Monday, November 24, 2008

Survival- Early Human vs. Civilazation- kuala Lumpur

Our class in Humanities discussed about how our modern day tools/ resourses are different from the early men tools/ resourses. We made a chart called the "Wall of Thoughts" showing general categories for early men and Kuala Lumpur, with specific examples.
Here is the "Wall of Thoughts"
The Wall of Thoughts

Categories

Kuala Lumpur

Early Man

Food

  • Cold Storage
  • Fruit from backyard
  • Buy ingredients/make food
  • Berries and leaves
  • Hunt
  • Raw meat
  • Plants that aren’t poisonous
  • insects

Water

  • Bottled water
  • Filtered water
  • Bought water
  • Fountains, ice
  • boxes
  • Rivers
  • Lakes
  • Dig holes in ground
  • Streams, rain

Nature/Environment

  • We ruin it-global warming
  • Trees
  • Use fruits and edible plants
  • Tools
  • Food water
  • metal
  • Edible plants
  • Oxygen
  • Trees
  • Rivers
  • Caves
  • Sticks
  • Animal bones

Resources

  • Tools
  • Oil, Steal, Metal
  • Bricks, Plastic
  • Rubber
  • Lead
  • Tin copper gold
  • Wood
  • stones
  • fire
  • rocks
  • pot for cooking
  • bones
  • fire, rocks, wood
  • mud
  • plants

Shelters/buildings

  • apartment, house
  • condos
  • supermarkets
  • cabins, huts, shopping malls
  • caves, huts, simple huts
  • lean-to
  • trees and branches

Technology

  • computers
  • protection equipment
  • tools
  • factories
  • electricity
  • television
  • stairs, tables, oven, clothes, safes, refining
  • rocks, spears
  • hand axes
  • fire
  • hammer
  • bones, stones

Education

  • schools, tutors, jobs, parents, others,
  • “Does a learning environment have to be in a school?”
  • Like Mafatu, knew about nature
  • learning from elders
  • taught each other
  • learned from experience
  • hunting
  • making tools

Communication

  • languages, road signs
  • hand movements, gestures
  • talking
  • writing, reading
  • internet
  • books, movies, video, letters, email, body language, IMing
  • cave paintings
  • hand gestures
  • sign language
  • grunts noises

Transportation

  • bicycles, trucks, cars, etc.
  • bikes, horse, carriage
  • walking, jogging, trains
  • wheelchairs, cable cars, skateboards, rollerblades, speedboats, sailboats, surfboards
  • feet
  • walking, running

Economy

  • stock markets
  • government
  • community/cooperation
  • tourism/traveling
  • money, currencies
  • jobs
  • bartering
  • trading
  • jobs

Government/Politics

  • court, jury
  • people in charge
  • minister, president, king
  • mayor
  • placed ruler vs. elected ruler
  • teamwork
  • Law
  • chief
  • no designed ruler
  • families
  • teamwork

Belief System

  • Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, religions
  • Believing in yourself, not giving up
  • Consequences
  • Ceremonies
  • They did not have religions

Entertainment/Art

  • Games, tv, internet, movies, clothing, amusement parks, cinemas,
  • Music, artists, museums, books,
  • Dancing
  • Hunting ceremonies
  • Making necklaces, drawing on walls
  • Jewelry
  • Cave paintings

Culture

  • way of cooking, eating, dancing
  • dances, ceremonies
  • way of life
  • anthem
  • accessories
  • different values, food
  • dancing, cooking, hunt animals
  • celebrate for dead people
  • tribes

I thought that the Wall of Thoughts was a great way to express what you felt. Another reason I like the Wall of Thoughts is that once youu gather all the info/ opinions you can start commenting on others thoughts, and soon it becomes a huge conversation with everyone sharing their thoughts. In our conversation, a lot of my peers came up with great things such as my peer Krithika said that we have such an easy life compared to the early humans. For ex. if you were to have fish for dinner, and you were an early man you would have to go to the river, kill a fish, come back, clean it ect. As for us- modern humans, I can just go to the market, buy fish, come home, and cook it... in moments you have dinner. I added on to that comment by saying that our lifes have gotten a tiny bit harder in a way because back then the early humans didn't catch desieses from eating something like termites. as for now you could almost die. So ny final statement was that as we adapted to new things and we invented, we put less, and less effort into something like having fish for dinner. So in return our body kind of became more vulnerable to simple things like even fever.

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