Invocation

Crime and Punishment in Colonial America In Colonial America, crime and punishment were a new idea that was just starting to be formed. During this time, they had a different set of rules and regulations that had to be followed in their towns and states. For each town, or even state, they had their own rules to follow, based on the men in charge during this time. Colonial America had forms of punishments that would not be allowed during this day and age because they would be considered inhumane…

Unit One Response The first unit experience in Foods in Literature and Film – Five Meals has been a wonderful experience for any culinary explorer, film lover, and adventurous student of other cultures. The first class most members of the class shared what their passions were about their favorite meal. The “will not ever eat” was also discussed and why. The film, The Hundred Foot Journey is currently streaming on one of the pay networks. It is saved for my family to view and experience. The…

In 1996 Dolly the sheep was born. However, she was not born like most other sheep. Instead, Dolly was cloned from the DNA of an adult sheep. Although Dolly seemed healthy, she died in 2003 after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease. Dolly was the only sheep out of 277 attempts that made it to a live birth. Would it be safe to take that chance when experimenting with cloning human babies? Some people seem to believe so, and agree with the idea of cloning to have a child. These people…

In On the Nature of Things, Lucretius is a sort of doctor, as it were, in that he is medicating mankind to rid them of their pestilential misconceptions on nature, the soul, and reality. His poem is “the sweet, golden liquid of honey” and his stance against religion as the explanation for the universe is “the bitter wormwood juice” to purge humanity of its disease (IV, 13-16). It’s obvious that Lucretius is firmly against religion and instead views the world in such a way that reality is…

Daoism Background Daoism is a religion system that began in China. It started around 200 and 300 B.C. Lao Tzu is said to be the founder of Daoism. There is actually some debate on whether Taoism has a founder, or whether Lao Tzu was a real person (BBC 2014). Daoism is also called Taoism. It is called Daoism because it most resembles the western pronunciation of the word. They follow the sacred text called The Tao-te-ching, which is only 5,000 words. Their sacred text represents the ideology of…

 Dynamic Service Creation: The OGSA model can dynamically create and manage new service instances and also can necessitate the existence of service creation services. The OGSA model defines a standard interface (Factory) and semantics which a service creation service must provide [1].  Lifetime Management: Any distributed system is supposed to deal with any number of failures. Especially in a system which involves transient, stateful service instances, there should be an option available to…

The Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War have often been categorized as either where the United States went wrong and became an imperialist power or where it went right and exerted its right to protect and promote democratic values. Historically the literature about United States involvement in the Spanish-American War has been to commemorate 1898 as the moment in which the nation first projected itself as a world power. The year 1898 was a watershed moment in history, it has…

1. Immanuel Kant, in his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals attempts to construct a moral philosophical system built upon reason and rationality. In this paper I will explain how Kant frames this rational morality, what he means by the invocation of the categorical imperative, duty, and the moral law (note that henceforth all important conceptual terms will be capitalized for clarity). I intend to make the case that Kant’s moral philosophy, while not without flaws, largely succeeds in…

The encyclicals name is derived from the invocation of St. Francis of Assisi, which translates into “Praise be to you, my Lord.” We share our life with the earth and we must take measures to procure its quality and to protect it from mistreatment. Our bodies are made up of the earth’s elements and we need its daily nourishment and oxygen to sustain us. The earth is now suffering due to the harm human beings are inflicting upon it. The earth’s abuse, like that of the poor stirs our conscience…

Karen Armstrong and Thomas Madden’s respective presentations of the Crusades, seem to present two extreme positions – either the crusaders are intolerant fanatics blindly killing people groups who were never aggressively antagonistic in return; or the Arabs are the fanatics, and the crusaders are selfless soldiers fighting a purely defensive war. Of the two pieces, Armstrong’s analysis of the Crusades is more overtly driven by a modern political agenda, but the belligerent extremes of both…