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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
final draft of death penalty speech
2nd post WAC conference paragraph
sources and works cited format first draft page
debate speech outline format very rough first draft
The Creation of Creation
-”Me ? A creator? This who entire universe is mine to create with?”
-”My young creation……..that is all you ever have to do because when you try you have already defeated and overcome failure. You have never restricted or limited on time or space to create . Whatever dreams you can strum up from a slumber , any story you wish to see become real, any form of existence you wish to give life to and allowing that existence to have all the same gifts love and joy you receive . Not to mention permitting that life freedom and free will to have choices if they desire to make them. The way you see fit to develope your universe will be solely up to you and never questioned. You have infinite space and infinite time to fill that space however you wish to. You will never be perfect. You will make many mistakes. Please young one do not ever feel flawed because of it. You just need to remember that if disasters occur or at times ideas go array it is all part of your learning process. Sort of a trial and error concept.
- “Creator , This responsibility seems like punishment more than a gift to me.
- “Yes I do understand that now. I like that idea and like you said creator…...Ideas are far better than beliefs . Ideas can be modified and improved on. This is so much of a responsibility thou , you are certain I am ready for it?”
- “Creator , there are just two other things I must know if I may ask of you?”
- “Oh creator before I go off on my journey……”
- “Yes young one?”
- “I love you father!”
post WAC conference
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Do you ever wonder why
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The men and women of thw armed forces
Honoring the men women who serve in the US Military Is Never Done often enough in my opinion. From green lights on my front back porch to American flag hanging from my porch walkway and saluting anytime I see somebody in the uniform and thanking them for their service it's only a small bit of what we could all do you think of men and women who fight for our country will fight to protect our country who fight without asking questions and put their lives on the line without thinking twice in order to preserve an idea there was brought forth from our forefathers and even if the Constitution has been stretched and twisted to suit the people in office now the fact Still Remains that our men and women of the service Armed Forces deserve our respect and we should act accordingly though they may not be held accountable for what they forced to defend they do defend it in our name in our honor and with her best interests in mind and that's what we should be honoring every chance we get. End of story
Monday, May 15, 2017
Good with the bad
We all have to take the good with the bad but why does it seem like the bad always has to outweigh the good
Closing moments of my first school year .
As I gave my final final tomorrow for Western Civilization. I am actually feeling very good about the way I finished . I started great and Midway lost it for a while but it's never how u start but how u finish that matters.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
My wwe 2k16 apppearance
https://youtu.be/W4XNKv7azPs
This is a joke someone made a character of me and posted it on utube. Lol
Monday, May 1, 2017
West civ notes 6
West civ notes
Ishtar goes away due to moon god farmers don't like
Priests oppose and defy most
Mesopotamian cities biggest celebration festival abolished
Going against elite with no mass support bound to fail
Zarathustra . zaroster one good god and one bad god dualism
Ahuras good god
Daiva's bad god
Arta asha judgement persian
Equivalent is ma at
Middle king egypt when ma at originated
Ma at equivalent for mesopotamia didn't come while all was chaotic
Persia created order to employ
Ma at was soul on a scale
Arta was cross a thin or little bridge to cross to the good afterlife if you were bad bridge was weak and you were likely to fall
Book of job was stated that satan told god that your number one guy praises you cause you give him so much , take it all away and you will see that he won't and god made the bet and took all away and when job questions god he says u have no right to ask me that
Pharaoh pepi 2 ruled near the end of the old kingdom for about 90 years
Capital city of old K egypt was memphis
Art flourished during old period
Old k is sometimes referred to as the age of the pyramids
Lasted from 2181 bce to 2055 bce
Old kingdom ended in chaos
Egypt had 3 eras old middle and new kingdom
Part one was centered around control and how to keep order
Book of job is one of great classic writings in the world of literature
The story of job is a wager between satan and yahweh
Satan swears no one serves under yahweh without selfish motives
The 3 friends try to tell job over and over that he must have done something to deserve such punishment
Book of job does not present concrete solutions about why innocent people suffer
Author of job intent was to challenge the view presented by profits and historians to the effect of why suffering is evidence of wrongdoing.
Chariots became means of transport to travel controlling larger areas
Second wave of immigration 1200 to 800 dorian invaders
Disruption cause wide spread of iron originally discovered by the hittites who tried to keep it secret
Carbon was discovered by accident
Babylonian 1800 bce hammurabi
Egypt new kingdom 1570 - 1100
Assyria 1000 - 600
Persia 550 - 330
Hyksos slang for those who invaded and for centuries ruled egypt because they felt they were better than anyone else
Moguls attacked and controlled russia almost 3 centuries
Sumerians battle 3500 create culture
Akkadians settle 2300 create order
The relationship between two similar like greek and roman
Roman provided order greece provided culture
Monumental architecture not movement here
Focus of mes this like is how supposed to be
Forest theme order
Statues organizers THESE by myths
Empire is a multi state
Myths help create and control environment.
West civ notes 5
Western Civ Notes.
Words to google
Eunomia
Isonomia
Spartans avoid commerce why?
Professor wrightson theory is the italians fear death the most because they eat the best
Warrior aristocracy
500 bushmen 1 bushman for 1 drachma
Gave merchants who didn't own land equality overthrowing warrior aristocracy
500 aristocrats
500-300 horsemen cavalry
300-200 hoplites weak armor
200 rowers navy
Poverty and overpopulation egypt's big issue
Athens council chosen by lottery
Pisistratus
Pericles
Socrates
Plato
Abstract family gives individuality give or serve the polis gives u more praises as individual
Order / chaos mesopotamia and egypt
Reason for greatness same reason for demise hummus
Achilles alexander the great (second coming of achilles) both individuals
Alexander great disobeyed and betrayed dad
Egypt had Me at
Mesopotamia had book of hammurabi
Supplemental food supply was done planting crops in foothills and agriculture began
Egypt had predictable nile
Mesopotamia had tigris and euphrates rivers very unpredictable and destructive
Growing crops leads to food surplus to growing population leads to more etc.
Egypt's 3 kingdoms old middle and new kingdom
Amun and ra were two mythical figures that new kingdom combined to make the amun-ra
Hammurabi preached that the after life consists of dark cave and drinking sand and eating clay so live in the now
Egypt lived by the be good now so that u have paradise in the afterlife if soul outweighs feather u r doomed
God of mesopotamia marduk god of chaos
Democracy comes from forced equality
Bronze made with copper and tin
Iron discovered by accident
Goddess timet believed to be god caused chaos
Osiris god of vegetation
ra/re is god of sun
Hypothesis made by finding same thing written in 3 different ways
3 regions had rice china wheat mesopotamia and corn .
Nomadic women discovered agriculture
If u build a house and it collapse killing someone son your son must die too eye for an eye situation
West civ notes 4
New Western Civilization notes
Epic of Gilgamesh - Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC). These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets of it have survived. The later "Standard" version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipit Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep", in modern terms: "He who Sees the Unknown"). Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
The first half of the story discusses Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop Gilgamesh from oppressing the people of Uruk. After an initial fight, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close friends. Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain and defeat Humbaba, its monstrous guardian. Later they kill the Bull of Heaven, which the goddess Ishtar sends to punish Gilgamesh for spurning her advances. As a punishment for these actions, the gods sentence Enkidu to death.
In the second half of the epic, distress about Enkidu's death causes Gilgamesh to undertake a long and perilous journey to discover the secret of eternal life. He eventually learns that "Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands".[1][2] However, because of his great building projects, his account of Siduri's advice, and what the immortal man Utnapishtim told him about the Great Flood, Gilgamesh's fame survived his death.
Ethical monotheism - Ethical monotheism is a form of exclusive monotheism in which God is the source for one standard of morality, who guides humanity through ethical principles.
Code of hamarabu -
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The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.
Mesopotamia - was a historical region situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.
Widely considered to be one of the cradles of civilization by the Western world, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires.
The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.
Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire. Mesopotamia became a battleground between the Romans and Parthians, with western parts of Mesopotamia coming under ephemeral Roman control. In AD 226, eastern part of it fell to the Sassanid Persians. Division of Mesopotamia between Roman (Byzantine from AD 395) and Sassanid Empires lasted until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire and Muslim conquest of the Levant from Byzantines. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.
Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC.[citation needed] It has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy and agriculture."[1]
Egypt - Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River ...
Roman and Byzantine Egypt: 30 BC–641 AD
Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt: 332–30 BC
Sasanian Egypt: 619–629
Greek mythology -
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Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece.
Bronze age - The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
Assyrians - Assyria was a major Mesopotamian East Semitic-speaking kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East. It existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC in the form of the Assur city-state, until its lapse between 612 BC and 599 BC, spanning the Early to Middle Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age.
Tyranny - A tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos), in its modern English usage, is an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or person, or one who has usurped legitimate sovereignty. Often described as a cruel character, a tyrant defends his position by oppressive means, tending to control almost everything in the state.[1][2] The original Greek term, however, merely meant an authoritarian sovereign without reference to character,[3] bearing no pejorative connotation during the Archaic and early Classical periods. However, it was clearly a negative word to Plato, a Greek philosopher, and on account of the decisive influence of philosophy on politics, its negative connotations only increased, continuing into the Hellenistic period.
Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as "one who rules without law, and uses extreme and cruel tactics–against his own people as well as others".[4] It is defined further in the Encyclopédie as a usurper of sovereign power who makes his subjects the victims of his passions and unjust desires, which he substitutes for laws.[5] During the seventh and sixth centuries BC, tyranny was often looked upon as an intermediate stage between narrow oligarchy and more democratic forms of polity. However, in the late fifth and fourth centuries BC, a new kind of tyrant, the military dictator, arose, specifically in Sicily.
Tyranny includes a variety of oppressive types of government – by a tyrant (autocracy), by a minority (oligarchy, tyranny of the minority) or by a majority (democracy, tyranny of the majority). The definition is extended to other oppressive leadership and to oppressive policies. For example, a teacher may find the school administration, the textbook or standardized tests to be oppressive, considering each to represent a tyranny.
Persian empire - Persian Empire refers to any of a series of imperial dynasties centered in Persia (modern–day Iran). The first of these was the Achaemenid Empire established by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC with the conquest of Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires. It covered much of the Ancient world when it was conquered by Alexander the Great. Several later dynasties "claimed to be heirs of the Achaemenids". Persia was then ruled by the Parthian Empire which supplanted the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, and then by the Sassanian Empire which ruled up until mid 7th century.[1]
It is important to note that while many of these empires referred to themselves as Persian, they were often ethnically ruled by Medes, Babylonians, or Parthians. [2] Persian dynastic history was interrupted by the Arab Muslim conquest of Persia in 651 AD, establishing the even larger Islamic Caliphate, and later by the Mongol invasion.
The main religion of ancient Persia was the native Zoroastrianism, but after the seventh century, it was replaced by Islam.
In the modern era, a series of Islamic–notably Shiite–dynasties (e.g. Safavids and Afsharids) ruled Persia independently of the Arab/Turkic Sunni [clarification needed] caliphates, who became Persia's classical rival, like the pagan Romans and Christian Byzantines had been before.
Since 1979 and the downfall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Persia has a Shiah theocratic government.
Ancient citys states empires -
A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories. Historically, this included cities such as Rome, Athens, Carthage,[1] and the Italian city-states during the Renaissance—but today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which are city-states. A great deal of consensus exists that the term properly applies to Singapore, Monaco, and Vatican City.
A number of other small states share similar characteristics, and therefore are sometimes also cited as modern city-states. Namely, Qatar,[2][3] Brunei,[4] Kuwait,[4][2][5] Bahrain,[4][2] and Malta,[6][7][8][9] which each have an urban center comprising a significant proportion of the population, though, all have several distinct settlements and a designated or de facto capital city. Occasionally, other small states with high population densities, such as San Marino, are also cited,[4][10][11] despite lacking a large urban centre characteristic of traditional city-states.
Several non-sovereign cities enjoy a high degree of autonomy, and are sometimes considered city-states. Hong Kong and Macau, along with independent members of the United Arab Emirates, most notably Dubai and Abu Dhabi, are often cited as such.[4][10][12]
Polis - Polis (/ˈpɒlᵻs/; Greek: πόλις pronounced [pólis]), plural poleis (/ˈpɒleɪz/, πόλεις [póleːs]) literally means city in Greek. It can also mean a body of citizens. In modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state".
The Ancient Greek city-state developed during the Archaic period as the ancestor of city, state, and citizenship and persisted (though with decreasing influence) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning "citizenhood", while municipium applied to a non-sovereign local entity. The term "city-state", which originated in English (alongside the German Stadtstaat), does not fully translate the Greek term. The poleis were not like other primordial ancient city-states like Tyre or Sidon, which were ruled by a king or a small oligarchy, but rather political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens. The traditional view of archaeologists—that the appearance of urbanization at excavation sites could be read as a sufficient index for the development of a polis—was criticised by François Polignac in 1984[1][a] and has not been taken for granted in recent decades: the polis of Sparta, for example, was established in a network of villages. The term polis, which in archaic Greece meant "city", changed with the development of the governance center in the city to signify "state" (which included its surrounding villages). Finally, with the emergence of a notion of citizenship among landowners, it came to describe the entire body of citizens. The ancient Greeks did not always refer to Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and other poleis as such; they often spoke instead of the Athenians, Lacedaemonians, Thebans and so on. The body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece.
The Greek term that specifically meant the totality of urban buildings and spaces is ἄστυ (pronounced [ásty]
Hubrus - Hubris(/ˈhjuːbrɪs/, also hybris, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous over-confidence.[1] In its ancient Greek context, it typically describes behavior that defies the norms of behavior or challenges the gods, and which in turn brings about the downfall, or nemesis, of the perpetrator of hubris.
The adjectival form of the noun hubris is "hubristic". Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may unintentionally suffer consequences from the wrongful act. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities. Contrary to common expectations, hubris is not necessarily associated with high self-esteem but with highly fluctuating or variable self-esteem, and a gap between inflated self perception and a more modest reality.
Hubris is generally considered a sin in world religions[clarification needed]. C. S. Lewis writes, in Mere Christianity, that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."[
Ililad - The Iliad (/ˈɪliəd/;[1] Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς Ilias, pronounced [iː.li.ás] in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning. Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' imminent death and the fall of Troy, although the narrative ends before these events take place. However, as these events are prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, when it reaches an end the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War.
The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer. Along with the Odyssey, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the 8th century BC.[2] Recent statistical modelling based on language evolution gives a date of 760–710 BC.[3] In the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the Iliad contains 15,693 lines; it is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects.
Synthesis - In general, the noun synthesis (from ancient Greek σύνθεσις, σύν "with" and θέσις "placing") refers to a combination of two or more entities that together form something new; alternately, it refers to the creating of something by artificial means.
Sparta , Athenians peloponnesian war - city-state of Athens was the birthplace of many significant ideas. Ancient Athenians were a thoughtful people who enjoyed the systematic study of subjects such as science, philosophy, and history, to name a few.
Athenians placed a heavy emphasis on the arts, architecture, and literature. The Athenians built thousands of temples and statues that embodied their understanding of beauty. Today the term "classical" is used to describe their enduring style of art and architecture.
Athenians also enjoyed a democratic form of government in which some of the people shared power.
Sparta: Military Might
Life in Sparta was vastly different from life in Athens. Located in the southern part of Greece on the Peloponnisos peninsula, the city-state of Sparta developed a militaristic society ruled by two kings and an oligarchy, or small group that exercised political control.
Ares, Greek god of war
Ares Borghese, 420 B.C.E. Photo © Maicar Förlag — GML
Ares, the Greek god of war, was a particularly fitting patron for Sparta, which was known to be a rather warlike society. When they weren't fighting another city-state, Spartans were honing their military skills in preparation for the next battle.
Early in their history, a violent and bloody slave revolt caused the Spartans to change their society. A Spartan, Lycurgus, drafted a harsh set of laws that required total dedication to the state from its people. The laws' goal was to train citizens to become hardened soldiers so that they could fight off potential enemies or slave revolts. The result was a rigid lifestyle unlike any seen in Greece at the time. The devotion of Spartans to developing a military state left little time for the arts or literature.
A Spartan baby had to be hardy and healthy. To test a baby's strength, parents would leave their child on a mountain overnight to see if it could survive on its own until the next morning. By age seven, Spartan boys were taken from their families and underwent severe military training. They wore uniforms at all times, ate small meals of bland foods, exercised barefoot to toughen their feet, and were punished severely for disobedient behavior. Boys lived away from their families in barracks until the age of 30, even after they were married. Men were expected to be ready to serve in the army until they were 60 years old.
Women, too, were expected to be loyal and dedicated to the state. Like men, women followed a strict exercise program and contributed actively to Spartan society. Although they were not allowed to vote, Spartan women typically had more rights and independence than women in other Greek city-states.
Winning by Losing
The differences between Athens and Sparta eventually led to war between the two city-states. Known as the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.), both Sparta and Athens gathered allies and fought on and off for decades because no single city-state was strong enough to conquer the others.
The whole of Hellas used once to carry arms, their habitations being unprotected, and their communication with each other unsafe; indeed, to wear arms was as much a part of everyday life with them as with the barbarians. [2] And the fact that the people in these parts of Hellas are still living in the old way points to a time when the same mode of life was once equally common to all. [3] The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life; indeed, it is only lately that their rich old men left off the luxury of wearing undergarments of linen, and fastening a knot of their hair with a tie of golden grasshoppers, a fashion which spread to their Ionian kindred, and long prevailed among the old men there.Thuycidides, The Peloponnesian War, (1910 translation by Richard Crawley)
With war came famine, plague, death, and misfortune. But war cannot kill ideas. Despite the eventual military surrender of Athens, Athenian thought spread throughout the region. After temporary setbacks, these notions only became more widely accepted and developed with the passing centuries.
West civ notes 3
Western civ notes
Epic of Gilgamesh greatest work of Mesopotamian literature 2000 BCE utilizing legends about Gilgamesh a historical figure who ruled the city of uruk 2600 BCE . Accept reality there is no escape from death .
Code of hammurabi issued about 1790 -1750 BCE by Babylonian king code of laws 782 laws cover everything from marriage marriage crime punishment and legal procedure . Prologue to the code reveals Mesopotamian concept of a priest king in it he assured he had divine duty to uphold justice punish the wicked and further the welfare of the people eye for an eye and pay for monetary compensation .
Scientific thinking viewed physical nature impersonal and governed by universal law
Mythical thinking views nature as personified with individual
Gods and demons do things according to their desires .
Ethical monotheism the belief that one God who demands righteous of his creations
Mesopotamia and Egypt laws were given by the gods
Greeks came to realize laws created by man.
Paleolithic ,60000-10000
Neolithic 10000-3000
Bronze age 3000-1000
Egypt 2700 - 323
Assyrian 911-612
Persian 550-330
Babylonian 612-539
Iron 1200 on
Symmerian earliest civilization created due to climate change Mesopotamia had to alter way of life
Symmerian city women and slaves prepared meals were in the home so to speak
Barley south wheat North
Veggies cheese dates figs fish all supplement diet and calories came from beer ale
Euphrates and Tigris rivers flooded it was an angry act of God for them being too loud when he was sleeping.
People viewed themselves as.slaves of gods
Demons caused illness
2800 writing and documenting laws and history began.
Babylonian king employed code of hammurabi
In this society women had rights could hold position of power etc
Architecture said a lot of a society and it's values and behavior .
1560 Egypt rebelled against the hyksos .
Warrior aristocracy
Architecture
Order
1200 BCE iron discover by accident
Assyrian had skilled armies
579 Babylonian fell to Persia with very little struggle .
Greek city states had four stages ruled by King was monarchy
Seized by power tyranny's
Ruled by people democracy
Aristocrats and landowners obligatory
Solon was traveling and poet
Sophists said man is measure of all things meaning good and evil truth and false hood are all matters of individualism judgement
Dialectics logical discussions
Mass media notes 2
Mass media notes
Read vivian
See d 2 l
Sign up for WAC
Books burn at 451 degrees
Lady posing as wife called in sick for mantag
Old lady in fahrenheit 451 burnt up with her books.
Observer is black community pub
Gone with wind is first pioneer color movie
Wiz of oz really was in 1918 and 1912 king and queen of india
Coca cola own sony pix
Sitcom drama news reality are 4 of the 5 genres of tv
Disney was a pioneer of animated films.
Pixar by gates bought out by disney
Multiplexes
6 major film studios fox sony warner bros walt disney universal
Jazz singer first talking picture
Time shifting ability to change when you watch things making selling ads too hard and impossible
1949 cable introduced
1946 movies sold 90 million tickets weekly
Record company label .60 apple .40 artist .20 and writer .09 this is breakdown from itunes profit.
Who owns the bee?
Bee sunday circulation up but rest of week sales down.
Mcclatchy company owed bee
Walt disney invented the bee symbol
The end station ends on feb 4 back to FCC shut original seller up who pissed and moaned.
106.5 from 107.9 now |KUDL no star!
Ida Tarbell exposed standard \oil and jon rockefeller
Read vivian forum post my take terrestrial radio define am and fm radio
Satellite radio define sirrus
First license commercial kdka 1020 est 1920
E is east of mississippi west has w and k and canada has c and mexico has x for call letters
David sarnoff former ceo of rca nbc
Ed marrow pioneer of RT news communist
Am radio reaches further
Top contemporary hit radio top 40
Radio always best for breaking news unless internet avail
Scholarship essay 3
James Saling
Course Hero
Scholarship Essay
What makes a hero?
What makes someone a hero ? A hero comes in many forms and can be even only in the eye of the beholder. There are average everyday people that a single act of heroism can turn them into someone special in everyone's eyes . So when it pertains to a “course hero” it is hard not to let this title fall on the instructor of the course itself.
When registering for classes a course name alone jumps off the page and it's description alone intrigues enough to make someone sign up for it that is a good sign that it's probably right up your alley as the saying goes . Now if the professor is listed and reviews about him are nothing but raving compliments this makes a solid foundation of what has the making of a “course hero” worthy essay.
“Race and Gender in the Media” is the course name and even though this is suppose to be an essay about me and my work and studying and what made me score the grade I did I instead had to make this about the real course hero which is the instructor Alan Miller .
This course provided by American River College as part of their communication AA or AA transfer degree program is for those interested in journalism , becoming a writer or even someone just wanting to further their own critical thinking skills . The class syllabus is basically the outline , for lack of a better term , the blueprint for a “fun ride" . So then comes the “Devil's advocate” . Allen Miller likes to introduce himself as this upon the beginning of class as he asks everyone to introduce themselves . By adopting this m.o. he takes on the unique task of raising eyebrows ,issues and even students gander in the hope to spark debates and great conversations .
So why make him the course hero? Well the premise of the essay topic is to explain how I succeeded and what I did to succeed and so on . My success had very little to do with myself more than the professor his guidance , understanding and compassion for his students . Therefore I cannot accept the success I had with this course and the outcome of my grade or more importantly the outcome of my character ,resolve and ability to think outside the stratosphere let alone the box .
As for my grade earned , that is irrelevant however if this was 2 soldiers in a war then then I'd probably receive the purple heart and my professor Alan Miller would have to be awarded the “Medal of Honor”. He is truly a “Course Hero” that any young mind should feel privileged to receive mentoring from.
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Died: March 16, 37 AD, Miseno, Italy
Full name: Tiberius Claudius Nero
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Died: October 13, 54 AD, Rome, Italy
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Died: June 9, 68 AD, Rome, Italy
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Assassinated: December 31, 192 AD, Rome, Italy
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