What are some similarities and differences between the EU and globalization?

Read my grad personal statement?

• As I sat in my Cultural Anthropology Theory course, pensive and musing over my readings and notes on Anna Tsing’s In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place--I had been hit with another bout of pure inspiration.There I sat amazed at how clearly I understood what Tsing had been explaining--that when looking at something on a micro scale we may be able to perceive therein that we, as well as the discourse we engage in--are important agents of social change. It was just then that I had caught the end of professor and revered Anthropologist Susan Harding’s lecture “...so we can all learn to be agents of social change.” Out of all the years I studied as an undergraduate Anthropology major, that had been the one resounding statement in my life. Some invaluable lessons learned as a student of Anthropology, were to deconstruct the nuances of cultural differences and similarities based on contextual aspects of society. That we are behooved as students of culture to become informed citizens in a globalized world and also to think in terms of fostering cultural understanding and interaction. The incredible thing about studying anthropological practice and theory is that not only is it applicable to the world we live in, but I could no longer help but to look at my own agency in the world I live in. As hindsight is 20/20, I struggled with what I wanted to accomplish upon the completion of my studies and better yet, how I would go about incorporating the knowledge I had acquired, studying Anthropology. As I did not necessarily want to take the academia route, my aspirations for becoming the next Linda Green, another hero of mine whose investigative field research illustrated the shared and lived experiences amongst Mayan people in the midst of warfare--fell flat. What I found to be particularly inspirational was the way that Green used her anthropological purview to reach out and share the voices of people who otherwise would not get the opportunity to do so. Still I had always craved the creativity and expression in using different media formats, and only briefly did I experience creative expression in my Visual Anthropology course, studying visual representation as well as visual communication and discourse. It wasn’t until my semester abroad in Italy my senior year, that I noticed how the role media and information technology played an important part in the everyday lives of many Europeans. It seemed that everywhere you look, everyone and anyone had the paper in their hands. That the young and the old alike were definitely more cognizant of the going-ons around the world than educated young individuals in the U.S. I started to think about how we are in the age of technology and globalization and that the distribution of information across the globe is overwhelmingly phenomenal. Media technology was definitely proving itself to be a very big factor in the future especially with the growing use and interactiveness of various social media sites. Not only are individuals sharing information and news around the world, but they are doing so in creative, innovative ways. Today’s technology allows us to share stories across the globe, create dialogue and create social campaigns. Media technology is such a crucial tool in our agency for social change and never has it been more functional from an anthropological standpoint, than in today’s generation. As we are headed into an increasingly globalized future I believe it is important to create awareness in others, and media communications can be the perfect conduit for information and interaction in a global and multicultural environment. The ability to use various media technology and the skill to communicate effectively through all forms of media is essential. Since graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 2010, I have worked at Roth Capital Partners, an investment banking firm, where not only did I demonstrate project management skills, initiative, and leadership; but I also got to witness firsthand how media has proven to have very real implications in what ensues in the stock market and our economy, as a result of national and international events. My internship for CultureZest Inc., a start-up non-profit, had also been an important factor in me wanting to pursue graduate school. It had provided me with opportunities to learn various marketing strategies with media communications techniques and that made me realize where I want to be great is being able to do what I love and that is thinking creatively to find new ways for bringing awareness to important matters. With the ability to use text and various media to engage people and promote sustainable travel and community interaction within local communities, I realized that on some level my background studying culture and my wants for creativity and promoting cross-cultural interactions were finally matching up.

• Answer:

  Very interesting and catchy beginning and closing! try making the paper pop a little more. Your vocabulary is superb and your sentence structures are inexplicable! just try making it more "fun" (the only broad word i can think of right now) because more than likely others have used boring sentence structures but other wise very good job and good luck!