GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Baltic States, William Faulkner
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Global flashpoint: middle east, korean peninsula baltic states, eastern pacific, russia and. Eastern europe, european union, persian gulf: major global players: usa, russia, china, north korea, eu, germany, iran. But a record of what we remember, speculate, deduce, or imagine happen. Need selective principals to decide what, in the available evidence is important, real, true, influential. History is a construct of the human mind. Takes form of a narrative or story designed to make sense out of the past. Makes sense by giving meaning and import to what went before: history"s explanatory power lies principally in: How well its narrative form lends order, form, coherence to what is otherwise disparate , disorganized, unrelated groups of facts: culture: imaginative universe. Composed of webs (systems) of felt meanings to interpret everything. And by which we make sense of, and thus interpret emotionally and conceptually. Everything! experiences, people, practices, ideas, good, feelings, beliefs, smells, sights, tastes.
