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Ap World History Research Paper

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To begin, I would like to tell you a little bit about myself. I live at home with my twin brother, Peter, and two parents, both of whom are very supportive and intelligent. My mom works at our family winery, Ovid Napa Valley, and started a community arts center, and my dad is a programmer, and in the process of starting a new company focusing on quantitative analysis. I love to play soccer, read, travel, and to be outdoors. I am also immensely interested in science and medicine. As I am very involved in soccer, during the fall my schedule will be more tight, so I will have to work around that. One theme of AP World History very relevant here today is the interaction between humans and the environment. Our community relies on agriculture, winemaking to be specific. In fact, our very survival as a community depends on a berry the size of a marble. The economy is very dependent on environmental factors, all of which affect the …show more content…

I have always been very opposed to nationalism, because I do not think that our country should be our first allegiance. Our first allegiances should be to our families, to our environment, and to our fellow human being. Nationalism is divisive, not unifying. It only leads to competition, competition to conflict, conflict to war, and war to destruction. Instead, we should be striving to create peaceful alliances and focus on what we can do together to protect the earth and its peoples. Countries rely on each other, and that is why we need to focus on our similarities rather than on our differences.This is where acceptance becomes so crucial. If we strive for tolerance, we will achieve indifference. However, if we strive for acceptance, we just might achieve peace. I believe that learning to accept other cultures is the first step towards world peace. When we begin to value power and wealth over peace and morality, chaos is bound to

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