New History Textbook Analysis

To being, the first chapter brings the colorful history of Liberty University. Also, the chapter describes how the founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell Sr., started the log journey to make the University what it is today. It shows that when one puts his faith into the Lord that many things can be accomplished. The Mission Statement that embraces the biblical world view. It helps us to realize our commitment to Jesus, and our loyalty to him as a Christian.

The first couple decades of the twentieth century Japan and the United States had increasing tension and conducted negotiations to reduce threats of conflict. Asia was the center point for both countries, and each wanted a piece of it. Competition for economic and commercial opportunities were ongoing growing with tension. Starting

During the plight of Pacific War, Japan’s Imperial Army were victorious in the their expansion towards Southeast Asian nations, utilizing the notion of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity sphere as a propagandistic tool that emphasized “Asia for Asians.” In proposing the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity sphere, Japan obtained the role as a leader of Asia. Possessing a superior role over Asia that emphasized the discrepancy between Japan and the other, which has been noted since the Sino- Japanese War in 1894-1895. Japanese soldiers exerted their dominance with atrocities such as murdering and raping civilians; therefore, Japanese soldiers were associated as victimizers. Even before World War II, Comfort women were victims that experienced sexual exploitation by Japanese men. Women were lured or captured into an “officially-organized system of rape by the Imperial Japanese Forces.” Korean women were among a group who were subjected into sex slaves; however, women from other Japanese occupied territories were also inclined to

As a mother of a high school student, I feel as though it is a brilliant idea to let Mr. Ishmael Beah speak to the students. The fellow peers of your school need to value how lucky they are to be in such a sheltered atmosphere. Sensing the indisputable emotions of Mr. Beah telling his story of being a boy soldier is a lesson that should not be passed up. Understanding how atrocious it must have been to fight in a war solely based on supremacy and riches would help these teenagers understand what strength and determination really is.

My plan for my future self is to be successful in any type of way possible and just make a good creative career the best way I can. Ever since I was a kid, I was in love with animals and hoped to make the animal environment a positive thing in the world and possibly become a Veterinarian. As I grew older, I started to think about how much time and effort I would have to put into what I wanted to become, but my mind was focusing on mainly helping people as I do today. I’ve never really been a straight “A” student and it is probably time to start focusing on how reality is and get my head in the game we call life!

In the late 1890s, tensions between China and Japan were growing. China’s power was growing into the early 1900s as it converted to Nationalism. Japan felt the need to expand and conquer because they had been forced into the modern age by the United States, and they believed it was their destiny to exert government over other nations (Chang 23-24). The Japanese felt the need to do something before China became “too powerful to be conquered” (Chang 28-29). This put Japan on the path to war with China (Chang 25).

Just east of Butte, Montana is a huge lake filled with toxic chemicals. Samples taken in 2011 had a pH measuring around 2.5, meaning the water was comparable to gastric acid (PitWatch, 2013). This lake, known as the Berkeley Pit Lake, was formed by open pit mining in the 1950s. Originally, the mine was built by the Atlantic-Richfield Corporation to meet the global demands for copper post World War II. Copper prices tanked in 1982, so the mine was shut down and pumps removing water were deactivated. The company left behind a pit encompassing an area of approximately one square mile and reaching a depth of 1780 feet. Berkeley Pit soon flooded and began to collect hazardous levels of heavy metals.

History and the notion of compensation are two key aspects in the study of Sino-Japanese relations. During the 1980s, the opening up by the People’s Republic of China’s government about war atrocities led a number of victims to seek reparations and apologies from Japan. Compensation cases were brought forward from the 1990s and broke the silence about what had ‘truly’ happened during the war. Moreover, the rapid spread of new information about the past prompted increased tensions between the two countries that had previously ignored the issue in order to privilege economic and diplomatic cooperation. To date, the affiliation between China and Japan seems to have deteriorated significantly and history is one of the main matters addressed in

The Japanese, though, had a similar facade covering their actions in Asia. Prior to World War II, there was a number of colonial settlements in Asia to which were controlled by Western Allies. “In the highly publicized Assembly of the Greater East Asiatic Nations convened in Tokyo in November 1943, a succession of Asian leaders voiced support for Japan and placed the war in East-versus-West, Oriental-versus-Occidental, and ultimately blood-versus-blood context”(6). The war appeared to be a way for Asian leaders to gain control over their own lands again; however, Japan’s behavior towards other Asians caused for a lose of support in their growth. the Japanese became “dominating the political scene, taking over local economies, imposing broad programs of “Japanization,” slapping non-Japanese in public, torturing and executing dissidents, exploiting native labor so severely that between 1942 and 1945 the death toll among such workers numbered in the hundreds of thousands” (7). Though moving across the continent under ideals of a “free Asia,” the Japanese were also moving with the ideal of imperialism and cultural superiority.

Under the Black Umbrella tells the many captivating stories about the 35 years of Japanese occupation in Korea through both world wars. The memories are all from the perspective of Korean men and women who lived through some or all of it. Many of their stories and the history during that time are influenced by several factors, some of which include their location in Korea or surrounding areas and the government’s involvement in recording history. The Japanese were not all awful to the Koreans, since they were humans all the same, but they committed enough atrocities to have a bad reputation with the Koreans. In attempts to unify, North Koreans employed nationalism and ethnocentrism to fuel their way to become a strong nation again. South Koreans did not rally around such extreme ways and did not utilize their northern brethren’s methods of fear for power. Back then and now, globalization is a part of life and it should not be stifled. Nationalistic thinking will bring about more pain and suffering rather than just trying to coexist. Korea faced many hardships with the Japanese occupation. In recovery to their rule, issues arose when it came to accuracy in history, nationalism, ethnocentrism, and the different roles they all took between the north and the south.

Throughout our educational careers, we have been taught to trust our textbooks. They have always been a source that you can count on to get the correct answer to your question. Teachers have taught us that the textbook is always right, and that there should be no reason not to trust in it. However, all of this has been a lie. As we get older, and have a wider perspective of our society we begin to see that our textbooks have not given the entire truth.They focus on only the points and ideas of the colonizers, and leave out aspects of history that might not make them look as great as they would like to or they just do not view the idea important enough to be taught. Students should not depend on their history textbooks, for all the answers since they do not give the adequate perspective of history.

Constructed well over 2,000 years ago the Parthenon and its corresponding statues were built in dedication to the goddess Athena in the honorably named Athens. Through warfare and time itself little over half of all statues have survived to this day. Of those sculptures some reside in the Acropolis Museum in Athens and the rest are on display in the British Museum in London. While the validity of Britain’s legal attainment of these statues is debatable the lacking moral premise of such collection is undisputable. Britain simply cannot own therefore display that which is not theirs. When the Parthenon was built the structure held extreme religious value to the Athenians. The Athenians were a polytheistic society whom based

The legacy of Japanese Imperial expansion actions during the 20th Century continues to heavily influence policy and discourse in the international relations of East Asia, while the legacy of the role of Germany during the Second World War does not influence international relations in Europe to any significant degree. The paths that the two countries have taken to address war memories in their respective regions are frequently contrasted; numerous commentators emphasise a failure on the part of Japan to address some factors of reconciliation that are perceived to have been successfully confronted by German reconciliation in Europe. In this essay I aim to establish how much validity there is in the normative claim that Japan has not done enough,

The Sino-Japanese War was an event that shook the structure of East Asia’s traditional world order, one that for more than 2000 years had centered around China and its civilization. The war didn’t just take away China’s centrality, it was also the catalyst for Japan’s transformation into an imperialist power.

Both Japan and China lie in the East of Asia. ‪To a certain extent，Japan and China own similar culture background, in the Confucian Cultural Circle. But when we look back into the modern history development, Japan and China made quite different decisions when facing the western countries’ aggression. China suffered the invasion in 1840 after the first Sino-British War. Japan was in a similar situation in the black boat incident in 1853, the Opium War made the West began to pay attention to East Asia. From then on, Japan began to face the western culture. ‬The reactions, as well as the result of Japan and China were quite disparate. This article wants to discuss what lead to the difference. ‬‬