Reflective Essay: The Danger Of The Single Story

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I liked this project a lot even though I did not learn much about my family history. The thing that was important to me was “The Danger of the Single Story” this TED talk really impacted me because it made me see that us a humans sometimes don’t look at all the sides of the story. It made me see that not you should take everything into consideration. When doing the research for my history I ran into some problems such as the fact that I could not find anything about my ancestors i was almost as if my family were a ghost in history. Also the fact that a lot of the websites provided for required you to pay to go more in depth with your research. Another of the few problems that I ran into was that my family did not know much about their ancestors

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