Reflection and Connection #6

We have got to the point where we are learning about how the world was "formed." We have read about Darwin and his thought of evolution. Darwin believed that species evolved over time. He thought that natural selection occurs. Natural selection is competition between species seeing who will remain alive through environmental and climate changes. Man was believed by Darwin to have descended from animals and human life started from elements then transformed into the first living cell. We also learned about Freud. He believed that we have a drive for certain things that can affect our actions without us knowing about them. Freud studied the human mind and he believed that dreams were a way of fulfilling our wishes.

Today scientists still don't know how man was formed. Some believe in the creationism theory which is belief that God created everyone and everything and some believe in Darwin's theory that we evolved over time. Scientists have found Darwin's theory to be more effective because of studies. Some animals do appear to have evolved from extinct animals. Today in school we are taught Darwin's theory of evolution.

Reflection and Connection #5

Now we have learned about Romanticism. Romanticism is pretty different from the other times. We are starting to question more and more about the Sophie and Alberto being real characters. This fits into Romanticism because it involves people making up another reality,which is what Hilde's father is doing. We have learned about many philosophers now. There are two kinds of Romanticism. One that studies history and people their self. We learned about a phliosopher name Hegel. Hegel believed that history is progress and believed in community over the individual. He believed that language forms people. Hegel also believed that philosophy is the greatest form of knowledge because it involves the world spirit reflecting on itself.

Romanticism somewhat relates to the 60's and 70's when hippies were around. Romanticism was a period and individualism and freedom, which is what the hippie movement was like. Romantics felt that art was the greatest expression of freedom. Hippies were into being free and they were into art. We were more of Universal Romanticism than National Romanticism. Love was a big thing. Just like the Romantic who got married, but his wife died and he continued to love her even when she died never letting go.