Doctor Stergios

In the lecture, Community Engaged Research in the San Joaquin: Impact through Collaboration, instructs by Doctor Stergios Roussos he provides the ideal method that could solve the issues in Merced such as child poverty, food insecurity and high unemployment. He encourages the idea that valuable lessons each students coming from another place in California or outside of California could possibly give Merced community a chance to grow out of being “America’s third most miserable city” (Castro 2). In addition, in hope to possibly avoid urban sprawl such as in L.A., Doctor Roussos is hoping that non-native students in Merced could be a part of the process that assist the community intelligently grow for a better future.

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Karner illustrates how changes in community have to start in the presence to avoid the effects of drastic climate change that harm living species and humanity any more than it should. Similar to Doctor Roussos’s idea of helping Merced community, Karner’s thought is to take actions that could possibly provide the lower the risk of Earth extinction where humans start caring on the effects that they are leaving on the planet and actions have to start on influential and intellectual

From Roussos’s presentation to Karner and Castro’s articles, I concur to the idea of change has to begin in the present time in order for each other generations to continue to have resources that humanity has now. The idea that intellectual students could have influential in their community brings the idea that the knowledge young generations gain could help their community to lower the chance of high poverty rate, cities turning into urban sprawls and lower standards of living for humanity. All in all, Roussos, Castro, and Karner are activists that perceive the change humanity needs to make in order to avoid health issue, economic issue in the near