What Do You Know Me Analysis

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What Do You Know? My understanding of the past is so-so, I really like learning about the past it is interesting how things have changed and also how they have not changed. I know some big events and ideas, but I do not know any specific dates. My experience of learning about the past is not very in depth, but I always like learning about the past. The history classes that I’ve taken are the classes required to pass high school, which were world history, U.S. government, and U.S. history. Most of the history I know is from watching documentaries or movies. I have never had a bad experience when learning about history it always is of interest to me. My experiences have always been good because my instructors made it interesting and learning about the past is usually pretty fun for me. One of my history instructors once told me we learn about the past so that we do not make the same mistakes as others did in the past, ever since then I have been enthralled with learning about history and learning from mistakes from the past. I really enjoy learning about ancient and classical Greece and the Roman Empire. When I think of Greece in the ancient and classical eras I think about the Greek Gods, Alexander the Great, Athens and Sparta, the Greek and Persian Wars, and the creation …show more content…
Writing is not my strength I have trouble with using commas in the right spot and often times get lost in what I am writing and reuse things that I have written earlier in the paper. I would like to improve my ability to integrate good textual support into my written work. In my english papers I find it difficult to find textual support I would also like to improve my critical reading ability because I have not had to use much critical reading at a high level in my academic career yet. I look forward to this class and expanding my overall knowledge and my knowledge of the

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