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Jared Diamond Essays (Examples)

27 results for “Jared Diamond”.


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Thesis

Sociology

Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond in

Words: 650
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Thesis

Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond, in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, explains how he went from being a biologist, studying birds in New…

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2 Pages
Term Paper

Mythology - Religion

Organized Religion Jared Diamond in

Words: 545
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

The Italian cities prospered from the transport of Crusaders. Trade passed through Italian hands to Western Europe at a large profit that created a commercial power, which served…

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5 Pages
Essay

Agriculture

Growth and Development World Inequality

Words: 1442
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

Then, in 1000 a.D., Polynesian farmers colonized New Zeeland -- the group would break into two tribes, the Maori and the Moriori, who would later on collide (Diamond). In…

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2 Pages
Term Paper

Agriculture

Triumph of Western Civilization in the Book

Words: 790
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Triumph of estern Civilization In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, the historian and New Guinea anthropologist Jared Diamond argues that the geography and the environment of the est…

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1 Pages
Term Paper

Agriculture

Worst Mistake in the History

Words: 468
Length: 1 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Further, Diamond's argument that agriculture inherently provides less nutrition is less valid today, when a greater variety of food choices are available. hile he is correct in noting that…

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6 Pages
Essay

Transportation - Environmental Issues

Aldo Leopold and Environmental History in Answering

Words: 2037
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

Aldo Leopold and Environmental History In answering the question of whether the United States has improved on environmental policy since the 1930s, the cyclical nature of the political system must…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Agriculture

New York Times by Benedict

Words: 1321
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Diamond disagrees on two counts: The first is that technology has created "an explosion" of problems and the potential for solving them. Yet, the first thing that occurs…

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7 Pages
Research Paper

Drama - World

Societal Collapses Caused by Misuse of Environmental Resources

Words: 2396
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Societal Collapses Environmental determinism has long been out of favor among historians and social scientists, although well into the 19th Century even the majority of Westerners were highly dependent on…

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10 Pages
Essay

Economics

Presumption Often Promulgated by Scholars

Words: 4661
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Essay

They goal for globalization is to increase material wealth and the distribution of goods and services through a more international division of labor and then, in turn, a…

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6 Pages
Annotated Bibliography

Mythology - Religion

Chinese Religion

Words: 1839
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Annotated Bibliography

Samantha Vargas Chinese Religion Intro to Cultural Anthropology Ch'en, Kenneth K.S. Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1907-1964. In this text, Professor Kenneth Ch'en writes a historical account…

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5 Pages
Essay

Drama - World

Why We Fail

Words: 1690
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization" by Jared Diamond. With a BA from Harvard University and PhD from Cambridge University, as well as a vast amount of…

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8 Pages
Essay

Recreation

Conspicuous Consumption Design and Purpose

Words: 2507
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Essay

The notable exception to this layout of the various departments of the casino at The Venetian is again its Sports-ook, which is entirely rounded into a half-circle and therefore…

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5 Pages
Essay

Military

History Naval Warfare What Was Naval Power

Words: 2454
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

History Naval Warfare What was naval power in the age of sail and how did different sea going states exercise it from the period 1650-1850? "There is a deep landlubber bias…

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2 Pages
Case Study

Drama - World

Amerindians Wright What Is Your

Words: 819
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Case Study

Mann challenges the belief that superior weaponry was the main factor in the Inca loss to the Spanish. Give two examples of Inca weaponry or strategy that was viable…

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95 Pages
Dissertation

History - Asian

Traditional Se Asian Bamboo Flutes

Words: 28549
Length: 95 Pages
Type: Dissertation

Some Chinese researchers assert that Chinese flutes may have evolved from of Indian provenance. In fact, the kind of side-blon, or transverse, flutes musicians play in Southeast Asia have also…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Drama - World

History of State Formation Prompt

Words: 900
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Given that Christianity tended to view history as progressive, and Christ's sacrifice and the event of Christendom being the ultimate apex of earlier civilization, the past was often seen…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Drama - World

Accordingly Is Not Only an Account of

Words: 1265
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

accordingly, is not only an account of the human past, but also a projection of its future; a vision of an end determined and dominated by the est.…

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4 Pages
Business Plan

Business

Signet Group Competes in the

Words: 1355
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Business Plan

Samuel, Marks & Morgan, and a variety of other regional names. For the most part, Signet stores compete in the same middle mass market segment, with some brands…

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10 Pages
Term Paper

Art  (general)

Japanese Art of Balance

Words: 3502
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Japanese Art of Balance In Japanese culture there is a balancing act taking place. There is a definite ebb and flow, wax and wane to life. Here several aspects of…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Literature - Latin-American

Motivations for and Effects of

Words: 1802
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

In the 21st century, American, European, and Asian trans-national corporations (e.g., General Motors; Toyota; Coca Cola; IBM; Nestle, etc., build plants in Mexico and Latin America, where indigenous…

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11 Pages
Term Paper

Sociology

Sociology Mcdonald's There Are Numerous

Words: 3325
Length: 11 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Accordingly, the significance of the application of the conflict perspective to American food is that its accuracy is so blatantly valid that it has progressed almost unnoticed through…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Economics

Globalization Is Generally Understood to Be the

Words: 1535
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

globalization is generally understood to be the expansion of businesses and corporations to foreign markets either to expand their consumer base or to utilize a cheap workforce. However,…

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9 Pages
Term Paper

Native Americans

Native Peoples of the Aleutian Island Chain Specifically the Aleute Alutiiq

Words: 2861
Length: 9 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Native Americans The Aleutian Islands run from the Peninsula of Kamchatka in the Asiatic portion of Russia to Alaska. All the islands are bare and mountainous and the coasts rocky…

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2 Pages
Essay

Transportation - Environmental Issues

Joseph Tainter Sustainability What Does Moving Toward

Words: 628
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Joseph Tainter, Sustainability What does moving toward sustainability really entail? Joseph Tainter's article on "Social Complexity and Sustainability" makes a crucial distinction at the outset, differentiating sustainability from resiliency. Sustainability…

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2 Pages
Essay

Drama - World

Occidentalism the Title of Ian

Words: 753
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

These conservatives are, in the authors' estimation, anti-Western, even though they perceive themselves to be upholding Western values. But is this really a useful or complete understanding of the…

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10 Pages
Term Paper

Economics

Evolution of Civilizations as a

Words: 4219
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

, lands useful to man, but according to technical and conspicuous for purposes that each civilization. When business needs and adds prestige to urban heritage, religions, however, that mark their…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Business - Industries

Oceans & Plastic Pollution the

Words: 1338
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

9% of the turtles" -- and "plastics" dominated the debris found (Katsanevakis, p. 75). The list of plastic trash found in those turtles is too long to include in…

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