I Am An Average Man And A Presumed Widower

Communication is constantly improving, especially in our technologically advanced world. For instance, in the 1450s, Johannes Gutenberg designed the printing press, inspired by Chinese Woodblock printing. The invention had a significant effect on reformation and exploration in the Renaissance, as it allowed information to travel efficiently through Europe. Both reformation and exploration clearly portray worldviews during this time. Exploration represents European’s yearnings to “explore the new and reexamine the old” rather than remain content with past traditions and knowledge, as they often did in medieval times. Furthermore, charting new worlds depict people’s natural tendency to discover “the richness and variety of the human experience”.

(An analysis of how the authors Hughes, Clifton and McElroy and how they use history in their works.)

The study of history and the teaching of history has come under intense public debate in the United States in the last few decades. The “culture-wars” began with the call to add more works by non-Caucasians and women and has bled into the study of history. Not only in the study of history or literature, this debate has spread into American culture like wildfire.

Airports did the best that they could with this shock and made as many changes as fast as they could. The airport said, “We went from 0 to 100 overnight in terms of what we had to do for security'" (Thackeray 1). The next couple of days the security workers had there work cut out for them and had to work vigorously to achieve what authority was telling them. They did the best job that they could with the time they had. Many people with scheduled flights were having trouble after this attack because the airport was in a frenzy and trying there hardest to keep things in order. According to some workers at the airport, "...some terminals at the three airports were deluged with passengers, most of whom encountered only frustration" (Levy 1). Frustration is expected with all the chaos that was going on with people trying to stick to a schedule, and also with workers trying to obey the rules. Ms. Zbinden has frustration as she spends a lot of money on trips to the airport,"'It cost me $40 to get here,' Ms. Zbinden said. 'I'm not going to keep going back and forth" (2). Ms. Zbinden was spending to much money to keep going to the airport and then having the flight be canceled so she shared her frustration with the workers. Sadly the workers can only follow rules not change them. With this big of an attack the airports decided to have backup undercover cops int he airport. An excellent idea from

From the street there were people screaming and running it was mass chaos. At this time you could see the media and firefighters everywhere. I got the hell out of there went home hugged my wife. I realized God had spared me that day. A lot of my friends and coworkers died that day. I’m truly sorry, sometimes I feel guilty that I didn’t do my part to help but I was afraid for my life. A couple of my friends that made it from a bit higher up said it sounded like a bunch of explosions. I remember thinking after hearing from them and seeing the video footage what the heck happened? In my opinion it felt like a bomb (Jones).

The rioters looted stores, torched buildings, and beat white people as snipers fired at police and firefighters. Rumors circulated that the police had hit a pregnant woman. One five-year-old boy was killed by sniper fire (www.cnn.com). Incidents like these added fuel to the already raging fire of the riot.

Writing this paper was quite the challenge but one that I have learned a lot from. I have always had a strong interest in history and how historians dig up and put together their information. From our class discussions and my experience piecing together Jaymi’s history, being a historian is not just about giving people information about the past. It is about reconstructing the past. Historians must look at all angles of their study—they are like the detectives of the past. With this project, that is exactly what I had to do.

A historian is able to scrutinize two dissimilar documents from a point of history and compare them adequately. My professor presented the opportunity for my peers and I to become historians by writing a paper on imperial history. I was provided with the letter from the emperor Qianlong of China to King George III and I compared it to the letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel. Both letters are from imperial history and they can be associated with the process of trading. Each letter can be analyzed by evaluating what is essential for both authors and the society they are depicting.

In the book "Lies my Teacher Told - James W. Loewen" embarked on a journey to dismantle the common misreporting of history that traditional textbook practices. He introduces the idea that the knowledge passed down through books utilized in schools are misreporting history at the expense of students and in favors of "Settlers" to mask barbaric / inhumane territorial acts of the European as justifiable in the name of progress. He argues that this knowledge is then recycled to create new textbooks that cites the previous misreporting as sources for their study. He argues that modern day writers are consumers, instead of true disciples of the relevant disciplines such as Anthropology, ethnohistory, folklore studies etc. Chapter Four tackles and

The assembly line was a great invention because it helped make cars. The time period it started was 1900. Each worker had their own job on the assembly line. The document was made by New York State Social Studies. They made it for the public. New York made it to show how the workers in the assemble line. The author showed that he supported the line because it gets down faster. Andrew Carnegie was a great person. Joy Hakim made a document on him in 1994. It was made for the public. Joy made it to she he gave a bunch of money to the town. The author wants now people so see how good of a person he was. The last document was made about the Labor Unions in the U.S. it was made around 1905 by National Civic Federation. He made it to show the whole

Ever since childhood, humans are taught that change is one of the most inevitable things in life. Whether positive or negative, change is happening everyday, everywhere, at every second, and will never stop. When looking back at history, some of the most monumental changes in our world that formed the reality we live in today, happened just a mere century or so ago. In two novels, The Revenant by Michael Punke and Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, the stories may not be completely true, but the background information surrounding the time periods and the world are. Using these works of historical fiction, historians can have a better understanding of ways of life, the environment and the way technology interacted with it, the way people lived,

Do historical fictions, like the Question of Hu help us study the past? In this case, they help us gain a better knowledge of the way of life in that century, but we have not learned much about the history of Jesuit recruitment in Asian countries such as China. Historical fiction gives us a background for historical events but does not teach us enough about the event itself. It only provides insight for the setting behind each story. Jonathan Spence’s novel, The Question of Hu illustrates the relationship between the Europeans and a Chinese man in the 18th century.

I pinched the sides of my face in desperation to get my brain to function. The strong coffee I consumed posed no threat to this queen of procrastination. My eyes glanced over to the clock. I had watched it now for over an hour and convinced myself that by 12:00 am I would have made a start. This had been my mentality for three days, I now understood why Mrs Henry referred to my work ethic as highly egregious. Midnight arrived and I picked up my pen to start writing. My history essay was due in two days’ time and I hadn’t even started. I subconsciously began to gnaw and grind my nails, ignoring the pain as I bit down on the cuticle. I needed a resolution, so what does a computer savvy girl like me do in times of need? I seek guidance from all the other history infused online users. First stop of the night, the history forum.

Both Wallerstein and Braudel engage in extensive analysis and the integration of secondary source material from across many discipline, but they have different strategies on how to do that. From my broad understanding, Braudel advocates breaking up history into manageable bites, be it time or geographic location, while Wallerstein, although mentions the merits or Braudel’s view, prefers a more global, large view of history. All four of these works, two from Braudel, and two from Wallerstein, can be seen as introductions to their perspective theories.

This socio-historical commentary is valid however; it disregards the fact that the novels are not accurate portrayals of society. Important facts: first the philanthropic attitude in the novels is simply not a reflection of the literal changes in society, the novels cannot be classified an expression of