Horrible Histories

know about The Ancient Mayan Civilization or have a need for calculus to be successful in my job. At the same time with everything going on in the world today, I think the humanities may benefit some of the people who are freaking out behind the history of this country they live in. If anything I’d wish there would’ve been advanced home economics classes. I come from a single parent home, as well as the first in my family to graduate college. My mother didn’t know much about a budget, 401k, Roth

WWII. It brought to my minds that in real life. There are more important things during a war than finding a private Ryan. War is a huge event and the little things like finding a person to keep the family name going is too small to include in war history. This is what separates the movies from the real life. Another difference is they don't show the actual planning it takes to start an attack or the inelegance that is needed to set up the perfect defense barrier to prevent the advancement of the enemy

People’s vs Patriot’s Questions 1. Zinn disputed Kissinger’s statement, “History is the memory of states”, because Kissinger believed that history revolved around leaders and not through the eyes of an “everyday” person. Zinn felt that history was based on conflicts of interest of “everyday” people. Over the years, these conflicts were the ones that shaped history. 2. Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing Indian land was that they only had a natural right to it because

chapters of Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States, Zinn provides an overview of American History by providing examples and detailed accounts of Columbus’s arrival, the experience of the Native Americans after European arrival, slavery, the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the invisibility of women through early American history. In writing this book, Zinn’s purpose was to write more than another history book, just listing events and giving the

Beloved is an important novel because it explain how terrible slavery was in character’s Point of view. Learning about slavery is difficult to learn about and painful to know. Morrison gave us a lot history throughout the novel, actual facts about slavery. And because of this, schools across America are banning theses type of books. But no matter how horrific or emotionally damaging slavery was, we should never change or forget about it. As a person who knows the horrendous acts upon slaves, I

History is something we constantly refer to progress ourselves as humans, we learn from our mistakes and continue to strive from our successes. But who is to say what is a horrible mistake or a courageous act of valor? That which was documented about what happened so long ago, was done by a person who spread the story or wrote it down from their perspective. Howard Zinn’s argument that there is no such thing as impartial history clearly illustrates that when history is recorded there

The commodification of history for public consumption is a continuous process and is more prominent than ever before. In the post-modern world and particularly the capitalist society that we live in, the past is being commercialised and turned in to something of monetary worth, which can be bought or sold rather than exchanged freely. As Karl Marx proposed, it is when ‘economic value is assigned to something that traditionally would not be considered in economic terms, for example, an idea, identity

enacted and the want for slaves was at an all-time high. In the novel, even though being fiction, Morrison was able intertwine the events of the past with the fictional story. It is “imagined history,” there is no documentation of the events stated in the novel, which is the reason why is cannot be labeled as a history type book. Throughout the novel Morrison incorporates numerous historical context that further advances the story presented in her novel. We first see this historical context when Sethe’s

a staple of our world since prehistoric times. History class, more often than not, is about learning about who fought whom and why. Violence has been with us for so long and stuck around through the development of the human race. Wars, battles, skirmishes; often they’re the things that change the course of history. The Crusades were one of those many instances of violence that altered the world. One of the other things that we often discuss in history class with these battles is, which side was right

Deconstructing the constructivism The paradox of the norm Deconstructing the subject is first to analyses historically, the formation of different layers that have build the concept of the subject. When deconstruct the subject, it is important to analyze all the hidden assumption that are implied with the philosophical, ethical, theatrical and the political use of the concept of the subject. Deconstructivist came to the public notice with 1982, the Parc de la Villette in Paris by Bernard Tschumi’s