HUMAN VALUES AND ETHICS: Final Paper Questions (4 – 5 pages double spaced)
Choose at least 10 questions from the Zen and the Art of Making a Living worksheets that were handed out in class, and write your final paper about your values and goals in life based on these questions. Do not choose just the first 10 questions: select from throughout the list. In addition, reflect back on your journals, my hero assignment, and essay about the initiative you chose as you respond to these final questions:
What have been the three most significant insights for you in this class?
Has anything shifted for you in your relationship with yourself, others, community, and the world? Explain
What will you need next (from school, your friends, support organizations, etc.) to move forward with your next goals in life? And how will you take care of yourself and nurture your own core values in this next phase of your journey?
Choose 10 questions from the Zen and the Art of Making a Living worksheets:
Your vision for the world, nation, or community you would like to live in:
What insights do these answers give me about the direction I would like my life to take?
As a child, what did you most want to give to the world?
As a child, what situation in the world most hurt, disturbed, or upset you? What did you want to do about it?
When you were a child, what did you most love to do?
If you could wave a magic wand, and the world would instantly be the way you want it to be, how would it be different
What insights do the answers to these questions give you?
What situation in the world, in your nation, or in your community do you notice yourself complaining about the most? “Somebody really ought to do something about…”?
How could you ultimately be most effective in working on these problems? “If I were to take responsibility to do something about this, I would”
What elements of human suffering speak to your heart?
After reviewing what you have written above, ask yourself “What…