Extra Credit

In our chapter about the Need for Water in Ancient Times, document 8 are sections from the Code of Hammurabi.

In that document it says, "If a man neglects to maintain his dike and does not strengthen it, and a break s made in his dike and the water carries away the farmland, the man in whose dike the break has been made shall replace the grain which has been damaged."

What if the man in question was renting the land from a landlord?  Who is responsible to maintain the dike?  The farmer renting the land or the landlord?

To earn Extra Credit, you need to find the answer, post the link where you get your answer from and your answer as a response below:

Extra Credit about Bias

On Friday, September 17, 2010, we talked about how to use the author, audience, and purpose of a document to discover the bias.

To earn Extra Credit, you need to find a newspaper article online, post the link as a response below and then tell us:

1. Who the author is
2. Who you think the intended audience is
3. What you think the purpose of the article is
4. What you think the bias of the article is...