Literature- Liberal Art Education

     In an article that I have read, it discussed the importance about college students should be learning the necessary skills in facing the real world when they graduate. Many students showed that learning and utilizing liberal education into their college experiences because in the workplace many expect that students can think critically on their feet, clear communication skills, and writing skills. Also, it is essential that these skills are being incorporated regardless of your major because many students are constantly learning the skills and making it a everyday use or tool that they need. Then in making the skills essential you are making your life better through better judgement skills. As a result of my college I'm learning how I can reflect to the reality world, what I have to face when the time comes in taking many foundation classes that is required by the school to ensure they necessary tools are met for the working environment when you are graduating. This will then prepare me as a NYIT student to face the world out there and around us in the business world. Also, the purpose of higher education is learning about what you are intended to do, using the life long skills, and practicing these skills by practical practices. After, many college sees that it is not about your major but how you will utilize it, critical thinking is necessary so you can understand facts through many discussions. It is about synthesizing and understanding the facts inside and out from these essential tools that you gain. I agree because this teaches you a real life spend lesson that will prepare you better for what is out there . Therefore, it is beneficial for you especially in the workplace to have in order to be successful after a high education experience.

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This was from one of the major philosophers of our time who was Socrates. He has always said that life that is unexamined is not worth living because Socrates questions many people how they are living their life, their purpose of life without those answers then life is not worth living. Until many people find the meaning of why they are living a life and finding the mysteries of living a life then it is examine to live a life, where then it is worth living in this society. Without any meaning of living a life, the life then is not worth living at that time.

Essential Philosophical Questions: " The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living" - Philosophy

     In a recent activity that I did in my FCIQ class was questioning a question, where many classmates would have to respond to an end product of our groups of this philosophy group activity. In my group the philosophical question we asked with my group was " What is honesty" in my opinion honesty has negative and positive impacts because honesty has many different layer of levels. Honesty can be telling a lie or not when in reality it is actually the truth you are telling to someone or something. The response I give to the class during my group presentation was first by telling a quote by Rick Riordan " It takes strength and courage to admit the truth". In simplifying this into my own words I said it in my own words which was it takes your physical abilities and mental being in order to tell the truth through our your personal experiences, social life, and all other life that reflects honesty because honesty is within your words of talking verbally. Also, it takes your whole well being to take in the truth knowing it will hurt someone else in admitting it to the truth than actually lying about it in reality. In connection with the other disciplines I believe that sociology make me especially think different in how I see things in my mind now because in the first unit logic has made me develop more ideas in order to focus better in philosophy discipline, so I can better understand this discipline better than the text can ever say directly to me when I analyze it.

Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison

http://www.ted.com/talks/damon_horowitz_philosophy_in_prison?language=en#t-61267

     In Damon Horowitz Ted talk he discusses about a student from a state university one day taking a gun and flashing it by killing someone. Now he is charge with a felony in jail for life for 25 years or so. Now in prison teaching a course on the foundations of Ethics. Tony says what are you going to teach me about right and wrong. Where I know and I have done only wrong. I am told everyday by every face who cross path by me that I am wrong and by the wall especially in a prison cell. There will always be a mark by my name in what I have done or committed to myself in my felony. It is said that I'm a convict that I am granted wrong  in what I have done, what you are telling me about right and and wrong. But by his professor in this prison university he says in a calm voice its worse than you actually think Tony and you think you know right or wrong. Also, thinking what wrong really is, I want to know the wrongness of wrong itself. It is the idea of wrong and doing wrong. What makes something wrong and how it is actually wrong. Maybe one is wrong about the wrong. We are here for knowledge, and I am tired of being so wrong all the time. I want to know what I know. The project of questioning in what we believe in, and why we believe it. I'm not a professor or a teacher who is teaching the student. I'm not a professor and student but it is two minds that is ready to solve and question the power of using the essential tools of philosophy. I believe this connects back to sociology because it studies what happened to Tony in the incident where it shows his mental development when he did something wrong. Also, it shows that everyone is wrong in their own way like myself for instance no one will ever be perfect, even though you still practice and so close to be perfect. But there will be mistakes that are not so obvious for your eyes to catch, where it shows that being wrong is a good thing where there are different level of the wrongness.

Philosophy - A Guide to Happiness: Socrates on Self-Confidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVA8jX9KQcE

     In this video it talks about the most influential philosopher of Ancient Greece in Athens of all time. This philosopher we all came to know in today society is Socrates, where it says what does the ancient philosophers has to say to us in Ancient Greece today. Almost 2,500 years ago a philosopher by the name of Socrates was born here in Athens, Greece. He has came to symbolize the inspiration how thinking logically about our lives is more certain about life and to set that dream free. Socrates never wrote anything down but Socrates stands out than most philosophers because he was one of the greatest philosophers we all came to know. Another fact about the philosopher Socrates was that he was extremely ugly. Many of his friends always was comparing him to many animals, sea creatures, and other living organism that was as ugly as him. One of Socrates inspiring ideas was to find ways to build confidence in our own beliefs and didn't believe the opinions of others but own very own beliefs that we had. An life example of this was at a company call bio tech, where a director thinking that he is correct but his employees think that he is totally wrong where he becomes very frustrated about it, he doesn't sleep, his mind is playing tricks on him. In this field technology is very complicated in many aspects but he is very good in it, where he understands it very well. Another aspect that was discussed in the video was to think that people in authority is always correct in a situation like this one for example. One of the things Socrates would do as well in this case was the power of questioning many people about their lives and how they are living it. After, he says what kind of feelings you would get when you are living a life you love. Then in making trouble for the wrong reasons for most of the time.

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     In my FCIQ class we discussed what were the definition of philosophy. The definition of philosophy was based on many people throughout many cultures which was how well formulated the the question was being asked by the individual. These questions were based on the concern of the nature of reality, happiness, love, government, good and evil, and so on. Also, it is how well of an answer can be backed up through your experiences, virtues, knowledge, wisdom, and the right way to live a very good life. An example is Aristotle who believed that philosophy was based on love of wisdom through possessing in wondering and curiosity. He believes in possessing the power of excellence, the wise one who always the one who was always questioning their authority. The word philosophy comes from a combination of two Greek words which was philos and sophia which means love of wisdom, where you need to desire something in order to love. Also, wisdom is knowledge through the universe. Then there was a group of thinkers that was called Pre-Socratics who was intensely interested in nature, in know the development of the universe, and figuring out how everything came to live and made. The many works of Philosophers were categorized in 6 themes which were metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics,  political philosophy, and aesthetics.

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of crack dealing

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_analyzes_crack_economics#t-130058

     In Steven Levitt Ted talk, he is first explaining and describing the drugs lords of America and the gang affiliation which he says is the worse job to have in the United States. Also, he talks about what went on in the 1980s in the United States when there was a lot of gang affiliation , where there were gang leaders that had a lot of power, prestige , and fight with a lot of individuals physically but these type of gang people were not making any money like a normal person would do. During this time crack cocaine was very popular at the time because during the time the market was very competitive. Cocaine was selling by a lot of gang people it was like the extra chunk of tomato sauce that was mentioned in the video. In the last 25 years cocaine was the biggest innovation in the time by getting the brain high which was like an addiction of the time. The drug was selling because of the high which was a very wonderful market at the time, where it made a lot of money. In this part of the video Steven friend, a sociologist who was a south Asian freak friend he had at the University of Chicago where he surveyed people across the nation in the toughest neighborhood project in the nation.  This was during the crack epidemic where he entered a building to find out about the gang, where they almost shoot but luckily he had his board that protected him. He went to find out the life of a gang in order to do a survey they usually would shoot first then answer questions last. They learned about the insights of a gang financial world they had, where they compared hierarchy's of a gang compared to to McDonald's employers world.