Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Most effective way for a ruler to maintain order.

In order for a leaser to maintain order they need to be someone that the people can relate to, and look up to. Someone they respect and honor, someone wise. My Rabbi,Rabbi Dardik, carries all these traits. He shows equal respect to al the members of the congregation, making sure all feel in a welcoming and safe environment, he shows compassion towards all. As a King or Ruler, one must also reach out to its nation, its people so that they know he respects them, and he can gain their respect as well. Another way my Rabbi leads our congregation, is he abides by ancient laws and interprets them for modern day use. A King uses the same method; he must create a sturdy set of rules and laws for his nation to carry out. This is also important for him because it shows that he is serious and at the same time keeps his kingdom in order. A last main way for a ruler to lead, is to be a wise person all around, someone people can honor, someone who people want to honor.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Jared Diamond's theory

I agree with Jared Diamonds thesis that the way our world has come to be based on crops and animals has to do with agricultural luck. Before farming people used to go from place to place and hint for good, building a home wherever meet was plentiful. After the ice age and farming was introduced, people started adapting and never looked back at their old way of life.
In some places, agricultural didn't come as easily. In Eurasia, although, crops grew nutritious and strong, getting an equal and steady balance between sun and rain. They learned how to control which food grew when and where. Soon, they started to domesticate animals; using them not only for meet but some became their beasts of burden and others, were used for milk, eggs, wool, and even their dung was used as fertilizer.
For the land of Eurasia transforming to agriculture was easy. However, to lands like New Guinea adapting to this new way of life was much more difficult. In new Guinea crops didn't flourish and even if so, they had no appropriate animals to help pull the plow or dung to keep the soul rich. The people here had to keep to the old hunter an gatherer life style. Even today their are still places one may see that life style being used.
Luck of the land played a major role in determining which lands were successful between the lands that never changed.