Chapter 1.
The idea I got out of the reading was that the bourgeoisie would want more and more and not be happy with what they already got.
I think this is pretty much of human life on this planet. Everyone thrives for more and even evolution called it we thrive for more organism and than an explosion happens.
And this is what happened every century. People want more saying and we create an revolution. People want to say their opinion but someone doesn't like it and we start a war. Or we want more land but the people that own it don't want to give it to us so we start a war and take and it doesn't matter if you kill innocent Individuals.
Or people split in groups/classes and distinguish themselves upon money or other people they associate with. And sadly said this is how it is everywhere around you. Cooperate people against small business,
university level against public college. If you go to a college you might get a job if you go to a higher school that is a lot more expensive you might get a better job just because they impressed with to which school you went.
It has always been that way that the rich will stay rich and the poor might become rich but not said their next generations will stay rich.
I hope some people will see through that and work hard, and be satisfied with the things you achieve and you have. Otherwise it will be hard to enjoy life.
Sincerely,
SW
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
reading 2-11-2013 to 2-15-2013
This weeks reading covered a lot of material. We started as a big topic to talk about the echoes of the revolutions that occurred as impact from the american revolution in 1775-1783 and the French revolution in 1787-1799. Those revolution were inspired with the idea of enlightenment and reaction that involved in a brutal and violent movement to reach independence and fight for human rights.
All humans wanted the same rights and even woman started to become independent and reach more rights for their benefit.
We also talked about the sisters of Notre Dame de Namur which established at the time of the France Revolution in France. Nuns wanted to study and travel and teach other people their knowledge. And luckily Francois Blin de Bourdon had the money to support Julie Billiart with her Idea. Francois was from a noble and wealthy household and because money dictated the world -still to that day- the Church agreed with the idea of the two woman.
Another Revolution that was going on was fought in Haiti. The majority of people living there were slaves and plantain owners and white, mixed raced people were the minority. People wanted equal rights and fairness but it escalated into one of the most brutal wars. It was the conflict between the african race and colonial forces. Slaves were killing mixed race and white people like there was no tomorrow. They would hang them and leave them hanging there for people to see. 1000 Plantations were destroyed but the slaves became free and earned to be called citizen.
This revolution was taking place from 1791-1804.
Another Revolution that was an echo of the French and American Revolution was the Spanish- American Revolution from 1810-1825.
It was similar to the North American revolution. People had self- government and they were divided into social classes. Also religion had a great impact, most of the people though rejected the catholic church. This Revolution wanted independence for Latin America. The last place where they earned independence was Brazil in 1822. This revolution was so lang lasting because the church and the landowners interfered with the people of the movement.
All those Revolution had three positive outcomes. Because of those wars that were thought we earned the Abolition of Slavery, which means the violation of natural rights and human rights no matter what raise are not tolerated anymore.
Black people can be free and are excepted. But we can still tell only to a certain point. There is still hate from other people coming against other raises. And Slavery wasn't official anymore but still part of American Lifestyle.
Out of this movement came another proudness in humans, which is called Nationalism.
Nationalism stands for Human - Community - Nation this is a political ideology that involves strong identification of a group of a Individual Nation. That was probably not one of the best ideas that Humans had. Because it brought hate towards other nations and the competing with other nations.
But it was also the beginning of the feminist movement. Woman started to speak up like for one example I mentioned the Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. And there was a written set of rules, called the declaration of rights. This book was allowing people to be more independent and live a free life. But it wasn't perfect. And till now we are still working on the rights for woman, human and animals and how to live a fair life.
The reading for Friday covers chapter eighteen of the Strayer book and covers the Revolutions of Industrialization from 1750-1914, The first Industrial Society, the comparison the in the United States and Russia, and it will cover deeper material of the Independence in Latin America.
All humans wanted the same rights and even woman started to become independent and reach more rights for their benefit.
We also talked about the sisters of Notre Dame de Namur which established at the time of the France Revolution in France. Nuns wanted to study and travel and teach other people their knowledge. And luckily Francois Blin de Bourdon had the money to support Julie Billiart with her Idea. Francois was from a noble and wealthy household and because money dictated the world -still to that day- the Church agreed with the idea of the two woman.
Another Revolution that was going on was fought in Haiti. The majority of people living there were slaves and plantain owners and white, mixed raced people were the minority. People wanted equal rights and fairness but it escalated into one of the most brutal wars. It was the conflict between the african race and colonial forces. Slaves were killing mixed race and white people like there was no tomorrow. They would hang them and leave them hanging there for people to see. 1000 Plantations were destroyed but the slaves became free and earned to be called citizen.
This revolution was taking place from 1791-1804.
Another Revolution that was an echo of the French and American Revolution was the Spanish- American Revolution from 1810-1825.
It was similar to the North American revolution. People had self- government and they were divided into social classes. Also religion had a great impact, most of the people though rejected the catholic church. This Revolution wanted independence for Latin America. The last place where they earned independence was Brazil in 1822. This revolution was so lang lasting because the church and the landowners interfered with the people of the movement.
All those Revolution had three positive outcomes. Because of those wars that were thought we earned the Abolition of Slavery, which means the violation of natural rights and human rights no matter what raise are not tolerated anymore.
Black people can be free and are excepted. But we can still tell only to a certain point. There is still hate from other people coming against other raises. And Slavery wasn't official anymore but still part of American Lifestyle.
Out of this movement came another proudness in humans, which is called Nationalism.
Nationalism stands for Human - Community - Nation this is a political ideology that involves strong identification of a group of a Individual Nation. That was probably not one of the best ideas that Humans had. Because it brought hate towards other nations and the competing with other nations.
But it was also the beginning of the feminist movement. Woman started to speak up like for one example I mentioned the Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. And there was a written set of rules, called the declaration of rights. This book was allowing people to be more independent and live a free life. But it wasn't perfect. And till now we are still working on the rights for woman, human and animals and how to live a fair life.
The reading for Friday covers chapter eighteen of the Strayer book and covers the Revolutions of Industrialization from 1750-1914, The first Industrial Society, the comparison the in the United States and Russia, and it will cover deeper material of the Independence in Latin America.
Friday, February 8, 2013
The sister of Notre Dame de Namur
Reflection.
This week was founders week at Notre Dame de Namur University. We celebrated our founders that created this school.
Julie Billiart which was a non/sister and one of the founders of the University. She was born july,12 1751 into the 98% class like most of the people back than. Which meant her family was poor and didn't had too much to offer. She went to church and studied religion studies in school.
The second founder of the school was Francois Blin de Bourdon. She was quite different than julie. Francois was born 1756 into a aristocrat family and raised in a wealthy environment. She studied home economics and was involved with the noble society of france.
But as she got older she needed guidance and she found that in Julie.
St. julie was back than and still is today a feminist revolutionary woman that found the sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
She started creating school systems for children with the help of Francois. The religious revolution happened during the french revolution and was very controversy. Because back than the Church made the rules and had complete control of the community and the even the world. But because Francois had a lot of money and the church wanted that money they were able to compromise.
Back than it was a complete new tragedy that woman were aloud to speak up, get great education and trying to make a change for themselves and the future generations.
I met some of the sister that are still at our university. It was very interesting and positive talking to them. Some have done remarkable things for other countries and their community. I talked to a sister that had studied home economics like Francois but instead of staying in a comforatble setting of people she knew, she went to africa and helped building schools, houses and thought home economics to less fortunate people. She stayed their for about 10 years and made a remarkable change in peoples life and created a better world for them.
But there are many more sisters that have inspiring life stories to tell. Another example was Dorothy Stang, she also had been a sister of Notre Dame. Dorothy worked in the Amazon of Brazil to help rescuing the rain forest and protecting the land mother earth gave us.
But her story ended rather sad. She received death threats from land owners and loggers and was eventually killed by them as she was protecting land.
She gave her life for our future and will be always remembered as a hero.
I am looking forward to get more involved with the SND and i am sure they will guide me into the right direction.
Sabine
This week was founders week at Notre Dame de Namur University. We celebrated our founders that created this school.
Julie Billiart which was a non/sister and one of the founders of the University. She was born july,12 1751 into the 98% class like most of the people back than. Which meant her family was poor and didn't had too much to offer. She went to church and studied religion studies in school.
The second founder of the school was Francois Blin de Bourdon. She was quite different than julie. Francois was born 1756 into a aristocrat family and raised in a wealthy environment. She studied home economics and was involved with the noble society of france.
But as she got older she needed guidance and she found that in Julie.
St. julie was back than and still is today a feminist revolutionary woman that found the sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
She started creating school systems for children with the help of Francois. The religious revolution happened during the french revolution and was very controversy. Because back than the Church made the rules and had complete control of the community and the even the world. But because Francois had a lot of money and the church wanted that money they were able to compromise.
Back than it was a complete new tragedy that woman were aloud to speak up, get great education and trying to make a change for themselves and the future generations.
I met some of the sister that are still at our university. It was very interesting and positive talking to them. Some have done remarkable things for other countries and their community. I talked to a sister that had studied home economics like Francois but instead of staying in a comforatble setting of people she knew, she went to africa and helped building schools, houses and thought home economics to less fortunate people. She stayed their for about 10 years and made a remarkable change in peoples life and created a better world for them.
But there are many more sisters that have inspiring life stories to tell. Another example was Dorothy Stang, she also had been a sister of Notre Dame. Dorothy worked in the Amazon of Brazil to help rescuing the rain forest and protecting the land mother earth gave us.
But her story ended rather sad. She received death threats from land owners and loggers and was eventually killed by them as she was protecting land.
She gave her life for our future and will be always remembered as a hero.
I am looking forward to get more involved with the SND and i am sure they will guide me into the right direction.
Sabine
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Week 4 reading
I thought last weeks reading was very interesting.
We covered topics that ranged from science to religion and if there is a combination and ethical questions.
We talk about the globalization of Christianity, and it's people that influenced the time from 1450-1750.
Christianity at this time was spread out all over the world and the church started to gain more and more control over the people. And if they would fight the church or the Pope, question the hierarchies, you needed to pay for it and got thrown into prison.
At this time Christianity wasn't only Christianity any more. Out of this religion established different religions. Different branches, like Catholics, and spiritual ceremonies that were spread in Afro- Asian cultural. Those communities believed more in drumming, ritual dancing and annual sacrifices and were more spiritual than reading the bible.
And also at this time a lt of people were not able to read. They had people like priest or the pope interpreted the bible for them.
China still practiced Confucianism and India was divided into Hindu and Muslim culture.
But it happen as well that Islam and Hindu tradition got mixed into a new belief.
Martin Luther played a very important role in this time era. He translated the bible and published 95 statements and ask the church to rethink the ways and why they address the world like they were.
We also talked about the scientific revolution, which I thought was the most interesting topic we talked about last week. I am a Bio major and believe in the theory of the scientific creation of the world. I do know of the creation story that God created us and this world, but I can't really agree or wrap my mind around the idea that woman were created out of a rip or man were created as mentioned in Mathews 2, out of mud.
So the idea of a big bang and evolution makes a whole more sense to me.
One important scientist back in the days was Copernicus. He discovered that the world is not the center and the sun is actually spinning around the world and we only one part of the galaxy and there are other planets with more suns out there.
He actually threw off the whole theory of the biblical belief system, but he knew that and because of that he did not published his work till shortly before his death.
It took the church a while to adapt to this new understanding of the world.
The society back them was constantly learning new things and people were more and more questioning theories and developed new knowledge.
It came to this point that people talked about the enlightenment time era, which meant people were forcing the remove of darkness of ignorance. It was very critical and found new prospective political and it showed that the society is not perfect and doesn't has to because through the in-perfection humans gain new knowledge.
Charles Darwin was a great scientist. He discovered that evolution happens through natural selection. And with this statement he also challenged the church and was very controversial for his days.
Karl Marx as well played an important role- he was known for his research on human civilization and extensive historical research. He said that "socialism was not a good Idea it was inscribed in the laws of historical development".
Europe became the center of the world, it was the beginning of a time era also known as he "modern era" for constitutional government, political democracy, socialism, nationalism, feminism and the opposition of slavery as well as a industrial revolution.
A lot of things happen, and all this was because Europe had a great communication with other countries and the right ideas or weapons to fight them.
It was part of the Atlantic revolution, where intellectual and cultural people were able to exchange ideas and trade off things. There was also commercial and biological intercourse between different cultures.
North America had a revolution as well, we accomplished the deceleration of Independence in 1776and that followed with a military victory in 1781. In 1787 North America had a federal constitution and out of 13 colonies it became 1 nation.
France got inspired by this and followed with the French revolution in 1989.
But we are going to talk about this in week 5 of lecture.
We covered topics that ranged from science to religion and if there is a combination and ethical questions.
We talk about the globalization of Christianity, and it's people that influenced the time from 1450-1750.
Christianity at this time was spread out all over the world and the church started to gain more and more control over the people. And if they would fight the church or the Pope, question the hierarchies, you needed to pay for it and got thrown into prison.
At this time Christianity wasn't only Christianity any more. Out of this religion established different religions. Different branches, like Catholics, and spiritual ceremonies that were spread in Afro- Asian cultural. Those communities believed more in drumming, ritual dancing and annual sacrifices and were more spiritual than reading the bible.
And also at this time a lt of people were not able to read. They had people like priest or the pope interpreted the bible for them.
China still practiced Confucianism and India was divided into Hindu and Muslim culture.
But it happen as well that Islam and Hindu tradition got mixed into a new belief.
Martin Luther played a very important role in this time era. He translated the bible and published 95 statements and ask the church to rethink the ways and why they address the world like they were.
We also talked about the scientific revolution, which I thought was the most interesting topic we talked about last week. I am a Bio major and believe in the theory of the scientific creation of the world. I do know of the creation story that God created us and this world, but I can't really agree or wrap my mind around the idea that woman were created out of a rip or man were created as mentioned in Mathews 2, out of mud.
So the idea of a big bang and evolution makes a whole more sense to me.
One important scientist back in the days was Copernicus. He discovered that the world is not the center and the sun is actually spinning around the world and we only one part of the galaxy and there are other planets with more suns out there.
He actually threw off the whole theory of the biblical belief system, but he knew that and because of that he did not published his work till shortly before his death.
It took the church a while to adapt to this new understanding of the world.
The society back them was constantly learning new things and people were more and more questioning theories and developed new knowledge.
It came to this point that people talked about the enlightenment time era, which meant people were forcing the remove of darkness of ignorance. It was very critical and found new prospective political and it showed that the society is not perfect and doesn't has to because through the in-perfection humans gain new knowledge.
Charles Darwin was a great scientist. He discovered that evolution happens through natural selection. And with this statement he also challenged the church and was very controversial for his days.
Karl Marx as well played an important role- he was known for his research on human civilization and extensive historical research. He said that "socialism was not a good Idea it was inscribed in the laws of historical development".
Europe became the center of the world, it was the beginning of a time era also known as he "modern era" for constitutional government, political democracy, socialism, nationalism, feminism and the opposition of slavery as well as a industrial revolution.
A lot of things happen, and all this was because Europe had a great communication with other countries and the right ideas or weapons to fight them.
It was part of the Atlantic revolution, where intellectual and cultural people were able to exchange ideas and trade off things. There was also commercial and biological intercourse between different cultures.
North America had a revolution as well, we accomplished the deceleration of Independence in 1776and that followed with a military victory in 1781. In 1787 North America had a federal constitution and out of 13 colonies it became 1 nation.
France got inspired by this and followed with the French revolution in 1989.
But we are going to talk about this in week 5 of lecture.
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