Human Variation & Race

1. The environmental stress of cold can alter homeostasis because of the effect it puts on our bodies natural temperature (98.6 degrees). The human body feels cold so it begins to constrict and begins pumping blood to the organs. The blood flow then slows down because more blood is going to the organs in order to cancel out the cold, your extremities begin to slow down and become bloodless and ice cold. 

2. Short Term: Shivering is considered the short term of feeling/being cold and gives a length of warmth to the individual.

 Facultative -  Facultative adaptation fights the cold by allowing those who live in colder climates withstand wind chill and also have larger hearts that pump more blood when their blood vessels constrict.

Developmental - Cultures have some fat tissue in their bodies, such as the cheek area, to keep the cold out. This can pertain to arctic animals and how they have fatty tissues to regulate heat. Some cultures grow thicker hair as well to keep cold out as well. 

Cultural - Cultural adaption fights against the cold by wearing thick clothes through the usage of fur covered jackets and sweaters. Without these items, our bodies cannot survive freezing temperatures. 

3. Benefits of studying human development across a variety of different climates progresses technological developments. An example of this reason would be developing the oxygen mask in order for people living in higher altitudes to breathe with ease. 

4. Race is not the best way to better our understanding in human diversity because race is a human construct. Race, in most people's minds, is the color of someone's skin, their facial, or body features. Environmental influences is a very important impact on race because due to different environmental locations, this effects how each race takes on certain climates. For example, Africans tend to have darker pigment skin due to the harsh heat they're located in. This dark pigment allows them to withstand heat more than those with lighter pigment.

Language Experiment

Part 1:

(A) Not communicating with words or ASL was fairly simple. My partner actually got fairly active, as if it was a game to them as they tried figuring out what I was trying to express to them non-verbally by either giving facial expressions or a simple head nod in agreement/disagreement. This gave them also full advantage to express whatever they like and not get interrupted by me at all.

(B) My partners tone slightly changed in a way of curiosity. Their tone began to raise a little once they got a little excited when I gave them gestures that they're getting close to what I'm trying to express. Overall, they maintain an average tone because they like the topic on whatever were discussing.

(C) Two cultures meeting for the first time is bound to be that the one speaking is the one with a more intense mindset. They can express their passion for the topic in a broad manner. Our culture, however, may have difficulty with communicating with deaf people. This can cause change in the way we speak because they cannot hear what we say; therefore we create gestures and facial expressions so they can get a feel on how we get our point across.

Part 2:

(A) I found it a struggle to maintain a monotone voice and no gestures for this part of the blog post. My partner would crack little jokes, making me end up laughing and failing completely on this section. I also felt as if my partner would lose interest because I was not as interesting as the previous experiment.

(B) My partner seemed to be very confused and bored to the point where they just started to give up on me. They didn't care to listen anymore and decided to watch TV instead of talk to a brick wall (which was me).

(C) This comes to conclusion that signing is very important in our language because it properly expresses our point to anything were talking to. Regardless of language, signs give ease and more "fun" to our language to the point where if there was no body language, then language would be boring. 

(D) Some people have trouble reading body language more than others. For example: blind people would be a perfect example because they literally cannot see what body language we express; but we can change the tone of our voice to give a vibe on how our body language may be perceived in their head. There always has to be a moment where there's body language in a conversation. If not, then most conversations would be extremely boring.