First Year English - Sam

The Epic of Gilgamesh The paper titled "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is a perm that can be played by more than 5 peoples. Even though it is a poem it also tells a story. The main character is Enkidu. He is an example of an person during the Mesopotamia era who was the closes to looking and acting like a beast. At the beginning of the story, Enkidu born in silence and lived in the wilderness. He was shaggy and looked like a women with his long hair. Enkidu ate grass with the animals and drank uncleaned water. He wore either nothing or used tools from the land to build cloths He was full of natural oil with all those times he hasn't washed himself. Later in the story, he started to become closer to a human being meaning he would have attentive ears. He would eat bread which was processed grass and drank beer which was processed water. He also met a women who stays anonymous throughout the rest of the story. She was important in the story because it helped the main character t...

DRAFT - FIRST PAPER We live in a world that needs leaders with great leadership who can help improve the future. Everyone has a different views and definitions on what makes a good leadership. We need leaders who have clear visions, in other words they need to have good qualities visions that will help and manage to get the job done. Another quality that leaders need to have that makes good leadership is being courageous. Being able to take risks and challenges to achieve their goal either for themselves and/or for others is what a people are looking forward too. In addition, another strength that is important in leadership is having strategic planning which means having the ability to look forward and anticipate with some accuracy where the market and industry are going. With that been said, they can also help increase the competition and challenges for other communities. Between 33 B.C.E and 41-54  C.E, two individuals named Claudius and Shao Hsin-che'n were working their way up...

NISA - The Life and Words of an !Kung Woman The narrator, Nisa starts explaining that she was a poor person with a happy heart when ever she would receive food. She felt that she lived in a bush, meaning that her father was a gather hunter while she had to stay at home. During the day of her marriage, she cried because she didn't have the liberty to choose with who she wanted to marry. Nisa realized that who ever she is going to marry with, he will have sex with her, kill and bring food to eat. In the middle of the story, Nisa looses her husband a blamed everything on God. She really "loved" him just like two young adult who knows how to love. She felt sad, broken and miserable. Nisa does a good explanation of the pain when loosing a love one or a close member of the family. God destroys everything and is the cause of people death apparently to Nisa. To summarize, Nisa is telling a story of what could have been the life of a women during the Paleolithic era. Her eq...

In class and at home we read a part of a history/biological textbook which is the Sixth edition titled Biological Anthropology probably edited and published by Michael Lan Park. In the first page, it talks about the BigBang and the origin of life on earth. It also has a scale with pictures, dates and a small description about what happened at that specific time. Later it showed a calendar of the year, apparently in 1975. There are important dated on it such as January 1 (Big Bang), March 20 (Galaxies form), September 2 (Formation of our solar system), October 6 (Life established, first fossil), October 27 (Photosynthesis), November 4 (Free oxygen), November 14 (Complex single cells) and November 21 (Evidence of multicellular organisms). On page 4, there is a picture that shows the Laetoli footprint from Tanzania. It is a reconstruction from the American  Museum of Natural History in New York. It get deeper later in the First Members of Genus Homo with a timeline and maps. The...

The chapter starts by talking about what is an empire. Their definition was that empires are simple states with political coercive power. They have compared the difference of empires between before and now. Each empire brought together traditions, religions, ideas, cultures and values. The Persian Empire The Persian had the largest and impressive empires of the world. They had between 35 to 50 million people. When ever the king passes away, every Persians will cut their hair in mourning and the manes of the horses cut short. An effective administrative system placed Persian governors, called satraps. Satrap collect taxes and was the supreme judicial authority. He also has the responsibility for internal security and maintaining an army. The Greeks The Greeks were an Indo-European people whose early history drew on the legacy of the First Civilizations. They created a similar civilization than the Persians. It took shape on a small peninsula, deeply divided by steps mountains and ...

Indus Valley Civilization Archeological treasures of the Indus Valley is very impressing. Sadly Indus Valley Civilization started to decline and archeologists uncovered its remarkable remains. They found some achievements and unique features about them. An example of an item that archeologist have found is a Seal. It may seem that there is a cow or a bull on it with some sort of writing using different symbols. Another art piece of work they found is a statue of seven inches tall found in Mohenjo Daro. The statue is named "Man from Mahenjo Daro". Researches found out that urban women played an important social and religion role in the Indus Valley civilization. During that time, figurine of women and goddesses were move popular than those of men. Archeologist found an figurine that seems to represent a women who is wearing dancing cloths. She also has her hair tied in either a specific or traditional way. The figurine doesn't seem to be that old. The only reason why...

Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa "Within the major civilizations, these so-called "little traditions" constantly with the "great traditions," and in societies that lay beyond the zone of civilization, such as those in Aboriginal Australia, they linked living human beings to the land,  to the vegetable and animals worlds, to their ancestors, and the gods or spirits that inhabited everything." pg. 148 "Chinese and Greek thinkers focused more on the affairs of this world and credited human rationality with power to understand that reality." pg. 148 "All the traditions sought an alternative to an earlier polytheism, in which the activities of various gods and spirits explained what happened in this world. These gods and spirits had generally been seen as similar to human beings, through much more powerful." pg. 148 "These enormously rich and varied traditions have collectively posed the great questions of human li...