Preface-I didn’t really try to have any structure in this, it is very all over the place. But you told us to do something about what we are interested in tangentially related to the holocaust, It is just unfortunate that what interest me is writing about whatever I want over a 3 hour period in the middle of the night. You won’t learn much, but when you give people this much freedom they will either disappoint you or surprise you and I would rather be surprising. Keep an open mind.
Okay this was going to be a presentation on Neo-Nazis but most of my ideas hinged on an Email I sent to the too many Neo Nazi groups I found, pretending to be someone interested in their cause but had a few questions before fighting the good fight. Small problem, …show more content…
Neo Nazis should never be boring so I couldn’t do that. So I started thinking of how people first come to know about the Holocaust. One would think it’s in history class or in a museum or something strictly educational, but one would be wrong it’s through stories. Anne Frank, Book Thief, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Night I could literally go on and on. There is at least one new holocaust movie a year, this year it’s the zookeeper's wife, next year maybe a Night adaptation. The history channel seems to have an unhealthy obsession with Hitler, seriously their mini-documentaries might as well be titled what did hitler think about drugs, or pets, or ties and people watch it. So I wondered why are people so interested in the Holocaust. I thought maybe because people like puzzles and the Holocaust on a base level makes very little sense, so people ask how did that happen, how did he rise to power, why didn’t america do anything, why didn’t they run, why didn’t they lie, why didn’t they die. So people have all these good questions but no matter how much people try to force it life is not a story, so they can’t find the answers to these questions in history books and if they can the answers are not rewarding enough or too boring. So people look to stories to make sense of the unsensible. For example the …show more content…
I’m a narcissist, what interests me are my opinions. This is probably the most fun I’ve had with a school project which isn’t saying too much but still it was great. I don’t expect the best grade coming from this but I did exactly what I wanted to do so I’m happy with whatever. I am very curious to see what others do with their freedom. I expect most will do a boring google slides about some boring thing they pretend to be interested in. I trust some do something cool with it. Some will surprise most will disappoint. No matter the outcome I hope you do this again people will do a lot better next
Okay this was going to be a presentation on Neo-Nazis but most of my ideas hinged on an Email I sent to the too many Neo Nazi groups I found, pretending to be someone interested in their cause but had a few questions before fighting the good fight. Small problem, …show more content…
Neo Nazis should never be boring so I couldn’t do that. So I started thinking of how people first come to know about the Holocaust. One would think it’s in history class or in a museum or something strictly educational, but one would be wrong it’s through stories. Anne Frank, Book Thief, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Night I could literally go on and on. There is at least one new holocaust movie a year, this year it’s the zookeeper's wife, next year maybe a Night adaptation. The history channel seems to have an unhealthy obsession with Hitler, seriously their mini-documentaries might as well be titled what did hitler think about drugs, or pets, or ties and people watch it. So I wondered why are people so interested in the Holocaust. I thought maybe because people like puzzles and the Holocaust on a base level makes very little sense, so people ask how did that happen, how did he rise to power, why didn’t america do anything, why didn’t they run, why didn’t they lie, why didn’t they die. So people have all these good questions but no matter how much people try to force it life is not a story, so they can’t find the answers to these questions in history books and if they can the answers are not rewarding enough or too boring. So people look to stories to make sense of the unsensible. For example the …show more content…
I’m a narcissist, what interests me are my opinions. This is probably the most fun I’ve had with a school project which isn’t saying too much but still it was great. I don’t expect the best grade coming from this but I did exactly what I wanted to do so I’m happy with whatever. I am very curious to see what others do with their freedom. I expect most will do a boring google slides about some boring thing they pretend to be interested in. I trust some do something cool with it. Some will surprise most will disappoint. No matter the outcome I hope you do this again people will do a lot better next