Kelsey Strohoefer World Religions Reflection Paper November 24‚ 2014 Throughout this semester I have learned a great deal about different kinds of religions around the world. Within the variety of religions we have learned about this semester‚ there were so many different concepts and beliefs that came from each and every one of them. Although one might be extremely similar to the next‚ not one religion was exactly the same as the other; there was always something that would differentiate them
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Bhagavad-Gita the Hindu came up with there own way they saw the universe. The Hindus believed in spirits and the multiform world. The document describes the appearance of the deity. In Document 4‚ Ashoka practices morality and the once war machine ended. Since he is the ruler he believes in all men to be his children. Ashoka desires that all his children be happy in this world and in the after as he wishes for the men also. Ashoka believes that there should be growth of spirit of morality. Independent
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The printing press was transformed by Johann Gutenberg‚ a German goldsmith‚ and more than 8 million books were printed in Western Europe between 1456 and 1500. This invention had an effect with the Protestant Reformation. It not only furthered the knowledge of geography‚ but it also expanded knowledge throughout the countries and whether you were wealthy or poor‚ printing made books available to the general public. By 1560‚ many people were either Catholic‚ Protestant‚ or mixed (Doc. 5). Non-Catholic
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The green revolution was the worlds introduction to modern agricultural and a time of vast improvements in the worlds fight in hunger. New technologies such as hi yield variety seeds Chemical fertilizer and agricultural machinery lid this revolution and are still a big part of the way we produce food for the world we live in today. The green revolution saved A lot of small developing countries throughout the world. Food is now a mass produced all around the world in fields and distributed to countries
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After World War I‚ European countries were devastated. Europeans were disappointed in their old governments; they felt that they had failed them by causing the war and catapulting them into a depression. Destroyed‚ they turned away from democratic governments and supported communism and fascism simply to avoid democracy. Others were intellectually lost and desperate for leadership. The government encouraged the people’s support by instilling irrational fears amongst their citizens and promising to
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Socrates. Aristotle: pioneered the use of reason and logic to study the natural world‚ believed that the greatest good people could perform was the practice of rational thought‚ contributed to the development of science‚ esp. biology‚ and taught people that they can use what they know to infer new facts. Plato: thought philosophers were best suited to govern people‚ believed that every material object in the world was only the reflection of a perfect ideal‚ for example all the trees growing in
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are many different types (versions) of each religion. The Islamic and Christian religions both started in the Middle East (Jerusalem)‚ which is why it had to be spread. Much of the population at that time was in other parts of the world. Also‚ some regions of the world already had a major or popular
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Gadsden purchase - is a 29‚670-square-mile (76‚800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden‚ the American ambassador to Mexico at the time‚ on December 30‚ 1853. It was then ratified‚ with changes‚ by the U.S. Senate on April 25‚ 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce‚ with final approval action taken by Mexico on June 8‚ 1854. The purchase was the last major territorial acquisition in
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Union 19 years ago in 1991‚ the issue of nuclear arms‚ besides terrorism‚ remains one of the chief security concerns in the contemporary world. Accordingly‚ the following issues concerning nuclear arms remained unresolved security concerns.Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These events not only brought about the surrender of the Japan and an end to World War II‚ but they also helped shaped the nature of international politics for the next six decades.The atomic bomb is the crudest form of
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demand repay of Euro. Loans& w/drew invstmnt Tariffs high tariff on imports& others do the same World Trade by 65% What nations were hardest hit? G.& Austria Totalitarianism govt that takes total/central/state over every aspect of pub/priv. life Key Traits ideology/ dictatorship/dynamic leader state control of idividuals‚society/ modern tech Stalin - Examples of these traits Pre-World War II Fascism Definition militant political mvmt tht emphasized loyalty 2 st. obedience 2 its
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