Class Participation Grade

          Well in class I don't really participate. I don't raise my hand to give answers or thoughts on whatever we're talking about but, I'm always interested in the class. I try my best in the class. I really enjoy this class I think its one of the most interesting classes that I'm taking right now. But I know I could probably say more in this class.

1/9/13

       Today in class we talked about the lockdown procedure for tomorrow. When it happens we are going to be in human geo so we just went over what to do. Then we started talking about school shootings and everything and we talked the entire class about it. People gave their opinions on what they think about it and some people came up with some ideas. Someone said the teachers should be able to carry guns but i dont think that would really be necessary and im not sure i would feel any safer knowing that each teacher in the school had a gun. Its better to know that there currently arent any guns in school rather than knowing theres about 20. You never know whose hands their gun could fall in and its just not a good idea. It was a scary yet interesting topic to talk about.

Jared Diamond

          Jared Diamond is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles and is also an author. He's elected a member of three of the leading National Scientific honorary societies. He's written a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel. His one book has won a Pulitzer Prize and Britain's 1998 Rhone- Poulenc Science Book Prize. Diamond made 22 expeditions to Papua, Guinea. He is environmentally active. He relates to this class because his books seem to be about society and how it succeeds or fails and the fates of society.

        Guns, Germs, and Steel was written in 1997 by Jared Diamond. It is a mutli-million selling book. This book talks about what has shaped human history over 10,000 years into what it is today. Its starts off with him talking to his friend Yali.  First part of the book discusses how some civilizations have developed and how some haven't over thousands of years. In this book Diamond says that geography and environment are the most important factors in shaping the world. A lot of scientist are against his theory and argue with this but, a lot of people praise his theory. Diamond mapped out migration of early humans from Africa to Eurasia and from the North and South Americans.