HIS 100 Module Five Activity
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HIS 100 Module Five Activity Template: Historical Interpretations
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
Chernobyl
Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of your current event.
When I first decided to write about Chernobyl, it was honestly not because any knowledge I had about it. It was because I felt things about race or climate would be boring and most topics in my
previous history classes were about similar subjects. My understanding about Chernobyl has increased because not only do I know it wasn’t just an explosion, but now I also learned about hos people reacted, the long-term effects, and how people came together to be selfless and help
one another, including people that sacrificed themselves for the better of others. Also, it wasn’t just a freak accident that happened. There were preventative measures that could have possibly prevented it from happening in the first place and the people with more power decided not to listen to the person that was building the reactor in the first place. The whole situation was a mess that could have been prevented possibly. Explain how biased perspectives influence what is known about both your historical and current events.
The bias perspective about Chernobyl could be someone that was loyal to the USSR or possibly even Russia now. I am not sure if people in Russia agree with what the USSR was, but if they believed in that government, then they would try to defend it and say it was someone’s fault for not doing things right and the government could not have done anything to help prevent it when
in fact the government made the decision to have it built the way it was. The current events are affected by the same, any area that is running on nuclear power that could possibly have an incident would most likely be blamed on human error so it would be on an individual and not the government. Also, anyone against nuclear power would be bias if they care more about the environment since there are still environmental impacts, however, they do not think about the implications and how our country would not be able to run properly without some areas having nuclear power. Propose how the narrative about your historical event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
If my historical event was told from a missing perspective, then it would prove once and for all exact what caused the incident in the first place. The missing perspectives are the personnel directly involved in the incident which were inside the explosion so without their testimony, we have no direct proof what happened, only speculation and evidence of what we think based on evidence gathered from the time it happened. Propose how the narrative about your current event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
Current events with nuclear power would not change with any new perspective. Chernobyl was a disaster, and even with that risk, we still run with nuclear power and have safety guards to prevent anything else from happening. If it turned out that the event was not an accident and
because of lack of training, it would not change anything since we are already operating under the assumption it is dangerous.
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