Liberalism ideologies have been accepted and implemented in many states especially after World War 2 because it often leads to free trade, unity in diversity, protection of individual rights and a peaceful world. However, there is a argument that liberalism is in retreat, considering the recent occurrences such as the election of Trump or Brexit. […]
Month: October 2017
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Hula dance – accomplishments and challenges –
https://youtu.be/t6VEigVM_iU LO1 : Identify own strengths and develop areas of personal growth LO4 : Show commitment to and perseverance in your CAS experience LO5 : Demonstrate the skills and recognise the benefits of working collaboratively
TOK Arts Day
Today was the TOK arts day and looked at art from a very critical point of view. In the morning, the whole grade separated into groups of ten to discuss whether given art pieces should be banned or not. These discussions were very interesting because everyone’s argument differed depending on the person’s cultural/personal background. Many […]
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MUN@UWCSEA 2017
From October 6th to 8th, there was a MUN conference held in UWCSEA East, and I attended as a delegate of Iraq in the Legal Committee. I focused on the topic of economic migrants and refugees because Iraq has been accepting refugees from Syria since the Syrian crisis and Iraq itself has more than 2.5million […]
How NOT to Procrastinate – PSE presentation
This morning, Jiayi and I did a presentation to my mentor class with the topic of, “how NOT to procrastinate”. This was related to the PSE learning, and several students from my mentor class volunteered to conduct a presentation and present regards to the topic. Jiayi and I made a google slides, and started by […]
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7 Analysis of Collaboration Skills – TEDx
On October 2nd, in TEDx, we jotted down about collaboration skills on seven different post-its with the prompt questions provided with the headings of, substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate and reverse. This activity made me reflect on my collaboration skills, as well as what I should do in order to improve […]
Visiting PPIS Nursery
On 29th of September, I went to visit the kids who attend to the day care through PPIS, who we will be interacting with for the upcoming year every Friday after school. We divided our group into half, one to ask questions to the teachers of the day care, and the other to interact with […]