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What factors shape our values and beliefs?
What factors shape our values and beliefs?
Choose at least one of the videos or documentaries below to view. Located at the bottom of the page is a supplemental activity you can use to take notes.
In this video letter to their children, a couple experiencing homelessness shares how they built a home and a life for their children even while living out of their car. They wanted their children to experience the normalcy of childhood, so they did their best to shield them from the harsh realities of their living situation.
Courtney Martin is just one example of a new breed of millenials who, often out of financial necessity, are redefining what it means to be a family and a community. She joined a modern-day commune and has witnessed and experienced many benefits to this somewhat unorthodox way of living.
This lecture and discussion from a Harvard ethics professor challenges our thinking about moral and ethical dilemmas. He poses impossible scenarios that force students to not only reckon with what is right and wrong, but to consider where those moral values come from.
Gabby Rivera was inspired by the superheroes in her own life - the strong women who raised her - to create the first queer Latina superhero for Marvel Comics. These women taught Gabby that strength comes in vulnerability and in asking for help.
Even though it is experienced by 50% of the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo subject in many places in the world. The women interviewed in this video lament the fact that this natural part of life can make life so much more difficult than it needs to be for so many girls and women. They advocate for normalizing the conversation and policies around this very normal part of life.
The attached "4-3-2-1" activity can be used to help you take notes while watching videos. Feel free to "make a copy" and fill in each box on your own.