over many years. The subject of world history has caused much controversy and has kept educators and scholars deciphering content. The controversy has kept educators wandering what to teach and how to teach. This broad subject holds educators to an extremely high standard which they must not fall beneath; teaching philosophies and lesson plans must meet each standard. An educator is responsible for their students’ understanding. A quotation provided by the American Historical Association helps…
and recent historical and political events which have led to the implementation of the current asylum policies? And from an…
According to White, each one of these nine traditional churches had a major influence on the development of Protestant worship. Therefore, his thesis is that each one of these traditions has specific characteristics and values that facilitates the historical analysis of Protestant worship in Europe and America. (24). Summary White divides his book into twelve chapters that describe the main worship aspects of particular Protestant churches. First, he explains the purpose of the study of…
to read to give you an understanding of the life of the historical Jesus. It is very accessible and is free from a lot of theological terminology which you would usually find in a book about Jesus Christ, however this book is about Jesus, and not Christ. This is because he writes in a historical factual manner dealing with solid issues and not the usual theological theories. By reading this book and understanding Jesus’ life from a historical and political point of view, and in terms of the real…
Historical Fiction: Chickadee I have chosen the novel Chickadee by Louise Erdrich for the exploration assignment to address what the historical novel is able to accomplish that a conventional text of the same subject could not. Chickadee is the continuation of a story and fourth book in a series by Erdrich that began with the novel The Birchbark House that introduced a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl named Omakayas. Chickadee takes place in mid-1800 Minnesota and picks up the story with Omakayas…
Sociology is a social science that enables people to understand the structure of society. Sociology is a study of modern societies. Modern societies result in three different revolutions. This includes Scientific, Industrial, and political. In order for Sociologist to understand the present, it is essential to consider the past. This can be explained through the concept of Sociological Immigration. The concept of Sociological Immigration was coined by C.Wright Mills in 1959, to demonstrate…
Stubbs had transformed the study of history to a continuous and research driven university discipline. It is important to note that the study of history was not created by Stubbs as it was present for centuries. However through Stubbs’s work the subject of history began to have an impact for academic studies and future historians. The legacy of Stubbs can be seen through the introduction of the Constitution History of England. Stubbs’s articulates a warning to his audience before reading the…
Belgrave, Michael, Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories, Auckland, 2005. In this book, Belgrave explores the changes that have occurred in the last hundred and fifty years regarding Waitangi Tribunal claims, the role of the Waitangi Tribunal and the relationship between Maori and non-Maori in New Zealand. Belgrave sheds light on nuances of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal that are not commonly known. Belgrave provides evidence on various historical case…
which a sculpture can be defined as a copy or reproduction of a original. Hunter states that his goal is to “question notions of historical meaning and progress…inverting traditional monumental values through unexpected use of scale, material, processes, and subject matter to open up questions for the viewer rather than provide meaning”. Hunter seeks to subvert the historical lineage of sculpture by using an amalgamation of features which are either established sculptural notions to features…
and Leonard Bell’s Artist and Empire: Victorian Representation of Subject People, delve into the topic of native people and their representation and misrepresentation in artwork. Bell’s writing dives a bit deeper in my opinion in terms of his historical analysis than Julie Schimmel’s. Schimmel’s writing comes from the viewpoint that leans more toward the side of art history rather than historical and tends to brush over the historical relationship between the whites and the Indians. I should…