The Human Experience

For the majority of my life, I had been shy, even though it didn’t seem like it most of the time, I was scared to death when I met new people. I know that it sounds extremely trivial, but I feel that when you first meet someone, you’re ultimately giving them their first impression of yourself and that is a lot of pressure. It seemed almost certain that I would lead a life of being a social wallflower until March 2017, more specifically, March 28th, 2017. This day was and still is important to me because I learned how to be confident, and through my experience, it taught me something that I will hold onto forever. Prior to this day, I was an extremely introverted person and rarely went out of my way to make friends. As a volunteer at day

It taught me how to be a leader. As I went through each step of the senior project,

“Who am I?” is a broad question that will change over the course of my lifetime. Currently I define myself as a white Catholic woman who is religious and independent. I am also a college student studying to become a social studies teacher. I am in a relationship, but still open to religious life. My relationship defines a part of who I am and who I want to become. This definition of who I am will not be the same in years to come, but this is who I am currently. My view of the human experience will also change over time, but right now there are four pillars of the human experience: education, community, religion, and nature. These pillars are things I believe everyone experiences in their life. The readings I have done in this class has helped me define the human experience and develop who I am. “The Allegory of the Cave,” “Declaration of Independence,” “Ingroup and Outgroup,” “Human Nature,” and “Religious Diversity” are the five readings that have had the most impact on the meaning of the human experience and who I am.

It showed me that the world has changed over time and things

It made me realize how far away some communities are from large city centers and it brought me to question the values gained through education when exploring our immediate community/landscape. What we learn is really based off where we are living at the time. It wasn’t until this moment that I realized the validity of a statement like “It’s a great place to raise a family”.  I am now beginning to question the community that raised me and how it has influenced me as a person and furthermore how it will translate into my

country. It taught me the strength of the human condition and showed me the level of gratitude felt by those who

On one sunny day, I was helping my mom doing chores when she pulled me over to talk to me about something important. I was confused why my mom would want to me about something important, but I listened to what she said and followed her. What she told me was what her life was like back in Vietnam. She did not have much of an education. Instead, she stayed home with her mom to sell Vietnamese yogurt every day for a living. Since I was born in America, I never thought of life was like for others in developing countries like Vietnam. Hearing from my mom's experience, it stuck with me. I learned the importance of being grateful for what I have since they are a lot of people who do not have what we have in America and it made me want to help those who are in need. I was also inspired to do whatever I

Crash is a film about racial discrimination about disparate lives that tangle as they deal with the tense race relations that belie in the city of Los angeles. Among the people, a black film director and his black wife who believes her husband does not support their black background come across two white police officers during an incident who must deal with the racist cop at which one is a racist and uses his advantages to harass black women and the other who does not like his partner because the way he uses non whites to his own advantages. A married white couple who get car jacked by two black men who use their race as an advantage and excuse. A persian owner of a small business who feels he isn't gaining enough satisfaction on in the american society when his store is robbed. And finally a latino who fixes locks that just wants to take care of his wife and little daughter in the unsafe world. .

I witnessed true comradery, I learned how to be compassionate and experienced a love I’ve never known before. I learned how to give without expectations of something in return (other than the good feeling accompanied by it), I learned to never judge a book by its cover, be grateful for what you have because some aren’t as fortunate, and most importantly be kind to everyone!

In the movie ,The human experience, is 3 differents experiences from homeless to abused children and many african people being sick. The experience the young man went through can really change how someone feels and change their mind set. This helps society a little by seeing other peoples point of view and how their is people who have it worst and we should value life and how we need to find who we are. We find healing and forgiveness by loving our self by valuing life how it is and making the best of it. We need to find our self to forgive and to heal to know that life is a treasure. We do mistakes and learn but sometimes we should have our feet in the ground and appreciate everything we have and the people that surround us because everyone is valuable.

It helped me understand the things that happen in the world. I know the good and the bad things happens to me so that it can and will make me better as an individual today.

This documentary has a voice which is the most important part of any movie, furthermore, it has it own way of living and breathing and speaking to

We embraced diversity and that made us as a whole. A whole purely composed of intelligence and skills. A whole with a passion to help the marginalized. A whole in a mission to drive change for a better world. I have considered the five long days of exposure we spent as a life long learning experience. And honestly, I couldn't even afford to buy memories like these.

The world as we see it seems real, but we do not know that it is; In "The Experience Machine" everything is handed to you, you are unaware that this isn't real, meanwhile your body lays floating somewhere in a science lab. In order to be human and learn we must experience different types of emotions, whether negative or positive. In my opinion people need to work to get to what they want, there are no handouts in life and that is the reality of it; I want to know that I accomplished graduating college, going to medical school, becoming a psychiatrist, by myself. I want to feel the hardship that I need to go through to make it through all of that, and the outcome will be pure happiness. Also, in this fake world you experience, everything is

To me this movie really teaches you to stay strong, keep motivated and most importantly that anyone can be successful. This movie taught me so much about prevalence and how the power of good over comes evil. Those women prayed so much that they got so much accomplished and they got so many things to change for the better. In my future I will use this movie as a motivation tool and as a way to remind myself that even though times are hard they will get better you just have to hold on. Also in the future I will use this movie to show that anything is possible if you have help from those you love and believe in.