Brianna Alexis Mora

I am very familiar with the founding of the Sisters of Notre Dame in my Media Production Lab class from last spring. I had wrote my article on the foundresses week and wrote about the background of how Notre Dame came to be thanks to its sisters.  Foundresses Week is hosted by the Office of Spirituality whose mission statement is to honor the many religious traditions and spiritual paths in our community by providing diverse opportunities for tending the sacredness in ourselves, each other and the world, they work and learn collaboratively with community partners to bring about a more just society and positive social change. I admire the work the sisters do it is just so heartwarming to see that there actually is good in our world especially in this day in age. These women really are martyrs in the world in many different locations. Our university wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for these two Foundresses and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

This chapter spoke about science and religion. Christendom also known as the Christianity world was divided into Roman Catholics of Western and Central Europe. The Eastern Orthodox was from Eastern Europe and Russia. Science altered ideas about the place of humankind in the cosmos and challenged the teaching of the church. In ways, people believed that this challenged religion. This is still seen to this day. However, these two ideas actually help one another in ways that some people see blind towards. Strayer explains Christianity and how it spread through specific cultures. One of them being that it brought up protestant reformation. The Scientific Revolution (which originated because of Copernicus and his ideas on the solar system) took place in Europe because it birthed a new way of thinking and that consisted of research-based thinking. Many well-known scientists emerged throughout the revolution such as Galileo and Newton.

This part of the chapter was very descriptive on the slave trade. This is a very touchy and controversial topic in my opinion just because it has to deal with race. It seems that we always touch on this topic every once in a while throughout our educational careers. The slave trade stimulated much of the Americas and was an enormous extension of business and commerce throughout the world during this time. This practice is not new in fact in some parts of the world it is still being used to this day. The practice of slavery dates back many years ago and was a very widespread human practice. Of course, there are always two sides to slavery and that is the good and the bad.

The book spoke mostly about the different types of commerce each country was specializing in during this time. This period of time was specific to economic globalization and how it changed the world. I found this really interesting because this is still important to this day where the economy and business run the world and make it go round. Some of the major trade items were silver, spices, fur, and many other commodities. I think this period of time was when the world was starting to become very business-like as we now know it as today.

I found it was interesting that the Europeans were so powerfully motivated to be one of the best countries on Earth at the time due to trade and commerce. Innovations were soaring at this time for them as they understood that China was one of their biggest threats and competitors. With that, Europe ended up finding what is now the Americas which also led to the Great Dying. I find it so interesting what destruction the Europeans did when they first sailed to the Americas but without realizing what they did. It is really disappointing to hear that these innocent people were forced to bring new ways and suffering. This is an issue that I see almost every day on Facebook, interestingly. I have always been fond of the lives of the Natives. It is really hard to understand that disease wiped the Natives out of existence and that this was only a few centuries ago and that this could happen all over again as it is doing in other places in the world. It is also interesting that in some places ...