Conclusion: Hope, Humanity, and the Human Spirit

As I look back on my experience learning about hope, humanity, and human spirit I feel quite accomplished. For the conclusion of the unit, Andrew, Ronak and I worked together on a group presentation to further explore the topic of humanity. We were quite inspired by Jeremy Rifkin's Empathic Civilisation Animate video. So we took some of Rifkin's ideas and ran with them. We aimed to research how humans have connected on tribal, religious, and national levels. As Rifkin questioned how we can connect and empathize as one global community, we also wondered how this can be accomplished. Finally, we also wanted to see if there is hope for the human race. Along the way we found an incredible timeline by Brian Holtz that posed a timeline of future events for humanity. You have to check it out here!!!!! I also came into contact with Matt Erikson through his blog. He provided some useful insight about religion and religious connections between people. His blog can be viewed here. This project was a lot of fun and taught me a lot. It's opened my eyes to many things, like humanity's future, that I never truly thought about before. Other groups and their presentations made me think about the psychological perspective and how loneliness can affect human beings. I'm able to take what I know and believe from my religious background and combine it with what I've learned through this project to determine my own beliefs and predictions about humanity. Ronak's video and our PowerPoint presentation were very successful in presenting what we learned and did throughout the project. I'm very satisfied with the project. And I've definitely learned a lot about hope, humanity, and the human spirit from this unit. Plus I've given thought to ideas that I never have considered before, which is always a good thing.