Monday, September 27, 2010

HW #8

pg 551
1. Because he thought people were selfish, wicked, and also because people acted in their self-interest. He thought monarchy would compose order and demand obedience.

pg 554
2A. Fundamental to U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Bill of Rights and French Declaration of the
Rights of Man and Citizen were important documents that reflect the influence of enlightenment ideas and many other.

2B. i think the two most important enlightenment ideas were women's equality because it gave women power like men and also they weren't treated differently just because they're women. also the U.S Declaration of independence because it gave important laws to the United States.

Pg 556
1. Enlightenment- the ideas of the scientific revolution also known the Age Of Reason.
 social contract- started by Hobbes, it was an agreement by which people created government.
 John Locke- philosopher who thought that people could learn from experience and improve themselves.
 natural rights- Locke's idea that people are born free and equal by three natural rights- life, liberty, and property.
 philosophe- social critics in France, the french word for philosophers.
 Voltaire- philosopher who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.
 Montesquieu- french writer who had the idea of the separation of powers.
separation of powers- the division of power among different branches.
 Jean Jacques Rousseau- philosopher who was passionately committed to individual freedom.
 Mary Wollstonecraft-  thought that women should have the same rights as men.

3.“Power should be a check to
power.”Baron de Montesquieu said this quote which means that other branches should check each other so they have the same power and to keep the same balance.
 “Man is born free, and
everywhere he is in chains.”Jean Jacques Rousseau said this quote meaning that men were born free but they still feel captured because they don't have freedom.
“Let women share the rights and
she will emulate the virtues of men" Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this quote meaning that women should have the same rights as men and she will do the sam as men.

Monday, September 20, 2010

HW #5

HW #5
Angel Plasencia
Period 1

Q1
Scientific Revolution-  was a new way of thinking about the world, when scholars started to question the geocentric theory.

Nicolaus Copernicus-  astronomer who studied planetary movements and discovered that the stars, the Earth, and the other planets revolved around the Sun.

Heliocentric Theory-  a theory by Nicolaus Copernicus that the stars, the Earth and the other planets revolved around the Sun.

 Johannes Kepler-  mathematician who with mathematical laws discovered that the planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles, also her laws proved that Nicolaus Copernicus basic ideas were true.

 Galileo Galilei- Italian student who discovered the law of the pendulum, also invented the telescope.

Scientific method- procedure for gathering and testing ideas.

Francis Bacon-  English politician and writer. he wrote that scientists should observe the world and gather information first then draw conclusions.

RenĂ© Descartes-  scientist who relied on mathematics and logic to draw conclusions of theories.

Isaac Newton- discovered that the same force ruled the motions of the planets, the pendulum, and all matter on earth and in space.

Q2

- Scholars began to have new theories.
- People did not believe the Church.
-Scientists began to prove theories.
-Scientists mixed science with math to prove theories.

Monday, September 13, 2010

HW #4

1. Canon Law was a system created by Church to guide peoples conduct. Medieval Christians, Kings, and Peasants had to obey the law.
2. What happened to a person or a king who disobeyed the law was excommunication which meant that the king would be denied salvation or the interdict which meant that many sacraments and religious services could not be performed in the king's lands. It was bad because kings believed that the without the sacraments they were doomed for eternal suffering in hell.