All humans go through twelve stages of life. In the beginning, we all start off in the womb. Then we come into the world from natural birth or a c- section. In the end, we all die. Nobody lives forever. We also all have Pseudo Exceptionalism. Then, we have things called Cultural Universals. Although everyone has different pasts, backgrounds, and experiences; we are all very similar in the end.
As stated earlier, all humans go through certain stages of life. More specifically, twelve of them. An article by Dr. Armstrong talks about this. The first stage, is pre-birth. The child has tons of potential, as we have no idea who they are yet, The second stage, is birth, The child finally arrives into the world. The third stage, is infancy. This …show more content…
For one reason or another, we have a tendency to think that we are different, in a good way or a bad way, and that we should be treated differently than our peers. On the internet this is known as “Special Snowflake Syndrome” but a more professional word for it would be “Pseudo-Exceptionalism”. There are many things that make us feel as if we are superior to others. One of them being race. Though race is a social construct, it’s not real. Race is defined as, "a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type; also .. a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock.” Marshall H. Segall from Syracuse University says, “There are no biological barriers between 5.8 billion human beings alive today. External physical features previously used to distinguish "racial groups" are not reliable genetic markers because they represent relatively recent (over the past 20,000 years) adaptations. Skin color and height, for example, are subject to rapid change (in genetic terms) in response to environmental conditions. Skin color is a useful adaptation to the exposure to the sun.” Essentially, we’ve been judging people based on concentration of melanin, without even realizing it. If we truly realized what we were judging people on, we would have had to judge people also based on eye color and hair color, as …show more content…
For instance, “Shooting Dad”. In “Shooting Dad”, the narrator decides she doesn’t like guns at six years old. Her dad is a gunsmith, so they would always end up arguing. She believed for most of her life, that they were two completely different people. They disagree on almost everything, like politics in hobbies. Then one day, she realizes maybe they aren’t so different after all. Since her dad likes guns, she thought that he was very uncreative and not artistic. She then realizes, that making cannons was his art. Everything is art, including making canons. Her dad had been creative all along, just in his own way. Upon realizing their similarities, they were able to get along much better. Another material that related to the idea of similarity is “We Wear The Mask”. In “We Wear The Mask”, Dunbar talks about how we all wear a mask. This mask hides all emotions, besides happiness. He says, “We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries / To thee from tortured souls arise.” This quote is talking about how you only see the smile in one’s face, but behind that there’s a cry coming from a tortured soul that nobody sees. We all put on this facade, it’s something everybody does, We wear the mask, it’s a similarity between us all. The last stimulus material that relates to this theme is “The Keys”. “The Keys” talks about the hero’s journey. [enter all the stuff from the keys here, and a nice conclusion
As stated earlier, all humans go through certain stages of life. More specifically, twelve of them. An article by Dr. Armstrong talks about this. The first stage, is pre-birth. The child has tons of potential, as we have no idea who they are yet, The second stage, is birth, The child finally arrives into the world. The third stage, is infancy. This …show more content…
For one reason or another, we have a tendency to think that we are different, in a good way or a bad way, and that we should be treated differently than our peers. On the internet this is known as “Special Snowflake Syndrome” but a more professional word for it would be “Pseudo-Exceptionalism”. There are many things that make us feel as if we are superior to others. One of them being race. Though race is a social construct, it’s not real. Race is defined as, "a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type; also .. a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock.” Marshall H. Segall from Syracuse University says, “There are no biological barriers between 5.8 billion human beings alive today. External physical features previously used to distinguish "racial groups" are not reliable genetic markers because they represent relatively recent (over the past 20,000 years) adaptations. Skin color and height, for example, are subject to rapid change (in genetic terms) in response to environmental conditions. Skin color is a useful adaptation to the exposure to the sun.” Essentially, we’ve been judging people based on concentration of melanin, without even realizing it. If we truly realized what we were judging people on, we would have had to judge people also based on eye color and hair color, as …show more content…
For instance, “Shooting Dad”. In “Shooting Dad”, the narrator decides she doesn’t like guns at six years old. Her dad is a gunsmith, so they would always end up arguing. She believed for most of her life, that they were two completely different people. They disagree on almost everything, like politics in hobbies. Then one day, she realizes maybe they aren’t so different after all. Since her dad likes guns, she thought that he was very uncreative and not artistic. She then realizes, that making cannons was his art. Everything is art, including making canons. Her dad had been creative all along, just in his own way. Upon realizing their similarities, they were able to get along much better. Another material that related to the idea of similarity is “We Wear The Mask”. In “We Wear The Mask”, Dunbar talks about how we all wear a mask. This mask hides all emotions, besides happiness. He says, “We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries / To thee from tortured souls arise.” This quote is talking about how you only see the smile in one’s face, but behind that there’s a cry coming from a tortured soul that nobody sees. We all put on this facade, it’s something everybody does, We wear the mask, it’s a similarity between us all. The last stimulus material that relates to this theme is “The Keys”. “The Keys” talks about the hero’s journey. [enter all the stuff from the keys here, and a nice conclusion