Chinese American history

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…

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…

suicidology. I will provide a brief history of suicide and state why it is important to study suicide in the sociology field. I will then compile information from the prior research and analyze it, comparing many aspects in hope of finding an underlying theme. I will look into three categories; demographics, integration, and mental status. I will then finish with a conclusion and the hypothesis which will then lead to my research proposal. Let us begin. History Suicide has a big effect on…

Literature has always been a very important source of history. It has many ways of describing the past to us and has been used for nearly all of recorded history. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by describing their struggles and comparing them to others.It also sometimes explains how it affects us currently.The Diary of Anne Frank, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Maus are great examples. The Diary of Anne Frank shared many personal…

historical field. It is also commonly referred to as denial. Opinions on this field of history can be mostly seen as seen through a quote by Deborah Lipstadt, who was a professor at the University of Washington. “Deniers build their pseudo-arguments on traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes and imagery. (Lipstadt, 2011, The Eichmann Trial.) This quote shows that the opinions on this form of revisionism are not accepted wholly. The major problem with this is the fact that it impacts on the idea of…

As is the case of many institutions, public interest has its rise and fall. Within the world of history, living history museums, often unwilling or unsure of how to adapt in order to maintain relevancy and intrigue, find themselves in a difficult position. The issue of trying to evolve while creating enough of a revenue to support projects that will hold a long-term engagement with the public is where many museums struggle. While others are too set in their ways to feel the need to change their…

situations, but they had managed to stay together all the way through. Another example of relationships would be between Georg and Ruth who are boyfriend and girlfriend and they love each other very much. Ernst, one of the antagonists in this book, had a history with both Wilm and Annaliese. He was almost an older brother to Wilm, but after breaking up with Wilm’s sister, Anneliese, Ernst became both their enemy. Building relationships is one of the key components of the IB program’s goals.…

viewpoint of objectivity and subjectivity in a way. In Zinn’s excerpt he proclaims how “One, that it’s not possible. Two, it's not desirable”. Zinn was talking about how If you were to take a history book of some sort and start putting certain facts into the book and big ideas it’s already subjective. For a history book, website or museum to be objective it would need to have every fact of every story from every angle of that event. “People claim they were objective. The worst thing is to claim…