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Identify the 'Venus of Willendorf'. What does it suggest that the beginnings of art and the domestication of animals happen during the same period in human history?

The Venus of Willendorf is a small statue of a woman. This statue was made somewhere around the time of 21,000 b.c.e. It was found in 1908 in Austria where it was carved out of a kind of limestone which is not local to this area.  The statue has been interpreted as a fertility symbol, or for good luck to be fertile.

This statue suggests that back in the time this was made that there was sculpting for art and not just tools and such. It also suggests that they made objects like these for good luck or prayer. I believe that the people of this community had at one time or another made this piece and pray to it during a time of infertility. The infertility could range from not having children to field crops not producing.

During the time when the creating of this statue early man was also starting to domesticate animals such as the dog. Dogs originally came to early man’s settlements because dogs and wolves are pack animals, and humans make sufficient pack substitutes. Also lone wolves likely followed their noses into human settlements for food; some waited along the outskirts of the town and feasted on the human’s scraps. This was noticed by the humans and they wanted to use the dogs, or wolves to their advantage on hunts and such.

Will a "hypertext" world make us more accepting of cyclic history?

                                  Will a "hypertext" world make us more accepting of cyclic history?

I believe that a hypertext world will make us believe more in a cyclic form of history. Because hypertext is online and refers you to things related to your part of history It may end up in a cyclical form. Say you do a search for the USA, articles for the start of the USA will come up but also recent history will come up. The starting history will refer you to other parts of history and those articles will refer you to others. This shows history can be cyclical because the articles can send you to the same article in a cycle.

Is modern life "always" better than it was in the past?

I believe that the present is not always better than the past.  In some cases it is far worse.  Many things like war, depressions, natural disasters and epidemics can cause the quality of life to be worse than before.

One example is World War I (WWI) or First World War centered in Europe and began in the summer of 1914 and ended in 1918. More than nine of the 70 million soldiers from Europe were killed in combat during this time. Before the war people went about their business like normal, but during the war people have to give up their jobs to either go fight or work in factories for the army. In these factories women made bullets, bombs, planes, tanks and ships. The iconic image “Rosie the Riveter” showed how many women had to work in factories.

Another example is the great depression. The great depression caused many people to get second and third jobs just to feed themselves. This is far worse than before the depression when America was a thriving country.

A third example is SARS a disease that baffled scientist when they could not find a cure. Most of China was affected and had the immediate reaction of being completely afraid of germs. They walked around with doctors masks on and some even wore rubber gloves. This disease didn’t just stay in china it spread across the whole world.

In conclusion the present isn’t always “better” than the past because of major events like war, depressions, natural disasters and epidemics.

Hegelian dialectic

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Is an elephant really "better" than a mammoth?

First I will talk about elephants, where they come from and their history. Elephants are the largest living species of land mammals. There are three species of elephants; the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant. All elephants are the decedents of mammoths however evolution has had a very visible effect on them. The elephants no longer need their hair anymore since they aren’t living in an ice age anymore.

Elephants are pregnant for about 22 months the longest period of all land animals. A normal baby elephant weighs about 260lbs. and can live on an average to be about 70. The oldest elephant ever recorded was 82 years old. One main point about elephants is that they are very large some even weighing over 20,000 pounds. Also the elephants have long tusks and a trunk with which they use to eat. Elephants have been hunted for their ivory tusks for ages and have become endangered in some parts of the world.

Now onto mammoths! Mammoths often had long curved tusks just like todays elephants do. However, mammoths had a covering of fur because they lived a long time ago during the ice ages. The most recently alive mammoth was from around 4,500 years ago. But the earliest ones date back to almost 5 million years ago. Most mammoths were easily about a meter taller than the largest elephant ever recorded. The average mammoth size is 16 feet tall. Their tusks can grow to be up to 11 feet long.

I have decided that although the mammoth is much cooler and larger than the elephant that the elephant is “better” because it is still around and living today.

History does progress and the mammoth evolving into an elephant is a great example of progression.  The mammoth slowly lost hair and progressivly became a virtually hairless animal

14

Sam and Brian

1. Research countries that do not have the same opportunities as us.
2. Create a gap minder to help other people understand the information.
3. Present the gap minder to the whole school at an assembly.
4. Create a search engine website and every time someone searches it donates a dollar to our country.
5. We start a foreign exchange program to get student to come here.
6. We send our student there to experience there life.
7. Start a donation to raise money to fight poverty our country.
8. Start a text a text to “our country” where whenever someone texts a numer Verizon donates a dollar.
9. We can fund their technology programs in schools.
10. We can donate laptops.

number 11

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question 13

1. the industrial revolution started however america was just starting as a country.
2. the USA became a thriving country and surpassed the UK in 1903 by building factories and cars.
3. in 1929 the great depression hit the USA and co2 drooped.
4. china entered the race about in 1990.
5. the USA has a higher standard of living from having more then one car to having large house. most people in china take public transport or have on family car.
6.areas of Trinidad were leased to the U.S.A to set up Air, Naval and army bases during World War Two. 
7. Luxemburg went up because of rebuilding efforts after the war.
8.The small countries have very few people but their average usage is higher.

question 12

This graph show us that Americans spend more money but get poorer quality of results.

question ten

• most important
• Energy Security and Climate Change: we need sustainable energy to prevent further climate change.(http://www.wri.org/project/energy-security-climate-change)(http://www.asria.org/ref/library/csrguidelines/lib/050616WRI_Report.pdf)
• Strengthening Support for the Most Vulnerable:if the weaker countries fall that is just weakening the g20 in general which is bad.(http://www.un.org/terrorism/vulnerable_targets.shtml)(http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/pdf/Background%20Notes%20RT%205%20Vulnerable%20Groups%20Rev2%20PGAfinal.pdf)
• Putting Quality Jobs at the Heart of the Recovery: most of the entire world is in some kind of economic trouble, jobs will help. (http://www.theworkfoundation.com/assets/docs/publications/197_good_work_final2.pdf)(http://www.mplsbuildingtrades.org/news/green-job-good-job-yes-if-its-unionized-or-covered-job-quality-standard)
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number 8

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question 7

A centrally located facility with a business management structure facilitating the storage, processing,
distribution, and marketing of locally/regionally produced food products.

you can find organic beef poultry and vegetables at farmers markets in Bel air.

The school should have a sustainable food day where all food served is attained from a organic distributer and when the student takes it it should have a informative note or fun fact on it.

question 3

Las Angeles is the most unkind city. http://www.koreatimes.com/article/639616

final exam question 6

1. green house gases in the atmosphere cause climate change because they trap heat in.
2. humans are effecting the climate because we emit these green house gases when we breath and with all the cars and factories.
3.Yes it is heating up, however it is happening very slowly.
4. because of the heat up more water is evaporating resulting in more precipitation. During the winter this precipitation comes in the form of snow.

final exam question 5

final exam question 4

there are a lot of names for soda in New Mexico because many people retire there and many people move there for their jobs.

final exam question 1

The dip in the graph was caused by 9/11 a terrorist attack on the world trade centers. After which they tsa hightend airline security making it a hassle to travel into the us. These stats can help us explain how events like this effect the economy. Like how the yogurt company caused the little boy to become sick and then sales of that company's yogurt went down dramatically.

Questions with Qusay

Brian

Human geo

Question and answer essay

Questions with Qusay

1.       Was it difficult to learn English? No Not Really, it was difficult at first but it got easier.

2.        In what ways have you benefited from learning the language? I am able to communicate with my fellow Americans now.

3.        Do you still speak your primary language at home or with family and friends? Why / Why not? Sometimes with Family, we mostly use English at our homes but if I am talking to family in India I will use my primary language.

4.       How did you come to go to school in the United States? Well coming to school was not that hard, I came in the first grade over here. Everybody there pretty much accepted me.

5.        What are some of the differences between an American school and a school in your home country? We there is not that much difference except that the Indian school uniform is different from John Carroll's.

6.       What was the most difficult part of the English language? The most difficult part of learning the language was the grammar part of it.

7.       Do you ever accidently start talking in your original language? No, I speak English where i am supposed to.

8.       When did you first start learning English? Around the age when I was about 5 years old.

9.       Why did you decide to learn English? Well you know i kind of have to talk to the people here so I get to know them better.

10.   How often do you get asked to speak in your first language? Well you know i kind of have to talk to the people here so I get to know them better. Well most people at John Carroll asked me to speak in Indian and a couple of my other friends ask from time to time.

11.   How long did it take for you to learn English? It took me four months roughly to learn the whole English language, I wasn’t that great but i knew the basics words and stuff.

12.   Are there any homonyms in Urdu like we have in English? Like can and can, road and rode, right and write? Well there is none that I know of.

13.   Is the Urdu language evolving like the English language? Well yes they are adding new words to it every year and they might change the language a bit occasionally.

14.   In Urdu are new slang terms being invented all the time? Yeah that are lot of slag words that you will not find in the Urdu dictionary.

15.   Do you have any friends at John Carroll that speak Urdu? Well I have my older brother and I think that’s about it.

16.   Do you have any friends out of school that you speak Urdu with? Most of my friends that speak Urdu out of school are in India so i really talk to them that much.

17.   When did you completely switch from Urdu to English? I never completely switch I still use both languages equally.

18.   Is Urdu the main language in India? Yes Urdu is the main language in India.

19.   What part of India is Urdu most prevalent? It is mostly the east side of India but other parts still do speak it like in the south India.

20.   How many other languages are in India? India has over 100 languages each state of India has their own language. Also if go to the central India every village in India speaks their own language.

21.   Which side of your family is from that country? Both side of my family is from India my mother’s side and my father’s side.

22.   What are the some of the hardest things when learning English as a second language? The grammar and sometimes the pronunciation of it.

23.   What caused your family to move to the United States? My family thought could make more money if they moved over to America and they were right.

24.   What are some of the main differences between America and your home country? Everything is different like everybody in India ride motorcycles and also we rickshaws which is a taxi but will go over everywhere.

25.   What is the main religion in your home country? There are lots of Hindus and there is also a lot of Muslims.

26.   Are you that religion? No sir I am not.

27.   What are some of the differences between an American school and a school in your home country? The classes are a little different.

Chile

Dear journal,

Two days ago, February 27, 2010, at around 03:35 a massive earthquake hit my part of Chile, I am staying in Valparaiso.the earthquake did not effect the whole country considering Chile's coastline stretches 2,700 miles long.  This earthquake cause my current home and the high school i am attending for this exchange program. Also the quake lasted a full 3 minuets. When the earthquake started Edwardo my host and I ran out  of our apartment and out to the street which is surrounded by small huts as far away from the building as possible.We got out of the building just in time before it collapsed.Chile is divided in to three major classes, the rich live in mansions and the middle class live in apartments, the lower class lives in mud huts.The earthquake was very devastating because in rural areas the construction is not very durable. One reason the houses are not so well built is because in Chile they make almost 70% less then in America. Also in Chile they use more then 70% less oil and electricity then America.


Yesterday, Clean up efforts started around the town and today relief efforts started coming from all over the world. Most efforts in our town came from the United States, where i am actually from. I am coming home for Chile in two weeks and exited to go home but sad to leave my many new friends.Also yesterday I helped rebuild and clean up some of the mud huts near my fallen apartment complex. i liked working with the Chileans towards a common goal. After we worked on building huts we went to a fruit farm, there are many different kinds of farms in Chile.

Brian

^^^My friend Edwardo^^^

the housing in chile ranges from mud huts and apartments to monster mansions.

                                                         The town of Valparaiso.