ER GCE Portfolio

This week in our 'SDG's and you' class where we learned about issues without borders and how many of these issues encompassed by the SDGs are issues that have worldwide repercussions and are not limited by borders. We also learned a lot about fair trade and cooperation. We even went to a fairtrade pop-up shop where we saw tons of amazing handmade products that were made by people who were getting paid fair wages under a fair wage co-op. To put this all together we wrote an essay on any SDG of our choice about  how people and organizations are working to address this SDG. I chose SDG 6 because I feel like access to water is so important yet compared to the other SDG's it seems like it's taken as less important. Working together to Water the World       According to the UN between 1970 and 2015 natural wetland shrank by 35% which is 3 times the rate of forest loss, additionally, in 2014, the entire eastern lobe of the South Aral Sea had completely dried up and dis...

     This week (10/22/21) in our humanities class, 'Sustainable Development goals and You'. We learned about Gender Equality and more specifically what gender is. We explored the gay rights movement and the women's suffrage movement. We saw how discrimination for gender or sexual identity badly affects things like safety and access to quality medical treatment. To see this in a different light we took a field experience to Andersonville to meet H-Melt and Molly who are activists for the gay rights movement. Molly created a mural in Andersonville that displayed what an abolitionist feminist world would be like, and H-melt helped as a consultant for Molly's art. This experience gave me a great opportunity to ask questions on Abolitionist Feminism. To put this all together we created a comparative essay to see how different countries are working on gender equality. Eyten, Ted. " Virginia Delegate Danica Roem speaking at the Victory F...

   Pantoja, Julia." Children attend school near Manaus " 2008      In our class 'SDGs and you' which teaches about various goals set out to help guide humanity to a better future. We have been learning about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This course taught us about a way in which our needs can be organized by how immediately vital they are to a person starting with physiological needs such as food and water and ending with find self-actualization and a sense of realization of your potentials as a person. In addition to this, we learned about the importance of foreign aid which includes what foreign aid is and the different ways its provided such as developmental aid and humanitarian aid which differ by the nature and scale of the issues they tackle. While humanitarian aid helps tackle things like providing education to deprived peoples or helping during emergencies, whereas developmental aid is geared towards building infrastructure. To help us better understand ...