Political history

"knowledge," and "history" actually skew our perceptions of the past, present, and future. The discourses and wisdom we acquire inevitably taint our relationships with matter, spatiality, and time. German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin address the partiality of knowledge. Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" uses metaphor and the human condition to emphasize the subjective nature of knowledge, concepts, and truths, while Benjamin's "On the Concept of…

significant value in the study of design history. Unfortunately, at a time when incredible value is placed on novelty and individual creativity, the narratives of the past often fall on deaf ears, written off as mere nostalgia (Hunt 2014, 1). Focusing on landscape architecture, this essay will defend the presence of history in contemporary thought and promote an active and critical engagement with the antecedents of design. It will be argued that the study of design history provides valuable…

When studying past events in history, a common theme tends to come up, wars. Wars have been a part of nearly every country’s history and can change the entire position of a nation. From internal conflicts to external threats, nations will get involved in wars in order to help themselves, help other countries for moral reasons, or just feel as if another country is a threat. As a result of war playing out in a country, it can destroy one’s infrastructure, cause innocent civilians to die,…

The idea that history is a competition between culture with a dominant winner is true and has been proven for centuries no matter which way it is looked at, but cultural synthesis is inevitable to come in any situation. Saying one side is less prevalent than the other is contradicting because there will always be a natural obligation among humans that is centered around the need for being the best. Seeing that this is true, history is a product of cultural synthesis despite the competition found…

in which is discussed. Furthermore, in contrast to Source A whereby much primary evidence is analysed, in Source B, secondary evidence of the media, conference reports and ethnographic studies are more so used as a way to explore ideologies and history rather then the argument of the…

I believe that the movie, Amazing Grace, is both historically accurate and inaccurate. There were also strong and weak parts of the movie. The accurate and good parts of this movie include the ending scene, the humor incorporated into it, some quotes, and the amount of research done for the movie to be accurate. First, the most important part of the movie was the ending. This was when Wilberforce presents the Bill to the House of Commons. The scene seemed real and true! It was very nicely…

be an immaculate reflection on Harper’s rewriting of history, seen by Jack Granatstein as a way to de-politicize emphasis on social history and restore the place of military history in education. This focus of Confederation and military history, in particular the World Wars has not been without its critics. One of the foremost was the Canadian Historical Association and its concern that the weight on military history obstructs social history expressing progressive causes. These concerns were…

our being left back as a people and it still acts as the major hindrance of African Americans. In Tariq Nasheeds, Hidden Color, he discusses some of the reasons the contributions of African and aboriginal people have been left out of the pages of history. He also mentions a case where a young black male was told that he was mentally challenged although he was not. This young man, went his whole life being told what he could not do, that he could not perform, and that he did not have the correct…

Studying past presidencies through psychological analysis takes an angle we have not yet seen in so far. Rather than studying the big picture of history or on the history of a president’s constitutional powers, the psychological approach takes an individual, case-by-case approach to evaluate each president. For example, in Wayne’s book we saw how Obama’s personal life and campaign strategy shaped who he was as President of the United States. In class we reviewed other past presidents as well and…

Prologue: History is the most important thing in the world because of how it affects people and societies all around the world. Traces of history go all the way back millions of years ago forming wealth and power to this day. In this book Jared Diamond is determined to explain why there were so many different rates of human development on different continents and to his traditional views and opinions. The "rise of civilization" conveys the opinions and true meanings behind civilization and how…