The Overall Theme of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond The overall theme of Diamond’s novel has to do with the progression of the human race in different areas of the world. He said that the development of different people was not based off of genetic composition but their location on the earth. Diamond gives many examples to back up his claim. Diamond uses many different examples from different time periods and different areas of the world. He starts at around 11‚000 BCE with the earliest
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jered Diamond Chapter 14: From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy The thesis of this Chapter from “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel” by Jered Diamond‚ describes the development of civilized mankind from the last Ice Age until modern times: the ways in which people evolved from small groups called “Bands‚” to the way almost all of us live today‚ which is in “States.” The topic is interesting but the author rambles his way through this evolution. I think that this chapter could be
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Chapter 3‚ goes into how the missionaries tried to help blacks after the civil war. The missionaries‚ however‚ had more enthusiasm than they did knowledge. When a poet was asked to describe each race he described the whites as tribe chiefs‚ red people were proud warriors‚ the yellow people were princes‚ and the black people were savages with rings in their noses. He talked about how when teaching the blacks‚ they only teach them about the Caucasians part of it and there is nothing about the Africans
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Chapter 10: In the Fertile Crescent‚ plants and animals spread quickly into Europe and North Africa. Innovations such as written language and wheels spread similarity quickly as well. People used domesticated crops rather than those that grew naturally. This shows that people easily adapted the Fertile Crescent’s food production. Chapter 10: Eurasia has covered the largest East to West area of any continent. Diamond believes that this is yet another r advantage for Eurasia. Eurasia had “amber
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ARVIND MILLS Environmental Factors POLITICAL LEVEL – Inability to anticipate & manage risk NAFTA – ▪ Poor prediction (Thought NAFTA impact would be 10 years; but impacted in less than a year) ▪ Mexico emerged as a new garment cluster (Competition) ▪ 17% Duty for outside of NAFTA made Arvind non‐competitive Lack of vision ▪ Got carried away by its success‚ hype by media‚ stock market and industry FUNCTIONAL LEVEL Blind expansion /Careless /lavish spend p
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1. The major character in chapter twenty six is Phin Calvert. He is a successful framer with three sons. 2. A large trait quality Phin exploits is confidence. When Phin sees his prized Bull in the worst condition in his long farming career‚ he has tremendous confidence in Herriot’s ability due to previous visits. 3. The first animals involved in the chapter are many calves refusing to eat due to eating paint off the side of a newly repaired hole Phin fixed with an old hen house. Herriot fixes
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“Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚” by Jared Diamond is without a doubt a very interesting read that gives you a different perspective about history. The main thesis of the book involves Diamond trying to answer Yali’s question “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond is able to answer Yali’s question with the title of the book guns‚ germs‚ and steel. He believed that these three factors are the main reasons
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Name: Nishita Khanna Block: D Date: 19/2/2013 Why Europe? (Final Draft) There was a difference in the ability of the Europeans to dominate and colonize the Americas and the Chinese Empire between the 15th and 18th centuries. The oldest argument before Jared Diamond’s observation‚ was that white people were smarter compared to other people across the whole world. Jared Diamond’s observation proved this argument wrong by observing the environmental conditions‚ because everyone has
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Background Check System Will Help Prevent Gun Violence Guns and Crime‚ 2012 Formed in 2006‚ Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a coalition of over 550 mayors who support reforms to fight illegal gun trafficking and gun violence in the United States‚ while still respecting the Second Amendment. The background check system designed by Congress in 1993 to prohibit dangerous people from purchasing guns is not working effectively. But with the enforcement of critical new regulations‚ the National Instant Criminal
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Name: 杨晓婧 Student ID: 2012471 A Critical Review of Effects of Synonym Generation on Incidental and Intentional L2 Vocabulary Learning During Reading Introduction This research report written by Joe Barcroft examined effects of synonym generation on second language (L2) vocabulary learning during reading the both incidental and intentional vocabulary learning contexts. 114 Spanish-speaking university students at low- and high-intermediate proficiency levels participated in the study. They
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