Jared Diamond’s article‚ “The Arrow of Disease” explains how the Native Americans living in the New World became victimized by germs from the Europeans.The main argument or question that is‚ is why didn’t the New World Indian’s germs pass on to the Spanish invaders as they crossed the Atlantic back to Europe. In this article‚ Jared supports the claim that the Europeans have been already immune to the viruses and diseases. He takes it all the way back when Europeans had the plague outbreak‚ measles
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Failure of Prohibition The 1920s was a time of major surprising social changes in the United States. The social changes during this period were reflected in the laws and regulations that were brought into play during this time. Albert Einstein said‚ ¨Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.¨ This quote makes me believe that Prohibition did not succeed and it was a failure to society. I believe this because the ¨noble
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submit a review the “End-to-End Argument in System Design” paper [1]. In our your submission you need to briefly summarize the main idea(s) and contribution(s) of the paper. In particular‚ your review needs to address the following: 1. Discuss the three most important things the paper advocates‚ 2. Discuss the most glaring problem(s) with the paper‚ and 3. The paper was written with the design of the original Internet in mind. Discuss what impact‚ if any‚ may the argument presented in this paper
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“How could a society that was once so mighty end up collapsing? What were the facts of its individual citizens?”(Diamond 3). I think it is very interesting to see the correlations Diamond presents in his five factors‚ and real societies destruction. While learning the correlation between the factors and a scenario‚ I learned a lot from the animated movie‚ The Lorax
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GUNS‚ GERMS‚ AND MCNEILL Noah Neerdaels Mr. Kelly AP World History November 24‚ 2014 Jared Diamond’s bestseller Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel has gathered lots of praise and popularity‚ but also has garnered lots of controversy and speculation. Diamond writes of how Europe came to dominate the world in expansion and conquest‚ while attempting to find the ultimate factors that caused their success. There are many historians who dispute his theory on
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The Easter Offensive By 1972‚ President Nixon had been in office for four years‚ dealing with the inherited quagmire that was Vietnam. With both sides tiring of the seemingly endless cycle of successes and setbacks‚ the North Vietnamese military decided to mount an invasion into South Vietnam commencing on Good Friday of that year. This was done in order to better their position at the Paris Peace accords‚ which would be closing soon‚ by gaining control of more land and crippling Nixon’s political
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Why do societies collapse? An Analysis of the Rapa Nui civilization in the Easter Islands "I have often asked myself‚ ’What did the Eastern Islander cut down the last palm tree say while he was going it?’ "(Diamond‚ p.114). The collapse of societies are a very deep and complicated problem that have been taking place in so many political‚ environmental and archeological investigations during the last few decades and showed so many results and theories about their original cause of collapse.
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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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Diseases Diamond makes various arguments about diseases. The argument he makes that I will mention is that deadly disease came from Europe and spread to other places killing people that were unfamiliar with the disease. This is a good point that he makes‚ and the example he uses helps support his argument. His example is that smallpox came to the Aztecs from Europe. This disease killed a lot of Aztecs because they were unfamiliar with the disease‚ and because of that they couldn’t cure themselves
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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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