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Community and Friendship

I really enjoyed the ChargerTrails. I thought it was a great way to get to know other people and even know ourselves. The team building events were a great way to have fun and build trust.

 

Marble Challenge: I thought that the marble challenge was the hardest for us as a team. I think that it was the hardest because all of us were trying to take control of a multiple person task. As the common expression goes ” There were to many chefs in the kitchen.” I felt as if nobody would listen to me as well as other people. The challenge was also a very fun and brain-teasing event. The way to get a marble across a 20 ft long expanse with about nine ft of hollow piping. It was fun watching everybody desperately cling to the marble with our tubes in the last try while we were trying to “participate.” This event was an event that really made us work together.

Hog Call: I thought this was an easy, fun, and kind of simple. It really was fast and eventful. It was fast because there were only about one or two leaders. It was east in the sense that since there was only one leader, there was a no want for power, and no disagreeing. Overall, this was a great team building event.

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Daily Life- Medicine

Daily Life- Medicine

Adam Farris

Doctor Training:

  • The Ancient Egyptians practiced medicine for centuries.
  • People that wanted to study medicine had special training that was after the normal required Education
  • They learned about symptoms of diseases and how to diagnose and treat them.
  • Doctors understood almost perfectly how the organs worked and where they are and structure of the body.
  • They used pulse rate to tell if the patient was healthy or not.

“Magic”:

  • Doctors believed in treating problems with both magic and medicine.
  • They thought you could use both magic and medicine to drive the “worms” out.
  • They thought that most diseases created a worm or multiple worms inside of the patient’s body.
  • Magicians were used to cast spells to get rid of the illness if the treatment is ineffective or they don’t have much ingredient that the cure needed.

Meds and Remedies:

  • They normally used garlic, plants, or other herbs in their treatments.
  • Doctors had prescriptions for things like eye problems, tumors, scorpion stings, fevers, and snake bites.
  • Most doctors weren’t trained in dentistry so most common folk had very poor dental hygiene
  • Imhotep was the dentist of King Djoser and he still had poor dental health from what we can salvage from the tomb
  • Most pharaohs were found with fake or golden teeth.
  • There are three possible ideas that could be true, the pharaohs were not very good at maintaining dental health, the pharaoh had them as a sign as how rich he was, or the golden teeth were part of the embalming process.
  • Either way, we know that dental health wasn’t a very high priority in Ancient Egypt.

Surgery and Childbirth:

  • Doctors treated wounds with bandages or stiches but didn’t perform surgery.
  • They didn’t have pain killers back then so the pain alone would possibly kill the patient.
  • In childbirth, doctors relied on magic and praying to god instead of medicine.
  • There was no way to help with medicine.
  • Several gods were called upon to help the woman.
  • Charms, spells, and prayers were casted upon the woman to insure safety for the woman and the baby from childhood diseases.
  • Most diseases back then were lethal to babies.

 

Citations:

(Image).http://www.blatner.com/adam/consctransf/historyofmedicine/1-overview/egypt.JPG. 9/16/15.Web.

 

 

(Image). https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTamx EqcMFpNln2o2BX8k78_DmXDqVGlqRnOAraQaC15Nv1_kxPZXEMUg. 9/16/15.Web

 

 

Doling Kindersley. Ancient Egypt Eyewitness Books. Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. 2000. Print

 

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Favorite Character

My favorite character is Vigil. He is my favorite character because he helps his father do work. He also will exchange labor for goods and items. His mind is normally thinking of how to make money. I can relate to my character because he is susceptible to bribery. His father is a taxi driver and always trying to scavenge ways to become rich. He was willing to help his father when he needed it. He is from Haiti and here only with his dad. He is working inside of a dump to create a garden. That is why he is my favorite character.