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Question of the HW

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:39:53 +0000

Mr. Octavio for the homework of tomorrow yo gave me Thomas Moore to do… but my question is which Thomas is Thomas Moore or Thomas More because they are two different people??

Question?!?

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:16:37 +0000

Mr. i wanted to know if the chapter's you put up are due this week and was wondering how come you didn't put chapter's 16 and 19?

About Ch.13 wiki

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:28:03 +0000

Is the ch.13 "european middle ages" wiki page due this week or is it for the next week?

Random question

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:21 +0000

--— Never Mind, Thread Closed… -------

Group Leaders

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:22:44 +0000

I wish to know what the members of the groups are supposed to do if the group leader of the week gave some people certain subtopics, but not others.

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 :)

Assigments

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:40:32 +0000

Mr. Octavio, hope you don't feel bad, we correcting you all the time, but you wrote thing not think in "Why do you think Africa is the Way it is today?", about the assignment, are we supposed to put it up on the wiki or send it to you? I think if we add it to the wiki people could just copy what the other person said, so what should we do???:(

Thanks, Gaby H.:)

Corrections

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:13:13 +0000

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

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

quarter project

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:55:34 +0000

can we add pictures and what do you mean about presentation, what goes in presentation and conclusion, is the conclusion where you put the information about the african stuff??

Roman Empire Essay

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:50:29 +0000

Mr., is the essay 2 or 3 pages long, and how do we do it, single spaced, double spaced, font, however we want?! and is it based on the information or our opinion on the what we read.

Group 1(Caesar)

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:34:04 +0000

Mr.Octavio, where should we put our information about our project?
There's no place for that.

Roman Gens Mini Project

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Where is it that we have to put our information? on the wiki or on brown paper and all that?

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

Greek terms mini project

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:45:04 +0000

I got the virtue andreia, which means fortitude, and I can't find absolutely anything. I even tried googling it in Greek, and a whole bunch of greek websites showed up, and I (obviously) didn't understand. So, I don't want to google it as "fortitude" because you said it didn't mean the same thing. I also have Herodotus, which appears right away because he is a person…

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

Caste System: A one society controversy?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:38:33 +0000

I was thinking about the Aryan Caste system, and it suddenly popped out the image we have on our book about the caste; the head was for the Brahmins(priests),the hands for the Kshatriya(warriors), Vaisya(peasants and workers) with the feet and at the bottom(legs) the Sudras.
This caught my attention by the fact that if we do inferences with the image and the meaning its really interesting how they worshiped every class,it is exactly the same as we do.
For instance, the ones with the knowledge(head) are priests, teachers, even governers and so on.
Then, I googled this and it appeared to me several entries about how nowadays this caste is racist and how even throughout history its inflicted with the Holocaust and Nazism fundaments.
This was even one of the topics on board of The United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Durban, South Africa during August 28 and September 1, 2001"
Indian people complaining about their surrounding society…
Not to be redundant and saturant but this brought me a reminiscence about howI treat, you, they, we, us through poor people,Haitian people,Teachers, the girl from the cashier, the driver,etcetera and etcetera because we consider they're lower than us, they're not like us and vice versa, how people with scarcity of resources are eager to climb to the highest of the status.
My point is, caste system is not an Indian controversy in their society, the caste system is what we do everyday, how we think and how we behave; not Dominican', this is a worldwide issue, this is the waste of a space in our minds in the most worthless and vain thoughts I've ever done and presence in my life.

Albert Einstein

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10A Group 1 Indus Valley mini-project.

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:05:25 +0000

Each person gets a square to do. Remember the people who have the actual information in their squares should include photos, etc.
When I put the title in quotation marks, it means the actual information as opposed to the title. People with titles have the title in bold. i.e.: "Information" // Title

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 :)

Technical Problems: photo and video placing

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:25:52 +0000

Hey octavio or someone how do i put a photo to be next to each other not like a column of photos

Hand in, or E-mail

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:20:09 +0000

Since some of us didn't hand in the essays, would you prefer that we give it to you in class, or by e-mail. Would you also want us to e-mail everyday homework?

Other descendants

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:37:23 +0000

The other day in class, we discussed about 3,000 people [2,000 females; 1,000 men] that left Africa in order to explore the other parts of the world, and how that is how people started expanding to other continents, such as Europe and Asia. I decided to include that in my section 1 essay, but then I started thinking about the rest of the people.

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.

Evolution vs. Belief.

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:58:20 +0000

Ok, guys, I was doing the section 1 assessement the other day, and I had my bible right next to me. Not to stress any belief-related theories, but I thought long and hard about it and came up with my own ideals about what happened so many years ago.

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?