How To Study History & Why I Love It

How to Study History & Why I Love It

How to Study History (my way):

First, understand the cold facts - such as dates and context - what’s going on and why?

Imagine history as a roadmap you are creating in your mind as you study events and movements.

Try to imagine historical events as a drama. That way it’s easier to digest as a subject

Understanding context and why is the foundation of writing an argument, creating a comparison, seeing what changed and what didn’t, and allowing you to connect and feel history more deeply.

Truly be invested in how historical events have helped shape the world and the innovations around us.

Why I Love History as a Subject:

History allowed me to become more eloquent in speech and writing by allowing me to take rigorous humanities based classes.

If the teacher is interesting, it becomes a great class discussion with emphasis and thought-provoking ideas and arguments.

It has helped me see both the beauty of the human mind and the horrors of humanity.

It gives me hope that though change is slow (and sometimes unlikely), a better world and future is possible if we work together.

It has given me confidence as a student to achieve great things while thinking of each and every consequence an action may have.

Evermore - The “Red Wine” Album

"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" (Taylor Swift, "tolerate it")

Evermore has always been the slight lean on needle for me when it comes to the sister albums, Folklore and Evermore. Not to say that Folklore is any less or is missing any component that’s not on Evermore; it’s how those components are implemented that makes the thin distinction for me.

There is comfort and closeness in Evermore, where you can sip on some coffee while reading the morning newsletter. Or you can be sitting near a desk, working while the lyrics float around your room and the dark shades swirl around your eyes. Perhaps as droplets fall onto the page as you take in the day that has passed. Shelving away the chronicles of films you lived to act day to day

It’s knowing what betrayal feels like after a long day of trying to make amends, learning how to move on without their side of the story, knowing when you’re the one who made the curtains fall inadvertently, standing up for yourself and others, remembering those from a faded recollection, learning how to grieve the person you cherish so much but feel unfulfilled with, and learning to try and open up again to others. It’s an album of self-reflection, an album that you can sit with and watch the world with autumn lighting on it.

Evermore is the cinnamon—the bitter mahogany carpenter life—streams into the ears nicely and hits the heart with a fluorescent wave of every emotion on the spectrum. And I, for one, love cinnamon. I also like to think Evermore is dark chocolate while Folklore is white/milk chocolate, and while I do love white/milk chocolate, dark chocolate takes my heart every time. The sweetness, sourness, and bitterness of Evermore make it so much more engaging for me. I love it, especially as an Evermore girlie.

All’s fair in love and poetry… New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

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📷: Beth Garrabrant

Characters that remind me of power and the color purple:

I hope it's not too saturated •o•

Does anyone have any free online resources for at least starting to teach yourself to code? I obviously have no illusions that I will become a badass tech bro from the get-go, but I wanna check if I am still as un-predisposed to it as I remember from my youth. In case there's an off-chance I am not too humanities-brained for that, after all. I love my current field, I love being an English major, but every day, I feel less and less respected or needed, especially when it comes to decent job offers, so I am growing desperate.

human connection & understanding >>>>>>