Summary Of The Book 'Walk The Worlds'

The beginning of chapter 2 is titled “ When worlds Collide” because in that chapter it talks about the native americans and Europeans meeting each other in the new world. There were 3 main European countries that interacted with the natives, the Spanish, English, and French. Each had their reasons for making the long treck to the new World.

The Indians and Europeans are divided but together in terms of the appeal Indian cultures had on some Europeans. In New Worlds for All, the author Colin Calloway goes into detail about how some of the Europeans had interest in Indian cultures because of the woman and networking they had over there. Calloway says about the European traders in Indian territory that “Traders in Indian country enjoyed casual sexual encounters with Indian woman, but they also cultivated relationships that tied them into Indian kinship networks and gave them a place in the community” (Calloway. 154). In other words, the Europeans that had interest in living in Indian territory were there for sexual pleasures from the Indian woman as well as having a better life

Back in the 1900s an Australian Author Jackie French wrote a book Walking The Boundaries. French introduces us to Martin the main character and how his life changes as he walks the boundaries of his grandfather Teds farm. Martin has travelled to his great-grandfather Teds farm to walk the boundaries so he can inherit the farm. Martins trip around the boundaries does not go to plan and he leans some history about the farms property which changes his perspective of the farm. On the way around the Boundaries he meets meg from a century ago and wallumudulla from thousands of years in the past. As they keep walking they show Martin the bush through their eyes and Martin begins to see not only the physical side of the journey but the spiritual side as well.

In Neil Postman’s “The World Weavers/ World Makers”, Postman speaks about definitions being a powerful tool. He argues that definitions are not concrete, but instead are “instruments” to be used to serve a specific purpose that the author wants. Martin Luther King Jr displays this use of definitions as a tool in order to answer criticism and explain why he is heading the assault against segregation. He does this by providing his own definition of the word law. King uses definition as a way to promotes democracy and the ideals behind it.

Jared Diamond is a world renowned scientist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and currently a geography professor at UCLA. Of his six books published, we will be looking at the last chapter of his fourth book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. In this book Diamond utilizes the comparative method to find resemblance in past societal collapses with our current society. In the chapter entitled, "The World as Polder: What Does it Mean to Us Today," Diamond points out that there are indeed many parallels between past and present societies and that our modern day society is currently on a path of self destruction , through examples such as globalization and the interdependency of each country.

Matt Richtel’s non-fiction novel, A Deadly Wandering is an insightful story about a young man named Reggie Shaw who lost got distracted behind the wheel for a little too long and took the lives of two well-known rocket scientists. The story highlights key aspects of everyone who was brought into the accident including friends, families, lawyers, even the people who were just driving behind Reggie that despairing day. Not only does Ritchel write about the accident but he also writes about the research showing how our attention works. Little does our population know on how in depth our attention works and how valuable or maybe even overpowering it can be. With today’s technology we are vastly discovering more on how the brain truly works and how it can affect us in a day-to-day lifestyle.

For the Life of the World authored by Fr. Alexander Schmemann an Orthodox priest was originally intended as a “study guide” in the 1970’s for students preparing themselves for Missionary work, giving them a “world view”, helping to speak about Christian view points along with an approach to how they coalesce through the eyes of the Orthodox Church. A key theme Fr. Schmemann discussed is Secularism, which he believes developed from our progressive alienation of the Christian culture. Additionally, he presents his interpretation of the transforming biblical themes of creation, fall, and redemption through a sacramental understanding. Fr. Schmemann’s experiences within the Orthodox Church liturgy reveal unity in the meanings of these three themes. It is through these understandings he believes can effectively offset the disastrous effects of secularism while revitalizing the sacramental understanding of the world.

In a book called The War of the Worlds what would you expect the major conflict to be, and the climax. Actually chances are, you’re wrong. The story actually has three running conflicts, each from their own point of view one of which you have guessed but that’s not even the main one.

We humans who live on the surface of the earth are all Overlanders! This is what I found out when I read Gregor the Overlander, a book written by Suzanne Collins. It is the first book in the Underland Chronicles series. This book was 311 pages of Underland adventure.

Geologically ‘almost’ centered in North America, Mandan Indians occupied “the heart of the world”, present day North Dakota, where the Heart River joins the Missouri River. They were once cradled prosperous human settlements, but Mandan Indians are only mentioned in History when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark spent the winter with them in 1804-1805**. Elizabeth A. Fenn took a trip to North Dakota in 2002, and she had an urge to write about Mandan Indians. For twelve years, she spent time to gather and learn every aspect that can bring Mandan Indians. She learned archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science, anything that could bring Mandan past. Winner

The book Walk the Worlds rim is by Betty Baker. There were 600 men from Cuba on a Spanish ship that landed in Florida to explore the new land. Poisonous snakes and insects along with hostile Indians killed all but four men. The remaining Spanish slaughtered their horses to make crude boats to sail to Mexico that is now occupied by the Spanish. They picked up an Indian boy named Chakoh to take along with them to Mexico.

This decision of the governor was the turning point of the conquest, yet Cabeza de Vaca does not know it yet. Cabeza de Vaca’s suggestion to aboard the ships and look for better land elsewhere probably would have been a valid proposition looking back on it. The Spaniards would have avoided the rough estate and swampy grounds that caused them experience physical weaknesses that they were not accustomed to. Cabeza de Vaca, although he guessed it before they went inland, quickly realized that after a few days of traveling across the uneasy country this was going to be a struggle. Guided by Indians, the Spaniards moved north in search of a settlement called Apachale, where they were told they find all of the gold and abundance of food they needed. After a difficult journey through a thick forest, they arrived at Apalache, “where we wished to be and where we had been assured so much food and gold would be had made us forget many of our hardships and our weariness” (de Vaca, 16).

The most important chapter in Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann is the one that brings different classes of people together. In the chapter titled “Those Who Saw Him Hushed,” New Yorkers of all walks of life, all races, all genders stop to watch the figure of a man balanced outside a window of the World Trade Center. “Doctors. Cleaners. Prep chefs. [... ]Wall Street,” stood together to crane their necks towards the sky (McCann 4). People who would not interact on a usual day are standing and talking to one another. Because they happened to be in a specific spot at a certain time, they met and were friends with perfect strangers. The social classes had no effect on the tightrope walker and why he was walking between the twin towers.

Overall I found this chapter titled “Entering the World” by Gattegno very interesting due to his belief of all children have learning powers. There were many points within this chapter that I agreed with Gattegno, such as when he states “The unsophisticated belief that all this is acquired by instinct is certainly out of place in understanding the newly born baby” (pg. 32). I personally do not believe that everything babies do once they are born is through instinct. I believe that babies have to learn to adapt and adjust to their new surrounds in means to survive. There are habits that we have as adults that were learned and practiced while we were babies and even later throughout the years. Simple things such as breathing, digesting food,

After reading Chapter 1 of Shape Your World, I realized a couple of things that I didn't care to think mattered. Such as, when you fail to participate in a political act, you're basically throwing away your opinion. I always thought, "My opinion is not going to matter, I'm not educated enough to contribute to what's going on in our world and what decisions we are making." Not everyone is going to have the same beliefs as I do; so on the behalf of that, I need to become more educated and not let other people decide what I believe in. We could ignore everything about politics as much as we want, but why wouldn't we want to fight for something we believe in while other people are against it?