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1. I chose to read “Equal­ity for All” by Bren­ton of Fort Lewis, Wash­ing­ton for my ‘This I Believe.’
   This sol­dier explains how his time spent deployed helped him real­ize that all peo­ple are the same. Not only phys­i­o­log­i­cally, but that all peo­ple have sim­i­lar fears, sim­i­lar inten­tions when they speak to one another, sim­i­lar hopes and dreams, and sim­i­lar rela­tion­ships with our neigh­bors. This essay spoke to me because I am a big believer in human­ity, if you will. I believe that we all have the capac­ity to share sim­i­lar expe­ri­ences, hold opin­ions on the same issues, and feel sim­i­larly about cer­tain phe­nom­ena. And though it may change across cul­tures, it is nev­er­the­less, rooted in our same phys­i­o­log­i­cal need to be HUMAN. I think that this affected what the “Designs of Mean­ing” arti­cle referred to as my aes­thetic expe­ri­ence. I was emo­tion­ally engaged in this story. I feel that I was also aes­thet­i­cally engaged in “Happy.” In this video, sev­eral forms of media are used to evoke emo­tion. Though emo­tions would have poured out of me had i just read the story. Happy, a sev­en­teen year old tells her story of ris­ing her child with her aunt after she became preg­nant by her rapist. Though these sto­ries are totally dif­fer­ent, the emo­tions that they evoked are the same. Mak­ing you ques­tion what it is to be human, what it is to love, and to be loved.

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