I came on this trip knowing a few people from class, such as Anne, Keaton, Jonathan. However, not really knowing much about their lifestyles and what they like. I will be leaving knowing significantly more, from the rest of my UR group to the INEMA students. In this short time I have learned that…. Grainne has
As we considered our values today, some of our conversation afterwards steered in a direction of our job obligations and life circumstances dictating what our values were. For example, needing money equating to working hard and rather than understanding what we feel and desire being our values. I believe if our desires matched our jobs
When I was studying International Business as an undergraduate student, I remember a student from Argentina in one of my comparative government classes who was taught that it is sometimes useful to compare the lifespan of a country to that of a human. In the infancy stage, the country might be compared to
I would like to shout out Kate, Andrew, Tom , and my group. You all have been remarkable thus far on this trip. You all have tried to accommodate me, check up on me daily to see if I am feeling better. Keaton volunteered to let me ride on her back and Kate volunteered Tom.
I have been to number of countries, but I am extremely excited about traveling to Germany. I have participated in two study abroad opportunities in undergrad, in which I traveled to Brazil and Italy. However, neither one of them took on a topic as influential as migration and we didn’t have formal class meetings to
The world has seen racism in the form of slavery, police brutality or brutality on police, racial slurs, violence on neighbors, etc. It has always been a sensitive topic to discuss. Great leaders fought for everyone to be treated equally and now their fight seems to be taken in vein. Racism once was disguised
How do I get my people to do what they are supposed to be? This is a question asked by many leaders. According to Jeb Blount, these are the 5 core behavior patterns necessary for building trusting relationships between your employees. Blount believes that leadership skills are learned behaviors. The following behavior patterns are learned
During excursion day, my INEMA partner’s focus was on how our organization helped refugees. While we experienced some cultural differences towards how the organization ran their advocacy programs, we agreed that one of the most important parts of helping refugees was forming a sense of community within their populations. Yes, of course economic assistance and
Globalization. Good? Bad? Ugly? the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. As we consider the pros, cons, and consequences of globalization below Simon Anholt speaks about countries that are not only considering their international impact on the world but also managing to build their
Today’s lesson really stuck with me, as it did with the other Education people I believe. One of the other classes I am also in right now is Classroom Behavior Management and one of our tasks was to observe professional educators’ management styles. I enjoyed Chris’ style, as I’m sure his students do, too; Chris
