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Post by toomuchchanmin on Nov 1, 2015 11:32:01 GMT
The question is simple: What are your favorite moments in history? It can be a wonderful or a terrible thing, but what is the most interesting?
I have 2 answers to that. World War II and Post-Korean War South Korea. The reason I like WW2 is because it's the most recent major warfare that ever happened in human history. Also it's very dramatic like a story, because there are some moments in the war that sounds more like fantasy than reality. Hitler's rise and fall is very interesting because history shows that his recklessness and arrogance was his downfall in the end, as if history is trying to teach us a lesson. The reason I also like modern South Korean history is because it effects Korean society a lot today. Even the president currently is the daughter of military dictator from the 1970s. Why would anyone vote for her? But more than 50% of Koreans did, and the reason for that is still interesting.
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Post by Jonathan on Nov 1, 2015 14:23:46 GMT
My favorite moments in history is during World War II. I believe it's because the war was so such a devastating war. Due to the fact, it was so devastating there are so many interesting stories. For example, Germany's invincible ship, Bismarck, was sunk without that much of a problem. It was so famous for wrecking the Royal Navy but with the correct way to fight it, the Royal Navy was able to sink it really quickly. This changed the war in the sea because Germany lost one of their most important ship.
To add what you said about the current Korean president. Its because it was either her or more dumb people that will 100% ruin the country more. It was like picking Donald Trump or George Bush. I'm sure there isn't any future in this country because of the presidents.
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Post by jonah21 on Nov 7, 2015 11:38:25 GMT
For me, the most interesting moment would be the Holocaust. While it was a terrible time in history, it impacted all of us who learned about it. I would say it helped us with our morals and to learn about discrimination / racism. I feel that our morals would definitely be different from today's if we didn't learn about many events such as the Holocaust. It's weird to thank them for doing what they did, but I'd thank them for helping to shape my own morals.
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Post by graceyichen on Nov 8, 2015 4:27:07 GMT
For me, the most interesting moment in history would be when The Republic of China was forced to retreat to Taiwan, and the whole world began calling the People's Republic of China, the only China. In my perspective, I am Chinese, most people have just forgotten, or come to deny the fact that we, the Republic of China, the government currently in Taiwan, are the Chinese. Therefore creating this ironic situation where it would actually sound wrong for me to say that I am Chinese, because people think, wait wouldn't you be pro Taiwan being an independent country? We ARE the Chinese! I want to stay away from stating "which country is the real China", but I really do believe the world has been misinformed of our history, or simply traded the truth with power and the benefits of being on good terms with a big country (Mainland China). The whole thing is buried, everyone knows what happened, but we just let it be. It's sad.
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Post by riyadh on Nov 8, 2015 4:29:12 GMT
the most interesting moment for me will be my religion history Islam history ... the way we rise... the way that we Vs who is not with us .. the way that we bring the justice ... the way that we give peace and we support it... the way that Mohamad act it with good behavior for who was wrong or right ... everything make feel interesting and made me to read more from our Quran and learn about our religion..
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Post by christopher on Nov 8, 2015 10:26:32 GMT
There is a lot of interesting historic events. But I think the Korean war is one of the interesting events. Even though it was a war between the north and the south, over 16 countries sent troops to aid and 41 countries sent equipment to the war. It is the first war that the UN played a role in. I think it is also the first war during the cold war between USA and the Soviets. The war brought a setback to Korea as well as the whole thing about communist and capitalist countries. source: edition.cnn.com/2013/06/28/world/asia/korean-war-fast-facts/ |
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Post by Jessica (Yeeun) Kim on Nov 8, 2015 11:37:28 GMT
I believe the most interesting moment in history is the Rolling Twenties during the 1920s in the United States. United States experienced exciting issues such as prohibition, jazz, and the Ku Klux Klan. However, during this period, America is frequently overlooked for its powerful economy. In fact, through industrialization and the motor car industries, America became the wealthiest country in the world. These industries encouraged the average American consumer to spend more money, and they created employment opportunities in various fields throughout America.
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Post by erickim on Nov 8, 2015 12:21:55 GMT
I don't have a favourite moment of history, but the most interesting one is the salem witch trial time period. It's just fascinating how white people were so terrified of being witch crafted by some kids. It's like a stupid drama coming into real life! A kid suddenly got sick and its origin is unknown but they find out that there were some girls dancing around sick kid and made villagers of witch craft. Ha.
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Post by ETypeRegymon on Nov 8, 2015 14:07:57 GMT
Everyone's talking about really important moments history, so I won't do that. Instead, I'll just talk about a really interesting moment in video game history.
There was a moment in time where video games were threatened to become non-existent, which was after the crash in '83, when the market was flooding with way too many terrible games, causing everything to fall over, and many to lose their trust in video games. Meanwhile, Nintendo was ready to release their home console to America, the NES. But they knew the crash meant that they can't advertise their system normally, so they did what the average person would do. Lie. By packaging a robot peripheral and a gun with their game system, they managed to disguise the NES as a toy, improving sales. What makes this interesting is that Nintendo, one of the longest running console makers, and one of the few AAA developers/publishers that don't flood their games with microtransactions (making them more honest than most), had to resort to a white lie right at the start. Also, the robot was near useless, and only used for two games. The gun fared slightly better, but it's inaccurate by today's standards. The truth is usually a good thing, but it's cases like these that make me doubt that.
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Post by andrewcho77 on Nov 14, 2015 4:41:04 GMT
My favorite moments of history is slavery. I know it was a hard time for the African Americans but we learned our lessons throughout this history. I taught us to not to be racist and kill other people by their skin color. This history gave us a lesson to not judge a person by their color of their skin but the content of their character. This event made the world today where everyone understand that slavery is a terrible thing to do and racism is bad.
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Post by Emily on Nov 15, 2015 2:26:59 GMT
I would have to say that my favorite moment in history would be when the Europeans first sailed overseas to the Americas to colonize the land. Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America, and he was very excited about it and to add it to the growing Spanish Empire, but the problem was that there were already Native Americans living in the Americas. However, the fact that Columbus found new land must have been really exciting for him and his crew, and if they had never discovered the Americas, our modern world would surely be much different from what it is today.
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