And Diamond wrote this book because he wanted to explore and acquire knowledge about a question that have puzzled people for thousands of years living them to give different opinion about what might be the possible answer to the question. Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel is a historical analysis about anthropology & archaeology that opens with a prologue in which the author presents a question from a New Guinean politician and friend named Yali: why were Europeans able to conquer so many other societies
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Stefanie Self Professor Lloyd Modern World Cultural Paper “Machine Gun Preacher “ This movie is based on a true story that is taking place in Africa right now. There are over thirty thousand children that have been abducted since the 1930’s and is still growing. The LRA or the Lord’s Resistance Army enslaves young boys who are strong enough to raise a gun to kill their own people and girls are being used as concubines or house slaves. The LRA has killed over hundreds of thousands of villagers
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intolerance of nonconformists. He particularly conveys his philosophy of individualism and view of how we are all forced to conform in his poem’s ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’ and his philosophy on transcendentalism in ‘maggie and milly and molly and may’ through the use of his experimental poetic techniques and his use of homophones‚ metaphor and personification. The poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by E. E. Cummings tells the story of life. It exemplifies the busy life that humans
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Give a Boy a Gun Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser describes school shootings by looking at one school‚ shooting that happened in Middletown‚ Colorado. This book is loosely based upon the real events at Columbine High School in Littleton. Two students were teased and harassed by their peers. Eventually‚ they take them hostage at a school dance. Gary and Brandon were very close friends and they both have something in common: they were both teased and harassed and teased and sometimes even physically
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When you see a movie or a TV show at home‚ your mind may think a certain character‚ like the one portrayed by Tom Cruise in Top Gun‚ is a really brave soul. Bravery is not in fact what it is perceived to be. The term bravery does not necessarily mean becoming John Rambo or putting your life on the line. The real definition is when you stand up for what you believe is right‚ even with major fear. It means completing your righteous voyage despite a painstaking journey and possible demise. One
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Summer Supplemental Reading Assignment Yali asked the question of “why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had so little cargo of our own?” (Diamond 14) In other words‚ he is asking “what is the factor between our people and ours that causes human development to proceed at different rates?” (Diamond 16) What Yali is really asking though‚ is‚ what is this mysterious factor? According to Diamond‚ the basis for development is the environment
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(1.) The controversial issue is about Pro-Gun lawmakers are open to limits on size of magazines. (2) The issue is that some of the influential lawmakers in Republicans and Democrats parties believe that the proposed ban on assault weapons as politically poisonous. That there is difference between the size of magazine and assault weapons. (2b)Some lawmakers agreed that if the ban on the size of 15-30 rounds devices that have been used in shootings rampages from Aurora‚ Tucson‚ Colorado‚ and Newtown
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I think that the book and our class discussion does both dispel and promote the idea that lawyer are "hired guns". As far as dispelling the idea goes‚ we are taught that lawyers bring law to everyone innocent or not. They are meant to bring out the truth and defend anyone who is going to court. Lawyers are only meant to interpret the law for their clients and find a course of action that is fair to both parties. However the can only interpret the law for their clients because they are only loyal
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AP World History Summer Reading “Guns‚ Germs and Steel” A.) In the Prologue of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ a local politician name Yali asks Jared Diamond a question‚ the answer to it is explain throughout the rest of the book. His 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?’” By this‚ Yali wants to know why the advancements in some areas are greater than in others‚ why there are
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Chapter 1 Even though Africa had a massive time advantage America had a much greater environmental diversity‚ so the Native American’s would have a advantage over thee Africans. Because of all the islands around Australia and New Guinea the colonist would travel to a new island and would adapt and populate the island. Because of this it brought an unprecedented golden age of successful human population explosions. Because of the population explosions‚ Australia would have had a massive head start
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