Essay #1 -- Sorry, Forgot About Uploading My Essay
Doran Smestad
Mr. Viles
Honors History 10
September 28th, 2007
Essay #1
Humanism is the idea or concept of a group of people that usually have expendable income and want to change things to make them better for humans. Humanism was the revolution that changed the way that the people thought. But, people wouldn’t say that they were Humanists, they would say (probably wouldn't’ say for fear of going to hell, but for this purpose if they did,) that they are doing something other than what the church wanted. Humanism is a name that we assigned a occurrence, there are many different types of Humanism, religious humanism for example. The flat world has done the same, it is a concept that Friedman has assigned a name to what is happening as the whole world becomes more interconnected, a way of viewing it is calling in the Flat world.
As Humanism continues, the people of the time wanted continued to do more and more of what they wanted to do, not necessarily what the church wanted them to do. Now, they still were afraid of going to hell, but because of the way that they were paralleling what the church wanted them to do, and what they did, the people were only threatened is they drifted far enough away. One of the forces to help Humanism along was the fact of hidden funds. If you had millions of dollars in a bank, but lived in a small run-down house, you would be thought of as poor. So people now were able to hid their income and savings, and if they were daring, would cut back on their tithe.
Now look at the world is flat. The are helping factors, nicknamed “Flatteners” that pancake the world. One of them is the launch of the internet. The Internet is launched, add a dozen years, and now you have this web of interconnected servers basically running the world. Although the results from this flattener was extremely fast, we as humans have started to evolve the ability to quickly adapt to new tools and toys. For example the iPod or even an iPhone! I got the iPhone on a sunday and it took me five minutes to figure out how to navigate through features, a twenty minutes to configure it as my own, and then forty minutes to figure the whole device out. Yet, this evolution had to start sometime.
Humanism was the first step to interdependence and although it was slow to start out, the people of the day still took the church seriously but now they were adapting to add religion to their live instead of their life to religion. I am not going to address wether that was a good thing or not, but there is a beginning to change in the way that people thought, instead of taking the church teachings as fact, people went back to the way that the Greeks and Romans thought. This is shown in the evolution of the paintings, the reappearance of philosophers, and the renewed interest in the way that the universe worked.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/c-humanism/Humanism.html
http://atheism.about.com/od/abouthumanism/a/renaissance.htm?p=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism
http://www.jcn.com/humanism.php4
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By the way Mr. Viles..... Google Docs is now becoming the ultimate Beta machine, Beta this Beta that, when will something come out of Beta that is useful? Google! Take some responsibility of what you have made and provide support!
The only things that are holding me back from all online based work are;
1.) BETA everything!!!!! Once things are out of Beta I will use them more!
2.) They are horrible compared to the desktop based programs.
3.) Once offline, you can't get access to anything.
4.) IT WON'T WORK ON THE IPHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!