Holocaust Reflection Essay

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For the theme Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History my group chose the "Killing centers of the Holocaust." Our national history day process started with researching a few topics. Choosing our topic was a challenge. It had to be something that interested us both. We researched multiple topics until we found one we were really interested in, which ended up being the killing in the Holocaust. We changed our topic a lot of times to find what interested us the most. After doing a little research we soon then realized we could do more with the topic the Exploration, Encounter, Exchange, in the Holocaust. Plus how they were killed was interesting.

After choosing our topic, we decided to start on our research. We used a lot of resources and before we even wrote a sentence of information from that sentence we cited it. We have over 20 citations made. We used a book most of the time to conduct my research, during the research process I was sick for a couple days out of the week and during those couple days I worked on my research and accumulated a fair amount of research. It took a week for our group to get enough research to start on our website. Being there two of us in the group we decided to split the roles up. I decided that I would do
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We chose a design that hinted to the topic of the Holocaust. We started on our thesis paragraph and turned in our bibliography. It is our own responsibility to complete our own work and get it done so it does not affect the group in a negative way. We chose the website because I usually like working with electronics and on the computer. It is very easy to work with both my partner and me. I also think the website is more interactive ad easier to use. We both feel that it helps to get more information and ideas in. We both edited most of it from home and did most of the researching and idea building at school. The NHD process is long and challenging but, in the end, its worth

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