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Year in Review
[ “Year in Review” is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student. You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
G.O.A.L.S.
[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.
Global Awareness: Students cultivate and develop their appreciation for diversity and each individual’s unique differences. For example, consider course work, study abroad, involvement in cultural organizations or activities, etc .
Original Inquiry: Honors & Scholars students understand the research process by engaging in experiences ranging from in-class scholarly endeavors to creative inquiry projects to independent experiences with top researchers across campus and in the global community. For example, consider research, creative productions or performances, advanced course work, etc.
Academic Enrichment: Honors & Scholars students pursue academic excellence through rigorous curricular experiences beyond the university norm both in and out of the classroom.
Leadership Development: Honors & Scholars students develop leadership skills that can be demonstrated in the classroom, in the community, in their co-curricular activities, and in their future roles in society.
Service Engagement: Honors & Scholars students commit to service to the community.]
Career
[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career. Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
Link to Millenium Goals Power Point: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10HcDB8M8GmInK0wY_OMFFgjQ3WabMeENJ5XnMt4lw2E/edit#slide=id.p
Our UN Millennium Goal was Global Partnership for Development. The highlights of this goal include enabling developing countries to grow economically, trade within and with each other, establish a stable economy, and access technology and healthcare. For our region of specification, we chose Central America. Within Central America, it’s a very diverse population of indigenous, Spanish, caucasian, and black descendants. Central Americans are often afflicted by extreme poverty: immigrants, women, youth, and indigenous people in particular. In addition to extreme poverty, violence is a huge presence with many of the people due to unstable and corrupt governments and drug related violence. Another issue in Central America is wealth disparities and inequalities, migration to developed countries, and decline in GDP.
While Central America and its developing countries are hit hard with many hindrances, the UN proposes many ways to solve these issues. First, attention and aid must be prioritized to countries and communities that are the least developed, rather than the more developed countries. Priority aid must also be given to countries that are landlocked, islands, or countries that have little means of transportation and infrastructure. In addition, the UN proposes that partnership with pharmaceutical companies is essential. Here, undeveloped countries could gain access to medicine, surgeries, vaccinations, and treatment that’s needed. Also, partnership with technology companies is very important. People who live in undeveloped countries need web and cellular access for education and to be linked to the rest of the world. Finally, the aid that’s given to these countries needs to be closely monitored to prevent misallocation and corruption. So far, much progress has been made in development. Cellular and web use has dramatically increased along with the number of internet users as well as broadband use. In conclusion, this project has been especially enlightening on the efforts and goals in development.