blog thing that was due the 15th

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On the left side of the chart it shows how things were started on the right side. I think it also shows the past and how things have progressed. For example as walls and towns progressed they eventually turned into open trade centers because things got more modern. Everything also progresses because other things on the chart progress. When food shortages were around no one got anything done, nothing was invented and everything stayed the same. But when a food surplus occured people had more time to invent things and stop working on their farm.

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I would definitely choose food shortage -> food surplus. Because that created so much opportunity for people to travel and trade and not tend to their farms. Without people being able to tend less to their farms, I don’t think half of the things on the list would have occurred as fast as they did. This includes food variety, the creation of open trade centers, as well as the expansions of horizons and trade routes.

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The age of enlightenment in my opinion was just a period of time where things progressed and improved. The word enlightenment means to be relieved of something and basically as things moved forward it made life easier for people and relieved them of a lot of their chores and tasks they had to complete. These tasks include things such as farming, trading fabrics and clothes for warmth and even hunting equipment.

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 During the age of enlightenment Voltaire influenced people with his literature and criticism of Christianity. He reminded the world that “all men are brothers under god” as he put it and he also set an example for people who followed deism. He believed that god created everything and made sure everything would work correctly with our influences.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/voltaire.html
This article explains Voltaire’s thought on government, religion, and democracy. It talks about how he influenced many of our founding fathers and how he spoke of liberty for all of mankind. It also talks about him using religion to influence government.


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Well iv had a lot of experiences that influence who I am today, but the one that probably impacts me the most is all of the different people I’ve met moving from school to school most of my life. There are a lot of people everywhere that are different, and I think I’m as understanding as I am because I’ve seen that in a lot of people. It’s kind of hard to explain, but if there’s any plus in moving as much as I have that’s all I can pull out of it.

How Machiavelli would evaluate Macbeth as a leader

machiavelli would think so greatly of macbeth, because macbeth followed so many of machiavelli's laws for leaders. machiavelli said "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." meaning if you have to hurt someone for any reason make sure they wont hurt you back and retalliate. Macbeth does this by killing everyone that may stand in his way of being king and living the high life. In his mind if he killed everyone in his way, they could never hurt him. macbeth also followed the principle that one change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. he did this by trying to kill banquo and florence, because if he leaves a path open for florence, he may estabolish himselve as one of the next kings on the throne.

king duncan - leadership

I dont really think king duncan was the best leader. Everyone thought he was such a great guy in the story, even mcbeth, but I thought he was way to trusting. He let macbeth know his plans and everything, but little did he know macbeth was trying to kill him to gain his spot on the throne. If he wouldn't have been so trustworthy of macbeth he'd probably still be alive for the rest of the story.

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Being loyal and honorable in Macbeth in my opinion are two different things. In order to be loyal you need to sacrifice something from yourself and follow the orders of a higher individual and to honor is to think greatly of someone, no matter how much power they have or what their social ranks are. In the story, being Macbeth it is great to be loyal to people, because the more loyal you are the more they honor you. but if you are honorable to just anyone, you gain too much trust in people you might not even know that could possibly betray you. This is close to what Duncan did with Macbeth. He trusted him way to much before he even knew him, and as we all know Macbeth will eventually kill him to take his spot on the throne.

Gender Roles

Lady Macbeth always speaks of Macbeth as this scared person that's really tender-hearted. She says that Macbeth "lacks the ruthlessness (pg 47)" to get greatness. she wishes she was more mean and wants to be what she thinks Macbeth should be. She's basically saying on page 49 that since shes a woman she is naturally tender and good-hearted, and Macbeth (being a man) should be mean and ruthless.

Appearance vs. Reality

Well the three sisters in Macbeth acted as if they were spirits and spoke to a higher power and such when they chanted around there cauldron . They were women but their appearance showed they had beards and were really disgusting to look at. Then when the sisters predicted both their futures they were really like, wow these people are crazy, and didn't believe them. They appeared to be real people, but in reality they must've been spirits of some such because they disappeared in the wind and, "turned into bubbles and evaporated (pg. 37)" .(pg. 37)

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

I think this quote is great for leaders in todays era because if you know if your opponent has good tactics, you know that he/she will be difficult to overcome. If you know the difficulty of something, you will know how much you need to prepare (or not need to prepare) when comfronting this person. Saving you energy in the long run and being one step ahead of them.