Flat Earth Society

Throughout the middle ages, people have viewed the cosmos as a basis for the social order here on Earth. The celestial layers were representations of the medieval society and the church. The hierarchy of the Kings and Pope over their subjects was justified by the hierarchy of the heavenly bodies; it was considered natural and no one questioned it because it has been like that for so long. Medieval life was centered on God, abiding by the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and the strengthening of

World Improvement through Advanced Curiosity What motivates people to try things that are out of the ordinary that may even defy normally-accepted ideas? Curiosity is the driving force in advancements of our society. Curiosity causes people to try new ideas in wonder of the potential outcomes. Truly curious people simply enjoy discovering results first-hand, regardless of a new result being found. The products of these curious conquests have benefited us all, even though curiosity may have killed

Using two articles “On the Origin of Good and Evil” by Richard Taylor and “Why Morality Is Not Relative” by James Rachels from the book Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature, author, Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn, this essay will first try to identify what each of two articles says about the nature of good and evil, and is everything on morality is relative. Taylor from the article “On the Origin of Good and Evil”, states that morality is not inspirational, but a natural

many subjects on his two epics describing war and the perils of trying to come home after long absence. For Homer, heaven is a solid inverted bowl straddling the earth, with fiery, gleaming "aither" above the cloud-bearing air. Homer mentions the movements of sun, moon, and many stars by name. The fact that Hades is on the underside of earth has an important impact on conceptions of heaven: it is unlit by the sun, therefore, the sun--and by extension, other heavenly bodies-- must sink only to the level

With a limit on free speech, certain people’s opinions and ideas will be held back from ever being able to make change. This is detrimental due to the fact that listening to other people’s beliefs is as important to stating them in order to push society forward. Another reason why their should be no limit to free speech is because it helps us gain knowledge, and can put a halt to totalitarianism. All the most powerful totalitarians such as Hitler and Stalin used voice as a way to gain power. They

Mill bases his argument against censorship on two premises. The first is that human beings are fallible, and we can never be entirely sure we have everything right. The second premise is that humans are corrigible – capable of being corrected. His argument is that censorship prevents humans from correcting errors. If a censored opinion is true, we lose the ability to learn the truth, and vice versa. He claims that free discussion is the best way of correcting our errors, which is most beneficial

impossibility of observing or proving any origins theory in a strictly scientific manner. Today, the widely accepted theory of life’s beginning is the theory of Evolution by mutation and natural selection, or Neo-Darwinism. Most people in our modern society accept this theory at face value because it is popular with the majority of scientists, but it must always be taken into account that our origins cannot be proven scientifically and that, in fact, the theory of Evolution is not the only or even the

Dystopian novels are based on the notion of an utopian society with a flaw or the world has collapse and been left in ruins. One dystopian novella is Anthem by Ayn Rand, written during the rise of communism in Russia. Ayn Rand follows the first plot of a dystopia and, in a sense, is prophetic. Rand predicts the lives of those who still live under communist rule or a dictatorship by the collectivism in her novella. Ayn Rand describes a society that has completely obliterated individualism just as

three interesting works stand out: The works of Dunbar, The Outcasts of Poker Flats, and The Jungle. These works

2015 Chapter 1 Outline Key Issues 1. “How do geographers describe where things are?” 2. “Why is each point on Earth Unique?” 3. “Why are different places similar?” Introduction: Human activity is influenced by two opposite forces, globalization and local diversity. Globalization is the trend of increasing interaction between different societies. Local diversity is the trend of a society focusing on local development and growth. Maps are used to display real world places, human interactions and physical