History of Singapore

Herodotus, in his work, The Histories, describes the leaders of the two combatant coalitions in the Persian War, Themistocles of the Greeks and Xerxes of the Persians, in very different ways. Herodotus often points to how both men handle council and their own piety as a tool to depict what kind of men they are, and at times reinforces his own generalizations of the Greek and Persian people using these men as his proxy. Herodotus seems to accept the idea that men, as individuals, can shape great…

For instance, the Nazis used German history not just to prove a nationalistic point, but a point of racial prejudices against other races and religious groups such as the Jews. This example proves that historians presses the power to convince any group of people to do superb deeds for other…

a product of history” and, in turn, “reflects” that history (899). This “reflection” take the form of traditions, idioms, and customs which structure a culture (899). For Ngũgĩ wa Thiong 'o, the culture which language creates is defined as a “collective memory bank of a peoples’ experiences in history;” a history often filled with outside influence (900). These experiences give rise to a culture’s unique worldviews. Because the culture’s worldviews are formed by its amounting history, the…

Essay IV: Universal History (Marx v Hegel) The view of history as universal was a turning point for historians, who had until that point had a more isolated view of history, wherein it related to a single place and the series of events taking place there. Universal history described the history of the human race as a whole, and while this idea had been around since the time of the Romans, it become more developed in the nineteenth century. Two prominent proponents of this were German…

*Glennie and Thrift 1) Glennie and Thrift discuss the topic of time and the disjuncture between historical general accounts and recent writings about time. The authors ask how much of Thompson’s theory of time is accurate and what changes have occurred in the writing about time since Thompson’s theory was conceived. Glennie and Thrift argue that there have been several major and interrelated modifications in the documentation and questions of time contrary to what Thompson believed. 2)…

engage all of her students on a level that got them interested about school, and whatever subject she take they believed it was the most important subject in the world. She also mentions Anna 's contribution to Texas in the form of her history book about Texas history, that was used in the…

History comes from the Greek word Historia and it means to learn or to inquiry. It’s a vague subject because there so much information that is involved and a lot it being left out. My arguments are do we lie about history to supply clean content to explain history to children in Elementary School systems; teach the true history in schools because children need to know; or wait until children are in college to teach history because the content is controversial. James Baldwin said it best with…

Summary In “History as Judgment and Promise in A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Dominic Manganiello argues that the idea of History within A Canticle for Leibowitz can serve as judgment, promise, and religious bias by examining the close relation between the church and historical memorabilia. Manganiello identifies History as a myth in which it is vulnerable to historical bias through false representations of previous generations as well as the heavy monastic influence the church has on historical…

Is history accurate or inaccurate because of different historical giants? Morgan's central idea is that because a higher or bigger historian or literary figures says something different or something is wrong that they can change the history into how they think is was or should be. To put it differently, history is made and not changed upon the idea of a higher person who thinks they know what they are talking about. He gives examples of what other people think history should be like then claims…

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…