History of film

Not only did AP Art History solidify my passion for the study of history through the lens of art, it has positively influenced my own artwork. History has become my foremost artistic muse. The class discussions were one of my favorite aspects of the class. These classroom exchanges not only energized me and motivated me to further explore the different perspectives discussed through additional outside study, but, with the teacher’s encouragement and support, pushed me to voice my thoughts and…

The assigned book for this course is entitled “We the People: A Brief American History,” by Peter N. Carroll. In his book, Carroll gives a voice to women, minorities, and ordinary people, while allowing place for comparisons among different groups by unfolding problems and subject matter that affected each of them relative to U.S. history (Carroll XXI). The assignment for this week was to read chapters 1and 2. This paper will summarize some of what the author discussed in great detail in…

The Real, Real Historian In Webster’s Dictionary, a Historian is defined as, “ a writer or computer of history, or as an authority on or specialist in history (863). Thucydides is regularly referred to as the, “Real Father of History.” The exact date of the birth of Thucydides is unknown, it was sometime before the Peloponnesian war had begun. Thucydides was in an elite group of Athenian Men, including Pericles, the athenian Leader of at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War ( Pounce, 9). Once…

Humans are a vicious, controlling, and powerful species. Those in power will do whatever it takes to achieve their set goal even if it means sending troops to fight other soldiers. That is why the saying “history repeats itself” is so relevant. To as far back as records document, battles have been occurring between tribes, states, countries, and provinces. That is the consistency: it is in human nature to fight. However, no matter how the battle or time period differs, nature will prevail. In…

QUESTION # 1: In your view, does the culture in which you were raised have any shortcomings? Built-in weaknesses? What are they? How do they cause problems? Example: An ancient society with culture that values violence (to resolve domestic and outside conflicts) will have a lot of deaths as a result. Also, consider the expression: Time is Money. Where does it come from? Is there a problem with this concept and what it represents? What kind of individual and social problems, in your view, arise…

The chosen Sound Box from Sumerian Lyre, from Ur.Ca. 2685 BCE; Mesopotamia structure was dated back to the third millennium B.C. found in the tomb of Queen Puabi from the Royal Cemetery of Ur in southern Iraq by an archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his men between 1922 and 1934 called “The Great Lyre” in PG789 (Clark, 2014). The Sound Box of Lyre had disintegrated, leaving only an impression in the soil, which Woolly called them death pits known as “Kings’ Graves” (Penn Museum, n. d.).…

question what was in your primary and secondary school history textbooks? Textbooks that are written by experts are voted on by the state school board. If the content of the textbooks does not meet the board’s standards, the textbook is not adopted, even if what the expert wrote is fact based. In recent years, state school boards have started to scrub history textbooks to censor out unpopular facts of history on the premise that they are making history that is presented in classrooms more…

The history of mankind has always been the history of imperialism in myriad of its forms. In this context it must be said that the history of the modern world, to a large extent, is a history of European/Western expansion, colonization, and its decline. It is noteworthy that the expansionist policies that were implemented by the colonial powers eventually paved the way for the emergence of globalization and the decline of the process of colonialism made it possible for the emergence of…

It’s important to know the history of a country to know how it all started. In his article “Culture” Mihkel Mutt (n.d.-a) talks about the culture of Estonia and all of its importance. Estonia is home to a million people and to all those people culture is very important for the identity of Estonia. Culture should be important to every country because culture is what defines them as a country. Estonia is known to write many folk songs, they have around 133,000 folk songs. During the early 13th…

Grace Thomson Professor Henson WBIS 188, Section 17 September 20, 2017 Centuries of Genocide Introduction Study Questions 7) Often times in eyewitness accounts or oral testimonies, there is question whether what the interviewee is saying is indeed factual or if it lacks validity. The problem is, scholars base their primary and only source off of the words of the people they are interviewing, nothing else. This leaves room for non-factual information to be spread and believed by those who read…