Refugees are yet another side affect of disasters or wars that we still have a hard time dealing with. What’s sad is that we have the technology to help a lot of these people but lack the funding to do so. The book made a valid argument about how education can work to favor a child experiencing a disaster. These kids may have lost their parents and other relatives and now live far from the comforts of their familiar homes. Essentially, every comfort from their previous lives is deprived. Education is a regular activity that can very easily pull your mind out of reality and apply your knowledge to essential lessons. I think with these refugee situations, it is most important to prevent these people from being bored and thinking about the life they once had. Education is one thing, but there are other cheaper alternatives like television, musical instruments donated from overseas sponsors, other toys. All of these items provide an entertainment value and would prove useful in involving the kids away from their reality.
Over Thanksgiving break my mom and I had a very interesting conversation about future job opportunity because that particular subject has a tendency to give me a healthy dose of anxiety, especially because I’m getting an art degree at a University of highly intellectual academic types. Most people who aren’t involved in the arts have little understanding about the many ways art and design is integrated into many different fields, from medical and scientific illustration to industrial design to different methods of therapy. And still I fall victim to the notion that by majoring in Art I am subjecting myself to a life of poverty and isolation. This pressure is completely self inflicted and my parents have never made me feel inadequate because of my choice to study art and in fact have been nothing but supportive in my decision and yet I still suffer from these concerns. After I explained this to my mom she told me about an NPR interview she’d heard with an economist a few days prior. In the interview, the economist discussed one of many generational differences between my contemporaries and the baby boomers. My parent’s generation found the most successful work to be with large companies, in offices and institutions, however many recent college students and graduates reject the idea of working in an office or in one setting for a long period of time and feel limited by our parents’ generation’s definition of “success”, the model no longer works for us. The economist spoke about the importance of small entrepreneurial work that stems from mutual interests, different skills and collaboration. This idea resonated much more positively with me. This section of World Changing briefly gave an introductory overview of the process of starting a business. There are a lot of things wrong with how our society functions right now which in one respect is good because it means there is a lot to change. And the more change that needs to be made translates into jobs that can be created. The jobs will require a great deal more creativity, openness, and flexibility but that model seems to fit the interests of my generation more so than the former.
Refugees are yet another side affect of disasters or wars that we still have a hard time dealing with. What’s sad is that we have the technology to help a lot of these people but lack the funding to do so. The book made a valid argument about how education can work to favor a child experiencing a disaster. These kids may have lost their parents and other relatives and now live far from the comforts of their familiar homes. Essentially, every comfort from their previous lives is deprived. Education is a regular activity that can very easily pull your mind out of reality and apply your knowledge to essential lessons. I think with these refugee situations, it is most important to prevent these people from being bored and thinking about the life they once had. Education is one thing, but there are other cheaper alternatives like television, musical instruments donated from overseas sponsors, other toys. All of these items provide an entertainment value and would prove useful in involving the kids away from their reality.
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ReplyDeleteOver Thanksgiving break my mom and I had a very interesting conversation about future job opportunity because that particular subject has a tendency to give me a healthy dose of anxiety, especially because I’m getting an art degree at a University of highly intellectual academic types. Most people who aren’t involved in the arts have little understanding about the many ways art and design is integrated into many different fields, from medical and scientific illustration to industrial design to different methods of therapy. And still I fall victim to the notion that by majoring in Art I am subjecting myself to a life of poverty and isolation. This pressure is completely self inflicted and my parents have never made me feel inadequate because of my choice to study art and in fact have been nothing but supportive in my decision and yet I still suffer from these concerns. After I explained this to my mom she told me about an NPR interview she’d heard with an economist a few days prior. In the interview, the economist discussed one of many generational differences between my contemporaries and the baby boomers. My parent’s generation found the most successful work to be with large companies, in offices and institutions, however many recent college students and graduates reject the idea of working in an office or in one setting for a long period of time and feel limited by our parents’ generation’s definition of “success”, the model no longer works for us. The economist spoke about the importance of small entrepreneurial work that stems from mutual interests, different skills and collaboration. This idea resonated much more positively with me. This section of World Changing briefly gave an introductory overview of the process of starting a business. There are a lot of things wrong with how our society functions right now which in one respect is good because it means there is a lot to change. And the more change that needs to be made translates into jobs that can be created. The jobs will require a great deal more creativity, openness, and flexibility but that model seems to fit the interests of my generation more so than the former.