Personal Narrative: What I Learned From This Course

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What I Have Learned From This Course. As a matter of fact, learning is not one of my favorite subject. I tend to get bored over time. If I learned same old things over and over again. In other word, history classes teach us same old things, and the fact that I have taken many history classes in high school before. I learned same old information from each of those classes. Then I started to loose interest in history. With that being said, by taking this distance learning course. I have learned more than I expected. The excitement that I have toward our historical has came back, because now I know that there is a lot more that I still do not know about our history. I have perspective where learning and knowing more about our history will make us became a because bette, because history teach and show us the way of how we got to where we are today. At the same time, history teach us lessons to never make the same mistakes over and over again. Therefore, I have learned many significant new information about our historical event from this course. I have learned about the truth about our historical events such …show more content…
Because I never learn or have taught in school to hate our history. But instead to love, proud, and celebrate. Half way through the course, then I start to understand the question “Why we hate histor.” When I start to read theses two textbooks. “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James W. Lowen, and “A People’s History of The United States” by Howard Zinn. I was surprised of how much new information I have learned from these two textbooks and how much the understanding that I have toward the history of our country has changed. I learned “The truth about the first Thanksgiving,” and how our people chose to thank for his kindness god, instead of the Indians who help us find all the

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