Flat Earth Society

How the Greek Mind Changed the World Ancient Greece had a major impact on modern day society. Had we chosen to follow in the footsteps of a different civilization and culture, our world would look completely different. Many of their influences have shaped the human mind; how we think and how we view the world. Some of aspects of their culture whose influences are seen in modern day society include art and poetry, philosophy, and religion. One of the major influences from the Greeks was their advancements

working of the society. Thus the first ammendment ensures that the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition are protected. The idea of imposing limits on rights, ensures the liberties of another individual is not transgressed in the process of exercising ones own. To the very end, the supreme court has set limits on free speech identifying the threat to disruption of normal functionality of school or existing community standards. Had the members of the flat earth society staged a march

The God Delusion I believe that religion is, and has bottle necked the possible scientific, medical, and technological advancement of mankind. Let’s take a water bottle to present an illustration of how religion represents itself to me. The water in the bottle is representing said advancements of mankind. While the neck of the bottle shall represent religion. Last, the body of the bottle represents mankind. When you try to make a stream of water flow out of the bottle with the bottleneck attached

Looking at the World we live in today there are many different cultures in many different countries all over the place. Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism are two terms with great disparity that are viewed differently all over the country. As it is defined, ethnocentrism is the idea of judging another culture with comparison with one's own cultural point of view. In other words, it is the thought of being superior to divergent cultures. On the other side of the spectrum is the expression cultural

The knowledge system of a society can be divided into two bodies of knowledge, shared and personal knowledge. Shared knowledge is a knowledge that shared and group of individuals it is also continually being contributed creating new forms of knowledge. While personal knowledge is knowledge that someone gains through the own experiences and research. Now in the natural sciences a scientist can further their personal knowledge through shared knowledge in how they can learn and further improve their

or not this form of doublethink is necessary or even virtuous for society is a heated topic. It is not necessary because people should be hired based on their credentials and not what their skin color is. However because of the history of the America discrimination has been and still is a real big problem. Because of this affirmative action appeals to the morals of a lot of people in the country that makes it virtuous to society in the fact that there are minorities in the country and they feel

doing any work would be self-deception. Now that doublethink is distinguished from lying, changing ones mind, and self-deception, some examples of doublethink will be discussed and whether or not it is necessary and virtuous for contemporary American society. Affirmative action is an excellent example of doublethink. Affirmative action is the idea of ending discrimination by basically practicing it. Affirmative action says that no matter how many qualified people there are for a job there has to be a

Recycling should be practiced for all states because of the waste that we pile in other societies. The lack of care to the earth and our homes will surley overcome and preduce mor garbage than we throw out. like said in the passage, landfills will overflow with the unending amound of garbage and un recycled product, wich then the higher powers of the state will try to despose of it in an unjustifyed space that could be overpopulated with trees animals and fresh resorces of water. Maybe in time

people dreaded traveling beyond the sea shore due to the speculations of falling from the Earth because they thought that the Earth was flat. Many people cringed in fear from the thought of exploring new territories due to this unproven fact of a flat world. It took one brave explorer to look past this rumor and see for himself. Proceeding his arrival back to Europe, he proudly said that the Earth did not have a flat dimension, but, in fact, had a round shape which allowed people to eventually return

“Euclid wrote The Elements, a textbook that became the basis for modern geometry” (Ellis and Esler 142). This textbook gives information for which geometry is based off in modern society. To this day geometry is still used in situations such as architecture, robotics, and GPS. Thanks to the Greeks, modern society was able to work off of their findings and put it to practical uses. “Pythagoras derived a formula to calculate the relationship between sides of a right triangle” (Ellis and Esler 142)