Over the course of the semester, we covered several topics that focused on different areas and aspects of family. Each topic required us to complete a discussion post where we would use the information we have learned in class and critically analyze and apply it to real-world situations. The discussion forums also allowed us to learn about other student’s perspectives and allow us to see the diversity of experiences with families.
Throughout the six topics, I believe that my ideas have changed. In the first topic, we discussed what is family. The first section of this topic was defining what is family. To me, family was my parents and my sister but throughout this unit, I learned that there are many variations …show more content…
My opinions on those who either stay with their parents and those who choose to return to their parent’s house has drastically changed since this discussion post. As a young adult and student who moved out of their parent’s house in the spring of 2017, I can defiantly see the advantages of living at home. I discussed that “I personally cannot see myself moving back in with my parents” (Robinson, 2017) although this is not the case now. At the time of posting in the discussion forum, we lived in a quiet building but this changed and has become unbearable and made both myself and my boyfriend consider moving in with my …show more content…
Law is defiantly an interest to me and before the unit I have never heard of Sharia law. I think with this topic many people have strong and distinct views on Sharia law, either in agreement or disagreement. Something that I saw in almost every forum post and my own was that “Sharia Law has too many variations” (Fisher, 2017), it was interesting to see this commonality among the forum posts. As I did not know much about Sharia law beforehand I cannot say that my ideas changed but I think I strongly stand by my opinion that Sharia law should not be created into Canadian law. Christine Fisher’s post stood out to me, “The Sharia law of Islam looks at homosexuals and woman as second-class citizens with severe punishments and life of fear” (Fisher, 2017). Her post highlighted the differences between Canadian and Sharia beliefs and solidified my opinion against Sharia Law in