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United Nations World Issues Reflection

#1 Think about the presentations and reflect on the projects your classmates presented and the information you listened to. Explain with details and specific information what you learned, what you found interesting, surprising, or shocking about the presentations you heard in class.

From this presentations, I realized that there were so many things happening in the world. Our topic was Preventing Conflicts and from this, I learned that this was quite a big issues and I think it was very good to know about it. It was surprising that there were lots of wars and that UN had been doing some good works too because I thought it was doing nothing successful. It was also shocking because people have to get injured, killed, or sent out of the country because of these conflicts. The most important thing that I learned from our topic was that it’s very important to prevent them. They can get worse easily and very hard to do it. I think it’s very important to at least think about it.

From other groups’ presentations, I learned about other issues that have been occurring around the world. Something that was very shocking and sad to me was about refugees. In their iMovie presentations, it showed about lots of refugees been sent out of the country and what other countries had done about it. I think it was nice and kind that United States Presidents let some of the refugees to let them come to their country. From all of their pictures, I thought it was such a horrible thing. I didn’t really know about these people so I learned a lot from this.

Another one I learned a lot was about HIV and AID. It was a serious topic which they can’t really prevent the diseases. They come from monkeys or apes and most people from Africa gets them. No curing methods were invented yet and it can slow down but once you get it, you know you’ll have to die one day soon.

The last topic I learned was about Child Soldiers. It’s related to our topic about preventing conflicts. From their presentation, I learned that there are lots of child soldiers around the world, but especially in Africa. One thing that was shocking to me was that dangerous weapons have developed. Lots of child soldiers are been sent because lots of weapons have been easy to carry and use o it’s also possible for small kids (from 7 to 18 years old) to use and have them. They are also forced top buy weapons on their own.

#2 What would you change to improve your project/presentation if you were to do the assignment again?

I would try to organize myself little more and think more carefully. We first decided to do Power Point Presentations because it was the easiest. But at last, we thought we should have done iMovie. I would organize myself more because our Power Point Presentation was so long that people were getting tired and no long paying attention to the presentations. Next time I do these kind of presentations, I would also try to make things more clear so it easy for the audience to understand. I think I was supposed to explain things more ti my group mates because I just gave them a piece of paper and when we were actually presenting, we didn’t know who was really supposed to present the clip. I cared too much only about myself so next time I’d be careful to do things fair in the group.

The United Nations And Reform

The Focus Group Forum Question:

Q: Overall do you fell the U.N is a successful organization? Why or why not. Cite example to support your view.

A: I don’t think U.N. is a successful organization. It is because they have failed so many tasks they were supposed to do and people started to think U.N. is doing nothing. It is organization which is supposed to be helping the world for peace but there are few which they have successfully worked it out. They had perpetuated the political division between North and South Korea. If you look at overall tasks they had done so far, U.N. barely successed at all. Many people are concerned about U.N. and once, U.S. had ignored to listen to U.N. about the plan to make a situations better. Also, U.N. had made the situation worse. Some people want U.N. to play a greater role, while others want to keep it confined to only playing a humanitarian role. Some other people thinks it is ineffective and their countries would be better off not to be a part of it. From all these people’s opinions and work U.N. had actually done, I think U.N. need to improve (also make some changes) and need to be more successful to help the world since I don’t think it is not successful now.