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    What Makes Countries Rich or Poor? by Jared Diamond |The New York Review of Books. I find the topic extremely fascinating: why do some nations prosper‚ and improve the life of their citizens‚ and others fail? Why do some nations have better education‚ while others are still in endless search of their identity? Some people in modern political economy say that countries succeed because of their natural resources and their control over others. This article brings us to take a closer look

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    Complex societies Jared Diamond In his capturing magazine article‚ The Worst Mistake in the history of the Human Race‚ Jared Diamond disproves the overall of the progressive view that point out that the human race is exceptionally much way wealthier since several communities adopted agricultural activities around 10‚000yrs ago (Diamond‚ 1987). He believes that we owe dramatic changes in our life to science. Such as Astronomy‚ biology‚ archaeology and agriculture. Most importantly‚ he depicts how

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    Jared Diamond is a scientist and is the author of “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.” The article isn’t the clearest on what could be better. Would the human race have been better off living with the need to hunt and gather for their life‚ or would agriculture be the key to the survival for the human race? Jared believes moving back to a hunting/gathering lifestyle would be beneficiary to us. I believe Jared Diamond makes some great points‚ but that agriculture was a necessity for

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    “The Worst Mistake in the History of human race” by Jared Diamond – Notes Agriculture isn’t a progress in history as it has created more problems for humanity compared to what it has served. Historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence‚ motivations‚ and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event.  Neo-Luddite is used to describe those who are considered to be anti-technology‚ or those who dislike or have a difficult time understanding and using modern

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    Jared Diamond. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” Jared Diamond writes about the consequences of agriculture on the human race. He suggests that the earliest farming societies did not have an easier more productive lifestyle than hunter-gatherer societies‚ contrary to popular belief. For example‚ the Kalahari Bushmen spend a mere average of 12 to 19 hours a week to getting food‚ and on average sleep a lot‚ work less hard‚ and have more free time than people in hunter-gatherer societies

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    but the things that kept these people going in the midst of the good times and the bad times were the aspect of a better future. The book‚ Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed‚ by Jared Diamond focuses on how the practices that humans are employing in today’s society will affect the future. Diamond analyzes if there will be a future in a world where all we are doing is breaking the earth down. It can be recognized that the communities of the world will have to start recognizing problems

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    Jared Diamond makes a compelling case for why “the adoption of agriculture was in many ways a catastrophe” in his 1987 Discover Magazine article “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race‚” however I am not convinced. An Agricultural Revolution is a “significant change in agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries‚ inventions‚ or new technologies that change production” (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2015) and the development of agriculture has been a fundamental part of

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    Arrow and the Song

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    Arrow and the Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem‚ “Arrow and the Song” is a lyric poem giving an inspiration to a relationship or a friendship between two or more people. It includes analogies‚ symbolism‚ vivid imagery‚ and repetition to help convey what he is trying to reach to the audience The poem is made up of three stanzas of quatrain‚ and it’s an end rhyme consists of aabb ccdd throughout the poem. Its lyrical type of poem‚ expresses his emotions about the arrow and the song

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    Arrow And The Flash

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    Many people want to be a hero to someone or themselves‚ either by using the law rightfully or going above the law. Through character and plot‚ the television superhero shows Arrow and the Flash influence adolescent viewers and their behavior in society. These television (TV) shows can be positive and negative influences on a young viewer’s life who want to become their own superhero. The alternative universe displays influences of our own reality as the women are treated differently and men of color

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    Jared Loughner

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    Jared Loughner. On January 8‚ 2011 U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot along with eighteen other people at a public meeting in a grocery store parking lot near Tucson Arizona. Six of the eighteen people shot that day died. This included Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll and nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. Gifford was Holding a meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" in a Safeway store when she was shot through the head at point blank range. 22-year old Jared Loughner

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