Thursday, February 3, 2011

today in class we finished on the Jared diamonds movie Guns, Germs, an Steel. You threatened me with a detention for walking out of the classroom, thank for not giving me a detention.Here are my notes on the movie.

Burning Limestone for a few days in a will make plaster, this eventually lead to the making of steel.Papa New Guinea never had good farming, or domestic animals. Thhwe fertile cresent was a very rich soil area, and when it was overfarmed the people living there stayed on the 38 degree of latitude and whent east or west to Egypt and Greece. Once farmers and animals hit Egypt the city took of and started making the pyramids.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

we were back in school today after the ice storm. we continued watching guns, germs, and steel we finished in class were Jared diamond was saying that the Middle East had the best plants and animals during the stone ages, and they were some of the first farmers. New Guinea had been unfortunate and had poor plants and non domestic animals. There are 14 domestic animals Pigs, Goats, Sheep, Horses, Water buffalo, Camels, Donkeys, Llamas, Reindeer, Yaks, Mithan, Cows, Other camels, and Bali cattle. there were no animals to pull plows said Jared diamond, or to eat in New Guinea. Thats why they didn't develop as other countries did.

Monday, January 31, 2011

today in class we got new seats and made sure everyone had subscribed to your blog. i sit next to Alena, Zach, and Lauren. We continued watching Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Here are notes on the movie:
Jared Diamond a man looking for why other countries developed faster than others. He had to go back to pre-history, when humans where thriving in the Middle-East. Everyone was the same all hunter gathers. They were nomadic.They were travelers. In New Guinea they still hunt and gather like the ones 40,000 years ago. the woman gather ago a pulp from a tree. The gathering is harder but doesn't get a lot of calories to survive, so New Guineans must hunt to survive. Jared Diamond is searching for this question and found a small village 11,000 years old. The people had a granary that protected plants and food to protect from insects and bacteria. The grains they stored were wheat and barley. The stone age people int the Middle East were farmers.When they started farming they were taking over nature(Domestication). People in China started farming rice, and in the Us people were farming squash. In Africa they started growing Yams. New Guineans were one of the first farmers.The plants and fruits in New Guinea don't have protein, hard to make, and don't last long.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

today we missed class again because of snow but this time because of an overnight storm that gave us 9 inches. so we have 13 inches of snow in my yard

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

we missed classes because of an unexpected snow storm. we got 4 inches of snow at my house.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond is a self taught biologist, who is a professor at UCLA. He specials in human physiology, and studying birds.He went to New Guinea to study bird life, and while there a local man asked "why do you have so much cargo, when us New Gunians have few." Professor Diamond was shocked by this question, so he decided to study how countries have civilized. After 30 he is still searching for that answer. He was puzzled that New Guinea has had life for over 40000 years and Europe has only had 500, and Europe is way more advanced. New Guinea is still in a stone age.