Hello everyone! I know what you're thinking; I haven't posted anything in a few weeks and your sadness is hollowing out your brains. Well, I have good news: I'M CONCLUDING HOPE & THE HUMAN SPIRIT!
Since my last post, our G&T class has finished our first portion of the Human Spirit project by splitting up into groups and doing an individual study. My group, consisting of 5 members, decided to ask questions and interview people around our school, and then compile their interviews into a video to show our class. I will ask you, my fellow bloggers, these same questions; hopefully you can give me your own answer:
1. What does hope mean to you?
2. What does it mean to be human?
3. Can you experience hope without going through a hardship?
4. Do you have an experience where you gained or lost hope? Why?
5. Do you have hope for humanity?
To our surprise, we did not get many varying answers to the 5 questions. Most people said hope was something along the lines of, "what gets you out of bed in the morning," and being human was "making mistakes." Yes, I did think that the answers would sound similar at some point or another, but I think because of the details we've explored in this unit, I had more "hope" that everyone would have their own, different definition.
Despite my expectations, our group managed to create a terrific video, highlighting some answers to the questions that particularly impacted us. In the near future, our group is hoping to compile with the other groups in our class to create a "master video," to show all of the answers we received.
From the project, I continued to realize that there is no true definition of "hope" or "humanity." I'm hoping, even as the unit comes to an end, to perfect my definitions, as well as explore separate aspects of the topics like the other groups accomplished.
