Prologue Jared Morgan sat on the edge of his bed sharpening his knife. Only sounds of the wind were heard from outside of his door. His blond hair hung in front of his worried green eyes as he glanced every so often out his window. Suddenly‚ a thud broke the silence. He got up‚ sheathed his knife in the dark brown scabbard in his belt and walked over to the window. The woman that was once outside enjoying the night sky was not. He looked down and saw her body lying on the ground‚ her throat slit
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case of Jared Lee Loughner he was born in Tuscon‚ Arizona on September 10‚ 1988. He shot and killed 6 bystanders on January 8‚ 2011‚ including the 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green and wounded 14 people including the attempted murder of the U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords‚ who was shot in the head. On January 7‚ 2011‚ the night before the shooting‚ at 2:05 a.m. He left a message on a friend’s voicemail after purchasing a 9mm Glock Pistol. The voicemail said‚ "Hey man‚ it’s Jared. Me and
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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The reading that I choose to do my reading note is Jared Diamond’s article‚ “ The World As a Polder.” I find this reading particularly significant because the content of the reading is related to our daily life. This reading is about environmental problems that human is facing in present society. The environmental problems that we are facing included natural habitats destruction‚ air and water pollution‚ overpopulation‚ species extinction‚ soil degradation‚ energy shortage‚ and chemical pollution
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It is interesting to note that many advanced societies and civilization fell. Why is that? Jared Diamond believes that environmental degradation is the reason for past flourishing societies to collapse. He defines the term collapse as: “A drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity‚ over a considerable area‚ for an extended time” (p. 348). In essence‚ Diamond believes that the trouble we are having in society now‚ leads back to environmental deterioration
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Jared Dick 4-22-13 DE World Lit. Tartuffe Jean-Baptist Poqeulin (known by his stage name‚ Moliere) was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. He devoted his entire life to the creation stage of illusion‚ as playwright and as a an actor. At about the age of twenty-five‚ he joined a company of traveling players established by the bejart family; with them he toured the provinces for about twelve years. In 1658‚ the company
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In Jared Diamonds book Collapse‚ he talks about different issues that can hurt the environment. These issues varied from environmental damage‚ climate change‚ hostile neighbors‚ and friendly trade partners‚ but most importantly is how society responds to the problem. Today a major problem that our society is facing is Electronic Waste. With technology becoming more advanced each year the demand for new products is increasing. Though this might seem good for the people‚ it actually is hurting are
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Introduction Inequality is the subject of an ever-increasing amount of literature in the contemporary world‚ often focused on the disparity in wealth between nations. Jared Diamond‚ in his book Guns‚ Germs and Steel (GGS)‚ has forwarded an explanation of how such inequality arose. This essay will assess his analysis. The contention here is that while he has produced a persuasive account of the disparities of the world‚ his evaluation is inadequate. The importance of bio-geography in shaping the
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Before learning a little more about the destruction of past societies‚ I felt that I had a good grasp of the history of not only our country‚ but general knowledge about the most important events that took place in the shaping of our society. Growing up as a female in the United States‚ I find myself coming to the devastating conclusion that the information presented to me about the world has some sort of bias because we are so close minded of the devastation that has happened‚ or still happening
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Evaluation of Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel In the beginning of his book‚ Jared Diamond explains a question that the New Guinea politician Yali‚ proposed to him. The question at large is “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 explains that Yali’s question is (putting it mildly) asking how the whites (Europeans) developed more technology. Throughout Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Diamond
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