The main draw I take from this collection of media is that as individuals, we must realize and embrace how multi-faceted others are and celebrate that perspective and diversity. It is pretty insane to me that even in modern days, people are so ignorant to a lot of the functionality and operation of the world and other societies they are not aware of. For instance, like in the TED Talk, Adichie shares how shocked her prior roommate was in discovering she spoke English and shared rather 'western' influences and interests as she did. This speaks volumes to how aware we need to be of everyone else's role and place in community. As far as my practice of scenic design goes, this just further frames the need to understand how the way you perceive things to be are not the one and only way they can be perceived. You must take into account the world at large, instead of feeding off of a rather closed and narrow train of thought.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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