History of Ethiopia

To this day, the battle and the histories associated with the Alamo continue to generate feelings of courage, endurance, heroism, and patriotism in those who learn about the battle. Via analysis of the following sources gathered, I will investigate the ways in which modern historians explain how myths, legends, and stories of the Alamo influence American memory and culture. Cultural historians have approached this topic by analyzing the portrayals of the Alamo in popular culture such as TV shows…

Preserving the Past “The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory from the past.” Jean Henri Fabre Main events that happened in the past such as the Renaissance, still impact us today. One of the only artifacts that we continue to have is art. Art has been a major influence during those medieval times and are very significant to us right now. What people don’t realize is that if we erase art, we erase part of us. Our cultural…

consider the evacuation of Dunkirk a turning point in the war - if it had not been successful, it is believed the allied forces would not have been able to withstand the enemy for much longer. This had then become the biggest military evacuation in history which prompted Christopher Nolan to create a film based on the facts given. He created a historically accurate film with minor inaccuracies that depict the events that happened on the French coast in 1940. Christopher Nolan released Dunkirk…

Early American History Name Institution Abstract Early American history is riddled with numerous achievements by the founding fathers. Their contributions shaped the American political, social, and economic landscape. However, there is great concern that early American history fails to document the achievements of women and native leaders and other marginalized groups such as slaves. The early American history largely focuses on achievements of the central figures such as George…

America’s Gift to My Generation America is a gift from God. Just like America is giving a gift to us. Remembrance is America’s gift. Most of my generations don’t really know what happened in the past. My generation needs to learn remembrance. Of our soldiers who fought and still are fighting for us. Remember the past, but keep moving forward. We can make things better by remembering. Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the generations before it, and wiser than the one…

similarities than differences, but those differences transform them completely. Jill Lepore conveys this succinctly, writing, If biography is largely founded on a belief in the singularity and significance of an individual's life and his contribution to history, microhistory is founded upon almost the opposite assumption: however singular a person's life may be, the value of examining it lies not in its uniqueness, but in its exemplariness, in how that individual's life serves as an allegory…

Between retrospective and contemporaneous writing, many diaries and other forms of literature have come from the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. These different styles of writing have enabled us to learn more about this period in history from multiple perspectives. I believe the excerpts from Moshe Flinker and Dawid Sierakowiak’s diaries are equally great examples of contemporaneous writing from the Holocaust for high schoolers to read during your two-week unit. First of all,…

Questions about how to symbolize slavery effectively and how to tell their story were the most …This teteous task spaned eight years. Two ways that museums .. is through educating and provoking. The goal was to create a balance and a link from the history of founding fathers and the creation of the early republic and the issue of slavery, the practices of such and the enslavers themselves. Community engagement is also important. There was a variety of opinions regarding what needed to be…

The Great Lyre from Ur The Great Lyre with Bull’s Head is the oldest stringed instrument found by an archeologist Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. This valuable historical relic is now well-preserved in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The lyre was created between c. 2600 BCE and c. 2500 BCE during the Sumerian Period. It was discovered in a royal tomb from an ancient Mesopotamian city named Ur and its contemporary location is Muqaiyir, Iraq. The lyre looks…

easily. Many things have changed all throughout history. African Americans are now given rights and are treated equal to everyone else around them. This change happened nearly 50 year ago. Lots of individuals look at the world differently because of the effects of history and our environment. A current controversy that has been brewing lately is whether or not we should allow Syrians into the United States for food and shelter. Many also argue that history and the environment has no relevance…