QUESTION 1:
The sources that Jared Diamond uses to prove his points in the argument are writings of many participants as well as, Six of Pizarro’s Companions, which included, his brothers Hernando and Pedro. Yes, these are good historical sources for Jared Diamond to use in his Article. These sources are considered primary sources which are produced by a participant in or witness of the events you are writing about. A primary source allows the historian to see the past through the eyes of direct participants. Jared Diamond does not properly cite the sources within the text. Because sources weren’t properly cited in the Essay, it is difficult to identify which historical source had written each “quoted” paragraph. Instead of using “Bibliography,”
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He originally was trained in physiology, however, also practices within anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology. Currently he is a professor at the University of California, in Las Angeles.
Because Jared Diamond had practiced within those various fields, and after extensive research, he wrote Guns, Germs and Steel, to argue that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, and the Geographical influences on society and culture.
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In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains why some societies are more materially more successful than others. He attributes societal success to geography, immunity to germs, food production, the domestication of animals, and use of steel. Guns, germs and steal shows that an organization of progress exists in the domain of culture, with measures of success that are particularly material and technology. The triumph of civil materialism may be the price of modernity, however, never reveals the aspect of culture or to account for its diversity and
Claude-Joseph Vernet’s oil on canvas painting titled Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm was created in 1775, and it is currently located in the European Art Galleries (18th- 19th Century North) 2nd Floor at the Dallas Museum of Art. It is a large-scale painting with overall dimensions of 64 1/2 x 103 1/4 in. (1 m 63.83 cm x 2 m 62.26 cm) and frame dimensions of 76 1/8 x 115 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (1 m 93.36 cm x 2 m 92.74 cm x 12.07 cm). Vernet creates this piece by painting elements from nature and using organic shapes in order to create atmospheric effects, weather and different moods. This piece primarily depicts a landscape with a rocky mountainous terrain and villagers scrambling to an upcoming storm.
The reason Jared Diamond wrote this book was to answer the question of his politician friend Yali that why did some societies like Eurasia was able to develop Guns, Germs, and
He received his masters from the School of Visual Arts located in New York City. He currently resides in New Jersey. According to information given
This book is about a twelve-year-old boy named Nick Hall. Nick Hall loves to play soccer, but he can only play if he reads his dad’s dictionary which he thinks is boring. Nick Hall has a best friend Coby Lee. Coby and Nick have been friends almost their whole life, they also have always been on the same soccer team accept this year. Nick also takes dance clubs with the girl he likes named April who also goes to his school. So far Nick’s life is going well, The only bad thing in Nick’s life is that he gets bullied by these twins named Dean and Don, but they soon get expelled from school so he doesn’t have to see them every day now. So now Nick’s is going even better until one day Nick’s parents announce that they’re getting a divorce because
The history based on primary source and secondary source, and the history has to have both primary source and secondary source because it has real facts and analyzes. Examples of Primary Sources are speeches, news, photographs..,etc., and examples of secondary sources interpreted topics. This article is primary source essay, and Primary sources are original documents. Primary sources for this article are Christopher Columbus’s Letter,1493 and Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Relates an Aztec Chronicler’s Account of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs,1519.
Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning, National Best Selling book Guns, Germs and Steel, summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns, Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond's views on how the world as we know it developed. However, is his thesis that environmental factors contribute so greatly to the development of society and culture valid? Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History is the textbook used for this class and it poses several different accounts of how society and culture developed that differ from Diamond's claims. However, neither Diamond nor Traditions are incorrect. Each poses varying, yet true, accounts of the same historical events. Each text chose to analyze history in a different manner. Not without flaws, Jared Diamond makes many claims throughout his work, and provides numerous examples and evidence to support his theories. In this essay, I will summarize Jared Diamond's accounts of world history and evolution of culture, and compare and contrast it with what I have learned using the textbook for this class.
David is a poem written by Canadian poet Earle Birney. The poem’s namesake, David, is a surveyor climbing the mountains with his friend, Bobby. Birney portrays him to be proficient, courageous and pragmatic.
Jared diamond starts his journey in rain forests-papua new guinea. He is a professor in UCLA in los Angeles, biologist and specialist in human psychology. Study of birds was his passion at the beginning, and it started at the age of 7. But when he travelled to Papua new guinea, he also got interested in people living there. One day he meets a guy called Yali, and Yali asks a question to him, ''Why white
The prologue of the book clearly lays out Diamond thesis. He explains that past societies have collapsed based on five factors: human induced environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, friendly trade partners, and society’s response to environmental problems. He also explains how is wrote this book in a scientific manner using the “comparative method”, comparing natural situations differing with respect to the variable of interest. There is a slight flaw in this though. Showing these correlations between different societies,...
Ideologies unite groups of people and promote the collection of ideas necessary for operation of a properly varnished society. E.K. Hunt and Jared Diamond are two well known authors who discuss the scrupulous importance of ideologies within society. Their books, Property and Prophets and Guns, Germs, and Steel, discuss the success of certain ideologies throughout history, while also integrating the commendable relevance of economics. In determining the correlation of the two novels, one must assess the social, political, and economic factors associated with their viewpoints. Through interpretation of their understandings we can determine the rationale of medieval ideologies as well as, the breakdown of the Christian Paternalistic Ethic as
The book Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond, starts off with Yali’s question about why some places are more developed and have more resources compared to others. The essence of this book is based on Diamond’s thesis, he claimed: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves"(Diamond 25). Diamond tries to explain the cultural development of few societies at different places in the world. One of the question he described most vividly is about “Why did wealth and power become distributed as they now are, rather than in some other way? For instance, why weren 't Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians
Many geographers have attempted creating a unified theory explaining why cultures advance much more readily than others. Very few have actually reached mainstream society and even fewer seem reasonable. However, Jared Diamond shines where most do not. His book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, proposes an idea that has long been established called environmental determinism. Most view environmental determinism as a racist theory attributing a peoples’ intelligence only to their oppressive climates and geographical barriers. Diamond instead has created a theory that applies environmental determinism to only a peoples’ technology—not the people themselves. This has given researchers valuable tools that allow them to explain why some nations have become the superpowers they are today. If applied to the modern United States, Jared Diamond and his new theory would attribute the country’s dominate status to blankity blankity blank.
Jared Diamond, in his movie “ Germs, Guns, and Steel” explained that civilizations that were able to domesticate animals and plants, were mor...
Diamond believes that human development in Eurasia could possibly be due to, for a lack of better term, luck. Eurasia's luck in geographical location allowed them to advance in animal domestication and crop growth. The fact that Europe was densely populated allowed then to develop such diseases and for them to grow the immunity for them. Geography plays a huge role in why there is inequality found throughout the world. It is not solely based on society's will to progress. Race, money, and IQ are not the only things that influence a society's advancement. Diamond uses his scientific background to gather evidence from agriculture and other disciplines for his
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W.