“History‚ despite its wrenching pain‚ cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage‚ need not be lived again.” So wrote the American author Maya Angelou. A fellow writer‚ James Baldwin also noted: “Not everything that is faced can be changed‚ but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” These were both reminders that we need to know our history in order to understand perhaps where we are today and how we came to be where we are; that we need to understand reality and to face it in order to progress
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because they do not support the "disinterested investigation" required of the discipline of history.[8][9] Events occurring prior to written record are considered prehistory. Herodotus‚ a 5th-century B.C. Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history"‚ and‚ along with his contemporary Thucydides‚ helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their work continues to be read today and the divide between the culture-focused Herodotus and
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TAKE-HOME MIDTERM ESSAY The decision to drop the A-bomb was chosen for several reasons‚ first and foremost to end the war against Japan. This strategy was decided upon because Japan’s war-fighting industries were highly concentrated in metropolitan areas‚ but weren’t zoned away from residential areas‚ and those cities had a high proportion of flammable materials. Operation Downfall was the original plan which caused for a massive invasion of Japan by mostly US forces. The casualty estimates
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Diversity in America David A. Berkley ETH/125 October 7‚ 2012 Dr. Leah Mancuso Diversity in America It has become common today to dismiss the culture and ethnic diversity that we have in the United States of America. This paramount nation was founded on a basis of diversity‚ freedom and equality for all without admiration for a government that controls our thoughts‚ views and opinions. Americans today tend to believe we are equal and have rights that set us apart from other parts of the
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In the movie Hidden Figures‚ African American women are portrayed as uneducated by white men. In order to find the calculations to launch the spaceflight program‚ it required a fair amount of time and effort to put in. The main character Katherine G. Johnson put in her all and found the perfect solution to the calculations even after she was not wanted in the team filled by white men just because she was an African American woman who they assumed she was empty headed. One of the reasons these men
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the living situations and how these women lived in a time where respect and freedom were merely low. Snyder also enlightens us with discreet background information these brave women. These poets have change the whole understanding of the poetry history‚ with the little of their work we get to see a window who and how these woman felt and how they greatly help influence western literature. As we take a closer look‚ Sappho of Lesbos a writer born in the seventh century B.C and birthplace was Lesbos
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With the industrialization in America came an increasing demand for labor. At that time‚ a large majority of Americans still lived on the farms. Those that did live in urban area were those of skilled labor such as independent craftsmen and small businessmen. The challenge faced by factory owners was recruitment. One popular form‚ specifically utilized by textile mills‚ was enlisting young women in their late teens or early twenties. This became known as the Lowell or Waltham System. Although
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circumstance available to achieve one’s goals. It is a word that is especially applicable to America; the idea of America as nation where anybody has the opportunity to succeed is so embedded into the American identity that “opportunity” has transcended its dictionary definition. It has become an intrinsic part of the American Dream‚ a word ingrained with the history of many generations. To many‚ America is often considered the land of opportunity; from the earliest colonizers‚ who sailed across
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to 1933 was known as the Great Depression‚ this was the worst time in America’s history that the economy preformed so poorly. Demand for goods was very low and people attempted to save money to weather the poor economy but this created stagnation which prolonged the depression. The Great Depression ended through the government’s increased involvement in the economy‚ in the short run. The economic downturn that America experienced in 1946 was due to a decrease in productivity because World War 2 was
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The Bridge of the Americas The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama‚ which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Completed in 1962‚ at a cost of US$20 million‚ it was the only non-swinging bridge (there are two other bridges‚ one at the Miraflores locks and one at the Gatun locks) connecting the north and south American land masses until the opening of the Centennial Bridge in 2004. The bridge
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