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    The document provides guidelines for an oral examination involving an oration. Students will perform two speeches, "Blonde and Blue Eyes" for female students and "Wake Up and Live" for male students. They will be evaluated on their presentation style, physical delivery, vocal delivery, clarity of language, mastery of material, costume, and overall presentation. The first speech discusses the Filipino diaspora and argues that leaving one's home country is not abandonment but an extension of identity, as Filipinos contribute skills around the world while still maintaining their national identity. The second speech accuses the audience of neglecting the poor in the Philippines and sleeping on their duties as citizens. It urges them to

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    The document provides guidelines for an oral examination involving an oration. Students will perform two speeches, "Blonde and Blue Eyes" for female students and "Wake Up and Live" for male students. They will be evaluated on their presentation style, physical delivery, vocal delivery, clarity of language, mastery of material, costume, and overall presentation. The first speech discusses the Filipino diaspora and argues that leaving one's home country is not abandonment but an extension of identity, as Filipinos contribute skills around the world while still maintaining their national identity. The second speech accuses the audience of neglecting the poor in the Philippines and sleeping on their duties as citizens. It urges them to

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    The document provides guidelines for an oral examination involving an oration. Students will perform two speeches, "Blonde and Blue Eyes" for female students and "Wake Up and Live" for male students. They will be evaluated on their presentation style, physical delivery, vocal delivery, clarity of language, mastery of material, costume, and overall presentation. The first speech discusses the Filipino diaspora and argues that leaving one's home country is not abandonment but an extension of identity, as Filipinos contribute skills around the world while still maintaining their national identity. The second speech accuses the audience of neglecting the poor in the Philippines and sleeping on their duties as citizens. It urges them to

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    ADVANCED ORAL COMMUNICATION: ORATION (PART 1 of PRELIMINARY

    EXAMINATION)

    Directions. An oration is a memorized, persuasive speech, which attempts to convince,


    inspire, stimulate thinking, or move the listener to action. Given the guidelines for effective
    delivery of an oratorical speech, perform the pieces “Blonde and Blue Eyes” (for the ladies)
    and “Wake Up and Live” (for the gentlemen). The following are your performance
    indicators:

    Presentation Style (Depth of understanding and conviction): 15 points


    Physical Delivery (gestures, platform behavior, eye contact, facial expressions): 10 points
    Vocal Delivery (audibility, rate, quality, pitch, and expressiveness): 10 points
    Clarity and Language Use (pauses, articulation): 5 points
    Mastery: 5 points
    Costume (appropriateness of attire): 5 points
    Over-all Presentation: 10 points
    TOTAL: 60 points

    I. BLONDE AND BLUE EYES by Patricia Evangelista (for the ladies)

    Part 1. When I was little, I wanted what many Filipino children all over the country
    wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed, and white. I thought -- if I just wished hard
    enough and was good enough, I'd wake up on Christmas morning with snow outside my
    window and freckles across my nose!

    More than four centuries under western domination does that to you. I have sixteen
    cousins. In a couple of years, there will just be five of us left in the Philippines, the rest will
    have gone abroad in search of "greener pastures." It's not just an anomaly; it's a trend; the
    Filipino diaspora. Today, about eight million Filipinos are scattered around the world.

    There are those who disapprove of Filipinos who choose to leave. I used to. Maybe this is a
    natural reaction of someone who was left behind, smiling for family pictures that get
    emptier with each succeeding year. Desertion, I called it. My country is a land that has
    perpetually fought for the freedom to be itself.

    Our heroes offered their lives in the struggle against the Spanish, the Japanese, the
    Americans. To pack up and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on that sacrifice.
    Or is it? I don't think so, not anymore. True, there is no denying this phenomenon, aided by
    the fact that what was once the other side of the world is now a twelve-hour plane ride
    away. But this is a borderless world, where no individual can claim to be purely from where
    he is now. My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a quarter Spanish, and I call myself
    a pure Filipino-a hybrid of sorts resulting from a combination of cultures.

    Each square mile anywhere in the world is made up of people of different ethnicities, with
    national identities and individual personalities. Because of this, each square mile is already
    a microcosm of the world.

    In as much as this blessed spot that is England is the world, so is my neighborhood back
    home. Seen this way, the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of dispersal of populations, is not as
    ominous as so many claims.

    Part 2. It must be understood. I come from a Third World country, one that is still trying
    mightily to get back on its feet after many years of dictatorship. But we shall make it, given
    more time. Especially now when we have thousands of eager young minds who graduate
    from college every year. They have skills. They need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.

    A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity, yet one that is not so much
    abandonment but an extension of identity. Even as we take, we give back. We are the
    40,000 skilled nurses who support the UK's National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-
    a-million seafarers manning most of the world's commercial ships.

    We are your software engineers in Ireland, your construction workers in the Middle East,
    your doctors and caregivers in North America, and your musical artists in London's West
    End.

    Nationalism isn't bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new
    nations, yet still remain essentially who they are.

    British society is itself an example of a multi-cultural nation, a melting pot of races,


    religions, arts and cultures. We are, indeed, in a borderless world! Leaving sometimes isn't
    a matter of choice. It's coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire travelled all over
    Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word.

    We call people like these balikbayans or the 'returnees' -- those who followed their dream
    yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune. From where I am
    standing now, I can almost hear the lines, “Chase your dreams but always know the road
    that will lead you home again”.

    In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will
    come home. A borderless world doesn't preclude the idea of a home. I'm a Filipino, and I'll
    always be one. It isn't about just geography; it isn't about boundaries. It's about giving back
    to the country that shaped me.
    And that's going to be more important to me than seeing snow outside my windows on a
    bright Christmas morning.

    II. WAKE UP AND LIVE (for the gentlemen)

    Part 1. The welfare of the people is the Supreme Law. So goes a time-honored maxim in
    legal jurisprudence.

    This gem of thought is uppermost in my mind as I stand before you today- a typical Filipino
    teenager of this so-called computer age. Given a choice, I would rather talk of parties and
    movies and the girl next door. Or thrill you with an exhibition of the latest dance steps or
    discuss the latest news or sports.

    But there are times when an immature teenager like me should take stock of his
    environment and voice his own sentiments for the welfare of the people. These is one of
    those rare times.

    Ladies and gentlemen, you are all looking very elegant today. I could see that you are
    among the well-to-do, the fortunate, even the rich. But have you ever tried to visit the slum
    areas and witness their run-down conditions? Those places stink. And the persons living
    there, wallowing in poverty and ignorance have only their souls to identify them as human
    beings. They are Filipinos, too- harbingers of this glorious Pearl of the Orient Seas. Yet,
    what are you doing for them? You who enjoy the blessings of a democracy and the
    advantages of higher learning?

    I accuse you of abandoning the poor and the miserable. I accuse you of neglecting your less
    fortunate countrymen. I accuse you of sleeping on your obligations as a citizen.

    Part 2. I accuse you of want of civic spirit, without which a community will not grow and its
    people cannot enjoy the luxury of peace and a measure of happiness. In accusing you, I am
    accusing myself, too, because I am part of you.

    But there must be a good Samaritan in every one of us. For of what use are our riches if
    others wallow in poverty? What is the use of power and fame, if many of our brothers and
    sisters live like beasts of burden? What price your diploma if a sheepskin, ladies, and
    gentlemen, if countless others do not know how to read and write?

    Yes, the answer to community development is self-help. Give the best of yourself to the
    solution of myriad problems confronting young people. Educate them. Lead them. Help
    them. For God helps those who help themselves.
    If you do this, there shall one day rise a great nation where people are peaceful and
    contented because they have enough to eat; where surroundings are clean and beautiful,
    where factories hum with the tempo of progress, where there is no social caste; and the
    laborer can look up to anyone with dignity, where every Filipino lives beneath the shelter
    of happy homes.

    Fellow citizens, do not sleep on your duties. Wake up and live!

    Prepared by: Mrs. Lysel I. Haloc

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