Family History Essay

History 30: Is it Actually Important I think this class benefits students in a ton of ways. We are the society’s future and I think it’s important to know Canada’s successes and failures so we know what to do and what not to do. My generation and generations to follow need to know the past of Canada so the future can be even better. I think it’s important to know what to do and what not to do when it comes to approaching people who are different then us. We need the knowledge of the Beothuk so…

The Human Record contains various sources of global history. Chapter 8 of this book covers a few topics from this history. One individual named Treitschke explains his views on monarchy and democracy. There were changes that occurred in Europe that led to an explanation of his views on human progress and war. The other individual mentioned in this chapter was Jules Ferry. He had strong views on the hierarchy of different races as well as the French colonies. Racism, Militarism, and the New…

The similarities between Athenian and American Democracy Once a writer said, “History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler”(Glassie). History is a source of information that people can look up to for the modern time. History can also help to solve problems which would not be possible without it. Moreover, if people look into history there were society which created law and values that lead to the modern society. For…

Studying past presidencies through psychological analysis takes an angle we have not yet seen in so far. Rather than studying the big picture of history or on the history of a president’s constitutional powers, the psychological approach takes an individual, case-by-case approach to evaluate each president. For example, in Wayne’s book we saw how Obama’s personal life and campaign strategy shaped who he was as President of the United States. In class we reviewed other past presidents as well and…

There are a multitude of technologies used by anthropologists to help them gain more knowledge on past populations. Once specific technology, known as stable isotope analysis, is frequently used in archeological investigations. This is because it is not too difficult to operate and the results provide an abundance of information, ready to analyze. Through the use of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis, anthropologists can conduct studies to provide anthropological insight on human…

In this class I have learned so many important things. History is something that will live on forever, and this course has done a fantastic job of explaining things and showing me the background of our country. One of the most important things I have learned during this course, is the history of the Vietnam War. I never really thought about the Vietnam War before. I briefly studied it in a high school course, and knew the basis of the events, but I never thought about it deeply. It seems like…

two-semester High School American History Survey course that is fifteen weeks long, the class will offer students with an overview of America’s past. The course will cover American History from Native America to the recent past. During both semesters, the course will challenge students to create thought-provoking questions on various topics in American History. Several of these questions will introduce thematic elements to the students, which are common throughout America’s history. Such…

In the last article that I used is a book review by Stephen Browne I found the text to be essential to my work. The book review discusses public memory as a narrative structure that serves as a rough organizational principle. It serves as a way to identify patterns of commemoration. The review offers a list of signpost to address the politics of memory. 1. Public memory which contains a slowly shifting configuration of traditions, is ideologically important because it shapes a nation’s ethos…

element; evidence. The First and Second World Wars provide historians with in depth hard evidence from still-existing battlefields as well as thousands of written accounts of the events of a day’s fighting. The further back in history one goes, however, the more scant this history becomes. Amongst the most difficult time periods to analyze can be found in the Classical era; with limited surviving written resources as well as little in terms of tangible evidence, the modern viewpoint on much of…

Group-defining Narratives When groups employ collective memory and heritage to construct their identity, they format the representations of pastness as narratives, easier to remember and far more interesting to tell or reenact than a list of raw facts devoid of a storyline. Much like the self-defining narratives discussed previously, these narratives reflect past events which the community believes are vitally important parts of their collective past which helps determine who they are in the…