This is one of the many moments I felt connected to the speaker throughout the video. Many of my peers and myself who were born here in the U.S. but grew up in Africa, have had dreams to grow up and change our communities back home and make it better. There are many other people out there wishing that our countries back home would change how they live especially when it comes to equal rights for women but it's a shame to go back home and still see the same thing happening. It's truly a heartbreaking feeling.

I can't begin to explain just how big of an impact she's made in her village and to the rest of the world. It takes tremendous power and bravery to go against a "tradition" that's been going on for centuries and finally say "I've had enough", "This isn't right", "We need to do better", to have the courage to stand up against these acts takes a lot of courage. It's extremely hard to get people to believe that their way of doing something is wrong, especially in Africa. There are so many elders and adults who perform ceremonies such as FGM and believe it's a right way of displaying women's "growth". Kakenya Ntaiya honestly gave me hope for a better future for females in West Africa and also inspired me to not give up hope in trying to create a better community back home.

As an African American female that grew up in West Africa, I'm too familiar with FGM but we call it lell (le-lu) back home. Fortunately, I didn't have to undergo the ceremony but many if not all of my friends and relatives had. The only reason I didn't go through it was because I wasn't born there and my parents had warned my relatives to not put in the ceremony. It's sad knowing what's happening to your peers and being able to do anything to help. And to this day there are still many places in Africa that perform FGM secretly.

I enjoyed watching and listening to his argument because everything made sense and was very strongly supported. However, this last sentence was weak and took away from his strong argument because it feels forced in a way. I believe that ending a strong argument such as this one by simply saying "Stop wasting food" really doesn't do much for the audience. I felt that it sounded too forced and a small part of me wanted to rebel against that because it sounds like my parents telling me to do something and for most of us teenagers we tend to go against what were told or we just become lazy to do it because we were told to. Overall it was a great argument but the last sentence in my opinion was unnecessary.

This statement gives us all a reason to do better with the foods we have. He previously mentioned that many people around the world suffer from food shortages which we are all aware of and by giving an example of how he himself is contributing to help change this way of living gives us hope and encourages us to do the same. I previously worked in the food industry so I understand the seriousness of this issue since I've seen first hand how much food is being wasted but I've never really done much to prevent it. Seeing that he actually uses food some might consider "waste" to help feed others displays just how involved he is in trying to prevent this issue but also encourages us to do the same.

Showing the data to his audience is a form of appealing to logos. By displaying just how much waste we produce, helps him get his point across with the audience. Merely stating the fact that we waste too much food won't have much of an impact but showing this data to his audience helps to have a lasting effect. It's something we could all reference back to when we decide to waste perfectly good food. In my opinion this really does open my eyes to how much food we waste and gives me a sense of responsibility to help fix it.

Back in 2015 we would all be pretty optimistic of the world being a better place but with the way we are living right now, it is hard to even think that we could go back to how things were before Covid-19. But there are also many unresolved issues in other countries that seem to be getting worse. In China, they are detaining Muslims in concentration camps, there is still an on going war in Cameroon, racial tension here in the U.S. and so many more issues around the world. Seeing these does not give us much hope of having a better future.

I completely agree with his statement because trying to achieve those 17 goals with "business as usual" wouldn't work. As he would go on to explain, solely focusing on how to increase GDP wouldn't help us achieve these goals. Instead we should use our wealth to improve the things that would have lasting effects in our nations like poverty, quality education, clean water, fixing infrastructure etc... This way we will be much closer to achieving the Global Goals and with countries helping each other.

Watching the video my emotions were very mixed, from being optimistic to losing hope with the fact that we could reach the Global Goals. Because of where we are today, I do not see us achieving these goals. Not only is the virus affecting people around the world but there are many other issues within these nations that are getting worse that would take years to resolve. I do believe that we could reach these goals in the future but I do not see that happening by the year 2030.

As individuals we can easily misunderstand each other due to lack of communication. What you always say aloud or write, might not reflect the way you intended it to, so it is important to clarify what you mean. Be aware of the fact that we are all different, live in different environments than others, and experienced different things so of course we all interpret things differently. We should always take other's feelings into consideration and if you know that you've said something out of line that might've offended someone else, acknowledge that and learn from it.

This definitely highlights a certain point in all our lives. There were times we spoke out without a second thought, disregarding someone else's feelings but we've also grown from that, recognizing the other side's point of view and how they might be affected from by our words.

There are many times where we tend to dismiss certain things that make us uncomfortable and it is important we speak up about it. Staying quiet even though something made you uncomfortable might give others the idea that you agree or that you might be okay with it which could cause conflict. For instance, a classmate could make a statement that everyone else disagrees with but you decide to stay quiet, this would make others think you agree with the statement, when you don't.