West Civilization Final Exam Question 4

      Herodotus was much more general and opinionated. His writing was brief and he may have missed important details. The article i selected for him was much more general and did not go into great depth about the topics. Also, it was more of an opinion formate than a straight up news article. 

     Thucydides was more about the straight up facts of the matter. He was extremely detail oriented in his work. the article i choose for him was just a normal factual article that is most concerned with getting the information out for people to see and then form an opinion for themselves.

Herodotus: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/is-ubs-headed-downtown/?ref=sept112001

Thucydides: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/opinion/01wed1.html?_r=1&ref=sept112001

West Civilization Final Exam Question 3

The Greeks believed that in an underworld deep below the earth. It was a horrible place where Hades and his wife ruled over numerous shadows of people who had died. At the moment of death, the Greeks believed that “psyche” which is the spirit of the dead left the body. Once this happens the body oculd be prepared and buried according to the burial rites set forth. A proper burial was extremely important beginning with the prosthesis, lying out of the body; the ekphora, funeral procession, and then the body was cremated. A big grieving period was especially important. The Egyptian afterlife was similar to the Greeks, but also very different.  The Egyptians believed in something called the Ka and how your spiritual heart  would be weighted to determine your Ka's fate. Also, like the Greeks they had very specific burial rites that have to be followed. Finally, most importantly the Egyptian's had the pryimaids.

Bibliography

BUDGE, E. A. (1985). The Book of the Dead. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/

Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece. (n.d.). Retrieved June 8, 2011, from Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dbag/hd_dbag.htm

West Civilization Final Exam Question 2

1) The agricultural revolution was extremely important for many reasons. During this time people began to settle down in one spot giving up their nomadic lives of following the food for farming. Kin result of everyone staying in one place villages and eventually cities were born. This idea of growing food themselves through farming brought big change and farming really took off. Jobs were created by farming as well. People were needed to take care of the crops, protect it, teach others how to do it, take care of people who got hurt, and so on. Overtime as more and more people settled down trade began. Villages would exchange their goods for other more exotic goods or for protection. All of this would eventually lead to the building of roads and bridges to help link villages so that trade could be easier. The agriculture revolution changed the world for the better. It was a huge step in a positive direction.

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3) The Agricultural system we have today is literally our life support system. People do not realize the enormous impact it has on our lives. Imagine going to the grocery store to find nothing but meat, and not that much of it. Your diet would consist solely as protein and water. Our bodies are so used to a variety of plentiful food fully of many different nutrThe Agricultural system we have today is literally our life support system. People do not realize the enormous impact it has on our lives. Imagine going to the grocery store to find nothing but meat, and not that much of it. Your diet would consist solely as protein and water.
       Also, entire civilizations would be turned up side down. The mass chaos would be insane and people would be running to buy guns and weapons. hunting would increase, as well as violence. People would end up fighting over food. The insanity that would be left behind if our agricultural system failed would be devastating and i honestly am not sure how some people would be able to recover.

West Civilization Final Exam Question 1

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Worst Job Ever Blog Post

In class, we watched a video on the worst jobs in history especially concentrated in the Middle Ages. All of the jobs would be horrible to have, but I would say being a leech collector would be the absolute worst job to have. First off, leeches are absolutely discussing. In fact, in order to collect them you have to wiggle around and hope they would attach to you. These worms with character repulse me as I hate bugs and worms in general. Woman at that time would be knee deep with disgusting leeches hanging off their legs biting them and sucking the woman’s blood. In order to find them, you had to wade into marshes. The whole idea sounded absolutely horrible. Archers also has particularly gruesome job. Personally, it has a special dislike to me. They would have to kill all of the people left over after battles. Also, if they were captured they would have their fingers sliced off. Also, barber sergeants sound horrible. For one thing, they would have to remove limbs from patients with no anesthetics. I am not sure if I could do that. In addition to this, they do very many other things. They would shove medicine up disturbing places trying to make you feel better. Worst of all it didn’t work even though they thought it did. All of these jobs are repulsing, but these three are particularly upsetting to me.

Third Crusade Children's Book

By: Hope and Megan

Amazing History of Hope Kelly

Hope Kelly attended her first year of high school at the John Carroll School. Participating in the Girls Soccer program, she played on the JV soccer team starting. Over the course of the year she learned a lot and changed as person, as she faced new challenges and met new people. Her year at John Carroll was exciting and memorable. Hope learned a lot about herself through the late nights, the bad days and the god, tough classes, and motivational teachers.

When Hope first came to John Carroll, she was definitely focused on her studies and playing for the soccer team to give her talents to the school. She met tons of great new people and survived the freshman struggles of figuring out the lockers and not embarrassing herself to much. Although, when Hope looks back, she realizes that she had not yet made the change to really embracing John Carroll. To her, it was just another school but bigger with more work. As the year went on though John Carroll became more than just another school, but it became a home. Hope really created a bond with some of the teachers and began to make even more friends creating memories and bonds that would last a life time.

Going into the year, Hope remembers a lot of typical freshman problems I had. For one thing, the freshman on the soccer team were definitely hassled a little; although, not as bad as rumors seemed to say. Hope has lamented the fact of carrying the dreaded water back and forth from the locker room to the soccer field. Inside of school, Hope’s greatest problem was coming from private school figuring out lockers. The upper classmen though were great and always helpful.

Hope will never forget her first year at John Carroll. The people and things I have been taught have changed her forever. Most importantly John Carroll has taught Hope many life lessons and also changed her idea of school. It is no longer a boring place you go to learn, but a home with a second family.