HIS 110: Last Day Thoughts Spring
2017: 5/3/17, Wed.
• A hard copy of this is due at the start of
class on the last day of class: Wed., May 3, 2017.
• I do not wish to accept emailed
versions.
•
This is worth 6 points. Spend about an hour on it. If it is apparent
that you put some genuine time, thought, and
effort into this (and if you follow
the directions, and if you hand in a hard copy on time), you can
earn the maximum points. If you do something less than this, you will earn less
than the maximum points. I will not really grade this on grammar and style (unless
the grammar is so poor that I can’t really understand what it is you’re trying
to say).
• Looking
at your First Day Thoughts (which I will hopefully remember to pass back to you
in time), re-visit and re-think
(most of) the responses
you gave at the start of the semester. Are there responses you would change?
Responses you would not change? Responses you can now elaborate on? Save this document as your own document, and
type in your thoughts now that we’ve reached the end of the semester. Use Times
New Roman, 10-point font. Keep the document single-spaced.
• 1- Regarding
the USA, list one or two current events and/or current challenges that seem
important.
·
The reliability of President Donald Trump
·
How much oil we actually have left in the ground and what
we will do when it runs out. (With definite oil resources, we have about 50
years remaining of oil use, and that highly concerns me for when I have
children and they have children. I hope something better is done about it, and
soon.)
• 2- Why
might the study of history matter, in
general? Try to come up with at least one example.
·
I think that the study of history is very important for
several reasons. One of them being that the world has evolved over millions of
years, and now we’re here in the present. I find it very important to know at
least a little bit about what happened where we live now 100+ years ago, and to
see how things have changed.
• 3- Why
might the study of American history (prior
to the year 1877) matter, to you in particular? That is, how might
it
matter in your personal
life, your family life, your major at SCSU, your eventual career, etc . . . ?
Try to come up with at least one example.
·
The study of American history
prior to the year 1877 can be very important to my own life, especially within
my (hopefully) future career. In my first day thoughts, I wrote that it may
help me to know how businesses ran back then, but now I’d like to extend that
to how people worked together back then. In my career of Business
Administration/Management, it’s all about working with others, and mostly
leading them to succeed. Prior to this class, I never really thought about how
generals and leaders led people in such a profound way. An example from this
semester of that I can take from Glory. I can connect my future career to
Rawlins in the film, because he told Trip that they are all supposed to be
working together. And when I’m leading a business one day, it’s important that
I teach the people below me that we’re all in this together, and if we don’t
work together as a team, then we won’t succeed.
• 4- List
at least one story that you like. It can be fictional. It can be a book, a TV
show, a movie, a play, (even a song), etc. • You don’t have to re-visit this question.
• 5- Why
do you like the story (or stories) that you listed in the previous
question?
• You
don’t have to re-visit this question.
__D _ • 6- How many sides are there to every
story? • A- 1 • B- 2
• C- 3 • D- none of the
previous
·
I’ve probably come across this question the most out of
any questions this semester in this class, and for good reason. It’s very
important to know that there are endless amounts of sides to a story. With
every account that I’ve read about, watched, listened to, etc, I’ve learned
that every single person involved can see a different side of the story, and
they can take it a different way that anyone else. Like the photo by Paul
Revere, he took it one way, and other people that were there took it various
different ways. Also, when discussing history, there are primary and secondary
sources that are from different perspectives. It’s very important to keep in
mind that there are many many different sides to very story.
__B__ • 7- “Since I already took American history
in high school, middle school, and/or elementary school, I
already know everything
that happened in American history.”
• A- You agree with this
statement.
• B- You disagree with
this statement.
·
Obviously, I didn’t know everything there was to know
about American History from High School. I barely even remember anything about
American History from high school. But, there are so many things to learn about
history, so there’s no way I learned it all in high school, and I will go more
into depth about it in the next question.
__B _ • 8- “By the end of this semester, I will
know everything that ever happened in American history up to the year
1877.”
• A- You agree with this
statement.
• B- You disagree with
this statement.
·
I did learn so much from
Professor Amerman this semester, don’t get me wrong, but there’s no way that I
learned everything that ever happened. We did learn a lot about the big things
that happened in history, and some about little things too, but there are so
many people that never published things about their life and their work etc.
that there is no way that I could even know about them. I could spend my whole
life trying to learn about everything that happened in the US yesterday, but
there is no way that I can learn every single little thing. But, the important
thing is that I learned so much this semester about American History from
Professor Amerman. He’s awesome!
__D__ • 9- How does one learn history—not
necessarily just for Prof. Amerman’s HIS 110 class, but in general?
• A- You learn it by
reading and memorizing a textbook.
• B- You learn it by
listening to and memorizing a history teacher’s lectures.
• C- You learn it by
looking up things on Wikipedia.
• D- None of the above
is, by itself, a sufficient answer. Feel free to elaborate:
·
My answer for this is basically the same as my answer
from my first day thoughts, because I applied those skills to learn in this
class. But, they were that you have to learn things in class (by taking notes,
paying attention, analyzing the readings, and trying to never miss class) and
then you have to apply them somehow. I do this frequently by telling my family
about what I learned that day. (Even thought they showed me several times that
they really don’t care) ((By the way, my siblings are 9 and 11, so they usually
looked at me with blank stares)) But, yeah, doing this really helps me to learn
things and keep them in my brain so that I actually learned them and they
didn’t just breeze right over my brain.
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