Assignment Takeaway

ATA5

In the random acts of kindness assignment, I learned that doing good deeds makes you feel better. Setting a goal of doing one kind thing for somebody at least once a day can increase happiness. I did 5 kind things for people I love and a few for people I didn’t know. I try to treat everyone how I would want to be treated. I believe Every person I engage with could possibly give me an opportunity.

You never know who you meet that can have a big or small impact on your life. This reminds me of a time in high school in my AVID class, we had to practice manners. A very brief lesson but it reminded me specifically of how you should speak to your elders nicely and other people in general. This generation lacks etiquette and this is a good habit to take upon as it shows professionalism.

I chose this picture because doing these good deeds makes me feel as though I’m doing my part in trying to make the world a better place. being kind is the first sign of care, unity, and strength.

ATA4

Overall for assignment four, I learned my complete love language and so did my partner. We use our love language every day and it has made a bigger impact on our relationship because we are still learning the little things about each other every day as well. For example, since we live together some days I try to give him space when he gets off of work and me doing that would create problems where he felt like I didn’t want to be bothered with him. After learning how affectionate and passionate my boyfriend is, I’ve learned to love him no matter what. Making us stuck like glue now. I can’t relate this to anything that I have learned in the past but learning this now, will help in the future.

This is what my boyfriend and I used to compare our scores for the love style test. We use these scores to increase our understanding of how we would like to be loved. On the front of the notecard we put words that stood out the most to use while taking the test.

ATA3

From the latest assignment, I learned nothing new. Being a black woman you see people call out racial slurs all the time with “no intent on being racist.” It is devastating how people figure that the best way to upset someone, is over something they cannot control. Racism has been around forever in many forms and not only towards black people. Asians because of how smart they are, Chinese because of there eyes and even Indians, actually 1.8 million of them who came to America before the English settlers found the land, get called racial slurs about almost anything.

I learned about these racial slurs and how people have been saying them for years when I visited the African American history museum. Emmett Till who was only 14, the casket was in a room describing his story of how a white woman claimed he groped her where then he was beaten to death and lynched and after the white folk who watched took pictures of them and his dead body. Emmett Till was beaten to the point his head looked like a deflated basketball. Murder of a minor because of an accusation of groping. Between Emmett Till’s story and this recent situation, I learned that racism is taught. No human is born believing that they are superior to the other.

This picture I found off google, are different eggs but as you can see once they are cracked they are the same egg. to me, this is what we as humans all look like. I wonder how are people to judge what we look like on the outside when in the inside we all made the same.
https://blushybabe.com/brown-eggs-vs-white-eggs-which-one-is-good/

ATA2

From this assignment, I learned more about myself. My pictures in my phone gallery are the memories that I can look at and recognize each and every one. I chose all thirteen of my photos because they represent each important thing that makes me who I am and uncover my personality in general. I learned to embrace my good and bad qualities because not every picture is perfect. When discussing my photos and analyzing them it reminds me of the self-esteem scale we took in class to measure low and high self-esteem based on 10 questions. As a result of the scale, I received a score of 22. This is a result of high self-esteem, and it shows in reality as well as in pictures.

I have always been confident and know my worth and appreciate that about myself. This is relevant to me because it was something I lacked when I was younger. For example, in middle school everyone always got the same shoes when they were released and I always wanted to be like them. I would feel out of place because I didn’t have what everyone else did. My confidence would become low. But now that I have these qualities, I embrace them. I chose this visual representation because confidence comes from within and at one point I didn’t have that in me. Now to look through my pictures and memories and taking the self esteem test, I realize how far I’ve come and it makes me want to appreciate myself even more.

I chose this photo because it represents my self-esteem equalities. It reminds me that whatever you believe is your good or bad quality, throughout the good and the bad in general, embrace who you are. love yourself unconditionally and realize what traits you need to reflect on as well as keep.

ATA1

In the assignment, I learned the different types of cognitive behavior and decision making processes people use to conclude. Whether it is based on opinions, what people have heard, what they are used to, etc. Individuals often base their decisions on the knowledge they’ve already heard or perceived. This relates to my human cognition class where we are studying cognitive psychology that includes mental processes, perception, and memory.
In the study of heuristics, it seems like most of the rules made are based on those facts of the mind. I relate mostly to the Availability Heuristic, with the shocking and tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter GiGi in a helicopter crash, my boyfriend automatically said that is why he doesn’t like to fly in airplanes. The easier it was to bring up the fact that someone died in the air, the easier the influence it had on him not to fly, ever.