Analyse the ways history and memory generate compelling and unexpected insights. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. History and memory are both multifaceted ideas that are challenged continually. History is often perceived as fact, in the recount of an event or retelling of a story that did in fact, take place. Through study however, it becomes clear that history is a consequence of memory, which makes it unreliable and changed by circumstance.
Revisionism contradicts the proposals of the traditionalism and its blame of the Soviet Union. This view however is challenged by how the Cold War ended. This question asks for explanation of the first based in light of the latter. In order to do so, the causes and events of the Cold War will have to be explained according to the revisionist approach, only then to be critically analysed, taking the end of Cold War into an account. This should allow one to reach an informed conclusion.
We must take into account that we cannot just think because the universe is so complicated it must be designed who is to say natural processes couldn’t have done it or the Evolutionary theory is responsible for everything we know. A big problem with Paleys argument is how he connected purpose and design. By stating that everything is designed within the universe is to say everything was designed for an exact purpose and vice versa. For example, in the case of the watch it may not just serve the purpose for time it could be used for something else, the universe therefore cannot be compared to these components of design and function plausibly. The main point is that objects can serve many purposes for example a coffee pot holding down a piece of paper.
Historical Representation and Maps and Territories History is explained through stories, just as territories are explained through maps. However, these stories and maps are just representations of what is actually real. One cannot claim to know exactly what happened at a certain time or place without having in fact been there to experience it for them self. Just as one cannot claim to know what a place looks like unless they have indeed been to that specific territory. Neil Gaiman and John Lewis Gaddis support these statements, and each other, in their pieces, a passage from Fragile Things, and the book, The Landscape of History.
2. What is historiography? Historiography is the writing of history, such as a paper on theories, explanations, and events based on historical things. 3. What is “event history” or “history from above?” What is “history from below?” Compare/contrast the two and discuss how this may affect one’s perspective of history.
Longman Anthology of British Literature suggests that one chooses to perceive their past according to the importance and value of events that have occurred, rather than perceiving them factually or in a non-biased fashion. By stating, “We see the past through lenses that show us something of the world we live in,” Longman is saying people are view their past based off of how they are living today in their own lenses. How that one person perceives the event and how it had impacted them is their own lens. Everyone’s earlier experiences lead to something that happens later on in life, meaning that no lens is exactly the same. An example of this is how one is effected by the people they decide to associate themselves with and how their experiences
You may also have to discuss which points of view are missing from the given documents. Since the DBQ focuses on historical skills within a world history framework, remember to place documents chronologically, culturally, and thematically. You're not expected to know the author or topic of all the DBQ documents, or to include information outside of the documents. Continuity and Change-Over-Time Essay The Continuity and Change-Over-Time Essay focuses on large global issues such as technology, trade, culture, migrations, or biological developments. It covers at least one of the periods in the course outline and one or more cultural areas.
Student Name Primary Source History has always been the science surrounded by heated debates. The situation when one can find different interpretations of the same fact is quite ordinary. Often, historical events are passed through the prism of one’s subjective perception. So, to have a comprehensive understanding of a particular fact, one should familiarize himself or herself both with secondary and primary sources. Usually, the main objective of the prior is to provide a short outline of a particular event; while, the aim of the latter is to add some specificity encouraging one to look at the well-known occasion from a new, sometimes unexpected, angle.
Historical Connection of Past and Present A Canticle for Lebowitz begins after a post-apocalyptic event occurs known as the Flame Deluge. The aftermath is explained in three different parts: “Fiat Homo”, “Fiat Lux”, and “Fiat Voluntas Tua”. These parts resemble eras that have occurred in our own history. “Fiat Homo” represents the Dark Ages, “Fiat Lux” the Renaissance, and “Fiat Voluntas Tua” the future. Miller’s reasoning behind the similarity is to point out that mankind does not learn from our mistakes, and that the past is repeat to repeat itself in this vicious self-destructing cycle.
One day, we will become history itself. Our stories become histories, our acts become histories, and so on. However, a widely accepted history is slightly different. An event/person/whatever becomes widely accepted history when there is enough evidence found to prove that it actually happened. On top of that, a substantial amount of people has to care enough about it and study it for the history to be widely accepted.