Step 1- Read all the comments from the previous assignment.
Step 2- Choose one comment law which is thoughtful.
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First, paraphrase the comment you are responding to: For example: “Mr.Mohammad Khan thinks that…”
Then, write a question about the comment. The question must be: clear, sincere, useful and be the sort of question which leads to more questions. The question you write must complicate the comment’s argument, make the reader of the comment you are questioning think deeper. Stir up some intellectual trouble.
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I thought George Ogorodnik’s comment law was thoughtful and interesting. He stated “that history repeats itself, because people never learn. Something that happened, could happen again”. That might be true but my question to you is, “what part of history can repeat itself and what can we learn from the past to make the future beneficial?”
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sohail Ali's statement 100 percent. He said" It’s relevant to our lives today because it is important not to make the same mistake twice". It is a thoughtful statement. Except what if learning about the issue doesn't help in fixing the problem? How do we use our knowledge to correct the error? Is it enough just to know the history? How should we analyze history?
ReplyDeleteMs. Kaufman's comment on the past interests me. She said something that I 100% agreed : "We should not ignore events from the past because they have shaped our country." That statement was strong and it is true. Though, I have a question for you. Even if it is true that some of us doesn't ignore the past, there is still people out there that doesn't care or knows anything about the past. What should we do to mark the past in their minds and spread it through out the world?
ReplyDeleteI agree very much with Jennifer's comment. Our mistakes in the past have shown us not to make the same mistakes again. Our past can help us build businesses and solve economic problems. But you forgot a few things. What about the American Revolution? The Yellow Fever? Those events have made us what we are today. Also the War Hawks and the War Doves. You made a lot of good points. You could have made more.
ReplyDeleteDianna Roman's comment law was very thoughtful and informative. Ms. Roman thinks that events from the nineteenth century are relevant today because some methods and inventions are still used today and the events affect us today. I agree with you on that, but how did the war hawks and war doves really help us today? Which inventions or methods are still relevant to our lives today from that era. I think you should go into further detail in your future web logs.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion Emily Kaufman’s comment was thoughtful and interesting. She stated “We should not ignore events from the past because they shape our country.” In my perspective it’s a very strong statement and I strongly agree with this statement. Even though this is a strong statement it has some flaws such as what if people had no formal education and didn’t bother to teach themselves. Then, they wouldn’t know anything about our past. So my question to you is how we can get the people that don’t care about the past to see how it shaped and changed our country?
ReplyDeleteMr. Ali’s states a thoughtful point. Mr. Ali says that our past is important to our lives today because it is important not to make the same mistake twice. I agree with him. It is important to know our history so we can learn from it. We will know certain decisions people made and how it affected America. If it affected America in a dreadful way then we will know not to make that decision again and not allow America to go in that direction. If the decision had a great influence on America then we know to take after the person’s ideas. The one question I have for you Mr. Ali is that you said that we need to know our history so we don’t make the same mistake again. The example you gave was how the British made laws that hurt everyone. My question is how is the person making the law suppose to make sure everyone is pleased with the law? How are they suppose to make sure it fits everyone’s budget? Needs? Feelings? etc. It is impossible to make sure everyone is content with the law. After all you know what they say “Life is UNFAIR”!!!
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Mr. Sohail Ali’s statement about the past. He said “It’s relevant to our lives today because it is important not to make the same mistake twice". This is very true because we learned from our mistakes. Learning from our mistakes make our lives easier because we would know what to do if something happens that already happened. Even though this is a true statement “What if we don’t have the knowledge to learn and fix our mistakes? If we can’t fix our mistakes is there going to be a big issue about it?
ReplyDeleteI think Ms. Mirheta Osmanovic’s comment was very interesting and thoughtful. Mirheta feels that the event from the 19th century are relevant to today. She said that if there weren’t steam powered engines we would have had to transport our goods by foot or cattle. She also said that by studying Hamilton’s economic plan, that can give us ideas and advice for today’s economy. I agree with the things she said, but I do have a question. My question is that you said that the events in the 19th century are changing the way we change things, how is it changing the way we change things? What do you mean by that?
ReplyDeleteI think that Ms. Kaufman’s statement “We should not ignore our past events because they shaped our country”. In my opinion this statement is a strong one because this is a 100% true fact of our country. If people in the past didn’t involve themselves to make our nation a free and independent one then what would it be like today? Would we have our freedom? Would we be under control by another nation? I just think that Ms. Kaufman hit the nail right on the head with this statement because it is exactly what we need to learn in our time period. All of the kids of our generation are just looking to the future and not to the past. They all want the newest things but they don’t even take the time to wonder how was electricity created? How did the light bulb come to mind? My question to you is in our generation how will the kids know to look at the past and learn about it?
ReplyDeleteMs. Mirheta Osmanovic’s comment was very thoughtful. It got me thinking and wondering. She said, “Many of the events that happened in the 19th century, are also changing the way we change things.” What exactly do you mean? How can you events change the way we change things? Perhaps by changing our perspective, or changing what we are going to do about current issues.
ReplyDeleteBrian Belilovsky said that it’s important to learn about the history from the 19th century because without history, we wouldn’t be here, that history is what made us who we are. My question to him is the following. What would have happened to humanity if there was no history? My guess is, we will still continue to be who we are, and continue to improvise. Why? Because we’re human! It’s not history what keeps us going. It’s science. Science and evolution. We were not put on this earth by history, we were put here by evolution. Even if for some reason, we would be back in the Caveman Era, we would still continue to improvise and evolve. It’s human nature, and nobody goes against it.
ReplyDeleteMs. Sarah Walsh’s comment was interesting and I completely agreed with it. She says that “It is our history, and we should embrace it, not forget about it.” Ms. Walsh also said that important events took place in history, such as the Declaration of Independence being written and America gaining its independence. She also mentions how steam power is still used for steam boats and in most nuclear power plants. These events are all important. I do have a question for Ms. Walsh, though. She states that events from the past are very important to how we view our world today. Our world today is much different than it was in the past, right? And although we shouldn’t forget the events that shaped our country, how can they affect how people see the world today?
ReplyDeleteI was interested by George Ogorodnik's reason for studying 1810, which said that it might help us be ready for the future because the same bad things that happened in the past may happen again. Although I agree on the most part, I must challenge the fact that sometimes, things happen only once in history.
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"When has history ever truly repeated itself? What historical events have reinstated themselves and which ones will ever truly happen again in the future?"
Ms. Dianna Roman’s comment to the question, “How are events from the nineteenth century relevant to our lives today?” was very well written and stated true facts. She states that things that were invented in the nineteenth century are still used today, and are still relevant to our lives. Ms. Roman also states that the yellow fever epidemic is relevant to today because back then in Philadelphia, there were about 50,000 people, and the fever wiped out about one tenth of them when it first hit. There was a vaccine made to help prevent yellow fever, and now it is only common in other places, but not America anymore. She also said that diaries from the nineteenth century can inform us about that person and his/her life. Well here are my questions for Ms. Roman: 1- What kinds of objects can we still use today, and why are they relevant? 2- You said that vaccines were made for the yellow fever, but why is that useful to us today? The yellow fever isn’t too common, and is only found in countries very far from here. 3- Why does it matter if we can read diaries from people in the nineteenth century? What if they weren’t important? Then why should we care? How is it relevant?
ReplyDeleteI thought that Kyla's comment was very interesting. Kyla informed us that the event of the nineteenth century is relevant to our lives today because all of the events of the 19th century is our history, its excellent knowledge and some of the events are significant to 2010. My question to Kyla is what about the bad events in the nineteenth century? What if they never occured? How are they relevant to our lives today?
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ReplyDeleteI thought jennifer ferd comment was ver y thoughtful. I agree with her completley when she said “We learn about the past problems of our nation so we can stop history from repeating its worst and change the world.” In order to change the future for the better we must look at the past mistake and that is exactly what jennifer stated in her comment. How ever I have one question. Mistakes from the past might have helped later on. what im trying to say is how can we know if it was a good mistake with an effect that might help us later on or a bad mistake that is not beneficial to us at all?
ReplyDeleteMr. Brian Belilovsky thinks that the events that happened in the 19th century are important to today. I agree with him on that. Without the history from the 19th century why would you say we would not “exist”? Wouldn’t have America filled in the history with more new information that would still change America and the world?
ReplyDeleteI think that Ms. Kaufman’s statement “We should not ignore our past events because they shaped our country”. In my opinion this statement is completly agreeable. If us people of the United States ignore the past, we will be looking on to the future more, and we will keep making the same mistakes that were made in the past. Without looking back at the past and wondering "How did our country get the rights to become a free-country?" or "What is freedom of speech?" we would keep making fouls that our oast leaders made in getting those rights. The past is our everything. It is our guide to the future, and with ignoring it, we are making a ruining our future. So Emily, my question to you is, how does the trecherous wars of our past, that we have not won, shape our country?
ReplyDeleteI thougth Ms. Ferd's comment was interesting and true. She wrote " We learn about the past problems of our nation so we can stop history from repeating its worst and change the world." She is correct. Studying diseases leads us to cures. Techniques can be used again or lead to new techniques that can benefit the world. By studying things that happened in the past we can solve problems in the future, and protect us.
ReplyDeleteThough I do understand the point the is trying to prove, I think that there was a flaw in what Mr. Brian was saying. Mr. Brian said that if we did not have history we would not exist and we wouldn’t be anything and that’s not necessarily true.
ReplyDeleteI have one very important question, “Why would we die if we had no history?” We are still people and its not history that keeps of alive, it never has. History allowed us to change and widen our surroundings but if we had no history we would still be in the Paleolithic era and that would be just find to because we would still be alive.
Ms. Kyla Formey thinks that the events that had happend in the 19th century are relevant to now. Though she stated why ,she didnt give any real examples. Truly how are events that happend in the 19th century relevant to now? Do you have any other examples to support those facts?I do agree with the haitian deligation example i didnt quite understand the point you were trying to put across.
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Mr. Rose said “Everything is history and it will effect the future in one way or another. They can teach lessons, show mistakes, and improve the way we live. People back then could have ideas that could have been useful, may be useful now, and could help us in the future.” I find his comment thoughtful. I have one question. Even though the past show mistakes and help us improve our way of life, wouldn’t people cause the same mistakes and cause trouble again whether we know the history or not.
ReplyDeletei read Brain's comments. he stated thatt if we did not have history we would not exist and we wouldn’t be anything. we would always have history. i.e
ReplyDeleteif a human picked up a mango and peeled it, that would be history. it would lead to greater exploration. the whole exploration would have started because of a person trying to peel a mango.
my question is " is history what makes us live"
Mr. Sohail Ali stated that “It’s relevant to our lives today because it is important not to make a mistake twice.” I agree with this and it is an interesting idea. A question I have is what if learning about the mistake does not help to fix the mistake? Why would we repeat a mistake that is significant enough to be in history?
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