Take Me Through History

I was so happy to learn about the founding sisters of Notre Dame. It was so interesting to hear about the up coming of all this school and the educational opportunities that they gave to women of their time. I must admit that I was very upset when discussing the opportunities that women were given during that era. To think that they had pretty much 3 options: becoming a nun, staying home with the children, or becoming a home maker. Women were so limited in scope, and on top of everything, not wanting a marriage was frowned upon. The sisters allowed these women to open up their minds to the endless amount of options. They now had the choice to obtain an education for themselves and pursue a job of their interest without the restraint of money. The sisters could not have done it on their own however, they needed one another to complete the dream. It was ones financial statues and the others spirituality that pulled their dream off. They over came their fight with societal statues a...

The discussion of Religion and Science was extremely fascinating for me. It is so interesting to look at the parallels of religion and how much science has changed the course of religion. Before science, religion was an aspect of human life that was blindly followed. People devoted their whole lives to making sure they follow the rules of the bible. Every action/decision they made was influenced by the hope and desire to go to Heaven in the after life. The fear of burning for all eternity made people scared to stir off from what was known. The Scientific Revolution made people question, with reasonable doubt,  if religion was true. People were able to discover that the earth circled the sun and not the other way around. Humans were not the most important planet, which made people wonder what else they were wrong about. Individuals like Copernicus and Galileo were silenced by fear or tortured for there discoveries. People also started to become more literate which allowed them...