History of Honduras

worried with history in some sense and some degree; for Christianity is a chronicled religion, unpreventable attached to the occasions of Jesus' life – not to specific understandings of specific minutes in it, nor to a specific philosophical translation of the Incarnation or the Atonement – be that as it may, as I once heard a schoolmaster put it to his class, when discussing the occasions of Christmas, respectfully, cottage solidly, 'no infant, no Church'. This implies…

Everyday Use by Alice Walker explains heritage to be a tangible object, oral stories, or significant places that are shared from generation to generation. Any form of heritage is remarkably important in a family tree. It keeps us connected to our family line, religion, and beliefs from a long background of where we come from. Traditions change with many different aspects of a family’s background and each family is unique. My family, the Grubbs and Trivitts, have various ongoing traditions like…

For a long time, little was known about this mysterious civilization that lived many years ago. With what we found in the tombs of the Etruscans tells us a lot of how they lived and what they believed in. The Etruscans had an obsession with the burial of their dead. This tells us a lot of how they thought and how they perceived death. Historians learned a lot about this ancient civilization from inscriptions and what they discovered in many of the Etruscan tombs. There are many known…

This history course was very eye-opening for me. I learned history that was different from history taught in classrooms. Authors and publishers of history textbooks can alter the information to make it appealing to their target audience (Loewen Ch. 1). I did not know this was allowed. I always believed that the information in history textbooks must be true. History textbooks have target audiences that they want to make happy. If these target audiences like how the history textbook portrays them…

manage to escalate in popularity and entire their audiences. This high demand for artworks created by early humans has been capitalized on by large museums and historical societies, not only to continue to expand the public’s knowledge and interest in history, but for fiscal profit as well. In the past, archaeologists and historians have taken artifacts from their home countries to be displayed in encyclopedic museums to showcase these wonders. This system worked well, inspiring curiosity about…

I visited Mitchell Museum of the American Indian located at 3001 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois. Glancing through the outside of the museum, my impression was this is a pretty small building. I had a single story about the building; I thought I might have chosen the wrong museum to go to since it is small in size. However, as soon as I walked through the main door, I had a good feeling in a cozy building with full of American Indian artifacts, pottery, and native fashion. I was filled with…

The Classificatory-Historical period took place from 1914-1960 and marked a time concerned with chronology and dating. Universities and other research institutions emphasized time as the primary tool of classifying North American cultures. During this time period it was thought that cultures could be well understood based on the chronological ordering of events. An important technique developed during this time was stratigraphic excavation, which was the differentiation and examination of…

Herodotus of Halicarnassus represents his work Histories not as the history in the understanding of a modern reader, pure historical facts and events, but as a rich collection of vivid narratives and description about wars between Greeks and barbarians so that inspiring stories would not be forgotten in the days of yore. The name of this book, The Histories, derives from Greek word, hisroiē, meaning investigation and inquiry. For Herodotus, he investigates many local oral stories and tales from…

Art History 1 Singh, Satendra Satyam Writing Assignment 1, Topic 1 Looking through the history of depiction of human figure yields several similarities and differences in the development of depicting the human form throughout the art represented from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Aegean, and Greek cultures. Humans throughout the ages have been depicted time and time again; these representations share several similarities and differences. The people of the Paleolithic Ages survived through a…

History 30: Is it Actually Important I think this class benefits students in a ton of ways. We are the society’s future and I think it’s important to know Canada’s successes and failures so we know what to do and what not to do. My generation and generations to follow need to know the past of Canada so the future can be even better. I think it’s important to know what to do and what not to do when it comes to approaching people who are different then us. We need the knowledge of the Beothuk so…