Hello.

This will be my reaction podcast to lectures 3.1 and 3.2.

The first thing I personally want to talk about is the word robots first being mentioned or used in 1920s for a film.

For me, if you put it and think about it, in almost a hundred years later, we have robots roaming the streets now.

I don't know if you, the listener have heard or the professor, but there are now like little robots that run around that have people control them, that play like little voice memes or something like that.

Just goes around and just tries to make light or not light or just having fun with the robot.

Nothing really that serious.

And if you think about it or squint at it a little bit, we kind of have robots that deliver our food.

I've seen the little robot boxes that deliver like Uber eats or like fast food to people once they order it.

I'm pretty sure these are in some areas, but I have seen that now, if you think about almost 100 years later, robots are real and are walking among us in some way, shape or form.

Another thing that the professor brings up is how women's role in society changed during or after, during and kind of after World War I as women had to take care or replacement and the jobs that they were working and everything that the men was doing, women had to take over.

So there was kind of a societal shift in how women role in society was.

And to me, almost 100 years later, again, we almost had our first female black president, which is kind of crazy.

And to think that it was up to two white men and a black female, that to me is just crazy to now see that 100 years ago women were barely getting the rights to even do what men do.

But now, obviously women have grown into a bigger part of society and now can do big things such as almost being president or even being part of Congress and you know, being part of the bigger parts of society.

Also the concept, or not the concept really, I guess, but the idea back in back then of angenics of the superior race or trying to conform to a superior race when technology was advancing was kind of crazy to care.

For me, this is not my first time hearing about it, but I personally thought it was something that was recently kind of an ideology, if you will, if I'm using that term correctly.

But yeah, it was just crazy to me to think that 100 years ago people were thinking about how there is an ideal race.

And I've heard this before and like stuff like ballet, where ballets are slim, people preferably like white and, you know, that's just a little crazy to think that a hundred years ago, or even how it kind of released today with people now not really breeding per se or using technology to be a better race, but people just naturally thinking or having the idea that there is a superior race still existing almost 100 years later.

Maybe not to the extent of using technology to breed the ideal human, but definitely that the concept of it still being here almost 100 years later is insane.

Another thing I want to talk about is the League of Nations and how it was meant to bring peace, but excluded major people or places such as the U.S. germany, Russia and the colonies.

To me, this kind of seems like, you know, like, why even bother type of thing.

Like, if you're trying to create world peace but don't include everybody in the world, then what is the points of whatever you're trying to make?

You know, I'm saying.

And so the League of Nations, to me, was kind of like a waste of time.

And, like, I know it eventually did lead to something, but at this time, I'm surprised no one saw that this would lead to a bigger thing of, you know, not including Germany or Russia and then the US Refusing or the Germany, Russia and the colonies, and then the US Refusing to join.

Not send sound any alarms for people.

Be like, okay, maybe let's re approach this and see, like, how we can include everybody.

But, yeah.

And then for Hera, we joined her back after when she's, I think, around 20 years old.

And this kind of, to me, how the professor was explaining how she was living life.

It's kind of like how I think the virus for most people was like, oh, it's the coronavirus.

I mean, or COVID 19.

Most people thought it would never get that far or, you know, impact what it did.

And so there were some people in certain areas, including me, who saw it on the news or, like, saw it, like, starting to get bigger, but, like, there's no way it's gonna come to me per se.

And that's kind of how I believe head out.

Well, I mean, she had no reason to, you know, fear anything.

So in the 1920s, she was living her best life, having just gotten married, having three kids, and being in Berlin where there was a cultural explosion where artists, filmmakers and so on and so forth like, started to explode with the new technology advancements as soon as they got their hands on it after World War I.

And so seeing that head out was a party animal, per se.

And kind of, how do I say, like, didn't really have no worries to think about.

But there was stuff going on in the background, especially with Germans and them being Jews.

You kind of see, like, how, oh, you don't really realize the bigger picture.

And so, you know, it's too late.

Kind of referring back to me in COVID 19, where I didn't think it would really get to where I am.

And of course, you know, it was a global pandemic, and everywhere was shut down.

And going back to the Germans and Jews and how that kind of like, this is like the.

Not the first instance, because I think at this point, it was still calm, if I'm understanding it correctly.

But the fact that Hera had her husband serve in Germany in World War I, and then, you know, just a couple years later, after their little celebration, they would have the Nazis begin to take over and, you know, start controlling or even getting rid of the cultural explosion, from my understanding, to, you know, kind of downplay what these people did for their people.

And so I think that they were kind of being used, not necessarily to, I think, most people's knowledge, even the people who went against them eventually, but that they were being used and not really realizing it, seeing how, you know, eventually they were put into camps and either killed or, you know, enslaved.

But it was just kind of crazy to think about that, how they're basically portrayed by their own people who they thought they can trust, especially the ones who served and thought like they would get some.

Some kind of reward for their actions, but that would go, you know, unnoticed into.

Or that would just go unnoticed.

And then, you know, eventually we get to where we're heading with the Nazi takeover.

Transcript: 

Hello.

This will be my reaction podcast to lectures 2.1 and 2.2.

And so for my initial reactions to at least four lecture, the first lecture was that there was a lot of things I never, I guess, really knew or I guess maybe forgotten, because I've also just never been a huge fan of history, the subject itself.

So obviously in class, like, I never really retained what I kind of learned in those classes or really kind of wanted to remember them because, honestly, I found it boring.

And so learning how In World War I, Mexico had a bigger impact on the.

The star and, like, who got involved was very surprising to me because I didn't know it was that big of an influence or they had that much big of an influence.

Also, you know how During World War I, many empires fell, including the Austro Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the German Empire.

Also, Mexico was just getting its independence from Spain.

And there was also, like, a very power shift where there was uncertainty of who was leading as many.

For many years, there was president going in and out every year and sometimes multiple per year.

And so when they finally had gone, Proforio Diaz, he was president for 30 years and kept his power for all those 30 years.

And I can kind of relate that to now and now in times, because I don't know if this is true or not, but something that I've heard is that Trump is trying to create a third term for himself in which he would be able to continue ruling and pushing his ideologies for another term.

I don't know how true this is, but this is something I've heard.

Not something I would want personally, but, you know, not up to me.

But eventually, Diaz had gone out of office due to figures like Pancho Villa and Miliano Zapata protesting against him to leave office as they no longer agreed with, like, how he viewed his plans.

And so eventually they got him out of office and yeah, they successfully got him out of office and created this space where people were able.

Or created laws.

Sorry, where people were.

Or peasants were able to get pieces of land and how.

Or past presidents weren't able to be reelected, which I think is honestly really good.

It's always good to be changing up what is going on.

And sometimes, you know, some people get power hungry, as you can kind of see in today's president.

But, yeah, so I kind of, you know, agree with, like, these laws they put in place and how it's giving more power to the people and.

And, you know, also giving back to the people of what, you know, was taken from them and also giving them just more in general.

Also like, you know, During World War I there was, I guess a drama, you can say it nowadays, where there was a telegram that somehow got into the US's hands where Germany was trying to get Mexico on their side.

This to me seems like he said she said situation because you know, obviously there was speculation of the British trading this telegram, but obviously it was never figured out.

And obviously you kind of see that with nowadays where if you ever look on something like Twitter, you never really know who is running what account, who's saying what.

It's very easy to create fake accounts and get verified, especially now where you can now just pay to get verified, so you never know who's actually saying what.

And so yeah, it's kind of just like a whole mess of like not really believing what you see online.

But also it's kind of your only source if you don't believe it because then you're just listening to random people who think they know what they're talking about anyways.

Other things that kind of influence, like today, today's world is kind of Henry Floyd and his invention of the automobile.

Nowadays there's so many different car brands and even public transportation, which I guess can take inspiration from his first ever automobile.

Obviously he created an affordable one.

Nowadays it will take years to actually afford a new car or if you want a new car, obviously you can buy an older one.

But still, even those are pretty expensive, or at least for me and my family, pretty expensive.

And so you kind of see like how he was kind of the roots of the.

This whole bigger thing that didn't evolve until much later in life where cars kind of are now our.

More basically our Vegas transportation devices to get around wherever we want.

Unless of course you're going out of state or something or really far and then you take a plane.

But yeah, Henry or Floyd was the kind of the roots of that.

Also some things that like get overshadowed like by bigger events, such things like the Spanish flu, which lasted two years and, and killed multiple many people, 50,000 to 100 million to be exact.

And just within that two time span.

But because it happened after World War I or like right after World War I, it was kind of overlooked in history because it's kind of like this big astronomical event happened and now it's this kind of little flu.

Well, not a little, but I don't really know.

I guess it just kind of got overlooked and not really talked about as much compared to, you know, World War I, which I can Kind of see now in like today's world also, where something big could happen in the world, but then these communities makes happen in their little world and it's more important to them and so on and so forth, where it's kind of like, okay, what is the big importance of, like, what is important?

Because I feel like different views see, like, oh, this is more important.

This is more important.

So I kind of feel like nowadays, like, it's more perspective based on, like, what is more important to what people.

And then for Hera, the professor's grandmother, she was kind of born or going into her teenage years right as World War I had started.

And mainly her source of information was this writer called Carl May, where he kind of was like a writer in Germany and was their main source of information, which for me, I guess nowadays would be TikTok.

I know that's kind of bad to say, but I don't watch the news or keep up with the news, so I kind of have to rely on my TikTok feed, I guess, to feed me what is going on in the world because I don't naturally ever search that kind of stuff up.

So my Carl May would kind of be TikTok.

And also an example of like, what Hera went through with her family when she had to leave to the Netherlands with her family because there was a food shortage in Germany during a cold winter for me was during the pandemic when my sister had to give away her child to another family member because she had gotten Covid and she had just had the baby two years ago and didn't want to expose him to any of that.

So for almost a whole month he was with another family member.

And that caused, you know, very much distress in the child and the mother or my sister because obviously away from your baby and you don't know if you're gonna make it or not because she was sick for a while.

And then you have the baby who's just wanting to see her mother.

And so kind of like how Hera went through where she was sent away to the Netherlands.

Her parents had to make a hard choice between two very bad options of keeping her there, hoping she doesn't starve or stand in her way, and traveling as a very young person and hoping that, you know, nothing happens to her.

And, you know, especially for my sister's sake, or in sister's case, it was beneficial for her because obviously now they are both thriving in their own worlds.

And my nephew had just turned seven two months ago.

So I think she chose the right choice to, you know, not expose him.

Not saying, you know, if she did expose him, anything would happen.

But, you know, stuff to me, I think happens for a reason.

And so I feel like she made the right decision by just having him stay with another family member.

But, yeah, that's my reactions for the lectures, 2.1 and 2.2.

Hello.

This will be my reaction podcast to lectures 1.1 and 1.2.

My first initial thoughts on history as a subject itself is that I've never honestly found it intriguing or interesting to want to learn more about the thought of just having to memorize dates, times, people in them and like the sequencing of all that happening has really turned me away from the subject.

But with the professor's approach, as I've heard in lectures, 1.1 is how she describes as less or for this course will be less about memorization and more about maybe sequencing and how perspective and understanding of history changes with time and how history is more about stories rather than a list of facts.

History or how she explains it is always changing with different perspective as time goes on.

As you can give historians or two historians the same piece of information and they can come out with two different separate outcomes.

I do like this approach because obviously perspective is a huge part of life in general.

As a psychology major, we use I forgot the term for but black and white imagery with like some person may see a face or maybe something along that lines and then another person will see just maybe a black mob of mosh.

You know, I'm saying.

And so perspective is a huge thing in life and taking that into account of how history is always usually only told through to my eyes like we're only seeing it through like the wars and the higher up people what goes on there.

But we're never shown the maybe the lower and middle class day to day life, people going to work and how it affects them.

So I do appreciate how she also includes like her grandma in one 1.2 lecture where it kind of makes it more personal and more like real per se that history is not just something that happens to higher ups.

Obviously there's articles out there, but as learned through school, like we are not taught that.

She also states how a single life can reveal larger historical historical trends, which I do believe because obviously if you're just telling history through the textbooks, you're only going to get like the major events and maybe time jumps.

When you look at a person's life or a person retells their life, you can see how it affected them in their daily life.

Giving you a broader perspective of how historical events impacted people on a more personal level than just you know, hearing about, oh, the economy fell during this time and everyone was taxed like a huge amount.

You're not, you're not really seeing how that affected the day to day person without that perspective.

When she brings up her grandmother in 1.2 also find this, like, very interesting.

As I said before, it gives like a perspective.

It gives it more.

Makes history seem more personal.

One thing I've always learned through his or a saying that I've always heard in history or about history is that history always repeats itself.

And through the professor's or Hera's, his or the way she grew up, I can see how stuff like this can repeat.

As Hedda was born when women could not vote, but during.

But during her lifetime, women gained political rights at the same time as she gained rights, though, or as she, quote, unquote, gained rights.

People in other countries, however, never.

Or got it at a later time or maybe sooner than her.

And how only white women were allowed to vote at a certain time and then at later dates, all people were given the right to vote.

And as I've seen, obviously I only see.

I don't really keep up with the news personally, but I'll see maybe a TikTok or Instagram reel or maybe just some, like, newsletter about what is going on in the world.

And I have seen how history or how it could be repeated itself.

Right now, as I've seen a country forgot the name, but how women have basically lost all their rights and they are only allowed to go out.

They're not allowed to speak, they're only allowed to go out with their husband or the man of the house or a man.

And they're not allowed to talk.

They can't talk to other women.

They can't do anything.

They're basically just like a walking doll next to the man.

So obviously you can see, like, how her or her grandmother experience, or got to experience the right to vote.

But now all of a sudden, you know, before she was born, it wasn't able.

Now it's happening again where women, some parts of the country are not being allowed to vote.

Obviously, maybe I could have been false about that, but I'm pretty sure I heard that somewhere.

So if I'm wrong on that, you know, just let it happen.

Or, you know, correct me also, how time has changed, especially with technology.

As she states, Olympic Games used to last, I think she said a couple months, four, I think.

And how now it's compacted into two weeks and how it was never streamed through stuff like radio or television, because there was none.

There was no Internet.

And so you would.

They would get it through newsletters or newspapers and they would be very delayed, obviously, because they would need time to get out and spread around.

So the news was very, like, lagged per se.

And you can just see how already like how time has changed since that time period and how especially with her head as perspective you can see how even during that time period it was changing for her.

Sorry.

And how it's not necessarily repeating fully but some events are occurring again or being undone because of just how time has changed and how it's all now especially with the advancements in technology and the Internet it is all being broadcasted and so it's now more accessible for people to see this and honestly I think it's hard to say but I think that at least the technology technological advancements have been a to me as a Gen Z has been like very impactful in many ways but also very harmful.

So my first reaction to these two lectures is that they're okay in bringing me into the subject per se and that I'm very interested to see how all of these events tie together or lead up to some kind of broader approach that the professor is trying to make.