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    The discipline of studies sometime takes courses because of how effective it has in the community and because history has allowed scholars to reconstruct the concept of Africana World Studies. According to John Clarke, he describes through Saunders Redding, theory on how history has played a major part in the academic perspective on Black Studies. A history first distorted when the Europeans first travel and kidnapped thousands of African for enslavement. The study was to revamp the studies for…

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    The complexity of world history spans from the multiple tiers of information collected over many years. The subject of world history has caused much controversy and has kept educators and scholars deciphering content. The controversy has kept educators wandering what to teach and how to teach. This broad subject holds educators to an extremely high standard which they must not fall beneath; teaching philosophies and lesson plans must meet each standard. An educator is responsible for their…

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    with people who have gone to the place. We create a vision for what our experience should be like without even reaching our destination. We often get caught up in creating a vision for our experience that we forget to stop, look around, and enjoy the world. When we go to a place, we try to experience what we have planned instead of experience what we were meant to experience, otherwise known as our true experience. For example, Percy mentions a couple who went to Mexico. They traveled thousands…

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    Since the professionalization of world history the lens that historians would look through was supremely Eurocentric. The other parts of the world had their accomplishments and contributed to the world as a whole, but Europe was usually the protagonist in the stories told. More recently world historians have been viewing the world through what Ross Dunn describes as the “Different Cultures Model,” which looks at the past from the opposite perspective. The modern historians Lynda Shaffer, Xinru…

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    History, although it is what defines the world we live in today still causes conflict in the Australian curriculum. Arguments are often about what should be taught in history in our schools. For many its underlining issues is that it not only represents the good that has happened in the past, but also clearly delves into the dark side and this can quite confronting at times. The world wars are a clear contender in these issues for the most part they are what have shaped our very nation today,…

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    Modern Day Iran Themes

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    Iran, that will most likely be discussed throughout the year in world history. Three themes that stood out are legal systems, religions, and cultures. There is a possibility that these topics will be mentioned in world history this year. The first theme that will be discussed is legal systems. This topic stood out because in Iran they have an “eye for an eye” punishment for crimes. Legal systems are important in world history because it is crucial to learn what they are bringing to America…

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    “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes compares the history and the soul of black communities to four great rivers around the world. The poem takes the reader on a historical journey through different places and times. It links black history with the birth of civilization and the creation of the world: “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” Hughes conception of the black experience and rich ancient existence in “The Negro Speaks…

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    World War 2 Causes

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    causes of World War II. World War II is known as the bloodiest war in human history. A lot of controversial why this is happening. So, I am really interested to collect data and sources to know what makes this war happened. I don’t have any relatives that involved in this war, but this war made a huge impact for my country, Indonesia. For 338 years, Indonesia had been colonized by Portuguese, 350 years by Netherland, and 3.5 years by Japan. Most of people were suffering and died. World War II…

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    also urges his reader to envision life in the picturesque world, he used this style of writing to bring about a feeling of nationalism but with the preservation of Irish history. In the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats uses pastoral imagery to describe the Western Ireland Countryside. “Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,” (Lake Isle, line 3) is a natural and serene scene that is far removed from an urban dark world. Yeats writes, “live alone in the bee-loud glade.”…

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    World's Worst Mistakes

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    lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” -George Santayana. As a person, when we make mistakes, we are told to learn from them to keep ourselves from repeating them over again. Some of the world’s worst mistakes are events that have happened multiple times, but instead of learning from it, we have chosen to forget about it, and we have had to rehash some horrific times. One time in which we have relived history is when both of the world wars happened. World War II was like a sequel to…

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