5-2 Historical Interpretations
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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:
Creation of Earth Day
Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of your current event.
Studying the positive effects of government involvement on climate change shed light on the history of The UN Climate Change conferences and how they started because people wanted to respond to carbon emissions on a global level, like Earth Day was a response to no legal regulations in the United States.
Explain how biased perspectives influence what is known about both your historical and current events.
Some programs may be propped up to sound more important or helpful than they really are. The UN COP26, for example, sounded like a great plan with people agreeing to make major changes for the future like relying less on coal for power or making a fund for poorer nations to make progress towards these global goals but falling short since there’s no true way to ensure nations follow through with the agreements. If the story is being told by the wealthier nations it could look like the poorer nations aren’t holding up their end of the deal and vice versa. In 1970,
Robert Rauschenberg created a graphic design about Earth Day (Rauschenberg, 1970). He used images of animals and of various violations of the Earth like smoke from factories polluting the air, signs posted to warn of contaminated water and trees that have been cut down. These images all surround a larger image of the emblem of America, the bald eagle. This design was created to draw attention to the ugly parts of the movement and what beauty and life would be at stake along with inaction. The bald eagle was chosen to manipulate the patriotism most white
Americans felt. Propose how the narrative about your historical event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
The narrative from the perspective of black students studying at University of Pennsylvania during this time would be less focused on the more national aspect and more focused on their own efforts fighting the racism they faced from the university
(University of Pennsylvania, n.d.). The same night of the first Earth Day April 22, 1970, the bookstore was vandalized, and fires were set across the campus in possible retaliation to them speaking out about the racism.
Propose how the narrative about your current event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
People from countries like Brazil or China may feel like they are not apart of the plans since their
leaders were unable to make the conference and speak for themselves. References
Robert Rauschenberg, (Artist), American, born 1925. (1970). Earth Day/ 22 April'. [Graphic Design]. Retrieved from https://library-artstor-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/asset/MOMA_1600001
University of Pennsylvania. (n.d.). Black activism
. Retrieved September 24, 2023, from https://web.sas.upenn.edu/earthdayproject/civil-rights/
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