Week #1-Daily 3- Don't our traditional forms of information communication, notably "the book" and especially "the textbook" contribute to our belief in linear history?

        Linear history is the theory that nothing is repetitive or in a cycle in history, and books and textbooks teach us about it. They are presented in timelines and chapters. There is a beginning, middle, and end. Everything happens in a certain order.  If you go backward or forward on the timeline, the same data will be represented in the same year. We use textbooks in many classes for school, and our teachers normally teach us the stuff in the book from the beginning and work their way through to as far as we can get throughout the whole year.  We also read books and plays in English class. There are many literary terms and devices used in them. Our traditional forms of information communication can teach us how to use linear history and what it is. A science textbook, for example, is laid out in units, then chapters, and then sections. We learn things in a linear order. Each chapter is about something else. I think a lot of people believe that history is linear. None of the wars happened in a cycle. They were all a product of one thing happening after another in a timeline. In a book, a character goes through an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and a resolution or denouement. None of these parts are repetitive. Everything happens in an order. Therefore, it is linear, and our belief in linear history is a major aspect in books, textbooks, and all of our other traditional forms of information communication.