Human Nature

Everyone needs someone, that is part of Human Nature. When a baby is born it is taught to talk, walk, eat and everything else by their parents. Babies are nurtured into being a fully grown human adult. The effect that genie had with no human relations was distarious. She could do anything because she never had any human interaction. Genie teaches you to be thankful for what you have.

Kill Me Now

This week we watched Tuesdays with Morrie. In the movie a former student, Mitch, reconnects with his college professor, Morrie, before he dies from ALS. Mitch has trouble understanding why Morrie is ok with death. Mitch is uncomfortable with the thought of death just like most Americans, myself included. Death is hard for most to talk about because it reminds you of people that used to be alive and how they impacted your life. When I think of death, I think of my grandparents. Just like Morrie I had a grandfather that was diagnosed with a similar disorder of alzheimer's and parkinson's. As each time Mitch went to visit Morrie he got progressively worse. Unfortunately just like Mitch I too had to see my grandfather go from being perfectly fine to having to be helped for everything. Its not an easy process to go through nor do you take lightly. When they would talked about almost losing Morrie but it was touch and go for awhile. I too have experienced more then I care to admit. These are the moments that make you evaluate yourself as a person and realize everyone has the same destiny of death. Death is sucha hard subject to be around because it makes everyone uncomfortable and Americans just want to stay in their comfort zone. Death is a part of life and i have had to except that but for most people they believe they will cheat death but in the end they will have to face the scary, dark tunnel of death.

How Do You View Yourself as an American?

This week we were given an outline to write about American culture. This assigment I thought would take me 5 minutes actually took me longer because it was hard to see american culture from an ethnocentric point of view. This week we were also given a reading called Bemused in American, it was a German journalist writing in the Chicago Tribune about his impression of American culture. I was amazed at his fascination with supermarkets. I never realized how big Dominick's really is when he says, "a factory-sized building surrounded by a huge parking lot." The German journalist is used to small little shops to buy groceries instead of huge supermarkets. Also the journalist had a fascination with joggers. Just like the journalist I too don't understand the concept of jogging from point A to Point B then back to point A to start or even end a day. I understand it's good exercise but it makes no sense to me how running is fun, when all you are doing is going through the motions of left foot, then right foot, but don't forget to breathe every once in awhile. As Americans we never stop and take a look around at our culture and how exspansive and crazy it actually is.