Assignment Takeaway 4
In the fourth assignment, I took the Styles of Love Questionnaire and then evaluated my styles of love and how they are implemented in my current relationship. I definitely learned a lot about myself while completing this assignment. I have always known how I love people and how I show my affection, but it was interesting to put names to the styles. I had not known that there were different categories until I completed this assignment. It was also really interesting to see how I compared to other people of my gender.
I can say that I have never really learned about love and liking before in other classes, so this was a fairly new topic to me. I suppose I had never thought about the biology or social-emotional aspect around it. I do enjoy taking quizzes to try to understand myself more, though. For fun, I have taken multiple quizzes to determine what my love language is which kind of reminded me of this assignment. Personally, I used to be naïve, and I used to think that everyone loved in the same way. I used to be so confused as to why I would do certain things and other people would not return the affection the same way. I see now that everyone loves on a spectrum, so no one loves in exactly the same way. This really helped me understand other people, my relationships with them, and how other people may love.
The picture below is a picture of my boyfriend and I in front of the LOVE statue in Philadelphia. My boyfriend has really helped me see love in a different perspective, and the statue we are under says LOVE.
Assignment Takeaway 3
In Assignment 3, Michael Richards’ tirade was discussed as to whether it was racist or if it just came from an intent to cause harm. This assignment helped me fully understand the concepts of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. I also learned how anger influences all of these concepts. Assignment 3 helped me solidify my opinions on whether or not racial slurs can be used without the intent of racism or to cause harm. I already had my beliefs that racial slurs cannot be used without racism or intent to cause harm, but this assignment just supported my beliefs.
It was interesting to learn about these topics because I am taking a diversity course at the moment, and we just discussed the chapter on race and ethnicity. In that course, we learn about barriers people with diverse characteristics face in the leisure industry, so we just recently discussed the leisure barriers people face due to their race or ethnicity. Going to see a comedy show is a form of leisure, so the fact that Michael Richards ended up being racist towards his audience members goes to show a leisure barrier. This assignment was personally relevant to me because I used to have poor anger management skills. However, I never resulted in racism or anything of the sort no matter how angry I was. This gave me some insight while deciding whether Michael Richards’ tirade was anger or racism.
The picture I chose represents anger since anger was a theme that occurred throughout the assignment.
Assignment Takeaway 2
I really enjoyed Assignment 2. I thought it was self-reflective in a unique way. This assignment showed me how I view myself. I have never thought about how I really describe myself or who I am, so it was definitely interesting to see which pictures I chose. I learned that I should probably look deeper into who I am. Since I typically describe myself through my interests and the people I care about, I should start trying to define myself as my personality.
This assignment reminded me of activities I used to do in elementary and middle school. In class, I would sometimes have these projects about ourselves, either collages or these worksheets with different bubbles to be filled out. In those projects, I was encouraged to use pictures of my family members, friends, pets, and interests. I believe that is why I tend to define who I am through those things. This assignment was personally relevant to me because I do not like to think about who I am and what constitutes a person, so this assignment made me feel that it is important to reevaluate my thoughts.
I chose the photo below because it is one of the photos I used for my assignment. It is one of my favorite pictures and I feel like it shows me.
Assignment Takeaway 1
This assignment made me a little more self-aware. I had to reevaluate how I absorb information and where exactly I get my information from. I most definitely fall for the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic. I am on social media a lot, and that is where I get most of my news from. Not only am I naïve enough to accept all the information I read on the internet, but I am exposed to news all the time which makes me think that certain things are more prevalent than they really are. Also, I tend to follow the representativeness heuristic because I do tend to make assumptions based on appearance.
The anchoring and adjustment heuristic made me think of the classes I take for my parks, recreation, and tourism classes. In my Programming for Parks, Recreation, and Tourism course, I learned about how companies will have a set price, but they will offer bundle offers or cheaper options during the slower time of year. This gives people the impression that they are paying less for the service or program. This assignment helped me learn that I should not just assume everything is what it appears to be, and I should make sure information is accurate before accepting it.
I am using the picture below because I fall for this anchoring and adjustment pricing all the time. I love to shop, but if something is $100, I will think it is too expensive. However, if the item is $200 but marked down to $100 I will think it is a good deal.
