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-The historical beginnings of the subject of Philosophy can trace back to the Greek mathematician Thales born in 624BC in the city of Miletus. Considered to be maybe the first great Greek mathematician in his time, Thales went against what most people would considered to be normal thinking for his time he predicted many things like weather occurrences and most famously he predicted a solar eclipses. While he could have profited of his discovery’s like charging to predict the seasons that would be good for growing weather he only wanted to prove it could be done. He also discovered that he could determine the height of a pyramid by measuring shadows. By using a stick, he stuck it in the ground where the shadow made by the pyramid stopped. Then he say the shadow made by the stick was a similar triangle to the shadow that was made from the pyramid they had the same angels so that made them proportionate. Knowing this he estimated the distance from center of the pyramid to the end of the shadow because whatever percentage the height of the stick would be of its shadow would be that same percent for the pyramid. Today Thales’ approach to making sense of the world would be handled by a few academic fields of study now a days. I would compare his studies of how the universe came to be and what is matter that everything is made of to modern astrophysics. I could pitcher Thales trying to crack the mystery of dark matter in space.

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.)

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udaimonia

b.) Habit (ethos)