To me history is a way of looking back at the past so that I don't forget important events to me or in the world or universe in the past. I believe that history mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
History in my life helps me to remember where my ancestors came from. Remembering where my ancestors came from helps me to understand my heritage, more about me, and how I should live my life the best I can. What I mean is that it tells me how I should live my life. History also tells me about how my family's ancestors lived their lives, including things like who is in my family, what religion they believed in, where they lived, and what times of jobs people in my family had. Knowing who was in my family could let me know if there were any famous, notable or important people in my family. Knowing what religion my ancestors believed in gives me a suggestion of what I might want to believe in. Knowing where my ancestors lived lets me know where I came from and knowing what types of jobs my people had lets me know the intelligence level of my people so I know how smart they were.
The history of the world lets us know about everything important that has happened up until the present. Without history we wouldn't know about how African Americans were at one time slaves and are still in some cases treated unfairly because of their color, that Julius Caesar had one of the strongest empires ever, or even the countless wars that have occurred in the history of the world. Without people knowing about the dinosaurs, the discovery of North America by the Indians or about the land the Vikings discovered, present day people would be ignorant about any important events that have never happened before their lifetime. Without history valuable information would not be passed down so the world would never greatly evolve because people would not have been told how to do anything that they have not directly learned themselves.
What is History? So, what is History? ... No doubt everyone in this room has some idea of what History is, or isn't. So let's get started and see how far we can get with my highly selective view of History and what it brings to mind, at least to me. ... What's historical to me, could be little more than a rock pile in the way of a four-lane highway to another person. ...
HISTORY When I was asked to write a report on what is history, I thought it was going to be really hard. ... That means that history is basically a written account of an event that affects something. ... I have yet to fully understand what he had told me but I sort of get the idea. ... Writing this essay really made me think that there is a lot of history in the world. ... To me history is everything that has happened before the present. 1Courtosy of Webster's online dictionary, dictionary.com ...
In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. ... Early in America's history we faced certain periods of segregation. ... Going back through history you start to realize and view things differently. That is what it is to be an American. ... This goes to show yet another example of what it means to be an American. ...
"Stop, hey, what is that sound? Everybody look what is going down.... Charles Greene, the producer for the track, recounts that Stills said something along the lines of, "Let me play you this song for what it's worth." ... Through the lyrics, "there is a man with a gun over there, telling me I got to beware" means there is a threat approaching the innocent chorus. ... This song reminds us of the past history and we will never forget the history and this invaluable song....
Truth In Distance In his essay, "The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American-, James Baldwin writes about how he personally came about discovering his true identity. ... I wanted to find in what way the specialness of my experience could be made to connect me with other people instead of dividing me from them- (Baldwin 46). ... This is when he realizes that regardless of their ancestor's history, they are all Americans and they already know each other better than any European could. ... I can see now that most of the problems that I faced at home were due to me not being aware ...
Foucault sought to explore the history of sex in three volumes of his book History of Sex namely: The Will to Knowledge (La volonté de savoir), The Use of Pleasure (l'usage des plaisirs), and The Care of the Self (le souci de soi). In his books he mainly tries to tell us that what we perceive of sex today and the paradox about how we talk about not talking about sex is not something that is of recent coming but has been in the society for quite some time. ... But this was also ironic of them as they themselves practiced sex as something that wasn't taboo which according t...
Profanity continuously to evolves, and has a very rich and interesting history. ... 'Sblood occurs less than 'zounds, but is equally offensive and means basically the same thing. ... Of course, most don't know what it originally meant. ... Another word from this region is a Cockney expression, "Gorblimey," which is a word used to swear to the truth, and is a shortened form of "God blind me." ... It still means, "to copulate" (Lighter 831). ...
It means more to me than anyone can say it means to them. To me, my name means a successful person, one who is outgoing, one who shall never give up, and most of all it means thou who strives for the best. ... Though, those are examples of what my names means, the thing that really matter is the importance and the extreme significance of it. ... Ebony is a well known name and behind each one there is a story or some type of truth that lies behind it, mine is black history and I am glad to have that as a component of me. ... They watch me as well as my name grow into a fairly successful young w...
Native Americans played a big role in American history. ... They then go on to explain in detail what it is that the Native Americans did in history. ... Out of these two excerpts, I strongly feel that the Grand Council does a more effective job at giving more logical reasons and they convince me more that Native Americans really should be fairly represented in American history. ... This quote supports my first reason as to why I feel that the Grand Council does a more assertive job at convincing the audience that the Native Americans have done as many good things as Americans have in American...
