Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

the name of our age

Here's a teaser:

History is littered with names for different ages - the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, etc.

In the future - maybe 100 years from now - what name will historians give to our age? Why?

ALL HAIL QUEEN RASTOGI!!!

What an eventful entry into March, the month of Ghana's independence!!!

So why would a class of 86 (I hope I'm right) people believe that "Ghaddafi" had decided to call on HGIC for a few hours?

What lessons relating to our study of TOK can we learn from the hoax pulled on the entire class and even to some extent the entire school?

Did people give the type of accounts they gave of the event due to their loyalties to certain people, or were certain reactions due to people's reluctance to give up positions they considered dear?

How does being in the know affect a person's reaction to an event?

More importantly, what are the truths that we learn from such a situation? How do such events bring underlying issues which society tries desperately to hide to the fore?

What kind of historian is the most reliable for obtaining knowledge?