"The importance of historians". Hmmm... (1 Viewer)

callisto

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Well this question was OK, could have been better. I just babbled on about how different historians will interpret the case study in different ways as a result of context, values, experiences. Also their different methodologies, aims and purposes ment that we would be shown different aspects of the case study, and that the historians are important because they interpret the past, yet their views are 'inherently subjective', therefore to study the past, study the historian blah blah...

What did everyone else do?? What did you all think of the question?
 

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Yer I said the historian is of integral importance because their social and ideological contexts influence their collection and analysis of evidence. And thus we need to understand this is we want to make an accurate judgment regarding the veracity of each interpretation.

Not sure if that's correct but meh..
 

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God your gay, you are finished and you are still commenting on the exam. Go and get drunk or something
 

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i HATED the question...i didn't really study much on that kind of stuff. I mainly just rambled about how the background of the historian effected what they wrote and how they interpreated Elizabeth's actions. It was really general, i have a bad feeling i misquoted more then once, but its over now.
 

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God your gay, you are finished and you are still commenting on the exam. Go and get drunk or something
jealous... :D

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this question was stupid didnt like it lol...first question soooo much better n easier!!!...im finished hsc too mm doesnt feel like it hehe i still feel i should be at skool vvery odd hmf o well i jus wana get a tan now lol
 

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i did JFK and focussed on the contrasting opinions of othodox and revisionist historians..basically just wrote that the historian is influenced by context/ their intended audience... used examples and blah..
 

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wow Gordo is happy :)

But, hey, aren't we all?? Well Done class of 2004!!! :D
 

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As I studied Jesus, it was easy for me to say that historians were important because of a lack of historical evidence/data, thus we rely on historians' interpretations of what little there is.
 

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i thought it was pretty good, just talked about how you need to look at the historians in contrast to their interpretations and what influences etc they had on them.
I had a good quote from E.H. Carr to use, "facts without the historian are dead and meaningless"
 

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yeah i used another E H carr quote for it in ref. to the statement about researching the historian or whatever

it was "before we study history we must study the historian. Before we study the historian we must study his environment"

pretty apt so yeah :)
overall wasnt too bad - ive had a general feeling coming out of all my exams that they were fair exams so i coulda done better
 

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I did the History wars, where our Historians are of pivotal importance because in Australia History is politics, and politicians need history to justify the course they tread through the minefield of Aboriginal policy.
 

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did Appeasement, was stumpd 4 like 10 mins, but eventually remebered sumthin bought contexts, so it ended up bein pretty easy, talkd bout context, methodologies, eviidence used. Also was good, coz AJP is a radical historian trying to change the accepted view
 

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