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Peder Schroeder Mr. Frye World Geography 8th Beta 24 September 2014 Egypt, Guinea, South Africa the Story of Geography There are many different places in Africa. In this paper you will learn about Egypt, South Africa, and Equatorial Guinea. You will learn of the different foods and music. There are many cultures and religions throughout Africa and many countries have different music and different foods. The African Government is split up into many different “states”, each one having a…

The Australian Forces had a considerable influence on the course of the New Guinea campaign (1941–1945) in World War II (WWII) through their achievements in three of the main battles that occurred throughout the campaign. The three battles in which Australian forces played a major role were the Battle for Kokoda, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Milne Bay. In the battle for Kokoda, Australia fought off the Imperial Japanese Army in places like Templeton's crossing, Kokoda village, and Deniki,…

“Why is there so much inequality in the world: where some societies have so much, while others have so little?” Inequality is defined as “difference in size, degree, circumstances, etc.; lack of equality” In Guns, Germs and Steel Diamond explains why the world is so full of inequality and some reasons why are animals as food, milk & etc., animals as beasts of burden and useful plants. One of the reasons why there’s so much inequality in the world is because of animals being used as food, milk,…

this question ”Why is it that you white people have so much cargo, but we New Guineans have so little?” Diamond pondered this question until he came to a conclusion. Geographic luck caused both poverty, and riches. One example of this is how New Guinea functioned based on how the Fertile Crescent functioned. Another example is that only a few ancient civilizations had animals that could be domesticated and the rest of the civilizations were not able to domesticate animals.It was not only…

of New Guinea. A man named Yali asked Jared the question “Why do you white men have so much more but the New Guineans don’t?” The most interesting aspect of episode one was the shortage of availability of food in New Guinea. Moving into episode two, the battle between the Spaniards and the Inca’s was extremely thought proving. Lastly, learning about the poor ways of the African people was devastating and interesting to see how poverty in Africa was so different than poverty in New Guinea.…

You are on a hike in the jungles of South America, and all of the sudden you see a huge enormous guinea pig, that could probably eat your guinea for a snack! You wonder what kind of crazy science experiment this thing is, or what if they took all the guinea pigs in the world and shoved it down that guinea pig’s throat. Or if you are just mentally unstable! No, you are not mentally unstable, they are called capybaras, and they are the largest rodents in the world. The capybara is the largest…

weather conditions that made traditional hunting and gathering inefficient in providing food for households. Regions that were geographically disadvantaged were unable to access adequate resources and skills for their development. Diamond uses New Guinea, which is a poor country, and the United States, a wealthy nation, for his analysis. People in the Middle-East were the first to adopt modern methods of farming, which made…

greenhouse conditions on the planet at the time of Gondwana, the area, despite being in the Antarctic circle, had no polar icecaps and was able to support both plant and animal life.12 The Australasian lands, which include Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, various Pacific islands, were once all connected.12 Australasia remained attached to Antarctica longer than its Gondwanan neighbors. It is this unique origin and isolation that accounts for the unique variety of species found on the…

2014 Ebola Epidemic in Guinea and the United States Amy Riddell Kaplan University HS311 Unit:1 Assignment Professor Daniel Gilmore November 16, 2015 Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is an exceptional and fatal disease caused by an infection with one of the Ebola virus strands that claimed an estimated 2,482 lives in Guinea, Africa alone in 2014 (Johnston, 2015). It made its first recorded appearance in 1976 near the Ebola River, which is now known as the Democratic Republic…

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, a man named Jared Diamond is in New Guinea doing field work. He meets a New Guinean man named Yali. Yali and JD are both hungry for knowledge and goes exploring. While walking around, Yali asks JD why are the whites so successful and have so much “cargo” compared to the other locals. Then, JD rephrases the question: Why did the White Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns,…