Assignment 1
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Draft a sample long-term college plan (sometimes known as the four-year plan) for yourself using MyPlan. In this exercise, you should draw on other resources available to you such as the Honors course website, UW Course Catalog, and departmental websites.
You must include the following:
You must include the following:
- your General Education requirements, including 47 Honors credits AND any non-Honors Areas of Knowledge requirements you have left to take -- you do not need to know the exact Honors courses you will take to fulfill your Interdisciplinary Honors requirements, but your plan MUST include the required number of Honors courses in the appropriate categories.(Arts/Humanities, additional, etc);
- requirements for a major of your choice (if you're not sure yet, use this as a chance to explore a major you're considering -- we won't hold you to it!);
- other courses or experiences (such as pre-med, study abroad, or internships) that you know you will need or want to take.
Assignment 3
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“Once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme.”. As I have written over and over again in my essays, each day when I passed the homeless father and his daughter on my way to school, I encountered economical and educational inequity. In Beijing, suffering from poor air condition, I experienced environmental injustice. These are all large scale challenges covered by Paul Farmer. But here are certain challenges neglected by majority, and road traffic injury is one of them. Every day over 3,400 people die on the world's roads and tens of millions of people are injured or disabled annually. Road traffic safety is no trivial challenge. The familiarity with automobiles stops people from thinking that one day soon, the causalities may be reduced to zero. This is an ironic lack of imagination in this innovative world. Advanced technology has been working on to accelerate transportation to meet up with public’s needs. We long for higher efficiency but not higher safety. With the aim of prioritizing safety than speed, the automobile manufactories may achieve products of safer emergency systems. Families are torn apart by sudden car crashes, and lives are changed by moments of carelessness. I still could not believe the loss of a dear friend from car accident. When tragedies happen, we offer condolence like it is the only thing we can do. To make a difference, we shall offer true compassion rather than mere sorry. Her mom, in grief, set up a team of volunteers to maintain the neighborhood’s traffic order. With their help, kids playing out are safer from cars that pop up suddenly. My other friends and I joined the team in honor of her. This is just one example of how true compassion works. The prevention of more car accidents requires more than better technological design and safer car setting. It needs a cooperation, or partnership, between pedestrians and drivers. This partnership is a moral question. Situation in the U.S is not even imaginable in some other regions. Here the order and politeness displayed at crossroad when cars will wait for pedestrian to go through clearly reduce the chance of tragedy. Yet in some other places, take Indonesia or China for examples, sometimes cars will rush through and pedestrian will not even stick with traffic lights. Circumstances are getting better, and with hope in mind, in the near future this cooperation will be maintained. By applying “fractal thinking”, if people only focus on small things they could do, like college students stop driving at high speed for fun after party, or never break traffic rule to save time, the chance of accidents will be less. As technology gallops rapidly, development of social media gives the major public more access to information. However, like Paul points out in his readings, social media deprives our ability to think critically in some way, which I believe is partly true. I remember the shock when I hear Paul Walker, my favorite actor in Fast and Furious died in a car accident. But soon my eyes were caught up by other news. The fast flow of information and the instant update of news will lead to each news move on too fast to be captured and rethought critically by individuals. Social media will focus more about the seriousness of car accidents. Also, in this case, social media can be a distraction that leads to more accidents. Our society now need a proper distance with social media. Living in the present, we could make hope and history rhyme for a brighter future. |
Assignment 4
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