Over the course of this year I have learned many things in Global Education (Language Arts) the first was learning about the life of an aboriginal boy close to my age. I learned how they must travel across the land of Australia from one side to the other to get to the river and manhood. If they don’t they die. I also learned about the capturing of Aboriginal children, and how they were mistreated, even though the Europeans thought that they were doing the right thing. It showed me how when you are taught one thing that you truly believe it is right (like the movie I’m Normal you’re Weird).
I also got to see the tragic of the Rwandan Genocide from the view of Paul Rusesabagina. I viewed how even a Hutu man with plenty of connections could get caught in a world of trouble during the Genocide. The Hotel Rwanda showed me how influencing a radio station can be (MRND) and how terrible things can get if no one can stop a group of extremist like the Interahamwe. One of the major things that I learned in the movie was how dysfunctional the United Nations is, and how passive a lot of countries really are when another is in a crisis.
My favorite thing that I learned so far this year was when we did a Mock United Nations practice in class. There I learned how much patience you have to have to be on a committee of that sort, and how frustrating it can be when you can’t speak.
Another crucial thing I learned was the importance of more than one point of view. In discussions I would always go into believing what I thought was right. However when you hear what others have to say it persuades you to change your mind. I learned that more perspectives make the whole situation make much more sense.
The big thing I learned was about power, and how big it is. Everybody wants power, and doesn’t want to give it up. It was in the Rwandan Genocide, it was in the Apartheid in South Africa. In almost every single thing we looked you can find a struggle for power and it showed me how No matter what might be right, whoever is in power decides what goes on.
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