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Assignment Takeaway for Assignment 5:

So what I learned from assignment five is doing something good for someone even if it’s minuscule can change your outlook on life and can actually help someone. I learned that I actually enjoy helping people no matter what it is. Which is why I knew I was going to love the human services counseling major because just being there to help people and get them through hard times brings joy to me. This assignment definitely relates to the intro to human services class that I have had where we talk about the IT Factor that you have and what you want to do with your eagerness to help people. The assignment was personally relevant to me because I was going through the week just helping random people and even my own friends and family, especially the one where I painted the wall of our landing hallway for my mother. I was able to see what doing one good thing a day can do for yourself and others. It allowed me to also realize that when you help others it allows you to feel good about yourself and make others feel good about themselves.

I chose these collections of pictures because these were the pictures I took during the past week for assignment 5 and how I made them happy or even helped them.

Assignment Takeaway for Assignment 4:

So what I learned from assignment four was about my style of love. I had come to learn that I’ve scored lower on average in most scores then other females my age. This just shows though that I love more strongly in those types of love than the average woman. The one I definitely agree with the most is the storage love when your love is a combination of friendship and romance. Because that’s all of my relationships up until now have all been friends before boyfriends. This can be related to my women’s studies class that I took my second semester of freshman year where you learn that women are more likely to go for a storage love because they find comfort and familiarity with someone that they already know and trust then trying to go out and look for certain things and meet with strangers. Which is why a lot of women romanticize being in love with your best friend. This assignment was personally relevant to me because I’m a young adult going through a romantic relationship right now and understanding my style of love or the types of love that I feed into more than others helps me and my relationship with my partner and even my friendships.

These are some photos of my partner and I in the past couple of years. I don’t show his face because he is a private person and I respect that. I chose these photos to show our love and all the smiles he gives me and that he is willing to do anything for me even dress up as a sexy angel for Halloween.

Assignment Takeaway for Assignment 3:

So, in assignment three we watched a YouTube video of Michael Richards using racial slurs against either an African-American man or a group of African-Americans who had been talking a lot during his show. This tirade that he went on was racist. What I learned from this assignment is that when you use a racial slur most people are using it to hurt the race against which they are going. Most of the time this race is a minority and the majority who use of racial slur has a deep-seated hatred or prejudice towards the minority that they use the racial slur towards. From this assignment I learned that you can be racist and have extreme anger issues but having extreme anger issues does not make you racist unless you use a racial slur. Mel Gibson was another person we looked at for this assignment and he used a racial slur against his ex-girlfriend because he didn’t like the way she was dressed. She use this as a way to diminish her and to diminish other people around him that he deemed lesser than him. I can apply this information that I got from this assignment to my interpreting American history class because that class goes over race schism in America and Jim Crow laws which were the majority of white in the south believed that African-Americans did not deserve the rights that they had so the whites in the south did everything in their power to diminish and strip African-Americans of their rights and freedoms. And racial slurs whereas very big thing during that time frame of American history and even now because racism is not gone it is still prevalent in today’s society.

I chose this picture as a way to tie in how racism still affects people to this day and that men like Michael Richards can’t use racial slurs and get away with it.

Assignment Takeaway for Assignment 2:

For assignment two we had to look at 6-12 pictures of ourselves that represent who we are as people. During this assignment I had discussed how I was a student, woman, daughter, sister, and her friend. It really allowed me to view myself from the outside lens and really delve deep into what each picture represents Towards me. From this assignment the delving into who I am as a person and being self-conscious and kind of like a self reflection can be related to my human services classes because for human services methods that I took last semester we had to delve deep into ourselves to figure out are we empaths what’s our eight factor who we are as human services professionals. This assignment was personally relevant to me because it allowed me to truly figure out how others view me and how I view myself. I think a lot of people need to do a self-assessment of who they are to truly understand what they give to people.