Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation Lorri Broughton-Kelley PHL/458 October 6‚ 2014 Latrice Phares Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation I choose Carl Sagan as one of the people that I felt has given a great contribution to the world. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn‚ New York the son of an immigrant worker from the Russian Empire. Name after his mother’s mother. Carl had a sister and his mother was very protective of him. Carl’s mother was
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Many people claim that we‚ the human race‚ are the ones responsible for many of our problems. Some people had very valid predictions. One prediction was made two hundred years ago by Thomas Malthus. An anti-utopian thinker‚ Malthus attributed many growing social problems to the population of the Earth. He directly stated that growth in our population would exceed our food supply. I agree with his views one hundred percent. We are the ones who are killing ourselves. The birth rate of the world is
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Part I -Progressive Muslims – In Search of Progressive Islam Beyond 9/11 Farid Esack describes the situation of progressive Muslims post 9/11. He does this because their role has become significantly important in the society they live in. Progressive Muslims described by him are liberal Muslims who are seeking for a change but according to their conservative values. He describes the attacks from 9/11 represents a collision of two forms of religious fundamentalism‚ the American capitalistic market
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get many different kinds of customers-whites‚ blacks‚ Hispanics‚ American Indians-and many Muslims. The wide diversity of customers allows for interactions with people I may have never otherwise gotten a chance to interact with. It’s due to these acquaintances that I have gained love and respect for all different kinds of people around the globe. Due to recent happenings‚ I have noticed an increase in Muslim customers entering my department store. These customers are exactly that to me-customers
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the article "Muslim American College Youth: Attitudes and Responses Five Years After 9/11."‚ the author Muedini starts the introduction by claiming that the ideologies of Muslims being the terrorist have caused a lot of problems to the American born Muslim youth. The author compares the Muslim youth in Europe to the ones here in America and says that the youth in Europe is a major concern for Europeans than youth in America to Americans‚ due to difference in social class. These Muslim youth can have
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Examine the Muslim concept of Jihad. Jihad means the struggle or effort‚ and it means much more then holy war. Muslims believe there are three different kinds of struggle‚ such as a believer’s internal struggle to live out the Muslim faith as well as possible. Also‚ the struggle to build a Muslim society and lastly the holy war; the struggle to defend Islam‚ with force if necessary. Jihad is believed to have two sections‚ the greater Jihad and the lesser Jihad. The greater Jihad refers to
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Contribution of Muslim Scholars to the Development Of Economics as a Science By Talha Waqar Generally‚ Western historians of ideas trace the beginnings of intellectual history from the Greco-Roman period‚ which ended around 300 BC‚ and then focus on the Renaissance (13th-16th century AD). The history of scientific‚ social and cultural thought during the period 300 BC to 12th century AD is either glossed over or ignored altogether. This presumed gap in the history of ideas is called "History’s Black
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Rene Descartes: A Great Thinker of the Western World “I think therefore I am” are the words that come to mind as we encounter the subject of Descartes. We see man full of knowledge and ideas ready to expand and break free. His interest in knowledge and the acquisition of truth itself brought him to doubt all around him‚ including God and his very own existence. He is even considered to be the Father of Modern philosophy because he guided the thinkers of his time to deviate from the Scholastic-Aristotelian
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DBQ Essay: Christian Muslim View of Merchant During the Post-Classical Era merchants played a key role in the foundations of societies. In its origins‚ Christianity viewed merchants negatively‚ whereas Islam saw the profession more positively‚ reflected in their religious documents; the two religions changed their views by 1500‚ Christianity becoming more positive and Islam negative‚ displayed in the authoritative opinions and actions of merchants. Religious documents in each religion reflect
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advantages and disadvantages of film documentaries which can help someone learn about pretty much any topic they want to. Some documentaries are based on scientific concrete facts while others are based on opinion and feelings like the documentary Young Muslim and French. One of the advantages of the documentary format is that unlike a book or article a documentary gives someone a visual image that can help to reinforce what the documentary is talking about. For example if talking about math one could
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