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Lecture 4 Topics included the red deer population and how people tried to kill them off. However, once they became rare, people tried to capture them when they found a use for them. We talked about the sheep and how the Scotts came in with their sheep dogs to herd them. We also discussed the Convicts who were shipped to Australia and how most of them were transported for petty crimes. Once the convicts served their time they might want to start over again and get a respectable woman or political career but their jail time stained their reputation. They were not welcomed into the society of Australia. Lastly, we discussed the colonization and how the government would only sell people small pieces of land. The goal was to force people to value the land they had and to help ensure that the land properties didn’t get so big that they would need slaves.

I think that the people can be quick to action and slow to think. I conclude this idea because of the deer; they started to kill them off and then realized that they could be useful. This idea is also supported with the boat life of the convicts. The corrupt government would send prisoners to another land to punish them without taking into account what effect that might have on the prisoner’s reputation or society in the new land. The government should have tried to help the people in trouble, not ship them off so they didn’t have to deal with them.

If it got to ask a question, I would like to know how many years of training the average sheep dog goes through so that the owner could just whistle to indicate when the dogs should start or stop barking.