Fall Semester 2011 History H-217: The Nature of History (15471) Tuesdays 3:00PM-5:40PM Cavanaugh Hall 215 Professor Modupe Labode Office: 420 Cavanaugh Hall Email: mlabode@iupui.edu Telephone: 317-274-3829 Office Hours: Tuesdays‚ 1-2; Thursdays 1-3‚ and by appointment. Mailbox: 504M Cavanaugh Hall Course Description: This course is an introduction to the study of history. Readings and discussion will explore the sources that historians use to interpret history and construct narratives
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Katie Dobersztyn English IV Accel Ms. Gutierrez History Personified History the Mob Boss Arundhati Roy personifies history as a mob boss‚ with Baby Kochamma‚ Chacko‚ Inspector Thomas Matthew‚ Comrade Pillai‚ even Vellya Paapen acting has the mob boss’s thugs‚ who maintained order and came to collect what you owe when you don’t follow the rules. When you owe the mob money‚ the boss’s thugs will come for you. Roy uses the personification of owing the mob boss to show what happens when you
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CHAPTER I Introduction History is the science whose business is to study events not accessible to our observations‚ and to study these events inferentially (Philippine Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 1993). History is not merely the records of past events: it is the record of what one’s age find worthy of note in another. History as a narrative (which of written‚ visual‚ oral or a combination of all these) about past events that has a meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and
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as World History. For the historical events‚ see History of the world. For a compilation album by Christian rock band Mad at the World‚ see World History (album). World history‚ global history or transnational history (not to be confused with diplomatic or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. It is not to be confused with comparative history‚ which‚ like world history‚ deals with
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History‚ a struggle over the past in the present to shape the future‚ is an exploration of the causal relationships between individuals and events. History has always been contested terrain‚ due to the fact that history is established through individual and collective memories‚ which by nature are subjective and coloured by circumstance. In the post modern era‚ the conventional ways of thinking which dismiss memory due to its bias have been challenged‚ and the credibility of history has been diminished
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combination of the two that we uncover a more reliable account. Peter Carey’s prose novel True History of the Kelly Gang and Christopher Nolan’s 2000 movie Memento represent history and memory in unique and evocative means by exploring the interplay between one’s individual perspective and the established ‘truth’. In True History‚ Carey adopts the persona of Ned Kelly‚ taken from the Jerilderie letter. Ned’s history is represented in the form of an epistolary account to his daughter‚ one which creates
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Studying History There are countless reasons for studying history. People always say‚ “History is important so that we do not repeat the mistakes of our past‚” but there is much to history than just learning from our mistakes. As The History Guide talks about‚ it comes down to history defines your identity. It is who you are because everything you do‚ everything you learn‚ and everything you want to be has to do with something you experienced in the past. If you like sports it’s probably because
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Cedric Craig US History 8/11/14 4th Pd What is history? That has been a question philosophers and historians have been asking for centuries. But really what is history? Webster dictionary defines history as "acts‚ ideas‚ or events that will or can shape the course of the future." Is that all history is a series of events leading up the present moment and then on to the future. English historian and philosopher‚ R.G. Collingwood said "History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself
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The Importance of History It is both necessary and helpful to study the context of prior history because it is relevant to who we are. Studying events in history provide a clear picture of past participants experiences and behaviors‚ so that we take what others have done and build upon it. Past cultures took time and efforts to document historical events to help future participants understand where they come from. In this day and age‚ modern societies don’t quite look to the past‚ but to the
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LITTLE BIG HISTORY ASSIGNMENT Assignment summary Write your own little big history (in Dutch or English): Select a subject or object that you really like. Find one connection between your choice and a topic discussed in each class mentioned in the assignment form. Elaborate the three most intriguing connections that you have found between your choice and big history: one connection must come from the history of the non-living world‚ one from the history of life‚ and one from human
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