...Paulo Alanes Ms. Bairos February 23rd 2014 HRE4M-09 Reflection Paper: The Human Experience In our world today we are very easily labeled by our gender, skin colour, religion, and sexuality, but we often forget that we are all human. To be human is to help our fellow man when he is in need; regardless of their race/religion he is human, just like us, so we help him. In the 2008 documentary The Human Experience, Jeffery Azize speaks of learning experiences. “When you go somewhere out of your own comfort zone, out of your own realm, and you enter someone else’s, that’s learning”. (The Human Experience.) Throughout the documentary Jeff, his brother Clifford Azize, and friends Michael Campo and Matthew Sanchez witness many different cultures and societies. Their views (and ours’) on humanity change after their experiences and they leave with a larger understanding of the world and how we see it. IV. What role does suffering play in life? How can we address our deepest suffering? Throughout the documentary we are presented with many different types if suffering around the world. In each different scenario, the individual had gained something positive, a valuable lesson that made them thankful for what they had or they gained a different perspective on life. After spending a week homeless in the streets of New York, Jeff learns about the suffering that homeless people face on a day-to-day basis. The role that suffering played in one of the men he had met had given the...
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...Human Experience - Relationships Tammy Johnson, Donna Washington, and Anthony Butler ENG/125 August 30, 2011 Carla Clemmons Human Experience - Relationships Relationships are part of everyone’s life and they are what make people who they are. Relationships influence an individual’s way of thinking and the way the act. Relationships can also be difficult to maintain. Relationships are a way of connecting with people that are close to you and that you care about. Everyone needs or wants to be loved and cared about at some point in their life. Personally experiencing another can be interesting and an essential part of life. * The readings that give examples of the human experience of relationships are “A Doll’s House,” Henrik Isben, “Woman’s Work,” Julia Alvarez and “On Going Home,” Joan Didion. In the drama “A Doll’s House,” the relationship between a husband and wife is played out. This play demonstrates the conflict of a wife deceiving her husband. It also shows different ways a husband treats his wife. Throughout the play, Nora is referred to as her husband’s “little Skylark” (Isben, 1879). The title of the play symbolizes the way Nora is treated and how her husband thinks of her. She is thought of like a mindless doll that is living in her “doll house” The irony in this play is that while Nora’s husband thinks she does not have a mind of her own, she takes it upon herself to go out and take a loan out to get her family through a rough time. The time...
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...The Human Experience In todays society no one truly knows what it means to be a human or what it means to gain the human experience. I am here today to tell you a story about a group of young men that try to truly gain the human experience. There is no true definition of what it means to be human; to be human is to live all aspects of life. Jeffery Azize and his older brother Clifford Azize set out to travel the world to try and gain knowledge about society. It was truly amazing that every person Jeffery and Clifford had talked too had said that they believe that God has a purpose for them and they are searching for what it is.in the documentary The Human Experience by Charles Kinnane, what it means to be a human is defined by the development of relationships, the role of suffering and the importance of love. In order to find the human experience, family is a very important. The Azize boys were raised in an abusive home; their father was an alcoholic and a drug user. Without there experiences at home they would not of went on this journey to find the real human experience. In the end of the film the two boys meet their father again. Secondly, in the documentary The human experience we are presented with different types of suffering throughout the boys journey. In each scenario the type of suffering changes but even though the type of suffering is different each person suffering gained a new life lesson and a new outlook on life. In New York where the two boys spent a week...
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...The Human Experience HUM205 World Culture & the Arts May 9, 2010 Love and Death A basic understanding in life is that almost everything changes except the human observation and analysis of everything changing. Seeds will always grow into plants, trees, or food; days will always give way to nights; and whatever is born must eventually die. Death is inevitable in life and different cultures have different perceptions of what death actually means. Some cultures celebrate death as it signifies a transfer to the preferred life beyond. Some cultures memorialize those loved ones that are lost because the survivors believe the deceased were taken too soon from the living realm. Either way, art seems to be the basis of expression when sorting through the emotions associated with losing a loved one. The Human Experience of Love and Death The work of art at the center of discussion in this paper is the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal relates to the human experiences of love and death. Losing a loved one is never easy and people will find various ways of coping with such a situation. One such way of coping with the loss of a loved one is through artistic expression, as Shah Jahan did when he commissioned Taj Mahal to be built in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Benton & DiYanni, 2008). A Personal Connection Love and death are very meaningful in my life. I love and I have been loved for as long as I can remember. I found myself lucky enough to avoid the concept of death until...
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...Human Experience of Illness Student Name Grand Canyon University: HLT 310V February 27, 2016 Human Experience of Illness One of the main goals of healthcare facilities is to provide the patients with a “healing environment”. The goal of the healing environment is to remove the patient from all the toxic and hazards to give them time to heal. Three concepts that help creating a stable environment will be explain in this paper. These concepts are the seen environment, the unseen environment, and the storied environment. Three concept of the Healing Environment The seen environment is the physical environment that pertains to all the objects that can be touched, seen, smelled, measured, etc. Painting the rooms with neutral colors help keep patients calm and relaxed. Keeping the patients room clean also helps the patient feel more in a healing environment, bad smells can be detrimental to a patient during hospital stay. If there is no adequate space inside the patient room this can create uneasiness in the patient mood. Providing the patient with food that taste good and that looks nutritious, helps the patient to feel more inside the healing environment. The unseen environment is the spiritual and psychosocial part of the healing environment. This unseen environment is the energy released by the interaction or the thoughts of people. This energy could be positive thoughts and positive actions of people to create a more healing environment and helping the patient recover faster...
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...What it means to have free will Conor hughes Sept 26 2014 Hre 4u1 Ms.ples Being a human means you ae fully in control of your life path, because you have free will. The gift of free choice is very important because free choice is the reason humans are where we are today, which is a good and bad thing. Good because we have made a lot of progress over the years but bad because in making that progress we have cause a lot of destruction. In my opinion what makes someone who they are is two things, Physical appearance and personality. First what makes someones physical appearance is their genetics and second what makes someone’s personality is there surroundings and life experiences. Everyone is unique in their own way because everyone is born differently and experiences life differently. You can choose your identity because you have free will and your identity is based off your actions. My experience toward finding meaning in my life has been somewhat up and down so far and I don’t truly believe I will find my purpose until I have found my career but I could be wrong I may find my life purpose tomorrow. Some people may search for meaning in their friends or their grades or even inanimate objects like the kind of clothes they wear or the car they drive. Inaanimate objects are surprisingly a very popular way of searching for meaning, for example very few rappers talk about their morals in their songs, they talk about their amazing car or their ten thousand dollar watch....
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...Understanding human behavior has been the hard experience for since losing my own. It was almost as if I was relearning the human experience from my own private view in which every human has, the mind. Yet, when I view from this place I believe that start to developed and understanding of my place within the universe. In retrospection, I find myself along in this form of this think. Does this leave me insane? Willing effort to be lose to the judgment of my peers? Or am not just simply unique? Theses thought started to gained speed within my head during my development into maturity. I found myself asking big question related to my significance in the world weather than about it. This at the time made me quite concerned about myself, as my hopes for myself were that of a great scientist. The intimate change from thinking on the universe to myself would be a drastic idea for a 13-year-old. But, then again I truly have no...
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...Aspect of Human Experience 1 William Blake’s poem A Poison Tree, Anton Chekhov’s Misery and the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare all show us how individual experiences shape interpretations. Many people believe that things happened in the past should stay in the past - which they should be forgotten. But others believe that your past defines who you are today. They believe that past experiences shape your identity. Our experiences shape our views and our treatment of others. Misery demonstrates how the experience of the death of a loved one, in this case, a son, can change the way you view the world entirely. Iona was suffering from the loss of his son, and when he tried to get people to feel or share in what he was going through, his feelings of despair were heightened by the fact that no one seemed to care. In A Poison Tree, the narrator shows us two sides of a similar situation. There’s the good and bad. Your emotions can cause you to react in ways that you would not normally react. When someone you know does wrong to you or someone you know, being able to forgive them may be easier to forgive than to forgive a person that you do not know so well. In this poem, the narrator is angry with his friend and is able to speak to his conscience and resolve the issue. But when he gets angry with his foe, he is unable to forgive and forget so easily. His emotions get the best of him, and his anger leads to tragedy. The Tragedy of...
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...Human experience is the understanding or skill that is consequent from direct observation or contribution. Throughout the novels and short stories we read during this semester, there was an underlying message of human experience. The understandings the characters go through transform them emotionally, logically, and or spiritually, such as “Grendel” by John Gardner and “Swamplandia!” by Karen Russell. In both “Grendel” and “Swamplandia!”, Grendel and Kiwi has the need to fit in and go through being lonely. Grendel struggles with rational complications and wishes to be a part of human society; he goes to the Dragon and the Shaper for help and is exposed different point of views of the world. As for Kiwi, he leaves Swamplandia and seeks out into...
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...1. How do you describe your College of Human Ecology experience (beyond that it is a small community within the context of a larger institution) to others? Feel free to include any surprises and/or challenges. If I had to describe the College of Human Ecology to other people, I would emphasize one word: interdisciplinary. One of the most unique aspects of the College of Human Ecology is how interdisciplinary the majors are. The curriculum structures of each major is very open and flexible, which encourages the students to pursue a lot of different academic disciplines and form dynamic connections between them. For me, personally, as a premed, the College of Human Ecology is really going to prepare me for the medical field because it will teach me to look at problems from a variety of different perspectives. Today’s medical problems are so complex, and they cannot be solved from purely a “hard science” perspective anymore. The classes HumEc encourages me to take will help me look at these medical problems using knowledge of health policy, public health, psychology, and even nutrition. 2....
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...Samuel Johnson: The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public Dynamic intelligence, speculative minds, misery of pain and shared anguish prompted the search of humans for law and justice. Law has been defined in different ways by various religious leaders and prolific philosophers. Law is an interpretative social practice that contains implicit moral principles and values. Law is related to justice, reason, human nature and ethics. The objective of law is stability, peace and tranquility of sentient beings. Protection of wrong encourages breaking of law. One who breaks the law cannot get protection. Laws can be made and unmade. Law must be just and fair. It is known as substantive due process doctrine. Samuel Johnson wrote that “The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.” Next only to William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in English-speaking countries, of course) called, simply, the Age of Johnson. Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as “arguably the most distinguished...
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...« Nul n’est responsable pénalement que de son propre fait »si la consécration de ce principe ne soulève pas de difficulté lorsque l’infraction est le fait d’une seule personne, il se complique lorsque l’infraction a été commise avec la coopération de plusieurs personnes puisqu’il s’agit alors de démasquer et d’individualiser le fait personnel de chacun dans le fait collectif Prenant en compte le mimétisme pénal du Sénégal de la France, nous allons cadrer notre travail sur cette dernière. Cependant au niveau de la présente étude il ne sera question que de la provocation à l’infraction. Elle se définie comme l’action intentionnelle par laquelle une personne entend influencer la raison d’autrui, en vue de porter atteinte à une valeur protégée, par commission ou par abstention .De plus , on peut la définir comme une infraction dont une personne qui, sans participer physiquement à l’infraction, a suggéré, plus ou moins fortement, à l’auteur matériel de la commettre. Il peut être considéré comme l’auteur moral ou intellectuel. Ainsi la provocation a la particularité d’opérer une césure au sein d’une infraction. On voit donc bien ici, à travers la définition qui en est faite, pourquoi il convient de réprimer l’instigation. En effet, le but recherché par l’instigateur est de pousser autrui à commettre une infraction: il convient donc de réprimer l’état dangereux dont celui-ci est l’incarnation et de protéger à la fois l’ordre social et les valeurs sociales face à un comportement...
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...aspects of human experience. This is especially evident in his two poems ‘Weapons Training’ and ‘Life cycle’ . Dawe has used language in many interesting ways to capture human experience and has successfully drawn the attention of the reader through this use of vivid imagery and realistic tone. He has used a variety of language techniques to help bring his poetry to life and as a result, has helped the reader feel involved in what is happening. This causes the reader to sympathise with the human experiences that Dawe is describing. The language techniques in Dawes poetry are very imaginative and creative . The purpose of ‘weapons training ’ is to show the dehumanisation of the training for war in the 1970s on the other hand in the poem ‘Life Cycle’ the purpose is to portray that VFL is more than sport, it is a religion to the persona. The tone of ‘Weapons Training’ is very aggressive and abusive whereas ‘Life Cycle’ is very proud of being a fan and follower of VFL and his team. In ‘Weapons Training’ Bruce Dawe has used language to capture human experience through the use of the rhetorical question used in line 4, ‘are you queer?’. The use of this rhetorical question sets the tone of this human experience/ poem, the tone of brutalisation, of turning a man into a machine, a machine with no feelings or emotions. Questioning a mans sexuality is a great insult to a man, as it portrays to the man that they are weak and un-manly. Insulting a man in this experience was training...
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...of the Human In response to Ray Kurzweil predictions of a world “in which humans gained near immortality by becoming one with robotic technology,” Bill Joy expresses great alarm and distress at the notion that the contemporary definition of the “human” may transform. Even though this definition has transformed with various evolutions that have shaped or, perhaps more accurately, reshaped human biology, psychology, sociology—and yes, even technology—Joy’s pessimism towards this version of a future appears to stem from its underlying principle—that technology will eventually surpass human faculties and capabilities and ultimately, not transform us into a new species of sentient beings, as per Kurzweil’s predictions, but replace us as the supreme beings of this planet. The question then is: does technology have the ability to replace us? Any investigation regarding technology in contemporary society will reveal an impressive catalog of the progress technology has made. And while the same investigation will yield an equally long list of improvements and advancements that yet to be made, Joy’s fears resonate with the fact that any such investigation will also reveal how increasingly reliant we are on technology and suggest that one day, when technology does develop sentience and it exists independent of humans may very well cease to exist. However, as technological experience and human-based experience become one and the same, perhaps it is not Joy’s extinction of the human race...
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...patients’ increased acuity and complexities especially regarding their healthcare situations. Despite such demands, nurses are told to search for ways to preserve their holistic ways of practicing and Rosemarie Parses’ Human Becoming theory can be seen to be indeed indispensable to this goal. Through this paper, I will explore the very important elements of Rosemarie Parses’ human becoming theory and in a clinical application, explain how it can be applied by nurses in their practice as well as their settings. Being informed about Parses’ Human Becoming theory does...
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