Isis got its start as al quaeda in iraq in 04. It changed it morphed into something called Islamic State of iraq in 06. So heres eight years between the start of ic and isis in 14. And all that time, this group has been raping, torturing, and murdering particularly targeting christians as a main civilian target. And one of the biggest ways they did attack christians is by taking hostages for ran some. And this is really a silent, onebyone genocide. Thousands, i think thousands of christians, i think, have been taken for ran some. And many of them have been tortured and killed. Bishops and priests have been killed trying to redeem their congregation. Wives killed bringing ran some money for their husbands. This has been going on all this time. One of my Close Friends from iraq, hes been featured in the knights of columbus ads on tv, he himself was taken hostage and tortured and beaten. Shot in the leg. They came at him with hammers, broke his teeth, nose, and back. Finally he was releas
Free packet of sugar for stepping in the door. You dont seem particularly grateful. So, were thinking about how we are affected by the past. To do what i had just done, handing out a quarter cup of sugar to people who are not my close personal friends, to do that, hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. That is an incredibly extravagant gift. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was treated as medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand out the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Today, it is so common. It is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I paid for these. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is tougher to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give up refined sugar for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in everything. Medicine and pil
And expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. Into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary r easons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common that it is hard to avoid, this gets to the heart of the class. It goes from being a rare and expensive good to being something everyone has access to, which ties closely to the colonization of the americas. To the development of slavery in the new world. This little good we dont think much about is part of a massive reorganization of all the cultures of the atlantic ocean. That what we are talkin
I wanted to hand this out as a lesson, thinking about how were still connected to the past. There are people i dont, they are not my close personal friends, i like you all very much, but to do that, to hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. It was extravagant. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went from being a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common that it is hard to avoid, this gets to the
Other surpasses the connection they can have really with anybody. And as much as parents want to have that hand with their student, with their kid, students and young adults are creating their own identity, and oftentimes they want to shed that a little bit from their family, and they create that in their network of friends, as we heard from ben earlier. Well, i do want to come back to ben now because, you know, you did say how important it is for young people that are in recovery, or that are in treatment, to have a place to go. Was it important for you, ben . Yeah, it was absolutely, it was very, very important for me to have a place to go. Now, upon leaving treatment, the last time i was able to get into a closure recovery program, and i think for me, i know that many of the triggers for using were social, and so to have a group of friends who were also in recovery, where we could talk about what we were going through, and we could just have fun in recovery, was very vitally importa