Today in
Western Civilization class we learned about a person named Jared Diamond that
was an author and a professor in UCLA. He travels all around the world to
remote places to try and figure out why some human colonies such as England and
France turned out the way they did and why some are still quite primitive (No
machinery, not even steam power). I also
learned that there is a place called Papua New Guinea that is home to a group
of people that have been living the same way for about 40,000 years. I also learned that they have also developed
their own language. Another thing that I
have learned is that Jared Diamond is also a bird watcher, and has a much different
opinion on the Papua New Guinea people then his ancestors had on the under
developed group of people.
Today in Western Civilization class I witnessed other groups present their Greek Civilization projects, the first group talked about the different governments that were created, they did this by becoming the leaders that created the different governments and discussed it as if it were a meeting and there were sides; I thought that it was a fun and playful twist to the project. The next project was performed by Ben and Will and they did the Olympics, they discussed how they started, the traditions, the events, and even reenacted some of them (they were poorly done), but they were able to get the events for the most part correct and they were also fun to watch how they were performed.
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