Emotional intelligence reflection

The skills that I said that I admired in other people are

Self-awareness – They can recognise their own emotions and therefore have a better understanding of others 

Social awareness – they are able to empathise with others and always seem to understand the situation 

Relationship management – Is able to easily make good relationships with a lot of people even if they don’t immediately get along

 

And I think that these are the key factors for having a high EQ I know for a fact that I can improve in all these areas but, I think the main one that I struggle the most with is my relationship management. Relationship management is getting along with people even if you share nothing in common, you know they will never be your best friends but it is important to have a lot of people in your life that you can get along with. Something that I do that I dont like is

Ads connecting to cultural backgrounds

Ads connecting to cultural backgrounds

Targeting USA because of the spelling of mum and the people receiving this ad would have to be familiar with the custom of mothers packing sandwiches for a school lunch. This is very much a stereotyped ad because it is making the assumption ot is always the mother that packes the school lunches. What I think this ad is saying is that this kids mum made some sandwiches then wrapped them in mcdonalds wrapping as an attempt to make it more appealing. This ad is not so much playing on the values of the american culture and more just the stereotypes that mothers pack the school lunches and mcdonalds can make better food

 

This is an ad very directed at a norwegian culture, Mcdonalds made a billboard with real carrots growing in it as an attempt to make them seem like a more healthier option- that would better appeal to the norwegian culture. For McDonalds to sell well in other countries they need to drastically change the image of being fatty fast food, most norwegians would be more intrested in healthier foods so mcdonalds is trying to change the way that they are seen by doing stuff like this

Circus with the local community

This service post is about commitment and collaboration

Last year I signed up for Circus with the local community as my service for FIB I found that I enjoyed it and it also really challenged me. I know that this is a big commitment to to stick with it for the whole year. This is also a lot of collaboration because in circus performances you have to be really connected with your group for the whole performance to make it run smoothly

Can Texts Ever Truly represent groups of people

Can Texts Ever Truly represent groups of people?

When you have a text written by an individual about a larger group of people it is always very hard for that person to gather enough data and opinions so that it is an accurate and fair representation of people. For example, crazy rich Asians was a text written by a few people attempting to represent the larger culture of Singapore. It ended up just being a representation of the majority of Singapore (the Chinese Singaporean) and there was little to no representation of the Indian and Malay population in Singapore. I think that the best way to write a text that that represents a larger group is to gather a lot of peoples opinions from all aspects of the group and to make sure that everyone has a voice in the text. In different forms, this has been discussed a lot in class. Something else that we talked about in class is that, is it the responsibility of the minorities to write about the minorities? And I think that this helps to correctly represent the group of people if the writer, or group of writers is from that culture. But even then each person has their personal view which will always come out in the text, which is why i beleive that the only solution to this is for it to be written by a number of people not just the individual

Drama Exam Reflection

Monologues

  • A chosen individual performance piece to the rest of the class
  • A scripted piece
  • 3-5 minutes

Building up to the performance I was quite scared because I have not done drama before I had never done anything like this before and I didn’t know what to expect, but when I actually performed I felt a lot better about it. Afterwards, there was such a feeling of relief that it was over and we had all made it.

I learnt a lot from the monologues, mostly just about how to block and perform a piece of drama, This was my first scripted piece if drama that I have done so I haven’t tried to remember lines before either, I eventually got there and I think that I got them all right in the actual performance.

Individual Report Reflection

Sustainability is when something is able to keep on going without altering the natural ecological balance. The concept of being sustainable for the planet is that we will get to a stage that the amount of energy and water and C02 that we are producing will not accumulate and will be the same now as it is in the foreseeable future. For a community to truly be sustainable it would have to completely rely on renewable energy sources and not use any coal gas e.t.c. The inherent problem with this is that the wind dies and the sun sets so the levels of energy would be constantly fluctuating. Currently, we do not have a battery big enough to store this energy but companies like Tesla are working on it with their new super battery in Australia.

 

My absolute number one factor for my own ecological footprint is flying, so much so, that on the footprint calculator when I didn’t put in flying I was using 0.6 earths but when flying was calculated in it went up to 2.2! I think that my second biggest is probably what I eat, although I very rarely eat beef I eat a lot of chicken and fish which are both also taking up some land area and producing C02 emissions

 

 

Flying has a big environmental impact mostly because of the amount of non-renewable fuel it uses, although nowadays, depending on what car you have, it is not that much worse than driving (especially if your car is not at full seating capacity). As for my food land usage, a few years ago when I first started thinking about my sustainability and carbon footprint, the first thing I did was swap out the beef for chicken and fish. I never had much beef but all types of farming (especially cattle) are very resource intensive. There is always energy lost when you have to use the land to farm crops for the cows to eat for you to then eat the cow, in that process, there will always be a lot of food wastage. Due to this beef requires 28 times more land to produce than pork or chicken (Carrington). I am still consuming butter, cheese and milk but because cows are able to produce far more of this than milk there is a lot less environmental effect.

 

Most of the time I fly I am going back to Australia for holidays to see family so I don’t really think I will stop flying but there are ways to make it more sustainable. I will try to take non stop flights because there is a lot of fuel usage in landing and take off. For flights under 300 miles, I will consider if I can take a car, bus or train depending on the situation, I will think about the amount of weight that I am taking in luggage onto the plane because any extra weight that is used will be decreasing the fuel efficiency, I know that there are also carbon offset programs but I am not sure I would ever actually spend that much but it will be something that I am considering. As I mentioned I have stopped eating beef but I am still drinking milk and eating cheese and butter, I will consider reducing these but I am not sure how much I will be able to. When I next need a toothbrush, soap or other toiletries I will buy from here this will reduce packaging and minimise waste. If I was to only make one change it would definitely be the flying and all the points I mentioned above

 

 

Heslop, D. Alan. “Political System.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 17 Mar. 2017, www.britannica.com/topic/political-system/Stable-political-systems.

 

Weise, Elizabeth. “Flying Is Bad for the Environment, Here Are Some Tips to Make It Less Carbon-Intensive.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 27 Dec. 2018, www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/26/flying-bad-environment-heres-what-do/2350488002/.

 

Carrington, Damian. “Giving up Beef Will Reduce Carbon Footprint More than Cars, Says Expert.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 21 July 2014,

Sustainability Project Final Reflection

During this project, the most challenging thing for me was that Ms Veron is already very sustainable, so I have had to be creative in finding all of the little things that can we can change in our lives. When it is all added together can make a big impact on the world. We took an even closer look to see the small things that we can change. We decided on looking at toiletries in particular and all of the packaging that usually comes with it, we found you can buy shampoo in a bar and use a wooden toothbrush and just replace the head. There is also a company that sells deodorant and you can send the bottles back to be reused. I really enjoyed coming up for these solutions for Ms Veron and then changing altering them for me to try in my routine as well. I have started to think about the length of my showers and trying to minimise packaging