PVU GCE Portfolio

For my project for MDGs we were studying Gender equality in the world. The reason I wrote this essay was to compare the U.S. and Sweden in terms of gender equality. We had to use the U.S. and another country that we could compare our point to. I learned that there are some countries that don't share gender equality at all. The part of this project that was the most challenging, was trying to find another country that is like the U.S. for gender equality. What I'm the most proud of is that the U.S. isn't doing the worst in gender equality, our country is improving in this area. (Spearshott, Jeffery. "Women Earn 81.9 Cents for Every Dollar a Man Earns." Real Time Economics RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2015.) (Spearshott, Jeffery. "Women Earn 81.9 Cents for Every Dollar a Man Earns." Real Time Economics RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2015.) Gender Equality in the U.S. and Sweden      Throughout the world there is a huge problem with gender ...

For unit 1 I learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the eight MDG goals. For this project I wrote a persuasive essay on one of three topic choices. I talked about the right for child education. I talked about ways we can help children who aren't being given an education. I learned so much from this course, I learned about different ways the world is dealing with child education. Also I learned about how many kids don't get an education. The most challenging part of this essay was researching, and learning how many kids don't go to school. PVU, Child Education, (2015) The Right of a Free Education All kids should get a right of free education. If they get free education they will be able to make a difference in the world. How many kids in the world don’t attend school? The Guardian news article says, “the world has 70 billion people, and 3% of kids in the world don’t go to school.” This means 3% of our future is not getting an education, because they ca...