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Guns, Germs and Steel Essay Do you ever wonder why certain places of the world starve every day, but places like the United States have advanced technology and so much food to spare? The answer lies in geography. Geography is the key factor in how a civilization can advance or why is cannot, this being demonstrated flawlessly by its dictation of agriculture ( what crops people can grow ), domesticated animals ( what animals are domesticable ), disease and genetic immunization ( who is…

Why is it that Europeans are developing new technology every day while the people of Papua New Guinea are still using stone tools? Many people believe that the majority of inequality is determined by race, religion, or intelligence, but it’s actually determined by geography. For civilizations to be equal, they would need to have the same advantages as everyone else does and have the same skills and technology at the same time. When a civilization has a fitting climate for growing crops and…

their own advantages, but with animals also came the exposure to diseases which built immunity for those who lived in geographical locations where there were domesticated animals. Those without these geographical advantages, places like Papua New Guinea and what used to be the Incas were effectively powerless, allowing the Spanish to appropriate their resources and become the most powerful country in the world. While diseases such as smallpox were the largest advantage Eurasian countries had…

In the episode, “Out of Eden,” Diamond mentioned some educational facts about the civilization that inhabits New Guinea. There was one question he asked that I thought was interesting. Why did New Guineans not prosper as well as other civilizations? He mentioned it had a lot to do with farming. I believe this was a downfall for them. Harvesting wheat was easier and faster. Unfortunately, New Guineans were harvesting wild sago, which was harder to harvest because it involved chopping down trees.…

Incan population died after first contact with the Spanish? Or that while America successfully sent men to land on the moon, Papua New Guinea was still forced to use stone tools? The world is unequal and the seeds were planted in geographical resources. These uneven geographical resources doomed some cultures to failure, but some to stardom. For example, Papua New Guinea was too wet to grow efficient crops crops, had no domesticable animals and because of that were stuck in the stone age until…

Australia, ruining but yet building civilisations and making history within countries. Events in the pacific war in late 1941 and early 1942 of Japans conquer and determination to take of the Pacific; led to the July 1942, Kokoda jungle war in Papa New Guinea. For the first two years of the Pacific war Japan fought against Brittan allied with the United States and also had the upper hand. During 1941 Japanese forces quickly and successfully occupied Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines,…

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf and Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad are two works that use variations of chronological order to create a variety of effects. Although almost a hundred years separates the writing of these two works, there are some similarities in the issues they deal with, and the historical setting of both works is roughly the same time, the mid to the end of the nineteenth century. In Remembering Babylon, Malouf explores ideas about identity and the clash of cultures: on…

UN Women work to enact and implement equal economic rights for all. They are key leaders in creating strategies for equal pay and equal work, better access to employment opportunities, equality in hiring and promotions, leave and unemployment benefits, freedom from sexual harassment in the workplace, and other critical rights. The UN Millennium development goals are designed to improve and alleviate standards in key areas of human development. These goals focus around the standard of living for…

always contributing by either being on the ground or taking part in air and sea operations. Papua New Guinea, known back then as the Australian Territories of Papua and New Guinea, had 18,00 troops that fought, scouted, carried supplies and brought injured men back to Australian camps. The Americans were also allied with Australia and…

Interviewer- Welcome to ‘Rear Vision’. I’m your host, Kellie. Today we're here to discuss the battle fought by our brave Australian soldiers in 1942 on the Kokoda Track. It is important to remember this event as many people gave their lives for us to be free. I have Ken Ferguson with me today, a veteran from Kokoda. We’re glad to have you here on the show. You were from the 2nd 31st battalion of the Australian Imperial Force, correct? Can you tell us more about that? Interviewee- Glad to be…