Religious Studies 1023E Lecture : Lecture 1 - Judaism

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18 Jan 2012

School

Western University

Department

Religious Studies

Course

Religious Studies 1023E

Professor

Mahdi Tourage

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Y claim they are the decedents of abraham: also many other middle eastern people, christians are spiritual children of abraham. when climate bad in middle east, moved to egypt, big country, gift of the nile. had to ask permission from the pharaoh y king, very powerful empire. bible: children of abraham became slaves in egypt y construction workers of pyramids. prophet born: moses 1500 y most important in judaism y mother put him in a basket into the nile, daughter of. Judaism/muslims no images y why christians make images? y 1. Kneeling in front of sculpture: no idolaters, pictures used as icons, worship what the sculpture represents y 2. Ancient greek/romans (europeans) believed the gods were beautiful/perfect y conquered the holy land: number of battles, became free and established their own kingdom, high time of jewish kingdom: 1000 bc established holy kingdom.

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In the early part of the last decade, there was an overproductionof coffee. The price dropped so low that producers' costs werehigher than the market price. The reason this happened was thatmarket prices became high before this, and the supply of coffeeincreased substantially. In the meantime, demand for coffee andeverything else remained the same. Price Level 1.

Coffee prices came down again, at first overshooting the formerequilibrium price, throwing the coffee market into confusion. Inthe meantime, gourmet coffee houses began appearing, which begancharging a premium for coffee in the period of falling prices.Price Level 2.

Gourmet coffee houses tend to open in high-rent areas and cater tohigher income consumers. Because of the change they created fortaste and preferences and the higher income market, the gourmetcoffee houses had a win-win in a period of falling wholesale pricesand increasing retail prices. Price Level 3.

But in the middle of the decade, the party was over, and wholesaleprices started increasing because of some shortages caused byweather and the rising overall market prices again. Where is thenew equilibrium price? Price Level 4.

Explain the changes in the supply and demand curves based on theabove information. Draw a graph showing how the changes affect theprice levels, supply and demand.

Scenario Two

You have been asked to discuss the differences between themicroeconomic definitions of supply and demand and themacroeconomic differences of aggregate supply and demand. Discusswhat determines supply and demand and aggregate supply andaggregate demand. Explain what causes movements along the curve andshifts in the curve for supply and demand and aggregate supply andaggregate demand (make sure that you include price as a variable).Include whether this is an example of the microeconomic definitionof supply and demand or the macroeconomic definition of aggregatesupply and demand. Most importantly, did this cause a shift in thecurves or a movement along the curves? What happened to equilibriumprice, supply, demand, aggregate supply or aggregate demand?Describe your graphs.

After Hurricane Katrina, what happened to the price of fish?
After the development of the microchip, what happened to the priceof computers?
After the government raised tariffs on imported cheese, whathappened to the price of domestic cheese?
Polyester suits have become trendy again. What happens to theirprice?
Internet auction sites are becoming more popular, and people areusing them more and more.
An new health report came out that said red wine lowerscholesterol.
The government raises taxes.
Inflation increases.
Immigration laws are relaxed.
The government increases spending.
Scenario Three

The PPF curve shows the economic choices a country can make aboutproduction given scarce resources, a given technology, and a givenquantity of inputs. Assume you are a developing country, producingfood and clothing at maximum capacity. What could happen whenforeign investors start investing in your country?

Discuss what type of foreign investments would be best for theeconomy

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Check the Course Announcements at the beginning of the week following the deadline for Part 1 to discover exactly what happened to the deer population on the Kaibab plateau. This information is essential for completion of Part 2.

The second part of your project is to take what you've learned about the Kaibab forest ecosystem and write an accurate description of the boom and bust of this deer population, using correct ecological language. Consider as many of the aspects of these events as you can. Be sure to consider the effects on the other species in the ecosystem as well.

Refer to your on-line materials and the appropriate sections of your textbook. Your discussion should include (but not be confined to) consideration of all of the following concepts: carrying capacity, predator/prey relationships, population cycling, resource partitioning, competitive exclusion, fundamental and realized niches, food chains, food webs and trophic pyramids.

Note that the purpose of this exercise is for you to demonstrate to me that you understand these important concepts of ecology by utilizing them accurately and appropriately in the description of the disaster in the Kaibab forest. Your essay must include both clear indications that you understand the meanings of these principles and clear indication that you understand how these principles can be used to describe what happened to the ecosystem on the Kaibab plateau.

information given of part one: On the north rim of the Grand Canyon, an area called the Kaibab plateau, there is a conifer forest called the Kaibab forest. The forest's trees include pine, fir and spruce. Shrubbery includes a variety of willows, raspberries, etc. A hundred years ago, this forest was a stable ecosystem, housing, among other species, a population of about four thousand mule deer.

These deer were hunted by local Native Americans, who used them for food and other materials. They were also hunted by predators like pumas, wolves and coyotes.

In 1906, the US made this region into a National Game Preserve. With the intent of protecting the deer, hunting was forbidden. Bounties were paid for killing the pumas, wolves and other large animals that preyed on the deer. By 1925, more than 6000 predators had been killed, virtually wiping out the ecosystem's large predators.

*Read the instructions* for Part 2, then consider this additional information about the Kaibab forest.
There are some hints in here to suggest the *minimum* range of the subjects you need to discuss to explain this; You will need to read the chapters and the course materials to understand the meanings of these concepts, and to be able to use them to explain the Kaibab disaster. There are other important concepts as well--so keep your eyes open as you read. It wouldn't hurt to go back and read the original description in Part 1, either. And you may find it necessary to do some quick browsing in areas of your book not directly related to ecology. (For instance, you might just want to do some looking into the nature and importance of the bark and twig ends on a tree.) Do not neglect the on-line essays which are provided for you in this Unit. What you should *not* do is Google the Kaibab, or look it up on a source like Wikipedia. This is not about what you can *discover* about the Kaibab forest.
Your grade will depend upon how completely you convince me you understand the concepts involved in this description. This is your test on ecology--your goal is to convince me that you understand the concepts and terminology of the subject, and can apply them to a real life situation.
Before we go on to the new information, there are a few things that came up as I was grading the Part 1 submissions which I think I should mention, just to keep you from straying in some incorrect directions.
First, remember that your concern is the fate of the Kaibab forest in the *immediate* sense--over tens of years, not thousands. There are no evolutionary issues here, at least in the short term (and that's your concern right now). So we won't be talking about adaptive radiation.
Also, keep your focus on the *Kaibab forest*, not on other ecosystems. Oh, and remember that the Kaibab is pretty isolated--emigration really isn't a reasonable alternative for the species living in this forest.
And finally, until we get to Part 3, the only human interaction we are considering is the initial decision to put bounties on those large predators, which led to their near-extinction in the area. You will be thinking a bit about human hunters trying to control the deer population toward the end, but the rest of the time you're just concerned with the natural processes going on in the ecosystem.
Okay, now on to the actual description of what happened in the Kaibab Forest as a result of killing almost all of the large predators. Remember, your task in Part 2 is going to be to describe and explain all of this using the concepts of ecology which you are learning in Unit 2 of the course.
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The primary, most immediate outcome of the removal of the predators from the ecosystem was that the deer population exploded, because the loss of the normal predator populations removed a primary source of population control. And the expanding deer population ate a *lot.* [Hint: explaining this requires discussion of population cycling, predator prey relationships and carrying capacities.]
As the deer population got larger and larger, their impact upon their favored food plants became extreme. They ate a much larger percentage of each year's plant populations, and they ate a larger portion of each individual plant. They also began to eat more from the plants which they didn't like so well--plants normally consumed by other herbivores in the ecosystem. In the winter, the starving deer ate about anything remotely resembling food, including twigs and bark from trees. As a result of the destruction of many of the twig ends of the trees, the spring tree growth was inhibited (why?). The stripping of the bark caused the death of some of the trees (why?). The extreme browsing on the herbaceous plants caused shifts in the plant population diversity, as the deer drove many of their favored plants into extinction within the ecosystem. [Hint: Explanation here will need to include discussion of resource partitioning, competitive exclusion, and realized vs. fundamental niches.]
All of this also impacted upon the rest of the animals in the ecosystem, since many of them depended upon the same kinds of food the deer ate, or depended upon the foods that the deer were eating because they could no longer get the food they favored. Then of course, the smaller predatory species (like foxes and owls) depended upon the health of those populations of small herbivores (like rabbits and mice). [Hint: sounds like food chains, food webs and trophic pyramids come into this part.]
After a couple of decades, the ecosystem was quite altered. The plant community was very different from what it had been before, and the deer herd, though not extinct, was composed of significantly smaller and weaker deer than the herd from the 1890s. (This was partially due to their straightened circumstances re. food, but also partially due to the absence of predators. Why would the removal of the natural predators cause this change in the general vigor of the deer in the herd (and why would the substitution of *human* hunting not exert the same positive influence)?)
Okay, the next phase of your assignment is to describe all the things going on in this ecosystem using the proper terminology that you should be learning from studying this unit of the course. Note that your use of terms like, for instance, "resource partitioning" needs to show that you understand not just what the concept means, but how it is reflected in this specific ecological disaster. Feel free to discuss this as much as you want to on your Discussion Board. Don't ignore the little questions tucked into the above description, and pay attention to those hints. Your response must demonstrate proper understanding of these concepts and how they are demonstrated by the disaster in the Kaibab forest.
This is the largest part of your exam project; your response should reflect the fact that this is a 50 point "essay" question. You are given a lot of organizational clues and hints about what issues you need to include in the information above. Make use of those things.

Questions covering the articles "King Tut's DNA" and "The Risksand Rewards of Royal Incest."? Questions 1- 11 come from "KingTut's DNA." Questions 12-15 come from "The Risks and Rewards ofRoyal Incests."

Ive got some of the answers i just want to make sure they areright and need help with the others.

Question 1:

Tutankhamun was _____ when he ascended the throne. I answerd9

the anwers for the question to choose from were: 7, 9, 19,25

Question 2:

Tutankhamun reigned for _____ years. I put 10

the answers provided to choose from were: 10, 15, 23, 47

QUESTION 3:

Why had Dr. Hawas resisted DNA anaylsis of royal mummies priorto this study?

He was afraid of envoking a curse by disturbing the mummies

The embalming process was believed to make it impossible tocollect DNA.

The possibility of obtaining workable DNA samples withoutcontamination was just too great to justify disturbing themummies.

The mummies would have to be completely destroyed to collect theDNA.

QUESTION 4:

Why did the scientists collect the samples from deep inside thebones of the mummies?

Bones are the only tissue that remained to sample.

To avoid contamination from the priests and archeologists thathad handled the mummies, as well as the researchers themselves

QUESTION 5:

The DNA was easily extracted from the samples collected from themummies. TRUE OR FALSE

QUESTION 6:

DNA from the ______ chromosome was used to determine thatAmenhotep III, the KV55 mummy and Tutankhamun were related. Myanswer was the Y chromosome.

the answers provided to choose from were: 1, 21, X, Y

QUESTION 7:

DNA sequencing determined that ________ was Tutankhamun's fatherand __________ was his grandfather.

my answer for this is: KV55 mummy; Amenhotep III

the provided answers to choose from were: KV55 mummy; AmenhotepIII -----OR------Amenhotep III; KV55 mummy

QUESTION 8:

Through DNA analysis and a CT scan to determine tha age of theKV55 mummy, scientists determined that the identity of the mummywas __________. MY answer is: Smenkhkare

the provided answers to choose from were: Smenkhkare, Akhenaten,or Amenhotep III

QUESTION 9:

Through the DNA analysis, scientists determined thatTutankhamun's parents were ___________. I choose brother andsister

the provided answers to choose from were: first cousins, secondcousins, brother and sister,

father and daughter

QUESTION 10:

Which physical defects did Tutankhamun suffer from that wouldhave resulted from the genetic closeness of his parents? I chooseall of the above.

The provided answers to choose from were: club foot, a toe wasmissing a bone and other bones missing from his foot were distroyedby necrosis (tissue death), partial cleft palate, all of theabove.

QUESTION 11:

Incomplete evidence that Tutankhamun married his half sistercame from________.

Historical knowledge that his wife, Ahknhesenamun, was thedaughter of Akhenaten (Tut's father) and Nefertiti.
The two female fetuses found in his tomb.

Both A and B.
Neither, there is no evidence that they were related.

QUESTION 12:

While European royalty avoided sibling incest, they did marryclose cousins. TRUE OR FALSE

I choose TRUE

QUESTION 13:

Genetic overlap resulting in congenital defects is one possiblereason for the almost univerasal taboo against incest. What is thepercentage of genetic overlap between full siblings?

6.25%
12.5%

25%
50%

QUESTION 14:

Royal incest has been documented in ancient Egypt, Inca Peru,the Hawaiians and Thailand. Despite the obvious drawbacks ofcondensing genetic lines, which answer was not a reason thatroyalty ignored the taboo and practiced brother/sister andcousin/cousin pairings

Because they were royalty and they thought they were not subjectto the same biological laws as common people.

Marrying family protects assets and concentrates power.

Forges alliances between royal houses, while keeping power amongkin

Royalty had the money to pay for medical care.

QUESTION 15:

Rulers did not always mate solely with siblings. Many kings andpharaohs had children with unrelated consorts and concubinesensuring healthy offspring in case none resulted from theirmarriages
TRUE or FALSE

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