If I could change the world I would create a program that made going abroad easier and more attractive for college-aged people.
I’m a kinesthetic learner. I have to touch, feel, and otherwise experience something before it takes up gray matter. Classes with a lecture portion and a lab never made much sense to me. Why suffer through an hour trying to remain still?
Tomorrow is lab day, and in lab you get to do something instead of hearing about things other people have done. History class was particularly painful. It was an overload of dates and names and events that meant absolutely nothing to me. It all seemed very random - until, that is, I began to travel.
While Oklahoma has a rich past of its own, it is a blip on the sonar of history and world affairs. An epiphany that stands out in my mind is my family vacation to the Northeast. The Freedom Trail — an historic walk through Boston — changed my world. Suddenly, all the dreary speeches on the Revolution were cast into a sharp light.
History was only a part of the trip. I also got to live in a Northern harbor city for a few days, a culture vastly different from my suburban plains. Traveling gave me the chance to see, touch, and experience everything I’d learned about in a way that meant something to me.
The road trips of my youth were contained to the United States. Think of all the culture and history I could absorb abroad! The youth of America is often harangued for their ignorance in foreign affairs. Our being content to never venture beyond Canada and Mexico is contemptible.
The world is shrinking; today there are few transactions that aren’t international. Do you only see the “Made in China” sticker or do you wonder what life is like in a country that can mass-produce almost anything? “Laissez-Faire” isn’t just some economic theory - its French! Do you know what it really means? It’s time we, as the new generation of young adults, thought about what else (and who else) is out there.
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1 - business
Nice way of changing the world. If I were to change it I will make the education free and the government officials that are corrupt will be arrested immediately. I will also give enough recognition and support to the inventions of the new inventors. Well I don't think its much changing because if only our leaders are this good it will be a better place. They should become servant-leaders not leaders for power.
2 - M.J
if i could change the world this is what i would do:
i will sing a song called heal the world.
this is the main part of the song:
heal the world make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race.there are people dying if you care enough for the living,make a little space, make it a better place.
3 - company formation philippines
nice way of changing the world...
for me? if i can change the world...
i better make the world as it was before...
when the time man was created by the God...
no pollutions... no criminals... but only the beautiful creation that God made for us to live with... but in that changes... the thing that i wont change is the people who wearing their dress... it wont look nice if you saw a naked person walking anywhere right?
4 - Cindy
lol, that is amusing