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Videos, Exerpts, TedTalks, and Powerpoints helped aid in my learning as well.

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The tool that helped me grasp a better understanding of each lesson in ethics. Reflections and applying lessons to real-life situations guided me in making connections.

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What Help Develop my Understanding of Ethics?

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What Help Develop my Understanding of Ethics?

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After each lesson, us students were to create blogs that helped us reflect on what we learned. By applying these lessons to real-world scenarios (or even personal experiences), I was able to fully grasp the content.

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My New Understanding of Morality and Ethics.

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My New Understanding of Morality and Ethics.

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After taking this Ethics class, I can now understand the difference between morality and ethics clearly. I can also now apply these lessons to my future in the legal field, which concerns ethical considerations consistently, especially in complex scenarios. The in-class discussions have made me critically think of the modern world and how an individual's ethical framework has the power to both shape and destroy society/communities in varying ways. I now know how important decision-making is and how pivotal ethics are when doing so.

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Multimedia that Helped me Understand Class Content

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Multimedia that Helped me Understand Class Content

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This video on Social Identity Theory helped me better understand how individuals perceive themselves and align themselves with social groups with similar characteristics. This expanded from Sapolsky's work on in/out-groups, which are rooted in human evolution as survival strategies. Sapolsky says that these prejudices lead to issues in the modern world, such as racism, sexism, etc. This video on Social Identity Theory expands on Sapolsky's work and modern issues, further explaining the "Us v. Them" mindset that makes an individual think their group is better than another.

The video creator further explains how, "In groups and Out groups are basic ways that our brain thinks about our social identities." When I first learned about Us v. Them in my Law classes, we used Qanon followers or conspiracy theorists as an example. When conspiracy theorists find others who think alike, they both will categorize themselves into a group. By belonging to this group, it gives a sense of pride, which makes one believe their group is better than another. For example, Qanon followers strongly believe the Democratic party is "less" than the Conservative Republicans in America. If the Us v. Them concept did not exist, then the extreme polarization within the political world would not exist.

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The most challenging blog for me personally was Blog 10 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gWksGg_VFKSUabPZRZBLS-mqvQq8e01e-vFketMVF3o/edit?usp=sharing), which regarded E.O. Wilson's "The Social Conquest of Earth". In the chapters we were provided, Wilson explained how altruism (the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others) is actually connected to evolution. Altruism promotes cooperation and the desire for higher status, which ultimately shifts culture to advance further.

I think this blog was the most difficult for me to write in terms of reflection, as I struggled to think of examples of how evolution/altruism has affected my social behavior. If I were to rewrite this blog, I would use a different example rather than being an RA, such as a singular personal experience where I sacrificed something large at the expense of another. I feel that being an RA has changed my social behavior only slightly, so it wasn't too strong of a connection compared to other experiences in my life.

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The blog that challenged me to think in a new way was Blog 9, which was about Bell Hooks and the Ethic of Love (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PH9lqRvjwnIZr0B3-VH3z9XVYp_JmGcjtf7iA4zKNZU/edit?usp=sharing). Hooks believes that in order to really create societal change and achieve true freedom, love must be applied. Bell Hooks states that without the ethic of love, the
efforts of liberation for both ourselves and our society from oppression are set up for failure.
Without factoring love into political motivations or beliefs, systems of domination, like racism,
sexism, classism, and imperialism are bound to continuously take over.

Hooks also states that social liberation should be a spiritual enterprise that involves the healing of the self and the community. This would include a reconciliation process that would reveal true history, which I was challenged to curate. After drafting a plan of healing and reconciliation, I was to reflect on my own educational experiences of how history was taught to me. If I were to edit this blog, I would add more to my plan and explain further about how false history does not promote the ethic of love and healing for individuals and society. I would also expand more on the education I received on societal events, and how that impacted my thinking/viewpoints.

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In the beginning of the semester, I viewed morality as one's values or beliefs, such as honesty, trust, or religious beliefs. These values would then shape an individual's thinking/actions. For example, one might never lie as it goes against their moral values of being truthful.

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Ethics: Refers to a set of guidelines or principles that help determine what is right or wrong in a more general or societal context.

It can be thought of as shared principles guiding behavior in a community, organization, or society.

Morals: An individual's personal beliefs about what is right or wrong. Cultural, religious, or personal values often shape morals.

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a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do

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moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity