HMONG SHAMANISM

The Hmong people were originally located in Highland Cambodia in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War, they became allies of the U.S. forces there. As the U.S. troops pulled out, they were committed to evacuating as many Hmong families as wanted to go, primarily to avoid reprisals from the new Ho Chi Min government.

However, like so many well-intentioned programs, the Hmong resettlement was not thoroughly thought-out. When they made it to the U.S., They were spread out into areas that were very unfamiliar to them. Many of them went to the rust bucket states of the Northeast, New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, into their decaying inner cities. They were not used to the frigid winters, and the crowded squalor of the inner city was far different from their thinly-settled, lush Rain forests of Cambodia.

The Hmong were able to communicate with relatives and friends, who had been better placed in areas like central California, or Florida. As they were able, families moved out from areas where they were originally placed, and settled in much nicer areas. Areas like Merced, in California’s Central Valley, became home to very large Hmong communities.

Watch this video in you tube and answer the following questions:

• Discuss some of the challenges religion faces today.
• Are you a believer or a non-believer? Explain.
• In your own words, explain what is faith.

This is a simple 700-1000 word paper, the question must be supported by the database shown below,

Question-

Is the coup de grace argument valid?

Database or website

Philpapers: Schwerin – “Language and Hume’s search for a theory of the self”.

Use the above journal to base the paper off of for the question

answe this questions in at least one paragraph!

1. a.) Discuss one ethical issue – either drug legalization, the death penalty, abortion or

euthanasia – providing detailed arguments for and against the disputed action or

policy. b.) Take a stand, explaining why you think your view is the correct one.

2. Give a summary of Aristotle’s virtue theory. Discuss and/or define:

a.)

E

udaimonia

b.) Habit (ethos)

YOU WILL COMPLETE THIS TASK THREE TIMES FOR 3 DIFFERENT STUDENT IN THE SAME CLASS…SO MAKE ALL THREE PAPERS DIFFERENT AND USE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REFERENCES

You will upload three one page word documents once complete

INSTRUCTIONS:

Choose one of the following topics and write a one-page response. You must use two sources and your paper must be done by MLA format.

Socrates developed the dialectic method as a way of pursuing a true understanding of some basic concepts of justice or ethics. How did he use the method? Does it, could it, work?

Plato advocates a theory of Forms as a way of establishing a foundation for making true claims about reality. What is that? Is it (or some variation) convincing?

The “Ring of Gyges” story is at the center of a debate over whether justice is the product of authority (or power) or whether there is some objective principle of justice. Examine this debate and take a side.

Plato explores what he takes to be the difference between knowledge and opinion. Examine his definitions and argument. Is it convincing? Plato’s “allegory of the cave” is meant to illustrate how we are supposed to know reality. How does the allegory work? What does it show? Is Plato’s theory of knowledge convincing?