Wednesday, October 3, 2012

US History

     History is a record of information pertaining to the past.  It is what a country, nations, worlds or persons past is made of.  For instance in the book "A Young People's History" it tells of US history, it is tells us what happened before our time.  In the book we can see that the action of a single country nearly wiped out an entire people.  Idology is a persons or people's beliefs and ideas it is what they beleave to be true.  I beleaves that no written or spoken can be neatral.
     History will always have a bias because it is written by a human, and humans always have an opinions.  My experience with learning American idiology has been very optimized to make the US look like a great and powerful ruler, while in actuality the US is nowhere close to what had been told.  Although my experience differs on the point of serveral ideas pertaining to war.  I was never told that the only way to peace is through war although I did on occatoin here people mention things along those lines.  I was always told that in order to achieve peace you must accept the world and not change the people but rather the  conditions the people were in.
     A few positive thing I found in my reading was that not everyone has been brainwashed to think that America was some all great and flawless ruler.  Although I still managed to find that in several instances the articles would bend the truth a bit to far from reality and just write what was in a company or persons best interests.  Such as in the article "How America Lost Out on IPhone Work," the article it states that America was not flexible nor skilled enough for mass production, but in reality the skill required for these jobs is non-existent.  The only skill needed is to have good enough motor controll skills to place a piece on another piece.
     Many biases I found where confirmed in this writing, such that they had no challenge just that they backed by more evidence.  There were no biases challenged that I already thought of.  I beleave I bring a unique biase to unbiased writing and thinking to our discussions and writing in class.

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