Telling My Story of Humanities

There's a fine line between learning the values of humanities in a classroom where you have direct access to professors and students who can show guidance in your success, but since some cannot be concluded in classrooms, online courses have provided a unique different system where we have direct access to everything from the nationwide database, that includes resources from schools, and social media that televises teaching concepts including humanities, therefore shows me why this system helped provide me the best resources to succeed and show me how to appreciate the learning of humanities, and some of those come from certain artifacts that cannot be presented in direct contact with professors or students.

Reff, Daniel T. Plagues, Priests, and Demons : Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity

        in the Old World and the New. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Daniel T. Reff's "Plagues, Priests, Demons - Sacred Narratives" Novel Cover

Located by Folsom Lake College, Published 2005

        • Important to know the history as well as the change that evolves with the nature of Christianity, Daniel Reff’s illustration provides a guidance not just in the studies of anthropology, but he lays out a concept in which the reader can first learn the impact of how Christianity was effected and then beginning to rise in a form which coincided with both the roman empire and the studies of colonial Mexico. A significant topic that showed me as a viewer to learning the ways of Christianity, was the impact in which infectious diseases was taking over the Roman Empire. With this understanding, Reff simulates a form in which new beliefs and practices were deemed to new ideas of indigenous religions that could be accommodated to help rebuild the form of Christianity.

Shakespeare, William, et al. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Updated edition., 

        Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012.

Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" Novel Cover

Published by New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012

        • In pursuit of learning the psychological characteristics of Hamlet, the author provides a unique pattern of which course of nature, an individual must take in order to avenge his father’s death. Which is what explaining the conflict of Hamlet becoming internal with the ability to wrestle on something based on his uncertainty, in which he feels very strongly to act upon. As a result to the reader, it teaches them that this uncertainty cannot be solved and that it creates side-effects of horrific resolutions evolving around the characters in the play, which also provides a unique system in Shakespeare’s style of creating plays.

EVALUATION OF HUMANITIES

        Looking back on the time that went into the development of this course, and now gathering all of the information that a student can evaluate and appreciate what they learned in a certain amount of time. It can become overwhelming for certain individuals including myself. From the beginning, it became clear to me that this course was meant to understand human geography and the nature of modern religions, almost like a history class, but there is more to it than what has been given in this course. One of those topics that was covered was the course of understanding the early renaissance and how certain religions such as Christianity helped rebuild the system for all religions across the world. I can refer back to one of the first articles I searched when understanding religions, and that was the matter in which Christianity “emerges in the face of a bewildering postmodern world where unity of any sort – religious, political, economic, ideological is contested” (Phillips, 2011). Its these types of arguments that allowed me to fully grasp the exploration of certain regions that provided guidance to help bring back important systems to this world and provide references for future generations to come. In some way, it can say that I accomplish the goal, but it became more of a progressive process, which could entail that I gained knowledge of humanities ethnics by leaps and bounds every week we discussed certain topics in relation to humanities. So overall, my goals in learning humanities provided a supply of leaping experiences that stood out to be more than I anticipated in learning.

"What are the Humanities? What Makes Us Human?" by Being Human Festival, YouTube, Published 13 November, 2020

        Since Christianity was something that I was never familiar with in learning the concept of humanities, it allowed me to look back and remind myself of what I had already learned before it came time to start this course. One of those can be the tragedy of Hamlet, because coming from high school and transitioning into college, where Hamlet was a required topic to learn about in high school, and now taking what I learned and apply that into evaluation of humanities, it only makes you that more interested in what can be acknowledged. Learning Hamlet in high school was something unique where you could analysis each character and present your theory of the play, but in this course, it allows you to go further into the reading process of what Hamlet’s intentions were in the middle of a crisis with certain family members and friends, that allow you to analysis what the author’s potential aspect for the entire play. And this is just another explanation for what each of the lessons has been taught to all of us learning humanities. In conclusion, to what has already been taken from this class and how we have evolved in that time frame, it showed me as a student, as a reader and as a analysis that you can never stop learning the true aspirations of human learning, where humanities evolves around every humanoid event or topic that has come to past and provide a concept of systematic learning that can be taught later in the future for the next generation, which is another reason why you can learn as much as you want in humanities, but you can fully grasp everything that it provides because we continue to evaluate our potential learning with new ideas and forms.

"Renaissance: William Shakespeare", Binogi, YouTube, Published 06 February, 2017

        • And lastly, the most important value that I can take from this class is the fact that we got to engage in certain communitive activities, where we can listen to each and give our evaluations of each other’s opinions on activities relating to the value of humanities, which ultimately makes me believe that the true potential value in humanities to progressing each other’s values in what we feel is important to express as far as humanities go.

Work Cited

Reff, Daniel T. Plagues, Priests, and Demons : Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity

        in the Old World and the New. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Shakespeare, William, et al. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Updated edition., 

        Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012.

Gary A. Phillips. “Responsibility, and the Question, ‘What Is Christianity?’: <em>The 

        Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity</Em>.” Journal of World Christianity, vol. 4, no. 1, 

        2011, pp. 21–26, https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.4.1.0021. Accessed 15 May 2022.

Binogi, "Renaissance: William Shakespeare (English) - Binogi.com", YouTube,

        Published 06 February, 2017

Being Human Festival, "What are the Humanities? What Makes Us Human?", YouTube, 

        Published, 13 November, 2020