Powerpoint and Hammurabi's Code

   Today in class, we went over another slide in the powerpoint and took notes on it. We also talked about moon stages. The Sumerians invented a calendar based on the moon and thought of the concept of hours/minutes. A waning moon gets smaller (goes from full to half to crescent to nothing). A waxing moon gets larger (goes from nothing to crescent to half to full). The cycle never stops. Mr. Schick told us about how he helps his wife work with the horses. He told us how during a full moon, its brighter than normal and he can see the poop he needs to clean up better. When he was a cab driver in college, he would pick up people and they acted extra strange on full moons. Later in class, after we went over the slide, we talked about Hammurabi's Code and his concept "an eye for an eye". We all looked up a list of laws and we found some very strange ones. These punishments would definitely not be used in todays society. It was interesting to see how different the laws in Babylon were back then.