Surviving Projects: Movie Analysis

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Since the beginning of human beings, humans have possessed this special characteristic of knowledge that makes them ask why to problems that do not seem to work as they please. Our knowledge has moved us forward considerably and gave us a desire to make improvements to how we live. For example in the film Surviving Projects, a chimpanzee was trained to place a block upright but one day the chimp was puzzled when the trainer had slanted the bottom of the block. The chimp did not have enough knowledge to conclude that the block was slanted. Next they tried the same strategy on the youth who could easily, after a few failures, concluded that the block could not sit upright. Sometimes, this knowledge can lead us to progress traps. Progress traps meaning the human individuals believing they are advancing but actually forming new troubles that may not be solvable. As displayed in the film Surviving Projects, the individuals during the time of mammoths would hunt these animals with the weapons they made with their hands. Soon, with the human’s amazing knowledge, they figured out that they could lead a herd of mammoths off cliffs. Although this action seemed great for these hunters, it was wiping out the population of the mammoth species till they were extinct. Although this knowledge could be a threat, it has led us to globalized or amazingly more developed world. …show more content…

These individuals traveled the Silk Road to exchange knowledge, trade merchandise or even to start new lives in different locations. In 1492, Columbus set off on his voyage across the sea without any ability to contact any personnel far from his ships. As he came back after his discoveries the Europeans were totally flabbergasted that he believed the earth was spherical. These discoveries Columbus created and many other globalizing advancements to 1800s flattened the world from a size large to a size

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