Module 14

Happiness

 

To me, happiness varies greatly in everyone. Tests or questionnaires like the one displayed in this exercise can capture some of what happiness is, but leaves a lot of what makes individuals truly happy unexplored. Happiness as measured in humans varies based off of the individuals likes and desires in life and whether they are able to fulfill them. In most cases people are happy if they feel fulfilled within their daily lives. While others who “appear” to have it all could be the most depressed person.

Society and cultural expectations put a lot of pressure on people in telling them what should make them happy. If they do not follow the norm in their culture, it is assumed that they will be unhappy. For example; in a lot of older American culture a woman is expected to marry and have children. If she decides not to or just doesn’t find love and doesn’t marry, some may assume she is unhappy and unfulfilled in life. Where the reality could be that the woman enjoys her alone time, and doesn’t desire a husband and children. She could love spending daily time in her garden. That could be what brings her true happiness.

 

 

 

 

 

Module 12

Aggression

 

I believe numbers ‘7. A man viciously kicks a cat’ and ‘11. A man mentally rehearses a murder he is about to commit’ indicate aggression the most. Unless the cat has in some way harmed the man or perhaps his helpless child, there is no reason to viciously kick it. His actions show intent and could indeed cause physical harm to the cat.

The man who is mentally rehearsing his planned murder is displaying direct intent. There would be no question whether meant to commit this murder if he were to follow through with it. There is pure aggression in premeditated murder.

 

 

 

 

 

Module 10

Norm Violation

 

For this exercise I violated the norm of standing to close to someone in a store. With more than one individual and on more than one occasion without the other person’s knowledge I stood extremely close to them from behind or the side of them. I wanted them to be surprised and not see me initially. But to be fair, I only did this with individuals that I already knew. I find it extremely uncomfortable when a stranger stands too close to me. So, I wanted to see how others would react but I had to ensure my comfort levels and safety while doing so.

Even though I knew these individuals, my reaction and thoughts while conducting this experiment was one of a pure uncomfortable feeling. I was extremely uncomfortable for the few seconds that each person didn’t see me. I worried that I would startle them too much. Once I was noticed, one person, a woman, gave a small gasp of fear and stated that I’d scared her. I apologized. A man that I stood next to only saw me out of the corner of his eye. He simply said excuse me without any hesitation and started to walk away without even looking at me. His reaction was a lot less intense than the women. My presence didn’t seem to bother him at all.

Every person reacts to uncomfortable situations in different ways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module 9

Relationship Goals

 

When I cruse the personal adds, I do notice that most often than not, men focus their adds on the physical and everything else comes in second place. Whereas most adds placed by females (whether looking for a male or female) are focused on more spiritual and emotional needs and wants. Women tend to state, more clearly that they are looking for an emotional attraction and connection from their partners.

 

 

Module 4

Fear

 

The segment of this video that I’d like to review is talking about the fear that children have of strangers and of getting hurt or killed by them. The piece suggests that a whole generation of children are being taught to be afraid because of what they see on television with stories of murder and kidnapping of children. Also, in part, from parents doing their duty of making children aware of strangers and telling kids not to talk to them or go anywhere with someone they don’t know.

The portion of video that moved me the most was when they stated that police are putting identification numbers on children’s teeth just in case their bodies had to be identified one day. That scares me, an adult, to no end. I can’t imagine what it would do to the mind and spirit of a child. Having gone through that process and knowing exactly why the identification number was placed on their body must bring about debilitating fear for a child.

The bottom line is that media does enhance fear in all of us by showing horrible occurrences throughout the world. But we must be informed of what is going on as well. People have to keep a mental balance of fear, cautiousness and happiness in life. That task is not always easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmiFShBQDIs