2019 International Cultural Exchange Conference and 2019 International Environment Protection Awareness Conference
By Kevin Bryan and Derek Dong
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The book is the proceedings from the above-mentioned conferences. The purposes of the conferences are to bring awareness and recognition to their fellow students from difference countries of the cultural differences and similarities among difference cultures and the environmental issues and challenges facing the younger generations and the world
Kevin Bryan
The authors are high school students in California. They are two of the organizers of the conferences mentioned in the book title and the editors of the conference proceedings.
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2019 International Cultural Exchange Conference and 2019 International Environment Protection Awareness Conference - Kevin Bryan
2019 International Cultural Exchange Conference
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2019 International Environment Protection Awareness Conference
Kevin Bryan and Derek Dong
Copyright © 2019 by Kevin Bryan and Derek Dong.
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Table of Contents
2019 International Cultural Exchange Conference
The Changing Face of American Higher Education
An Assumption for Success -- Don’t Use Your Current View to Plan Your Future
Study in the States
Jazz in American Schools
Vintage and Retro:
Stress and How to Deal
Music: A Process of Creation
Visual Arts
The Importance of Visual and Performing Arts for Students in the 21st Century
Differences in Education Between China and the U.S.
High School Student Community Service and Tibet Project
Popular Books in the US and China
2019 Youth International Environment Protection Awareness Conference
How to Live Sustainably in an Environmentally Challenged World
Environmental Conservation
Fire and Air Pollution
Tree Planting in Tibet
Endangered Species in China
The Use of Robotics to Improve Environmental Conditions
Thermal Pollution
Ecological Effects of Dams
Plastic in the Ocean
Air Pollution
Animal Protection
An Agent of Change
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all of our guest speakers for attending our conferences and providing us with such insightful speeches. We also thank our hosts for keeping the conference running smoothly, as well as the technology department for making sure the powerpoint was working properly. Thank you to all the students who translated on stage, as well as those who transcribed and translated speeches for our proceedings.
Editors-in-Chief of Proceedings:
Kevin Bryan and Derek Dong
Conference Master of Ceremonies:
Will Wu, Kevin Bryan, Julie Broch, Jenny Wang
Conference Host:
Kevin Bryan, Julie Broch, Jenny Wang, Derek Dong, Yuhao Wang, Serena Mao, Christina Hua, Michael Chang, Erick Moises Xu Li, Yukiko Xian
Stage Translators:
Eileen Guo, Serena Mao, Jenny Wang, Zeru Peter Li, Will Wu
Proceedings Transcription:
Kevin Bryan, Derek Dong, Erick Moises Xu Li, Christina Hua, Michelle Hua
2019
International Cultural
Exchange Conference
Location: Wuhan China; Date: June 23, 2019
Hosts of Conference: Kevin Bryan, Will Wu, Julie Broch
This has been the fifth annual International Cultural Exchange Conference. Our purpose for this conference is to have professionals and students exchange information and ideas about the differences between cultures ranging from the United States to China to Mexico, as well as providing insight into education abroad. We have translated, transcribed, compiled, and edited the speeches of all our speakers.
Proceeding editors: Kevin Bryan, Derek Dong
Dr. Jay Jones
1.jpgProfessor Jones has a broad academic background, with concentrations in Botany, Microbiology, Chemistry, and Geology. His research and work experience includes Senior Research Geobotanist, conducting research on oil and gas exploration (ARCO), Naturalist/Interpreter (National Park Service), Remote Sensing Consultant (NASA/Lockheed). He is currently in the field conducting floral surveys, as well as in the laboratory working with complex analytical instrumentation. As Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Jones has taught an exceptionally broad range of courses including versions of an interdisciplinary course entitled: Toward a Sustainable Planet. Many of these courses have field components in which faculty and students see the global impact of the human species in various countries around the world.
The Changing Face of American Higher Education
Today, I’m going to talk a little about education in the United States and the changes that are going on currently. How many of you are aspiring to study in the United States, can you raise your hands?
Some of you are anticipating going to the United States to be able to study. The question is, what school is going to be the best for you? Most people go to college in order to qualify for a job. We might want to become an engineer, or perhaps a doctor. However, one of the most valuable things about going to college is actually to broaden your perspectives, to learn what opportunities are available, and to find your passion. The other very important thing that higher education introduces to us is how to become an informed global citizen. We live in a world together. We are all connected. There is nothing that we do that doesn’t affect other people in the world. The final reason that I think we go to college is to have a happy life, a quality life. In order to get that quality of life, you must find satisfaction not in money or your profession, but in the community. It is the relationship between you and the people around you that are the most satisfying and enriching things in life.
I will give you an example. 70% of students at the college level, at the undergraduate level, will change their major, abandon what they were going to be, to another path to finish their education. When I started college, I wanted to be a pharmacist, because I loved chemistry and biology. But when I got to college, I found many other opportunities, and a whole world that I didn’t realize existed. I got involved in research and became closely associated with research scientists. I realized that I no longer wanted to be a pharmacist. I could no longer see myself behind a counter counting pills and reading prescriptions. That would be very boring for me.
I developed a passion for research and the environment. My current profession allows me to travel around the world, to get into indigenous areas to see wildlife, yet also be in a laboratory with high-tech instrumentation. It also helps to answer the