Summary Of The Book 'Ironclad' By Hajo Hol

Knowing history and studying how our leaders built this country can help explain why knowing “history”

History class in itself has a specific purpose which seems to be frequently forgotten. We learn about violent and horrible events in our past, as well as life- changing and positively impacting ones. From the negative events, we learn what went wrong and how to prevent similar tragedies from happening. From the positive, we gather knowledge and comprehension of the basis of our modern society. We are a self- repairing race, analyzing every flaw and figuring out what caused it. It's an ancient practice, trial and error is human nature.

She carries the audience through her argument in a logical sequence. First, she makes her claim that student do not know history and explains her reasons (250). She then elaborates on what history students are taught and what exactly is wrong with the methods by which they learn (251). After this, she explains the job of a historian to the reader – how historians confront primary sources to “make some sense of what once happened” (252). To end the article, Simon describes how students can better learn history through exploring primary sources (253). This structuring and organization helps the reader to understand and to believe Simon’s

In my opinion, many people who are interested in history or wanted to be a historian can find more information. For example, many important people make a huge difference in America, and why did they conquer their goals and why George washing

History is a remarkable subject that offers and eagles eye view into the past. With textbooks such as, Hist3, a great deal of interesting information can be acquired. However, a common misconception runs rampant through students minds; the idealism that history is useless and that the subject is that of a drag. Who can blame them? Our text books can only do so much in terms of providing the means in educating ourselves when we’re not in a class room and when given the opportunity to appear in class we have the luxury of (hopefully) having and interesting professor to enlighten us on all the side conflicts, affairs, and bloodshed that has happened. Even so, when we as students have exhausted the book and our instructors, we have the privilege

There are many national parks and monuments that can be explored on your next adventure. Picturesque views can be found close to home, on the coasts, or on the high plains and mountains of the west.

History engages me like no other subject. History is unrivaled in complexity and depth compared to other areas of study, but many do not realize this because we choose to gloss over the vast majority, reducing entire sagas into little more than a footnote on a single page. The American revolution, while celebrated in the US, is little more than a paragraph in European history, overlooked because of the more relevant Napoleonic era. My passion for learning encourages me to read into these footnotes and discover the lessons and ideas that are ignored by the common curriculum.

The Colorado History Museum was a phenomenal place to visit; it felt life like from being in my Colorado History class in college as well as in my high school ones. I had the ability to see what it was like living in Keota, as well as being a huge size person walking around the Denver area, and lastly saw a few pieces of clothing that were the Native Americans during Bent’s Fort. Every detail in the museum I tried paying attention too, because I did not want to miss anything.

The Nonfiction book I chose was Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brandon Hicks. The author’s intent is to inform readers of the history of the Mary Celeste, and its legacy on maritime mysteries. The Mary Celeste was a merchant ship in the 1800s, and was captained by shareholder Benjamin Briggs when the tragedy took place. After sailing from a port in New York it began its journey across the Atlantic in foul weather. Weeks after it left New York, it was spotted by a ship and it was discovered that the crew was missing. The first few chapters of the book are to tell the readers about how the Mary Celeste came to be, mostly describing where/how it was built and its first commissions (cargo it had

The book I read is called ¨The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour¨, written by James D. Hornfischer. This is a story about a very important battle during WW2, the battle itself lasted for two and a half hours. It was fought on october 25, 1944. This book was very suspenseful to read and kept me wanting more. It was very well written and described that i could almost imagine myself on the ship with the men during this long battle.

I went to World War I Museum with other AAP students last Saturday. It was a fantastic trip for me. Moreover, he World War I memorial was a remarkable place to see the whole Kansas City. There were a lot of things are intrigued me, especially the artworks.

Reading is usually not my favorite thing in the world, but last year I found books that I really enjoyed, and realized why I enjoyed them. One of the books that I read was Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The story of Billy Pilgrim really drew me into the book and I found myself just reading it for fun. I’m a pretty big history buff, and WWII is a big part of the story. This made me realize that one of the main reasons I was enjoying this novel was the historical aspect. I even enjoyed Vonnegut’s work so much that I downloaded another work of his. Another book I read last year was Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby. This book drew my attention due to me being a huge basketball fan, from the moment I started reading it, and finding

Many people do not realize the way history has impacted today’s life and find it a waste of time to be learning. When really our lives would not be anything near to what they are today.

History is an important part of everyone’s education, as everyone needs to know the origins in every single topic in school; for example, for math, you might need to know why the Pythagorean theorem is called that, for English, people need to know about the background and history of Edgar Allen Poe before they understand why everything he writes is so

What would the world be? If we didn’t learn history in school or in life by others. If we don’t learn History we would commit the errors from the past. Knowing History brings us to a better future because it makes us think twice of what we need to do to become greater in a future. Having everyone involved in the voting system gives us greater advantages of getting what we desire like equal rights for everyone. Who really has the Power in the political system of the United States? How is political power corrupted in ways that cause oppression? How have people used their knowledge of history to empower themselves to change oppressive political system?