Diversity Reflection Paper

$*$Please note that this is an example to give you a sense of what it should look like.

Introduction

In this section, introduce the project and its purpose and give an overview of the other sections that will be included

Diversity Reflection Topics $$ Include three different topics $($one presentation for each topic is minimum$)$

$2.$ Reflect on each topic and presentation

a$.$ Any reactions to the presentation? Was anything new to you?

b$.$ How were interviewees$$ experiences in this topic different from those of the other topics? What do you think were the unique misconceptions about this topic? What do you think were the common aspects across the topics that you chose $($if there were any$)?$

c$.$ Why do you think such misconceptions$/$prejudice exist in this topic?

$3.$ Any new insights, beliefs, or attitudes that you have gained or were able to change after watching the presentations?

$4.$ What can you do to be more effective in building relationships with people based on what was presented $($if nothing, briefly explain why$)?$ What organizations might do to reduce misconceptions in the organization?

Summary & Conclusion

Include a brief summary of what was discussed in previous sections and a reaction to the value of the project for you personally. Was it worthwhile? Why?

Headings to be included in the paper $($example format$)$

$1.$ Introduction

$2.$ Summary & Reflection on Diversity Presentations

a$.$ Income

i$.$ Key points

ii$.$ Reflection on the topic$/$presentation

iii. New insights, beliefs, attitudes iv$.$ How to become more effective in dealing with different backgrounds and how organizations should manage issues regarding this topic.

b$.$ Political orientation

i$.$ Key points

ii$.$ Reflection on the topic$/$presentation

iii. New insights, beliefs, attitudes iv$.$ How to become more effective in dealing with different backgrounds and how organizations should manage issues regarding this topic.

c$.$ Age

i$.$ Key points

ii$.$ Reflection on the topic$/$presentation

iii. New insights, beliefs, attitudes iv$.$ How to become more effective in dealing with different backgrounds and how organizations should manage issues regarding this topic.

$3.$ Summary & conclusion

a$.$ Summary of the above sections

b$.$ Value learned from the two presentations

For each of these topics, include the following.

Key points from each related presentation on education:

$1.$ For the first time in the history of the United States, $90\%$ of people over the age of $25$ have completed high school, according to the $2017$ census.gov report.

$2.$ In $1940,$ less than half of the population over $25$ had a high school diploma.

$3.$ The average American with a high school diploma earns $$42,590$ per year.

a$.$ Brief info on interviewees

$1.$ Name: Dallas

a$.$ Relation:Brother in law

b$.$ Occupation: HVAC

c$.$ Age:$26$

d$.$ Eduction: high school diploma and technical school

e$.$ Hometown : Bakersfield, Ca

f$.$ Parents level of education: Mother, associates $/$ Father, Jr$.$ high. Income less than father

$5.$ Name: Chris

a$.$ Relation:Friend of $12$ years

b$.$ Occupation: Nondestructive testing $($NDT$)$

c$.$ Age: $29$

d$.$ Hometown:

e$.$ Parents education level:mother has high school diploma $/$ father bachelors in business

$3.$ An Interview with Dalal, a Postgrad Medical Student

f$.$ At first, I did not know what to expect.

g$.$ Dalal said that she felt the most marginalized of all people in Ireland.

h$.$ She thought that more needed to be done to make spaces more accepting and enabling of people who are form ethnic minority backgrounds.

i$.$ She thought that there was an urgent need for change of morals and moral values in society. She thought that many religions did not answer the deeper questions of life.

j$.$ She was totally at peace with many groups in the world and said that he did not endorse or support hate, mistreatment of other people and felt that the MeToo movement had come of age.

$6.$ The Life of Jumana$-$ A Young International Graduate Student in the United States

a$.$ Jumana $,$ who graduated with a degree in architectural engineering felt that there was more acceptance globally of international students than before.

b$.$ She said that she felt that more and more people wanted to understand her experiences and life circumstances as a postgraduate student within different educational contexts living in the United States.

c$.$ She pointed to the conversion of a number of famous people in the world who had been international students at one point or the other during their life time.

d$.$

A$.$ Summary of key points of presentation

a$.$ I felt that there was more that could be done to create greater awareness about discrimination against Arabs within educational settings in the United States and in the world today.

b$.$ I thought that there was a need for more diversity in American leadership, especially when the representation of Arabs and other ethnic minorities was concerned. I thought th