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I first read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating, but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea, as opposed to, say, an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes"

Quolls are carnivorous marsupials, but their pouches are different from other marsupials. Instead of pouches like the kangaroo, they have a fold of skin on their bellies. They have long pink noses and white spots on their brown fur. They are nocturnal, but like to lay in the sun. Quolls eat a mix of seed, fruit, insects, frogs, birds and small mammals. When their babies are born, they are only the size of a grain of rice. Marsupial babies attach themselves to a nipple when they are born. Quolls have

So, what are some of the signs of tech bubbles? Why are certain experts convinced the current technology industry is heading towards a bubble? There are certain situations that could signal the industry is inside a bubble. IPO market saturation First, IPO market saturation tends to be higher during a tech bubble. As mentioned above, during the dot-com bubble, companies flogged to the stock market at alarming rates. Worryingly perhaps, the level of IPOs is currently getting closer to the levels

Speech Paloma Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will always be plentiful. However, freshwater, what we drink, bathe in, irrigate our farm fields with makes up only 3% of the world’s water, and two-thirds of that is stored in frozen glaciers or unavailable for our use. Many of the water systems that keep ecosystems thriving and feed a growing human population have become stressed. Rivers, lakes and aquifers are drying up or becoming too polluted to use. Already, 80 countries

The Inca Empire was a complex society with an estimated population of ten million people. They had vast cities, exquisite temples, an advanced government and a detailed tax system. The Incas were even the first to cultivate the potato in Peru. Even though they were not as advanced as many empires in their time they still had their own technologies. Some of their technologies were invented by others, but they helped perfect them. This is how the Incas were one of the most technologically advanced

Growing crops in flat and fertile areas and hunting were important to the Inca, because without food, they can’t survive. They would keep their soil fertile, they used llama dung, which was one of the animals they worshiped, along with Alpacas. And for hunting, they used spears to kill animals and nets to catch them. So the farms and hunting will be shown around the center and the left and right corners (crops on the left where the Inca village is, and the hunters will go somewhere around

Incas and Mayas By:Hunter Mangine Imagine you're living with an ancient tribe called the Mayas. When you were in school all they taught you about was hunting and farming. But you were an open minded kid, so you ran as far away as you could from the village one day. When you were on the trail out of nowhere an Incan officer grabbed your arm and dragged you up a mountain. When you arrived at the top of the mountain they tied ropes to hold you down! You were scared half to death and then you woke

The main characters of the short stories such as Sam from “Master Harold”... and the boys, Bineeta from Good Girls are Bad News, and Beatrice from Minutes of Glory all have in common the problem of an internal struggle of not being able or wanting to fit into the roles expected of them by external figures.The authors use external characters and/or well known stereotypes as a model to show what external figures are expecting, to paint a picture of how the characters are differing from that expectation

AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns, Germs, and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11,000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that

(Asia) sugar = cash crops 4.1.V.C What plants/animals were deliberately transferred across the Atlantic as part of the Columbian Exchange? Europeans brought from Americas horses cattle pigs sheep goats chickens Europe to America turkeys, llamas, alpacas, guinea pigs. 4.1.V.D What effects did American food crops have on the diet of Afro-Eurasians? Native Americans relied on plants Europeans bring in potatoes and corn = pop boom b/c more calories consumed 4.1.V.E How did settlers’ action affect the