Blog #3- What does it take to be a good leader?

Question: What does it take to be a good leader?

What does it take to be a good leader? This is the question that leaders and people have been asking themselves for centuries. Well, the person needs to have good qualities like kindness, patience, and knowledge. But what about the appeal and respect to and from the people? There are so many answers to this question that it’s hard to answer with just one.

I think a good leader needs to be present in the lives of the people he or she is leading. For example, president Obama makes lots of addresses to the media and directly to the people so that he can stay connected with them. The people need to know what is going on in the government, and Mr. Obama is trying to do that, by being a good leader. A good leader also needs to respect the demands/requests of their people, like a democratic leader. Another example is the congress we have in our government today. They are delegates from every county in America, so that they can voice the opinions of the people, even from small towns. The congress tries to pass laws to help the people, and that way the president can know what all the people want, from every political party.

It is impossible to have a perfect leader, they will all make mistakes, but it takes so much to be at least a good one. Kindness, respect, being present, and even just being a good listener just to name a few traits of a good leader. I also think they need to be able to take control of a situation as well as be compassionate, and so much more are what it takes to be a good leader.

Blog #2

Jared Diamond's thesis- Geographical Luck!

I most certainly agree with Diamond's statement. I believe that the reason the people in the Middle East thrived so well was because of their land and their climate, all luck in their case. They could farm and set up steady civilizations. Unfortunately in Papua New Guinea, they didn't have so much luck. Their land is unfarmable, the weather too hot and the geography consisting of too much rainforest. The crops can't be stored and don't have much protein or nutrition.

Also, the land influences the people. For example, the people in the Middle East were able to farm, so they could sustain the whole community, allowing other people in their community to hold other specialty jobs. The people in the Middle East no longer hunt and gather for their food, in fact they haven't done so for several thousand years, their geography permitted them to advance into the modern age. The people in Papua New Guinea, though, still hunt nowadays, considering it one of the only ways of attaining food in the country. In the game of geographical luck, some win and others don't, and unfortunately for those who lose, they get to stay behind while the rest of the world propels into a new age.

Blog #1

The advantages of farming and agriculture outweigh the disadvantages significantly. The disadvantage is mainly how costly it would be to farm and create a self-sufficient agricultural environment. The main advantage of farming and agriculture is that, though it may be costly at first, when farmers have their own land and crops to grow, they can over time sell. They can also use them for food for themselves, making the farmer’s work self-sufficient. The advantages of farming and agriculture most definitely outweigh the disadvantages.