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Lauren Hines, is a real estate agent and active learner at Murray, who advocates for traveling and learning languages around the world teaches this class and provides students with information such that the world is more than it may seem but less than they may think.
During Tuesday’s meeting students emphasized how population in different countries affects voting, healthcare, and relations with other countries. Countries such as Somalia have frail relations with other countries making it harder for citizens to migrate or receive imports compared to the United States who has many allies with other countries allowing Americans to easily travel and trade. According to Lauren these economic differences can have an everlasting impact for countries such as Somalia, in order to support everyone, everywhere it is crucial to study these relations. During my visit, I learned how population can have a huge impact on a role of a country such as countries with recently increasing populations have less voters than countries with declining populations with more voters.
The International Relations focus area is more than just public affairs around the world, this class explores many issues around the world, including reviewing and proposing topics to prepare for a simulation of the United Nations.
To recognize these differences and relations in our world students are each assigned a country to research and to propose topics to be discussed by the international community. Each scholar can choose a topic that their country would be interested in bringing to the UN Security Council to discuss and vote on resolutions during the final week of GSP. By doing this project students are able to learn the different things going on in our world that they may have not been aware of before.
The class discussed and provided information from Factfulness by Hans Rosling which examines the instinctive ways that we think about the world and why we should use facts and data to understand that things are often much better than we think. “The world may seem worse than it is,” this is an important quote according to scholars in the international relations class, while being in the class for two weeks students have discussed the conditions of the world and how most of them think the state of our globe is much worse than it actually is, learning their surroundings has helped them create a building block for their upcoming project.
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