First-person shooter

People start their live everyday by meeting someone different and new; from these interactions they judge each other. However, the most important message behind these judgements is whether or not they accept each other as another human being. Through her quote “We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves”, Barbara Jordan introduces a way to see beyond these judgements. Jordan is conveying that these judgements should be taken as something positive, and…

From these type of similarity-attraction experiments, subjects create judgments about an unfamiliar person (stimulus person) after seeing a section of the stranger's answers to a sequence of opinion enquiries. Furthermore, the stranger's opinion replies have been made so as to outline levels of resemblance to the subject's own formerly documented opinion retorts…

In the media today, people with disabilities are no longer seen as normal human beings. They are being portrayed as a person that has overcome a huge obstacle, or a hero that has won a fight against their disability; they are never portrayed as people who have accomplished something despite their disability challenges. In an excerpt from Charles A. Riley II’s book “Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change,” he shows how badly the media is displaying people with disabilities and why it…

While there are many distinctively different things about antagonists and protagonists, they do have some similarities. To begin with, they have different moral views, wants/needs, and personality traits and assumptions. On the other hand, they have some similar beliefs, influence, and sources of power. Antagonists and protagonists have very different moral views. Protagonists tend to have a desire to aid people in need, but antagonists tend to have a want to do the opposite. They also both…

The struggle to find success is desperate in some people’s eyes. Willy Loman was struggling and put the wrong morals into his son’s brains. The morals are what many people would argue, are the wrong ones. They had to be perfect with no mistakes, Willy thought. The flaws that he had were instable nature, inability to tell the truth, and his guilt. He continues to live in the past and bring his sons down with him. These themes revolve around his nature, telling the truth, and guilt. Flaws can…

When I first got here, I was on the inside, because of the person that was my first friend. Then, I just felt really uncomfortable, So then I was on the outside. After a while I got bored with the outside, because there is never anything going on. Then I was back on the inside. So I guess I have…

Often times, people think about a person’s character before we even meet them. These biases and thoughts often can lead them to treating that person differently, simply because of their perception to us. The self-fulfilling prophecy is connected to the perceptual bias in many ways. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that does come true, but only because the predictor affected the outcome directly or indirectly. Our actions impact others beliefs about us, those beliefs cause others…

video, “On the Road,” by CBS, a group of football players wanted to show their appreciation for a disabled teammate. By doing this, they changed many people’s lives. For example, Keith Orr, the disabled teammate, had the time of his life scoring his first touchdown. “Awesome," (On the Road)! Keith was overjoyed when he scored. The community had come together to show that…

gotten to know many individuals before I came to college. During my lower grade levels, I was stuck at home most of the time, and my extracurricular involvement was minimal. When I came to college, I began to become the social person who wanted to interact and get to know every person I talk to. Therefore, during the course of my undergraduate career, I met several people who would be influential in helping me a dependable list of contacts for when I become an athletic director. However, before…

In order to achieve human dignity one needs to realize what the definition of being human actually is, and this can be a hard concept to grasp. In the play Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Capek readers can see that there is a questioning of humanity. People have many different ideas of what human is and because of this there is a wide variety of opinions on humans, work and dignity. Many questions are often raised as to what factors engulf being a human. Therefore, there is a varying amount…