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                          On the Plane


As you can see I am not in class because I am on my way to my daughters graduation, PROUD MOM. I could be wrong, but I remember you saying if we were not in class you can talk to someone. So on the plane trip to Missouri  I was trying to do some reading and after a while the older gentleman next to me asked if I was reading this book for fun. Of course I laughed and told him that this was for my world history class. We talked for about thirty mins. So, he asked what do you remember.  So I went on to tell him about the five major eras paleo, Neo, ancient, classical, and  modern eras. Then I was like did you know history did not start until the ancient era. He was confused and was like what do you mean.
He was like what about the dinosaurs  and stuff. So, I told him that they say that because that was when writing came into play.I started to talk about the five seminal thinkersSocrates , Buddha, Mohammad, Jesus, and we talked little about each of them, but once I got to Confuius it was all about Cofucius says that the sky is blue. I did not have that one Confucius handout you gave us.  But then he said he was going to take a nap so I can continue reading.




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