Question 2- Does the First Amendment protect religion from the state or the state from religion?
I believe the first amendment protect religion from the state. There are some many people in the world who believe in some many different religions. With the first amendment of freedom of religion, this gives the right to the people to choose their own. For example, religion can not play in any kind of role at a public school, because everyone else might believe in their own religion, or not believe in one at all. We also have private schools where if you wanted the choice to go to a school that talks about religion. However, to follow the first amendment private schools do not get money from the state, because the state can not support any kind of religion. I believe the freedom of religion is one of the strongest amendments we use in are country today. The 1st amendment gives you support if you want to kept your choices private or not. If we didn’t have the freedom of religion, the state could tell what and where to go to learn about are religions, they could also take us away from religion. How would you feel if you have believed in type of religion your whole life and one day the state came in and took it away or told you to choose a different kind of belief? But with the most powerful item that all people have in the US, the constitution, we have the power to use the first amendment to protect religion from the state.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Hannah Arendt- Total Domination
Question 3- What happens to human beings in concentration camps?
During world war two many things can come to mind. Pearl Harbor, the bombing on Japan, but the major event that still leaves people sick to their stomachs is the concentration camps held by Hitler in Germany. During world war two presidents Hitler had his army called the Nazis go throughout Germany and Poland to collect any Jewish people they could find and sent to what we called concentration camps? When the Jewish people were sent to the camps, many of them didn’t last very long, if they made it at all. Even before the Jewish people had a chance to reach the camps, some of the Nazis soldier shot and killed them on the spot. When the Jewish people arrived to the camps, the Nazis would have them split into two different groups, Men on one side, with women and children on the other. However, what they didn’t know was one group was being taken inside the gates of the camp, and the others were going to the gas tank. During the time the people were inside the camps, they basically worked as slaves. At what ever time a Nazis felt has if they had to kill one of them, they did so. They were also were not supporting the camps with food for the people, were many of them died of starvation. The concentration camps can only be described simply as horror. What happens in the camps is something that a human being should never have to go through. Those people lost their lives by absolute horrifying things, and will go down has one of the most horrible events ever to take place in the world.
During world war two many things can come to mind. Pearl Harbor, the bombing on Japan, but the major event that still leaves people sick to their stomachs is the concentration camps held by Hitler in Germany. During world war two presidents Hitler had his army called the Nazis go throughout Germany and Poland to collect any Jewish people they could find and sent to what we called concentration camps? When the Jewish people were sent to the camps, many of them didn’t last very long, if they made it at all. Even before the Jewish people had a chance to reach the camps, some of the Nazis soldier shot and killed them on the spot. When the Jewish people arrived to the camps, the Nazis would have them split into two different groups, Men on one side, with women and children on the other. However, what they didn’t know was one group was being taken inside the gates of the camp, and the others were going to the gas tank. During the time the people were inside the camps, they basically worked as slaves. At what ever time a Nazis felt has if they had to kill one of them, they did so. They were also were not supporting the camps with food for the people, were many of them died of starvation. The concentration camps can only be described simply as horror. What happens in the camps is something that a human being should never have to go through. Those people lost their lives by absolute horrifying things, and will go down has one of the most horrible events ever to take place in the world.
Monday, September 17, 2007
NICCOLO MARCHIAVELLI
Question 2- Is it better for a prince to be loved or to be feared?
Ever since we have been growing up there are always the two same parts if it’s from a television show, movie, or book. There is the character who loved, and there is the one who is feared. The question I am trying to ask is, which is better, to be loved or feared. Growing up as a kid everyone always seemed to cheer for the good guy, or in this case the loved one. But as we get older we find ourselves standing behind the people who are the feared ones. I believe in life there isn’t a right answer to this question. A prince who chooses to be loved would have a lot of power from his people. For example, President Jim Carter. President Carter was loved by many people in the U.S. By the people loving him, that gave him a lot of power for him being president. But there was also another opinion people had about President Carter and that was scared of his own shadow. When the people needed him to be strong for the U.S, he couldn’t connect for them. For him not being feared was a huge reason he didn’t last. Then you come to the opposite side of being loved and that is being feared. Being feared by people, you can gain great respect quick, and also gives you a lot of power. I believe being strong and showing toughness is a good value to have, but I think to much is also can but you in jeopardy. There a lot of people in this world that try to use power and being feared, but they all seem to fall. They always seem to take it over the edge, and get conceited. With all of this, I do not think I can give you a right answer. I come to think you have to play the middle of both of them. Why use one, when using two can make you that much stronger.
Ever since we have been growing up there are always the two same parts if it’s from a television show, movie, or book. There is the character who loved, and there is the one who is feared. The question I am trying to ask is, which is better, to be loved or feared. Growing up as a kid everyone always seemed to cheer for the good guy, or in this case the loved one. But as we get older we find ourselves standing behind the people who are the feared ones. I believe in life there isn’t a right answer to this question. A prince who chooses to be loved would have a lot of power from his people. For example, President Jim Carter. President Carter was loved by many people in the U.S. By the people loving him, that gave him a lot of power for him being president. But there was also another opinion people had about President Carter and that was scared of his own shadow. When the people needed him to be strong for the U.S, he couldn’t connect for them. For him not being feared was a huge reason he didn’t last. Then you come to the opposite side of being loved and that is being feared. Being feared by people, you can gain great respect quick, and also gives you a lot of power. I believe being strong and showing toughness is a good value to have, but I think to much is also can but you in jeopardy. There a lot of people in this world that try to use power and being feared, but they all seem to fall. They always seem to take it over the edge, and get conceited. With all of this, I do not think I can give you a right answer. I come to think you have to play the middle of both of them. Why use one, when using two can make you that much stronger.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Thoughts from the Tao-Te Ching
Question 1 – What is the Master’s attitude toward action?
The Master’s action towards people can be put into one word, Tao (the way). The Master believed in something that people are afraid of doing, something that would not be tried now, or even later in the world. In the world today we have government and dictators, communism and democracy. Everywhere around the world there are people who think they know the missing pieces to the world, everyone seems to know all the answers. But then there is the Master, who believes in one word, Tao (the way). He believes that the less power put towards the people, the less problems you will have towards the world. He believes if you try to fix the world with your beliefs, you will ruin it. It can run on its own rhythms (Lao-Tzu pg 25).
“Therefore the Master says: I let go of the law, and people become honest. I let go of economics, and people become prosperous. I let go of religion, and people become serene. I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass (Lao-Tzo pg 27).” The Master believes in something that no other ever has the strength to do, believe in the people. He believes if there wasn’t so much of a competition, we wouldn’t have to control it, that we have made the problems by putting the actions towards us. “For those who feel government can solve the problems of the people, it will seem strange and unwise. For those who believe that the less government the better, the advice will sound sane and powerful (Lao-Tzu pg 20).
The Master’s action towards people can be put into one word, Tao (the way). The Master believed in something that people are afraid of doing, something that would not be tried now, or even later in the world. In the world today we have government and dictators, communism and democracy. Everywhere around the world there are people who think they know the missing pieces to the world, everyone seems to know all the answers. But then there is the Master, who believes in one word, Tao (the way). He believes that the less power put towards the people, the less problems you will have towards the world. He believes if you try to fix the world with your beliefs, you will ruin it. It can run on its own rhythms (Lao-Tzu pg 25).
“Therefore the Master says: I let go of the law, and people become honest. I let go of economics, and people become prosperous. I let go of religion, and people become serene. I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass (Lao-Tzo pg 27).” The Master believes in something that no other ever has the strength to do, believe in the people. He believes if there wasn’t so much of a competition, we wouldn’t have to control it, that we have made the problems by putting the actions towards us. “For those who feel government can solve the problems of the people, it will seem strange and unwise. For those who believe that the less government the better, the advice will sound sane and powerful (Lao-Tzu pg 20).
Thursday, September 6, 2007
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