Assignment 21: Anne Nombe

There's a lot of problems I'd like to solve. To give you an idea of how many, here's a list:

• Poverty world wide
• Power corruption in my parents' home country and across the entire continent of Africa
• The US justice system
• The Venezuelan economic crisis
• School shootings
• Should the death penalty be legal?
• Double standards when it comes to harassment
• How to stop terror groups like ISIS
• Treatment of criminals

As you can see, a lot of the problems I want to solve are beyond myself. Because I spend so much time reading the news, I also spend a lot of time thinking about how to address world-wide crises. Our world is not a perfect place, and it probably never will be, but that doesn't stop me from wondering how we can makes steps towards improvement. Sometimes, I wonder if the reason I can't overlook these problems means that my career "calling" (if you believe that semantic) is somewhere in the realm of policy. After all, if I became a politician or a lawyer I could begin making steps to combat a lot of the problems I've listed. In the end, though, I wonder how much help I'd be.