Seminar Reflection
During the seminar there were a lot of very interesting matters that we had discussed, ranging from federal involvement in public issues, to how education should be reformed in schools. One thing that struck me a very interesting was when we had gotten onto the topic of what the government could do to improve schooling in the US, and we began talking about how more schools should take a project based approach to learning so that students can better explore things that interest them, rather than being stuck learning about 3 or 4 set things. Overall I think that it was a very productive seminar and it was pretty cool that we all got to express our opinions on certain topics.
Throughout the conversation that we were having in class about different types of power, there were a lot of very interesting ideas that had arisen. One that really stood out to me was when we had begun talking about Hitler and the ways that he had ruled over his country through persuasion and the expectations of the German people.
What is Power?
I think that political power could be defined simply by how much money one has, because in today's society, the more money you have, the more power you have.
I think that it would be best for our class to focus more on National Economics because it is a very pressing issue that affects a very large percentage of youth and young adults in the US today. Seven in ten seniors who graduated from public and non-profit colleges in 2013 had student loan debt, with an average of $28,000.
My Political Philosophies
My thoughts on Thoreau is that he was correct in rebelling against the government with his protests against paying taxes and how people were being educated. I don't think he was so much a "crack-pot" as much as he was just a bit crazy. His thoughts on certain things were a bit skewed in some areas but overall he seemed like he was really on to something.
World War II was, in a way, a just war, mainly because there was an entire army of people with the same train of thought going around Europe and massacring an entire other population, so something had to be done about it, so I think that in this case, the US was right to step in and put a stop to what was going on. In more modern time, however, I don't think that any of the wars that the US has been involved in are really something one could call "just". I say this because they are mainly foreign wars that we almost literally just jump in to.
World War II was, in a way, a just war, mainly because there was an entire army of people with the same train of thought going around Europe and massacring an entire other population, so something had to be done about it, so I think that in this case, the US was right to step in and put a stop to what was going on. In more modern time, however, I don't think that any of the wars that the US has been involved in are really something one could call "just". I say this because they are mainly foreign wars that we almost literally just jump in to.