choir and would often times perform with them at the parties held at Olympus. Along with his talent for music‚ Apollo was also an excellent archer along side his twin sister‚ Artemis‚ and they used their remarkable aptitude to avenge their mother‚ Leto‚ several times. Although Apollo is known for many of the good things he did‚ he also had a temper and when he became angry he could do terrible things. Such as‚ in Ancient Troy and Greek Islands he was known as the‚ Mouse god. When he was in a good
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Environmental determinism is an idea that the physical environment influences human progress towards specific routes. Hippocrates‚ Airs‚ Water‚ and Places‚ and Jared Diamond’s‚ Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ each offer a view of environmental determinism and suggests a link between the physical environment and medical discourse and racial classification/inequality. Hippocrates Airs‚ Water‚ and Places was one of the first major works on environmental determinism. It concentrated on medical climatology‚
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The first of two plays that has been considered for selection in upcoming International Theatre for Young People’s Festival soon to be held in Vancouver‚ Canada is "Blackrock" by the late Nick Enright. The plays must represent the values‚ attitudes and beliefs of today’s Australian Youth Culture. "Blackrock" explores the strength of mateship‚ the importance of image and the dangers of peer pressure‚ parties and underage drinking. The second play is the popular "Blurred" by the playwright Stephen
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American Studies Mrs. Weissmann The Killer Angels Literature Circles Name _______________ The following are the literature circle roles to be used over the course of the novel. You will be assigned one role for each part of the novel (you will‚ therefore‚ complete 4 roles). You are responsible to have your literature circle role prepared for each literature circle meeting as outlined on the unit syllabus. Each meeting will be graded‚ and all 4 meetings will be added together as a
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ by Jared Diamond‚ attempts to explain why history progressed differently for people from various geographical regions. Diamond introduces his book by pointing out that history followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among people themselves. Through his convincing explanation for how civilizations were created and evolved throughout the course of history
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on mount Olympus‚ there was an argument between two very important god and goddess. Apollo‚ the god of music‚ poetry‚ healing‚ and the sun‚ was arguing with Artemis‚ the goddess of the hunt‚ archery‚ and the moon. They were both siblings of Zeus and Leto. All of the Olympian gods were gathered around them listening. They were arguing about which is more important‚ the moon or the sun. They decided that they had to hold a competition to see which the superior one was. The winner would be declared at
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Jared Diamond‚ the author of Guns‚ Germs and Steel provides an overview of life before we knew it. Many people including Yali‚ a local politician in New Guinea‚ had the idea that cultural differences were based on the color of people‚ instead of the environment they were from. Jared Diamond didn’t feel that way and he tried to prove that history was made based on the environment that you lived in. Diamond believed that the differences were divided between the Modern Stone Age versus the Industrial
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with a new spin to it. The consequence is when the cultures clash and only one’s traditions and religions will survive. The genocide and destruction of one cultures reduces the diversity of an area. Within the culture on the islands of Polynesia‚ Jared Diamond explores the interactions and lives between two groups. The first group of the Chatham Islands were called the Maori people. They were far more dominant than the second group‚ the Moriori people. The Maori people were able to become the more
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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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