Humanity is a very controversial subject and contains two completely opposite sides with numerous arguments. In my opinion, humans are not qualified to deal with their mistakes properly, they take absolutely everything for granted and they will do anything in their power to get to the destination that they want to be at.
In my opinion, humans are not able to deal with mistakes and tend to reinvent themselves as well as their past every time they are faced with these moral errors. We are brought to believe that we can always strive for what we call perfection and change ourselves to fit those criteria, but in reality, humans are terribly flawed. Our flaws often catch up to us, which is when we make these mistakes. Then, we try to extrapolate the good we think we did in a situation where we truly messed up, which is when we try to encircle a deplorable situation with a bright red bow and reinvent our past. Humans tend to convince themselves that they can change for the better, without truly putting effort into a ‘better’ person. We lie to ourselves to make ourselves feel better about our human nature. In my opinion, I do not believe that someone can truly change. Human nature is meant to be flawed. No human being has ever been categorized as perfect because there is simply no such thing, so what explains our want to get to that state of perfection even if we know we cannot attain it? Could it be guilt or the simple fact that we try to comfort ourselves into believing we are not as flawed as we are?
I believe that humans have an innate flaw to take everything they have for granted. We tend to spend so much time trying to obtain what we want, but when we have it, we take it for granted and forget about how much we wanted it in the past. I believe that humans are after a constant chase all throughout their lives. We spend our entire being trying to get to perfection with our jobs, our relationships, and our everyday lives. Once we have attained what we seem to think is good enough for ourselves, we search for another problem and forget about the journey we took to get to where we wanted to be. We begin taking that situation for granted and we move on to another chase. My view on this subject is that humans will never truly be content with the things that they have and they will always try striving for better.
Humans will always be liars and addicts. I believe that humans are highly egocentric and will go through any lengths to obtain their needs and wants. We lie to get to where we desire to be because we are addicted to our own happiness and we are in constant search for perfection, even though we know we cannot attain it. Humans are prideful and lustful and will satisfy their personal needs in any way possible. Geveryl Robinson makes the perfect point in her article called 'Are We Greedy By Nature?' She speaks of economic greed, enumerating the amounts of money that people make in huge buisnesses and the amount of money that governments have, but then again, none will give their money to the ones in need because of their greed. Also, have you ever wondered why humans lie? I consider lying as an excuse to try to make ourselves be looked at in a different and more flattering light. We want what we want, which is the making of human nature, and we often lie ourselves through situations to get to our destination point.
In my eyes, humanity is very hypocritical, ungrateful and egocentric. We reinvent ourselves as well as our past to make ourselves feel better about the person that we are, we take absolutely everything we have for granted until we lose it, and we will go through any lengths to get what we want. Human nature is simply set out to be flawed and imperfect.
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Sociology: In a 2.0 World, What Should Education Be Like?
Over approximately five thousand days, the internet has become the largest social network in the world, as said by Ward Cunningham, the creator of Wikipedia. Everyone has developed a substantial dependence towards this cyber culture because of the embodiment of the internet such as phones and screens which connect us to the greatest social and intellectual network. Internet has had a rather large impact on education and will have a major impact in the later days when internet is even more known to everyone around the world. I believe that education should be internet-based with a minority of teachers.
As Nicolas Negroponte expressed in the ‘Ted’ video, children are the most comfortable in the internet world because they were born in this cyber culture, unlike most adults who are natives to this social network. Education should be internet-based because of the amount of matter there is on the internet. This would give the students the necessary tools to acquire as much knowledge as possible. There are numerous video tutorials on anything and everything there is to learn, which would make any child comprehend any subject. This link is very good because it proves that the Internet is important for education and it enriches the learning process for students. I believe that students should be given lessons to be learnt by themselves with the help of the internet. Now of course, you may think that not every child can be an independent learner and they need some additional lessons. I think that children should be given individual lessons through a school that they are signed up in while following the curriculum on their own. However, there would always be teachers from different subjects available to them for extra tutoring sessions. This would mean that the teacher positions would only be part time, making the Internet the principal teacher. This would help tremendously for our generation’s exploitation of independence and determination for the future.
One can argue that not all children have the discipline to learn on their own, but here is the beauty of it. Jobs descriptions, depending on the position, always look for the ultimate curriculum vitae to satisfy that position. The online learning process would filter the hard-working students from the non-determined. There would be much more knowledgeable students that could fulfill superior positions. It would also force students to desire the best grade and develop their independence as well as make them take responsibility because no one can do it for them.
Ward Cunningham was explaining that there will soon be a co-dependency in the world and that everything and everyone will depend on this tremendous machine for everything. He explains that at the beginning, when someone spoke about gathering all the knowledge of the world in one machine, people would’ve called them insane because they didn’t believe in the impossible. I believe that in double the time the internet took to get to where it is now, every business will be founded and based on the internet, every conference will be done through Skype, and every item will be sold off the internet. We are a generation of comfort, which is what the internet does for us. We can access it from anywhere; we do not need to be in an office to work expeditiously anymore. This is why I think that we need to modernize our children and make them learn in this manner. They would be able to use the internet as efficiently as possible, making this cyberspace the primary teacher.
Every day, there are one billion clicks, 1 million IM messages sent per second, eight terabytes per second traffic, 2 million emails per second, one million voice queries per hour, as studied by Cunningham. All this and much more take five percent of the world’s energy. Every human has encountered the use of computers and every human will become effective users. If all of this amazing cyber culture has been created in five thousand days, what will we have in double this time? Why shouldn’t education prepare our students for this dependence with an internet-based teaching program?
As Nicolas Negroponte expressed in the ‘Ted’ video, children are the most comfortable in the internet world because they were born in this cyber culture, unlike most adults who are natives to this social network. Education should be internet-based because of the amount of matter there is on the internet. This would give the students the necessary tools to acquire as much knowledge as possible. There are numerous video tutorials on anything and everything there is to learn, which would make any child comprehend any subject. This link is very good because it proves that the Internet is important for education and it enriches the learning process for students. I believe that students should be given lessons to be learnt by themselves with the help of the internet. Now of course, you may think that not every child can be an independent learner and they need some additional lessons. I think that children should be given individual lessons through a school that they are signed up in while following the curriculum on their own. However, there would always be teachers from different subjects available to them for extra tutoring sessions. This would mean that the teacher positions would only be part time, making the Internet the principal teacher. This would help tremendously for our generation’s exploitation of independence and determination for the future.
One can argue that not all children have the discipline to learn on their own, but here is the beauty of it. Jobs descriptions, depending on the position, always look for the ultimate curriculum vitae to satisfy that position. The online learning process would filter the hard-working students from the non-determined. There would be much more knowledgeable students that could fulfill superior positions. It would also force students to desire the best grade and develop their independence as well as make them take responsibility because no one can do it for them.
Ward Cunningham was explaining that there will soon be a co-dependency in the world and that everything and everyone will depend on this tremendous machine for everything. He explains that at the beginning, when someone spoke about gathering all the knowledge of the world in one machine, people would’ve called them insane because they didn’t believe in the impossible. I believe that in double the time the internet took to get to where it is now, every business will be founded and based on the internet, every conference will be done through Skype, and every item will be sold off the internet. We are a generation of comfort, which is what the internet does for us. We can access it from anywhere; we do not need to be in an office to work expeditiously anymore. This is why I think that we need to modernize our children and make them learn in this manner. They would be able to use the internet as efficiently as possible, making this cyberspace the primary teacher.
Every day, there are one billion clicks, 1 million IM messages sent per second, eight terabytes per second traffic, 2 million emails per second, one million voice queries per hour, as studied by Cunningham. All this and much more take five percent of the world’s energy. Every human has encountered the use of computers and every human will become effective users. If all of this amazing cyber culture has been created in five thousand days, what will we have in double this time? Why shouldn’t education prepare our students for this dependence with an internet-based teaching program?
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