Thursday, May 20, 2010















What Facing History and Ourselves Meant to Me

The course in Westborough high school "Facing History and Ourselves" has been a very enriching experience to me in emotinal, mental, and understanding of life. The teacher who teaches this class is Mr. Gallacher has acomplished teaching this class by showing us videos, documentories, and photos of things like the halocaust and the childrens march to give us the a chance to as the younger generation to try and change the world for the better.
This class has given an emotional experience of how this world is crule with things like the holocaust and the armenian genocide,so it can help stop the younger generation "like me" from becoming people who hate diference and want to destroy all that gets in there way. Now i can walk in the sidewalk and enjoy what is here.
This class has given an mental experience, of how in the past and present there have been bad events that have given us more harm than good. like the white men changing the indians culture/lives to fit in the white mans image. by teaching the indians children how to be like the white man, and destroying the lands the indians traveld to stationary lives like the white man which killed many indians. Now with the knowlege of how those kinds of things have happend, me and others from history and ourslves everywhere will be able to help stop the wrong changes man makes on the world. like acidentaly poluting the planet and so we can countoract it by cleaning up the polution in any way we can.
This class has given me an understanding on how all life is the same no matter how diffrent it is and respect it as an equal. like in one of the movies our teacher has shown us called the freedomwriters how the students in that movie were all from diffrent backgrounds and all of them hated each other. then in the end the students excepted everyones differences racally and veiws and became friends. now that i have learnd this i can now go into the world and know how to make friends and except all diffrences in the world good or bad.
so now you know how this class has benifited me. by letting me and others from this class be able to help change the way our ways of life have been in the constant strugal of living with difference and chaos to become peace and harmony for the future. that is how this class has helped me in life.