To me, a global scholar is someone who understands the viewpoints of peoples of all cultures and understand the genuine importance of helping others. As technology has made our society more connected and intertwined as a whole, many young people today do not understand the impact of their actions on society as a whole. For example, one mean or discriminatory remark or post online can cause a chain reaction of hatred and ignorance that moves our society backwards rather than forwards overall. In turn, I hope to become and maintain being an educated global citizen who can understand that people think and act differently than myself, especially in second and third-world countries. As an American, being a global citizen entails assisting those of lower economic backgrounds and those who barely have enough resources to survive on a daily basis. My main goal in my life is to use my talents to make the world a better place by helping and providing for the less fortunate, and I believe that in order to be a global citizen I must seek out opportunities to learn about and help out those who are struggling in our world and around us locally. 

           This is something that I was able to achieve on a small-scale through my Honors mini-experience. My Honors mini-experience was very interesting, yet not what I had expected to do for an Honors experience. My classmates and I went to a very interesting activity set up by Serve Beyond Cincinnati about striking out hunger in Cincinnati and around the world. During the activity, we were each given a piece of paper randomly that set us in the lower, middle, or upper class in third-world countries and we were given a certain amount of food based on these assignments to demonstrate the disparity of opportunities based on the social class one is born into. I began in the lower class and was lucky to get moved into the middle class, but my classmates, Nick and Austin, were unlucky to be put into the lower class. They could only eat cheese and crackers as their food, while I was given a sandwich to eat, and Alicia (who was put in the upper class) was given a buffet of food options. After we ate, a guest speaker came in to talk about her struggles with hunger in Cincinnati and how it terribly affected her life.

            This was a very enlightening experience because I did not realize that hunger was such a big problem in Cincinnati. This experience fits into the learning outcomes of “the interconnectedness of geography, history, cultural traits and world issues” as well as demonstrating “a sense of empathy, respect, and appreciation for others” in that I now better understand how difficult and ravaging hunger is in third-world countries and that it is an issue that takes place all around the world in different magnitudes. I grew more appreciation for my own upbringings and I am very lucky to be able to have food at least three times a day and to be able to satisfy myself while following nutritional health guidelines.