Week 2 Cannibalism, Love, Born to be Happy

Cannibalism: This story was really strange. How does one justify that it is wrong to eat humans but it is alright to eat animals. Animals are living things as well, so why should they suffer because of human’s selfish reasons? In the story, Ngo explains three different types of cannibalism: survival, dietary and religious and ritual cannibalisms. He gives specific examples for each type of cannibalism. His examples include the Vietnam War, California-bound Donner Party, and examples with societies (Miyanmin, Leopard, and Alligator). In the conclusion, Ngo includes the statement that “It is possible… that our distant-past ancestors were cannibals.” This statement makes the reader wonder if this story is actually true and if it affects them.

Love: I thought this story was really boring. Toufexis tried to portray love as a neuro-chemical process. She explained the many different chemicals involved. She goes on to explain the difference between the four year itch and the seven year itch. She also explains the three different stages of love: imprinting, attraction and attachment. She has many different sources throughout her paper such as Dracula, Marilyn Monroe and a professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She also tries to explain love as a biological process in which evolution plays a major role.

Born to be Happy: In this essay, Friedman does a good job of explaining his point. He does a good job of explaining all the terms. He mentions hyperthymia, a disease that makes someone be happy all the time. Even when bad things happen they have the strength to remain happy because they feel things could be worse. On the other hand, there are people who are always upset and in a bad mood, this is diagnosed as dysthymia. He goes on to explain that people have taken drugs to avoid any extreme moods.

In my concept essay, I will write about the different types of intelligences. I will discuss the three most common ones, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and verbal-linguistic. I will explain that intelligence is not determined by how well you do on tests because there are many different types of intelligences. I will also include examples of different well known people who have each of the different types of intelligences.