Reflections

     Roosevelt achieves multiple things with her quote, such as highlighting the duality of man (as in emotional and logical), establishing the necessity of a balance between logic and emotion in treatment of people, and serving a requiem for human experience/nature. Roosevelt’s quote resonates with me as it’s easily observable in the open world. More often than not, I’ve seen people force-feed logic down others' throats when it’s the wrong quality to use in the situation. For instance, how often has the following scenario played before you: An angry person vents to his friend, and his friend responds by telling him what they’ve done wrong. The result is an even angrier person. What that person needs at that moment isn’t scolding, constructive criticism, or whatever you may call it. They want compassion, sympathy, and reassurance. Similarly, in certain situations, emotions (and especially empathy) are a horrible quality to show.  If you can differentiate ...

Loving, Respecting, and Appreciating Our Parents      Loving our parents is a love far from the love of a partner. It is a love that cannot be fully explained or comprehended; it’s just there. One might say they love their parents because they care for him/her, protect him/her, and provide him/her with everything he/she wants. Now imagine having a friend who you’ve known for the same amount as your parents (since birth) and has done the same exact things for you, not more nor less. Even though this friend provided you with the same things as your parents, you’d still find yourself choosing your parents over him/her in terms of who you love more. As I mentioned earlier, our love towards our parents is a love that’s there even before we’ve begun learning how to walk. It is a love that is natural. That is why if one doesn’t love their parents, there is a grave issue in him/her.      Asides from loving our parents, it is also essential that we resp...

In short, what is the video about? The video centers about a boy, who appears insensitive at first, and his newly acquired dog. He brushes the dog off at first since the dog has lost one if its legs, but later sympathizes and relates with the dog and gives it the attention it wanted. What was the boy afraid of and how did he overcome that fear? In reality, the boy isn’t afraid of anything. At first, he tried to ignore the dog since it has lost one of its legs. Then, and as he noticed how the dog still had all the characteristics of a dog, even though it didn’t have four legs like most dogs, he saw himself in the dog. He saw how the dog was a dog even though it only had three legs and how he is still a human even though he has one leg. It wasn’t fear the boy experienced. It was self-realisation. What is the role of self-image in fear? A person would be afraid to do a certain something because of a certain quality he either has or lacks. For instance, the boy i...

Getting the Audience on His Side      One thing that is as clear as day in Mohammed Qahtani's presentation is that he doesn't orbit his topic. He gets directly into his topic without any unnecessary delays and uncalled for examples. He begins his presentation with a style of opening I have never seen before, which proved to be very successful in grabbing myself and the audience's attention. He demonstrates how words cuts deeper than a knife. He demonstrates how a word can kill and save. He demonstrates how a word has more power than we believe it does. He gives a superb yet saddening example of how a single sentence murdered his friend, Nasser. He explains why being able to properly explain yourself is important by showing that the way you express yourself can deeply hurt someone, even if your intention wasn't to.      Qahtani's explains how your tone can affect someone's behavior by setting his own child as an example. The m...