Medical history

In the last article that I used is a book review by Stephen Browne I found the text to be essential to my work. The book review discusses public memory as a narrative structure that serves as a rough organizational principle. It serves as a way to identify patterns of commemoration. The review offers a list of signpost to address the politics of memory. 1. Public memory which contains a slowly shifting configuration of traditions, is ideologically important because it shapes a nation’s ethos…

element; evidence. The First and Second World Wars provide historians with in depth hard evidence from still-existing battlefields as well as thousands of written accounts of the events of a day’s fighting. The further back in history one goes, however, the more scant this history becomes. Amongst the most difficult time periods to analyze can be found in the Classical era; with limited surviving written resources as well as little in terms of tangible evidence, the modern viewpoint on much of…

Group-defining Narratives When groups employ collective memory and heritage to construct their identity, they format the representations of pastness as narratives, easier to remember and far more interesting to tell or reenact than a list of raw facts devoid of a storyline. Much like the self-defining narratives discussed previously, these narratives reflect past events which the community believes are vitally important parts of their collective past which helps determine who they are in the…

History is written by itself day by day and year after year. Although History is written by itself it tends to repeat some of the same subjects. Only thing about the situation is that only the headlines and topics are different along with the people. For an example the Great Depression and the Recession are both a time where the economy and the American people where in heavy time of need. One era more tragic than the other but the class system was brutally effected. Has tragedy happens the rich…

Written history seems to gain more credibility than do oral history. Over time oral history transforms from what it initially starts with. For example, Nazi Germany slaughtered more than just Jews, but there are more accounts of the Jewish atrocities because there are more written records from the Jews. We do not have enough records of the mass murders of the Gypsies because of their oral culture. As time passed their oral history faded. In fact, when people think of the Holocaust it always…

“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” -George Santayana. As a person, when we make mistakes, we are told to learn from them to keep ourselves from repeating them over again. Some of the world’s worst mistakes are events that have happened multiple times, but instead of learning from it, we have chosen to forget about it, and we have had to rehash some horrific times. One time in which we have relived history is when both of the world wars happened. World War…

Martin Luther King Jr once said “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Some would agree with this statement. Some would disagree. It’s an eternal debate over the role history plays in the present. And often, more importantly, the question is what is history itself and whose narrative is at the core. In her reflective, but argumentative, essay entitled “In History”, Jamaica Kincaid analyzes how these ideas-- what is history and how does what happened in the past impact us today--…

Famous pop artist Andy Warhol once said, “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all its meaning.” On the contrary, art still can convey a clear meaning no matter how many times it is experienced. The time period from the mid-20th century to now especially has spawned a plethora of meaningful visual art. Concepts like consumerism in the 50s to 60s, the Vietnam War in the 70s, and graffiti from the 80s to now all contain art that connects to the past through presenting the…

Ancient Japan Gurkiran Kaur Period 7 World History Mr. Pointer 01-26-18 Table Of Contents Forward………………………………………………………………………….. Japan in the Middle ages Report…………………………………………….. What I learned from my Report………………………………………………. Medieval Japan Medieval Japan is a wonderful place to learn about. It has so many things you should know about it. We are going to be learning about different things like…

Similar to the game of telephone, the more history is spoken, the more times it is altered. Although history is not actually changed itself, the way it is perceived is. A monumental myth of a historian that has had a few folktales about him, is the first President of the United States, George Washington. Washington was claimed to have chopped down a cherry tree at a young age and then later used the tree to make himself a set of wooden teeth. As children, often this story was reiterated.…