Essays on Guns Germs And Steel

Jared Diamond’s (Diamond) book Guns, Germs, and Steel, won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was made into a documentary by the National Geographic Society, broadcast in 2005. The documentary was shown in three parts: Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into the Tropics. The series builds towards the ultimate conclusion that geography, and the…

I have always had a rough time wrapping my head around the concept that there are people in this world who are extremely wealthy, while others are suffering in poverty and starvation. Jared Diamond’s theory of geographic location being the dividing factor between the winners and the losers shed a lot of new light on…

In Junot Díazs’ “How To Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or a Halfie,” you can tell straight away just by looking at the title that this story was going to have some sort of racism in it. This story is a how-to manuel, narrated by a boy whose name is not given, and he details…

In the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author, Jared Diamond, starts his prologue by first posing a question to his readers: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”(Diamond 14). Later revealing that this is the exact question he received…

Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist and biogeographer who has worked extensively in New Guinea, rejects racially oriented explanations for differential human development. He agrees that the explication for European success is biological, but believes that intelligence had nothing to do with the differential development of societies. Geography had everything to do with it. Differences among…