The period in time in which the diary is written is very important to historians as they would need to know if it was written during a major historical event as if it were it could be of more importance as well as value. Historians find the chronology covered by a diary very important and so they would survey the diary in it entirety to plot entries coinciding with major historical events. The story told by the diarist could possible run parallel to a conflict or other event and provide the historian with valuable insights on the event itself or other things
In the end, ask yourself which is most significant to you and do you have enough information to write about. That will be your overall choice to write your biography about. Your audience is unknown while writing a biography so choose information that is both relevant and interesting. People who are fans or most interested in the person you are writing about will most likely be your audience for your biography. Write about information that is most significant in someone’s life that has made them important to history or society.
Memories are a way of recalling ones personal experiences. Whether a positive or negative nature they form who we are as individuals. History is the recorded experiences and events which have occurred in the past. There is a strong entwinement between history and memory and this allows the inconsistencies of personal memories to influence the credibility of human history. This is reflected in Denise Levertov’s poems’ ‘Ways of conquest’ and ‘In Thai Bin (peace) Province’.
One of their main differences was that Polybius believed it was necessary to depict events truthfully when writing historical documents; whereas, Livy approached writing about history more like a storyteller would. Livy and Polybius had their own distinct traits and methods of writing history, but they were also very similar in many ways. This paper will attempt to illustrate those claims. Before I discuss Polybius and his traits of being a historian, I must first discuss his background because where and when he grew up was a major contributor of how and why he wrote the things that he did. Polybius was born towards the end of the third century BC in Megalopolis.
Rod Shelac Professor J.G. Hard ENG 101 April 14, 2011 The First Shot I believe in the importance of history in our lives. It gives us information about what happened in the past. It introduces us to our mistakes so that in the future we can live a better life. It will also help us in understanding people and societies.
How does one’s personal heritage affect one’s duties to our nation? Why We Are Who We Are Heritage is our history, our different knowledge, the values and traditions that we have developed with a combination of genes and culture over time. Heritage, whether it be cultural, national, or just in our families is an endowment of legacies; but foremost, heritage is our history. It is responsible for how we came to be, it is a very large part of who and what we are, and it can determine what we will become. As humans, we possess free agency; we can determine our future to great degrees with one simple decision, we may deceive ourselves into believing the past has no impact on us; however, the choices we make and past events we have witnessed have very profound and long-lasting impacts on any decision we have made, are making now, or ever will make.
I believe my experience as Liberal Arts major at Ashford has given me a deeper view of what education truly is and has changed my perception of education. Before entering this institution, I believed education was the only key to finding job opportunities and with the knowledge I have acquired, my views have changed on this factor. I have learned the value of putting a thought in everything I believe and as Wallace alludes, though is not all about capacity but the critical choice of what to actually think. In a nutshell, Wallace sheds of the fallacies and ideologies that different cultures and belief systems allude to on the matter of liberal arts education (Gregg Ten Elshof, 2009). This is a clear indication of the need to change perception and to apply education in every aspect of our lives.
The Humanities: What They Mean To Me What are the humanities and why do they concern me? This is a question I have asked myself many times before and have not been able to come to a conclusion before, until now. This paper is written in order to discuss what the humanities are, some important topics in the humanities, and how they concern me. As defined by the Ohio Humanities Council: “The humanities are the stories, the ideas, and the words that help us make sense of our lives and our world.” The humanities are important to understand, not only because they are a required college course, but also because they explain our history of human beings and how we became to be through events in history. We will cover methods in which will explain how the humanities came to be and how we are able to understand the lives of other human beings and the similarities in which every person shares throughout culture and civilization.
Our roots, which is basically our round and where we come from. Society can build upon past accomplishments, and it also helps us to speculate the future. The first, and most significant reason history is important is because we learn from our mistakes. If there was no history then everyone would make the same mistakes over and over. That is why it is very good for someone of high rank in the United States Military to know a good sum of history.
The second part of the essay will discuss the relevance of the knowledge of subjectivity and objectivity to an ‘O’ level history teacher to show that it is highly relevant. One of the main reasons why historians cannot be objective is the fact that the historian cannot escape his/her own self, ideas. These are the theories that are fixated within the historian’s mind and being thus they are inescapable and hinder the historian in trying to write objectively. Trachtenberg asserts that a historian cannot escape his or her own preconceived ideas and personal motives to the extent that history could be written in an objective way. This is clear evidence that objectivity in the study of history is limited as the historians themselves have got preconceptions that are