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History, A Cyclical Pattern

© Gail Giordano

We live in a cyclical world, one in which everything has its cycles. There is the water cycle, the cycle in which water turns in to evaporation into to rain back into water. Then there is the food chain, you start with the tiniest of animals, work your way up to the largest ones, and it always goes back around to the beginning of the chain. History is cyclical too, it will be repeated if we do not learn from it. How do we learn from and should we. I believe we should, if we were to seriously learn and try to not repeat history things would be different. When a cycle has been started its hard to break it, its like Domestic Violence in homes, it takes a lot of courage, support, and strength to break away from an abusive cycle.

There is an everyday example here in our house of how cycles need to be and can be broken but it’s hard. When it comes to my son and our routine, it’s a very strict thing, venture from the path and all havoc breaks loose, but there are some patterns you want to change, there is always pain with those changes but after a few times it becomes the norm. I believe we can do that in our houses, cities, states, nation and world but to break cycles that are leading us down a path of destruction, hurt, and war it will take change as well as heartache. If you look at the Woman’s Suffrage movement, the women who first started the protest for voting rights were thrown in jail, hurt, and degraded and some would never see the fruits of their labor for change. Today we enjoy the benefits of their pain to change the voting procedures. The civil rights movement is another great example as to how people suffered to get equal rights in everyday life for all people. We now see how those changes helped create the society we have today.

The world of words is an awesome way to learn about history, by reading and learning about the history of our world and our countries to learn what we should and do need to change. World War II is a great example of a time frame in the history of the world that people do not want repeated, and great lengths are being taken to ensure that it won’t. One area I want to look at is the area of literature. As a senior in high school, I was given a book by my English teacher that talked about the Japanese Internment here in America, it blows my mind away that we as Americans would put American Citizens in a camp that was unfit to live in and keep them there because we were scared they were traitors. One other part of it that amazed me was that we looked in at just the Japanese Americans and immigrants but not the rest of the nationalities that were participating in the war as well. By the end of the book I was cringing and ashamed in a sense to be an American because of what my fellow countrymen had done.

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