Blog for Jan 29th

             Today in our fourth Western Civilization class we continued to watch "Guns, Germs, and steel". We unveiled more discussions with all the students in the class about different topics relating to the video. Jack Diamond mainly talked about geographic luck and all the levels you can have with the luck. Papa New guinea if, unfortunately, a great example of the not so lucky region. Through the video, we talked about how you can domesticate plants the same way you can domesticate animals.  We also learned very cool/ interesting facts that go along with geographic luck. There are 14 animals that are omnivors and weigh over 100 pounds. These can be very beneficial when it comes to getting work done. Unfortunately for New guinea, don’t have much materialistic animals for help. The 14 animals are  

-Pigs 

-Cows 

-Goats 

-Sheep 

-Caves 

-Horses 

-Donkeys 

-Bactrian camel 

-Arabian camel 

-Yaks 

-Reindeer 

-Water Buffalo 

-Llamas 

-Bali cattle 

-Mithais 

None are native to New guinea at all. 

Jan 25 Blog

         Today in my second Western Civilization class, we continued the video "Guns, Germs and Steel". I find this documentary very fasinating and intriguing. Mostly due to the different societies we are brought up in and how we see how in depth Jared Diamond gets into their life style. While we watched the video we had to take notes. -In Papa New Guinea Sago, their main source of food, was easier for them to get then hunting. In a tree in Papa New Guinea, trees carry 70ib of sago(One Tree). The only thing that isn’t super unfortunate is that sago is low on protein. It can’t be stored. In New Guinea, they have a thing called “gathering”. This is mainly done by women. In the middle East barley and wheat grows natureley. Then a new archeologist shows up named Ian Kuijt. In Draa they found the oldest village found. In america natural things that are grown here- corn, squash and beans. Africa- millet, sorghum, and yams. The reason we are doing better is all because geographic luck.

Gabe's Blog for January 24

            Today in Western Civilization we generally watched a documentary called "Guns, Germs, and Steel". This documentary was hosted by Jared Diamond. It was based on the "Haves and the have nots". This documentary was documented in Papua New Guinea and how they are living in such different modern lives then us Americans are. Jared or "Diamond" is a biologist, physiologist, bird watcher, and a college professor at UCLA.  The background of people living in New guinea is about 40,000 years. Yali, a man living in New guinea, said this phrase that stuck with diamond for as far in the video as we got. "You white men have so much cargo, while we New Guineans have so little." This means that  people who live in modern day society complain about such little things with their prized possesions while New Guineans dont even have the opportunity to understand what a Iphone is. New guineans also explained how they thought the british had power because of race. This was actually upsetting to see two white men make other human beings carry them, because they thought they were more valueable.

January 22 2019

Yesterday in class I was unable to be present. This is due to an orthadontist appointment.