Catherine McClure

 Darby discusses in his article "Reparations and Racial Inequality" the issue of reparations for African Americans and what these reparations should be. He brings up that many people asked for monetary reparations be made; I find this demand to be crazy, and Darby states how monetary and physical reparations may not be enough. I find it really crazy that people would demand monetary reparations because what at all does that change? It is like saying money fixes everything; when it reality, it doesn't.  Darby overall argues that African Americans need to live in a world in which they are equal to be themselves and to have the life of everyone around them. Darby brings up the idea of building statues and museums and what not, but even this still will not fix everything. When it comes to monetary reparations, you obviously reach the question of where does this money come from; it would not be fair to make anyone today make a monetary payment because 150 years ago an extremel

 Caney's arguments about reparations regarding anthropogenic climate change apply to the issues of reparations for slavery. Although these two situations are quite different in what occurs under them, they relate to each other as they greatly affect the lives of people living in society at the time. Caney speaks about a Casual Party and a Beneficiary Party in regards to the reparations of climate change; the Casual party is made up of those who caused the issues and the Beneficiary Party is made up of those who benefited from the damage that was caused. When it comes to the Casual party, there are many people who are not alive today who greatly caused the climate change that we and the future can suffer. This relates to slavery as slavery was something that went on for centuries, and many of those who had slaves were no longer alive when it was being worked to end. The Beneficiary Party is made up of those who benefited from the damage, and I believe this includes almost everyone.

 In Tal's article he presents us with the definition of a second. A second, since 1967, was defined as the duration of exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to a hyperfine transition of caesium-133 in the ground state. This definition would be quite complicated and just words in a sentence to some, including myself, but luckily Tal eases it up by saying this definition describes to us two things- the standard second and explains that a frequency associated with an atom of caesium is uniform which tells us that the periods are equal to each other. Tal also explains that the caesium atom is at rest as zero degrees Kelvin, so under these ideal conditions of it this caesium atom would create a clock that is perfectly and completely stable.  The standard measurement of time used is universal time, UTC, and standard clocks adhere to this. UTC is made from a cooperative international effort that rely on state-of-the-art atomic clocks; what these clocks measure are t

  Norton describes what Einstein’s theory of special relativity is and what it is not. What Einstein's theory of special relativity is the idea that two events occurring at the same time are not universally occurring at the same time as it depends on the viewpoint of the observer. What it is not is what Norton defines as what we call, “appearance simultaneity,” and this means that the theory does not include the senses of an event.  The theory of special relativity is illustrated by Norton. An observer stands in the middle of a long platform that has endpoints labeled A and B where two momentary flashes of light occur at each. The lights arrive to the observer at the same moment and come from equal distances away. Due to the observer's frame of reference, these events are  simultaneously occurring. Now if the platform were to be rapidly moving in the direction of A towards B, the observer will have a different observation of this event due to them also, being at the midpoint, m

  To me, time was always just a means of scheduling our lives and simply a measurement. Is there really any proof that we are currently living in the second day of October in 2020? What if it is actually mid April in 2012? Is it really 8am on a rainy, Fall, Friday morning or is it just a rainy Wednesday in Spring at 5pm? Who is out there to prove to us that our months and days and years and weeks and hours and minutes are completely accurate to the legitimate time that the planet we inhabit is actually at? I have always felt that numbers and time go together hand in hand; first we have numbers. Someone one day just said one, two, three, and so on and that was our number system. We determined that in one hour we have sixty minutes due to the fact that we have these numbers, but what is someone said four, nineteen, forty five, and so on and instead we state that four hours has 3 minutes when in reality it was the same amount of time. Same with the earth rotating around its axis as well a

  Anyone with children or planning on having children would say that it is their duty to care for that child; watching their child get set would be the worst thing possible and watching them get hurt makes them scared and miserable. We need to learn to treat the earth as if it is our child; after all the way we treat it will affect our child, our child’s child, our child’s child’s child, etc. We as humans hold the planet in our hands. Instead of cradling, respecting, and loving it, we throw it to the ground and stomp on it. We take all that we want and not what we need; while there are millions of people not even getting nearly what they need.  Everyone on the planet right now has an effect on it. I believe we all have duties to protect future people from the adverse effects of climate change. The Earth is getting hotter and hotter day by day, the air quality is getting worse, the oceans are becoming a third garbage can--the second being the ground we walk on, and people are going to s