What Does Being Human Mean?

What does it mean to be a human? Is it that we have thumbs? Well if so, then some of our primates are humans too. I feel that we as humans have the mind that we can love, think, and understand other things that animals and other beings can't. Humans have an edge over everything; because we can think and comprehend what others say and do. Of course other animals can too, but we can feel what others do and sense what others are going to do. There is nothing that can explain in full what being a human means, but to me it means that we can love each other with everything we have and be willing to die for the one that we love.

Call of the Wild

John London's book Call of the Wild astounded me with the way he used anthropomorphism.


Jack London believed in Herbert Spencer's theory of "survival of the fittest," which means basically that an organism or group that is better suited to an environment will have a better chance for survival than an animal or group that is less suited. In other words, Spencer suggested that learning did not play a great role in the survival of a species. London shows that he believes in that by having Buck take leadership of the pack by defeating the top dog. Throughout the story the author makes you think that Buck and the other dogs are actually human by giving them such human traits, and making them talk as humans would do. Buck makes you like him a lot and whenever he is mad/sad it makes you feel a different way. Whenever Buck gets kidnapped and taken to the snow, he acts differently and he has to use his instincts and react differently than when he was in his old home.

This is a great book to read if you are trying to find yourself.

Survivor Synthesis: The Holocaust

Six-Word-Slant

• The Holocaust, the Jews worst nightmare.

140-Character-Claim

• Surviving a holocaust requires its victims to go through a lot of pain and suffering because they desire to live and return home.

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