HIS 100 Module Five Activity Template
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HIS 100 Module Five Activity Template: Historical Interpretations
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
[
Chernobyl
.]
Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of your current event.
[
Why researching my question, I found out that life was good prior to the explosion. They
built a city specifically to house plant workers and their families which is known as Pripyat. It was built in 1970 and 3 kilometers away from the plant. The city grew fast containing 50,000 residents and had all the luxuries as a modern city, like railroads, hospital, and a port. After the explosion everything was abrupt and went sour fast. While evacuating was happening, they had to live most of their belongs behind and leave their pets and cattle because their fur contained high doses of radiation. Later, Soviet officers were set to kill them. Unlike nearby villages that were burned down, and bulldozed Pripyat wasn’t affected by this
.]
Explain how biased perspectives influence what is known about both your historical and current events.
[The majority of the reports are coming from the government on both accounts. The biased perspective of governments in Chernobyl and Russia gives us information on what
they want us to know. Chernobyl masked the intensity of the explosion and Russia made a cyber-attack against Ukraine shutting down their internet. We know as much as they want us to know.]
Propose how the narrative about your historical event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
[
If the perspective were told from the civilians, then it would have changed the perspective toward sympathy and how they were blind-sighted. They evacuated the closet
city, Pripyat first not telling them why but saying they would be coming back and knowing that they won’t is really disheartening. In Kiev they still held parades to make everything seem like it was okay to the outside world but, the citizens were celebrating in
high levels of radiation. People were ending up in the hospital, had grotesque symptoms, and were losing their loved ones because of Chernobyl but didn’t know it until weeks later. Many of them suffered psychologically and financially due to Chernobyl as well but still didn’t get information about the danger. So if the narrative were told from the citizens it would make the government seem corrupt in their morality as well as sympathy
for the citizens
. ]
Propose how the narrative about your current event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
[If the current Russia and Ukraine war was told from the citizens it would be more chaotic. The narrative is and would still be towards Russia. And a little bit towards the rest of the world. Even though other countries have aid Ukraine supplies and help house
some of the Ukrainians I think some of them would still be frustrated on why the world cannot help. This is because a threat of a nuclear war was announced by Putin
.]
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