Objective
- Become familiar with the basic relationship of human values to psychological and philoshopical endeavors.
- Understand that values are formed from external and internal drives of an individual.
- Explore one’s own value system.
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This assessment is really a good one which can give people some ideas about different value. When I see the list first, I choose family without hesitation. I think many people choose family as the first one as me. The reason might be that people spend a lot of time with family, and share many things with parents and other family member who can support you and encourage you. Today, I went swimming which can helps me be stronger and healthy. After that, I went to hospital for my allergy. During the afternoon, I just sat in front of the computer and do my schoolwork. Right now, my friend just give me a call so that we decide to go for a dinner tonight. What I choose is family, health, security, personal accomplishment, and friendship.
This summer, I back home and stay with my family. I always miss my parents when I stay in U.S.. This time, we stay together, we make food, hang out together to get happiness as much as we can. My parents are the origin for me to do everything, they give me power so that I believe I can overcome every difficulties, they do give support me by their spirits, they told me that you can do whatever you want, and you should believe that you are excellent. As for health, health is the basement for everything, only you are healthy both mentally and physically, you can have the abilities to achieve your goals. Then, I choose security. I think I enjoy stable life, I want my family stay with happiness. In that case, if you can meet our basic needs, we can strive together to make our life better and better. Personal accomplishment stays an important part of my life as well. I believe that I need to work hard in order to achieve my own value in life so that I can be confident and powerful to protect myself and my family. The fifth one is friendship. Friends help me a lot all the time. They can be your friends, and they can be your teacher as well. When you are in trouble, the real friends always stand out to support you without hesitation. I think this assessment helps me do a deep thinking for what I really need and want. Right now, I may feel more clear about values.
- Family
- Health
- Security
- Personal Accomplishment
- Friendship
Independence
Community
Personal Development
Wealth
Creativity
Integrity
Leadership
Loyalty
Prestige
Wisdom
Service
Expertness
Power
Location
Reflection
As for me, family is a word with color, love, happiness, and then it shows a real life just like those three pictures I posted above.Then, What is real life? This artifact just remind me of a lot of things happened in my previous life. I continued to ask myself what value I have. The answer come into my mind immediately is that I both have internal and external value. I was born and stayed in a small city in China for 18 years, that was my whole life before I study abroad since 2011. During my previous life, I gain a lot from my family. I think some of my value was “sent” by my parents, I influenced by them, in this case, I like making friends, I like reading books, I like doing many things that my parents do. That’s the way I behave, and that’s why I behave like that, they all because of the values I have, and that is the internal value I have.
Right now, I study in U.S. for almost three years. America is a country with varieties of cultures combined. I met many people from different countries, I make many friends, and changed some of my perspective to see the world. That is really a good thing for me. I become positive and active to strive and fight for my future, I know what I want and what I have to do. More important, I realize that I should do what I like, just like my major. I change my major to Marketing after I find myself have passion in this field. I make a lot of difference for myself since I came to U.S..I think those values would be external values for me based on my personal understanding.
I believe real life is related to your family and no matter what happened, they all stay with you, they all support you, they all love you. Then, you can gain a lot of confidence, support and encouragement from your family to help you succeed in the society. I have considered many elements in my life, but there is no doubt that family comes into the first. As people in the society, I want to better my family and myself. As Hunter Lewis said in his article, “individual A may like B in one respect, like C in another, like D in another. In other ways B may be more like D, C like A, and otherwise all four may be quite different”(Page 6). I gain a lot from this statement, many people live in the society, you need to respect others to gain others’ respect.
I remember when I was a high school student, I do not want to leave parents. But right now, I know personal accomplishment and development is really important for me. It is an important part of my life, because it can show my value, it can help me be stronger. Additionally, I realized that I cannot live without friends, the real friends can support you in a way your family do. I think I gain a lot in this artifact, and it is truly helpful for myself. I know I need to make efforts for my future life.
Future Goals
I believe I will behave what I believe in the future, act in a way like yourself. I think will spare no efforts for achieving what I want, I will respect others, and have a positive attitude in life. No matter what happened, I should know that my parents, family and my friends always support me, and I think I will support them as well and as much as I can. I want a happy, healthy future life with a lot of love. In addition to that, during the life time, I am sure I can gain a lot of experience which may influence my point of view of value. So, I will work harder to achieve my value.