Author: James Johnstone
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3 Reasons Why Vietnamese Ethnic Minority Are Poor
According to the World Bank’s statistics, the poverty rate in Vietnam has declined dramatically from around 70 percent to below 6 percent since 2002. This astounding result is attributed to the Vietnamese government’s effort in reducing poverty, transforming Vietnam “from one of the world’s poorest nations to a lower-middle-income country”. However, the unsolvable issue with…
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Should Schools Be Responsible For Teaching Social Skills And Non-Academic Courses?
“Education is the most important weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela For a long time, education has played an indisputable role around the globe. However, it is critical to utilize it correctly to enjoy the greatest benefits. School curricula are usually a source of heated discussion. Many people have recently…
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What Is Distance Learning? How Does It Affect Poor Students?
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of schools in Vietnam, as well as the world, have switched to Distance Learning to safeguard students’ health. This urgent transformation has impacted every aspect of children’s lives, both negatively and positively. Distance Learning also opens many questions regarding education inequalities and children’s cyber safety. Then, What Is Distance…
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4 Reasons Why Education Can Change People’s Lives
In this day and age, education becomes more and more important than ever, especially in “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” One of the facts that we can observe is that there are a larger number of people who study at universities or colleges for Bachelors degrees and Master degrees than there were in the past. The…
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What Is Poverty? How Does It Affect People’s Lives?
“Poverty” is usually mentioned in newspapers, news, books, and stories. However, do you really understand what poverty is and how it affects our life? We are going to find out about this topic in this post. What Is Poverty? Based on the Oxford dictionary, “poverty” means “the state of being extremely poor,” “the state of…
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How School Closures Affect Students?
In 2018, there are about 260 million children who cannot go to school, this accounts for nearly one-fifth of the global population. That was 2 years before COVID-19 emerged. Now, the situation is dramatically different: it continues to exacerbate after new waves of COVID-19 have delayed schools’ opening. Many more students are out of school;…
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How Can Education Help Fight Poverty?
We have discussed reasons why education is the key to reduce poverty. “But how?” you might ask. The United Nations’ 4th Sustainable Development Goal – Quality Education has emphasized the importance of education in combating not only poverty but also other societal issues. Learning how education can support impoverished people will help you understand why…
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What Is The Conclusion Of Poverty?
Poverty, a strange word that now does not exist in many people’s lives even mine, actually appears everywhere in this world, in every country and city. As a high school student, “poverty” only exists in social media or newspapers. However, everything has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic appeared in Vietnam. From this June to now,…
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How can social activism help to fight social challenges?
I was wearing two jackets, socks, and an earmuff. The weather was under 10 degrees Celcius, and I went to a Ha Giang school for my first volunteer field trip. The first kid I met from the school was a lot shorter than me, and he was wearing flip-flops. How could he endure the cold?…
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How Does Poverty Affect Health?
Along with the development of technology, the living standards of the human being is now being considered as a priority. People tend to pay more attention to their health than in the past when there are severe diseases that can be cured now, such as cancer and tuberculosis. However, this situation does only exist in…