...In the experiment conducted by Jane Elliot, the children were tested first. They were separated in groups according to eye color. The blue-eyed children were in one group and the brown-eyed children were in another. It was a two day experiment with intentions to teach the children how it feels to be discriminated against by a physical feature, or an “ascribed status.” The first day, the brown-eyed children were classified as the inadequate group. They put collars on so they were easily distinguished as the less smart people. They weren’t allowed to drink out of the drinking fountains, play with the blue-eyed children and were allowed less time to play outside during recess. The blue-eyed kids were deemed smarter and overall better people. The next day, the roles were switched so that the blue-eyed kids could experience the feeling of being inadequate. Later on, Jane Elliot held a workshop on discrimination for staff and faculty members. The same concept was used but in a different process because of the age difference. When the adults signed in, they were also separated by eye color; blue-eyed and brown-eyed. The blue-eyed people put on green collars to distinguish them as the less smart and inadequate group. Unlike the children, the adults were not forewarned about what was going on. They did not know why they were being separated for their physical difference and why they had to wait outside of the conference room for a considerate amount of time while the other...
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...have their ups and downs. It was not easy form them to be together because they were looked down upon for being in an interracial marriage. In the midst of opposing relationships such as, slave and master, black and white, there is a merge, a union known as Dana and Kevin’s marriage. Dana and Kevin meet at the temp agency where she and he worked at As Kevin and Dana grow closer and spend more time together in the twentieth century. Butler’s creative approach of concealing the couple’s individual racial identities in the beginning of the navel allowed us to truly understand the authentic nature of their marriage and emphasized the humanity in Dana and Kevin’s relationship while constructing the groundwork that would eventually be tested in the twentieth century as well as the seventeenth century. Dana and Kevin had to face a lot of opposition form their family and society it was not easy for them but they managed to stick by each other. Dana and Kevin have had to face many obstacles that where put in their way. Some of the obstacles that are in their way are family, time travel, and Rufus. Dana and Kevin had a lot of obstacles that many would say would harm a marriage. One of the many obstacles that they had was their family disapproval of their marriage. Dana and Kevin where so happy that they where going to get married even though Dana was scared to tell the family because she did not know how they where going to react to the news. But naturally, Kevin’s initial excitement...
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...that “morality can be maintained without religion.” He also stated that it must be maintained without religion because times have changed. He said that if religion is not separated from state it could have severe damage, such as the Crusades and the Holocaust. Dershowitz believes that there is a difference between morality and religion. When people are moral without religion, they are being virtuous on their own, not because they are afraid of God. He stated that religion should not consist of a Cost-Benefit Analysis. Alan Keyes, a former Republican presidential candidate, stated that religion sets the standard for what’s moral. Keyes argued “power only ultimately respects another power,” and Martin Luther King Jr. was not a preacher byaccident. Dershowitz also stated that not everything in the Bible should be believed word-for-word, even George Washington said “indulge religion with caution.” Keyes believed that if state and religion should be separated, then why does the Declaration of Independence contain so much about religion? Alan Dershowitz and Alan Keyes would have argued endlessly about religion’s role in society if there were not a moderator to stop them. Religion and morality exist together in parallel according to Alan Keyes. Alan Dershowitz stated that if religion and morality are not separated, it could have negative discourse. James Fowler followed Piaget, Kohlberg, and Erickson when selecting the stages to his development of faith across the life span. These three...
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...Imagine a world where you were unable to travel and experience other countries, where you were walled in your own state and had to live your whole life out in it. Many people in our culture already believe that this is a good idea and this is a very possible future outcome for us if we continue closing out other cultures and people. It is very easy to take over and control a separated people and we need to be more accepting of other people to stand stronger to avoid this outcome. People can use the anger that some have towards those who are different than them to manipulate them into doing what they want, “The Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it. So now the capitol will act as if they’ve been in control...
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...who don’t. In every religion, that has a law attached to it, there are certain rules and regulations you are expected to follow if you are to fit in. Most religions are more strict then others, the word religion comes from the Latin word, “religare”, which means ‘to bind tightly’, so religion could most definitely defined as something that either can bind tightly around you or you can bind tightly around it. Do they control their religion or does their religion control them. There is an element of separatism that is present in religions. In the religion of Judaism, the Pharisees were known as “the separated ones”, to be separated from the rest of the world, considered special. In the Christian religion, the character of Jesus took issue with these separated ones, who claimed to be speakers on behalf of God, he took issue with them because of their holier then though attitudes. We divide ourselves into groups as soon as we slap labels on each other, I am this and you are that. Although there are always acceptations to the rule, I believe for an organized religion to function, servants are needed to serve the system to make sure it keeps running, the clergy need a laity to fund the organization. It is necessary to have insiders and outsiders to make a religion relevant because it is what exercises control over those who attend. If a religious organization shows people that there are actually no differences between people, then the people will most likey leave the system, especially...
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...“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation (King).” This quote by Coretta Scott King is how the workplace should feel about discrimination against those who have a different sexual orientation. Sexual orientation discrimination is a rapidly growing issue in today’s workplaces. Just like sex, age, and race discrimination it is becoming one of the major issues that is present in the workforce. With the growing news media issues like gay marriage and “Don’t ask don’t tell”, this is becoming another one of the areas employers are and have been discriminating against workers. There are many state laws to discourage this type of discrimination, but as of right now there is not a federal law that protects against sexual orientation discrimination. I am sure in time there will be some form of federal protection, but only time will tell. As part of the Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender (LGBT) family, I have seen firsthand how this discrimination has and continues to negatively affected people’s lives. When people are singled out for any reason and discriminated against, it makes me think “are we really in the land of the free?” Just as Ms. King’s quote stated, if we believe in freedom we need to take a stand against the injustice. We should be free to live the life we chose and love who we chose to love without the fear of intolerance. As long as we do the job we are...
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...he has heard, seen, experienced, learned and believed. II. 1.) The Question of Origin- Where do we come from? As a Christian, I believe that people were created by the one and only true God. (Genesis 1:27) The Christian Worldview believes that the one true God created the world and the things in it (plants, animals, people, etc...) in just six days. The sixth day is known to be when God created one man and one woman from which God brought forth all the rest of human population both present and past. (Genesis 1:28) 2.) The Question of Identity- What does it mean to be human? I believe that each individual person is unique and designed in the image of God. (Genesis 1:27) We were given a body, mind, spirit and free will. As a Christian, I believe that God created each and every one of us for a reason. When God created man and woman, He made them to care for the animals and plants as well as have a personal, intimate relationship with Him and others. (Genesis 1:28-30) 3.) The Question of Meaning- Why does mankind exist? I believe, as a Christian that we were made to glorify our Creator and bring Him pleasure. People bring the Lord glory by obeying His words and commands (Philippians 2:12-13) and by walking by the Spirit. Having a Spirit filled life and the fruit and service done for the Lord that is seen and heard by the world does bring glory and pleasure to God. Having a thankful spirit daily to God, praising Him and acknowledging Him...
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...as well and how one sees and portrays the world around them. Perception changes and as a result of those changes ones interpretation or worldview of the world deviates as well. II. Question of Origin- Christians believe that mankind was created by the one and only God. (Genesis 1:27) The Christian worldview maintains that God created the world and everything in it within six days. God also created a man and woman on the sixth day that has originated the population of the world. (Genesis 1:28) Question of Identity- What does it mean to be human? The Christian worldview accepts that mankind is a creation of God. We believe that man was made in the likeness of God. (Genesis 1:27) and also given permission over the entire world. (Genesis 1: 28-30) God’s intentions were to make mankind responsible for animals and plants. In return the animals and plants were given to mankind for the main source of food. Question of meaning/purpose- Why does mankind exist? Our purpose here on is for God’s glory. In other words, our purpose here on earth is to worship him, praise him and proclaim his greatness and to live out his will. (Isaiah 43:7) We were created by him according to desire, and our lives are to be lived for him so that we might accomplish what he has for us to do. When we trust the one who has made us, who works all things after the counsel of his will (Ephesians 1:11) Question of morality- What is meant by right and wrong? The Christians acknowledges ones shortcoming’s...
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...i) Examine the ontological argument as an a priori proof for the existence of God. (18) Ontology is the branch of philosophy that explores the whole concept of existence. Sometimes scientist have to assume that something exists in reality in the physical world even if they have never come across an example of it, because a combination of factors indicate that there must be X, even if we have not found it yet, in order to explain other things. The ontological argument for the existence of God is an a priori argument, working from first principles and a definition in an attempt to demonstrate the existence of God. It is also a deductive argument, using logic rather than depending on the evidence of sense experience. In this way, then the ontological argument is different from other attempts to argue for the existence of God. The ontological argument argues that almost everything, which exists, does so in a contingent way; it depends upon other factors. We as individuals are contingent beings; everything else apart from God exists contingently. God, however, it is argued by religious believers, is necessary rather than contingent, there was no time when God didn’t exist. There is nothing that could happen which would cause God to cease to exist. The ontological argument begins with assumptions about God, without any empirical evidence such as the characteristics of God: Omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent. This is what makes the argument an a priori argument, as most of the...
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...and Richard Dawkins’ views on body and soul identity. (35) The mind-body problem is an ongoing problem in the philosophy concerning the nature of the relationship between the mind, or consciousness, and the physical world. It questions how our mental thoughts are linked to our physical activities. In religion and philosophy, the soul is considered the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, which is often considered to be synonymous with the mind or the self. In theology, the soul is further defined as that part of the individual which is thought to survive the death of the body. However, this view point isn’t taken by all. Viewpoints on the soul can be separated into monism, dualism and materialistic views. Aristotle is a monist believing that the body and soul are not linked, whereas Dawkins is a hard materialist believing that biology is the key. Aristotle defined the soul, or psyche, as the ‘first actuality’ of the body and argued against it having a separate existence from the physical body, unlike other philosophers such as Plato. Aristotle’s belief was that the difference between a live body and a corpse is the presence of the soul. When the soul dies, so does the body. In his book, De Anima he stated that “the soul does not exist without a body and yet is not itself a kind of body. For it is not a body, but something which belongs to a body.” In Aristotle’s view, full actualisation of a living thing is its soul. The soul is the form and shape of the...
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...this category. I believe it is shaping our American culture because we get all our “reality” from there. For example, we watched shows like the Brady bunch and The Cosby Show and knew that when we grew up, we wanted to have the big family and both the heads of the household were very successful so it seemed everything would be so simple in life. Slowly, television turned and it showed separated families and that idea marinated that maybe life was this way too. Television little do we know helps us to shape how we are. At least it did at some point in everyone’s life. When it comes to our phones, we gave that control of our moves in life. I know when I go to bed at night, I depend on my phone to wake me up by the alarm set. This is giving the phone the knowledge and power of controlling if I wake up in the morning to get to work on time or not. This is just one example of how entertainment is shaping our values and culture. It’s literally taking over. Are the social influences of entertainment media mostly positive or negative? Explain The media does promote positive energy but majority of the time they are looking for the negative headlines to bring to the table. The answer to the question is media by all means entertain negativity mostly. Negativity seems like it draws the audience in more and that gives the ratings it needs in order for it to keep it going. I believe a very good example of this is when rapper Drake and singer Chris Brown got into a brawl with one another at a...
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...Body, Soul and Spirit One of the heated arguments of Christianity is: Are Human Beings composed of two elements or three? Are we body and spirit or are we body, spirit and soul (which includes our mind, will and emotions)? This argument has been going on for centuries. In our modern America, another theory has been formed. We are only made up of one element. We are just glorified animals. We have just evolved and become more advanced than the other animals. There is no such thing as an everlasting spirit. When we die, we cease to exist. This theory, of course, is only accepted by a very few. Those who believe this theory believe that they are so elite, so intelligent, that they are the highest creature that could ever exist. Thus, there is no such thing as a god or eternal spirit that could exist. With very, very few exceptions, all people and all religions believe that we have an eternal spirit that lives on after we die. We believe this, because it is built into us. Our spirit is a part of who we are. It is the part of us that reaches out to God. Even if we don’t know who God is, we know that there is something out there that is calling to us. God Created Us The Bible teaches us exactly how God created human beings. Genesis 2:7 (NIV) says: “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” The King James Version says that he became a Living Soul. The word translated “soul” (in...
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...the station of Abraham. Anyone who enters it shall be granted safe passage. The people owe it to GOD that they shall observe Hajj (a Holy visit) to this shrine, when they can afford it. As for those who disbelieve, GOD does not need anyone." [Qur'ân 3:96*-97] Between Arabic Language and the Sumerian Language: First of all let us read the Sumerian creation story and see the relation between the names of the Gods of this epic and the Arabic Language. The creation story of Sumer Some scholars tell us fiction stories about the creation text found in Sumer. The first story They talk about the Fifty Aliens who descended from the sky from the planet called ( Nbro ) Note: in Arabic Neb Roh means the Spirit or Soul نبع الروح...
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...came from and how he came to be, we have found that the basis of each theory is completely different from the next. The basis of the scientific theory is science and the discovery of fossils, and on the other hand, the basis of theology is creation and existence of God. Shown on the cover of the News week magazine is photo of an African man Adam and woman Eve in what appears to be the Garden of Eden. The cover of this magazine not only conforms to the ideology that the first man was African and thus, all other races came from the black man, but it also suggests that Eden was in fact located somewhere in Africa, man’s original place of birth. As we continue to examine the articles presented several Articles really struck a chord with me. “The Earth from Birth”, “Skulls in Ethiopia Is Linked To Earliest Man”, and “Fossils May Be Earliest Human Link”. In the Article” The Earth from Birth”, it describes the development of the earth into five lengths of time, the Archeozoic era, Ptoterzoic era, the Paleozoic era, the Mesozoic era and the Cenozoic era. Each of these eras played an important role with how the earth became populated with Microorganisms to large animals and reptiles. After reading this article a few questions came to mind, the first question is where did these organism come from? Did they always existed, and if they did, then if they were created who did was it God? Or were they a result of the so called “Big Bang theory? The next question is how were they able to sustain...
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...WRIGHT John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Read the Review TWO LIVES-- ONE PERSONALITY? A pair of identical twin girls were surrendered to an adoption agency in New York City in the late 1960s. The twins, who are known in psychological literature as Amy and Beth, might have gone through life in obscurity had they not come to the attention of Dr. Peter Neubauer, a prominent psychiatrist at New York University's Psychoanalytic Institute and a director of the Freud Archives. Neubauer believed at the time that twins posed such a burden to parents, and to themselves in the form of certain developmental hazards, that adopted twins were better off being raised separately, with no knowledge of their twinship. Neubauer also recognized the exceptional research possibilities such a separation offered. Studies of twins reared apart are one of the most powerful tools that scholars have to analyze the relative contributions of heredity and environment to the makeup of individual human natures. Identical twins are rare, however, and twins who have been separated and brought up in different families are particularly unusual. Neubauer was aware of a mere handful of studies examining twins reared apart, and in most cases the twins being studied had been separated for only part of their childhoods and were reunited at some point long before the study began. Here was an opportunity to look at twins from the moment they were separated, and to trace them through childhood, observing at each stage of development...
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