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I can say for myself that curating did assets for this month in making me create better results in my assignments and projects. It helped in grow in so many ways that I didn't think it was possible. Yes, they were worth keeping, cause it gave me knowledge and growth in so many. I accredit that the process in curating and also developing amazing habits, like being more clam being patient and trying to learn new things helped me a lot in this class.Thanks to Pete who told me that I will be just…

go to the National Archives and the Museum of American History, my mom wanted to go to the Museum of Natural history, and to old town Alexandria, my dad wanted to go go see the Changing of the Guard and the Tomb of the Unknown soldier at Arlington Cemetery and the Museum of Air and space. On the first full day we were there we did went to the all the stuff I wanted to do, We saw the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and The Bill of Rights at the National Archives. That was pretty…

Eugenics: Argument FOR by May Slaughter Human genome editing enhances humans with desirable traits, either known as positive or negative eugenics, possible. Eugenics was coined by Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Darwin, in 1883. 19th century Britain looked down upon anyone, of the lower class. They had planned on sterilizing all of the following: mental illness, alcoholism, criminality, chronic poverty, blindness, deafness, feeble-mindedness, and prostitutes. Along with Galton, Hitler has also…

reasons for intervention, what occurred, and the major players behind the event. To answer his question, he uses sources from the Public Record Office, National Archives, US Army Military History Institute, US Military Academy Library, and the Bentley Historical Library. The sources that come from these institutions include: manuscripts, archive collections, public documents, books, and…

In an article published in May of 1897, The Roanoke Times described the intimate relationship shared between two college women as a “smash” or “crush.” The article depicted these “smashes” as completely typical and mentioned nothing deviant about the relationships, even characterizing them as, “one girl, generally an underclassman, and usually a freshman, that becomes much attached to another girl, ordinarily an upper-class girl. The young girl is ‘crushed’ and the other, sends her flowers and…

needed to move fast. DeFontes remembers that before they left the building, she called her closest friend and told her that she knew she would make it out alive, but if she didn’t she wanted her friend to give her daughter a big kiss (“Oral History Archives”). DeFontes says that she said that in part to convince herself that she truly would make it out alive because she was scared and was uncertain as of what was to come. DeFontes was scared and uncertain of whether she would survive and by the…

Though there are many presidents who have did a lot of work to keep the United States well and going, I believe Barack Obama is a good president. There are countless of reasons why. For one, he was the first black president! For that he will be remembered but not only for that reason. He has made a name for himself that history, hopefully will not forget. President Obama fought and won for healthcare with the Affordable Care Act. Americans have health coverage and much better access to medical…

either world. It ought to likewise be noticed that investigations of smut in funnies is not especially late either. In 1979 C. Eddie Palmer distributed an article in The Journal of Sex Research titled "Explicit Comics: A Content Analysis" in which he archives "through substance examination, the nature of obscene subjects found in an accumulation of explicit comics"(285). One may think that its interesting, given that the main issue of Palmer's paper is that erotic entertainment and funnies need…

Olga Kartashova Fieldwork/mid-term paper for the course: Mass atrocities in the fog of war. Perpetration and prosecution in the 20th century. (Vladimir Petrovic, Imogen Bayley) Source: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1447677685/ Last week I have visited the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. Comparing to other museums which are dedicated to this issue (Schindler’s Factory in Krakow, Polin in Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Jewish Museum and Tolerance…

demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment of nuclear fusion. Lise Meitner is an austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. In the website Atomic Archive it states “Meitner was part of [the] Hahn-Meitner-Strassmann team that worked on transuranium elements...”. Meitner was a part of this team that had helped her with her succession of discovering nuclear fission. Meitner was the third child…