Model United Nations
The Model United Nations is a conference that is held for students to talk about the most dire problems that are occurring in the world but it originated with the UN. The UN is a branch of the government that deals with international crises. They help out the people who are signed to the treaty by protecting any threats that may interfere with their citizens or their well being in general. The UN has helped countries with many things like famine and gender equality but they have also done some awful things like not sleeping in on civil wars that kill thousands. Overall they have done a lot but it depends on the opinion of everyone. Some countries have still decided that they do not want to be in the treaty so they are just by standards but most of these countries are very small. They formed the UN after World War II in hopes that they would prevent such tragedy in the future. They started off with 51 countries with Russia, UK, France, China and the United States but now they have 193 countries allied with the treaty. The UN’s first conference was on Jan 10, 1946, but did not have a conference about climate change until 2005. Our class held our own conference on climate change and refugees. I was Russia and that meant I had to research a lot on my country and what they actually believe in. During the conferences, it was very hard to agree with what people were proposing because Russia is very stuck in their ways and doesn't want to change much.
The most challenging part of this exhibition was not any of the work but the conference itself because it was really hard to remember the language you're supposed to speak in. Most of the conference I wanted to comment but it was really hard to rephrase what you wanted to say into polypro or come up with the right way to begin speaking in the first place and by the time you would figure it out the next thing would start happening. I also think it was hard for everyone to be serious because it was really easy to start talking about something else and everything is funny in high school so we could have been more serious. If I were to do this project again I would definitely change the amount of practice time we got for the actual seminar. I didn’t think that the seminar was as professional as it could have been so I think we should have had more practice MUN’s. The part of this project I am most proud of is writing the policy papers. I was really proud of this because I felt confident and I felt like it made sense which is hard for me to do when it's actually fact-based. I felt like my writing was in depth and I related it back to Russia well. This project was very fun and informational and I believe that this project taught me things that I could use in my future like public speaking and professional language. In the end, I think that this project was very helpful but I also agree that we should have more time to really go in depth with everything.
In this project, my perspective on climate change and refugees changed a lot. At first, I didn’t really have a good understanding that there are things that are changing in the world and not really in a good way. I realized that for the last 60 years or so things have been changing greatly some in good ways but also some in bad ways, people are just really good at covering it up. Yes, the topic of refugees is confusing and is hard to deal with but climate change should be a no-brainer. That’s what I learned from this project. We actually have to do something about climate change because countries could actually sink. The biggest thing that I will take away from this that is not climate change or refugees itself but the skills I learned during this project. In the future, I could apply this project to many parts of my life. Not just speaking in a professional way but also making sure to know the facts about what I’m saying and explain it in a perspective that true to me and not anyone else. In the project, I did not agree with Russia's perspective really ever but it taught me to stick with what they thought and I think that this was important because it showed me that I could stick to one thing and not very my (Russia's) opinion. In general, this project was very fun and it taught me a lot of really cool things and maybe that will inspire me and a many more to try and speak out about the things that are happening in the world at the moment and in the future.
The most challenging part of this exhibition was not any of the work but the conference itself because it was really hard to remember the language you're supposed to speak in. Most of the conference I wanted to comment but it was really hard to rephrase what you wanted to say into polypro or come up with the right way to begin speaking in the first place and by the time you would figure it out the next thing would start happening. I also think it was hard for everyone to be serious because it was really easy to start talking about something else and everything is funny in high school so we could have been more serious. If I were to do this project again I would definitely change the amount of practice time we got for the actual seminar. I didn’t think that the seminar was as professional as it could have been so I think we should have had more practice MUN’s. The part of this project I am most proud of is writing the policy papers. I was really proud of this because I felt confident and I felt like it made sense which is hard for me to do when it's actually fact-based. I felt like my writing was in depth and I related it back to Russia well. This project was very fun and informational and I believe that this project taught me things that I could use in my future like public speaking and professional language. In the end, I think that this project was very helpful but I also agree that we should have more time to really go in depth with everything.
In this project, my perspective on climate change and refugees changed a lot. At first, I didn’t really have a good understanding that there are things that are changing in the world and not really in a good way. I realized that for the last 60 years or so things have been changing greatly some in good ways but also some in bad ways, people are just really good at covering it up. Yes, the topic of refugees is confusing and is hard to deal with but climate change should be a no-brainer. That’s what I learned from this project. We actually have to do something about climate change because countries could actually sink. The biggest thing that I will take away from this that is not climate change or refugees itself but the skills I learned during this project. In the future, I could apply this project to many parts of my life. Not just speaking in a professional way but also making sure to know the facts about what I’m saying and explain it in a perspective that true to me and not anyone else. In the project, I did not agree with Russia's perspective really ever but it taught me to stick with what they thought and I think that this was important because it showed me that I could stick to one thing and not very my (Russia's) opinion. In general, this project was very fun and it taught me a lot of really cool things and maybe that will inspire me and a many more to try and speak out about the things that are happening in the world at the moment and in the future.