Thought

my high school US history class, I remember being taught that the United States took its place as the world power after the two victories in the world wars, and when you see the US unable to defeat the Vietnam army it was surprising. Who would of thought that such a small country as Vietnam would be able to hold it down and resist the invasion of the US army. In addition, the documentary takes this idea I had of a loss into a whole new understanding with much more detail. What had seemed as the…

is validated through the accepted values and practices of the dominant group. The dominant group determines what is knowledge by establishing an epistemology that is practiced and enforced by other members of the same community. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Collins points out that elite white men control the knowledge validation process which leads to the oppression of minority epistemologies. If knowledge does not conform to the accepted standard it is ignored and deemed incorrect. As a…

Thoughts about Love In Midsummer Night’s Dream according to William Shakespeare’s character Lysander love can be and should be a choice that no one but yourself should be responsible for, also losing yourself while being in love, last but not least giving your heart to the person you love. Lysander is one of Shakespeare’s main characters for the story, that works hard to have the love that he deserves. He knows that his love is pure and nothing but real. And he will show that to Hermia.…

My Thoughts On I Am I Am is a documentary by Tom Shadyac the director of such comedy movies as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, Patch Adams, and many more. In 2007 he had a biking accident and suffered post-concussive syndrome or PCS. He was in very severe pain and even thought about killing himself to escape the agony he was enduring. Eventually the symptoms lessened and he began to feel better physically. But both spiritually and emotionally he still didn’t feel right. He began to…

There are 8 Greek evil thoughts that Greek individuals lived by and resorted to. In the story, “The Cyclops” translated by Robert Fitzgerald, tells a story of Odysseus and his crew traveling to the Land of Cyclops and discover a one eyed giant, by the name of Cyclops Polyphemus. Odysseus then stabs Cyclops in the eye and aborts his ship while the blind giant prays to his father. Of the 8 Greek evil thoughts, Odysseus demonstrates, Hyperephania, Kenodoxia and Philargyra. Hyperepania (Pride)…

Norcross’s Fred thought experiment is an imaginative scenario in which he tries to draw a comparison to factory farms in the United states to discuss the morality of them. In his scenario, a man named Fred is on trial for torturing puppies. Fred’s defense is that torturing the puppies provides him with a pleasure to taste the goodness of chocolate, the sense in which he can’t attain any other way due to an accident that happened to him. Although ridiculous, the story is analogous to factory…

outside the lines. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury contains just such a society, where all contradictory ideas and the books that held them have been gradually destroyed and banned, till none remain accessible to the common person. Free thought is no longer taught in schools, and human beings have been reduced to identical unthinking beings unaware of their own decline. The only way to regain true freedom and self-identity is to attain the courage to refuse to mindlessly…

One such person is Molina, who developed a way of thought called Molinism. Molinism involves introducing a new realm into God’s knowledge. Traditionally, God has two types of knowledge, natural and free. Natural refers to those a priori truths, like that triangles have three sides. Free knowledge refers…

My Thoughts on J-Term Ever hate something that most people enjoy? J-Term was a chance for all of the students to explore something that was not something necessarily educational, but something that interested them. My J-Term was called exploring athletic careers. I think J-term was super dumb, but if it was improved it could be amazing. During my J-Term I went out and looked at some career options that I could be interested in. After I was done with all of them I decided that I didn't want to…

1. Describe the dual inheritance within Christianity of Greek and Jewish thought. How were these traditions similar? How were they distinct? How did each contribute to the formation of Christian life and belief? Cite MacCulloch in your answer. Investigating the origins of the Bible aids in drawing connections between the demographics that wrote and condoned it, their culture, and how that has influenced Christianity. Recognizing that the books that comprise the Bible were originally written in…