Crizzel Mae T. Maningo reflects on three experiences from her ethics course that relate to her daily life:
1) Understanding different perspectives on right and wrong through the concept of ethical relativism and how this helped her understand her angry brother's behavior.
2) Watching an Ivana Alawi video where she pretended to beg and was reminded of her responsibility to help others in need.
3) Registering to vote and realizing her role and obligations as a citizen to make decisions that benefit others in society.
The document is Melissa Thomas's undergraduate ePortfolio for her BA in Psychology from 2012. It includes her personal statement about wanting to help others through psychology and working in criminal justice settings, as well as her resume highlighting relevant experience in healthcare and social services.
The document is a collection of 5 student essays on various topics. Essay 1 describes a student's first day of college and feelings of fear and anxiety adjusting to the new environment. Essay 2 discusses human desires and how fulfilling desires like acceptance, family, and friendship can lead to happiness. Essay 3 examines how community is now defined by economic status and individualism. Essay 4 argues that having children is not necessary for fulfillment and happiness. Essay 5 critiques student grading systems, arguing they encourage competition over learning and can negatively impact students.
This document contains 4 journal entries by a student named Cynthia about her experiences with social psychology concepts like social influence, interdependence, self-actualization, and ingratiation. In the first entry, Cynthia describes being bullied in high school due to jealousy over her friendship with a popular boy, which led her to develop bulimia. She has since gained confidence. The second entry discusses how she realized she has interdependent cultural influences as an Asian, after her father discouraged her dream of being a lifelong volunteer. The third entry explores how finding purpose in helping others has helped her progress towards self-actualization. The fourth entry describes techniques of ingratiation used by her landlord to control tenants' impressions of her thorough
For this assignment, I interviewed a friend of mine who grew up in a family who does not speak English as their first language. Her parents are both immigrants from Mexico, and I was able to learn about the ways that her background is different from mine.
Coun 533 ethical self reflection part 1MorganPalser
This document highlights what I find to be the most important qualities in a professional counselor. I describe what it is that a counselor should do professionally, so they are more effective in their overall practice.
This document contains a social psychology journal assignment submitted by a student named Chia Ly Vier. It discusses several concepts in social psychology through examples from the student's own experiences, including social loafing, social identity, self-efficacy, attribution biases, attitudes, learning theories, and balance theory. The assignment provides insight into how social psychology concepts can be applied to understand one's own behaviors and perspectives. It was submitted on April 27th, 2015 for a social psychology course at a university in Malaysia.
For this assignment, I described some key events that have happened in my life to make me the person I am today. I took some development theories and applied the stages described in the theory to my own life.
An awareness of how people are socialized to accept inequalities makes it possible for teachers to expose and disrupt the narratives that maintain inequalities in rules, practices and imbalances of power in the classroom.....
The document is Melissa Thomas's undergraduate ePortfolio for her BA in Psychology from 2012. It includes her personal statement about wanting to help others through psychology and working in criminal justice settings, as well as her resume highlighting relevant experience in healthcare and social services.
The document is a collection of 5 student essays on various topics. Essay 1 describes a student's first day of college and feelings of fear and anxiety adjusting to the new environment. Essay 2 discusses human desires and how fulfilling desires like acceptance, family, and friendship can lead to happiness. Essay 3 examines how community is now defined by economic status and individualism. Essay 4 argues that having children is not necessary for fulfillment and happiness. Essay 5 critiques student grading systems, arguing they encourage competition over learning and can negatively impact students.
This document contains 4 journal entries by a student named Cynthia about her experiences with social psychology concepts like social influence, interdependence, self-actualization, and ingratiation. In the first entry, Cynthia describes being bullied in high school due to jealousy over her friendship with a popular boy, which led her to develop bulimia. She has since gained confidence. The second entry discusses how she realized she has interdependent cultural influences as an Asian, after her father discouraged her dream of being a lifelong volunteer. The third entry explores how finding purpose in helping others has helped her progress towards self-actualization. The fourth entry describes techniques of ingratiation used by her landlord to control tenants' impressions of her thorough
For this assignment, I interviewed a friend of mine who grew up in a family who does not speak English as their first language. Her parents are both immigrants from Mexico, and I was able to learn about the ways that her background is different from mine.
Coun 533 ethical self reflection part 1MorganPalser
This document highlights what I find to be the most important qualities in a professional counselor. I describe what it is that a counselor should do professionally, so they are more effective in their overall practice.
This document contains a social psychology journal assignment submitted by a student named Chia Ly Vier. It discusses several concepts in social psychology through examples from the student's own experiences, including social loafing, social identity, self-efficacy, attribution biases, attitudes, learning theories, and balance theory. The assignment provides insight into how social psychology concepts can be applied to understand one's own behaviors and perspectives. It was submitted on April 27th, 2015 for a social psychology course at a university in Malaysia.
For this assignment, I described some key events that have happened in my life to make me the person I am today. I took some development theories and applied the stages described in the theory to my own life.
An awareness of how people are socialized to accept inequalities makes it possible for teachers to expose and disrupt the narratives that maintain inequalities in rules, practices and imbalances of power in the classroom.....
This document demonstrates my ability to work with a client and ask them purposeful questions about the situation they are discussing with me. This assignment shows my effectiveness in using the appropriate counseling skills when working with a client.
The document summarizes the author's educational experiences and choices over time. After finishing GCSEs, the author initially chose to study photography but realized after a year that it was not a good fit. The author then chose to study public services but left that course after six weeks, realizing it was also a wrong choice. The author returned to finish the photography diploma, which proved to be a better decision. After completing that course, the author took a media course and will now study journalism in university. The author learned that making mistakes with educational choices is okay and helped inform future decisions.
1) The document is a submission by Le Jia Ling for their Social Psychology course. It discusses several concepts: social facilitation, motivation, confirmation bias, observational learning, and counterfactual thinking.
2) For social facilitation, Le Jia Ling describes an experience in a group project where they initially thought one group member was not contributing much, but later realized his contributions could not be easily identified since he worked alone.
3) Examples of confirmation bias and counterfactual thinking are also provided based on Le Jia Ling's personal experiences and beliefs around religion and past events.
Sang Nguyen's top five strengths according to their Strengths Quest report are restorative, relator, responsibility, competition, and significance. They agreed that these strengths accurately represent them overall but had some disagreements with parts of the descriptions. They believe they are responsible and competitive but managers said they tend to complain more than solve problems. They enjoyed applying their strengths at their job and in relationships but struggled to use them effectively as manager of their high school store. While their strengths help them succeed, they can also be weaknesses when taken to an extreme, like forcing a friend into unnecessary competition. Going forward, they aim to better utilize their strengths and improve areas of weakness.
For this assignment, I worked with a high school student and practiced my counseling skills while conducting an interview with her. I describe the skills being used and show my knowledge of how to work with a young client.
Ellie Schafer took the StrengthsQuest assessment and discovered her top five strengths are Communication, Includer, Woo, Belief, and Connectedness. These strengths describe her personality well and are also very similar to her mother's strengths. Ellie discusses how her strengths help and sometimes hurt her relationships with others as well as her academic performance. She realizes her strengths of talking, socializing, and including others can negatively impact her schoolwork if not managed properly. Ellie hopes to continue using her strengths in positive ways and recognizing how each one influences her life.
Antonia Dodge and Joel Mark Witt on running a business with small children, maximizing your personality, and giving yourself choice in tough moments.
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The 4 levels of love which level do you spend the most time atJustinesfreedom
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Coun 534 morgan sanders sds assessment paperMorganPalser
John Holland developed the Self-Directed Search (SDS) assessment based on his RIASEC theory that categorizes people and careers into six types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. The purpose of the SDS is to match a person's interests and talents to career choices and opportunities by having them complete a questionnaire and receiving a customized report on their top categories. The author scored highest in the social, conventional, and enterprising categories, which aligned with their personality as a teacher who enjoys working with others, numbers, and new ideas. Insights gained included better understanding differences from their spouse and how to use strengths outside of teaching, such as welcoming new church members. The assessment could benefit marriage
This document contains a student's journal entries summarizing concepts from their social psychology course. In the first entry, the student discusses the concept of social loafing, where individuals put in less effort working in a group compared to individually. They provide a personal example of experiencing social loafing in a school group project. The second entry examines Charles Cooley's looking glass self theory, and how the student was affected by worrying about how others perceived them. The third entry defines stereotyping and discusses issues with gender stereotyping. The final entry explores the concept of self-fulfilling prophecies and how negative expectations can become reality through one's own behaviors and actions.
Joanna Burgos reflects on her strengths of being a good listener, helping others, and giving advice. She discovered her passion for social work after realizing she enjoyed helping children and guiding others. Her goal is to create a program for troubled teens to help them find success and move to Chicago after graduate school. Burgos recognizes the importance of getting involved in organizations to stand out and gain respect within her university.
1) The document is a personal essay reflecting on the author's life and identity. It discusses his Irish heritage, childhood in Boston, Catholic school education, and current goals.
2) After struggling in his first year of business school, the author took time off to work but realized he wanted to focus on owning a home and having a career above the poverty line.
3) The author feels he has earned some respect through his experiences but sees most environments as less friendly than his high school. He is determined to accomplish his goals in the next 6 years through hard work.
Jacob took the StrengthsQuest assessment and learned his top strengths are responsibility, positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. He agreed with parts of positivity and achiever that fit his personality of being optimistic and driven to accomplish tasks. However, he disagreed with aspects of learner because he only enjoys learning about subjects that interest him, and woo because he is hesitant around strangers. In school, he struggles with responsibility by procrastinating but ensures he learns material. His strengths help his relationships by being reliable and cheering others up, though positivity could be seen as nosiness. He takes charge in groups for class and prioritizes attendance and work completion with responsibility and being an achiever. Overall,
1) The document discusses an advocacy project focused on addressing the problem of bullying in schools by creating support groups for students who are bullied.
2) The project aims to empower students with knowledge and skills to handle bullying situations safely and support each other. It also wants to educate parents on their role.
3) The author decided to change their original art-focused project after learning more about specific bullying incidents locally and believing support groups could help more immediately.
The document contains short quotes from different fathers on their philosophies and approaches to parenting. Some common themes that emerge are providing love, respect and quality time for children, open communication, teaching life skills and values like responsibility, and being consistent while allowing children freedom to learn and grow.
Lily was a beautiful and caring friend, but after graduating she became influenced by society and turned materialistic. The document discusses how social influences like society can change people and make them focus more on material goods and money rather than quality time with friends and family. It also explains how personal influences like an inspiring father figure helped shape the writer's values and work ethic at a young age.
1) The document discusses the author's personal values statement, which centers around achieving balance as the key to an ideal life. It explores the author's background and experiences that shaped this value.
2) The author defines their worldview as idealism, believing in pursuing balance across all aspects of life to avoid extremes. Balance is challenging for the author but seen as important for well-being.
3) The author's favorite architects are those focusing on sophisticated atmospheres and user experience over bold gestures, like Tadao Ando and Kevin Low, who prioritizes nature and tranquility in design.
1) The document provides a summary of Kimberley Fay Bernard Lo's journal entries for her Social Psychology course, including discussions about social facilitation, the looking glass self-theory, and stereotyping.
2) Kimberley discusses how social facilitation has impacted her throughout her life, giving examples of being more confident performing in front of others compared to alone.
3) She also explores Charles Horton Cooley's looking glass self-theory and how she has been preoccupied with how others see her beauty and shaping her identity based on those perceptions.
4) The document begins to discuss stereotyping but is cut off, suggesting the summary focused on the key topics and insights covered in the provided text.
This document summarizes six journal entries by a student named Khor Seem Leng about topics in psychology discussed in class. The first journal discusses self-conception and building confidence despite perceived flaws. The second addresses overcoming a self-serving bias by taking responsibility for academic shortcomings. The third summarizes a lecture on vision and optical illusions. The fourth describes a class demonstration of conformity where students gave an incorrect answer. The fifth discusses acting differently alone versus in groups. The sixth analyzes a class project on the bystander effect where few helped a collapsed classmate.
My moral compass has been shaped by my parents and social/cultural influences like Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Confucianism, which emphasizes relationships and social harmony, has had the strongest influence. My moral code focuses on cultivating self-knowledge and competencies to protect myself from unintended harm while avoiding harming others. I believe human nature contains both good and evil, so it is important to continuously improve oneself and be sensitive to interactions and environments. A defining challenge occurred when a classmate asked to borrow money, testing my former tendency to trust without thought.
The document discusses the concept of social facilitation based on the author's experiences. Social facilitation is the tendency to perform better on simple tasks when observed by others. The author provides examples from their childhood where they performed dance moves perfectly during an annual concert, despite struggling during practice, and achieving higher exam scores than small tests, due to feeling more competition during exams. The author also discusses how social facilitation can impact groups, using the example of a restaurant chain maintaining higher food quality when facing competition from other restaurants. In conclusion, social facilitation reflects that people's performance is impacted by feelings of being evaluated and surrounding competition.
Social psychology individual assignment 1Alexis Wei
1) The document discusses confirmation bias and how people tend to only pay attention to information that supports their existing beliefs and disregard information that contradicts their beliefs.
2) It provides examples of how confirmation bias can influence political views and discussions on social media during election periods. People are more likely to only share information that supports their preferred candidate or party.
3) Confirmation bias is a powerful phenomenon where people actively seek out and give more weight to evidence that confirms what they already believe while ignoring evidence that contradicts their beliefs. This can blind people to considering other perspectives.
This document demonstrates my ability to work with a client and ask them purposeful questions about the situation they are discussing with me. This assignment shows my effectiveness in using the appropriate counseling skills when working with a client.
The document summarizes the author's educational experiences and choices over time. After finishing GCSEs, the author initially chose to study photography but realized after a year that it was not a good fit. The author then chose to study public services but left that course after six weeks, realizing it was also a wrong choice. The author returned to finish the photography diploma, which proved to be a better decision. After completing that course, the author took a media course and will now study journalism in university. The author learned that making mistakes with educational choices is okay and helped inform future decisions.
1) The document is a submission by Le Jia Ling for their Social Psychology course. It discusses several concepts: social facilitation, motivation, confirmation bias, observational learning, and counterfactual thinking.
2) For social facilitation, Le Jia Ling describes an experience in a group project where they initially thought one group member was not contributing much, but later realized his contributions could not be easily identified since he worked alone.
3) Examples of confirmation bias and counterfactual thinking are also provided based on Le Jia Ling's personal experiences and beliefs around religion and past events.
Sang Nguyen's top five strengths according to their Strengths Quest report are restorative, relator, responsibility, competition, and significance. They agreed that these strengths accurately represent them overall but had some disagreements with parts of the descriptions. They believe they are responsible and competitive but managers said they tend to complain more than solve problems. They enjoyed applying their strengths at their job and in relationships but struggled to use them effectively as manager of their high school store. While their strengths help them succeed, they can also be weaknesses when taken to an extreme, like forcing a friend into unnecessary competition. Going forward, they aim to better utilize their strengths and improve areas of weakness.
For this assignment, I worked with a high school student and practiced my counseling skills while conducting an interview with her. I describe the skills being used and show my knowledge of how to work with a young client.
Ellie Schafer took the StrengthsQuest assessment and discovered her top five strengths are Communication, Includer, Woo, Belief, and Connectedness. These strengths describe her personality well and are also very similar to her mother's strengths. Ellie discusses how her strengths help and sometimes hurt her relationships with others as well as her academic performance. She realizes her strengths of talking, socializing, and including others can negatively impact her schoolwork if not managed properly. Ellie hopes to continue using her strengths in positive ways and recognizing how each one influences her life.
Antonia Dodge and Joel Mark Witt on running a business with small children, maximizing your personality, and giving yourself choice in tough moments.
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The 4 levels of love which level do you spend the most time atJustinesfreedom
Today’s blog features a video with Tony Robbins and Oprah Winfrey discussing the 4 levels of love. Find out what these have to do with the 5 languages of love….and my breakthrough aha moment!
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John Holland developed the Self-Directed Search (SDS) assessment based on his RIASEC theory that categorizes people and careers into six types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. The purpose of the SDS is to match a person's interests and talents to career choices and opportunities by having them complete a questionnaire and receiving a customized report on their top categories. The author scored highest in the social, conventional, and enterprising categories, which aligned with their personality as a teacher who enjoys working with others, numbers, and new ideas. Insights gained included better understanding differences from their spouse and how to use strengths outside of teaching, such as welcoming new church members. The assessment could benefit marriage
This document contains a student's journal entries summarizing concepts from their social psychology course. In the first entry, the student discusses the concept of social loafing, where individuals put in less effort working in a group compared to individually. They provide a personal example of experiencing social loafing in a school group project. The second entry examines Charles Cooley's looking glass self theory, and how the student was affected by worrying about how others perceived them. The third entry defines stereotyping and discusses issues with gender stereotyping. The final entry explores the concept of self-fulfilling prophecies and how negative expectations can become reality through one's own behaviors and actions.
Joanna Burgos reflects on her strengths of being a good listener, helping others, and giving advice. She discovered her passion for social work after realizing she enjoyed helping children and guiding others. Her goal is to create a program for troubled teens to help them find success and move to Chicago after graduate school. Burgos recognizes the importance of getting involved in organizations to stand out and gain respect within her university.
1) The document is a personal essay reflecting on the author's life and identity. It discusses his Irish heritage, childhood in Boston, Catholic school education, and current goals.
2) After struggling in his first year of business school, the author took time off to work but realized he wanted to focus on owning a home and having a career above the poverty line.
3) The author feels he has earned some respect through his experiences but sees most environments as less friendly than his high school. He is determined to accomplish his goals in the next 6 years through hard work.
Jacob took the StrengthsQuest assessment and learned his top strengths are responsibility, positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. He agreed with parts of positivity and achiever that fit his personality of being optimistic and driven to accomplish tasks. However, he disagreed with aspects of learner because he only enjoys learning about subjects that interest him, and woo because he is hesitant around strangers. In school, he struggles with responsibility by procrastinating but ensures he learns material. His strengths help his relationships by being reliable and cheering others up, though positivity could be seen as nosiness. He takes charge in groups for class and prioritizes attendance and work completion with responsibility and being an achiever. Overall,
1) The document discusses an advocacy project focused on addressing the problem of bullying in schools by creating support groups for students who are bullied.
2) The project aims to empower students with knowledge and skills to handle bullying situations safely and support each other. It also wants to educate parents on their role.
3) The author decided to change their original art-focused project after learning more about specific bullying incidents locally and believing support groups could help more immediately.
The document contains short quotes from different fathers on their philosophies and approaches to parenting. Some common themes that emerge are providing love, respect and quality time for children, open communication, teaching life skills and values like responsibility, and being consistent while allowing children freedom to learn and grow.
Lily was a beautiful and caring friend, but after graduating she became influenced by society and turned materialistic. The document discusses how social influences like society can change people and make them focus more on material goods and money rather than quality time with friends and family. It also explains how personal influences like an inspiring father figure helped shape the writer's values and work ethic at a young age.
1) The document discusses the author's personal values statement, which centers around achieving balance as the key to an ideal life. It explores the author's background and experiences that shaped this value.
2) The author defines their worldview as idealism, believing in pursuing balance across all aspects of life to avoid extremes. Balance is challenging for the author but seen as important for well-being.
3) The author's favorite architects are those focusing on sophisticated atmospheres and user experience over bold gestures, like Tadao Ando and Kevin Low, who prioritizes nature and tranquility in design.
1) The document provides a summary of Kimberley Fay Bernard Lo's journal entries for her Social Psychology course, including discussions about social facilitation, the looking glass self-theory, and stereotyping.
2) Kimberley discusses how social facilitation has impacted her throughout her life, giving examples of being more confident performing in front of others compared to alone.
3) She also explores Charles Horton Cooley's looking glass self-theory and how she has been preoccupied with how others see her beauty and shaping her identity based on those perceptions.
4) The document begins to discuss stereotyping but is cut off, suggesting the summary focused on the key topics and insights covered in the provided text.
This document summarizes six journal entries by a student named Khor Seem Leng about topics in psychology discussed in class. The first journal discusses self-conception and building confidence despite perceived flaws. The second addresses overcoming a self-serving bias by taking responsibility for academic shortcomings. The third summarizes a lecture on vision and optical illusions. The fourth describes a class demonstration of conformity where students gave an incorrect answer. The fifth discusses acting differently alone versus in groups. The sixth analyzes a class project on the bystander effect where few helped a collapsed classmate.
My moral compass has been shaped by my parents and social/cultural influences like Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Confucianism, which emphasizes relationships and social harmony, has had the strongest influence. My moral code focuses on cultivating self-knowledge and competencies to protect myself from unintended harm while avoiding harming others. I believe human nature contains both good and evil, so it is important to continuously improve oneself and be sensitive to interactions and environments. A defining challenge occurred when a classmate asked to borrow money, testing my former tendency to trust without thought.
The document discusses the concept of social facilitation based on the author's experiences. Social facilitation is the tendency to perform better on simple tasks when observed by others. The author provides examples from their childhood where they performed dance moves perfectly during an annual concert, despite struggling during practice, and achieving higher exam scores than small tests, due to feeling more competition during exams. The author also discusses how social facilitation can impact groups, using the example of a restaurant chain maintaining higher food quality when facing competition from other restaurants. In conclusion, social facilitation reflects that people's performance is impacted by feelings of being evaluated and surrounding competition.
Social psychology individual assignment 1Alexis Wei
1) The document discusses confirmation bias and how people tend to only pay attention to information that supports their existing beliefs and disregard information that contradicts their beliefs.
2) It provides examples of how confirmation bias can influence political views and discussions on social media during election periods. People are more likely to only share information that supports their preferred candidate or party.
3) Confirmation bias is a powerful phenomenon where people actively seek out and give more weight to evidence that confirms what they already believe while ignoring evidence that contradicts their beliefs. This can blind people to considering other perspectives.
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3. What is an ethical experience?
To find that there are things that I am
not casually determined, but obligated,
to say and to do.
4. Journal Entry #1 - What "others" think
Journal Entry #2 - Who are the "others"
Journal Entry #3 - For the "others"
I have determined three (3) important
events/experiences in my daily life throughout
the term that I can comprehensively associate
to our course 2GED-SS04, which is Ethics;
The Journal Entries
6. Looking back, I think this pool of words that I am inputting
in this journal entry is more of a realization and my
application to the real-life situations that I have
encountered and will be encountering in the future than an
important event or experience throughout the duration of
the course. However, I see it as a matter that holds the
same value to my understanding because all the while the
course effectively relayed its lessons to me as a student,
which made me ponder that resulted to positive
consequences.
7. The statement that marked in my mind during the early lessons that we
had in the course Ethics is extracted from the subject matter of Ethical
Relativism, which is, “There is no objective right and wrong.” Even
before I came to stumble upon the course Ethics, I am already conscious
of the same concept way back in my Senior High School years in our
subject Philosophy, which we discussed why the “Truth is relative”, and
I came to analyze within me that there are no universal standards of
how things work and later today I have found out through the course
that it works the same way with our beliefs of the rightness and
wrongness of our actions.
8. Upon finishing and coming into the conclusion of the course Ethics,
understanding and dealing with other individuals, in general, has
become a lenient task to me. The greatest application to these
realizations is when in the past I am really baffled with how my
brother could act in unnecessary ways every time his mad about
something inside our house, he does and blurt out words that are
way out of line. When there was also a time that I was in his position,
after bursting out my anger, I realized how my actions are like my
brother’s.
9. Now, I have understood where his coming from because I had a
glimpse of his lens. When I am angry and mad about something, I do
and say things that I thought was the most right during that moment,
my mind is clouded of anger that I could not see others’ perspective,
for me, it was the rightest thing to do and say, but for others, they see
it as a wrong action and behavior. When these facts sunk unto me,
that is when I understood other people’s feelings and behavior, that
not because I see it as something wrong, they will also see it the
same way I do, because there is ethical relativism.
10. Somehow, this concept of ethics is a way for people to
compromise their beliefs with others’, I think this is very helpful
for us people to be more open-minded and compassionate
towards one another. As a future educator, this helps remind me
to be more understanding to my learners. Not everyone thinks
and see things the same way as you, this is why we are meant to
respect one another’s opinions and views.
12. As an internet person I have always been updated of what is
happening around social media almost 24/7. When another
Ivana Alawi’s vlog got into the top trending list in Twitter, I did
not really make an effort to watch the whole vlog to find out the
reason why it was trending by the time it was uploaded. Seeing
that it was another one of those vlogs that “helps” those who are
in need, I immediately thought it was sort of a marketing scheme
to gain views and subscribers to earn money, so I just shrugged
off the vlog for a few weeks and drowned myself with my
academic life.
13. Not until recently that I had so much time
to waste to laze around the internet,
because of PNU’s academic term break,
that I finally had the mood to watch her
vlog in YouTube titled, “PRANK ON
STRANGERS ON THE STREET!”, with 19
million views as of April 13, 2021.
14. As a regular viewer of Ivana’s vlogs, I do not just enjoy
her content but I also have come to know her life story
as well. Although people see her today as a successful
public figure and a wealthy heir to her deceased father’s
properties, her life in the past was not always like how it
is in the present. As what she said in the vlog, alam niya
rin kung paano ang buhay na walang wala, and this is
her reason of why she thought of this concept for her
vlog.
15. Pretending like a beggar in the streets, she wanted to
know how Filipinos will react in seeing their countrymen
who are in need. There are some who chose to not give
any attention about her situation, but the true gems in
the vlog was those few people who gave her even the
smallest amount they could give despite being also in
need. Ivana was just chill at the first part of the video
but when they came to the last person to prank, that is
when she shed tears.
16. Reflecting and relating this vlog watching experience to ethics, is
the commitment and responsibility that we have to other people.
As a personal assessment, I can see myself fitting with those who
ignored Ivana in the vlog. I have been also in those situations in
my life where I am put in the shoes where people like those reach
out their hands to beg for alms, but I chose to feign ignorance for
their cries of help.
17. Reasoning out that what I have is not even enough for my own
consumption, what more I could give when I am also in need, not
choosing to see their vision of life and only focusing my lens on
my own life situation. In this kind of experience, there is an ethical
dilemma that each person faces, to look at the eyes of these
“others” and lend a hand which is the right action and behavior to
respond, or look away and mind thy own business because that is
the “others” problems and you have your own problems to solve,
which is the most selfish thing to do.
18. Life is full of choices and every little thing we
do every day is a choice that we made from
various reasons we need to consider. From this
crucial experience, my eyes are now open to
see the importance of always choosing what
benefits the “others” because it is always the
right thing to do.
20. The last lesson of the course Ethics, that I
had to read and understand is the morality
of election, where I discovered a lot of laid
reasons behind the decision of participating
or casting a vote during an election process,
in which these reasons are analyzed in order
to determine if the action of voting is a
rational action or not and can be classified
as a moral obligation by an individual or not.
21. The most common reason why people choose to vote, is
because they believe that their individual vote will make a
change, a change with how the country is being governed
which affects themselves and the “others” in general.
People believe that it is their duty to participate in an
election because it is their way of showing that they care
for themselves and the “others”, and I think I am of those
people who thinks aligned with these beliefs.
22. As a young adult that is now in the
stage of “adulting”, who needs to
commit to her responsibilities as a
Filipino citizen, I have been planning
to register to vote in the COMELEC
but unable to do so because of my
academic responsibilities, so I
decided to do it during the term
break. Recently, I successfully did it
in our municipality.
23. As I was told to put my two thumbs in the ink to record my
finger prints to validate the form I filled in, pouring
thoughts and realizations suddenly sunk unto my mind. I
realized that I am no longer the child who only think of the
simplest matters in life, and I am now currently in the
stage of my life where my opinion and view should not be
the only thing that matters to me, that I am now
responsible of the “others” as well, as a Filipino citizen to
my countrymen and as a human with a moral and ethical
obligation to fulfill.
24. Registering to vote for me is a symbol of the
starting point where I am already not my own
person, but an individual that is meant to be
with the “others” in this world and my actions
and behaviors should be for the sake of the
“others”. A person that is capable of making a
difference for the improvement and betterment
of everyone.