Finished Guns Germs and Steel

Today in class we finally finished the video Guns, Germs and steel. We sort of all came to a conclusion on Yali's question with the help of Jared Diamond. "Why you white men have so much cargo, and us new Guineans have so little." Well if Jared Diamond is in fact correct, the answer to that question is geographic luck. After the video Mr.Schick went on cia.gov and we explored some facts about New Guinea, when you look at the entire country and not just the people in the rain forest, you find that New Guinea actually isn't doing all that bad. They have good life expectancy, there money isn't declining, they are modernizing, don't really have to many world conflicts, the population is increasing. Life in New Guinea isn't all that bad. Finally, we watched videos on the Philippine volcanic eruptions. It is pretty devastating, the volcano smoke is now creating it's own storms inside the clouds, it's pretty awful.

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