"Today, during class we had a class discussion about All Quiet on the Western Front and war in general. We talked about different aspects of war, we talked about WWI, WWII, Desert Storm, and wars in general. After the discussion I came to the computer to write my reflection (about a subject that I already forgot) and Lucien told me that he was pretty annoyed about the fact that everytime we talk about war it goes back to past crimes and leaders. He told me that he was pretty annoyed about us not talking about wars NOW; it always goes back to Alexander, it always goes back to Hitler; WWI. Me, I believe he is right in the sense that war is NOT a thing of the past. War is currently waged in the Middle East, and in Africa, but for some reason we talk about Hitler and not Bush (or the US senate for that matter). We talk about the Holocaust and not Darfur, and even though the Holocaust was bigger, Darfur is present. And even though history is important; I believe that the present is more so.
"Do you agree or disagree???
I understand what your saying about how we need to take into initiative to think about whats happening around the world, but I also think if we don't look to what had happened the past then we wont understand how to change major things such as now... since war is mostly about the past, and personally I think its good to bring up the subject of the war in my mind,and i think if we could,we should have a discussion on different things around the world before we start class. Just to see what everyone else thinks about the war happening today.
do you think we should do it??
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This sort of reminded me of what our class did last year with Mr. Aguirre. Every day before class he would ask us if there was anything on our minds or issues that we needed to discuss. Sometimes this was a good way to start the day. I'm not sure if it would work with our class as well or the same way it did last year but I think it may be interesting to see what people have to talk about and what they are paying attention to in the news.
I would also have to agree with you in saying learning 'history' is important because otherwise we wouldn’t know how to change or help people and the things that are going on today. I still seriously wonder though, why does history keep repeating it's self?
That’s mostly where I got the idea. But I think it would work better with our class because it seems everyone has something to talk about. Maybe I will announce it tomorrow.
Why does history keep on repeating itself?
I’ve been thinking the same thing but I don’t think it’s mostly the history that’s repeating itself I think people some how don’t want to let go. If that makes any sense but, I will look into it or maybe tomorrow that could be our first question to the class.
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