More Options for Learning Online_Nhiều Lựa Chọn Hơn Với Chương Trình Học Trên Mạng

More Options for Learning Online From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. American colleges are facing many problems. College costs are rising and there are not enough jobs for the people who have finished study programs. But employers say they cannot find enough workers with technical skills. Now, online classes might offer solutions. Many top universities offer online classes. Students can often take these classes at little or no cost. Lynda.com is one website with online classes. Lynda Weinman helped to launch the website. She says that colleges cannot teach technical skills easily because these skills change quickly. But it is easy for websites with online classes to keep up with new technology. Online classes offer different ways to learn. At most colleges, a professor gives a lecture, and the students research and study alone. Students who take online classes listen to lectures at home. But they work with their professor on projects and homework. Experts say the growing number of online classes will have a major effect on colleges. Some say college classes in the future may be a mix of online lectures and professors helping students in person. Georgetown University labor economist Tony Carnevale says he would welcome these changes. He says a college education must lead to skills that employers need. He also notes that the college system needs to become more efficient. Chris Cullen is a college marketing expert. He says competition from online schools and concerns about costs will change universities. He says top universities with strong public images may expand in an online world. But less famous schools may struggle to interest students. For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal.

Nhiều Lựa Chọn Hơn Với Chương Trình Học Trên Mạng Từ chương trình học tiếng Anh của VOA, đây là bản tin Giáo dục. Các trường đại học của Mỹ đang phải đối mặt với nhiều vấn đề. Học phí đại học đang tăng lên và không có đủ việc làm cho sinh viên mới tốt nghiệp. Tuy nhiên các nhà tuyển dụng lại nói rằng họ không thể tìm thấy đủ những người có kỹ năng cứng/chuyên môn. Bây giờ các lớp học trực tuyến có thể đưa ra những giải pháp. Nhiều trường đại học hàng đầu đã cung cấp những khóa học trên mạng. Sinh viên có thể thường xuyên tham gia những lớp học này miễn phí hoặc với chi phí rất ít. Lynda.com là một trang web có các khóa học trực tuyến. Lynda Weinman đã giúp cho ra đời trang web này. Cô cho biết các trường đại học không thể dạy các kỹ năng chuyên môn một cách dễ dàng bởi vì những kỹ năng này thay đổi rất nhanh. Nhưng các trang web với các khóa học trực tuyến lại dễ dàng theo kịp với công nghệ mới. Các lớp học trực tuyến cung cấp nhiều cách học khác nhau. Tại hầu hết các trường, giáo sư giảng bài, sinh viên nghiên cứu và tự học. Những sinh viên học các lớp học online theo dõi các bài giảng ở nhà. Nhưng họ làm việc với giáo sư của họ thông qua những bài tập lớn hoặc bài tập ở nhà. Các chuyên gia cho biết số lượng ngày càng tăng của các lớp học online sẽ có ảnh hưởng lớn đến các trường học. Một số lớp học ở giảng đường trong tương lai có thể sẽ kết hợp giữa các bài giảng online và các giáo sư giúp đỡ sinh viên một cách trực tiếp. Nhà kinh tế lao động của trường đại học Georgetown, ông Tony Carnevale, cho biết ông sẽ chào đón những thay đổi này. Ông cho biết giáo dục đại học cần phải mang đến những kỹ năng mà các nhà tuyển dụng cần. Ông còn nói rằng hệ thống đại học cần phải trở nên hiệu quả hơn. Chris Cullen là một chuyên gia marketing của trường đại học. Ông cho hay cuộc đua giữa các trường học trực tuyến và mối lo ngại về học phí sẽ thay đổi các trường đại học. Ông nói, các trường đại học hàng đầu với những hình ảnh vững chắc trong mắt cộng đồng có thể mở rộng trong một thế giới trực tuyến. Nhưng những trường ít tiếng tăm hơn sẽ phải nỗ lực để thu hút học sinh. Trên đây là chương trình học tiếng Anh của VOA, tôi là Alex Villareal.

Immunizing Girls Against Cervical Cancer_Bảo vệ các em gái khỏi ung thư cổ tử cung

Immunizing Girls Against Cervical Cancer From VOA Learning English, welcome to Health News in Special English. The GAVI Alliance is a partnership between public health officials and private industry. The group provides vaccines to developing countries. Recently, the alliance announced plans for an immunization campaign to protect 180,000 girls from cervical cancer. It has chosen eight countries to start administering the vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus or HPV. Most cervical cancers result from HPV. The virus is passed through sex. Seth Berkley is chief executive officer of the GAVI Alliance. He says one woman dies every two minutes from cervical cancer. That is more women than die in childbirth. Dr. Berkley says an estimated 275,000 women die from this cancer each year. And 85 percent of the victims are in the developing world. He warns that, without intervention, the estimate would reach 430,000 deaths a year by 2030. The HPV vaccine is given to girls between the ages of nine and 13. It is only effective before someone is infected with the virus. If infection does take place, the virus may cause extremely small changes at the cellular level. A Pap smear test or Pap test can find those changes.    But the test may not be available to women in developing countries.  If the infection is not found, the cancer begins to grow and will spread. There are signs like bleeding. And after the cancer spreads, there is pain.  The HPV vaccine will be administered as part of school programs in Laos and seven African countries. The seven are Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. Dr. Berkley notes that efforts must be made to reach girls who are not in school. For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal.

Bảo vệ các em gái khỏi ung thư cổ tử cung Đây là chương trình học tiếng Anh của VOA, chào mừng các bạn đến với bản tin Sức khỏe của chuyên mục tiếng Anh đặc biệt. Liên minh GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization : Liên Minh Vắc-xin Và Miễn Dịch Toàn Cầu) là một tổ chức liên kết giữa các cơ quan y tế công cộng và công nghiệp tư nhân. Tổ chức này cung cấp vắc-xin cho các quốc gia đang phát triển. Gần đây liên minh này thông báo kế hoạch cho chiến dịch phòng ngừa để bảo vệ 180.000 phụ nữ tránh khỏi căn bệnh ung thư cổ tử cung. Tổ chức đã chọn ra 8 quốc gia để bắt đầu phân phát vắc xin chống vi rút Papilloma cho người, hay còn gọi là HPV. Hầu hết các trường hợp ung thư cổ tử cung là do vi rút HPV. Loại vi rút này lây truyền qua đường tình dục. Ông Seth Berkley là giám đốc điều hành của Liên Minh GAVI. Ông cho biết cứ hai phút lại có một phụ nữ chết do ung thư cổ tử cung. Con số này cao hơn số phụ nữ chết khi lâm bồn. Bác sỹ Berkley cho biết ước tính có khoảng 275 nghìn phụ nữ chết do căn bệnh này mỗi năm. Và 85% nạn nhân là ở các nước đang phát triển. Ông cảnh báo rằng, nếu không có sự can thiệp thì con số này sẽ lên đến 430.000 một năm vào năm 2030. Vắc xin HPV được phát cho các em gái độ tuổi từ 9 đến 13. Nó chỉ có tác dụng trước khi họ bị nhiễm loại vi rút đó. Nếu đã bị nhiễm rồi, thì vi rút đó sẽ gây nên những thay đổi vô cùng nhỏ ở mức độ tế bào. Xét nghiệm kính phết Pap hay xét nghiệm Pap (phương pháp xét nghiệm để sớm phát hiện ung  thư cổ tử cung) có thể phát hiện được những thay đổi đó. Nhưng phương pháp xét nghiệm này không được phổ biến cho phụ nữ ở các nước đang phát triển. Nếu vi rút không được phát hiện, thì bệnh ung thư đó có thể bắt đầu phát triển và lan rộng. Có một số dấu hiệu như chảy máu. Và sau khi bệnh lan rộng, sẽ xuất hiện cơn đau. Vắc xin HPV sẽ được đưa vào một số chương trình trường học ở Lào và 7 quốc gia châu Phi. 7 quốc gia đó là Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone và Tanzania. Bác sỹ Berkley lưu ý rằng những nỗ lực này phải được thực hiện với cả những em gái không được đến trường. Trên đây là chương trình học tiếng Anh của VOA, tôi là Alex Villarreal.

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How to Face Fear by WILL SMITH

“Money and success don’t change people; 

they merely amplify what is already there.” 

Will Smith

“How much is fear play into preventing us from grasping perspective, though?

Oh no! Fear is everything. Yeah, like if there is if there was one concept that I would suggest to people to take a daily confrontation with, it’s fear.

The problem with fear is that it lies, right.

So, fear tells you, “Hey, you know, if you say that to that girl she’s going to know she has you, you know, and she’ll never really be attracted to you if she knows how much you attracted to her. Don’t say that, no! How we get her is when she walks by, ignore her.”

You know, fear tells you dumb shit like that.

Okay, you know.

So, for me, the daily confrontation with fear has become a real practice for me since about three years ago.

I went skydiving in Dubai, right!

As skydiving, skydiving is a really interesting confront with fear, right.

So, I got to stand up.

So, all your friends…

What happens you go out, how you…

Oh sorry, drop my thing…

So, what happens is you go out the night before and you-you know.

You take a drink with your friends and somebody says, “Yeah! We should go skydiving tomorrow.”

And you go, “Yeah, we’ll go skydiving tomorrow.”

Yeah, yeah! Yeah, right?

And you go home by yourself, you like, “hmm…”

You like, “Well, yeah.”

I mean, they were drunk too, right?

So, maybe they not, maybe-maybe, I mean.

We don’t have to go. We don’t have to do it.

So then, that night you’re laying in your bed and you just keep “hmm”

And you’re terrified. You keep imagining over and over again jumping out of an airplane, and you can’t figure out why you would do that, right!

And you’re laying there you have the worst night’s sleep of your life but you still have the hope that your friends were drunk, right.

So, you wake up the next day. You go, you know, down. You say where you were going to meet and everybody’s there.

You’re like, “Oh shit!”

Alright, alright. Cool, cool, cool, cool, right!

So, you get in the van and you don’t know that your friends have the same night that you had cuz they’re pretended like they didn’t it.

Like, “Yeah, man! My uncle’s a Navy SEAL and, you know, this is going to be great. I’ve been looking forward to this.”

You like, “Oh my god! Oh my god!”

And your stomach is terrible. You can’t eat and everything but you don’t want to be the only funk who doesn’t jump out of this airplane.

So, you get there and then you have the safety brief.

And you’re standing there and the guys will tell you what the chute doesn’t open what’s going to happen is, you’re doing…

What…Would…What could happen?

The chute, the chute would open, right?

So, you do a thing and what you do is your first jump you’re attached to a guy who is going, you know, he’s going to walk you out.

So, you go and you get there, and there’s an airplane and nobody’s stopping.

Everybody’s still going.

So, you get onto the airplane and you’re sitting there, and, you know, it’s extra because you’re sitting on some dude’s lap, some stranger you sit on his lap.

And it’s all you know. You got trying to make small talk, “Yeah man!”

So, you-you’ve been jumping with people all the time.

Right.

You know.

So, and then you just want to make sure, “You got, you got kids, right? You got people you need to see, right?”

Just want to make sure he’s serious, right.

So, you get in there.

So, everything’s normal.

So, you fly and you go up, you go up, you go up, you go up to 14,000 feet, and you notice there’s a light: It’s red, and it’s yellow and green.

Right.

So right now, the lights red.

So, then you start thinking at some point the lights going to go green because you don’t know what’s going to happen, right.

And you wait, and it goes yellow, and the light goes green, and somebody opens the door and at that moment, you realize you’ve never been in a freaking airplane with the door open.

Right!

Terror!!!

Oh sorry, I spit…

Oh sorry…

Terror! Terror! Terror! Terror!

Right!

So, you go and then, you know, if you’re, if you were smart you sat in the back, so you don’t go first, right.

And then, people start going out of the airplane, and you go, and the guy walks you up to the end of the thing and you’re standing and your toes are on the edge, and you’re looking out down to death.

And they say, “On three!”

And they say, “One, two…”

And he pushes you on two because people grab on three, right.

And you go…

And you fall out of the airplane and in one second you realize that it’s the most blissful experience of your life.

You’re flying, right.

It doesn’t feel like falling, right.

It’s like that you, actually, are kind of held a little bit by the wind and then, you start, and you

start falling, you falling, and you, there’s zero fear.

You realize that the point of maximum danger is the point of minimum fear.

It’s bliss!

It’s bliss!

And you’re flying….

And you’re doing it…

And then 20 seconds, 25 seconds, 40 seconds, and you have enough time to just kind of like, “Ah! That’s that building I saw that morning…Oh, I can see the ocean…”

Right? You start doing all of that, and the lesson for me was: Why were you scared in your bed the night before

Why did you…what do you need that fear for?

Just don’t go!

Why are you scared in your bed 16 hours before?

You jump?

Why are you scared in the car?

Why could you not enjoy breakfast?

What would…What would you need that?

Fear is…Fear of what?

You’re now where to even near to the airplane.

Everything is up to the stepping out.

There’s actually no reason to be scared!

It only just ruins your day.

You don’t have to jump.

And then, at that moment all of a sudden where you should be terrified is the most blissful experience of your life, and God placed the best things in life on the other side of Terror.

On the other side of your maximum fear or all of the best things in life.

You know, so that was…oh, sorry.

So, that was, yeah, that was, that was my experience with skydiving and fear.

All right, all right.

So, practically speaking…

But, I didn’t like that take, I’m gonna do it again.

Back to the top.

I can sell that better. I can sell that better.

When did you decide to do something like that?

Like, how does it work practically? Do you call your wife and be like, “I might be dead tomorrow.”

Right.

No, but that’s what…

I never…

Just promise…

Yeah, I made a drunk promise, yeah.

How about this, so I jumped I had such a mystical powerful spiritual experience I flew home and got my sons, and I went back and ten days later my son’s jumped.

Right.

Now, that was a little different…

…that makes me spit…

Because I’m scared I’m scared, right.

So, it was one…So, Jayden went first, right. Jayden wants to do everything first.

So, I’m sitting there and I’m like, “Yeah, my sons are going to have this crazy experience.”

And then Jayden went out of the airplane, I was like, “hmm…”

Then my oldest son Trey goes up and he goes out of the airplane, and I was like, “This could potentially be the worst display of African-American parenting in history”.

I was like, both my sons just fell out of an airplane.

Jump…jump, right!

Because I told them to and that…but again the fear again.

I was like, “Oh my god”.

So, I told the dude. I was like, “Listen! I want to see them go out but I also want to see them land.”

And he’s like, “No, it’s cool”.

So, this time we went out and we did the straight bullet.

And I just went straight down, past them, right.

Are you good?

Right.

Did the bullet straight past, pull the chute late…Oh, sorry. It makes me spit…

I’m sorry. I’m sorry.

Pulled the chute late, landed and then video them coming down.

But it was like, they had the same thing, the same experience with the fear but that I’m telling you the confrontation with fear is an absolutely magical way of facing the things we have to do in this life.

You know, forget security live for experience.

So, with that, every morning when I get out of the bed, you know, I haven’t fixed everything in the world yet so there’s always something to do, and in this film, I read an interesting quote…the Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha, he said that “Good people have to get out of the bed every day and try to empty the ocean with a ladle”. Right.

And I thought that was, you know, I knew that was profound and I paused for a second, and I said, “All right, what the hell is a ladle? Right? Right?

So there, you know, I just…I touched it on my iPad, what’s ladle?

Oh! It’s like a big spoon…a big spoon, okay.

Like a soup spoon, yeah.

A soup spoon.

I was like, “Why your soup spoon”.

So, trying to empty the ocean with a soup spoon, you know, as the mentality of how you wake up every day to try to do good in the world.

So, for me I’m…uh…I’m really driven by continually trying to elevate my, elevate my mind and elevate my spirit, and care for my body and to be able to love as many people as effectively as possible with this mystery of life that I’ve been given.

Will Smith