Thursday, February 3, 2011

Conclusion

The purpose of our project was to find a universal definition for hope and what it means to be human.  With this definition, we were hoping to better understand our peers.  We’ve come to understand that humans have varying views & lack of understanding of each other when it comes to hope, causing issues when humans decide to come together.  We as a group thought it would be interesting to compare the answers of our peers.  My group made a video consisting of five questions which were:

1. What does hope mean to you?
2. What does it mean to be human?
3. Is there an experience you can share with us when you gained or lost hope?
4. Can you experience hope without going through a hardship?
5. Do you have hope for humanity?

Our video can be watched here.

We walked around school for a few days, interviewing select teachers and random students.  As you can see from watching the video, some answers vary and some were similar.  Our interpretations of the results are that hope really comes from personal experiences.  Knowing what hope is, and what it means to be human, are molded as a lifetime passes.  We also found that everyone had hope for humanity, if if they had recently lost it to factors such as the shootings in Arizona.  Everyone said that they had not lost all hope, and that they were slowly gaining it back.  We hope to make one video for the class, with all of our works combined.  The different groups in my class all had complex and thorough philosphies, and we learned a lot from our findings.

What I learned from this project was that people can in fact come together when necessary.  When asked about a serious topic, all answers that we recieved were well thought out and genuine.  This goes to show that humans can sacrafice and unify with each other.  I believe in this because when it comes down to it, humans will ive up selfish values to helpvthemselves as a whole.  If ever the world was in need of saving, I believe humans would come through in the end.