History of National Women's History Month The Beginning As recently as the 1970's, women's history was virtually an unknown topic in the K-12 curriculum or in general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a "Women's History Week" celebration for 1978. We chose the week of March 8 to make International Women's Day the focal point of the observance. The activities that were held met
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History of Child Abuse Kayleigh Keller BSHS/408 March 30, 2015 Marcia Winter History of Child Abuse Child abuse has been happening for all of recorded history. The views on it have changed drastically, especially in the last 50 years or so. It used to be something that was just swept under the rug and kept behind closed doors. Now, however, with all of the new laws that protect children and punish abusers more severely, child abuse is something that is taken very seriously. To know why
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specific view on what history is and what being a historian entails and comprises of in its self. Carr uses various adjectives in his description of what it is to be a historian in an effort to elaborately display his view and excitement on the subject of his profession. Carr describes others views and definitions of what history is which gives him a stronger sense of credibility in my opinion because he has an open minded approach and unbiased. Carr describes the answer of what history is as being: “an
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This review of the Great Electrical Conspiracy that spanned the length of the 1950’s will use sources that were published well after the events transpired and the following investigation as well as sources and reports that were published while or immediately after the conspiracy unfolded. The former will provide a more extensive overview of the facts in hindsight as well as analysis of the structural organizations of these types of cartels and how that influenced the maintenance of their collusion
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Historiography is the study of how history is written or how it has been passed on, which includes different sources, levels of credibility, motives of the historian(s), and perspectives. “Critical analysis” in history writing means that one is to analyze a text and the author’s purpose of writing it, and how it affects the argument being made and the evidence that is being used. i.e. When writing about the causes of World War I, one would have to discuss both sides because if only one side, like
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Vietnam, planning and conducting more effective learning and teaching strategies for History is considered as one of the most challenging task for educators (Mr. Truong Tan Sang 2012). The quality of teaching and learning History has stood low and even had tendency to get worse in the past few years. A report in Tuoi tre (July 26, 2011) revealed that the year 2011 witnessed an unprecedentedly disappointed result in History of the entrance exam, approximately 80-90% of candidates got the mark below five
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Why should we preserve history? We should preserve history for several reasons. The first reason is because we will learn from the mistakes people made in the past and try not to repeat them. The second reason is so we will understand civilizations got to where we are today. The third reason is to learn about what causes conflicts and wars so we can help identify when they might be occurring. We should preserve history so we don’t make the same mistakes we did in the past. Things would not reoccur
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5. The task of writing a history （撰写历史的使命） The task of writing a history of our nation from Rome’s earliest days fills me, I confess, with some misgivings and even though I was confident in the value of my work, I should hesitate to say so.（我承认，尽管有着些许担忧，但我仍肩负着从罗马时代早期就沿袭下来的记录历史的使命。尽管我坚信这项工作富有价值，我却无法毫不犹豫地说出来。） I am aware that for historians to make extravagant claims is, and always has been, all too common: Every writer on history tends to look down his nose at his less cultivated predecessors,
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The documents about early Christian life depicted how important religion was to society and how polarizing it was. Religion has been at the core of societies throughout history and through our country is “secular” many values and core principles are deeply rooted in our Christian heritage. This has polarized our country and created a government founded on religious biases. In our contemporary world, the battle between religion
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A Cultural History Of Modern Science In China. Benjamin A. Elman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp xiii. 336. Benjamin Elman’s book is a complex history of interactions between the European West and Imperial China involving the transmission of scientific, medical, and technological knowledge over a period of roughly three-hundred years, lasting through the Qing dynasty. Previous to the sixteenth century, China was ripe with science and technological innovation; however, the history
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