...people don't remember what they did, so they often repeat it. If you tell a secret to someone and they tell everyone you will often remember never to tell that person a secret again, but if you don't remember then it will keep happening. If we do not remember the past we are condemned to repeat it because we have to learn from our mistakes and history is important for the future. The past has more value than we think and can improve the future if we use it as an advantage. According to the author of Hard Times "With many Americans in debt, the companies were unable to sell their products and began to let workers go." Bigger companies suffered more from Americans not being able to purchase goods therefore leaving them scrambling for solutions.Companies learned that if they lower their prices they wont have to struggle to stay in business and keep workers. During the Great Depression the farmers learned that vegetation is needed for the growth of crops. The author stated "They were unaware that this vegetation was...
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...Josh Thompson History Ms. Kadlecek 7 April 2014 Remembering The word holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” and comes from the Greek words “holos” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning burnt. The Holocaust of the 20th century was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi command during World War II. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he states, “…in their early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed” (viii). The shock and horror does not lessen regardless of how many times a book or article is read or a movie watched about the Holocaust. Learning about the horrible, dark period from 1935 – 1945 is important in several ways. On one hand, it has been said we must learn about the past in order not to relive it. However, we are also told not to dwell in the past. When studying the Holocaust, both adages have truth. Chilling questions occur when learning about the Holocaust. They are questions that Elie Wiesel repeated in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel says he remembers asking his father, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (118). Millions of Jews were killed by overwork, starvation, torture, and cold blooded murder just because they were a different race and...
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...George Santayana, a renowned Spanish-American philosopher, was a main contributor to aesthetic and philosophy. (Henfry) Many of his philosophical works such as The Last Puritan and his aphorisms are still relevant today, arguably marking his status as,”one of the best writers in the Classical American tradition”. (Flamm) One of his more relevant aphorisms, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” is a significant universal truth because of its meaning. (Wikiquote) This aphorism means that if humans do not remember their past such as mistakes they have made, then they are bound to repeat their past and commit these errors once again. By learning from not only one’s past but others as well, progress can be made as history...
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...Does History repeat itself? Yes It Does. Question Does History repeat itself? In what ways? Hypothesis History, as a reflection of past repeats itself as events related to social norms, ethical values, religious dogmas, wars and peace, and ideological orientations. Introduction History repeats itself in various ways and it is imperative that we learn from our past so that we are aware of our present and possible future because if taken lightly, history can replicate itself in brutal ways. The lessons learnt from history need to be taken seriously for future planning and actions that if not taken into consideration, the follies made in the past result sometimes into similar or even worse outcomes. However, irony of the fate is that mankind has successively failed to learn from history. In order to understand how, why and in what matters history repeats itself, let us delve further into the matter. The Israel-Palestinian Conflict During the time of...
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...There are several purposes the creation of chronology serves. For instance, with chronology we are able to visualize events that have occurred in history, specifically those big moments in history that took place centuries ago that we were not alive to witness. We are also able to have a timeline of what took place first, second, third, and so on. Without chronology, it would be extremely difficult to make sense of history because every event and date would be scattered around and having a timeline that is in order by time of events can definitely help establish the causes of other events. A great example of this would be from this week’s reading, Brief History of Federal Policy Toward Indian Nations (National Congress of American Indians, N.d.), we are given a timeline starting from the Pre-Columbian Period (Pre-1492) from there we were able to learn that before Europeans came to America, and basically ruined everything, according to the National...
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...up for what you believe in. Also, if he were to keep back his opinion, he is betraying himself, his country and God. Patrick Henry was also apologizing in case he has given any offense. He is speaking his thoughts out loud to How long must you keep quiet? When will you finally speak up for yourself, when everything around you is in total chaos? When Great Britain finally has a gun pointed to your head or when they've already taken away everything to held dear to you? How much more do you have to endure to realize what's going on around you, isn't right? Patrick Henry's speech uses logic, pathos, and ethos to persuade others to join him in breaking away from Great Britain. Logos to tell others that history may repeat itself if we don't do anything, pathos by telling them that we are not a bunch of slaves, and ethos by giving his opinion and not having any fear while doing...
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...Why nobody is saying the obvious? The patrimonialist tradition helped Putin to build a country that doesn’t give much value to individual liberties. Throughout human history there have been some rulers who used fear and terror to gain control of his people, unfortunately these people used the intelligence they had to gain power bringing sorrow, misery and a lot of times death for many people. Mark Twain (1896) stated that ‘History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme’. As mentioned by Rickards (2012), ‘Petty tyrants as well as dictators are vulnerable to a belief in their own invulnerability’. What is the United Nations doing to become Putin vulnerable? Waiting a worst case scenario? What is going to happen in the future? Are we going to have a World War 3? Germany and France trying to protect Russia It was obvious that Russia supported the separatist militants in the region, while on the other hand it was trying to deny this support. At the same time, the Russians joined Germany and France in a diplomatic effort to promote a political agreement within Ukraine that takes into account the interests of Russia. Expanding relations with BRIC countries Putin, on the other hand, expanded its relations with China, gaining moral support from other BRIC countries (Brazil, India, China, South Africa) and also strengthening old and making new friends in Latin America. My Personal Learning with Putin’s Style of Leadership In business life, as mentioned by Rickards (2012),...
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...Themes in Global History since 1500 C.E. How Does History Repeat Global History It’s common for historians to argue about different events of history and to provide their opinions from the facts they have collected and studied. The only thing that historians tend to agree on is that history tends to repeat itself. Our various history lessons always tell the tale of a society faced with an issue and then goes into detail how our predecessors were able to confront it. A question we can ask ourselves when faced with a similar situation is “Can the solution that may have worked 300 years ago work in these modern times?” President Barack Obama has spoken on many proposals that can be linked back to Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of a Nation” like strengthening our domestic products, progressive taxes, war and its effect on the economy. Many are also arguing that he may have socialist intentions that are supported by the theories of Karl Marx where there is an even distribution of wealth. Our economy is in disarray because of policies that weren’t kept in check to prevent what we are experiencing today. Many of Adam Smith’s ideas are being experienced today in both a negative and positive way and along with certain ideas of Karl Marx, will be essential to our current administration in leveling our economy and rebuilding the wealth of our nation. What worries me the most about our current times is that people are worried about it. Have we not been in...
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...person to blame yes, but they also eagerly and sometimes blindly accept what they might justify as the lesser of two evils. In this case, Evil is identified and there is nothing lesser about it. In the early 1900’s what they found changed and also ended the lives of millions. World War II and the hardship it brought upon Germany was just the tool that one man in particular took advantage of for his own personal gain and ideology. Born in Australia in 1889, Aldoph Hitler came to be one of the most famed and later despised person’s in human history. Many have written about his life and what he accomplished or yet, what he did. Many have tried to explain the why in hopes that history does not repeat itself. To this day, I do not think it has to that scale however; there will always be ones to try. It is important for that reason, to always understand why he succeeded, not to enable anyone to repeat his actions but instead to ensure the human race does not put such an evil man into power ever again. His rise to power, I believe was put deliberately in motion when in 1923 Hitler attempted to seize power in Bavaria. This failed and as a result Hitler was imprisoned. While in prison Hitler took the time to write what is known as, “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle). The sale of this writing added to the funds that later he would use to manipulate himself higher and higher up the power chain. He spent only 9 months in prison but afterwards, he carefully and deliberately restructured the National...
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...Often this comes up following particularly emotional crimes (ex. harm to a child) when there is a large public outcry in the political realm. These cases of “symbolic law” are considered such because frequently there is law already in existence that would penalize the behavior but it was not enforced or enforced improperly – the idea that we don’t need more law, we just need to enforce that law in place already. Ex. Look for instances where this notion of symbolic law might be useful politically. The article The Impact of ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ (Austin et al), reviews the development of the Three Strike movement and the effects of the resulting legislation. Three strikes laws mandate tough prison sentences for repeat offenders of certain types of serious crimes. The reasoning behind them is that tougher sentences will create a deterrent from repeat offenses. The article takes a critical look at the creation of such laws and their enforcement, finding that often such legislation is symbolic in it’s creation and application. A symbolic law is one that is created for symbolic reasons. This means that the law itself does not really change the criminal justice system’s ability to penalize the crime. This can be because existing laws are already in place that could have been used, or because the judicial system somehow finds a way to circumvent the new law. Symbolic laws often come into place after public outcry requires legislatures to take some kind...
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...today. We would not have millions out of work and sitting on welfare while not doing anything to improve their lives. Roosevelts plan worked to get 4 million people to work while providing things that we needed as a nation. It is sad that we do not have these types of programs available today. 9) Meyer v. Nebraska- There was a law in Nebraska that no child could learn a foreign language before the 8th grade. They were concerned about immigrants and did not want the children growing up without a good American background with American values. This is an interesting case. Ultimately as a mom this had me really thinking about what my children are being taught in school which lead to the question does what they are being taught actually effect my ideas of their American values? I do not feel that teaching a kid a foreign language at any age should constitute what values that child has grown up with. Values should be taught at home and you should be given an education at school. It seems super silly looking back on it that they felt like this would make them less American. If anything, this type of close mindedness is exactly what is wrong with America. It also proves that America really started as a wayward teenager that wanted to be different not because it made us better but because we did not want to be the same. I still see a lot of this mindset in people today. It does not make anything better to push isolation over closeness. 10) The Red Scare- History will repeat itself over...
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...Stathi has returned around six months since the last appointment. During that time, Stathi has continued to experience perceived sleep onset insomnia of a couple of hours and as a results, often takes Panadeine Forte. He generally retires to bed ata round 10.00pm. He is waking at around 7.00am, consistently feeling unrefreshed and is aware of daytime tiredness. He is not aware of any problems when driving. He avoids daytime naps. Stathi underwent a repeat diagnostic sleep study with sleep latency test and interestingly, despite a perceived sleep latency of 60 minutes, true sleep latency was only 11 minutes. There was no notable sleep apnoea or periodic limb movements. The multiple sleep latency test revealed a reduced mean sleep latency...
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...In the book, The Best War Ever, Michael Adams states right away his main argument he intends to stress throughout the book. On the first page he states that we as Americans like to twist history so it makes ourselves look better. Adams says on page one, “Sometimes we conjure up the past in such a way that it appears better than it really was. We forget ugly things we did and magnify the good things. This is wishful thinking, the desire to retell our past not as it was but as we would like it to have been.”(1) Throughout the entire book Adams focuses on this topic more than any other and clearly wants this to be the subject of the book. His thesis statement in the Preface states, “The goal of this book is to subject the major aspects of the Good War myth to fresh analysis in the hope of presenting a more realistic picture, one that does not demean the achievement of the United States and of liberal democracy but that at the same time does not diminish the stress, suffering, problems, and failures inevitably face by a society at war.”(xiv) The author’s implication is that history doesn’t need to be told like you wish it would’ve happened or what sounds appealing to the ear. History needs to be told like it occurred. The old saying “don’t let history repeat itself” is pointless if we are being told the wrong history. When we mythologize it too much, misrepresentations appear. The author makes the claim that it is always better to fight than it is to talk and using the 1938 Munich...
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...Reason #1: I believe that the n-word should not be replaced in novels such as Huck Finn. Personally, I view the change as a form of censorship. In the 60 Minutes interview, a professor said that getting rid of the word removes the conversation that comes with it. If the word is removed, there will be no discussions about its origin or the history of slavery. The n-word has been included in numerous classic pieces of literature, and for good reason. It is an impactful word, that catches the reader’s attention and promotes an educational conversation. Reason #1: Within my group discussion, one of my group members believed that the n-word should not be replaced. In addition, they believed that the word should only be used by African Americans and the rest of the black community. They referenced the article “Mommy, What Does ‘Nigger’ Mean?” wherein the author describes the numerous meanings that her family members give to the n-word. The participant in my group discussion believed that the word should only be used by the black community, because only they could reclaim it. A slur is only reclaimed if used by the people it oppressed. Reason #1: Within the class discussion, there were many different viewpoints as to how the n-word should be handled. Some believe that the word should be kept, others...
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...Spanish Flu; Swine Flu History will always repeat itself. In many events it has been proven fact. There are many examples of this; some would say the landing of Christopher Columbus and the Holocaust, others might say the Columbine Massacre and the several school shootings that followed that. But the most eerie and coincidental reoccurrence is the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and the H1N1 ‘Swine Flu’ outbreak. By the fall of 1918 a strain of influenza seemingly no different from that of previous years suddenly turned so deadly, and engendered such a state of panic and chaos in communities across the globe, that many people believed the world was coming to an end. It would later be characterized as a human-to-human transmissible case of swine flu. The virus struck with amazing speed, often killing its victims within just hours of the first signs of infection. So fast did the 1918 strain overwhelm the body's natural defenses, that the usual cause of death in influenza patients---a secondary infection of lethal pneumonia---oftentimes never had a chance to establish itself. Instead, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients would drown in their own body fluids. Not only was the Spanish Flu (as it came to be known) strikingly virulent, but it displayed an unusual preference in its choice of victims---tending to select young healthy adults over those with weakened immune systems, as in the very young, the very old, and the infirm...
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