SIMUN Overview

When I was first researching my country, the United States, I was scared and nervous on what it was going to be like. Sure I knew my countries background and views, but I did not have a real grasp on what to expect. So all I could do to prepare was to know my countries views and history. Not to make things better, when I asked my brother what to expect and what is was going to be like he just said, “Don’t worry about it, it is easy.” Also the day before SIMUN we tried a practice scenario the day before, but since we were all freshmen the debate didn’t really take off.

When SIMUN was all said and done, I felt that I played a key role in the debates and participated a lot, even though I’m only a freshman. I tried to represent the United States to the best of my abilities and to stand by their views, even when I didn’t agree with them (which was almost never). I tried to constantly ask questions to the speaker and to be on the speakers list. I caucused with my allies such as Germany, France, India, and Mexico. We worked together to pass resolutions and so voice our countries opinions.

Overall I felt that SIMUN was a great experience and was very fun to debate with other countries such as China and Cuba. I feel that this has not only opened my eyes to current events happening in the world, it has also helped me to learn to debate better and speak in front of others much better without stuttering or saying “um” every five seconds. It has also helped me to understand what really happens in the United Nations on a daily basis and to meet some of the upper classmen in Global Education.

SIMUN was a whole lot of fun in itself, but there are some areas of the experience that I could have done better on. Next year I plan to not only look up how my country feels about a current, but also how the opposing countries feel about it. I also need to work on my debating and speaking skills before next year so I can sound more professional. In the end SIMUN was a great experience for me and other Globies and I can’t wait until next year to do it again.

SIMUN Overview

Free Blog- The Kite Runner

For every one who has not read the book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, it is about a boy named Amir who grows up in Afghanistan for the first few years of his life with his father(a well respected Afghani man) and a few males servants. Amir grows up not knowing how females are treated a lot of the times because he was raised in a all male environment in his home in Afghanistan. Later in his life he is forced to flee and run to the United States with his father. In the United States, Amir's dad teaches him more about how to live up to the duties of an Afghan man before he dies and how to treat a wife. When they made the trip to the United States, they also took their culture with them. Amir later tries to marry a young Afghani women but is scrutinized by his actions because of their views on women and later marries her.

In the Afghani culture, just as in the past United States culture and mostly all around the world, women were seen as lesser individuals and not equal to men. This has opened my mind to other cultures, some that are very different from the United States’ culture. Even though Amir and his wife are living in the United States, their Afghani culture is still there and women are still suppressed a little. In the book, if a man sleeps with many females it is all right and they blow it off because he is a male and is just said to be “playing the field“. While if a female sleeps with a lot of men, like Amir’s wife once did, then she is scrutinized by the Afghani people and denounced a slut. Amir’s wife was still being talked about, and in the middle of a lot of gossip even after two years after the incident. Another reason for example, in conversations the men have the final say of things and were suppose to lead the house with a good job for his family. While the wife had to listen to the male and was not always aloud to work, and in Afghanistan were sometimes not even aloud to leave the house without a males presence. Also in Afghanistan women were not allowed to drink in public. They could still drink in private but it was frowned upon. Men on the other hand could drink in public and smoke.

SIMUN Blog

I am the delegate from the United States. If the Taliban were to approach Pakistan and try to take over its nuclear supply, it would be a devastating blow for the whole world. Everyone in the middle east would have the fear of being nuked and there is no real area where they could retaliate back with a nuke. If this situation were to happen, the United States would do everything in its power to protect the rest of the world and its allies. If the Pakistani government decided to not focusing on the issue or were being overwhelmed by the terrorist group, then United States would be more than happy to send in troupes to protect the missile areas from Taliban control.

Some people might say that this would just be another case of what happened in Iraq on the United States’ part, but there is a major difference. In Iraq we were going in, in retaliation and we would be going into Pakistan to prevent a world wide catastrophe. The United States would have the backing of its foreign allies such as the U.K., France, Germany, and most definitely Israel (as they are a mostly Jewish nation that many terrorist groups hate and defy). If these monstrous weapons fell into the hands of the Taliban, it could set off a rampage of the terrorist group trying to take over countries threatening to nuke them and possibly set off a nuclear war. This is a very serious situation that could happen in the future and needs real precise consideration on behalf of all the countries around the world.