Posted How I Live to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
Before I jump into this South Africa trip, I feel I need to lay foundation on my mind-set and where it began. I took a Global Seminar to Mexico last year, same time and everything (shout out to Mark Bellcourt). The focus was on how tourism is effecting the environment. As my environmental justice side was sharpened, my social justice side was waking up. I was introduced to small villages surrounded by garbage, self-made homes with limited resources, extreme poverty, but across the street are these resorts and mansions resting on the beach front. These conditions parallel to those...
Posted Life Lessons at the Soup Kitchen to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
Yesterday a group of 4 of us had the opportunity to experience the views of a 60 years old couple that had been married for 39 years and had close to 30 grandchildren. We first heard from the man who was a leader of a mosque in Delft. We were there to work in the soup kitchen for a couple of hours, but instead, we were schooled with knowledge about life, relationships and the Islamic faith in a township in Cape Town South Africa. The man started his informal lecture with historic information about his family's ownership of land....
Posted Anthony Shields to Maya Riviera 2009/2010
Whats up! I am a freshman here at the U of M in the college of Education and Human Development, but might transfer to CLA. I am undecided on a major. It jumped around from political science, sports studies, and...
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