Chapter 1: The Humanities: A Shining Beacon

Chapter 2: Overview   https://pixabay.com/illustrations/brain-eureka-think-thinking-8573309/ "The older we get, the more precious does the mind become."  ( Janero & Altshuler, 2011, p. 16)     In chapter two, we learn about critical thinking and how we use it in everyday life. Our minds change over time and our critical thinking expands and sharpens. Often times as we get older we want an escape from our minds, we want a time to be able to remove ourselves from our thoughts. Throughout time we start to concern ourselves with what the thoughts of other may be based off of our own mind and how we perceive things. The development of our minds gets better overtime. In my opinion, most people are progressive. The more we age, and experience life, the more we witness our minds do the same. The things that we start to think about become shifted as our experiences create themselves.  We then will think about how something made us feel, based off of an experience. W...

 Chapter 1: Overview https://pixabay.com/photos/humanity-help-social-hope-human-2045992/ "One of the dangers of living longer is becoming too firmly enclosed by the values many of us have held since our earliest days"  ( Janero & Altshuler, 2011, p. 4) https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/educators/resource/butterfly-life-cycle/      The quote above from chapter one is a good reference to evolution. As humans, we are all required to progress, to evolve, and to move forward with the moments of an era you live in. I can understand how living longer can perhaps be viewed as danger. In some reality there are people who struggle with progression, and are not able to see past what they are accustomed to. The reason that can be dangerous is because if you become a person that is stuck in a time based of simply it being familiar, you limit yourself to being able to expand your mind, adapt to change, and overall struggle with the fact that the world is full of different...