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  1. Sep 2024
    1. At its core, Linked Data is a way to describe things and relationshipsbetween things using Web addresses that serve as identifiers. This meansthat instead of storing a name, subject heading, location, or other data

      Linked Data Definition pt 1

    1. With a crowd of newfigures-working wives, rebellious slaves, despairing immigrants, striking labor-ers-clamoring for attention, it soon became clear that, much like uninvited guestsat a party, they weren't going to fit in. It wasn't just that the newly researchedsubjects weren't dressed properly, they also gave evidence of cherishing valuesinimicable to the ones featured in the familiar account of the nation's steadyadvance towards "liberty and justice for all." Their lives couldn't be folded into oldstories, because the old story line was too simple in its linear development, toonaive in its celebration of individual achievement, too complacent in its insistenceupon common national values

      Previous histories did not show the full, messy story

    2. "Epistemo-logical crisis" is a high-falutin' phrase for what happens inside our minds when awhole set of assumptions collapses, usually as the result of a startling discovery likethe betrayal of a friend or corruption in a trusted institution

      EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS DEFINITION

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      The inclusion of a personal anecdote is very persuasive

    2. The point is not to protect historical facts but to cultivate national feeling.

      History as nationalism

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      History as means of validation?

    4. history was what served Russia's national interests, and that all else was revisionism.

      History as means of creating a reputation or image of a nation.

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      Russia rewrote history to create a narrative about their own progress and Ukrainians to appear more successful on the world stage

    6. The Soviet Union took drastic action to ensure that these events went unnoticed

      Reminds me of Chernobyl and also of how the Irish Famine has been portrayed

    7. Inhabitants ofthe republic were banned from leaving it; peasants were prevented from going to the cities to beg; communities that failed to makegrain targets were cut off from the rest of the economy; families were deprived of their livestock. Above all, grain from Ukraine wasruthlessly seized, well beyond anything reason could command. Even the seed corn was confiscated.

      Incredibly cruel punishments

    8. recalled propaganda thatpresented the starving as provocateurs who preferred to see their own bellies bloat rather than accept Soviet achievement

      Image!

    9. Soviet leaders wereaware in 1932 of what was happening but insisted on requisitions in Ukraine anyway. Grain that people needed to survive wasforcibly confiscated and exported.

      Leaders knowing makes this even more despicable.

    10. A result was mass famine: first in Kazakhstan, then in southern Russia and especially in Soviet Ukraine.

      The Soviet Union's image was false, as several hundreds of thousands of people were starving throughout their country.

    11. But by March 1932, hundreds of thousands of people were already starving to death in Soviet Ukraine

      Holodomor

    12. This was the image ofcommunist modernization the Soviets wished to transmit during Stalin's first five-year plan:

      The Soviet Union was trying to create an image that did not actually represent the state of the nation.

    13. July 4

      On Independence Day

  2. Feb 2022
  3. Sep 2021
    1. Thus ecological modernization could be characterized as a discourse that promoted environmental reform but stopped short of fundamental structural change

      Ecological Modernization - definition

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  4. Apr 2021
  5. Feb 2021
    1. East European governments also sought to reverse the prewar exodus to the West, encouraging "valuable" expatriates to return home.

      This is an interesting because in chapter 1, it is mentioned that some believed that emigrating to America denationalized and cease to have their Eastern European identities (see page 31 of book/18 of PDF)