Reflection Paper On Mass Communication

One of the main concerns surrounding agriculture today is how agricultural influences will affect the society of tomorrow, including the effect of agriculture on adolescents, in addition to the agricultural workforce and its ability to sustain the needs of the global population. The most effective way to study this is through the impact of involvement in the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and agricultural environments and education on students, which Chelsea Rose et al. successfully highlight in their article “The Benefits of FFA Membership as Part of Agricultural Education.” Both Erin and Kayla added to this discussion with valid points brought up in their class presentations, reporting on whether agricultural

"I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words, but of deeds." These famous words from "The FFA Creed" by E.M. Tiffany outline the basic beliefs of FFA members and agriculturists around the world. But these values, although crucial to the sustaining of our world's ever-increasing population, are growing more and more detached from the people not involved in agriculture. Although food and fiber production has increased in recent years, providing more bushels per acre and more meat per head of cattle, the agriculture industry has come under fire due to an overwhelming majority of people being totally disconnected from the agriculture industry. Today, we'll examine the primary causes of this disconnect, the negative effects on agriculture and our society as a whole that results from it, and how you can help solve this ever-growing problem.

The agriculture industry is not only the largest industry within our state, but also within our nation. However, in recent years it has also been one of the most heavily criticized. This has led to a ‘brain drain’ in rural America as more people decide to leave our industry and their family farms.

When making a career choice it is wise for one to consider the laws of supply and demand. The current shortage of agriscience educators in Alabama and across the nation has made this a

The price per acre of farm land doubled to $2,140 over the last 10 years. A lack of health care also hurts farmers as farming ranks as the fourth most dangerous occupation in the country, and young farmers often must choose between health care and paying for their farm. All of these obstacles and more make farming a difficult occupation to enter. We need organizations such as Young Farmers’ to provide support, education and training to help our nation’s most important

Kylee Kohls, a product of Minnesota farmers pursues a career to insure the education about “Farm to Fork.”

The mission of the National Postsecondary Agricultural Student Organization is to “provide opportunities for individual growth, leadership and career preparation” (PAS, About PAS). What started out as a small organization, a little over 30 years ago, has now blossomed into something much bigger. As the new Executive Director of PAS, my goals are to continue to fulfill the mission while also making improvements to the organization. I believe there is still a lot of potential for the organization to yet be fulfilled.

With the ever-growing population farmers have had to come up with solutions for a very common problem… hunger. Sadly roughly 21,000 die every day of hunger worldwide (globalissues.org). With these shocking statistics farmers have had to put the pedal to the medal to produce food for not just north America but the world. Yet countless people in the United States of America still hold strong opinions on how the agriculture industry is not doing as best as they can be. Yet like most of millennials in America they want to take no responsibility and educate themselves; yet want to put their two cents into every conversation and post of social media. Therefore every student that graduates must be enrolled into an agriculture class at least one time within their four year stay at high school.

Agricultural Education and Communication senior, Savannah reflects on some of her experiences in AEC as well as upcoming opportunities because of AEC.

On Thursday, October 19th I found myself in the Brazos Valley African-American Museum to hear Kim Olson, a candidate for Texas Agricultural Commissioner. She was a woman of tremendous military stature and was truly one of the best public speakers I have had the honor of hearing. The subject of her speech covered many key points of modern agriculture and a few mentions of the modern political situation as a whole, especially in local government. Her potential platform as the Tex Ag Commissioner would allow her to go before congress and argue for the farm bill in Texas to be raised which would allow us to reach new heights of small farming in our great state. Along with this Kim picked at a few common misconceptions of locally grown food, and

Attending the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University has always been a goal for me in pursuing my target of becoming a nutritional scientist. I grew up in traditional Chinese education, the first poem I learned is called “Commiseration for the Peasants” written by Shen Li. This poem conveys the idea that foods don’t come easily, people should respect the work of farmers. This really connects to me because both my grandparents and my aunts are farmers. I had once experienced their job when I was a third grader in elementary school. This experience let me set my mind of studying agriculture.

Identify and define the psychological construct you have chosen to use. Identify the medium that the construct is evident in and give a brief summary of the story and/or plot of the medium. Explain in detail how the construct is used in the story, play, show, etc. Conclude by identifying what you believe are the good or bad aspects or results of the construct you observe.

In this globalization era, the internet or the virtual world has becoming more complicated and has the potential by showing more effective platform of various collaborative activities which includes academic and education purposes. The intention and the desire regarding the uses of internet world are all about the uses of the internet.

Have you ever had an original thought? Why do we dress the way we do, watch what we watch or even live the way we do. Through our means of entertainment, it is almost a guide in how one should live their life. With the technology we have in our world we are persuaded to believe what is right and what is wrong. Although we create our own world, our thoughts were imposed upon us since the day we are born. “What if the world is some kind of show. What if we are only talents assembled by the Great Talent Scout Up Above! The Great Show of Life! Starring Everybody! Suppose entertainment is the Purpose of Life,” says Gabler. We wake up in the morning where most of us have a daily routine we go through. Why do we put on

Most of the skills we discussed in this course I would say I already knew about, so much of this was reinforcing what I already knew along with adding a few more terms to describe some of the communication process. I think the most important thing that was reinforced was the role that listening plays in all communication, whether professional or personal. In the workplace, if you listen and pay attention to what your employer likes, you might be able to get a promotion or something similar by doing whatever it is he/she likes. Listening in the workplace can also be used to help maintain a good work environment; if you know that someone is having some kind of conflict, you can help to remedy that conflict and restore a good work environment. Where this is most important (I would say) is in personal relationships. Being able to not only talk but listen to the other person in the relationship is key to any healthy relationship going smoothly and keeping both people in the relationship happy. Listening comes into play in some less dire situations also: similar to doing what your employer likes, if you listen to the other person in the relationship when they talk about something that they like, you will know what it is that they like and will be able to do/get whatever that may be. Where communication is most important in relationships is in disagreements; if two people are able to get through a disagreement in a way that satisfies both people and minimizes hostility, it shows both maturity and good communication skills.