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Very unfortunately we have seen how the support for accepting refugees in Europe have
dropped dramatically in Europe after the terrorist attacks in Paris. It is a fallacy to say that refugees are
terrorists, and it would be extremely unfair to penalize thousands of people that need our help because
some terrorists made an abominable act. Refugees are escaping exactly from what we are afraid of:
terrorists. It is our moral obligation to receive them. Also, besides the fact that by receiving refugees we
are helping others, there is also a selfish reason to accept them as our economy will improve with their
influx.
There are many students' organizations around different universities in Europe that are
promoting the reception of refugees to the continent. I plan to send to these organizations the brochure
I made so that they will provide the brochures to other university students. Most of the times, young
people are the ones that influence the most the society as they are energetic and full of new ideas. I am
sure that if the majority of Europeans want to receive refugees, leaders (politicians) will accept them as
most of politicians respond to public opinion as they need citizens' vote. As more Europeansstarting
with university studentsare convinced that refugees should be accepted, leaders will start accepting
them as they want to continue with their jobs. I hope that with my brochure I will contribute to this
noble cause.
Let
Refugees In!
#RefugeesWelcome
Refugees in
Europe
Informational
Brochure for
European Students
How to receive an
influx of refugees
There has to be control in refugees'
relocation throughout Europe. Not
only because of security but also for
economics'
reasons.
If
we
encourage European officials to
accept the following steps, we will all
benefit from the refugees' influx:
Mahmoud's Story
Sources:
1) "Why Is EU Struggling with Migrants and Asylum? - BBC News." BBC News. Bbc.com, 21
Sept. 2015. Web. 01 Nov. 2015.
2) Huet, Donatien. "Where Do the Refugees Come From?" Http://info.arte.tv/en/where-dorefugees-come-where-are-they-going. N.p., 5 Sept. 2015. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.
3) Kingsley, Patrick. "10 Truths About Europe Refugee Crisis." The Guardian.
Www.theguardian.com, 10 Aug. 2015. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.
4) "11 Facts About Refugees." Do Something. www.dosomething.com N.p., n.d. Web. 29
Nov. 2015.
5) Holger, Dieter. "29 Countries Accepting Refugees From Syria And The Mideast." The
Inquisitr News. Inquisitr, 6 Sept. 2015. Web. 04 Nov. 2015.
6) "Merkel the Bold." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 05 Sept. 2015. Web. 04
Nov. 2015.
7) Tharoor, Ishaan. "Were Syrian Refugees Involved in the Paris Attacks? What We Know
and Dont Know." The Washington Post. N.p., 17 Nov. 2015. Web. 1 Dec. 2015.
8) "Refugee Crisis: European Commission Takes Decisive Action." European Commission.
European Commission Press Release Database, 9 Sept. 2015. Web. 04 Nov. 2015.
9) "Let Them in and Let Them Earn." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 27 Aug.
2015. Web. 04 Nov. 2015.
10) Bond, Kate. "Refugee Testimonies on Resettlement." European Resettlement Network.
N.p., 17 Apr. 2015. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.
Reflection Letter
Unit 4 is the assignment that I have enjoyed the most doing. Before this assignment I already
knew all the information regarding the topic because of all the previous information gathered for the
previous unit. Therefore, doing Unit 4 was more about creativity than research. It took me a long timeI
would say half of the project's timeto decide which format I would use for this assignment, after I
decided that I was going to do a brochure I also took a substantial amount of time to decide how I was
going to provide my message (in which style). Where I struggled the most on this unit was on trying to
compress all the information and deciding what not to include on the brochure. At the end, I managed
to include all the main ideas on the topic and the few ideas I did not include in the brochure were not
very important. I also enjoyed doing this unit for the fact that I had to make a brochure design as if I
were a graphic designer. It was not easy to decide which pictures to include. Also, it was entertaining to
do this unit as I had to communicate in a non-professional way. After an entire semester writing in a
very technical style, going back to informal communication was very interesting and fun.
That being said, I would like to thank professor Enos, Chintu and Robert for their great feedback
on Unit 4 draft. From professor Enos the feedback that helped me the most came from her opinion on
how a context note should be. My original context note only included to 'who' and 'where' was my
brochure going to be provided. After reading at her thoughts on context notes I included 'why' my
brochure was going to be given and 'how'. I am sure that because of this update I did to my context
note, my Unit 4 assignment will be much more understandable and easy to follow for any reader I might
have, including professor Enos. From Robert I really appreciated his feedback on my grammar. To be
honest, I thought that my grammar was correct before his comments, however, Robert mentioned to
me a couple mistakes I was committing. One of my mistakes was in one of the titles! Thanks to his help I
did a rigorous check on grammar and hopefully I do not have any mistake now. Also, I investigated the
mistakes I made hoping that I will not commit them never again. And finally, from Chintu's long but
precise feedback what I appreciated the most were his comments on the design of my brochure. Chintu
recommended me to make the brochure interesting and attractive for university students so that once
they would open the brochure, they would be tempted to read the information in it.
Because of the great feedback I received I am sure that I am turning in a strong final Unit 4
assignment. This was a very entertaining unit for me since it required converting technical information
into more practical one with pictures and an attractive design. So far I have not received good grades on
my units' assignments. I know that as an international student is not easy to write as well as Americans.
But in every assignment I have had the feeling that I was going to get an excellent grade because of the
time and effort I have invested on my papers. It has been very frustrating for me to see that my grades
are not reflecting the effort I am putting on this class. Hopefully in this assignment, as it is something
completely different, which requires creativity and a new style rather than professional writing, I will be
able to get the good grade I have been trying to get throughout the entire semester.