Thomas Fairfax

I believe your stance on transhumanism is a solid base. However, I do see times where one can migrate from this base without offending the Lord. After all, the scope of transhumanism is massive. To ban transhumanism as a whole is problematic. The extent of transhumanism encapsulated everything from my daily Starbuck's latte, to my late grand father's pacemaker, to interesting lady in our reading who wanted to modify her body for the purpose of making an impression at a party. Imagine if we…

American Ideals Today People see the United States of America as the land of freedom. Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the Declaration of Independence wanted this country to have ideals. Being an American defines you by having liberty, equality, rights, opportunity, and democracy. However, there's been a struggle for the minority to live up to the American ideals. Society keeps dividing groups because of wealth, race, and power. Americans have not lived up the expectations of what the…

Every morning I am up early, before anyone else in my household. Even before my husband, William, I let him sleep, he will wake up when he needs to. If I notice anyone heading outside to work and he's not up at that time, I will start worrying. For now, though I have to get the children's lunches, including his, ready, or they won't have lunch for the day. This is typical, wake up, pack lunch for my husband, and my two little girls, Evelyn and Marie. When I check that their lunches ready, I go…

Did Napoleon save or destroy the French Revolution? In 1799 Napoleon seizes power and takes charge of France. Did Napoleon destroy what was left of the Revolution or did he save it? Napoleon was the cause of a new era, wars, changes in the French society, and the changes in territories. Napoleon was a commander in the army at the age of twenty-six. In 1803 Napoleon wants France to become the most powerful country. By 1808 Napoleon and France controls most of Europe. Napoleon conquered most of…

The Enlightenment was a movement that stressed the importance of science and reason and increased the power of individuals. This revolution paved the way for enlighten thinkers to voice their opinion on the government and society. Philosophers such as John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau used ideas such as natural rights social contracts and democratic governments to challenges ideas of the monarchy and the church. Due to these new ideas there were many intellectual,…

in our country’s history and as we move through time artist like John Vanderlyn’s portrayal of Fig 4.52 The Death of Jane McCrea he begins to showcase nature in a less theatrical and more in its natural state than in earlier times. Which, leads to Thomas Cole bring nature center stage depicting nature as divine mystical transcendental experiences, as is noted in Fig 5.38 Kaaterskill Falls. I believe early American artist used nature a source to tell story of a particular time in history and…

On the other hand, Jefferson disagreed with Hamilton and thought the constitution should be strictly interpreted. He thought Hamilton’s national bank was unconstitutional. He believed that “the political economists of Europe have established it as a principle that every state should endeavour to manufacture for itself: and this principle, like many others, we transfer to America, without calculating the difference of circumstance which should often produce a difference of result… we have an…

What if I told you that American politics polar opposites date all the way back to the beginning of our countries creation in the 1700's; from todays Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders to the 1790's Thomas Jefferson vs. Alexander Hamilton. In the 1790's George Washington was president. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were members of Washington's cabinet. During that time these men had many opposing views and very few similarities. One of the reasons why people then and now, especially…

After resigning his position as Guardian of the Kingdom, Wallace went abroad to seek diplomatic assistance.Wallace traveled throughout Europe in search of help from powerful countries. Wallace even went to France seeking an alliance against England. It was after Wallace and France formed an alliance that Wallace returned to Scotland. It appeared as though Wallace’s efforts had worked when Wallace and France agreed to align themselves against England. Because of this Wallace chose to return to…

When delving into history books, two prominent names stand out and are universally known. Those two names are Lewis and Clark. While both gentlemen have a background in the military, they are predominately known for their historic expedition along the Mississippi River to the Coast of Oregon in what is widely known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Their achievements would later be used to argue that the U.S owned the Pacific Northwest while the expedition also paved the way westward for…