How does the press decide what gets reported? How does this affect the work of the historians? What does
this tell us about relationship of the past to the present
and the extent to which the past is knowable?
Answer the above question in a discussion board and
then reply back to some of your peers.

Why do you think the delegates to the first contintal congress believed that refusing to buy british goods would their cause?

Why did the skill of writing disappear from mycenaean society

Can you summarize this? it takes time and caution to perfect anything which must be concealed. it takes time to crush men who are pursuing legitimate trade. but one of mr. rockefeller’s most impressive characteristics is patience. there never was a more patient man, or one who could dare more while he waited. the folly of hurrying, the folly of discouragement, for one who would succeed, went hand in hand. everything must be ready before he acted, but while you wait you must prepare, must think, work. "you must put in, if you would take out." his instinct for the money opportunity in things was amazing, his perception of the value of seizing this or that particular invention, plant, market, was unerring.