My name is Montana Thompson. I am from Preston, Idaho; which incidentally enough is the place where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed. I hope you enjoy this video.
I served a mission in Calgary, Alberta. I recently got engaged to Rebecca Plante. I asked her to marry me over the Christmas break. I am currently attempting to become a business major and I hope that this class will be a great opportunity to learn about the last three or four centuries.
I have been assigned to the topics of the 18th century and Openness. I don't know a ton about either of the topic so I am in for a treat because I will get the chance to research and learn about all sorts of information that will be new to me. From what I've read on openness there seem to be a lot of debate about how open things need to be I haven't had enough time to actually get my opinion on the matter but it definitely is something that I will be looking into a lot in the coming semester.
In the 18th century there were many new inventions that greatly helped the world to advance. One example of this is the sextant which allowed the user to determine the latitude that they were at. Unfortunately it didn't measure the longitude. As with every problem though someone else took the challenge and figured out how to measure longitude. His name was John Harrison. Without these inventions much of the colonization that happened around the world would not have happened cause sailors would not have been able to navigate properly. Through hard work of people before me I get the chance to enjoy my life with many amenities that otherwise would not exist because of the advancement of others and their wonderful ideas.
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