The Diversity Of Life Book Report

The world is not created by a single group whom all share the same beliefs and opinions. The education of a person shapes the way people think about society. It is shown through Jonathan Kozol's essay, "The uses of Diversity," how an impact of diversity has on our mindset. Differing opinions let people become informed; democracy is built on the idea of freedom of speech which is filled with diverse opinions. Diversity enables students to discern the world from various perspectives; it facilitates the use of our freedom of speech to produce informative

In “Thinking About Diversity”, Frank H. Wu details about his experiences as an Asian American. Wu says that, “some non-Asian students do, indeed, assume that I am gifted with mathematical, scientific, or computer-programming talents solely on account of my race” (Wu, 147), this concept shows the overview picture of Asians, but this does not apply to every Asians. The mathematic, science or computer programming is a universal subject that most industrialized places like Asia teach to students. Most Asian immigrants are familiar with those subjects because they already learn it back home and are able to do well on them, not because of a race. A race cannot provide a special intelligent to people, it’s just a different classify groups of people.

The Diversity Committee has been actively working to bring a track of sessions to the upcoming PACRAO Conference that promises to focus on the most prevalent diversity issues of our times. As part of this track, we will be offering a book club session that we believe will encourage interaction and thoughtful discussion on stereotypes and how they affect all of us – including how they affect our students while they are attending our institutions.

6. Biological diversity is considered to be a crucial survival issue by Professor Edward O. Wilson of Harvard

African American and Native American involvement in this country has changed drastically over the years. They went from the very bottom of the food chain and fought their way to try to be equal with the whites. They have fought through the hardest times of prejudice and sadly still have to deal with some today. As time has gone on, we have made improvements, but there is surely a lot of room for more improvement. It is our job to educate the children of the future to practice equality and to not see a color on the outside, but rather a heart on the inside that beats just the same as the person sitting next to you. We are all created equally and

A writer named Jacqueline Woodson once said that; “Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” This means that diversity is all about differences, because no two people are exactly the same. This includes, races, ethnicities, gender, religions, beliefs, favorites, opinions, style, learning style and anything else that makes someone who they are as a person. This definition of diversity coincides almost identically with inclusive ideas in regards to disabilities. The question I have, however, is whether or not Inclusive Theories can be used when there are no children with disabilities present in the classroom. In an attempt to come up with an answer I interviewed a second grade teacher, Ms. Smith* at a Quaker school.

As I reflect over my life, I appreciate the many diverse experiences I’ve came to encounter. My experience with diversity dates back to birth. I am from a small rural town, Moss Point, MS. and notably the last state to abolish slavery. The town currently has a population of 13,704 people and consists of 73% Blacks or African Americans, 23% Caucasian, 1% Hispanic or Latino and 1% bi-racial.

I believe that "Diversity" plays important roles in our lives. Without diversity, we cannot widen our field of view. Diversity helps us to open up our eyes and our world. From reading the essay "How diversity makes us smarter", written by Katherine W Phillips, I learned that there are some negative effects brought up by the social diversity where dialog of inclusion is advanced, but mostly diversity is something that has positive effect in our society and even individual. I could also reflect and make connection with my experience of moving from non diverse community to diverse community.

Edward O. Wilson suggests that humanity should pay attention to our environment. He was concerned about the large extinction of species within a single human generation. He has two reasons as to why we should pay attention to our diverse biosystem, which includes plants and animals. First, some of the species in our environment, large or small can have an economic value and can be used as a source of food or medicine in the future. He put an emphasis on people being ignorant by destroying on what might be a possible cure for cancer or any other disease. The second reason is the annihilation of a vast number of species might lead to the collapse of our ecosystem. For instance, the widespread loss of trees from brush fire or destruction of islands

Edward O. Wilson’s The Future of Life chronicles the lasting effects of the damage that mankind has done to the environment and presents concepts that could prevent further devastation. Wilson highlights many areas that are considered to be tourist attractions for their vibrant biodiversity and illustrates just how many species were lost in such places due to human actions. He induces the awareness that biodiversity is being tragically lost to deforestation and ignorance of man by appealing to the sense of biophilia in his audience.

Sorry everyone for being late! Since Tuesday, an Internet outage with AT@T occurred until early Saturday morning. I was able to take the quiz before problems became worse. The quiz on human diversity was very intriguing in a way that educated me more on understanding race and similarities. Even though I did pretty well on the quiz, I did answer a few questions incorrectly. In order for me to understand the questions answered wrong, I did a little more research and found a lot of information that I was unaware of. Like many other students who mentioned in their discussion post, I assumed that certain regions possessed a variety of skin color due to environmental changes, but in all honesty, no one really knows.

For the diverse life activity experience report, I decided to interview my best friend whom I have known for about seventeen years. My first intent was to speak with my grandmother because she has lived for most of the average human’s life and could have been a great asset to my interview. I felt that she would have more to say regarding the specific questions I had prepared for the interview, but I was not able to get in contact with her. Before I started the interview, it was important for me to gather my thoughts, opinions, and judgments by excluding them. I believe that it is important to keep all personal judgment and reactions amongst myself and not let that interfere with the process of the interview.

The Virginia Tech Principles of Community and Norton City Schools System have very similar values in diversity. I have been attending the Norton City Schools System since first grade. In my past eleven years of attendance with this school system, I have never felt like who I am separates me from the majority of people. I am a Catholic, Asian-American, that is younger than my grade, with an independent political belief; and not once have I been excluded for who I am in this schools system.

We live in a society where people come from different countries, they belong to different cultural, religion, ethnic groups, and races. All these factors come together and contributes to differences that make us unique from each other. Hence, a multicultural country with huge diversity. This reflection journal will cover what “human race” is and what role it plays in ones’ personal life and in a nursing profession. Moreover, what bias, assumptions and judgements are, and how to avoid them. Lastly, what caring is and what role does it play in nursing.

In “Ethics and New Genetics” by The Dalai Lama, the author propose the need for a secular principle based on human values to combat with the rapid emergence of biotechnology. He suggest that humans posses a basic innate quality that serves as guidance towards responsibility and morality called “moral compass.” He explores human values with an altruistic outlook from his personal accounts with the assistance of faith/religion. Similarly, in “Human Dignity” by Francis Fukuyama, the author searches for this commonality of being human through the the investigation of “Factor X.” Fukuyama explains, “Factor X” as a collective variable of choice, rationality, language, sentience and consciousness that is specific of human nature. Fukuyama uses studies from scientists, philosophers, educators on evolution and its tie with the modern century to reach the conclusion that human nature must be preserved. The authors balances the other’s idea, because they are both searching for the foundation of humanity to serve as a unifying force when science is posing division economically and genetically. The disparities that Fukuyama and The Dalai Lama suggest are divisions based on the scale of socioeconomics, limitations on diversity, and disruption of the complexity of humans’ evolved state that undermine the basic moral sensibilities. The authors claims that the qualities found in human nature such as “Factor X” or “moral compass” provide a sense of equality due to chance,