In Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is the response to a question Diamond had been asked by a New Guinean politician‚ Yali‚ in 1972. The question was‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people have little cargo of our own?” This refers to the inequality between many different civilizations‚ quite like how Europeans developed great objects and wealth that they used to dominate over other societies
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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My Response to the essay – “Don’t you think it’s time to start thinking?” by Northrop Frye In the piece “Don’t you think It’s time to start thinking?”‚ Northrop Frye takes on a powerful yet imposing tone wherein he makes it a fact rather than a perspective that a person’s ideas and thoughts don’t exist unless expressed using proper words. The title itself questions one’s thinking mechanism. It makes the reader wonder whatever he has been thinking is any thinking at all. The essay aims at people
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11‚000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that
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As stated within the first line of the poem‚ “How many times these low feet staggered-”. This line has an observant tone‚ asking how long a sick individual had been working. The last line of the first stanza‚ “Try- can you lift the hasps of steel!”‚ seems to further solidify that the person in the poem is sickly to the point of no longer being able to work. The second stanza confirms a death with the following statement: “Lift- it you care- the listless hair-”. Dead bodies are often described
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They simply had the good luck to live in a location where they were likely to receive advances. Another explanation lists the immediate factors that enabled Europeans to kill or conquer other people- especially European guns‚ infectious diseases‚ steel tools‚ and manufactured products (hints the title). These are the reasons Diamond has listed straight from his
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INSTITUTE OF LAW‚ NIRMA UNIVERSITY Project on Analysis on the developmental scenario of “IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY” in India. Submitted by: PATHMAJA RAGHUNATHAN (10BBL044) Subject: Legal Economics Programme: B.com L.L.B. (Hons.) Semester: 3rd Year: September‚ 2011 Submitted To: Prof. Arun Prasad (Course Coordinator) TABLE OF CONTENTS S.NO. CONTENT PAGE NO. 1. DECLARATION 04 2. CERTIFICATE 05 3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 06 4. CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Prelude Financial structure refers to the make-up of the right hand side of a company`s balance sheet‚ which includes all the ways it`s assets are financed‚ such as trade accounts payable and short-term borrowings as well as long-term debt and ownership equity. Each business will have a different mixture depending on its needs and expenses. This specific mixture of debt and equity that a company uses to finance all it`s operations directly affects the risk
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METAMORPHOSIS OF TATA STEEL -THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand‚ more perilous to conduct‚ or more uncertain in its success‚ than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." — Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532) "In times of rapid change‚ experience could be your worst enemy." — J. Paul Getty INTRODUCTION 1. Tata Steel is the largest steel company of the country and at present stands as the 10th largest steel firm in the
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