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History Vs. Prehistory

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1. History vs. Prehistory – This requires you to conduct your own research a. What is prehistory and how is this concept or term defined? Look into its various definition, either from books or reputable online sources in answering this question. According to Johnson, F. (n.d), prehistory is everything that had happened before writing was invented. It was referred by others as the time before writing, from the time universe was created, others as the time since the development of life on earth and while others define it as the period of time beginning with the appearance of human beings. To summarize the different views of the people above, prehistory may have started when time began or may be when humanity first started in this world. But …show more content…

There are a lot of things that the students were taught of about Rizal ever since they were in their elementary years never know until their college years (or even never at all) that the specific information about him was actually not true at all. For example, the poem “Para sa Aking mga Kabata” was actually not created by Rizal because of the fact that the said poem had mentioned the word kalayaan at least two times. Everyone should be informed that a letter sent by Rizal to his brother Paciano was about him first knowing the word malaya in the year 1886, when he was 25 years old but the poem is allegedly said to be created when he was 8 years old (Chua, X. (2015,June …show more content…

What is lacking in the study of Philippine history and what should be done to improve our grasp of our own history? Who or what is/are at fault in the continuous failure of the Philippines in correcting many of the errors in the writing of its history? At present times, the citizens’ understanding and knowledge of their country’s history are still lacking. The teachings are still not that specific when children are taught in elementary and in high school. There are a lot of untrue facts, unanswered questions and vague explanations that is happening right now in the walls of a history class. There is a lot of information that students learn in their college that were not taught when they were in high school and a huge majority of people does not even know that such information even exist. To improve the knowledge of a person about the history of Philippines, one must keep an open mind. Not all heroes are as heroic as one must have perceived them to be. Information from the past might have conflict in what stand they have in their mind but everyone should know that there are a lot of secrets still hidden and to uncover it, there is a great need to further study the country’s

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