Dark Souls

There are times when a disaster for horrific event brings out the best in people not the worst. We see this right here at home when there is a tornado or a hurricane. Many times people band together to help others through the hard times. People will donate clothes, food, blankets, all to families who have lost everything and have nothing. Also as i said before families did take jews in to protect them. An article from healthland.time.com in 2011 says, “Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future.”(Solnet) Sometimes disasters bring us together as communities in a way nothing else can. Our first reaction is to take care of ourselves but when the smoke clears we tend to help each other out. However this is rare it always seems to be that more people take care of themselves first and that's why it is such a big deal when people put others first. Whenever somebody does something good there is extensive news coverage and a large amount of conversation about it. This shows that it is not the normal thing. We are so used to people not helping but hurting others that we are blown away when somebody does something good. Really bad things tend to take our minds off the everyday problems and stresses that we have. We put all of our effort and attention into the bigger problem and tend to stop solving our smaller ones. This can be a good thing because it relieves our stress but it also helps us procrastinate and let some of our responsibilities

In the last ten to fifteen years accompanying the dawn of social media, means of communication among friends and strangers have been easier than ever. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown into the largest social media site on the Internet with 30 million users and counting. The ability to catch up with former high school friends who are now across the country or see how an aunt in Pittsburgh has been doing since the birth of her son are now as simple as the click of a mouse. However, the amount of “friends” acquired on social media may not be an accurate reflection of how many close relationships one truly shares. In an article from Bigthink.com titled “Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?”, Steven Mazie gathers research from Pew Research Center about statistics surrounding Facebook

“My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.” - Gerda Weissman Klein. Imagine a person waking up thinking that today will be a normal day. In a more specific sense, that today will repeat that person’s normal cycle of activities. However, nobody knows the future. Nobody can truly predict their fate, and therefore when something goes awry, people are at the least, a little surprised. Nobody could predict that Germany was going to invade Poland on September 1st, 1939. And nobody could predict what hell they were about to go through. Especially the people who would have to wear a yellow Star of David. The people who would

People grew worried of the outcome of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina did not just cause flooding, but was established in the fifth category of the worst hurricane in the United States. People believed that a doomsday storm was going to occur and categorized Hurricane Katrina to be it. They did not know what the next day would be like, or if their life would go back to normal. All they could think about was what was going to happen next; how were they going to survive the damage it had caused? Moral principles played a part in staying close to their family and keeping one another safe. They tried keeping

Natural disasters can bring communities together, even if they have been torn apart. One morning, residents of New Orleans emerged from various shelters and their homes to examine the remnants of Hurricane Katrina. Several hours later, they realized there was more devastation awaiting them. Hours later, “…a breach in the levees allowed water to continue to rise until whole neighborhoods were flooded.” Hurricane Katrina brought great attention to the lack of local and disaster relief programs. Most programs are not designed or funded to help assist people for more than four or five weeks. When federal assistance money (FEMA) started to run out, the people were expected to find jobs or get help from other government agencies. This only caused

Sometimes people do not get involved in the situation because they are detached from the situation or the person in the crisis. For example, in the poem “Not Waving but Drowning,” by Stevie Smith there was a man in need of help. This man displayed a happy and joking personality, and because of this no one genuinely knew what was happening in his life. His need for help was not evident on the surface. No one came to his aid because they did not realize he was in jeopardy. People were not involved in his life and therefore felt detached from the situation

Many individuals in the country are struggling to make ends meet on a good day, so what happens when disaster strikes? They are unprepared, have a harder time recovering, and their risk and devastation are increased in the disaster. Class inequality impacts individuals on the lower end of the scale. They have less access to resources to prepare themselves before the disaster strikes, and after disaster strikes they have even less resources to recover with. Lower class individuals are also at a higher risk of devastation during a disaster because they cannot always escape before the disaster hits or have the potential to live in areas that are less likely to be affected.

The article “Social Media as Community” “We no longer lose social ties over our lives; we have Facebook friends forever.” (Keith Hampton) Social media has created amazing apps that let us meet people that are exactly how we are ourselves. They have helped many students get relationships that they thought would never happen. “There is little evidence that social media is responsible for a trend of isolation, or a loss of intimacy and social support.” “Social Networking Sites and Our lives.” On the internet there is little evidence that social media has caused an isolation. The internet has made it where we can talk to people far from here that are just like us and usually people don’t lose friends that are exactly like

Concern about the increase in disasters worldwide has prompted advocates of mental health interventions to study the relationship between mental health and disasters more closely in order to devise effective strategies

When we get in touch with each other through these destinations we are restricting ourselves. When you utilize systems like Facebook, "you're speaking to yourself on a database. At that point you live as indicated by that database. You fill in checkmarks saying this is what I'm keen on, this is the sort of person I am, this is the music I need to listen, and you turn into a personification of yourself"(University Declares a Week Without Social Media 3).This sort of portrayal brings down us and our mankind. We are referred to just as what we compose on our pages. Our humankind is the thing that gives us a chance to act naturally. We have the privilege to control what we say and do, "We imagine ourselves, and we create our own taste. We choose what companionship implies, and moreover, we mean to bring home the bacon since we're not subordinate" (University Declares a Week without Social Media 3). This is the thing that makes us our identity and correspondence is an extensive piece of that. On the off chance that we quit settling on our own decisions than we've lost living and be human. We ought to have the capacity to disclose to each other about ourselves face to face and make genuine companions. These informal organizations have harmed numerous things, yet they can't be permitted to hurt our

Somebody who lives across the country can do the same thing. They can read a person’s social media feed, and consider themselves “friends”. People can go through the hardest times in their private lives and an online friend would never know what was actually going on in somebody’s personal life. Only a true friend would comfort and understand what they are going through. In another article “Do Your Friends Actually Like You”, Kate Murphy, Alex Pentland, and Alexander Nehamas want people to understand that you may know someone through the internet and social media, but could actually turn out to be an artificial connection.

The natural world and the way things work have all been changed. When something like an apocalypse happens it can change how people think and act. It is no longer a world that people live in, but instead a world that people survive in. In this new world, ethics and morals are tested to the extreme.

Prior to the terror attacks in 2001, the predominant thought processes for businesses in the private and local sectors was to continue generating money. By having this narrow-minded approach, these establishments were placing themselves in danger by not being prepared for a disaster, whether that would be man-made, weather or another type. According to Fisher (2004) in our attend section this week, after the 9/11/01 attacks, many businesses were left in dier need of assistance as they had not planned for such a catastrophe. There were several businesses that ended up going out of business. One in particular, lost its entire workforce in the attacks and had to start over, from nothing. Following the old adage that “hindsight is 20/20”,

In the town of Majula, the main town in the video game Dark Souls 2 by Bandai Namco, there lies a shopkeeper that goes by the name Maughlin. Maughlin sells armor to the travelers of Majula, many of whom seek to dethrone the king and take their place as the next king of the land. A short lore on the town of Majula and the world of Dark Souls is necessary, one may only enter the world after they have died, most inhabitants no longer know who they are or only have a slim recollection of who they are. All that these fallen understand is that they wish to have their humanity back and are given the quest to dethrone the king in order to receive said humanity. While many decide that this is their quest to is to obtain their humanity, some decide that

Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others (Ellison, 2007). These sites could be used for work related situation, romance, connecting with individuals with shared interest, or creating a connection amongst college students. Facebook enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate ‘‘friends’’ who can post comments on each other’s pages, and view each other’s profiles (Ellison, 2007). Individuals can write on the wall of friends, send private message, comment on posts, as well as chat via instant messaging. Much of the early research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group or location, liberating them to form communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared geography (Ellison, 2007).