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Mark W.
Your chart was very nice for many reasons. It was extremely clear and easy to understand meanwhile it got all of the important points across. Well done sir.

Fahey
This was another clear and well thought out chart. This chart clearly explained the ideas and also was neatly put together.

Amit
This was a good chart, and was easy to understand. I really liked the app you used because visually it helped in explaining itself.

Flow Chart

app review of voice thread

overall, your app was mediocre. I used your app for a project in my AP world history class to have a conversation between Marco Polo and his family. The app was somewhat successful in recording the conversation between all of us, although it was a little buggy. The one thing I suggest for the app is that you guys find a more convenient way to share the voice threads among numerous groups of people. the only way right now to share is through email and sometimes that fails to share among wireless devices. the way we had to do it was to log in our voicethread account online and copy and paste the link into google docs, and then open it from there. if you guys fix that and make the app a little more user friendly, i would suggest this app to people i know.

the coming era

The coming era I believe in the fact of trading and trade networking will be the major focus on the societies. The cities that ports are based out of will have a whole syn-cretinism of cultures and thats how ideas will spread. I believe there is going to be somewhat of a shift away from agriculture but will remain the same for the most part, becuase where there is fertile land, its going to be hard to not make food there. The world being much more connected now, I believe that more ideas will spread quicker across regions and slave trade will be one of the most lucrative businesses to get into in the coming era. I also believe that the colonization of lands in the Americas will be a very large part of countries expanding their exports and trades with other countries.

Columbus Holiday

The myth of Christopher Columbus is quite scary considering the fact that we practically praise him as a hero and a great man for "finding the United States". Columbus was not a nice man and many things about him turned up about him later in his life. The question is then, why do we have a holiday and numerous cities named after him. First of all, the holiday was instituted in 1937, and while I don't believe he deserves all of the praise that many textbooks commonly give him, he deserves a little. Columbus had described and recorded his journeys very precise and therefore other European explorers were not as afraid to come out and explore the rest of the unknown lands. Columbus opened the door to exploration in the Americas and also a western sea route to the east was discovered partly because of him. The reason we have a holiday for him is because of plain ignorance. Not many people will complain when they are getting a long weekend for some guy who discovered their country. Thats about as most Americans will go in discussing Christopher Columbus and everybody seems to forget that he disrupted a society on the DR/Hati and led them to a complete eradication only to bring back slaves but yet ruin a whole societies way of life and families.