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Hello, Tricero! This is your auxiliar from last year, Taylor.

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I'm here to tell you that if you're watching this video, it's because I'm dead.

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Just kidding! I'm in California! But I'm here today to explain to you what is Global Classrooms.

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Do you feel like you can go into the world now as a leader of society?

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Not sure, but I think I will be more prepared for it.

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What got you through the struggle? Oh, what got you through the grind?

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It's on the rise, through the store, and I can feel it

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It's slowly coming back to the core of good music

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Back when letters were spittin', the shit was different

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It wasn't debates, if the bars were actually written

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I'ma be cool

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So, first things first

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What is the United Nations?

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And what is Global Classrooms?

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And what do they have to do with each other?

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What is the UN, or the United Nations?

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And what do you think they do?

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Maybe you think of our world representatives like this, sleeping, boring, unattentive.

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Or maybe you think they're all up in arms, they're fighting, they're debating, it's aggressive and intense.

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But in reality, it's a little bit of both.

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Perhaps.

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Now let's allow a skilled professional to give you more information about the UN.

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The United Nations was established in 1945 with the signatory of 50 countries

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for the sole purpose of preventing the outbreak of war and averting a world war.

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The United Nations has many parts to it.

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It deals, for instance, with matters of economics and social policy.

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It deals with matters of human rights and matters of culture.

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The most important parts of the UN are the Security Council,

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which has five permanent members who are responsible for controlling its policy.

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These are France, Britain, the United States, China, and Russia.

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The other body that is very important is where all the nations meet and come together,

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and that is the General Assembly.

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Both the General Assembly and the Security Council pass what are called resolutions

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to make policy for the world.

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The UN has been responsible for eradicating polio in Africa, for instance,

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of dealing with problems of debt or problems of other diseases spreading, for example.

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UN has been very important in making sure that human rights are observed.

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The most famous document in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights,

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which has been ratified and kept by many countries.

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UN, precisely because it's so complex,

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is determined to make sure that everything can be done towards a big picture of peace

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and trying to make sure that humanity attains the primary purpose of what it says,

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that we believe, we believe in a better future.

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So maybe you know now, more or less, a little bit about the UN.

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Ultimately, you should understand that these countries, with their delegates,

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solve the needs or the problems of the world through discussion, deliberation,

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and then they come to a resolution.

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So what are you doing in Global Classrooms?

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Global Classrooms is a simulation of the UN.

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In other words, in this simulation, you're going to do a mock UN General Assembly meeting.

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All the nations meet and come together and that is the General Assembly.

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Another way to think about it is instead of this, you will be doing this.

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So that brings us to the question, how will you start?