Group Final Project 3.3

Thousands of French people launched a demonstration on May 26, 2013 to protest against same gender marriage. They marched on street to show their opposition for the “marriage for all” law that passed on May 18. Among the protestors are religious leaders and local conservative people. They claims that “gay couples should have equal rights, but within an institution other than marriage”. What is more, many are also against same gender married couples to adopt children.

Living in this booming century, where all the traditional aspects are challenged by various new thoughts, it is not avoidable to take in new ideas. With the rapid growth of technology and the thought of equality between different people, we begin to think and question what we had done in the past, whether it is right or wrong. With this tide taking part, comes our motivation for the group’s final project. In the past when we talked about people going out with same gender, we tend to use negative words such as gay or lesbian. However, people in this century begin to change their thought about gays and lesbian. They point out that it is acceptable to be with the people that truly loved you than someone that does not liked you. We should respect their relationship because they are just as the same as our relationships. In our final group project, we made a survey online to gather and analyze people’s idea about same gender marriage. 

Our statistics includes 132 data. According to our survey heterosexual are still the dominant now (84-13). However, what is interesting is that among these heterosexual 74.34% people agreed on same gender marriage. Moreover, there are approximately 85.84% people supported same gender marriage to be legal, which is different to what happened in France. However, when it comes to whether or not you will go on a demonstration to support same gender marriage not many people voted will. Only 51.33% people said that they will step out to participate. This leads to a very interesting conclusion, perhaps many people just verbally agree same gender marriage to be legal but they do not really care how it will be accepted for they are not enthusiastic enough. The result on whether letting same gender marriage legal will decrease the fear of gays and lesbians showed an interesting result too, 57.52% said yes and 42.48% said no this is a very close number which leads us to think that maybe the best way to let it legal is to change people’s wrong idea about gays and lesbians. 

Many of our thinking come from our family, which means traditional aspect has a large impact on us. According to our survey the number one reason why people are against gays is because of traditional thoughts followed by family perspective, social tendency and the fear of gays.

Group Final Project 3.2

Working on our Poster XDD 

Title (Topic)
Marriage x Gender = Equality
Motivation
1.World trend
2. Freedom of thoughts and reconsideration of the past
3.Recently there's a news about millions of people gathered in France to protest against  homosexual marriage.
Questions
(1) What's your opinions about  homosexual marriage? Why? (Reasons are departed into heterosexuality' angle and homosexuality's angle)
(2) How will homosexual marriage affect your life? (based on  heterosexuality)
(3) What's homosexuality's opinion about marriage? (based on homosexuality)
(4) If homosexual marriage ends up legal, do you think  homosexual marriage will affect family    and society structure? why or why not?
(5) How will you make your perspective and opinion to be heard in the back flow of the society?
   Methods
   (a) Survey
   (b) Interview
   (c) Short video (briefly describe our topic)
   (d) Poster description
        (1)graphs
        (2)statistics
        (3)arts <pictures>

Final Group Project (3.1)

Living in this booming century, where all the traditional aspects are shook by various new thoughts, it is not avoidable to take in new ideas. With the rapid growth of technology and the thought of equality between different people, we begin to think and question what we had done in the past, whether it is right or wrong. With is trend taking part, comes our motivation for the group’s final project. In the past when we talked about people going out with same gender, we tend to use negative words such as gay or lesbian. However, people in this century begin to change their thought about gays and lesbian. They point out that it is acceptable to be with the people that truly loved you than someone that does not liked you. We should respect their relationship because they are just as the same as our relationship. In our final group project, we are planning to make a short video film about the situation we are facing and interviewing professionals at this area. Then we will combine all the sources we have and put them into a short presentation.     

Challenges For Taiwanese University Students of this Generation (2.4)

Confucian Chinese believe that only through education can people succeed. Therefore, most Asian parents want their children to get the best education they can afford.

Figure 1
National Universities somehow escape the crisis
of booming numbers of universities in Taiwan.  

As a result our Nobel laureate Lee Yuan-Tze, made President Lee Teng-Hui adopt his education reform, which includes increasing the number of colleges and universities.

The consequences, however, dropped the value of university diploma. Now graduating from university no longer means assurance for jobs. 

When questioned about what is his future plan as a university freshman . “Knowing what I will do in the future when I graduate” said Johnny, a freshman in the English department at NCU. He points out that even though almost every student can enter university nowadays, but only few of these students knows what they are going to do when graduate. “Because my major is English; I will enhance my English ability and develop my critical thinking. Moreover, I will cultivate my social skill by participating in various activities.”

Chad, a freshman in the English department at NCU comes up with the same conclusion as Johnny. Chad suggested that if   anyone plans to get a job after graduation; they would have to start preparing in advance and find their interest as fast as possible.”

There is no denial that a university diploma in Taiwan is losing its promise for jobs. It is the trend and obstacles for every university student of this generation. Every University students should begin thinking and knowing what they are going to do in the future. After all, the main goal of attending a university is to acquire higher education and get a promising profession.