Yesterday we did the presentation on our given countries. My group which consisted of Chris, Hannah, Banks, Tom, and myself; we had the Country Kenya. Kenya as I said and as Hannah said, they are a developing African-American nation with a very high unemployment rate of 40 percent. I did the slide on energy and electricity access which was one of the factors of Kenya issues and problems. They had no one working in their factories and that was why they weren't producing any crude oil, and that was part of the reason of why their unemployment rate was very high. Over 13 million people within the population didn't have access to electricity. I think that I personally did a good job on the presentation, I gave a lot of information on my topic, and I clearly stated the energy problem which was the main part of the rubric So I would give myself a 97-100 because I did everything like giving information and stating the problem right, but I had to look at my note card a couple times ...
Today in class we were watching and taking notes on more of the video about the people in papa new guinnea and geographic luck. The main part of notes that we took during the class today was animal domestication. Animal Domestication is animals that humans are able to tame and control their actions and everything they do. Some of the first animals that were domesticated back in the ancient times were sheep and goats. Out of many animals that are at least 100 pounds, there is only 12 of them that have actually been domesticated. These animals are: -goats -pigs -horses -Bactrian camels -sheep -cows -donkeys -Arabian camels -water buffalo -llamas -reindeer -yaks -Mithans -Bali Cattle Some places that weren't geographically lucky, and didn't have any animals that could be easily domesticated included: -New Guinnea -North America -Australia We also talked about the fertile crescent that includes the Tigress and Euphrates rivers
During class we got our exam grades back and I got an 88 percent which isn't bad. But then after we got our exams and during while other people are getting theirs's back we started to look up what Gun, Germs, and Steel was. It is a story that was written by Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA. He is a training biologist and specialized in human physiology. But that wasn't busy enough so he decided to take a full passion in the study of birds. He liked to go to Papa New Guinea to look at the birds, and he went there so often that he learned the different languages that are spoken on that island by the low amount of people that speak them. In the story Gun, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond explains why some more materialized and geographically lucky continents are better at invading and conquering other continents. Some of these geographically lucky features are land, immunity to germs, food production, and the domestication of animals. Eurasia is a Geographically lu...
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