Reflection # 17

Emigrations in the US first began in the early 1600s. It started out with just a few hundreds and expanded to millions of others coming in to the new world. People migrated to America for all different kinds of reasons such as economical problems, political oppression, poverty, wars and religious freedom. the englisg were the first set of settlers to migrate to the new world. During the early sixteen hundreds, England was going through their financial down falls and many were out of work. Ships were docking in from almost every colony of the new world. America's land was nothing but trees and forests which were occupied by the Indians as their homes. In fact the Indians and the English settlers were constantly fighting over land. As for religion the Puritans were a set of religious people who believed that the bible was the Law of God. When the people of England were creating man-made doctrines and their own beliefs of Christianity the Puritans of England sought after reforming the Church of England and establishing new laws of faith and basically trying to run the church the way they felt it should be conducted. Because of these acts of trying to reform the church many Puritans left England escaping persecution from the church leaders and King of England. When the English colonists settled in their land they would send for their families that they left behind. Soon after, other people from other countries around the world were settling in the New World and adapting the English language. In Colonial America basic education such as numbers and literacy were available mainly for whites in the northern colonies and the middle colonies. In towns where there were more than 50 families they had to support elementary schools and in towns where there were more than 100 families they had to support a grammar school. In Colonial America both boys and girls attended elementary schools sometimes at different times and seasons. In these schools they learned how to read and write. All of the college institutions were only for men. Community schools in the south were a bit impossible being that the spacial areas for farms and plantations were so far apart from each other. Some neighbors joined together with one another and hired tutors for their children and others sent their children back to England for schooling.

Reflection #16

Rhetoric discipline is to persuade someone through a speech or writing. According to the overview of rhetoric discipline, Plato reveals to us that through rhetoric we can persuade someone away from the truth. According to Aristotle, there are three methods that follow behind or are proofs of a rhetoric speech or writing and they are logos which is logic's, pathos which is emotions and ethos which is the characteristics of the speaker. According to the article for a period of time in Greece, the teachings and studies of rhetoric's had not been used. To me I find this hard to believe that rhetoric's could stop being used in the USA. The reason why I believe this is because our life is built around being persuasive until it almost feels innate to be rhetoric about life itself. For example, when we are seeking a job it is our job to create a portfolio to persuade our potential employers that we are well fit for a certain position. There are even certain careers and fields in which being persuasive is much important to as much as keeping the job. For example lawyers, Lawyers use rhetoric discipline in order to persuade a jury that the suspect is either innocent or guilty, even if it means driving the jury away from the truth by means of defending their client. I believe Rhetoric discipline and it's relationship in Ancient Roman education has a lot to do with the fact that around the time of 735 BC because of the rudimentary form of education parents were educating their own children. During this time the lessons that were being taught by parents basically in order to survive, the children needed to learn how to grow their own crops, fight for their land or country, and be good citizens to their land and country. Could it be that because the parents educated their children so they too were also educated by their parents. Therefore what was taught was based on a form of tradition passed down from generations before. So these matters of survival may as well been important but not the most important when it came to educating a child. If we were to categorize this depiction of how rhetoric correlates with the Roman education we would see that it was logic for the parents to teach their children that they needed to learn how to grow their own food to eat, and how to protect themselves and their land. It was emotional for the educating to be done by the parents of the children, the most valuable person to a child's belief. Last it was a very persuasive characteristic because if the children did not obey or retain the information they would be disciplined physically, even worst by their own parents.

Reflections #15

According to the passage about Early Roman Education, the most accurate form of education for children around the time of 735 BC was rudimentary education. Rudimentary education in Rome consisted of the teachings of agriculture, military skills, and moral and civil responsibilities upon Roman citizenry. These lessons were taught by the children's parents. Free public schools did not exist in Ancient Rome at this time. At about half way through the third century, an ex- slave by the name of Spurius Carvilius formed the first fee paying school called Ludus in Ancient Rome. Ludus in English means play. Of course this type of schooling most likely benefited the wealthy children as appose to the poor children who could not afford to pay school fees. Although the poor still had basic training in reading and writing, schools in Ancient Rome were only for boys. The Roman children would carry over their shoulders their school bags with their school supplies and their school fee payments. Roman children attended school at a very early age. The Roman instructors, also known as the Quintilian felt that children memories are very retentive at a young age. I totally agree with this Quintilian when he says that children retain information better when they are taught at a young age, it's just like saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks. It's easier to train them when they are still puppies. Ancient Athenians focused on literacy music and physical education. Athenians considered these methods of teaching much more than the Romans. In Athens, school was also only for the boys but the girls did have a form of education, it just was not formal education as so did the boys. Many of the Athenian girls did learn how to read and write by their parents Education in Athens was affordable for everyone, even the poor. Education in Rome was very strict as to where the child would be beaten if they did not retain the information given by their instructors as to where education in Athens was not so strict.

Reflection # 14

Aristotle's Writings about the nature of life which included the four causes the nature of different species and or beings and the unmoved mover creates an urge to understand not only mans and other species purpose but everything that involves creation. In Aristotle's Great Chain of beings, he describes different species from lowest to highest the lowest being worms and the highest being God. From what I understand Aristotle's thought behind which species should be considered lower than the other or higher than the other is based upon the soul and mind. He also states that in some species cases the one may be greater than the other, although it is considered lower in the great chain of being. For example cats and dogs, some people would consider a cat to be a greater being than a dog and vice versa. The Great Chain of Beings is also known as the ladder of creation. When you think of a Ladder, you can go up or down but it is not called a ladder of creation for this reason. In the ladder there are two levels of which one can be placed and that it is high or low. So no, an insect can not trade places with a human or an animal cannot trade levels with an angle and most certainly no being can take the place of God. In Aristotle's theory of The Unmoved mover he claims this to be the mover of all things but this mover moves without anything causing it to move. He states that the first heaven is the mover of all things. All other things that are moved move by being moved by some other force that is being moved. The unmoved mover is moved by the emotion of love. In Aristotle's 4 causes he speaks about the causes of materials an example of this is what happens when you mix the color blue with yellow it causes the color to change into green. The second type of cause is a formal cause. an example of this cause is if you have four wooden legs and top t makes a table. The third cause is efficient cause. An example of this cause is, efficient cause of the butterfly is the caterpillar. The last cause is the Final cause. An example of this cause is exercising will make you healthy.