Modern history

The assigned book for this course is entitled “We the People: A Brief American History,” by Peter N. Carroll. In his book, Carroll gives a voice to women, minorities, and ordinary people, while allowing place for comparisons among different groups by unfolding problems and subject matter that affected each of them relative to U.S. history (Carroll XXI). The assignment for this week was to read chapters 1and 2. This paper will summarize some of what the author discussed in great detail in…

Somehow this cubicle had never bothered me after 12 years on the force it was just normal to be in this cubicle for most of the day. The town of Catalina only had a population of 10,000 and not much happened for the undercover unit. We had been called out a few weeks ago to assist the state police at the Athens air show to help with controlling the (1) throng of people that came out. I don’t know how this small air show (2) elicited so many people each year. We recently had a (4) former military…

After having taken History 2700, I’d like to say that I will be a much more informed and better American citizen because of it. I have always loved history and so many of the things in this course were not too shocking for me, that being said, I still feel as if I learned several things. I enjoyed that this class focused less on dates and names and more on the significance, meaning, and later results of the historical events discussed. One area of history I knew very little about was the vast…

Humans are a vicious, controlling, and powerful species. Those in power will do whatever it takes to achieve their set goal even if it means sending troops to fight other soldiers. That is why the saying “history repeats itself” is so relevant. To as far back as records document, battles have been occurring between tribes, states, countries, and provinces. That is the consistency: it is in human nature to fight. However, no matter how the battle or time period differs, nature will prevail. In…

QUESTION # 1: In your view, does the culture in which you were raised have any shortcomings? Built-in weaknesses? What are they? How do they cause problems? Example: An ancient society with culture that values violence (to resolve domestic and outside conflicts) will have a lot of deaths as a result. Also, consider the expression: Time is Money. Where does it come from? Is there a problem with this concept and what it represents? What kind of individual and social problems, in your view, arise…

responsibility for historical accuracy especially when you are dealing with a subject so highly known as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The need to be historically accurate is essential. This is especially true when your claiming events in history to be false. The issue with the film J.F.K. is different footage is overlapped within the story so in some cases for certain audience members it may be hard to actually differentiate between film and reality. This can pose a problem when you…

The chosen Sound Box from Sumerian Lyre, from Ur.Ca. 2685 BCE; Mesopotamia structure was dated back to the third millennium B.C. found in the tomb of Queen Puabi from the Royal Cemetery of Ur in southern Iraq by an archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his men between 1922 and 1934 called “The Great Lyre” in PG789 (Clark, 2014). The Sound Box of Lyre had disintegrated, leaving only an impression in the soil, which Woolly called them death pits known as “Kings’ Graves” (Penn Museum, n. d.).…

question what was in your primary and secondary school history textbooks? Textbooks that are written by experts are voted on by the state school board. If the content of the textbooks does not meet the board’s standards, the textbook is not adopted, even if what the expert wrote is fact based. In recent years, state school boards have started to scrub history textbooks to censor out unpopular facts of history on the premise that they are making history that is presented in classrooms more…

It’s important to know the history of a country to know how it all started. In his article “Culture” Mihkel Mutt (n.d.-a) talks about the culture of Estonia and all of its importance. Estonia is home to a million people and to all those people culture is very important for the identity of Estonia. Culture should be important to every country because culture is what defines them as a country. Estonia is known to write many folk songs, they have around 133,000 folk songs. During the early 13th…

Grace Thomson Professor Henson WBIS 188, Section 17 September 20, 2017 Centuries of Genocide Introduction Study Questions 7) Often times in eyewitness accounts or oral testimonies, there is question whether what the interviewee is saying is indeed factual or if it lacks validity. The problem is, scholars base their primary and only source off of the words of the people they are interviewing, nothing else. This leaves room for non-factual information to be spread and believed by those who read…