Today in class, we discussed the meaning and ways of Ancient Greece. Like us, they had a Democracy, however, they basically created one. They were the founders of Democracy. An important person we also researched was Socrates. He was a Greek philosopher and credited as one of the founders of the Western philosophy. His job was to teach many about the different Gods. But was sentenced to death when higher authorities got frustrated with him. He was claimed to have been teaching the wrong Gods, and corrupted the youth of Athens. Therefore, he was put on trial and forced to drink poisoned hemlock. Later it was found that he was guilty. Socrates never forced them to learn about or believe in different Gods, but just "mentioned" them. Socrates would be known as a
Today's class was one of the most interesting ones we've had so far. Today's discussion focused mainly around what thinking globally and acting locally means. What do they mean? An example used in class today was farming. If everyone starting farming for their fruits and vegetables, it would affect grocery stores. Now of course the stores wouldn't go out of business, the fruits and vegetables rate being sold would increase. So in other words, something we did locally would effect globally. But besides this discussion we talked about our thoughts on voting. How more older people tend to vote more nowadays. This brought up the discussion of weather or not the age for kids to be able to start voting should be lowered to age 16. In my opinion, I think at this age we are too young and immature to be asked and vote for political affairs, because honestly everyone would just think the same as their parents. You hear kids arguing politically, but you know it's just them tal...
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