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If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will you #1 (permalink) Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:58 am   If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will you
 

If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will you chose? Use specific reasons to support your answer

Are you aware that corruption in Vietnam our country makes a big huge between the rich and the poor, a problem to create obstacles for the social development and to threaten to the entire political system. In my opinion, if I can change one important thing in my country, I will chose to make a plan to solve this problem. The purpose of this essay is to present ideas to prevent the corruption in Vietnam, which are selection the right people for the right positions, propagating to prop corruption, being determined to fight corruption by specific rules.

For long, our ancestors have said that “Talented and kind-hearted people are nation’s vitality. If the vitality is strong, the nation will be prosperous. If the vitality is weak, the nation will go down.” To avoid corruption, we should chose talented and kind-hearted people for high and important positions. If we chose people who are not talent and not kind-hearted, it means we open chances for developing the corruption. It is very damaging for the society when some people use money to buy positions. This will become one of factors to contribute to corruption. In order to have enough money to buy positions, some people have to do something and continue to corrupt once get certain positions in order to climb to higher positions with more benefits and privileges. In my opinion, to prevent the corruption in Vietnam we should chose the talented and kind-hearted people for right positions.

Propagating to prop corruption is one of important things to prevent this problem. If a child is taught that corruption is a bad thing, I believe he will not do it when he grows up to be an adult. If every one understands that corruption is bad and it will lead the country to go down, he will fight the corruption and stand by people who fight corruption.

Because of corruption, a great amount of money has been taken away which was supposed to be used for healthcare and education. It is very clear that corruption makes our country to be poor and backward. This problem effects to every family and the entire society. If we hope to reduce the corruption to develop our country, we should be determined to fight corruption by specific rules, like giving comments and rewards to people who have done good thing to prop corruption, giving punishment to people who do corruption. By doing and following the specific rules, this will help us to prevent the corruption.

In order to build Vietnam to be equal to strong, rich countries in the world, we should stop the corruption. So if I had a chance to change one important thing in my country, I would like to make a plan to solve the corruption. I believe that by selection the right people for the right positions, propagating to prop corruption, being determined to fight corruption by specific rules, we can reduce the corrupted problem in our country.
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Hi everybody,

Please read my essay and correct my mistakes. Thank you very much. I will appreciate very much any comment or response about my writing.
Have a good day to all of you!

Hoado

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If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will #2 (permalink) Mon Dec 07, 2009 16:54 pm   If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will
 

Hi Hoado
How are you? I have made some suggestions:
Hoado wrote:
in Vietnam( , our country, )makes (a big huge ?)(a gap between)between the rich and the poor, a problem to(that) create obstacles for the social development
and (to threaten to )(influence) the entire political system.

are selection(to select) the right people for the right positions,
(propagating to prop corruption, being determined to fight corruption by specific rules.)???

If we chose(choose) people who are not talent(talented)
it means we open (give somebody the chance) chances
It is very damaging for the society when some people use money to buy positions.
(It is demanding, in your book?)

This will become one of (the) factors to contribute to corruption.
In order to have enough money to buy positions, some people have to do something and continue to corrupt once get certain positions in order to climb to higher positions with more benefits and privileges.

In my opinion,(Don't use one expression twice, there are a lot = from my point of view, from my vantage point, from my perspective, I believe , I suppose , I ponder, I think, )
to prevent the corruption in Vietnam we should chose( If you wanted to use the past tense of choose, it's OK!)

I believe he(he/she) will not do it when he grows up to (??)be an adult.
he will fight (fight against) the corruption

a great amount of money has been taken away which was(is) supposed to be used...

It is very clear that corruption makes our country to be poor and backward. (??)

This problem effects to(affect) every family and the entire society.

So if I had a chance to change one important thing in my country, I would like to make a plan to solve the corruption.( a wrong conditional sentence here)

I believe that by selection(selecting)

What have you meant by (kind-hearted people)? I could not understand If you wanted to use a compound adjective or something?
I have told you once before...! Please Learn how to use (make) in order to denote: cause
TOEFL Test and essay: What is your approach to problem-solving?
make= one of the meanings of make is cause, which you wanted to use:
make+sth+adjective
make something beautiful/difficult/possible/tough/easy...
The invention of the cell-phone has made it possible for people to communicate with each other while walking.
make+sth+superlative adjective
make something the best-worst
you could have used as well (It leads to something)

and what's more : take a look at your profile
you have used a word that doesn't exist:
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If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will #3 (permalink) Wed Dec 09, 2009 0:28 am   If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will
 

Hi Hoado
There are some words which are not exist in English:
Like: the words (i) (english) (the internet)
(i) is a letter in the English alphabet and (I) is a word (pronoun).
i went = I went
english = English
on the internet = on the Internet
Best of luck.
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If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will you #4 (permalink) Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:19 am   If you can change one important thing in your country or your city, what will you
 

Hi Richard,

Goodmorning. How are you today?
Thank you very much for explanation. I will not use (i went), (english, (on the internet) in the future. I will try my best to learn better.

Hoado
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