We pretty much did History and Memory through various sources particularly...
With the American Smithsonian Website, focusing
http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/ focusing on how it uses representation to create a biased representation of History, a manipulated objective representation.
We are also using the Falling Man video as a related text on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnA9FjvLSU and how it uses subjectivity to imposes its own perceptions of the events as well present the perception of various American groups through its own subjective representation. From that i got to...
This is some of my ideas...
History and Memory encapsulate the representative tension between objectivity(history) and subjectivity(memory).
1) Memory is lest factual than History however its subjective representation allows it to represent truths that cannot be expressed through History.
2) History and Memory can both easily be influenced by biased perspective; they will essential argue an exposition and pose binary oppositions.
3) History cannot always be 100% objective and factual "you cannot can't represent something to its full extent as it happened."
4) Our approach to history and memory allow us to reach a personal outcome wether this is in mourning or in the notion of national security
