Model United Nations
North Korea Policy Paper
Model United Nations: North Korea Conflict
Mid Project Reflection:
What has been most challenging about this project? Why?
In this project I was assigned the country, India. At first I wasn’t very excited about getting this country. I felt I would have been happy with any other country except India since I had already done two other projects before this about India. So I already had a negative outlook on the entire project and started to procrastinate. However, when I started to do the work I found that I didn’t have enough time to do the research and I had a hard time finding information and then writing about it. I also found it challenging to view everything through the opinion of my country instead of my own opinion.
What challenges have you overcome? Why?
Eventually, once the research part was over I found it easier to get rid of my childish mind set and just do the work. I still procrastinated, but not as much. Despite all of my procrastination I did get all the work done, even if i forgot to turn it in. I finished it and once I knew more about my country and their opinion on the problem it was easier to view things through India’s prospective.
What are you most proud of at this point?
I am most proud of my policy paper because I believe that It was very good and well formatted. I also tried very hard to convey my country's prospective and come up with a good solution to the issue we we’re researching and discussing.
What has been most challenging about this project? Why?
In this project I was assigned the country, India. At first I wasn’t very excited about getting this country. I felt I would have been happy with any other country except India since I had already done two other projects before this about India. So I already had a negative outlook on the entire project and started to procrastinate. However, when I started to do the work I found that I didn’t have enough time to do the research and I had a hard time finding information and then writing about it. I also found it challenging to view everything through the opinion of my country instead of my own opinion.
What challenges have you overcome? Why?
Eventually, once the research part was over I found it easier to get rid of my childish mind set and just do the work. I still procrastinated, but not as much. Despite all of my procrastination I did get all the work done, even if i forgot to turn it in. I finished it and once I knew more about my country and their opinion on the problem it was easier to view things through India’s prospective.
What are you most proud of at this point?
I am most proud of my policy paper because I believe that It was very good and well formatted. I also tried very hard to convey my country's prospective and come up with a good solution to the issue we we’re researching and discussing.
Socialization & Identity Project
What is normal? Normal is conforming to the standards set by society. However nobody is born “normal” or choses to be “normal.” We learn what it means to be normal through a process called socialization. Which is the process of learning the norms and values of one’s culture and how to fit into the social identity we are born into. Social identities are a person’s sense of self within a social group (family, a sports team, friends, etc). We are taught to think certain things through the messages of the environment and people around us and the media we are exposed to. Bobbie Harro states in the article The Cycle of Socialization, “This socialization process is pervasive, consistent, circular, self-perpetuating, and often invisible.” Socialization comes from everywhere and we often don’t even notice it. I have been socialized to be insecure, to think that how I look is my only significance, and to think that I have to conform to the standard gender stereotypes.
From a young age I was socialized by the media to think that I wasn’t good enough so I was always insecure. Since I am a girl I was told that I had to be pretty, thin, wear dresses and makeup and I thought that my hair had to be long just because every other girl’s was. That was what “normal” was supposed to be for a girl. Women are stereotyped; they are told they have to look and act a certain way, and are told all the time that they are not as powerful or intelligent as men. The media socialized us to think that we are never good enough and that we have to obey men. In the video Miss Representation they state, “As a culture, women are just fundamentally brought up to be insecure.” Women are basically socialized, taught, to be insecure by society. It is part of our culture to oppress women. The messages we get from commercials, movies, and TV shows are simple yet they have a huge effect on society.
Through the media, my family and peers, I have also been socialized to think that as a women I will only be judged by the way I look. In the video Miss Representation they explain how the media affects they way girls view themselves, “Girls get the message from very early on that what's most important is how they look, that their value, their worth, depends on that.” The media often depicts women in a certain way that is degrading and makes people think that a woman's worth is only how pretty and thin she looks. We teach young women that being “beautiful” is more important than anything else and that people who don’t fit into the beauty standard should be outcast.
I remember a long time ago that someone told me no one would like me if I wasn’t pretty, no one would like me if didn’t dress and act like a girl. For example, in the movie Mean Girls, the main character, Cady, goes to great lengths to fit in and be considered normal. She changes from a homeschooled, casually dressed girl who is good at math, to a stupid, mean, high fashion, “plastic” girl just to be popular when in reality, she was fine how she was, but society has told her that she had to change. As a young child I was pretty impressionable but I thought that I wasn’t really affected by any negative socialization until I realized that I was meeting the standards of society. However, I was too afraid to be anything other than what everyone told me I should be. I was socialized to be afraid, afraid to be myself. Whenever I wanted to do something that wasn’t considered normal in the eyes of my society and culture, like cosplay, I wouldn’t even attempt it because I was too afraid that people would judge me and/or ‘punish’ me for not being normal.
All of this starts through the cycle of socialization. We are born into our places in society and have no choice or say in it. We are forced into our social identities through the media, peers, family, and other ways. Throughout our lives being “normal” is enforced. We obviously can’t solve this problem instantaneously and some people won't even try to solve it because they are too afraid. The least we can do is be aware of the cycle of socialization. If someone is different from what you consider to be “normal” then just let them be different because the only reason why “normal” exists is because society thinks it needs to. We could redefine “normal” or we could get rid of the label “normal” completely and create a society where there is no need for the label “normal” or any labels at all, and everyone is considered equal because in the end we are all just humans. We just need to be aware and accepting.
Mask Paragraph
Because of the way I was socialized, I have become insecure and afraid to be myself. I have built a wall that makes me appear like I am normal. In certain places the wall is broken and people can see parts of the real me. However, not many people can see that. It blocks people out, it even stops me from revealing too much about myself or getting too close to people. For the most part I am trapped behind the wall I have built because I am too afraid that people will judge me for being myself. This is why my mask is mostly painted in a cracked gray color. It symbolizes the wall I hide behind. While the places where it is something different (for example, the purple rose on the left side of the face) is where the wall is broken and parts of the real me shows.
From a young age I was socialized by the media to think that I wasn’t good enough so I was always insecure. Since I am a girl I was told that I had to be pretty, thin, wear dresses and makeup and I thought that my hair had to be long just because every other girl’s was. That was what “normal” was supposed to be for a girl. Women are stereotyped; they are told they have to look and act a certain way, and are told all the time that they are not as powerful or intelligent as men. The media socialized us to think that we are never good enough and that we have to obey men. In the video Miss Representation they state, “As a culture, women are just fundamentally brought up to be insecure.” Women are basically socialized, taught, to be insecure by society. It is part of our culture to oppress women. The messages we get from commercials, movies, and TV shows are simple yet they have a huge effect on society.
Through the media, my family and peers, I have also been socialized to think that as a women I will only be judged by the way I look. In the video Miss Representation they explain how the media affects they way girls view themselves, “Girls get the message from very early on that what's most important is how they look, that their value, their worth, depends on that.” The media often depicts women in a certain way that is degrading and makes people think that a woman's worth is only how pretty and thin she looks. We teach young women that being “beautiful” is more important than anything else and that people who don’t fit into the beauty standard should be outcast.
I remember a long time ago that someone told me no one would like me if I wasn’t pretty, no one would like me if didn’t dress and act like a girl. For example, in the movie Mean Girls, the main character, Cady, goes to great lengths to fit in and be considered normal. She changes from a homeschooled, casually dressed girl who is good at math, to a stupid, mean, high fashion, “plastic” girl just to be popular when in reality, she was fine how she was, but society has told her that she had to change. As a young child I was pretty impressionable but I thought that I wasn’t really affected by any negative socialization until I realized that I was meeting the standards of society. However, I was too afraid to be anything other than what everyone told me I should be. I was socialized to be afraid, afraid to be myself. Whenever I wanted to do something that wasn’t considered normal in the eyes of my society and culture, like cosplay, I wouldn’t even attempt it because I was too afraid that people would judge me and/or ‘punish’ me for not being normal.
All of this starts through the cycle of socialization. We are born into our places in society and have no choice or say in it. We are forced into our social identities through the media, peers, family, and other ways. Throughout our lives being “normal” is enforced. We obviously can’t solve this problem instantaneously and some people won't even try to solve it because they are too afraid. The least we can do is be aware of the cycle of socialization. If someone is different from what you consider to be “normal” then just let them be different because the only reason why “normal” exists is because society thinks it needs to. We could redefine “normal” or we could get rid of the label “normal” completely and create a society where there is no need for the label “normal” or any labels at all, and everyone is considered equal because in the end we are all just humans. We just need to be aware and accepting.
Mask Paragraph
Because of the way I was socialized, I have become insecure and afraid to be myself. I have built a wall that makes me appear like I am normal. In certain places the wall is broken and people can see parts of the real me. However, not many people can see that. It blocks people out, it even stops me from revealing too much about myself or getting too close to people. For the most part I am trapped behind the wall I have built because I am too afraid that people will judge me for being myself. This is why my mask is mostly painted in a cracked gray color. It symbolizes the wall I hide behind. While the places where it is something different (for example, the purple rose on the left side of the face) is where the wall is broken and parts of the real me shows.
Mask Reflection I am the most proud of the purple rose on the left side of my mask. It is a very small, specific thing to be proud of but out of all the components of my mask, but this took me the most time to do. It took me about two and a half hours to get it perfect. I could have just done it quickly and spent less time on it since it is just a small piece of a big picture but I wanted every part of mask to look at least somewhat decent so I spent the time to refine it. I am glad I did because I think it is the best part of my mask. Also, when I was doing the base of my mask, I accidentally put too much paint on it and the paint started to crack. Instead of removing the cracks I decided to add it into the idea of my mask since it kinda looked like a wall. I added more cracks and it kinda tied my mask together. I am proud that I improvised and incorporated my mistake into my project instead of trying to fix it which probably would have made it worse.
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Essay Reflection"What is normal? Normal...is conforming to the standards set by society. However nobody is born “normal” or choses to be “normal.” We learn how to be normal through a process called socialization. Which is the process of learning the norms and values of one’s culture and how to fit into the social identity we are born into. Social identities are a person’s sense of self within a social group (family, a sports team, friends, etc). We are taught to think certain things through the messages of the environment and people around us and the media we are exposed to. Bobbie Harro states in the article The Cycle of Socialization, “This socialization process is pervasive, consistent, circular, self-perpetuating, and often invisible.” Socialization comes from everywhere and we often don’t even notice it. I have been socialized to be insecure, to think that how I look is my only significance, and to think that I have to conform to the standard gender stereotypes."
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Biggest Take Away
What will you remember from this project and why?
In this project we covered lots of topics and learned many things about the society I live in that I might not have learned in a normal school. The one thing that I will defiantly remember from this project is the idea of socialization. Before we started this project I didn't even know what socialization is or how it had effected me.
In this project we covered lots of topics and learned many things about the society I live in that I might not have learned in a normal school. The one thing that I will defiantly remember from this project is the idea of socialization. Before we started this project I didn't even know what socialization is or how it had effected me.