History Lesson Essays

  • A Lesson Plan On Family History

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    LESSON PLAN: Year level: year 1 Duration: 45 minutes Date: Tuesday 03 May 2013 Lesson topic: Family history Mentor teacher: Lesson approach: Students are to work individually Lesson objectives/Learning intention: After completing this lesson, students will be able to: > students can be able to know most of their family members and how each is related. > Students can have a sense of identity and know were they belong. > be able to realise objects or images which relate to the history of their family

  • School House Rock: Animated Educational Music Videos for Kids

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    of School House Rock. Little did we know that while we were singing along to "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" we were learning a history lesson. School House Rock is a compilation of animated educational music videos. They were developed by a man named David B. McCall back in the early seventies to teach children between the ages of 6 to 12 the basics in grammar, mathematics, history and science. There are over thirty of these music videos and about five were shown every Saturday morning in between breaks

  • Melba Patillo Beals' Warriors Don't Cry

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    intragate Central High School in 1957. She kept a diary of all her thoughts while intragation was being carried out. Almost forty years after the fact she decided to tell her story by writing the book Warrior’s Don’t Cry. Melba Beals gives us a history lesson and as true a story of coming age in America at a certain time and place as one could hope to find. The title Warrior’s Don’t Cry came from her grandmother’s saying to her, “ Everybody’s a warrior on the battlefield for the Lord”, and she used

  • Beowulf and the Power of Speech

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    the great deeds that will win them similar renown. "So,” begins poem.  “The Spear-Danes in days gone by/ and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness./ We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns” (1-3).  What follows is a brief history lesson, the story of “Shield Sheafson, scourge of many tribes,/ a ... ... middle of paper ... ...c nature and exploits:” for a man should praise a prince whom he holds dear and cherish his memory when that moment comes when he has to be convoyed

  • Chuck Yeager

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    Yeager is by the far the most enjoyable history lesson anyone could wish for. The autobiography tells the story of Chuck Yeager, the world’s greatest pilot and first man to break the sound barrier. The story, told by General Yeager himself, has the perfect balance of humor and action. Witty anecdotes and suspenseful flight sequences keep the reader engrossed. The book is a multi-million bestseller for a reason. Chuck Yeager was born in 1923 in West Virginia. He learned to always do his best

  • Caribbean History

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    Caribbean History I. A Note on Historical Methodology: The conventional method of studying history consists of a chronological process. For example, the history of the ‘New World,’ or in particular the history of the Caribbean seems to originate in 1492, the year Columbus mistakenly landed upon Hispanola. Not long after the discovery of the New World, the age of European colonialism in the Americas emerges. This condensed version of the first several decades of European influence in the New

  • Analysis of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodice by Muriel Spark

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    interests of her girls. However, it is quite apparent that the girls do not receive a ‘prime’ education. Miss Brodie felt that the knowledge the girls were meant to have for exams was unimportant: “If there are any intruders, we are doing our history lesson… our poetry… English gramma…’ The small girls held up their books with eyes not on them, but on Miss Brodie.” (P11) It is impossible to deny that Miss Brodie had great dedication towards her girls. However, her motives for her dedication and

  • Slim-Fast® and Weight Loss

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    Slim-Fast® and Weight Loss A Little History Lesson According to Good Housekeeping, the liquid diet drink trend began in the early 1930’s, with “Dr. Stoll’s Diet-Aid, the Natural Reducing Food.” This low-calorie product, a combination of milk chocolate, starch, whole wheat, and bran, mixed with water to create drinks that replaced breakfast and lunch (http://homearts.com/gh/health/07nutrb2.htm). Since then, numerous liquid products and other diet-aid derivatives have entered the market

  • The Debate Over Bilingual Education and Immersion Programs

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    The Debate Over Bilingual Education and Immersion Programs In recent years, the debate over whether bilingual education or immersion programs (such as English for Speakers of Other Languages) better serve the needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the United States has been heating up. The increasing need for such services insights passionate supporters and opposition to rise up against one another in the fight over which is better. Advocates of bilingual education stress the

  • Analyzing History Lessons by Historical Criticism

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    transportation, education, medical care and even in the United States Armed Forces. In the poem, History Lesson, the speaker recalls a memory on a beach in Mississippi regarding segregation with her grandmother in the 1930’s. A comparison of the speaker and her grandmother shows both the belief in segregation in the 1930’s compared to the desegregation in the 1970’s. By utilizing historical criticism, History Lesson by Natasha Trethewey can be analyzed from a historical point of view. In 1863, President

  • Societal Lessons in Julius Caesar

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    Societal Lessons in Julius Caesar Many authors try to convey different lessons that we, as individuals or a society can learn from their writings. William Shakespeare, in his play Julius Caesar, has definitely accomplished this goal. With the many lessons included in this story, society can learn from the mistakes of others made previously. It could be said that the actions of society are learned by the actions of our predecessors. In this incredible play, the major messages or societal lessons include

  • The Literary Merit of A Lesson Before Dying

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    The Literary Merit of A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines was born during the middle of the Great Depression on January 15, 1933. He was the oldest of twelve children. At the age of nine Gaines worked as an errand boy on the River Lake Plantation, the same plantation his book A Lesson Before Dying was set in. Gaines was raised by his Aunt Augusteen Jefferson, much like Grant, the protagonist in the novel, was raised by his Aunt Tante Lou. At the age of fifteen Gaines rejoined his immediate family

  • Lesson of the Evils of Liquor

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    wanted to teach his 9th grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms. "Now, class, observe the worms closely," he said, putting a worm first into the water. The worm in the water writhed about, happy as a worm in water could be. The second worm he put into the whiskey. It writhed painfully, and quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail. "Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?" the

  • The Ignored Lessons of Anne Frank

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    The Message in The Ignored Lessons of Anne Frank In Bettelheim's essay, The Ignored Lessons of Anne Frank, he criticizes Anne Frank's father because of the way he had his whole family hiding out in the attic of one family. Bettelheim claims he is not criticizing Mr. Frank, he just wants his readers to reexamine the way we read history. In his essay, Bettelheim concinced me that we, as readers should look again at the text and realize all the possibilities that the Franks had. In the essay

  • The God of Small Things: Lessons of History

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    liquidation is history which repeats itself time and again, regardless of time, regardless of place. The mangled shape of Velutha after the clinical assault is reminiscent of the surrealistic vision Marlowe has of the shapes of the starved natives huddled together outside the Customs House in Heart of Darkness. Velutha is the sacrificial lamb, the sparrow caught in the snares of Chacko's old Plymouth: way in, no way out, dead on the back seat, with legs in the air, like a joke. The History House remains

  • Free Essays - Jefferson’s Character in A Lesson Before Dying

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    Jefferson’s Character A Lesson Before Dying takes place in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940’s. In the novel, Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; being the only survivor, he is convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Jefferson’s personality and physical appearance in the novel provides not only a relationship to the courtroom and his cell, but also connected to the geographical setting of the book.

  • Lessons Learned from A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

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    Lessons Learned from A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" is a short fiction story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1955. Magical realism plays a major part in this story by the use of fantasy of an old man being portrayed as an angel who has come to create miracles to a family along with many other believers. Some will believe, others will just shoo this so called "angel" away in a painful and heart-breaking way. I enjoyed this story very much. I was

  • Lessons in Leadership in Demian

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    Lessons in Leadership in Demian In Demian, Hesse uses a comparison to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel to convey his ideas about those who are different. The idea arises again and again, causing the reader to look at it from a very unique perspective. Through this comparison, the reader begins to see the mark of Cain as a positive symbol -- as the mark of those who would lead the world into the future of mankind, without fear. When Emil Sinclair first meets Max Demian, he sees that Demian

  • Lessons from a Third World Perspective on Environmentalism

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    Lessons from a Third World Perspective on Environmentalism Possibly more than any of the other articles we have read so far, Ramachandra Guha's article "Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" made me think. In analyzing the Western deep ecology movement, he criticized its focus on preservation of wild areas. By doing this, he was directly criticizing what I have long thought of as my main goal as an "environmentalist." One of the first

  • The Leadership Lessons of Jesus Christ

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    The Leadership Lessons of Jesus Christ When we talk about Jesus as a leader, we may imply two different forms: Jesus as the only Son of God, God of the universe, or the risen Christ as being one with God; or Jesus as the 1 st century flesh and blood human being, the historical figure. Since the purpose of studying leadership is to improve one's own leadership skills, it makes sense to analyze Jesus' applicable traits, actions, and accomplishments as a good leader—in his historical role—so his