History of Honduras

The Historical Conversations Project (HCP) is writing a review that helps to expose us and the peers to various topics, arguments, histories, and background knowledge that will enable us to engage with each other over the course of the quarter. This project is one of the biggest assigned papers that was allocated to us in a week three. The Historical Conversations Project was required to be 6-7 pages long where it also has to be a multi- modal composition. This project was one of the difficult…

Everybody is so worried about there clothing, like they always have to look better then everyone, no one realizes how much clothing and the creations of it has changed throughout history. Throughout history there here has been direct relationships between clothing styles and developments in clothing creation. It starts first with the Industrial Revolution, then the civil war, and lastly the 1920ish. Clothing creation has changed so much by that time because people started making their own…

The Histories Study Guide: Day 2 Motivations Behind The Histories Herodotus was primarily interested in describing the “known world”. For example, book 2 was originally a separate book about Egyptian customs, which he later inserted. His motive was to show how history is one continuous story, and how many different events are actually interwoven. One can read The Histories as an illustration of the different societies and cultures in the area with the Persian War…

Starting with simple cave drawings, art has been around since the beginning of man, and will still be around for the end. Throughout history, there has been numerous art movements that have shaped mankind for who we are today. Even without thinking about it, we are influenced by art everyday. Without it, there would be no movies, comics, or even colorful packaging on simple everyday items such as cereal boxes. Life would be bland. Most people don't realize how important art is, or how many…

occurred within these cultures. We study the past to acquire a broader and richer understanding of our world today and our place in it. Archaeology is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains. Archaeology talks about human history and culture that has contributed greatly to our understanding of both the ancient and the recent past. Studying early human society allows humanity to look at its own reflection. We can embrace the reflection good and bad and be stronger…

shield, I was a ferocious Spartan soldier. As you can see, the topic of world history intrigued me a lot. However, this enthusiasm of mine did not come from the indefinite timeline of history; it came from how people in the past were capable of making architecture that continues to leave the modern-day world astonished and inspired. This appreciation of history sparked a fire inside of me. As a result, taking AP World history during the sophomore year of high school stimulated my passion for…

Historical context has greatly enhanced my understanding and meaning of stories that I read not only in English class but in but outside of the classroom. When I read a story with historical context I find that analyzing the story can give me a fuller understanding of the story and can help me see the reasoning behind the people behaving as they did. Seeing what motivated people to act the way they did back then can provide the reader with so much more valuable information than they would have…

Historians have always found the fine line between narrative as myth or history problematic, an issue that Herodotus, one of the great ancient Greek historians, attempts to deal with by rationalizing myth, so as to still incorporate it into his accounts, and actively distinguishing myth from history. Rationalization boils myth down into its most fundamental components, supporting the argument that myth is simply history spun out of proportion or misremembered by exposing myth’s basis in real…

1. In A People’s History of the United States chapters 1-8 by Howard Zinn. He writes about historic key points in which some history recollections doesn’t truly paint the truth of what happened, why it happened, and how we look at it now with newer, more open minded hindsight. Some of the most important points that Zinn brings to light in his book is that history is never truly written until after the fact and that fact is, history is written by those who deem it fit. With a vision that can at…

Before Binford made his argument that archaeology was holding a backseat in anthropology, and needed to make a necessary transition towards a systematic view of culture, archaeology used a direct historical approach. By studying modern native cultures one could start at the top of each archaeological layer and work down (working the way back in time). Sir Edward B. Tylor represented cultural evolutionism in archaeology. He believed that there was a purpose in the development of society and…