Many would agree that WW2 changed the face of history and it was a war that had very different elements to any war fought before. The proceeding discussion illuminates one aspect of the war ‚the aid effort during wartime Australia. How can one understand the sentiments and beliefs of the time? How can one form an opinion or draw a conclusion about the aid effort during WW2. To gain an insight and better understanding of that era one turns to the primary and secondary sources available. One would
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Why Historians Would Be Interested in Ancient Rome Ancient Rome was a very important part of history. It spanned many centuries‚ and experienced a great amount of change throughout its existence. People of power came to rise and eventually fall throughout Rome’s legacy‚ as did different kinds of governments. Conflicts between Rome and its enemies (and sometimes its allies) were frequent and often affected Rome’s entire empire. Throughout Rome’s history‚ many different systems of money and economics
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What is meant by the term "collective memory" and why must historians beware ? "Collective memory" is a term used to describe a pool of shared or recollected information held by a group‚ as a community or culture‚ and passed from one generation to the next. First used in 1925 by the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs in "La mémoire collective"‚ this term was employed to describe the memories held by French people during and after the First World War. However‚ this is not to be confused with personal
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Since she was very young‚ Natalia had a great interest in music‚ partly because her parents were musicians (her father is the French-Chilean musician Gastón Lafourcade). At three years old she began to sing and at four‚ she realized that she wanted to be an artist. She attended Instituto Anglo Español‚ a Catholic middle school. In her childhood and adolescence she studied painting‚ flute‚ theater‚ music‚ acting‚ piano‚ guitar‚ saxophone and singing. When she was 10‚ Natalia sang in a Mariachi group
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(36). The Church believed the earth was flat according to the historians‚ but it was a myth‚ explained by Jeffrey Burton Russell‚ the author of Inventing Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians. Russell‚ a former professor of History at the University of California‚ Santa Barbara‚ has published seventeen books in the field of history of theology. The achievements and the past studies of Russell prove his credibility as a historian‚ which specifically focused on the Medieval Ages‚ Christianity
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Describe the way Albert Speer has been interpreted by three different historians. Albert Speer can be interpreted in various ways due to the events that occurred in the third Reich. There will always be differing views placed on Speer and the decisions he made‚ whether it presents Speer positively or negatively. Sereny‚ Van Der Vat and Speer himself are all historians who comment on and interpret Speer. Van Der Vat throughout his research and findings is very critical towards Speer. Speer is
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Final Project: Time Traveling Art Historian Book Chapters With great excitement this book is written to share my analysis of artwork from the three time periods that I was so fortunate to visit during my recent time travels. The first time period I visited was the Italian Renaissance. The beautiful architecture of the Renaissance reflects symmetry‚ proportion‚ and geometry similar to the architecture from ancient Rome. The second time period I visited was the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The religious
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TEXTBOOK ANALYSIS: THE AMERICAN JOURNEY Textbook Analysis The American Journey Michele C. Bennett Grand Canyon University: EED 465 January 22‚ 2011 Textbook Analysis: The American Journey Before using a social studies textbook‚ a deep analysis of its contents will be required. How the book covers the topics in comparison to the definition of‚ social studies bring forth the relevance of the book in effective planning and instruction. Whether or not the book conveys separate classroom
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The ’Good Nazi’? Many historians such as Alan Bullock praise Speer’s performance at the Nuremburg Trials and were convinced that Speer had told the truth. They label Speer an ’apolitical technocrat’‚ ’more concerned with the job he had to do than the power it brought him.’(1) American journalist William Shirer reported on his trial at Nuremburg and came to view him favourably (2)‚ whilst British academic Hugh Trevor-Roper interviewed Speer‚ and in his book The Last Days of Hitler‚ describes Speer
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Most historians have come to the conclusion that the notion of republican motherhood was the principle factor that fueled this movement. In their secondary sources‚ historians have depicted this period as one that cared solely about the growth of the new nation and less about women’s equality. Carolyn Eastman‚ in The Female Cicero: Young Women’s Oratory and Gendered Public Participation in the Early American Republic‚ states that far too many historians only attribute the concept
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