Global Change Requires Awakening By Frances Power Cobbe

Americanization can be both negative and positive depending on the perception of America by other countries. According to The Revolution Is Us by Thomas L. Friedman, the globalization of America is perceived as lazy, fast food based, technology advanced, and liberal in regards to tradition. “Today globalization often wears Mickey Mouse ears, eats Big Macs, drinks Coke or Pepsi, and does its computing on an IBM PC, using Windows 98, with an intel Pentium II processor, and a network link from Cisco Systems. While the distinction between what is globalization and what is Americanization may be clear to most Americans, it is not -unfortunately- to many others around the world.” If this perception is taken into Americanization, the effect would

To change the world is an impossible goal, but to change the world around you is something anyone can do, ultimately leading to a ripple and changing the world further. My involvements in my community, family and job have taught me how to be an asset to society, making a difference in other’s lives.

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him... We need not wait to see what others do.” — Mahatma Gandhi

The issues I focused on in my analysis of Cal students are marriage and parenthood. Specifically, I chose to compare how opinions on these issues differed by gender. Kathleen Gerson discusses the new generation’s expectations from marriage and families to a great degree in her book The Unfinished Revolution. As Gerson states, “Most of my interviewees hope to create lasting, egalitarian partnerships, but they are also doubtful about their chances of reaching this goal.” (10) This is a characteristic that also stood out in my analysis: the majority of the students interviewed hope to create an egalitarian relationship in which there is no strict enforcement of traditional gender roles. Or as Gerson says, “…the vast majority want a permanent bond, but they do not wish for that bond to be defined by rigid gender distinctions.” (104) I only encountered one exception to this trend: a female student who expressed the desire to become a full time stay-at-home mom after having children, thereby putting all financial responsibility on her spouse. One thing that was different in my findings was that with the exception of one or two, these Cal students do not think it will be difficult to find a suitable partner. This is likely because most students

Leaving the comforts of the first world, Jessica Alexander abandons her job, fiancé, family, and home to venture into the misleading volunteer work of Humanitarian aid. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander is a conglomeration of stories that are written from Jessica’s memory. “It is a true account based on [Jessica’s] best recollections of the events and [her] experiences.”.

When the jury and judges awarded Elizabeth Fenn the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, their citation described the book as "an engrossing, original narrative showing the Mandans, a Native American tribe in the Dakotas, as a people with a history."

As a US Citizen we conform to regulate and maintain the foundation that connects us as a whole. The whole is made up of multiple people who share the same values, and is necessary in a long term successfully running society like the USA. But in times of change, we must stand out as individuals and refrain from the collective unit in order to redirect the long-term path of society. Time and time again displayed throughout history, men and women have departed from the collective whole in order to change their surroundings. Often it’s these type of individuals, such as Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, and Bill Gates; who revolutionize the world they live in.

What is wrong with society? And what can people do about it? Society is plagued by hate, discrimination, and selfishness but it can be overcome by love, cooperation, and applying the concept of mind over matter. These questions and answers are provided by the ‘’I AM’’ documentary, where the director Tom Shadyac asked different religious leaders, authors, and historians to find solutions. Through the whole documental he uses these positive qualities of human beings as the three key themes as a cure to an unscrupulous society and to show humans have the power to change the world and make the planet a better place. The three key themes that seem to resonate throughout the documentary are the nature of humanity, the world’s ever-growing addiction to materialism, and human connections.

Change always starts with a simple action, Albert Einstein once said, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” This world is full of different kinds of changes, from personal change to changing the world in different ways. During different times in history, society has been evolving into what it is now. Like Albert Einstein pointed out, the world is created by the thoughts of people and to be able to create a change in the world, there has to be an event that leads human minds to think differently. This research paper will focus on the War of Independence, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, World War I and II, the Cold War to present day. In this case, the writer

“You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.”

Positive change in the world starts in the individual and builds its way up until that certain individual’s

We want to transform our society so that each each person can be their own agent of change around what they feel important, and shift away from the idea that somehow a voting box every four years will solve our problems

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” This quote by Anne frank shows us that she believed that the world can be a better place. (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/activism)

“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can change the world”

Albert Einstein said it best, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them” - Albert Einstein(58 Quotes). Social change is an opportunity for positive growth in today’s world, however it may sometimes take a tragedy to get there. Many big events in history such as The French Revolution and the Civil Rights Movement have caused social change, but our world is stronger because of those events. It takes leadership and a desire for growth to make a positive change in today’s society. Many philosophers have theorized social change through functionalism, conflict theory, and punctuated equilibrium.