Is Change Good or Bad?- Article #2

Change. Change is a little word that means something big. Change means “to transform or convert.” Is change good or bad? This is a question which answer varies among each person. For some it may depend on their age, a lot of times we like to think the older generation doesn’t like change because they have to learn to adapt to the change.  But in my opinion change is a good thing. Without change nothing would be the same as it is today. The advancement of our civilization and culture happened because of change. Sometimes you may not like change but you are forced upon it. For example if you have to move because of your job there is nothing you can do about it, it just has to be done. Moving locations of your house would be change. This to some could be a good change because they are improving in their job. Change could be something as small as changing your socks everyday to be clean or something as big as moving the location where you live completely. Without change many of the good things that have occurred in the past would not have happened. For example, the technology we use in our everyday lives has changed over time. Before people used to write on clay tablets and over time our technology has advanced and we now use things like computers to keep written records of things. Changes are mad every day, every hour, every minute, and even every second. The meaning of change can vary so much.

                Most of the time when you think of change you think of something being improved or advanced, something good. Change can be good in many ways. Some ways change is good is because it improves or makes things better. As civilizations advance so do many other things which cause change.  We are constantly changing things very simple in our daily lives. Such as changing our minds, changing our clothes, changing what we eat and etc. Adding change to your life can add excitement and adventurous. It is good and healthy for people to have change in their lives because if they didn’t not their lives would be boring. It would constantly stay the same and very predictable. Some good changes in life are good things such as a government issues. For example let’s say a law states that you have to be 15 to drive, throughout the years many accidents have occurred and most of them are involving kids close to the age of 15 or the new drivers. They government will look at that and change the law to an older age so that accidents will occur and to protect the citizens so they do not get hurt. If something in your life is changing and you do not like you, you just have to work a little harder to work with it and it will work out fine. Change causes a little more effort and takes time to get used to. It may seem scary at first but if you work at it, it will only get better. Another example of a good change is if someone is overweight and living an unhealthy life. They may realize this and want to change it. They will work and work to change what they do so they become healthy. This is a good change because they are improving themselves. Change is not always a good thing and can sometimes be bad.

                In some ways change can be bad to. Change can be bad because you have to learn to adapt to something new and learn how to cooperate with whatever the change may be. In some cases the change may be big so you have to make a big adaption, but in some cases the change may be small so you don’t have to make very much of an adaptation. Along with change comes learning. You have to learn to use the change and learn how to cope with it. Some people dislike this because they are so use to doing something that if it changes it causes big problems because now they do not know how to use it or what to do. It takes a while to adapt and learn how to deal with the change but eventually you do and sometimes you grow to like it. For example if I were to move to a different state. I would have to switch schools and make new friends. Most likely I will not like this change at first but after I learn to adapt and get settled I probably will. I will have to start over at a new school when I knew my old school perfectly well. This will include meeting new teachers and doing new work. Also I will have to met new people and make new friends which will be very hard at first. Once I adapt it will be like nothing every changed. After a while this will most likely change and it will keep going in a cycle and never end because things are constantly changing. Also change can be bad because say things have advanced and new technology has came out. For example when the computer first came out, everyone had to learn how to use it and what it does. Compared to what they used to use before computers it is probably a lot harder at first. You will start to learn the machine just as well as you knew whatever you used before and it will be easy. Some changes are very serious like environmental change. They can harm humans and animals especially if they do not ease into the change and learn to adapt. Change is bad because people do not like to adapt and learn to cope with the change.

                I think change is a good thing because it will help improve your life and sometimes make your life easier. Although change may take some time and effort if you put some in to in then it will work out good and be a good change. Changes can start out bad but in the end turn out good. Most changes improve something and make it better for you. Changes are constantly being made every day. Don’t let the idea of change scare you because change can be, and most the time is, a good thing. 

                

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/change

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change

What is History- Article #1

History is the study of past events or events that occur in the past. Past is a word very hard to define just like history. The past is anything that is not occurring right now. Everything will soon become the past. The past is very hard to define because right after it something occurs it becomes the past. It could be as long ago as 500 years or as short ago as .1 of a second. Studying history is helpful in many ways. It can lead us to figure out what will happen in the future, why things happen, and explains many of the things in the present. History can be defined in many different ways. Each person may have their own interpretation of what exactly history is. History is anything that happened in the past. To some history is just a record of what occurred in the past. There are four types of history that we can study are, linear, cyclical, Hegelian, and vortex. Linear history is when the events are laid out like a timeline. Cyclical history is when the events occur in a cycle and there is no beginning so you cannot tell what started them.  Hegelian history is made up of a thesis and an antithesis to make up a synthesis. Last the vortex history is a history where the events are always changing and they go from big too small to big.

                 In my opinion the best type of history is linear history because all of the events are put in order by which they occur. It is like a time line and the events are put in chronological order. This is helpful because for the other types of history it is debatable what came first but with this you know. This can be helpful because if a historian is looking a timeline which is part of linear history the can tell what events occurred after each other. They can use this to tell them what has occurred before a major event. For example if there is a war and before the war you know that the invention of steel has occurred for that region you can tell that during the war they had steel to help them fight. It can help you figure out what tactics they had during war. When you first start learning history the type of history you learn is linear because it is easiest to follow and understand. When you get more advanced with the study of history you learn the other types. Linear history is most common and used. In linear history there is a beginning and an end unlike cyclical history where you don’t know where it started.  Events are constantly being created added to history so the ending is constantly changing but there is an end.

                Cyclical history is a way of history when all the events occur in a cycle. There is no beginning or end because they keep cycling back to each other or to new events. You cannot tell what the beginning to the events is because there is no beginning. Think about what came first the chicken or the egg. This in a sense is like cyclical history because one had to have came first but it keeps cycle the chicken had the egg and the egg hatched a chicken and the chick had an egg and so on. It could also start with the egg. The egg hatched a chicken and the chicken had an egg which hatched another chicken. This would keep continuing just like the events in cyclical history. The problem is you don’t know which event caused the other to occur. You don’t know which one came first so you have no cause.

                Vortexual history is a type of history in which the events occur like a tornado. The events work from going really big then to really small, then to big, then to small and so on. The events are never the same, they are always changing. Yeats was the man who invented or started the vortex history. He was an irish poet. It is the ups and downs of everyday life. It gets really high and then falls and then it will get high again and then fall. These keeps occur over and over. The events are constantly being rebuilt over and over. A way to look at this is like a line graph for stocks. The stocks will go up and then fall. They will work back up and then fall. Sometimes this fall is dramatic and causes a steep slope and sometimes it is not that bad but it is still a fall. This is a way to look at the Hegelian theory of history.

                The last type of history is Hegelian. Hegelian theory of history was invented by George Hegel. He was a German philosopher. The Hegelian theory of history consists of thesis, antithesis to compose of a synthesis.  He also wrote a book called the Philosophy of History. In the Hegelian theory of history events occur because of each other. Each event causes one another. It works like cause and effect. You always know what caused what or why something occurred. This is easy because if a piece is missing you can make a good guess of what that piece is because it will all go together and make sense.

                I believe the best type of history is the linear history in linear history a timeline is often used to show what events occurred in when. They will be placed in chronological order. History is the study of past events and one way to study this is through linear which will show what happened first and what happened last. In linear history there is a beginning and an end. Although the end is constantly changing when each event is added. There are many ways to study history and but studying history we learn many things about our past, present and future.

               

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Venus of Willendorf

Venus of Willendorf is an ancient statue of a naked woman. The statue is 4.5 inches tall and made from limestone. This statue was carved about 25,000 years ago. It was found in Austria. The woman looks to be obese or overweight. It was unlikely for woman to be overweight in this time period because of the scarcity of food. Archeologist think that a model was used to make is statue. After this was discovered more and more statues where discovered and being made using this as an example. Regions are becoming more and more developed because they now have good agriculture, technology, and now are advancing in art.

Sources: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/prehistoric/venus-of-willendorf.htm
http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/human/venus/
Image from: Wikimedia Commons

The Significance of Megaliths

Megaliths were designed and people do not exactly know what for or why but they think for ceremonies and changing of seasons. A megalith is a big stone in ancient construction work. Things started as megaliths but over time started to become more advanced. This helped advance construction and this advancement helped develop regions. Instead of megaliths metalworking has been invented and a new advanced construction. This keeps occurring and things get more and more advanced.

source: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=03®ion=euw#/Key-Events
definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/megalith

Significance of the Rise of Agriculture

The significance of the rise of agriculture is great. Agriculture helped develop many regions. Agricultures started to settle in western and central Europe. As the agriculture grew and started spreading to other places it got more advanced. The development of technology occurred also. The farmers started by inventing the plow and this lead to other great technological inventions. The Agriculture became more and more advanced as well as technology. This led to the advancement of civilization and society.

Source: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=07®ion=euwb

The Hegelian Theory of History

I.
Event 1. John, the strongest kid in class does not tie his shoes + Event 2. John picks on group of kids, bullying them.
Event 3= John chases the kids, but slips out of his shoes.

II.
Event 1. John sprains his ankle + Event 2. John gets jumped on the way home from school.
Event 3= John is really hurt

III.
Event 1. John goes to the hospital + Event 2. John is now on crutches
Event 3= John now goes to a bullying class and ties his shoes in a double knot.