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History

February 18, 2011
By colluccitech GOLD, Hyannis, Massachusetts
colluccitech GOLD, Hyannis, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"Make your inner critique shut up. It's giving me a head ach."


his·to·ry
[his-tuh-ree, his-tree]
–noun, plural -ries.


1. The branch of knowlege dealing with past events


History is remembering the bad things.
History is knowing everything that happened
History is something that never goes away
History is the past.


2. A continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc.,

History is the dry words that you see in text books.
History is the hidden words in meaning in between those dry words.
History is the blood and sweat and tears of building blocks
History is the past

3. The record of past events and times

History is the pictures in my back closet
History is the journal entries noone could see in time
History is the missing from school records
History is the past


Origin: ?1350–1400; ME historie < L historia < Gk historía learning or knowing by inquiry, history; deriv. of híst?r one who knows or sees

—Related forms
un·der·his·to·ry, noun, plural -ries.
un·his·to·ry, noun, plural -ries.
—Synonyms ?2. record, annals. ??


The author's comments:
This was a piece specifically created for my Poetry Portfolio. We had to take a poem form of some sort and define it in a way that would make people understand the definition, without it being the Websters definition. It's called a...Yup you guessed it. Definition Poem.
The Word: History
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on Mar. 9 2011 at 1:42 pm
MaddieWo PLATINUM, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more." -Pilate Dead, Song of Solomon

my favorite (: