September 25th, 2017 Brandon Colle World Philosophy II, Fall 2017 IAEQ #1: Midgley’s “Trying Out One’s New Sword” Mary Midgley bailiwick moral isolationism, the view of an anthropologist and others suggest that we cannot criticize cultures that we do not know or understand. Midgley argues that moral logical thinking, it falsely assumes that cultures are separate and unmixed, whereas most are in fact formed out many influence. Mary Midgley says that the major power of moral sound judgment is in fact
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A long time ago people lacked knowledge on why certain things would occur. Without scientific answers, like we have today, the Ancient Greeks created their own answers about the world and what their place was in it. Over 2000 years ago the Greeks created the names and ideas of a myth and mythology. What they created were tales that are now known as myths. “A myth is a story based on tradition” (“Myths and Heroes” PBS.). Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines myth as, “a usually traditional l story
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In the article entitled “Is this generation really more informed?” by Palder and Syeda, talks about different opinions on whether or not Millennials are more informed than previous generations. In order to be a Millennial, you have to be around the ages of 13-32. Millennials are not more informed than previous generations, because they are given the choice of what to look at online, they are learning about unimportant information, and they don’t take the opportunity to learn more. Millennials
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particularly when a carefully orchestrated personality cult is added to the picture. In Liang Heng’s story, even the most fundamental social unit, family, was not able to keep off the intense political pressures during political campaigns in 1950s and Cultural Revolution. The most horrible thing is that traditional Chinese family values were totally destroyed under the red impacts. Stories happened in Liang Heng’s family is typical and universal in society during that period. There is no warmhearted feeling
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“Wow”. That was my first reaction to the YouTube Video “Living Without Laws; Slab City USA”. I wasn’t honestly expecting to see and hear what I saw but it opened my eyes. When I watched the people explain their lifestyle and the things that they did it shocked me for two reasons. One reason was because these people actually had the guts to leave the ‘comforts’ of the ‘normal world’ to live in the middle of a desert with little to nothing. I know if I had to live in that desert with the same amount
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• Define cultural and social capital and provide examples. Social capital consists of economic resources attained by being a part of a network of social relationships. Cultural capital is when you gain non-economic resources that enable social mobility. (Raskoff, 2014) In an educational environment examples of social capital would be social group involvement whereas, cultural capital would be knowledge, skills and education. Raskoff, S. (14 Nov 2014) “Social and Cultural Capital at School.” Retrieved
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The annual mean, spring mean, summer mean, autumn mean, winter mean, summer maximum and winter maximum of PM10 concentrations has presented in table 1. Table 1 shows that annual mean of PM10 in Ahvaz was 261, 323.78 and 727.65 µg/m3 in 2010 until 2012. Based on result Table 1, increase in the average annual concentration of PM10 in Ahvaz since 2010 until 2012. The table 1 shows that annual average of PM10 concentration in Ahvaz which is higher than NAAQS standards. The standard of PM10 according
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For much if my life I considered myself apart of Generation X. My parents were Baby Boomers, and their parents were the Greatest Generation, so this makes me Gen-X, right? I saw the newest generation as children who never knew life without computers, and always received awards for precipitation. I could not possibly be one of them. This generation, formally known as Generation Y, has seemed to have found a new name; The Millennial Generation, and I think I am one of them. Alan Greenblatt explains
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1. What project did you do for you second project? Since we had just finished our second project, I thought that it would be interesting to learn what projects that everyone did and to see how it went. The Fasting project was done by one group member and two other group members did Sabbath project and I did the Service project. We talked about thing that we liked about the project and things that we did not like about the projects. The two members that did the Sabbath project both said that they
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happen. The most ideal situation is cultural integration, where both cultures can coexist with respect and acceptance of the other one. On the other hand, cultural assimilation can occur where the minority group/culture comes to adopt and resemble the dominant group. The worst case is a cultural clash. Conflicts can arise from the different cultural values and a lack of effort by either one to truly understand the platform of the other group. A similar cultural collision between a Hmong family and
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