Assignment 4c

The word “Culture” comes from the Latin “cultura” stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate". The definition of culture is excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture)

Paul 3A (http://intdis4paul.blogspot.com/2009/03/assignment-3a.html)

Jesse 4A (http://jesseinman-intdis4.blogspot.com/)

Paul wrote about the Incas. All this information was new to me. I had never read anything on the incas in particular before. I learned that the Incan’ empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbia. At its peak, the empire covered an area of about 350,000 square miles. The empire covered parts of modern day Chile, Columbia, most of Bolivia, and parts of Ecuador and Argentina. This relates to the work of Mr. Freire in a way that is sort of round-about. The Incans had started a thriving new culture, and were in the process of civilizing it something that Mr. Freire tried his whole life to do, Reform and teach culture., but it is defiantly an interesting face about the region we have been studying this whole class.

Jesse in his 4A blog talked about Junipero Serra and how he had accomplished so much in his life. I didn’t know that he himself was responsible for overseeing 9 missions being built. That was really interesting. The way Junipero Serra relates to Mr. Freire is that they both were creators. Sometimes in a different light, but they were still working together to better others around them, and make a richer environment for everyone.