History of Singapore

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…

The article I chose to critique is Bring out your dead: people, pots, and politics by Don Brothwell (2004). I think this is a fairly well written article with a few minor parts. One problem I have is how he mentions other cultures and their time scale. Some cultures that we don’t know much about would be hard to tell if this was the case. In other culture their time scale is stranger, if a person in the group gets older it is said they are 100 years old. It would be smart to radiocarbon date…

Christian attempts to cover world history in a mere 120 pages. David divides his book into three periods: the era of foragers, the agrarian era, and the modern era. Within these periods he describes the various lifestyles our ancestors lived in, the advancements achieved, and what ultimately brought upon the succeeding era. In essence, David Christian goal in writing his novel is to filter out the unnecessary jargon in world history and convey a more concise history of humanity (p. XVII).…

Final Exam In our study of World History this semester would you say that the ‘ancient’ or past civilizations that we have looked at are drastically different than the societies in which we live today ? Throughout history, a plethora of civilizations ranging through time from ancient to modern, have displayed traits that allow them to be deemed similar or contrasting from other societies. However, the civilizations that have been discussed in class this semester are not so dissimilar than the…

Scholar R.J. Raack is for “film as history” by arguing that the traditional written history is too narrow to focus on the complexity of it. Raack states that film is the most appropriate medium for because, “Only film can provide an adequate "empathetic reconstruction to convey how historical people witnessed, understood, and lived their lives." Only film can "recover all the past 's liveliness” (1176). Furthermore, he believes this because of film’s ability to juxtapose images and sound and the…

As said by Tony, it is important to understand the historical accuracy of events, whether they are truth or ‘historical drama’. This is the same with movies. Often when movies are produced, they are done so with the intention to present history in an entertaining way, and this leads to inaccuracies. This is shown in the movie Belle. Belle is a movie produced in 2013, based on Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lord Mansfield in the 18th and 19th Century. Belle is based lightly on a true story, this comes…