P.S: u closed it while i was editing it so when i saved it said this page is blocked…
what should i do this is my information:

Kendrick Abreu Grullon 10-B

I think Africa is how it is because of their climate which were the deserts, savannas, and the rain forest. The desert takes up part of the area in Africa and was the less inhabitable for humans. this caused that most of the people in this region to focused only on surviving and not focus in their standard living or there economic stability. The savanna was the only climate where most of the African people could survive with their ancient ways very easy and it also sustains an abundant amount of agriculture which helped them survive. The rain forest was inhabitable but there use was not very helpful. the rain forest had poor soil for agriculture and it only was useful to get timber beside of that it was useless.

To answer this question I want you to:

•Use the knowledge acquired during your research for the quarter project;
•Think objectively, don´t use simple or stupid answers like "because they are black, or because they are poor".
You´re answering a question that has been around for a couple of decades now, so answer it as a professional.)

Reading at what I wrote, and by the way thanks Gaby, I don´t see the part in which it says that you should include it in your quarter project. Read Carefully.

In the event that any group leader fails to assign the "subtopics", as you called them, it dependes on the initiative of each student to write what he/she thinks is necessary.

To illustrate, I checked the wiki every day this week, and kept waiting for Eliecer to give our group subtopic assignments. On Thursday, he assigned a subtopic to Kendrick, Emily, Claudia, and himself. He reassured us that he would assign the rest of us a subtopic the following day.

Well, he did not. And it is Saturday, and the rest of our group did not receive the subtopic promised, as he gave to Emily, Kendrick, and himself. I've learned from previous group leaders that if they do not assign a subtopic, we should just post something ourselves. However, I was counting on the subtopic assignment and did nor receive it.

Just wondering what I should do about it.
Thanks :)

And yes Mr, that's a little confusing since it says that we should 'Include it in our quarter projects' but we already handed them in,
so I don't know if doing it in my notebook as an assignment or as Gabriela said, just add it to the wiki.

Thanks, Gaby H.:)

Note taken.

The first quarter is gone and the second is going to be more focus to quality than just participation, so be ready, because until know you have all done an excellent job.

Octavio A. Landolfi

Okay, the easy part is over, we already know how to wiki.

The first quarter is gone and the second is going to be more focused on quality rather than just participation, so be ready, because until now, you have all done an excellent job.

Octavio A. Landolfi

Africa From 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.

By: Katherine Pena 10 A

World History 10th

Mr. Octavio Landolfi

October 19th, 2009

First Quarter Evaluation

Presentation: This is where you put the title of the report, your name, your grade, the class, the teacher's name, the due date, and what it's for (in this case it's 1st quarter evaluation project), so on and so forth.

Introduction: You introduce the topics which are going to be further discussed throughout the report.

Body(you do not label this one): this is where the actual report goes. this is supposed to be five pages minimum, and here you will explain in detail the five topics Mr. Landolfi gave us to describe/explain.

Conclusion: This is where you wrap it up. You re-state in brief everything you explained in your body. Give an opinion, if desired. And try to make it all bind together as one idea, if you can.

Bibliography: this is where you provide the sources used as you were researching and reading. It would be best if you used the MLA formatting style to correctly cite the sources. You can google how to do it.

Hope it helps, Katherine :)

Because you told our class it had to be on paper, but then people from 10A are telling me that it's on the wiki, so I don't know what to do. :s

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/M9.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greeceancientgreece/g/andreia.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue

http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/a4.htm

So, I was wondering if there are any suggesting on how I should google it so that it shows up.

:)

As Mr. Octavio said, education is a key to opening our minds and letting us see things from outside the box. Unfortunately, depending on the upbringing of the person is how one obtains certain knowledge on different ideas and theories. Not just from how you learn things due to your setting (place which you are brought up), but due to every aspect of your circumstances. It has to do with your parents' upbringing as well, and the way they decided to let society mold their opinions on certain topics. It also has to do with your religion (and we all know that even though it is sad, this is one of the most cruel forms of differentiating people from one another, and it has been since the foundation of religion).

And I agree, everyone and anyone should have the opportunity to prove themselves, because honestly, that's all you need to do. Nobody should be intolerant of anyone else because everyone is created to have the same chances as anyone else. If society anywhere is just one big caste system, I guess we can still have hope that if we want it badly enough, we can change the circumstances for ourselves.

I have stated countless times that there is not one single racial or genetically difference to support this argument, all humans are the same. But at the same time we are not. Some people are stronger, others are faster, others are smarter, others are healthier and so on and so forth. Darwinism (the idea that the fittest (not the better) survive) is an undeniable truth in humanity. The problem comes when we have groups like the Nazis, Jews (yes the Jews), believe that THEY are the chose ones, the best ones, and then everything goes to hell from there on.

When we look at somebody that is in a worst economical situation than us or that comes from a "lower" social class, we immediately tend to look at them with disdain. Sadly social stereotypes are in most (not in all) cases truth. And they are like that because you are what you learn, and you learn from the place in which you are brought up. If you are raised in a higher social class you are going to behave in certain matter, but when you are raised in the slums your behavior is going to reflect that of the collectivity.

Education is a key to open our minds and to let us see things from outside the box. Everybody deserves the opportunity to demonstrate that they are more than we might think they are, that they are better human beings, that they are smarter, that they are more educated, that they are in essence more.

-

Albert Einstein

heading level 5

Kendrick: "Advanced Cities"
Steven: "Specialized Workers"
Gaby: Record Keeping and Writing and Complex Institutions
Eliecer: "Complex Institutions"
Claudia: Advanced Cities and Advanced Technology
Luis Alfredo: "Record Keeping and Writing"
Emily: "Advanced Technology"
Lily: Specialized Workers and Indus Valley

Each Square should be 20X20 Inches, so they all fit together.
Remember guys, this is due Friday. The day after tomorrow. We're all doing it on brown paper from Ninoska's office, so there isn't any purchase necessary. Please respond to the thread when you get this. Or send me an email, or write on my FB wall. Thanks guys :)

Language can be a little confusing due to the fact that the word homo was assigned to the specie before we new we were connected to the rest of the hominids, hence the confusion with the term ape.

Hope to have clear your doubts.

I also decided to google the Hominids and Homo difference [because I thought they were the same thing], but now I am confused. It said that Homo was a genus that included modern humans and all of their ancestors [which includes homo sapiens, homo erectus, homo habilis, etc.], and that Hominids are the Apes family.

Then it said that we [humans] are hominids but then, that means that Homo are also part of the hominids?

And I also wanted to know if we could do a 'wiki article' about that? :)

When we talk about humans we need to make the diference between Hominids and Homo, because there is an imporatnt distinction. The reason why there is not much information about our ancestors is that for the las 60 thousand years we have very much being by ourselves in the world, our time of shared planet is from the 60 thounsand b.c. going as far as 4 million years back, is a long period of time and bones and structures get pulverized.

They say that we are all descendants of those 3,000 people who left Africa, but what happened to the rest of the people? There must have been some people left in Africa, because I think that those who left could not the only people living on Earth at the time.

So, I was wondering if any archeologists ever found out anything about the people who didn't leave Africa. Because that would not make us all related to the 3,000 people, but to some more.

Religions are like culture, different, but none is better than the other, becacuse each religion is the way a different culture adapt those questions and their answers to their common life. All religions rest upon what we can roughly call "the same set of beliefs".

So try to keep it profesional, and good job girls.

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg

Maybe God did create this, or maybe it just started…
There are many, many different ideals of how the first homo sapiens came to life….

You see how we are said to derive from the hominid group? And how there were so many hominid species before us, until we actually became homo sapiens? If you look at it from a scientifical view, we could have just come out of nowhere and started to reproduce, thus evolving. But it's like Mr. Octavio said, like making ice cream. Maybe God, or whatever God you believe in, thought of the human species as His little experiment. In the book of Genesis, it states that God made man from dust. I'm guessing he had to observe his specimens until he realized that they weren't adequate enough to live in the world that He created for us, or just wasn't doing what He wanted us to. So he tried again, and again, until he saw how the homo sapiens, instead of adapting themselves to the Earth, they adapted Earth to their own needs.

So, even if, according to science, evolution is still happening, what if it isn't, and that's where we stopped because we were finally adequate enough to create civilzations and technology of our own?