Guns, Germs, and Steel Response

Significance of Domesticated Animals

Domesticated animals were are a big part of Human life thought time for different reasons. They used to be status power, food, clothes and brute strength. Now they are more pets. They are now more for fun than food. This is because agriculture has developed more.

Metal Vs. Stone

Most civilizations had stone so why was metal that important. It was diffidently in the long run for making complicated machines. But for simple ones. No! Take simple machines: wedge can be made by rock, inclined plain can be made by rock, and lever can be made by rock. Weapons and houses can be made by rock. Most simple things can be made by rocks.

Goats- Why are They Important

                                                     The Importance of Goats
      Goats were just as important as sheep and cows were. They helped give milk to the Europeans as well as giving other things like wool and meat. They are still used in the same way today as they were then. New Guineans were really unfortunate not to get goats. With the animals and plants, that becomes an extremely amazing offer. Goats were very useful to humans and still are because they allow themselves to be with humans and, of course, they milk. They do all the things required for the standards that they have to meet to be domestic animals.
      "I will be getting goats in June sometime so I really had a connection with this. I think it is important to talk about the agricultural point of view. Anything about farm animals I find interesting, and it's not just goats."
              -Me
                                                            

This Weeks Reading and Writing

Good start on your utopia posts last week!

1. I want you to edit your Utopia posts with this in mind.  

• Revise your posts for spelling and grammar errors.  Do you see any red lines under words?  Fix these! When you read your posts, do they SOUND well?

• Re-read the reaction assignments and take our discussion points from today to craft a better post. 

     2. Watch this weeks video.  Write a reaction post to the video using the assignment and the
         following prompt: "according to Jared Diamond, why is there inequality in the world?"



1. Reminder for Utopia Posts:


Reaction Part 1

 Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret its significance. You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).

For Example you may have found the following interesting:

"female-only worlds have been imagined to come about by the action of disease that wipes out men"-Wikipedia/Utopia  

Use the sections in orange above as a guide for writing about this quote.

Reaction Part 2 

The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source.

Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images. 

  2. This weeks media ("video") Why is the world the way it
      is?

 Watch:
 Guns Germs and Steel

 

Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret its significance. You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).

Use the sections in orange above as a guide for writing.

Reaction Part 2 

The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source.

Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images.

Utopia

Utopia

Machinery can cause a utopia or a dystopia. We chose which way to go with machinery. We decide if robots take us over. If we kept robots stupid they wouldn't do much. If we made them smart they might take us over. In order to have a Utopia in science and Tech. we need to find a middle ground for robots. The books mentioned 1984 and Brave New World are definitively science distopias. I know this cause my brother read 1984 and is reading Brave New World. And yes I did the Wiki reading. Here is the Wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

The definition of Utopia is an ideal place or state. My Utopia is a world without humans. If there no humans most animals would be happier (besides domestic animals).  Not humans just disappeared leaving our buildings, houses, parks, radiation, etc. I mean humans never existed. It seams that we upset the cycle, killing animals for things beside food and destroying the earth. There would be hole in the atmosphere. A new race might evolve similar to humans but they might make smarter choices than we did.  

Books

Books

Airborn

Airborn out with Matt rescuing a man from a balloon and the man he rescued saying something about flying creatures then he died. 1 year later Matt is on the Aurora. He meets a girl named Kate who is looking for the flying creatures that her grandfather saw. Her grand father was the man who Matt rescued from the balloon. Then the pirates attacked led by Szpirglas. They took the valuables of the Aurora. They leave but the propellers cut the Aurora side and fall toward the sea but they land on a island. They repair the Aurora but a gust of wind blows the hydrogen out of the blimp. meanwhile Matt and Kate found bones of the creature Kate’s grandfather saw. They name it a cloud cat. After they get the bones the storm that got the Aurora hits them they shelter in a cave that smelled like mangoes. When the storm dies they go back. The captain says they don’t enough hydrogen to fly. Matt remembers the cave that smell like  mangoes and tells them he thinks it has hydrogen. There is a hydrogen vent in the back of the cave. They refill the Aurora. But Kate is missing Bruce and Matt go to look for her. They find her but a cloud cat attacks them and Bruce gets hurt. Then it chases Matt and Kate away. They run into pirates and they take them to the village were Szpirglas lives they escape from there meet up with Bruce but the blimp was captured by pirates.So Matt, Bruce and Kate have to take back the blimp which involves traveling in a dumb waiter, putting sleeping powder in the pirates stew, and climbing the rigging with bare feet.

Avalon Series

Everyone lives in a tree called Avalon. Avalon connects the spirit world with earth. Throughout the series they to stop Rhita Gawr. Rhita Gawr is trying to take over Avalon and then take over Earth. Tamwyn, Elli , and Scree must stop him.

Utopia

A Utopian World For A Woman
By Elizabeth Sugg

A Utopian world for every female would be not having to worry about how they look and still feel beautiful inside. Women world-wide could have more privileges, go through less stress, and have every right to do something even if they could not do it in our world today. Also, only a some of the problems can be cured by yoga, but still there is nothing that can cure all the stress a woman has to go through. If they could dress they way they want, eat what the want to, and do what they want, our world would be perfect. Just 60-70 years ago a girl had to go through a lot to find a college that excepted girls. If a woman had less stress, and if I were in charge of Earth, I would most definitely change it's name to "Utopia".

What's Behind the Burger

What's Behind the Burger

by Elizabeth Sugg

3/14/12

Burgers may look delicious on ads for McDonald's, Burger King, or else where, you may think they taste good, too. But everything to get to that burger isn't the most delicious process. First, you have to toucher the cows by putting a whole plethora in a small area all crammed together. Then, you have to chop up all the meat inhumanely. Next, you have to get all the grains that are sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Then, process the grain until it's as white as fresh snow. Then, you have to process the pickles, and cheese, and mustard, and ketchup, and everything else you like on your burger. Next, you make patty shapes with the meat, buns with the grain, put the condiments in their packages, and ship it to all over the world. Finally, when you get it in the greasy paper and you open it, and it looks like it just got stepped on. Do you really want to be eating that? 

   

Utopia

                                                        Utopia
     A perfect Utopian society in my eyes would be an island far from money problems or poverty. Everyone would have a job that they wanted and no one would be unpretty or not perfect. The political level would be way less than what is is now and people would find there was a more secure government that we could rely more than what we do in the U.S. The people on the island of Utopia would have it good. There would be problems, but they wouldn't be the same.
                                                        Feminism
     In a Utopian world women would not worry about how they look going out or even staying at home. They would feel good about themselves no matter how beautiful the person sitting next to them is. They could get themselves all dressed up but no one would feel less pretty than someone else. (That has nothing to do with feminism, but I felt that's important in a Utopian society.)
     On a different note, it's sad that women aren't exactly treated the same. For example, it's usually girls that are abused the most. It happens to men but, I've heard more case where the women it abused. I don't know why that is but, it is just the same. I've read a book named Dream of Night that a single mother gets abused by her boyfriend. The little girl, no more than 11 or 12 gets wound into it and Slade the mother's boyfriend abuses the little girl. Shiloh (the little girl) ends up getting cigarette marks in her shoulder not once but six times! I know that's fiction but, things like that really do happen every day.
      Another thing is that there has never been a women president. I think that's our fault because we don't apply ourselves as much as we should but, still I think some of the blame should go to certain men that are just to narrow-minded to except that we are just as good as them.
         In the article on Wikipedia it named a lot of authors like Doris Lessing and I couldn't really follow that but, please note that I did look at it and I really did try to follow it the best I could. Thank you!

Civilization - Elephants

                                                    Elephants 
      Elephants are a topic that caught my eye. I think it would be interesting to try and breed elephants. I bet we could do it, only, like John Green said, they would take forever to breed because they take 22 months to have one baby. I find that quite interesting, actually. Anyway, I think that elephants would be useful to the human race because they are very intellectual and big. Thank you!
      " Why you gotta be pregnant for 22 months?!" Quote made John Green.

Weekly Our World Research

Read the Wikipedia entry for Utopia

Write a reaction on Utopias

Blog Post Reaction Part 1 

 Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret (V) its significance (V). You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).  

Reaction Part 2 

The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source. Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images.

All Hail the Slackers

No!

We say no to:
ghost posts
and slackaroni for dinner
and yes to weekly work becoming of the GATE Ourworlders!

What is a Civilization

Elephant Secret Societies

The secret elephant societies is bit far fetched but if that did happen it could link to robots. This is because robots might try to take over the world. He talked about elephants doing that. the elephants had limitations by having only one kid after 22 months of pregnancy. Robots would also have limitations the don't reproduce so there population would slowly decline.

The Great Bath 

The great bath was a huge bath that was most used for spiritual cleansing. The people of that city's lives were likely centered around it. what are lives today and what are lives in the future will be centered around is the internet. this is getting smaller just like bathes get smaller.

New York Times Paper

New York Times

Industry experts have said that electronic health records could generate huge savings — as much as $80 billion a year, according to a RAND Corporation estimate. The promise of cost savings has been a major justification for billions of dollars in federal spending to encourage doctors to embrace digital health record.

Current Events in the New York Times- Preschoolers with Cavities

                               Preschoolers with Too Many Cavities: The Lecture!

      You want to know what I think of dental hygene? I think too many people don't take it seriously and they have to get root canals  at age 2 like Devon Koester a preschooler that young who has a mouthful of cavities. It's amazing that someone at age 2 is in a 37 year old position. The number of preschoolers that require expensive, not to mention extensive, is way out of hand. " We have had a huge amount of preschoolers in the surgical room" said Dr. Jonathan Shenkin. " We have been treating young kids sooner and more aggressively earlier.
             Thank you!

Our World: Fashion

Lifestyle:

Fashion

In 2040, we will have a total new look on things. Especially fashion. We will consider giving more  clothing to charity and making our own clothes. We'll still have clothing stores, but they will go out of  business in approximately 10 years. To make our clothes we will have to build more fabric and sewing machine stores. That will take less money than buying our clothes. We will be able to make a wedding dress for $150.00 instead of buying one for $1050.00 or so. Like I said before, we will have a total new look on fashion in 2040.      

Current Event

Current Event

The Mac book Air invention is a sign that cumputers are getting thinner and smaller. This will continue.  We've had ipads and iphones these smalll computers  still store the same memory as a huge computer memory. Expect those things to get smaller still. Graphine can be one atom thick and still transmit energy. That will allow things to get thinner.

Our World in 2040- Community & Lifestyles

                           Community & Lifestyles: Gas and Fashion


           Personal- Happiness/Career : I would be happy because I would know the world was a better place (hopefully) because of something I did or said or even stood up for. I would hope I had kids that I could read to and do all the things that my parents did for me. That would make me truly happy. Even just knowing that I made a little difference by making them know what's right and what's wrong. Because in the end it's not about how many people admire you or how many people post that they like your hair , it's knowing that what you did was right and you're proud of it.So many people now are really concerned about having the perfect hair or wanting the newest clothes, things along that line. That's all fine and there's nothing wrong with it only so many people are letting it take over their lives because they think for some reason that if they don't they won't make friends or just won't be good enough for anyone else. I know how they feel because I was like that once upon a time. A lot of people are insecure about that and they shouldn't be because everyone's perfect just because everyone says that nobody is. My career would be something that makes me happy like singing or fashion. If I enjoy it and it's good for me I'll try to get it as my job. Chase my dreams, you know?
   Communtity- There will be schools that don't have budget cuts and gas pumps that have the gas price moving slower than the actual gas that's being pumped. People will help other people that just need to get something out of the car or need help getting across the road. The cost of penny candy won't be a dollar and people who had to drop out of school or have medical problems that are poor will be able to breathe freely.
   Lifestyles- People will drive around in hovercrafts and eat all the things that we do now like tacos, pizza, and ice cream. Fashion will be a big thing and everyone would have a signature look. For example,  someone might wear some type of food everyday or someone else would always wear blue. Planes would be a thing of the past. Everyone will have their own personal jet. Schools would have their own movie day every 2 weeks. Nobody would have the same name so everyone would be unique in distincint ways.

             Thank you!!!

What is a Civilization?

This week we will continue our Mini Society project with a study of civilizations. Your posts this week should be reactions (see suggestions below) to the following videos:

Crash Course: World History (The Agricultural Revolution)
Crash Course: World History ( The Indus Valley)
Crash Course World History (Mesopotamia)

How to write a reaction 

Blog Post Reaction Part 1 

 Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret (V) its significance (V). You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).  

Reaction Part 2 

The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source. Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images.

Personal/Technogoly

Personal     Technology 

Technology

In communications humans will probably get rid of snail mail and Email will become the primary source of communication. Telephones will most likely not need number you just say the name of the person you want to call, and it will call them. home phones will go out of business since cell phones are more portable. In inventions artificial intelligence and robotics will grow there will be Robots doing chores that are difficult for humans. There most likely be a change in making energy. Oil will be gone so people will find knew ways to create energy. Things like cameras, cumpputers, and cell phones will get smaller. In moral issues People will become lazier because the say “Let the robot do it”. This will be a problem because people won’t have to do things and they won’t get exercise. Cloning and genetic engineering  will also become a problem. People will get the gender kid they want which in a lot of places will be a boy. This will make the human race dwindle.

Personal

Happiness will be different because some happiness will be virtual. For fun people are not climbing mountains with all the cold there going to climbing mountains virtually. Careers will be different there won’t be as many restaurant jobs because there won’t be many restaurants. This is because people will eat a pill and be fine. hard labor will stop because robots will take over those jobs.