Katelyn Cornett

     Until Mr. Maibach came and spoke to us concerning the Electoral College, I did not understand how it worked or the real purpose of it. He explained it this way, the Electoral college is a group of 538 electors. The electors represent two senators for every state which mean there are 100 electors to equal 100 senators for the states. The last 438 electors are divided among the states based on how many representatives each state has. The purpose of the Electoral College is to even out the voting across the nation to prevent a candidate from winning by popular vote of the nation versus congressional popular vote. There is not a law that says a state’s electors have to vote the same as their state popular vote, but the majority of the time they vote how the popularity of their state votes. To give a better illustration take California and Wyoming, the largest and smallest populated states in the country, if the first candidate won the popularity in California but d...

The heart is a crucial organ for the survival of all human beings. It supplies the body with fresh blood as the old blood flows back into the heart and is refined and distributed back out of several capillaries which carry nutrients to the other organs and the extremities of the body. Similarly, reasoning is an important aspect of life because it guides one and aids one in determining true and false knowledge and Descartes utilizes the analogy of the heart to prove this point.   Not all reasoning is sound. There is good and bad reasoning. Good reasoning according to Descartes is having “the power of judging correctly and of distinguishing the true from the false” (Descartes, 5). The opposite of good reasoning could be defined as the inability to make true judgments and determine what is true from what is false. Thus, people need to be able to reason for themselves, rather than accepting all things that are being presented to them because the presenter could lack the means t...