Western Civ Assignment

When the author, Ozment, said, “How skillfully students ultimately swim is not as important as their initial jump into the great pool of the past,” he meant that it is more important to have an initial interest in the subject, rather than force yourself to continue learning, because without interest, the subject would mean nothing if you had no spark or motivation to keep you interested in the subject. Overall, the author meant that it was important to have an initial spark on subject at hand or else you would not be able to gain complete knowledge of the subject because you would eventually give up. One example of why the author mean that it is more important to have a spark is because he said on the last page he says, “In present circumstances, merely whetting an undergraduate’s appetite for historical perspective and precedent may be challenge and accomplishment enough.” This means that if you even just stimulate an undergraduate’s interest at minimum, it means that would be a huge accomplishment because it leads to other paths in history. This supports the main …show more content…
Western Civ is an old fashioned course that continually shops for new cloths, and over the years it has learned to be both down-to-earth and stylish...” This means that as the years have been progressing, it becomes easier to spark interest in the minds of the students. Also the author says, “The Western Civ textbook has long surrounded its socio-political narrative with hundreds of illustrations, scores of primary-source documents, numerous maps and timelines and a variety of alternating special effects.” This statement shows the way that textbooks show information in a way that would be entertaining for a student learning history, because they have so much information packed into graphics, which makes viewing the information a lot