Questions for Sara

1. what did your family think about you protesting?
2. will Egypt keep your next president for the next 30 years also?
3. did you or any of your friends get hurt during the protest?
4. is there anything America could do to help?
5. what happened on police day? where you in it?
6. do you forgive the police?
7. what do you think Mubarak will have in his future will he come back and live in Egypt?
8. do you feel like you have a lot of freedom in Ciro an do you feel like your safe?
9. how has life changed since Mubarak has left?
10. What is life like in Egypt?

building pyramids/rap assignment

Today in class we made pyramids. Me and Clarke were the fist people to finish our pyramid which means we get 100%!

For our next assignment we need to make a rap about Egypt. If we present in front of the class we get an A but i'm going to save my self the embaressment and just write it here.

This is a rhyme about the Egyptian time
the officials would protect the Pharoahs from getting shot by arrows
Pyramids are 200 metters tall but they aren't for a fancy ball
Pharoah's get buried in them when they die
Along with maybe some pie, cats and their golden mats

2-17-11

Mr. Schick was back in class today. He explained to us why he was absent. His daughter Martha has limes disease and she has been in the hospital. She had to get some surgery on her back. After that they had to put a catheter through her chest. The catheter is were Martha gets all of the medicine she needs and it takes about an hour to get all of the medicine in her. Martha and her family will be in my prayers. I know what the family is going through because my brother was always in the hospital.

2-16-11

Today in class Mr. Schick wasn't here so Mrs.Rakowski was our sub. We broke into groups again to make a power point on Egypt. Clarke and I are still doing Pyramids. Nationalgeographic.com is a great website to find information on pyramids. The website gives information on what they are used for, how they are built, who built them and specific information on each pyramid in Egypt. Were pretty much done our power point and I already had all the information on the pyramids so there is no more research to do for the project.

2-14

I already finished my part of the Egypt project so today in class me and Clarke were just putting extra stuff in our paper.I really do not like this one hundred fifty word blogs I don't know what to write. Well today is valentines day which is a good thing i guess because we got candy in almost every class and  my mom made us a special dinner. In class Mr. Schick also showed us our grades, but i didn't do to well.

more on pyramids

many workers too a lot of pride in their work

people believed that people had to take care of the pharoajs dead body because a part of their spirit remained or disasyter would befall egypt

people would give the pharoahs everything they needed for their afterlife like food, dolls, gold furniture

at first huge tombs were built with a mound of dirt over it

Step Pyramids were the earliest pyramids to be built

Pyramids

Now a day when great leaders and even ordinary people die they get buried in a cemetery. Thousands of years ago the Egyptians had a different and more difficult way of putting their great leaders to rest. Instead of making a grave the Egyptians buried the Pharaohs in pyramids, some being over 400 feet tall. Since these pyramids were built over 2000 B.C it is pretty amazing that they could make them with no technology. They builders were Egyptians who lived in villages developed and overseen by the pharaoh’s supervisors. They were not slaves and foreigners. It takes twenty thousand to thirty thousand workers t0 build one pyramid and it is estimated that it took eighty years. The builders took big limestone blocks that could be floated from tiles right to the base of the Pyramids. Then the stones would be polished by hand and pushed up ramps to the right potion. After that architects would make sure they had an accurate pyramid shape by running ropes from the corners to the bottom. From a stone pusher to priest every worker knew  and was proud with their role in continuing the life of their pharaoh. 

Question C

Jared Diamond has a theory that the reasons cultures are more developed are based on how they lived thousands of years ago and how geographically they are. Geographic luck is all of the resources you have where you live. If you have useful resources like wheat, barely, rice and domesticated animals you live in a geographically lucky area like the Middle East and the Fertile Crescent.

Unfortunately for New Guinea they have geographic bad luck. In New Guinea they only had sago which has very little protein and cannot be stored for a long time. Also the only domesticated animal they had was a pig. Pigs are good for meat but they can’t pull things to help farm or produce milk. The only thing their good for is eating which would only last a day or two.

When people are geographically unlucky they spend their time as hunter gather’s or farmers. They do not have time to make a stable house or make weapons. They are also not as healthy. Places who have more foods that have protein will be more healthy compared to the people who only eat sago and spiders. Not having domesticated animals means less food and less help with farming. Geographic luck helps make countries grow in population because they have more time with family and better storage of food.

Information For Test tomorrow 2-9

What to know on the test
where is the fertile crescent
why did the Mesopotamia do so well
who was Jared diamond what did he do....anthrapoligists, he wrote a book
name some crops that help people advance...rice, corn, wheat, barley, sorghum,
More land is known to grow wheat then anything else
 Whats good and bad about sago...it fills you up but you cant store it and doesn't have protein
What is the capital of New Guinea...Port Morsby
What is the main religion? Christian
Where is new guinea?
What are hunter gathers (short answer)...they spend all day gathering food and do not have time for anything else the have to move almost everyday
Whats the significant of having a surplus...you don't have to go hunting and gathering you can fees the whole community for a long time and you don't have to move. specialized neighbor ones who make clothes and weapons and things
how can you be geographically lucky? being able to farm for a long time having the right crops and domesticated animals
What is the term cargo?material things that you aquire over life
what are good characteristics of a domesticated plant?nuetrictious, easy to pant store for a long time, you can do various things with it.
What is a good domestic animal...has to be over 100 pounds, not a carnavoir. have to get a long with other animals. can be tamed,produce milk
big animals don,t have baby's often
Modern day New Guinea...85% of jobs are farmer the other percent
significant of latitude...the same types of crops grow at the same latitude so the have the same length of day. animals will do just as well in another
What needs to happen when you get out of hunting and gathering...you have to become a farmer and grow food to store
DRAA' first village to keep their crops in know what it is

2-7-11

In class today we got into groups for a project. Down below is all i got done in class so far. I'm not really sure what were supposed to write for this 100 word thing so today we had a peparally thing and Mr.Schick road a horse and lost the race but he did better than Mr.Ireton who did not even make it to the other side.

In the movie we saw how poor New Guinea was in the early 2000, but they have improved a lot since then.  Instead of only being able to farm sago they farm things like; coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, rubber, sweet potatoes, fruit, vegetables, vanilla, shell fish, poultry, pork.

Movie Part 4

Australia New Guinea North America South America Africa didn't have domesticated animals

Pigs sheep and goats were in the Middle East known as the fertile cresent the people who lived their got a great big start for farming and also eating. Some of the house from thousands of years ago has air conditioning and windows. The climate was to dry. the fertile cresent was abanded  they cut down too many trees and water was over used.

As villages grew bigger they had more people to work on the land.

Making plaster to limestone


Making fire was a big thing because steel was really important and it helped make it

people with the same latitude they will have the same day and mostly the same animals.

Suddenly their was enough to feed the farrows scribes and the people to build the pyramids  when the food got to Egypt. At the time their wasn't a single cow or wheat. this is all from the spreading of the fertile cresent.

No metle workers no metle tool since everyone in New Guinea spent time feeding them selves they didn't have anyone to make weapons

New guinea has cows they havent developed like American because they didn't have the write material. Their is still a big gap to overcome but it is growing and has been changing.

New Guinea CIA factbook

The population is about 6 million people

2nd largest island in the world

median age is 21.6

between coral sea and south pacific ocean

54 largest countries in the world

agriculture products coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, rubber, sweet potatoes, fruit, vegetables, vanilla; shell fish; poultry, pork

Roman catholics 27%  Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3%

they speak 860 languages spread out around the country

Slightly larger than California

Tropical

only 2 television stations

Movie Part 3

You can have a surplus of food you don't have to worry about what's for dinner tomorrow.

New Guinea is the second biggest island in the world.

14 domesticated animals at least 100 pounds, goats sheep pigs cows horses donkeys. camels and other camels  watter buffaloes llamas randier yaks mythons, bali cattle. in 10000 years of domestication

South America has the biggest domestication they are lucky with llamas.

Middle east had cow pigs and goats.
 the geographic cresent are geographically blessed they had the best animals and wheat.

Movie Part 2

Hunter gathers will always be at a disadvantage

In America corn quash and beans are the big farming produce

Highland New Guinea- been farming for ten thousand years. the farms are as talented as any other farmer but the new guinea crops rot quickly and have  to be eaten in a certain time. Only had pigs for food. thats not helpful because it cant be used as plows or hide 

The type of farming is crucial it all comes down to geographic luck.

Americans have an advantage over new guinea because we have protein and more stored food.

people were only allowed to live by farming. but then nine thousand years ago they discovered animal domestication. the animals could also be used for they milk and fur would be used for clothes. animals also are used as a fertilizer for cops. The animals were only used for meat but then they found they can be used for other things like plows. 

Sheep are useful for their milk and clothes or blankets meat is the main reason for sheep

With Horses or oxes their useful for transpirtation and plowing. being able to farm and feed  more people

some birds and fish have been domesticated but not most. You want a large herbivores animal like an elephant to be domesticated. lions aren't good because you need to make other animals to feed them. You have to train elephants to work for you but it eats a lot of  food so it could be a problem   they need to be social animals. it also need to be able to get along with humans. Zebras could be as useful as horses but they are to aggressive for humans to tame. 

the 14 domesticated animals are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels, water buffalo, mithan