The modern age, characterized with its ever-increasing speed and huge technological innovations, has influenced mankind to a great extent. From the African culture of gathering kids for moonlight tales at night, to the Asian custom of dining with extended family members at the table; the advent of technology has drastically altered the lifestyle of most
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Martin Luther King’s Two Messages
In an abject fragment of a variegated society, some people scurry into cage houses, dozens of people tolerate taunts and differential treatment, and a few are put behind the bars as the price for advocating the truth. The enduring quote “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”, which is extracted from Martin Luther King
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Professional education, they say, is the key to success. Education helps an individual acquire knowledge, understand and skill in order to be meaningful to society. In Victor Hugo’s novel, he used ‘The school’ to symbolize education and ‘The prison’ to symbolize the effect of not being educated. In Victor Hugo’s novel,”he who opens a school
Sorry I was not listening but I heard
Schools (institutions of thought) give great focus on teaching learners to read, write and speak with eloquence, but the skill of listening effectively is not given the same importance, although we spend most of the day hearing various stimuli in the environment. As a result good listeners are rare. On many occasions when engaged in
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
To be just is to be guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness. Justice, simply put means fairness in the way people are treated. From my point of view ‘love is a universal language’. Love overcomes tribe, race, religion and anything that tends to cause division amongst us. Love is what helps us understand the
Something Understood
“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey. Do you agree? To listen with the intent to understand takes a curious mind that is open for new learning they don’t yet know, and feel comfortable with not yet knowing. I’m a social artist
You must understand more than just danger
It is, and probably always has been, difficult to be an outsider. The difference that separates people is already made profound by differences in our experiences and the worldviews which have culminated from them. However, these differences have only become more salient with time. In the current socio-political climate, important discussions around group identity, national
The Rich Man and the Other Guy
In hindsight it does not seem so unimaginable that a lonely young man in a jail cell could pen one of the most oft quoted phrases in modern history. But that was no ordinary man, and that was no ordinary time. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. The phrase
Listening to Reply Syndrome
Most people talk but only a few listen. Communication is one of the most sensitive interactions, and has great power to make or break any relationship. It can result in chaos and even affect world peace at large. Interestingly, almost everybody wants to be heard, but nobody wants to listen, and even when they listen,
Listening and hearing
“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” Those were some very strong words, spoken by Stephen R. Covey, that represents our daily basic life. Whenever a person is speaking, the person whom is spoken to would constantly try to interrupt them. Of course that’s due to
Is justice a fallacy?
Psychologists’ belief that our perception of reality is subjective, due to the manner individuals select, organize and interpret stimuli in the environment. The same can be said about our opinion of right and wrong; this is as a result of bias, prejudice and cultural views among others, which individuals have been condition into. What is
He Who Opens a School Door, Closes a Prison
As civilization grew along the line of history, it became necessary to pass formal instruction to human beings so that they could develop behaviours that would fit into civilized and normal societies. Then it was conjectured that starting from childhood was the best option so that young children who are taught would grow into educated
Immigration: Searching for Relief
You live in America. You were born here. You’ve never experienced war, famine, persecution, abject poverty, or genocide. You have not feared for your life or the lives of your loved ones: family, friends and children. You believe that illegal immigration is a problem. You say, “build the wall.” You want illegal immigrants to be
Listen, Understand, Reply
Notice how when a group of people are in a conversation, sometimes their voices overlap? Or how sometimes while you’re still talking, maybe in a conversation with your two closest friends, one person does not finish talking before the other starts? Well, that’s probably because they were already thinking of a similar situation they had
Path of Success
The uneducated person better knows the worth of education. Can you live a happy and successful life without education? Can you live in the 21st century without technology? The answer to both questions is ‘no’. In this century a lot of new inventions and innovations have taken place, from the latest smart phones to a wide
Justice; universally or never
As we are very much dependent up on each other in this modern world, justice can be achieved only on a universal level. It can be maintained in all nations of the world or in no one. Injustice always causes its object to be, in one or another way, unjustifiably disadvantaged by an act of
The Ego Talks
Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. Myself, well I hardly listen at all. Why should I? You walked in here 10 minutes ago with mud up the back of your raincoat and bought yourself a drink without checking the tide-line inside my glass. And now
Listen to connect
Listening is an important ingredient of oral interpersonal communication. It is the stage where we receive vocal signals from a speaker and process it inside our heads to give a proper feedback. The feedback then transforms the listener into the speaker, thus continuing the process. Throughout the world, this communication model, together with others ,
How Are You Listening?
Most mornings, as soon as I wake up to the unrelenting but cheery sun lifting the darkness (it is Florida, after all), I go out for a walk. I put on a pair of those ubiquitous, stretchy, cropped pants, a T-shirt, good running sneakers (although I don’t run, just walk as if someone were chasing
You’re Never The Dumbest Person In The Room
“I’m applying a therapeutic ultrasound system, one that creates cavitation bubbles in the body that breaks down tumors, towards breaking open timber & other tough tissue to release DNA and enable endangered species screening tests. “ As this sentence rolled off my dear friends’ tongue, I stood there, drink in hand and mind in a