History Shapes The World Everybody has a history. Everybody has experienced something that impacted them. History is what makes you, you. It shapes you. History is that ice sculptor that is very carefully whittling out the block of ice, making such precise movements that if you make one wrong move and take too much of a chunk off you have to start all over again. That is history. That is how it shapes you, by making precise etches just perfect enough to carve out who you are. My grandpa has lived through a tremendous amount of events, from the Civil Rights movement to the Cuban Missile to the Vietnam war. Each and every event has impacted him in one way or another.
He begins telling me about the war in Vietnam “I remember there being body counts on the news every night.” (Shull) Something needs to go here“Just knowing that if I were just one year older I would’ve been in that war, and that makes me realize how appreciative I am for everything.” (Shull) There were people who didn 't get to come home to their families after the war was over and I think that 's why my grandpa expressed that he felt so appreciative. He explains how he had friends in the war that he had to tell goodbye to before they left because he wasn 't sure if he would see them again.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a scary time, I couldn 't imagine what my grandpa’s emotions were during that time. “I remember having drills just incase there was a nuclear bomb to drop, we would hide under desks and cover our heads.”(Shull) he expresses his scarcity to me. “All I could do was hope that we wouldn 't get struck with one of those things.”(Shull) That’s probably why he has grey hair now, from all the stress he was put through back then. “There would be a horn that sounded and that would indicate to go under your desk.”(Shull) I can honestly say that I have never seen my grandpa scared or frightened, ever. I don’t know what he’s scared of, but then again what can you be scared of when you go through
History - the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. Asking me to write about the History of Flagger Force is like asking me to write my autobiography. I say this because I am officially the longest tenured operations employee in King of Prussia. Much like we say every member of our field staff remembers their first week on the job, I remember my first week on the job also.
Courtney Lachney The Progressive Era Critical Thinking Activity Essay Rubric History shows how humans grew. It shows where we all originated from and how we made up our laws and such. History has brought about a lot of change. There are so many different ideals and beliefs that originated in the past. There were so many wars and killing sover things that were sometimes for the worst.
How someone’s ancestors lived and what their ancestors left behind can greatly influence their lives because of humanity’s natural curiosity for history. In Maxine Hong
Theodore Roosevelt is credited with saying “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering”. History plays a big role for our everyday life, in that we don’t know what the future may bring, but we certainly know what happened in the past. We’re able to look back, and reflect on the hardships of people in their life, and understand the struggles that they went through. To me, the chance to be able to look back in time and see that people my age would have been working in hard labor, or be sent off to fight in a war, or be a servant of some kind, is eye opening.
He talks about all the soldiers who would shake the hands of the dead people and talk to them after they have died. He did not like that idea so instead he would tell stories about them so he could keep their memories alive instead of mourning the loss of their
History is a novel idea that has been a continuous idea throughout our time in class. We have gone over what history means to us, the students; as well as the authors and filmmakers we have studied. For me, before this class, History merely meant what we
America has gone through a lot as a country. Without its past, it wouldn’t be what it is today. The main point of learning our history is to be knowledgeable of what has constructed our present, such as America’s wars, segregation, slavery, and everything that has molded the United States of America into the country that it is today. Our founding fathers took great care in giving us a Constitution, to make sure we all have equal rights and responsibilities. History has molded our present and determined our future as a country.
After imitating this strategy, I learned that historians must be able to narrow down the information they are provided and choose only the specific details that is most valuable to the topic under investigation. However, this may come at an expense. It is difficult to decide what is valuable and what is insignificant, and there will always be some useful details that may be left
That would be odd, if he didn’t fear something, correct? And what else is there to fear? He’s like 25(maybe)! Alright, this paragraph is long, so I’m going to start a new
The last important point that I believe Keith C. Barton makes is how he explains about history being used to explain the present. Barton states, “Many people believe that the way things are today is this the way they’ve always been” (58). What he is saying here is that many people believe that history has played out the way that it was supposed too and that people and their chooses did not have an impact on the way that they played out. He goes on to say that “Understanding how the past led to the present is useful as a basis for contemporary decision making only when it acknowledges the free will both of people in the past and of ourselves” (59). The reason that this is important is that it teaches our students to be critical thinkers and
Many people say that a person’s past is what defines their
He goes and says that he also spoke to a group of women who were super scared after seeing the
There were only few people that did and those people were readily prepared for just about anything. In this day and age, you could never be too careful with any possible occurrence, let alone a missile threat during the Cold War. Rod Serling himself then comes on to say that “It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen. It is the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen.
A key concept within History is Continuity and Change, these existing alongside each other (Levesque, 2008 cited in Martin, no date: online). Department of Education and Science, (1999) suggested that children can only grasp an understanding of the past when they are aware of ‘change’ and that some things are the same (continuity) but realising that not everything is as it was, thus providing a crucial role in historic thinking (Pappas, 2010). These concepts within history allow children to develop a sense of the changes, comparing ‘similarities and differences’