Living Downstream Analysis
Write an approximately 300 word response in which you discuss the ways in which the event you attended reflect on the themes of Core 1 (ideas from lectures or assigned reading) or one of the Guiding Principles of General Education at UC Merced below. Be sure to note the date, presenter (and/or title of film/panel, etc.) and be specific in your response. Guiding Principles of General Education
• Communication • Self and Society
• Scientific Literacy • Decision Making
• Ethics and Responsibility • Leadership and Teamwork
• Aesthetic Understanding and Creativity • Development of Personal Potential 03/24/17. Living Downstream, a documentary film based on the book by Sandra Steingraber.
In this Core Friday, we watched a documentary film about …show more content…
When technology evolves, our environment changes as well, with greed and power we don’t focus on what is important. In the documentary film, Sandra talks about the town expand with advancement from when she was young, it impacted her health and people in that place in a huge way. And in Joan Didion’s essay, she talks about the fast changes California went through when she was a kid to this day. Didion said, “It is hard to find California now, unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised” (Didion, 177). Sandra and Joan grew up in two different states but they both saw and lived through the good and the bad changes of their community. In last week core lecture, we had a guess speaker, Steve talked to us about the community engagement in the city of Merced. In a way, the lecture Steve gave and the documentary film have some similarities. Steve gave us lecture and stat about how in Merced, there are come challenges that encounter the citizens like high unemployment, poverty. And same goes for in the state of Illinois in Pekin, the community is dealing with some of the major challenges like cancer because of the pervious contamination of agriculture in the
• Communication • Self and Society
• Scientific Literacy • Decision Making
• Ethics and Responsibility • Leadership and Teamwork
• Aesthetic Understanding and Creativity • Development of Personal Potential 03/24/17. Living Downstream, a documentary film based on the book by Sandra Steingraber.
In this Core Friday, we watched a documentary film about …show more content…
When technology evolves, our environment changes as well, with greed and power we don’t focus on what is important. In the documentary film, Sandra talks about the town expand with advancement from when she was young, it impacted her health and people in that place in a huge way. And in Joan Didion’s essay, she talks about the fast changes California went through when she was a kid to this day. Didion said, “It is hard to find California now, unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised” (Didion, 177). Sandra and Joan grew up in two different states but they both saw and lived through the good and the bad changes of their community. In last week core lecture, we had a guess speaker, Steve talked to us about the community engagement in the city of Merced. In a way, the lecture Steve gave and the documentary film have some similarities. Steve gave us lecture and stat about how in Merced, there are come challenges that encounter the citizens like high unemployment, poverty. And same goes for in the state of Illinois in Pekin, the community is dealing with some of the major challenges like cancer because of the pervious contamination of agriculture in the