Final Blog

My favorite topic we learned in this class was The Civil War. It was fun, because of the book project, which was different from our other assignments. The book I chose was really good and helped me understand more about the Civil War and how it happened and how people reacted to it. But the topic I found least interesting was World War I. It was confusing of all the countries involved, all the different opinion, alliences and agreements between these countries. And also all the problems after the war. We could've done some activity including the whole class, something like a scene. Each person would be a country and we would debate to see who won or who was right. We also coud've done more projects like the one to change song lyrics, because it was a lot of fun. I learned and reviewed many topics during that assignment. I had a lot of fun in this class. (:

The USS Indianapolis

I really liked listening to what he had to say. It was very interesting how everything happened so fast. The Indianapolis, that was carrying the world's first atomic bomb, was hit by two torpedoes and started sinking, and then suddenly all men jumped into the water. It's really scary to think that you're in the middle of the ocean and there's nothing you can do besides try to sruvive without food, good water and sharks swimming and attaking everyone around you. It was even worst when he started to talk about how he felt the sharks touch his legs. And it was also frightening to think about the days they spent by themselves trying to get someone to rescue them but failing and his paycheck was so little comparing to everything he had gone through and eerything he had to do every day. I noticed how he didn't really want to talk much about if he ever felt and thought that he was going to die, and I understand, because it must be a really bad feeling. I felt like I was the one in the middle of nothing going through all the things those men went through. And then the Doyle began rescuing almost dead men and that was when I realized that even if these lost men were enemies, the crew inside Doyle, would've rescued them anyway. And that shows that the war couldn't stop men from helping each other.