Horrible Histories

1. History vs. Prehistory a. What is prehistory and how is this concept or term defined? ANSWER: Prehistory is the era before people could write. It is the time and events that happened before the history has written down and led to the development of something. [ ] Others defined prehistory as from the creation of the universe, while some refer to it as time since the development of life on earth. But others mainly define prehistory as the period of time beginning with the appearance of human

Anne Frank: The diary that changed the way we see history The Diary of Anne Frank, also published under the simple name The Diary of a Young Girl, is the first book on the Holocaust many young people read. Told in the straightforward, first-person voice of a young adolescent witnessing the horrors of the Nazi occupation as it unfolded before her eyes, it enabled readers of all ages and religious persuasions to become eyewitnesses to history. "Reading her diary is a convenient way, a hook, to introduce

the Chinese Socialist Revolution sensing the immaturity of history: in times of land reform, Yu Hua has the villagers smashing their cooking pots to follow the way towards communism and a few pages later, at the begging of the famine, he has the team leader urging everyone to buy new pots as the common dining

In "Historical Text as Literary Artifact," Hayden White compares historiography with literature. Historians must rely on a "historical imagination," such as filling in the blanks or making assumptions about events. History is a "constructive" enterprise, and historians are trained to perceive patterns that may or may not have actually existed. If historians rely on the "historical imagination," as they must to complete their task, then historiography and historical literature are qualitatively similar

Why Study History? Have you ever pondered the importance of history? Do you believe it is worth studying? Our past provides us with many new ideas, perspectives, and opportunities. It is important to study history because it teaches us essential skills and traits, gives us examples and ideas so that we can improve our current and future lives, and it guides many more people to have better citizenship. History isn’t usually simple. It contains many events, big and small, people, and ideas. It is critical

The topic of Civil Rights is an interesting topic for so many people. This event changed history forever and allowed some people who couldn’t even get good jobs to become president of the United States or even have the same rights as others. In the book The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, the author, Christopher Paul Curtis, wrote a story about a family that is living in this time. The author mostly focused on telling us a story of the Watson family and not really any historical events. I really would've

Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee & Civil War History is author Alan T. Nolan’s attempt at taking an honest look at what Nolan considers one of the most deified figures in American history, Robert E. Lee. Nolan approaches his biography much in the format popularized by respected biographer Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) in that he is attempting to take an irreverent approach, an approach Nolan claims is sorely lacking in most scholarship pertaining to Lee. The uniqueness of Nolan’s approach is highlighted

Flores, Richard R. Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. This item focuses less on finding the historical truth events that occurred during the battle at the Alamo and more on how popular understandings of this battle have influenced, evolved, and clouded daily social/cultural relations between Texans and Mexicans. This item proved quite useful in providing a source grounded in exquisite research and analysis that looks at how

History: What really happened In today's modern culture, many of you have heard the the quote “...and the rest is history.” This is such an interesting quote because for the most part, it's naming history as dull, unimportant information, that does not need to be told; and nobody cares about. However I believe the exact opposite it true. History is the story of what happened in the past. History covers everything from the beginning of time to the very present moment. It covers so much information

Cleo from 5 to 7 Review Different from traditional movie, Cleo from 5 to 7 is structured based on real life. As Valerie Orpen noted in her “Structures, Styles, and Themes”, there were movies also based on real life prior to Cleo from 5 to 7 (23). However, they have different types of narrative. In movies such as High Noon, the narratives were compressed in order to maximize the thrill and suspension. Yet Cleo from 5 to 7 reveals the objective social limitation with subjective observations. In the