Ancient history

Interview #1 (Pre-1935) Loretta Frank was born September 27, 1927, and is currently 88 years old. She grew up in Euclid Ohio. When she was a kid she attended a catholic school. Her teachers were nuns, who wore long black dress like clothes with a white collar that covered their heads called Habits. Schooling back then was much different. The nuns were very strict. Loretta remembers when a student did something wrong the nuns would have a ruler and hit them on the knuckles. Since Loretta went to…

History is the past analyzed and recorded, it is not everything that ever happened or everything that historians have already written about. While the existence of subjectivity in history is not often questioned many philosophers have rejected the possibility of objective historical knowledge. This essay seeks to explain the ways in which history consists of both elements of objectivity and subjectivity. Objectivity refer to the lack of bias. With this being said there is no objective truth…

2.1 History of the method Political discourse analysis – which will henceforth be referred to as 'PDA' – strives to establish itself as a balanced mix between linguistic analysis and political comment. It is a recent cross-discipline related to discourse studies, more precisely to critical discourse analysis, and political science. Nonetheless, PDA's roots go back to antiquity on which it built and drew inspiration from, as well as from the many studies developed in the interval. 2.1.1…

passage enhances the quality of Hitchens’s article. He starts off strong with a quote that highlights the significance of the Parthenon to draw the reader’s attention. Hitchens follows this with a description of the Parthenon’s hard and prolonged history. The author then provides some background knowledge, as the reader may not be as well learned about the topic as he is. Despite all the damage the Parthenon has gone through, Hitchens states that “one desecration and dilapidation [can be] ...…

Throughout this semester in the Comparative History of North America course, I have learned how all global processes and events are in some way linked to another event in the same region or perhaps in a country far away. Also, understanding how the same event is viewed historically or documented in the first person, can be drastically different depending on which side the author of the document is aligned with. By comparing these events from all perspectives we get a truer version of the how…

History is always trying to be decoded in different ways. Geoff Eley, author of in A Crooked Line, attempts to describe the quick transformation between 1970 to 1980 from social history to cultural history because of dramatic reforms in political standpoints and the linguistic turn of the social history that was studied in earlier years. The goals of Eley’s book is to not only describe how the world changed from studying social history to cultural history but also to highlight the importance of…

“At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps fifty feet down to the lawn…then races off into the darkness...towards the Watergate, snarling with lust, loping through the alleys behind Pennsylvania Avenue, and trying desperately to remember which one of those fore hundred identical balconies is the one outside of Martha Mitchell's apartment… But…

attracting, the events contained in the movie were not accurate to its historical events. The movie does not accurately portray the exact historical events that took place, nor does it correctly convey the historical impact the events had on the history of America. The movie begins with a scene that does not in particular show where it takes place originally which is in Virginia. The entire movie does not concentrate on the historical events and impacts, rather it looks at the impact that love…

ship that has a huge amount of Anglo-Saxon artifacts of magnificent history of art and archeological findings. These findings are currently found in the British Museum in London. The cemetaries are in the care of the National Trust. (Wikipedia) The trust of these things are usually given to Museum's so that they can be cherished forever. Sutton Hoo is of historical importance because it is thought between some myths and also history. But, because itś dated so far back, we cannot find any vital…

History. Let’s just say theres a reason its called history and not the truth. By dissecting its parts we realize that the word itself conveys its meaning. History is, his story. Taking into consideration that“his” is not always a male but the one thing that stays constant is that his story is never exactly the same as her story or the other guys story and most importantly not, your story. Everyone has different ways of perceiving what is seen, heard, felt and further more understanding those…