hw #8

think through history question- According to Thomas Hobbes, law and order "solitary, nasty, brutish, short" keep citizens under control monarchy order and obedience would be all reasons to live under monarchy

skill builder questions-1"two treatises" "the social contract" "on the spirit of laws"
                                 2 i think a "vindication of the rights of woman" and the "two treatises" because it explains in the two treatises that man should have natural rights and should be rules by a government for the people. a vindication of the rights of woman it explains that woman should be educated just like man should be as well, not secondary or substandard

Enlightenment-the Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine

Social Contract-the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members

John Locke-A seventeenth-century English philosopher. Locke argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to “write” on it. In his political writings, Locke attacked the doctrine of the divine right of kings and argued that governments depend on the consent of the governed


Natural Rights-a political theory that individuals have basic rights given to them by nature or God that no individual or government can deny


Philosophe-any of the popular french intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire


Voltaire-(François Marie Arouet) 1694--1778, French writer, whose outspoken belief in religious, political, and social liberty made him the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment


Montesquieu- french philosophical writer


Separation of Powers-the principle or system of vesting in separate branches the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of a government


Jean Jacques -French philosopher, author, and social reformer


Mary Wollstonecraft-English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women


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 Montesquieu- No one branch of authority would have total control
 Rousseau- This means that man is naturally free but lives under control from a higher authority
 Wollstonecraft- It means that woman should have benefits as men do

hw #6 global 3

 Making soldiers fit to fight, without the Situps
James Dao
nytimes.com
Published : August 30 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/us/31soldier.html?_r=1&ref=us_army
Fitness in the U.S. Military
The U.S. Military have been struggling with the fact that some recruits being over weight and under fit. The U.S. Military's battle to deal with under fit recruits are under way. They are combating this with encouragement and with diet,nutrition and exercise  .Statistics say that now more troops are being hurt because of being overweight or under fit.
I choose this article because I plan to join the U.S. Military one day.

hw#5

Q1
scientific revolution-the period of great advances in the sciences

nicolaus copernicus-Polish astronomer whose theory that Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun

heliocentric theory-Sun-centered

johannes kepler-German astronomer and mathematician who was first to accurately describe the elliptical orbits of Earth and the planets around the Sun

galileo galilei-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. He was the first to use a telescope to study the stars and planets

scientific method-a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested

francis bacon-an english philosopher , statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author

rené descartes-german philosopher and mathematician who discovered that the position of a point can be determined by coordinates

isaac newton-english philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation



Q2
people began to discredit aristotle's teachings
people began to question the church
more and more people began to prove common sense and beliefs wrong
humanism began to play a role during the Renaissance 
new mathematics and sciences were discovered and invented

HW#4 global history prd 4

1.
     Canon law is the law of the church. Back then, the church's power was both religious and political. It was used against anyone in the church. It was to control the people of the medieval times, even kings. They had even set up courts to enforce the law of peoples conducts.

2.
     The things that would happen to a person, even a king, when disobeying the law would usually end up in excommunications and interdiction.  For example, when the king doesn't obey the law, the king could be denied of salvation and releaved of his duties.

first post on this blog

this is only for my teacher mr. giambalvo

simon v. prd4 global