Assignment Takeaway 5
For this assignment, we had to do at least five nice things for strangers. I am a natural caregiver so this assignment was pretty easy for me. Even though I have social anxiety I still love to talk to people and know their story. You never know what someone is going through. It’s just like the book said in a previous chapter, people need interaction with other people. It’s that simple people need to be social. Maybe not all the time but eventually everyone seeks out someone to communicate with. The little old lady that I helped by putting her cart away was very thankful that I did when so many other people just walked on by without even noticing she was there. It’s important for people to feel like someone cares or has their back, even a stranger. I have been helped by a stranger a lot in the past, especially when my mom was first sick. People would bring me meals to the hospital or just come and sit with me and talk. I made a lot of friends through strangers helping out someone in need who they didn’t even know. 
Assignment Takeaway 4
Assignment 4 was all about love. There are six different types of love Eros, Storge, Mania, Agape, Ludus, and Pragma. We took a quiz that showed us what types of love we are low and high in. I scored low in Eros, Agape, and Storge. This means that these three are the types of love I’m most likely to experience. I agree for the most part with this quiz. I found it very interesting to take this quiz and learn this information. Eros is a face paced love which I can see my self being as I met my wife and married her 9 months later. Storge is having love but also friendship. I am always friends with people I love. My wife is my best friend. Agape is kind of all-encompassing love. This is actually my favorite type of love and I’ve studied this type of love before. I am a caregiver and would do anything for anyone so when I scored low in that I was happy to know that that type of love possible filled me.
Assignment Takeaway 3
In assignment 3, we had to watch a video of Michael Richard’s tirade over an audience member who was being rude and talking during his stand up routine. He said some racial slurs and used foul language during his tirade. We had to decide if he was intentionally being racist or fueled by anger and just went off essentially trying to inflict as much emotional pain as he could. This assignment was uncomfortable for me because we had to decide which way we thought he was acting. In today’s society, people can’t answer those types of questions without offending someone or starting their own kind of argument. It took me more time to write that paper because I was trying to be sensitive to the subject. As a theater person, I understand his point of view when it comes to people talking in the audience. It very rude when your on stage to have people talking. It’s rude to the person on stage and the people in the audience who paid to be there to watch the show. He was made but he never should have gone that far even if it was to only cause pain.
Assignment Takeaway 2
Assignment 2 was like a trip down memory lane for me. Choosing the six pictures I wrote about was fun because I got to go through and look at pictures I haven’t looked at in a while. It made me realize how much having a social life is important. It also made me see how I felt in different social situations. It gave me introspection on how I am in different situations. Each picture was an accurate account of my identity as an individual and as a friend, sister, daughter, and wife.
