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.