Milo Fradianni Germs‚ Guns and Steel WHAP Gavigan Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond Prologue: Throughout the book; Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ Jared Diamond answers a very controversial question; why is it that European people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but the natives of New Guinea had little cargo of their own? Societies prosper depending on the abundance of natural resources which are at their disposal
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The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is about how many different things attributed to the succession of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond "Why white men developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea where we black people had little cargo of our own?" Diamond was determined to seek an answer to Yali’s question. Diamond surrounds his answer on how
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success or struggles of a civilization. Some of the factors are population‚ economics‚ resources‚ and many others. In the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ the civilization of Eurasia is examined in detail in order to reveal why Eurasia was ultimately successful. Diamond argues that Eurasia was successful because of their agriculture‚ geography‚ and their immunity to germs‚ which I agree with. Diamond talks about how agriculture played a role in the success of Eurasia. Diamond says that Eurasia
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Many of the domestic plants that are around today all started out as wild‚ some even started out poisonous. Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond chapter seven is about how through natural and artificial selection the plants‚ that people today know and love‚ came to be. Natural selection is the process that organisms better suited for certain environments survive and produce more offspring’s. Whereas artificial selection is where organisms with desired traits cross-pollinate
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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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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 / / p Commoditization
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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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APES Ch 7 and 17 Study Guide Water Resources and Pollution Chapter 7 Water Resources Vocabulary Precipitation Infiltration Runoff Capillary water Transpiration Evaporation Percolation Gravitational water Ground water Water table Aquifer Recharge area Seep Spring Acidity Turbidity Hardness Salinity Dissolved oxygen BOD pH Chapter 17 Water Pollution Vocabulary Turbid Phytoplankton Eutrophication Nonbiodegradable Point source pollution Nonpoint source pollution
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CHAPTER 17 SUGGESTED ANSWERS Exercise 17 - 1 Jan. 5 Purchases 1‚789‚200 Accounts Payable 1‚789‚200 70‚000 x P25.56 Mar. 9 Purchases 16‚780 Accounts Payable 16‚780 100‚000 x P.1678 May 10 Accounts Payable 1‚789‚200 Foreign Exchange Gain or Loss 2‚800 Cash 1‚792‚000 70‚000 x P25.60 = P1‚792‚000 16 Accounts Payable 16‚780 Foreign Exchange Gain or Loss 1‚280 Cash 15‚500
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Chapter #17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy – Big Picture Themes IDENTIFICATIONS: John Tyler Was the tenth President of the United States. A native of Virginia‚ Tyler served as a state legislator‚ governor‚ U.S. representative‚ and U.S. senator before winning election as Vice President in 1840. Slidell’s Mission U.S. troops were stationed at the U.S./Mexico border‚ ready to defend against Mexican attack. The Mexican government rejected Slidell’s mission. After Mexican forces attacked
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