Animal Unit paper

Explain and analyse the most important of the 6 cultural obstacles to seeing ourselves as animals - explain and analyse the most important of the 4 benefits of seeing ourselves as animals for living a good and meaningful life. Conclude with your perspective, perhaps including additional obstacles and/or benefits.

For millions of years Humans and animals have Co-Existed. We are seperated by different parts of the world and in most cases we are sepertaed by man made things like cages and inclosed habitats. Between Humans and Animals our main goal is survival. We both live off the same basics of shelter, food and water. We also depend on companionship in order to reproduce and to feel happy that we arent alone. Obstacles for knowing that we are animals is that we cannot change we follow a system. There is a certain way we need to act around one another especially in school. Us as students dont have the option of running around and interacting with each other the way we want to because there are rules. Having to contain being ureself as an animal is fustrating when you want to go outside and be active with other people/animals.
The suck part about us being animals is that we cant really communicate with other animals that arent human like us. We can try to decode what other animals forms of communications mean but we can never really know exactly what there thinking or what they are talking about with other animals like themselfs. Being animals we need a way to eat and survive. the downfall is us Humans eat animals. So us being animals we are really eating each other.
The major downfall of being an animal is that we cant really show that we are animals at all. its alright when were little kids because were not really aware of the world and our intensions are just to be free and have fun, doing things that make us happy. No system yet to follow.

If it ever came down to where animals and Humans had to live together and survive together i think the animals would eat us all. animals seam to be very aware of us being around them and become teritorial of there space. we would end up getting eaten and killed. I think animals live on the principle of natural selection, that only the strongest will survive. survival of the fittest. so in the case that we all hade to survive together the animals arent going to worried about us they are going to worried about themselfs and alot of animals are natural predators that will kill us in a minute. it isnt really a fair fight.

Im totally taking this from andy but like he said if other animals can go extinct so can we. Humans have seamed to out live alot of animals that have lived on this earth and died out so we have a good chance of living on alot longer but theres always the possibility something will happen and all humans/animals will be gone. what will be left on our planet?. the cockroches because they always seam to adapt to all living situation(lol)

-A benefit of being an animal is that we all have the same intensions and instincts. Our intensions are to surivive and be happy. we want to be active with each other and interact. we learn from each other when we interact and it makes us happy to be natural instead of conforming ourselfs to be uptight people at school. sitting in a chair for hours everyday isnt very stimulating. getting up and moving our bodies seams to always makes us happy because it naturally what we want to do.

The first activity we did in class was play a game called "rabbit". choosing 3 people as the rabbits and we had to run around and catch them. it made everyone feel atleast one point higher on there happy scale because we had a goal and we used our natural animalistic behaviors to do so and it was better then sitting in a chair learning about stuff that wasent stimulating our minds in a fun way.

The second activity we did was rolling people over our bodies trying to get them from one point to another. that activity was really fun because we all had to work as a team in order to get the person from A to B and we were moving our bodies and had to use our minds to think about how we were going to this.

My own perspective on the animal unit is that it really has me thinking alot more about how we are really animals. we may do things differently but in ways its exactly the same. when an animal becomes agressive because another animal is invading its space they warm the aother another animal or fight and kill them. when someone is invading our space we get mad as well we just do it in such a violent way. i wonder if animals are looking at us the same way we are looking at them. wondering how we communicate.

Answers To Old People Questions.

-What percantage of old people are sexually active?
Twenty-five percent of those between 75 and 85 years old reported having sex--doing it at least once every couple of weeks. A third of those said they had given or received oral sex. http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/who039s-caring-mom/200808/ewwwold-people-sex

-What is the life span for the average person?
In the US, average life expectancy continues to rise. In 2003 it stood at 80.1 for women and 74.8 for men; heart disease is the main cause of death
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Average+life+span

You know i relalized that there isnt really alot of statistical information about old people on the internet. either its talking about the steryo-types of old people or someones opinion of old people. Looks like were neglecting the old people because when i typed in what percentage of old people are sexually active about 11 links were talking about teenagers and adults and only about 1 link adressed it towards old people.

Old Folks In Social Interaction Questions

1. Interaction bewteen old people and younger people.
2. Interaction between old people and other old people like Bingo Night.
3. How common is it that old people interact with each other.
4. How common is it for old people to interact with teenagers 15 and younger.
5. What percantage of old people are sexually Active.
6. How many people over the age of 65 cacth an STD.
7. Do all old people have a dress code.
8. What do old people find attractive.
9. what do old people concider fun.
10. What percentage of old people have medical problems.
11. What percantage of old people drink alcohol and smoke weed.
12. What percantage of old people shower every day.
13. What percentage of old people wear a wig.
14. What percentage of old people have dentures.
15. What percentage of old people live by themselfs.
16. What percentage of old people feel young on the inside.
17. What percentage of old people have Life Insurance.

Questions for The Old people.

If i had the opportunity to ask someone who is old 5 questions about a good and meaningful life they would be
#1- Would you say the idea of a good and meaningful life is similar or different to the time period we are living in right now?
#2- Whats your secret for being happy?
#3-Would you say theres a difference in the way our generation lives in comparison to your generation.?
#4-Do you have any advice for our youth?
#5- if you coud go back in time and change anything about your life to make it better what would it be and what would you do.

Obamas Inogurations Ceremony.

my thoughts about Barack Obama's presidential Inoguration was that it was one of the most memorable Inogurations to date in my mind. it made me feel good to know that we might actually have change and it gave us a new found hope that things can get better. it also felt good to know that Bush will no longer be our president because it was apparent that he wasent doing us any good. Even if you werent there in person watching it you could still feel the emotion everyone was feeling and it was a powerful moment. Barack Obama makes being president look easy.

Holiday: Valentines Day

February 14th comes around every year and its the day that we celebrate to appreciate the special people in our lives that we love. we go out and buy chcoclates and flowers to show our appreciation. I think that Valentines day is a holiday that tells us to show love to our Boyfriends/girlfriends & Husbands/Wives. Valentines day isnt so loving for all of us because if you dont have anyone special to celebrate it with then it makes you look like your all alone and that no one loves you. Kinda makes you think your a loser is you cant find love. this holiday in comparison to other holidays isnt any better because were commercializing feelings. we are changing ourselfs to fit valentines day instead of the other way around. people have different ways of showing love and its not always buying flowers and chocolate or choosing one specific day.

Wal-Mart Can Get Ugly Too.

Less then a week ago for Black Friday on November 28th at 10:46pm a Wal-Mart worker was killed because of the outragous and out of control stampied in Long island fighting through the doors to get inside. Alot of people were lined up outside for hours to get good deals on christmas presents. If we look at the actual meaning of chirtsmas its to celebrate the day baby Jesus was born. So waiting for hours outside a store to get a sale kinda throws that out the window for celebrating the true meaning of christmas. People would argue that you have to look out for yourself or its your own fault for getting hurt or killed. But why cant we have enough respect for ourselfs not to act like assholes and become violent. Yes it may be a Compatition to see who can get everything they want without someone else getting it first,but we dont have to make a massacre of it. To know that everyone knew they were stepping on him and didnt feel like helping him because maybe they would get pulled down to is really sad. They proably Justify it in there minds like im not going to help him up but maybe the next person will so im not so bad. People really act like its the end of the world if they dont get inisde and buy something. In the Article we read in class it said "Chanting push the doors in, the crowd pressed against the glass as the clock ticked down to the 5am opening." if were all going to the same place why do we have to get stupid and act like its the end of the world.

Now for the pregnant Woman who was injured also at Wal-Mart, I think this woman isnt very smart for thinking that she wouldnt get hurt especially the situation that shes in. Why take the chance of possibly hurting your baby over 20 dollars off a TV. I think Americans are very materialistic people and its all because corprate culture constantly wants us to have the latest stuff so they can have our money. I proaby will Never go Black Friday shopping and Wont buy anything that day.