The word “history” is a term defined as the study of past events, associated with someone or something. With it comes an overwhelming amount of documents, records, and physical artifacts collected and housed for society to dig through, in order to properly evaluate and learn from the past. Many times when written history is presented, it has been edited and re-edited by a secondary source writer, rather than composed by actual witnesses, which proposes a problem; that of the interjectory of the writers
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B Smith March 30, 2013 Oral History S/St 102 The Clash Between Sacred and Secular in Southern Music To be sacred is said to be deserving of reverence and respect. There are many manifestations of the “sacred” across the planet and even beyond. Such as a boy may value his grandfather’s old watch as sacred, another might view a cross as sacred, while others view even the sun, moon, and the stars as sacred. The South is no stranger to the sacred, but actually overflowing with sacred objects
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Although most history books, regard the beginning of Canadian history from the arrival of European Settlers on “Turtle Island”, or Canada, this is incorrect in the eye of the Anishnaabe; a large First Nations group that resided in Canada long before Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed the island. The historical experience of the Anishinaabe/ Ojibwe tribe and its cultural influence, best represented in a timeline perspective that emphasizes the significant events that had a
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texts, I now realize that oral history is instrumental to written history. Having to interpret the conversation from ASL to English forced me to pay careful attention to facial expressions, body language, and grammatical cues in the face in order to collect and interpret the most accurate, authentic responses. All these nuances, which are exaggerated in the language of my particular interview, cannot be found in history textbooks. Moreover, DPN cannot be found in history textbooks, perhaps because
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as well as the overall education during the latest 1970’s. This analysis is based off of an interview and has comparisons to today’s schooling system based off of historical events. Keywords: Education Education in the late 1970’s For my oral history interview I chose to interview my soon to be father in-law about his experience in the late 70’s. The reason I decided to interview him was because he had attended Dominican University back when it was Rosary College and I figured it would be great
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On October 24th 2014, I conducted an interview with Curtis Rudolph on segregation and integration that occurred during his life growing up. I selected Curtis Randolph because he is the father of a close friend. He is also a person I have grown to admire and respect. After Curtis and I found a quiet and comfortable atmosphere we decided to sit down and conduct the interview. I started off the interview with some brief biographical questions such as, “Would you please share some background information
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didn’t need because they had more than enough. Courage under fire means having courage, no matter what. That is what Small and his squad had in the book The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin and in the audio recording, “The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History.” These sources describe the events that happen before and after the explosion at Port Chicago. The book is a more effective source for showing the fight for African American’s rights that seemed that they couldn’t win. In the long run they were
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For as long as could be remembered, oral traditions existed in African societies. For Africans, oral tradition was a means for passing down history, folklore and stories from generation to generation. Everyone’s story is different; passing along oral traditions works to convey one’s culture. Oral tradition can even go so far as to teach the traditional values of life and give religious insight. Dr. Vincent Muli Wa Kituku explains that “voice unified a family, clan, or community”. In tradition, griots
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mid nineteenth century, the German thinker Hegel, in his original Lectures on the Philosophy of History, pronounced that Africa is no verifiable part of the world; it has no development or improvement to show. Over 100 years after the fact, in 1965, then the Oxford University educator Hugh Trevor-Roper reverberated Hegel's notion. He pronounced that maybe, later on, there will be some African history to instruct. However, at present there is none, or next to know: there is just the historical backdrop
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African Oral Tradition Oral tradition is considered a valuable method among the African societies in which they conveyed their culture, history, stories, folktales and religion beliefs from generation to another; in attempt to constantly fight eradication. It serves as a linkage between the past and the present, and it is the storyteller role to transmit images and ideas from the past in order to form a conception of the present upon the receiver. Djanet Sears play “The Adventures of a Black
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