Presentations Analysis
TA: Jeff Montague
Sec# 3
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDs, Malaria and other disease.
They started their presentation with an activity that evolve the whole class, under each disk we found a small piece of paper with a shape on it we were to write our names on the paper and exchange it with some one else with different shape than ours, they suppose to draw their shapes on my piece of paper and at the end we should have one from each shape. One of the shapes was indicating that you are invited with HIV and after the exchange all the class except few were invited with HIV. This is to illustrate how fast it could spread. With a diagram they illustrated what happens exactly in the human body when someone get invited with HIV. The diagram was simple and in the same time gets the points across. Later they tell the story and the struggle of real people who are HIV positive.
My only critique is that I was expecting them to talk about the scientific progress on finding a remedy for HIV. I once read about group of people live I northern Europe who were immune to HIV, I was expecting them to cover those special cases and their role to a probably a final solution to this Disease.
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.
The presentation was focusing in women in the Middle East and the struggles they have to achieve gender equality. Each member in the group covered a specific topic related to this issue. They talked about women in Iran and how they suffered consequences just for going on a protest on streets. They over all are saying that women in the Middle East suffer from gender inequalities. I want to comment on a particular part of the presentation, when one of the girls in the group started by saying that women in the Middle East doesn’t have many rights and she went further more and said “Or they don’t have rights at all�. I think that she was not supposed to say random generalizations like this. They were supposed to do an educated research and then argue accordingly. She either supports her argument or she shouldn’t tell the class this kind of thing as a fact. For me this kind of statements lessen from the credibility of their research.