The document discusses several topics related to culture and society in Europe including: 1) The importance of understanding different cultures and what can be learned from them. 2) The consequences of endangered species becoming extinct and how it can impact other animals. 3) The various purposes that animals serve for humans such as transportation, food sources, pets, and assistance animals. 4) Whether higher value should be placed on human life over animal life. The author argues that all life is equal.

1. Mrs. Cook’s English Class By: Stacey Gallimore

2. 1,) Why is it important to understand different cultures? I think it is important to understand different cultures because the more you understand a culture the more you can learn from it.

3. 2,) What are the consequences of the endangered species becoming extinct. I believe when an animal goes extinct it can cause a chain to happen such as an increase in another animal or a decrease in a dependant animal. Extinct animals: the Dodo Bird and T-Rex

4. 3,) What purposes do animals serve in human life? Well, animals serve many purposes such as transportation, food, or food source, to pets or even helping animals. (Seeing eye dogs & etc... Lassie saved Timmy!

6. Europe is one of the largest continents out of all seven. Europe produces just over 18 percent of all the oil in the world. The languages spoken in Europe are English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and there are a few others. There are 42 countries in Europe. Europe is named after a legendary Phoenician princess Europa. In Europe 55% of people are Roman Catholic, 25% Protestant, 13% Orthodox, 7% Muslim.

7. This is the old European money. After 2002, Europe decided to change the money and these are the new bills. These are the new European coins!

8. All Western and Central European countries are democracies of various kinds. The European Union (EU) is governed by small groups of people nominated by the governments of the member states.

9. European education is not much different from American education what so ever. In fact, other than them learning more languages than us there is no difference at all. They learn the basics, Science, Math, English, Geography, and etc...

10. Europe’s flags vary in color and design. They also have a flag for each country inside of Europe.

11. The country of France is famous for they’re Crepes. In Belgium they eat Waffles. The Italians invented pizza!

12. Islamic clothing. These are some of the newer European clothes, notice that these clothes represent the flags of the different countries. These are clothes from the country of Belarus.