Helping the sick #7

In this class we had an interesting debate about if someone was sick and refused to take the medicine that would save them what should you do. Some of my peers felt that you should force to give it them, some believed that you should try to educate them on the medicine and why they should take it, and others felt that they should be able to choose what they want to do with their life and can refuse the medicine if they want. We represented this in class by using chocolate candies to represent the medicine and one of my peers was told to not take the candy no matter what and everyone was asked to give their opinion on the matter. I thought this was an interesting and fun way to get people's perspective on this. In my opinion, I would take the route of trying to explain why this medicine will help them and how it can help from them getting their family or others sick. If still they still refused to take it then I would not force them and let them do as they please. 

The United States #6

This week in class we talked about global hegemonic theory. I have never heard of this theory before this class before but it made a lot of sense and it said that when a global hegemon exists and is strong, global peace exists but when a global hegemon does not exist or is weak, global chaos exists. This was compared to when a boss does not come into work and everything falls apart and I thought this was a good way to compare the two. We also talked about the role of the United States in the World and some of the pros and cons of it. The United States of America is very different than many other places in the world and that makes us unique and have many qualities that other countries do not have which makes us stronger.

Qualitative Research Project #5

For week 6 of class we were assigned a qualitative research project. As a psychology major I think this is interesting and am excited to attend something that am not a part of and feel that I will learn a lot about different groups from this assignment. I still have not decided what I will be attending for this project but I do have a few ideas. In this class we also went over the pros and cons of colonialism, which we were assigned the class before. A lot of people had similar thoughts that I had but there were a few that I did not think of that I agreed with. I enjoy the debates in this class because I feel that I always learn something that I did not think of because everyone has a different views on subjects which may give a new perspective on things.