Today’s world is divided into many groups based on race, religion, jobs, and many other things. It is basically presumed all over the world that a historian’s task is to understand the past even the Question lacks the truth; Historian’s task is not only to understand the past but to discover it, study it, tell it to other people, give facts that make it right, this introduces the 1st area of knowledge of the essay history, it is not the past, but rather the understanding and study of it is history. While the past is debatable history is its perspective, as clearly said by Whitney Brown “The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down”, for example: Aurangzeb in Indian’s history is a Mughal ruler who is thought to be bad but in the perspective of a true believer he is a ruler who didn’t made the mistake which his forefather made and as a Muslim he cared for the Muslims not the Hindus. Human sciences on the other hand is about human behavior, this science is not exactly backed up by rational theories but simply based on empirical observation. It observes human behaviors to arrive at the result, hence introducing my 2nd area of knowledge Human sciences: Sociology. The difference between both the areas of knowledge is very clique so both the area of knowledge can be well related, while history is related with our past, human science is related to us.
Understanding the past and changing the future don’t they depend on each other? Maybe it is a stupid question but a debatable question. Do we change the future by developing new things or by working on the old ones which went wrong in the past, the past policies or experiments may have turned out to be bad but when you think of it haven’t they provided us with the t...
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... and hence they lost the war and USA became the new super power, USA had the money and the resources to give to their people, the people had everything they needed to survive food, shelter, money, etc. but today USA is also facing the same problem as USSR did in the past they are also on a road heading towards downfall as a super power, as I said earlier as a super power expectation are high, so expectation of people depends on countries economic and social values and the recent mortgage debts and the shutting down of the United States government proves the lack of social structure, and so would rise a new superpower from other corner of the world, BRIC “Brazil, Russia, India, China” is predicted to be the next superpowers on the Earth, so history here is repeating and I guess it would go on and on and thus always deciding people fate, their social value and ethics.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the first area of knowledge of the essay history is not the past, but the understanding and study of it is history.
- Opines that understanding the past and changing the future don't depend on each other.
- Opines that history repeats itself and based on human actions it does so. the struggle for power is on and would never stop even if peace is attained.
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- Explains that the continental army showed to have the most spirit during the times that they won battles and when the alliance with france occurred.
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- Opines that russia's current policy on human rights and homophobia has deflected from their current position in the multipolar environment.
- Argues that keohane's theories on international relations are important to consider when reviewing the cold war bipolar period.
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- Explains that the american dream is based on the idea that people can move higher up the social scale, as long as they work hard to accomplish their goal. however, this is not true today.
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- Analyzes how fitzgerald shows the downfalls of seemingly harmless, foolish love. tom thinks he can keep a mistress and wife with no consequences, but myrtle's foolish pursuit of love kills her.
- Analyzes how gatsby illustrates the destruction of the american dream stopping short. many characters move back to the east coast, and settle for the same jobs as everyone else.
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- Argues that the things brutus did weren't right, like betraying caesar's trust.
- Analyzes how brutus loved rome and its people and didn't want to be viewed as a killer. he wanted the people to understand why he had to kill caesar.
- Analyzes how brutus killed caesar because he knew it would be beneficial for the country. the conspirators helped caesar stop fearing death.
- Analyzes how brutus had to put his friendship aside when he stabbed caesar. he loved him as much as a dear friend.
- Analyzes how brutus was a patriot because he took his own life.
- Opines that brutus' actions and motives, even if they were not considered right, prove he was a patriot. he loved caesar and rome, but did what was best for rome.
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- Analyzes how the depiction of characters is conveyed through distinctively visual images to highlight the subsequent development of courage and resilience.
- Analyzes how goldsworthy's metaphorical depiction of darwin as being rich and changing in its abundance of nature reflects paul’s personal growth and development.
- Analyzes how baz luhrmann's australia connects with readers through various cinematic techniques to emphasise the influence of distinctively visual landscapes and how they uniquely shape one’s identity.
- Analyzes how don mclean personifies vincent and mclean's emotional understanding of van gogh through the metaphor of darkness, which creates the notion of depression.
- Analyzes goldsworthy's metaphorical imagery of music and art being the connection within characters as they relate to each other and navigate through the difficulties of adolescence and adulthood.
- Analyzes how goldsworthy uses visual imagery and metaphor to convey paul's changing perception of others, and his developing ability to differentiate between the love and lust.
- Analyzes how luhrmann contrasts the audience with the emotional expressions and differing body language, which is visually depicted.
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