Mitchell Bortz 9-22-11 History 101 Hollenback Document Analysis #1 Question #1 In the time of the Aztec civilization, great strides were taken to keep everything in what I would call, “working order.” The Aztecs were very religious people who did whatever was needed to be done to please their main gods Quetzaquatal and Tezcatlipoca. Human sacrifice was the main form of pleasing the Gods and keeping the cosmos from being destruction. In my opinion, some of the things that were done to the people being sacrificed were very extreme. Some examples would be the rituals they performed. They included decapitation, burning of the body, strangulation, arrow sacrifices, etc.
• It is ironic that Athena is praying to the gods, because she is one and is fulfilling her own prayer. I guess she has to in order to stay disguised, so she puts courage into his mind. Later, she probably reveals her identity because people will be more willing to help Telemachos if he has a god helping him. • The heifer that they sacrificed shows that people are willing to kill innocent creatures in order to make their life better. The reason people make sacrifices is to please gods, right?
A decent number of people have heard of the Passover celebration but aren’t always completely accurate with the events that occur during this section in the Bible. Passover is a festival to honor the Lord for passing the Israelites over and protecting them from when the Lord punishes the Egyptians. In order for the people to be protected, the Lord sent Moses to tell the community on the tenth day the man of each household would have to get one healthy lamb for his family; this secured the family from danger. The men would also have to care for the lamb until the fourteenth day of the month when the entire community is forced to slaughter their well lived lamb at twilight. Prior to eating the lamb, each man had to take the blood and smear it on the doorposts of the house.
Han China used a philosophy known as Confucianism and Imperial Rome had religious tolerance meaning people could follow any religion they would like. The main religion in Rome was Christianity. In Han China, Confucianism was used by the government. Everyone was encouraged to follow the ideals and -teachings of Confucianism by the government. This could have contributed to the long reign of the Han because there was there would be virtually no fighting or persecution between people of different beliefs because mostly everyone followed the same philosophy.
Cattle were often left dead and rotting among the other cattle, in the pens, and where they grazed. Horses were also sometimes used after they had died and ground into fertilizer. This was also true for pigs, goats, sheep, and lamb. When they were packaged, diseased or not, the consumer would rarely get what they paid for. A pound of lamb could have easily been a goat, canned meats were usually and still are to this day a smorgasbord of normally unusable animal parts, and for a period of time beef was substituted with horse.
An important event in the “Maya Creation Myth” would be when the humans made of flesh help give warmth to the man made of gold. As well as when the gods decide that they rich couldn’t go to heaven without the poor. The important characters would be the gods because they represent nature; everything is reproduced to perfection except for some. The significance of this story is that we all need to treat others equally because that is what the “gods” intended for us to do. (“Maya Creation Myth”) D. An important event in “The Coyote and The Hen” is when the coyote lies to the hen saying that a treaty has been signed so they could be friends.
By having these small “farms” it allows the Locavore movement to take on new heights. Standard Locavore only consumes the food that is imported to the nearest farmers market from a 1000 mile radius. This “small slaughter house” chain is very similar. Only certain areas will raise, for example, lambs, while the others raise cows. The consumer will then only travel to where the animals he/she wishes to purchase.
Berry also mentions with most of the food process being automated and commercialized the food products of the day are missing the care and love of the farmers as well as a attention to the detail. Berry best describes it as " One will find the obliviousness represented in virgin purity in the advertisements of the food industry, in which food wears as much makeup as the actors." Along the same lines, Wendell talks about wanting to know if the steak he eats is from a cow that was taking care of and treated humanly verses standing in a box its whole life in dirty conditions. One of Berry's problems with this is he thinks that people eat whatever is put in front of them no questions asked. Asking just a few simple questions about the products would also help improve the relationships between the consumers and the farmers Berry states.
At one of the farms we even got to artificially inseminate a pig and got to watch them collect bull semen and the last field trip was to a slaughter house. When we weren’t on these field trips and were in class we had quizzes and learned more about large farm animals. We even learned all the different types of cows, pigs, horses, goats, and whatever else I could almost name you each of the different species of each large animal because we learned them all. We also learned the different cuts of meat from the animal and where they come from off that certain animal. So I basically have learned a lot about farm animals and when I get to a larger state college I will probably learn more about small animals that way I will be all
The starter could be raw vegetables, eggs or fish. The main dish could be a filled mouse or a uterus from a lamb filled with sausage. The dessert was usually fresh or dried fruit. If the rich people wanted to make a really good impression on the guests they had a bear filled with birds that were alive so when they cut the bear the birds would fly away to give a special effect. (hair of