Choosing History

3/5/2019

Daily Literary Quote
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

Journal Prompt
What kinds of historical events do people record? What is it about the events that make them worth studying? What sort of events do we conveniently omit? Why?

35 Comments

Connor

3/5/2019 10:04:07 am

People record important events like war, new royalty, or new places discovered.

Aimee

3/5/2019 10:08:40 am

Those are good examples.

Cherish

3/6/2019 09:41:10 am

Great examples.

Aimee

3/5/2019 10:04:07 am

People record anything that they think is important or worth remembering. Most of the events we study are so that we don’t repeat the same mistakes in the future. We omit things that we are ashamed of or that make us look bad because we don’t want to remember those things.

Brook

3/5/2019 10:04:50 am

True

Robyn

3/5/2019 10:05:32 am

I agree

Hailey Jo

3/5/2019 10:14:21 am

I agree with your idea of what we omit and why

Robyn

3/5/2019 10:04:59 am

People record historical events that they think will have a lasting effect of future genertions or are a big deal.

Katelyn

3/5/2019 10:10:14 am

By big deal, do you mean something worth learning so that it’s not repeated?

Brenna

3/5/2019 10:10:27 am

I agree.

Nutt

3/5/2019 10:05:23 am

People usually record the bad stuff. When we survive the bad stuff we will take it as a lesson and naturally we wish to warn friends and family. Some good things come through though.

Kayla

3/5/2019 10:06:12 am

That is true

Hailey Jo

3/5/2019 10:12:53 am

I definitely agree! Bad stuff is almost always recorded

Kayla

3/5/2019 10:05:43 am

We tend to study the changes in our society more than anything else. We try to omit more of the negative or the things that people want to stay hidden.

Nutt

3/5/2019 10:08:39 am

Change is important to recognize.

Brandon Westfall

3/5/2019 10:05:50 am

People record the history of wars, sciences, and politics. These events are worth studying because we can learn from past mistakes. We omit events like the holocaust.

Brook

3/5/2019 10:06:25 am

Agreed

Robyn

3/5/2019 10:07:43 am

Who omits the holocaust? Pretty sure it’s too big an event to just skip over

Aimee

3/5/2019 10:10:19 am

The holocaust is a good example of something we don’t like to talk about.

Katelyn

3/5/2019 10:05:56 am

People record historical events that either change the course of a country or the world, or to highlight events that are important to a certain group. They’re worth studying because they are meant to teach us lessons, or interesting enough to tell as a story. People tend to omit events that give credit to other groups of people and their accomplishments or ones that highlights mistakes of one group. It’s a way to discredit someone or hide something even more important.

Kayla

3/5/2019 10:06:51 am

I never I never thought about it that way.

Sarah

3/5/2019 10:08:34 am

I wish we didn’t work so hard to make everyone else seem like less than they are.

Sarah

3/5/2019 10:06:54 am

We record things like wars, how we discovered land, new inventions, family lines, etc. It shows us where we came from and how the world around us was built. We try not to mention most of the mistakes we make or things that are embarrassing.

Katelyn

3/5/2019 10:08:03 am

Too true, people will hide their biggest flaws and mistakes greatly.

Brenna

3/5/2019 10:09:20 am

I think it’s important to tell the mistakes though, since we can learn from them.

Brenna

3/5/2019 10:08:07 am

People record just about all the historical events. I think war is one we record quite a lot. I believe we study them because we can learn tatics from them. I think we leave out the bad things that a person we look up to, like a royal person or leader. We leave these things out because we want to be able to look up to them.

James

3/5/2019 10:08:18 am

People record what they think now worth remembering. We omit things that we don’t like or ,see isn’t look bad.

Nutt

3/5/2019 10:09:42 am

Personal opinion is important to every person. We hear news about topics we enjoy.

Saymen

3/5/2019 10:08:54 am

People record things that they thinks it good and have a good value in the future. Events that’s make them worth studying would be the volue for the person. We omit good stories and history.

Hailey Jo

3/5/2019 10:12:16 am

People will record almost anything they feel is worth remembering. The events that are worth studying differ between people and opinions.

Cherish

3/6/2019 09:41:44 am

I completely agree.

Nick

4/22/2019 09:09:47 pm

I agree

Cherish

3/6/2019 09:40:44 am

Something that people record a lot is war. They tend to record stuff like this because it captivates people’s attention easily. When we record things, we have the tendency to omit mistakes and faults because it makes us look bad.

Nick

4/22/2019 09:07:41 pm

I agree.

Nick

4/22/2019 09:07:22 pm

People record important events like war, new royalty, or new places discovered. Then we can study and learn from these events.

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