Somerville

This new found passion was encouraged in middle school by my English teacher, Mrs. Somerville. Mrs. Somerville was one of the most amazing teachers I’ve ever had. She had a deep love for books just like my mother and was excellent at making recommendations. In her class, we didn’t just read, we also learned how to think more intensely about what…

to the “highest good” and that it is composed of a “community of some kind” (Somerville and Santoni 59). In a naturalist approach to this question, he asserts that he will break the city-state down to its elements so that each may be examined individually. The most elementary part of the city-state is the relationship between men and women for reproductive purposes with the unit of family following afterwards (Somerville and Santoni…

chemicals. When she was fifteen, she received a book by William Henry Bragg (a Nobelist in physics) about using x-rays to analyze crystals, which sparked her interest and lead to her future career.. At eighteen, she studied physics and chemistry at Somerville college in Oxford where she conducted her fourth year research project on x-ray crystallography, which at the time was new technology. Her project involved crystallizing the substance she was studying, shooting x-rays at the crystal, and…

Somerville offers a perspective of the impacts euthanasia would have if it became legal. She argues that if euthanization were to be allowed, we would need to be careful in our definition. In 1985, the Netherland’s definition only limited euthanasia to voluntary…

Journal Ed Welch talked about how our histories can impact us, particularly in dealing with conflict. God used this to help me see how I approach conflict as a gardener would his garden. I have a family member who approaches it more like a sword-yielding gladiator, and this has led to struggles. Realizing these differences has vastly improved our relationship. A dear friend of mine recently experienced a conflict with another individual. Her approach to conflict is very similar…

education, Ada became ill with a serious case of measles, which forced her to take a break from her studies. Fortunately, in 1830, when Ada was 15 years old and feeling better, she met Mary Somerville, who was one of the best female mathematicians of her time and later, Ada’s mentor. Until Ada’s death, Somerville encouraged and supported Ada’s education by introducing her to advanced mathematics problems, complex ideas and to other well-known mathematicians and scientists, such as Charles…

Siobhan Somerville, many people did not even define what homosexuality was before the late 1800s (243). As Halperin writes, the Greeks did not label or identify people by their object choice and many people assumed most men were capable of being sexually aroused by men and boys. They did not yet define themselves by their sexual preferences and did not consider discrete categories of people who only liked certain qualities. It seemed like “sexuality” was not even a consideration in…

some them didn 't realized women were the ones who leadered in the Vikings society. Even though, men were described as the highest power; but that 's not true,women used to manipulate them. The source “Queen Gunnhild Has Her Way With Hrut” in Somerville and McDonald, eds., The Viking Age (Tonawanda, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2014) p. 89-93. Conveys the idea that the Viking society was controlled by women. This part of the text, tells the story of a strong women, who lost…

Johnathan Katz, “Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body” by Siobhan Somerville, “DISABILITY, SEX RADICALISM, AND POLITICAL AGENCY” by Abby Wilkerson, and “Methodologies” by Dean Spade to draw together key ways. The distinction of Heterosexual and Homosexual bodies are important in the disappearing of gender non-conforming, queer and trans people because without it, there would be no difference…

A trolley is moving down a track. The trolley can not be stopped, but it a nearby switch is able to move the trolley from one track to another. One track has five people, and the other has one. Flipping the nearby switch will cause the one person to die while leaving the switch alone will mean the five people will die. The question is: what would you do? A philosopher by the name of Philippa Foot was the person who came up with this dilemma. It is famously known as the “trolley problem” and is…