questions for sarah

what do you think will change when someone new takes power?
will anything be worse becuase he left?
were there any good things about hasni?
how did the mobs start?
did for participate in the mobs?
did the police strike you or someone near you?
who are the Muslim brothers?
why now is all of this starting?
did hasni ever try to give his view or testify for himself?
why are the police the only ones who are against the protesting?

Sick day

im home sick with the flu or something like that

Snow Day

just when i thought spring was here. more snow. no school

Presidents day-no school

no school because of presidents day

no class

missed school today 2/18/11

wedensay begininng powerpoints

Mr. Schick was not here but the substitute told us to get into groups and start working on a power point presentation for Egypt.

tuesday-no class

no class today

Egypt-pyramids

Pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. The pharaohs usually referred to them as their “House of eternity. They began putting ideas together for their houses of eternity as soon as they took power. Pharaohs wanted to buried with all their gold and possessions. Pyramids were made will booby traps in case anyone wanted to steal the pharaohs possessions. But, the people who made the pyramids knew how to get around the traps and were sometimes successful in stealing the pharaohs possessions. All sides of the pyramids were to face directly north, south, east, and west. Large stones were cut from rock quarries and used them to build the pyramids. Most of the workers were farmers who worked during the flood season, when their fields were under water. As of 2008, about 138 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest in Egypt and one of the largest in the world.

Test essay

C. Jared diamonds theory of geographic luck is almost exactly what it sounds like. Ancient civilizations could not change their land or area. its all about luck and what the land gives you. People in the fertile crescent were lucky to get a land that was rich is soil and good for growing crops. they did not make it like that. Land in the Middle East were given animals that were good for domesticating and being put to use to make the peoples lives easier. Donkeys, goats, pigs, cows, all excellent animals to have in your civilization because they can produce milk, perform manual labor like pulling a plow, good resource for meat, and hide for cloths. Papua New Guinea was unlucky to have a land that has no animal, poor for crops, and they are forces to eat sago trees. It is all about where you happen to end up living, what is naturally there that is useful to you for growing a civilization, and becomes more advanced in technology.

review for test tommorrow

1. sago trees, grow in swamps, and cut down my the women made into pulp to eat, they have little protein and doesn't last very long
2. the reason why papua new guinea never developed like other countries is because they  never had any useful animals like horses or cows to plow their crops or give them food or their hides that can be used to make into clothing and blankets. crops were not easy to grow like wheat or barely.
3. ideal characteristics of domesticadable animals. being over 100 pounds for strength or manual labor and more meat. they have to be able to get along with humans and easily breakable. heard animals have a head honcho that the rest of the heard follow or social hierarchy. they produce milk. they can reproduce babies quickly, about a couple a year.
4. ideal characteristics of domesticadable plants. easy to prepare to eat, and easier to plant to create more plants, has to be able to be stored for a long time or in graineries. has to be versatile. plants surplus or more than enough to survive for that week or month. they assigned jobs to certain people or specialization. with specialization it allowed people to have enough time to figure out things that other words wouldn't have time to do if they always had to focus on getting food for the next day. within time population grows.
5. people in the fertile crescent had to move because they overgrew their crops. they moved eat and west along the same latitude so the climate was the same, animals were natural there too.
6. Draa' is the very first community or village, they had a grainery which stored their food and they had a surplus.
7. Jared diamond was a professor at UCLA and went to Papua new guinea every year to bird watch. He made a book off of it which turned into a best seller, then into a movie. Jared diamond began his quest to find the answer of why Americans have so many possessions and why new guinea have so little.
8. present day new guinea has airports and docks in the harbor so they can trade and stay connected with the rest of the world because they are an island. they have natural resources like gold, silver, copper, oil, fisheries, to trade, get money, and thrive.

2/7/11

out today with a migrain

Papua New Guinea

arable land: 0.49%

permanent crops: 1.4%

natural resources: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries

population: 6,064,515 (July 2010 est.)

0-14 years: 37.3% (male 1,126,214/female 1,088,211)

15-64 years: 59.3% (male 1,815,731/female 1,704,430)

65 years and over: 3.5% (male 113,285/female 92,904) (2010 est.)

 

Population growth rate: 2.033% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 51  Birth rate: 26.95 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 53  Death rate: 6.62 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 148  religion: Roman Catholic Church (27.0%) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (19.5%) United Church (11.5%) Seventh-day Adventist Church (10.0%) Pentecostal (8.6%) Evangelical Alliance (5.2%) Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (3.2%) Members Church of God International (2.0%) Baptist (0.5%) Church of Christ (0.4%) Jehovah's Witnesses (0.3%) Salvation Army (0.2%) Other Christian (8.0%) about 96% some type of christian literacy rate: 57.3% languages: 816 languages, including English 18% of the people live in cities 1.8% unemployment rate 11th in the world many mountains

still watching Germs, Guns, and Steel

In the 1960's New Guinea was still using stone tools. Why have the never made metal tools and a surplus of food. The middle East was very fertile which gave it the name " The Fertile Crescent". the fertile crescent collapsed and lost its head start due to high climates that were not suitable for growing very prosperous crops. The people then moves to the west and east for a search of food and better living. They were moving along the same latitude lines which they did not know that, in many cases countries along the same latitude share the same animals and climate. The climate was the reason they moved in the first place. the animals like pigs and goats, and crops like wheat and barely moved into India and china and down into Egypt and into parts of Africa. they soon have a surplus of food fit for a king. It moved into Europe which feed inventors and great historic people. then everything food into America "The New World". There wasn't a single cow in America until the spread of animals and crops from the fertile crescent. now America has millions of cows. So the overall answer Jared Diamond was looking for was, New guinea just never ended up with the technology to advance like everyone else.

Guns, germs, and Steel contd.

 today in class we continued to watch guns. germs, and steel. we picked up the movie where they, being 11,000 years ago, are learning how to domesticate animals, for milk, meat, fur and skin for blankets and clothing. they used the animal waste to fertilize their crops. the first animals were goats and sheep, then ox or horse to plow their crop fields. pigs came into New guinea from China, but were by themselves not extremely helpful to humans. pigs are not nearly as strong as an ox or human. today in new Guinea the work is still all done by hands. humans have tried to domesticate many animals but with little success. Domesticadable animals over 100 pounds include: pigs, goats, sheep, cows, horses, 2 different kinds of camels, water buffalo, donkeys, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, and cattle. most of the came from the middle east, which is why the countries were fertile and had a lot of crops. zebras could have been a good domesticadable animals but are too jittery. they made plaster from limestone which let them build shelters.