Affirmative Action

I think that even though we have an African-American president we still need to make sure that atleast a specific amount of African-American and Latinos get into college even if it is only becuase the government requires it because I think that even though we have a new president we still can't ignore the fact that in the past their has been racisim. i think that this is something that will not go away because of a new president. We have to remember that Obama didn't the presidency by 100% so their are people here in the USA who still think that anyone who isn't white cannot lead our country. We have to remember that these things can't be rushed and even though it looks like we aren't making any progress, besides the presidency, but we are because if we look back we can see that we no longer have slaverly, as somethink legal, and we are all able to go the same places. But this thing about college can take a while for it to be coleeges would want African-Americans and Latinos because they are smart and not because they have to have specific number of them in their school. Sorry I din't mention it earlier but you should have gotten the message that i am pro-affirmative.

Logic

Syllogisms are in three sentences with two terms and one conclusion. Here is an example:
All cats are adorable.
Garbanzo and Bean are adorable.
Garbanzo and Bean are cats.

Another example would be:
If Edward get good grades on my blogger, that means I did them all.
Edward didn't do one.
Therefore he didn't get a good grade.
This specific one is an example of Modus Tollen.

The other one is Modus Ponen
Robert Pattinson lives in LA
I saw Robert Pattinson. (I wish I did)
Therefore I was in LA

The third type is Modus Tollen:
If you are fan of Twilight, people think your weird
People think I'm weird
Therefore I am a fan of Twilight
So you see this logic can actually be quite fun to make you, and can try it too.

Question?!

I missed the first two blogs so does anyone want to explain what we have to do?Please and thank you!!
Divya

Galileo and His Daughter

I would just like to say that the dude who played Galileo's pert in the movie was very weird. Moving on to the main subject Galileo's daughter was essential for his writings because she was the editor of it and she helped him publish it. Also, because she was a pharmacist, I forgot what word Mr. Basinger used, she made him remedies that helped him stay alive and she gave him lots of things like vapors to make sure he was always fit. But what I don't get is that, I mean I know that is your dad, but what did he ever give her but worry. I'm not saying she should completely ignore or stop talking to him or talking care of him but its like she is playing the tole of the daughter slash housewife (all of you pervs out their DON'T get the wrong meaning). Otherwise Galileo probably wouldn't even be alive and able to right his book if it wasn't for her. She was always their for him until the end of the time and when he was sentenced for house arrest she took up part of the punishment and did the praying part for him. What I don't understand is if he really was sorry, which I thought that he wasn't, he should want to do the prayers himself so that he could repent for his sins but he didn't he let his daughter do it. What I was also curious about was that if the church would really know if he actually said those prayers everyday that he was told to say. That all i think I about this and i am saying this again DO NOT GET THE WRONG MESSAGE!!!

St. Thomas Aquinas' Says WAT?!

I personally think that Aquinas' best and worst way would be the third way, as the best, and the first way as the worst.

The third way talks about the two types of objects in the universe which are contingent beings and necessary beings. He says that contingent being is an object that can not exist without a necessary being causing its existence. Which means that we as humans cannot exist without the help of others and we existed through the help of others. Which is true because we as humans are always trying to solve the mystery of how we came to be and then we always turn to god for the answer. We turn to God because nothing else makes sense and we have to have an explanation and it is better to say that god did it than it is to leave the question blank. Its like when you take a test and you don't know the answer to the problem but your teacher says to guess so that you might even get some credit. We use god to answer the problem we can't solve by ourselves.

The worst wave to me was the first way because in it he talks about motion and how that an object in motion is put into motion by some other object or force. Which makes sense for some things but not all because i am typing this on my own and their is no other object that is moving my fingers but my brain and nothing is putting my brain into motion. I f god is the mover of all things then I personally think that it would take a while for us to move because, I know God is powerful and all knowing, but can he really be everywhere at the sometime and having people move and go about their daily life. If god really is the unmoved mover then won't he need a mover as well.

So you see somethings the Aquinas said might be true but either way the all need to modified so that they can apply more to us.

St. Augustine and Gothic Architecture (How do THEY relate?)

St. Augustine was a very important philosopher and he had a huge role in the Gothic period and how it all began. St. Augustine was always looking for the answers to his many, many questions. to find the answers to these questions he searched everywhere, including the Bible. But all he learned from the Bible was that we are all drawn to sin but it doesn't say why. It also doesn't provide any answers for his questions. So he turned to philosophy. through philosophy Augustine came to the conclusion that light represents gods presence and that we can find happiness through love and through god. So when the Gothic Cathedrals were being built they all had big windows and they allowed alot of light to come in. Which shows Augustines thinking about light representing god. So the more windows you have and the more light that comes in the closer you will feel to God and his heavenly powers.

Hilter and His Common Fallacies

We already knew that Adolf Hitler was a bad and evil person but his book also helps prove how wrong his ideas and way of thinking were. in Chapter 11 of his book he says a lot of things that are incorrect and can't be supported or proven true. Most of his sayings can be considered to be biased or mostlu opinions. One example can be scene in the third paragraph when he says "Every animal mates only with a member of the same species,"this is false analogy because there is no solid concrete evidence that this is true word for word. Also he is comparing one aspect of the human life to an aspect of the animal's life. This can also be looked as ad hominem because he is attacking a specific group of people and saying that it is wrong to mate with them. another example is when he says "Any crossing of two beings not at exactly the same level produces a medium between the level of two parents. This means:the offspring will probably stand higher than the racially lower parent but not as high as the higher one. Consequently, it will later succumb in the struggle against the higher level. Such mating is contrary to the will of Nature for a higher breeding of all life." What he is saying is that the kids of mixed races will suffer and are against "Nature" this also is a false analogy because again because their is no proof that mix races actually go against nature. He is also saying that one race is better than the other and higher than one. But I don't even think that, that is something that can be proved because we have a lot of people who are mixed races in the world today and we are doing just fine so his sayings are all mostly faulty use of authority and he uses his authority in a bad way to spread the wrong message. These two are only two of the many examples of fallacies that can be found in this book and you can check the book out yourselves to see what I mean and decide if you agree with me.

Religion vs. Science: Whose Side Are You On?

Some believe that evolution can be solved through religion and that the answer is always God. But I personally believe that their are some things that can be solved through science and that God is not always the answer. To me god or the bible can only be turned to for religion reasons and that at times it is best to think outside of the box. We as humans can't always use god as the answer because at times it just wouldn't make sense. Even if through science we don't get a real answer it is closer to the truth than saying god did it and that He is responsible. If the world was like that then we wouldn't have a lot of the technology we have today because none would have tried anything new or looked into it because they would just wait for god to give it to them. I personally don't have anything against religion but at times it is not always the best answer. In science we atleast have theories and labs that take place and information can be recorded so that over time it can be inproved and redone with different. But in religion it s always related bak to the bible which isn't good beacuse we don't even know if the stories in the bible are true and they are also very old and never changing. but with science and the experiments that take place it can always be tested and changed or modified. Again i would just like to say that i have nothing against religion and this is just my view and opinion and do not want to upset anyone or say that if they don't think like this they are wrong.