. So Ruby, do you have a full time job?

R: No

E: Now, open your purse.

R: What?

E: Open your purse. So does the money come from your family or you earn it by yourself?

R: The money come from my parents.

E: So, most of students even cannot support themselves, and how can they support a child more? And if you choose to deliver the baby, and will you build up a family? This is marriage problem. How can you measure that she or he is the right one?Ifyou just get married because of children, then children will probably become a serious problem when you want to get divorced.Just see the picture. This girl, she thinks that most of students do not have the financial capacity. And the boy even says that if you cannot afford the expense of milk powder, then how can you choose to have a child? And marriage could become a problem.

Let me show you the basic expense of supporting a child. First, delivering in the hospital costs NT20000. Baby’s bacterins cost NT18600. And how about the milk power and diapers? It costs 2000 a month. Do you think it is expensive? Just think it, all of these are just starting!

R: You brought up economical problems. But in 2008, the Article 26 of University Act was amended. It mentions that a student pursuing a bachelor degree or above may request for prolonging the studying term on account of pregnancy, childbirth, or childcare for the toddler under three years old. As for our school, the academic rules of NCU, students can apply for temporary suspension of study because of the abovementioned reasons. So the amended rules ensure students’ rights to education. And I think because of the rules, I can stop my studies at college now. Then I have more time to spend with my child and I have more time to earn money in order to support the economic needs. Moreover, I found a Maylasian case. In 2010, the chief minister of Malacca, Mohammed Ali Rustam, set up the first school for pregnant girls in Malaysia. The school not only provides normal courses, it also gives students a dormitory to live in which is translated into Home of Hope. In School of Hope and Home of Hope, students can receive religious counseling, medical check-ups and skill training such as cooking and baby-caring for the preparation of being a mother and a wife in the near future. And in the school, those girls can receive thoughtful care, nonstop education and most important of all, a shield from the outside gossip, so I think those girls can find hope for their lives and for their babies in the school of hope. And I find hope through their stories.

E: Hope? Nonsense. I think the problems young mothers have to deal with is not only the financial problem, but also the mental stress. The social scholar, Ms. Wang mentions the 4 aspects of the mental stress. From family, I think that you can image how terrible to tell your parents if you are pregnant. And if they cannot understand you and even blame on you, I think you will be very stressful and unhappy.From girls themselves, they are probably not mature in mentally, and it could hard for them to adapt themselves to change of identity- because they are mothers now! And from peers, peers must throw the strange eyes to those young girls. . From the society, some people will think the girl must has complicated relationship or she does not take care about her body, so that she got pregnant. So I think actually, delivering is not as simple as it seems. It means you are parents and you have to take the responsibility. If you cannot do this, I think the baby is more innocent to come to the world.

Here is a case in U.S. Roe was a poor girl in Taxes, and she wanted to take abortion, but the laws did not allow her to do so. She brought it to the Court, asking them to legalize abortion. After 3 years, the Court thought it is difficult indeed for those poor girls to support their children, and they thought that women should have rights of their bodies. Moreover, because the U.S constitution defined that unborn babies are not persons, the court decided to make abortion legal.

So why taking abortion is so disputative? One thing we have to define first. Is an embryo a person?

E&R: What is that?

E:Oh! I know this book, it talks about taking abortion. I can introduce the main points to you.

R: Ok. Maybe you can introduce it to me.

E: This book, Life’s dominion, it talks about taking abortion, and its author is Ronald Drworkin. He is an American law scholar and also a philosopher.

So why do you object to abortion? Do you think taking abortion is immoral? Or very cruel?

This author divided those who are opposed to abortion into two parts. The first part is derivative objection.They care babies’ rights. But actually is meaningless to suppose something has rights when it hasn’t had. Just take Dr. Frankenstein for example. If the doctor could make the dead body come alive, then could the stop of the experiment also be a way to take away the body’s rights?Do we think the dead body has a right?And the second part is the detached objection. They regard taking abortion as a murder and think life is so precious and valuable. But if the pregnancy is resulted from a rape? They will think it is acceptable. And they can even agree women to take abortion when the pregnancy is life-threating.. However, those young girls don’t want the children, and they will also have life difficulty. Now that life is so precious, why the former is acceptable, and the latter is guilty?

R: But I also found some paragraphs to fight against your points. On page 40, I found the ideas of typical liberals who are against abortion. Typical liberals insist that abortion is always the serious moral decision which was made at least after embryos' genetic qualities established and successful embryo implantation. From that time on, abortion means eliminating a human life that has already begun. And it is not allowable to take abortion because of tedious and trivial reasons. For example, a mother wants to take abortion because of a long-expecting journey to Europe. Or because she wants to have a boy, but the baby is a girl and. They are all trivial and tedious excuses. And decision of abortion involves moral aspects. When college students contemplate on whether taking abortion or not, we should take embryos’ benefits of living and the holiness of human lives into account. Even though somebody may think an embryo is not a complete life therefore does not equip with human rights, but it is out there, just inside mother’s uterus. So it is certainly being. It deserves the basic rights to continue living which nobody can deprive of.

So I think if college students can find ways to balance the economical needs and mental pressure, I think we should not give up our babies easily since abortion also make mothers shoulder ethical burdens and social judgments. So, Emma I got to tell you that abortion is not always the best refugee from the upcoming responsibilities. And here are our conclusions, and I think abortion influences mental and physical health. It is a brutal way to deal with the baby and from the amended law and the case in Malaysia, we can realize that there are still many solutions better than abortion.

E: My conclusion is that I think it is not proper for a young girl to have a child. Not only they will have to face the financial problem, they will also have mental stress during the pregnancy. And I think it is not fair that the stigma those girls have to bear when they want to take abortion. If they want, we should stand their side and respect their decision. Putting the overwhelming stress on them with those unclear reasons is too cruel.

R: And now, it is tim for Markenzy and Tim to make decisions. After listening to our presentation, do you want to kill the baby? I got knives. So you can decide.

Markenzy: I keep.

R: Thank you.

(Tim destroyed the balloon)    

E&R: Thanks for your listening, and enjoy winter vacation!

Final Paper

Pregnant University Students Have Better Solutions

Rather Than Abortion

Ya-Ju Chiang

Central University

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Reflection(2)

To begin with, due to the inspiration of the topic of Cassie and Vincent, menu or buffet, I came up with another entertaining topic, Rare or Well-Done, to replace our previous topic. I like this new topic very much and it matches the background of the first slide. I think if our whole group who present on the same day all use topics based on food, it will be really interesting and coherent.

Figure1. The background of first slide.

Besides, because Emma and I are going to present our PPTs by turns, it will be more difficult to design the arrangement of the PPTs. Fortunately, professor gave us some suggestions and intriguing inspiration. The variety of colors is indeed a good way to divide the respective views. Consequently, I am going to change our PPTs background. Blue represents my point of view, red represents Emma’s points. And at the presentation day, I will wear blue clothes and Emma wears red ones. I believe the actions will definitely make our points stand out and make audience get into our different views easily.

Although we try to make our presentation more interesting by using conversation or short drama, our PPTs are really boring compared with others. Last time, I saw Eva and Vicky took advantage of visual images and it did catch audience’s eye. Tony and Alison used plenty of charts to make their points clearer. I would like to add more pictures and charts to illustrate my points. Most important of all, I don’t want our audience get monotonous when looking at out PPTs and finally lose concentration on our presentation. I want to make our PPTs look more colorful and variable by utilizing more eye-catching charts and figures.

  Moreover, we are going to change the title of each slide. After discussing with Professor Liang, I realized the importance of using comparative titles. I think it is just like a kind of rhetoric or a comparison. For example, Malaysia Case versus U.S. Case and Mother’s Right versus Baby’s Right.

In conclusion, our final and greatest goal is to make our presentation as entertaining as possible by using conversation, drama, game, images, charts and vivid perspectives since the abortion issue is a serious topic which involves human lives, we don’t want audience feel boring or too solemn during the presentation. As a result, we will begin our presentation with a small game and the loser has to pretend as a pregnant person temporarily with a ballon until the end of our presentation. As usual, before presenting PPTs, Emma and I will have a short drama to bring out our topic. And during the presentation, we prepare a surprise in order to bringing up the appearance of the book we used in our annotations. At the end, after listening to our respective points, we will give the loser of the previous game a knife and the loser has to choose whether deliver his or her child. I wish the international students will enjoy our presentation.