Nadia13

I feel down, I ve been trying to write a SOP for International relations & diplomacy but I feel that I'm turning around without reaching the POINT I want to show to the reader Here is what I wrote till now. "I was thirteen years old when my seventh grade History teacher first spoke about the Bosnian War. He said:” Do you know why the world is extremely concerned about what happens in Bosnia-Herzegovina today? It is because Franz Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria was assassinated in Bosnia. This assassination led to the First World War”. It was brief but very constructive. It was the first time a teacher deals with International themes in a critical way i.e. the teacher put the syllabus aside and started to treat the issue trying to involve students in his discussion and try to give our point of view in the matter. Another “event” of the same kind happened four years later when another History teacher involved her students in her course. It was about the war in Vietnam and the US International approach. I have to say that teachers are conditioned by their respective syllabus, and few go beyond and try to involve their students who usually get the lessons in a passive way. The two above events along with the political and security situation in Algeria back then (Algerian civil war) awoke my interest in History and drove my attention into Politics and International relations, eventually, influenced my choice and conditioned my entering to the Faculty of Humanities. I wanted to become a teacher of higher studies who would be able to discuss with her students about passed, current and upcoming events. To try to introduce “politics” in a mind that has been vacuumed for a long time. However, a teacher who could exploit ……………. Since the nineties more and more students choose to go to university to get higher degree. Unfortunately, this potential is not correctly exploited. Students face teachers who neglect and disregard their capabilities, and student’s position is most of the time switched from active to passive. My entering to the University coincided with an event that happened in Algeria. It was in 2005 when president Bouteflika called for a referendum to “reconcile” the Algerian people; it was to enable former terrorists to “re-integrate” the Algerian society. Unsurprisingly, the “Yes” won with over 90% of the votes. In fact, the referendum was a pure charade as the previous elections in the country. Although, most of Algerian people were against this charter of reconciliation, the dice had been thrown and the people had no word to say about the matter. The EU and the US rushed to congratulate the president over his success and no word was pronounced to denounce the masquerade. Since then, my “ideal” vision towards Western countries has changed for why in the world a country who prone Freedom and Democracy, and call the oppressed people to rise against dictatorships would accept a president “Bouteflika” who came in a very illegal way, gave orders to kill over than one hundred people in Kabylia during the “Black spring” in 2001 and freed over 30.000 terrorists without a trial?. In fact, it is easy; it is called International relations and diplomacy. No country would harm her “profitable relations” with another country to help this latter’s people. Having chosen to studying English as foreign language at university, I was aware that I am going to explore themes I am interested in. In other words, studying American/British civilisation and literature would permit me to develop my knowledge, understanding and a new vision of International relations and Anglo-Saxon influence worldwide. I had chance to be taught by some of the best professors in the Faculty. Thus, I have succeeded to develop my own view concerning the matter and widen my “superficial” understanding of the US hegemony along with the EU partnership. During my undergraduate studies I have treated different topics concerning both entities." Gosh I got the feeling that I am writing something that is totally OUT , can't organize my ideas . even the structure is weird.