I find it amazing that the education of women has not just benefits for women but the entire community. Education builds stronger relationships, with this achievement Linet's dad finally realized the potential in his daughter. Linet's father was able to see that women can strive at anything men can and with that comes progress. If more and more people realize the potential in women than the world will be a much better place.The education of women provides a richer community full of intelligence and innovation.

This section made me a bit emotional, the fact that women are going through genital manipulation makes my stomach turn. This should never be normalized, these actions cause trauma and abuse in girls who are so young. Women deserve to make their own choices. I feel great sadness for the girls who have to marry at such a young age to someone they don't even know. In order to have a marriage and children a woman must be ready and prepared these girls are expected to raise children when they are still children themselves.

I also believe that education is the first step to empower women. Education allows people to understand their full potential and widens the range of opportunities. In her village women went through female genital mutilation and are married at very young ages. These actions take away girl's childhoods and choices in life, with education women get knowledge and with knowledge comes confidence and involvement. Education is the first step to empowerment and equality, the young girls were also provided a safe place with food and water. These are the next steps in empowering a woman, in order for someone to grow they must feel safe and energized.

I don't blame him for inspecting the grocery waste because big corporations tend to hide a lot from the public eye. Corporations try to appear consumer friendly and declare their love for nutritional value while many continue to particapate in extreme animal cruelty and food waste. Big corporations basically design the American diet, these rich infrastructures decide what majority of the public consumes. A few years ago in school I watched a documentary about food corporations and from a grocery standpoint corporations make it seem like we have plenty of options regarding food but majority of the food we consume are run by the same major companies like nestle and coca cola.

I often think about this, the ecological limits of our planet. We have grown so much adapted new technology and business but with that comes its defects. As a society, more as a country really resources have been taken advantage of. Food is sold to make the most money possible rather than thought of how it values the consumer. Everything is viewed from an infrastructure standpoint and we don't often think about how food is produced. We see extremely accessible items yet the production of these items causes extreme damage to our planet. Forests are continued to be chopped down for unnecessary benefit, while enough food already exists. Eventually we'll reach a point where we'll have nothing to take from if we don’t change dramatically.

I find this discouraging and unsurprising. We have so many people without access to food yet an abundance of food. There is an easy solution to our issues but a continuation of waste. America has plenty of food and a food insecurity problem. 42 million people in America may experience food insecurity - source from feeding America. It sounds like the problem here is distribution or lack of effort. Food is often tossed away because it doesn't appeal to the eye or is seen unconventional. The appearance of food determines its usefulness yet it could be of nutritional value? It is hard to find the logic in this explanation. The competition of food suppliers is extremely high so many different options are presented to the public so a plumper tomato may catch the eye better than one that is smaller which leads farmers to sell only the best of the crop.

I think this would be extremely beneficial to our society. It makes sense to use wealth for the well-being of citizens, but this isn't always the case. Government officials are too proud to focus on basic needs. If we were to focus on education,shelter,and food for everyone there would be great prosperity. If more people receive education that will provide more innovation, we need to build the foundation rather than moving up while others are suffering.

It is very hard to measure the success of a country and this quote proves such.There are countries that seem to do well economically but have a huge divide in social class, there are countries where there is little divide among social class but also little freedom. I think that a good balance among these factors measures success. I think we are spending money in ways that may make us look good but cause harm to the public, a country may appear to be wonderful to an elitist which causes them to make misinformed decisions.

I'm surprised I wasn't aware of this dramatic decrease, from 36% to 12% is a big deal. I feel like I wasn't aware of the decrease because it didn't affect me personally and it wasn't covered much in the media. The media often raises awareness to negative data /events because in order to change that ,there has to be coverage. We often don't notice things that run smoothly because we expect such. I think that the media has disrupted our perspective on life. If a person views nothing but negative events then they are going to experience negative emotions/expectations.

I like the idea of being connected yet independent this semester because it fits in with our current situation. I believe that if we keep this intention in mind everyone would benefit. The theme of compassion is powerful yet simple. A compassionate act can change the life of someone else while taking little energy from the giving party. In this class, we should think of possible outcomes before writing or saying something. I don’t think this will be a hard task for our class.

Compassion is rooted in religion, the ability to see from another perspective and charter to their needs. Religion teaches to avoid the judgment of others as well as malicious acts. However, religion in some cases can serve as a cloak or excuse for mistreatment. The excuse of religious intention can cause great harm and great charity. Subsequently, the two differ based on how it is taught to teach with encouragement and love, a place without judgment or others' actions in mind or to teach with strict rules and punishment. One causes fear and avoidance while the other causes acceptance. The teachings of our religious leaders cause action and have a huge impact on society. We need to identify the reason for our religion rather than criticize those who don't follow.

I agree with this statement, if we were to live in a society where we took others perspectives into account the world would be without hate.We have failed to act compassionately towards others and to change that we need to think selflessly rather than selfishly. This statement to me appears pretty simple, treat others with basic decency. But in order to fix this issue we need to find out where hate stems from,could it be anger, a bad childhood,neglect,jealousy, i´m not sure however I don't think we will find one common answer.