We must understand the past to know who we are and where we are going... on this web page you will find the daily class agenda, historical resources, and, as a class we will analyze historical events and discuss our thoughts on a variety of issues both in history and current events. You will be able to read your classmates comments, and respond to their thoughts and ask other questions regarding history that you may have.
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
13 comments:
I would rather get shot in the war because lots of the time you wouldn't have to suffer a long time and I have a low pain threshold. :( I would still rather not get shot.
(Why does it keep saying Brooke is posting)
I would rather get shot in the war than suffer from poison gas. This is because if you got shot, at least it would probably be a quick death and you wouldn't be in very much pain. If you had to suffer from poison gas, you would basicly cough up your lungs. It would be a very slow, very painful death.
it keeps saying that, Quincy, because Brooke changed the name of the "student" profile.
anyways...
I would rather get shot because iy only stings and you will get used to it, instead, with mustard gas, you will choke and suffocate to death and your lungs will melt and you will hack them up, which would really suck, a lot.
Besides, with a shot, there is a much greater chance for recovery, as with mustard gas... Well, you can't exactly do lung surgery in the trenches, can you?
I would rather get shot because it's a quick death instead of coffing for 2 hours and slowly dying.
(P.s still can't figure out how to post! I don't have the "post" button!)
sorry laura, it is in the upper right on the blog main page...Oops
sorry
Another reason that you would not want to be gassed is that one of your comrades might come and get you and then they would die too if they didn't have a mask.
(P.S. Good soapbox today Amy :)
(P.S.S. Thanks Sam. How do you get a picture on there)
Thanks about my soap box Quicy.
You get a picture on your name by logging in and looking at your profile. You will find the option to put in a picture there. You can clik browse to put in a picture that you have saved on your computer. That's what I did.
Something else that I didn't think about as far as getting shot is what if they had to amputate your leg or arm. I have heard that the "phantom" pain that comes after an opperation can be really bad...so bad that you can want to kill yourself...like in the movie we watched today when Paul's friend asks for a gun to kill himself.
I would rather get shOt in the war. (one O cora! ;o) I would rather get shot because a lot of the time there isn't much suffering involved. I think! Anyway, I dont think I'd much like the sight of my own lung hanging out of my mouth would you!!!!!!!??????????
Maria Giorgi
I would have rather gotten shot because it would have probably hurt less than coughing my lungs up(still the preference is NOT to get shot).
I agree with well... everyone.. getting shot would be much less painful, and if you've ever had a bad chest cold... coughing hurts... a lot! (pain is scary 0.0)
Well, I know that EVERYONE so far has said this, but I am still going to say it! I would rather get shot. This is because if i inhaled all of that gas, it would be such a ssssslllllooooowwwwwww death. Just sitting their couphing my lungs up does not sound that fun!!
Ok, I am going to contradict myself! On the other hand, if i got shot in a spot that wouldn't make me die instantly, that might be even more painful! (like the leg or arm, or stomach!!! ICK!) In the end, though, I would still go with getting shot!!!
I would rather get shot. even though depending on where you get shot, you can suffer from both. but i can barley stand coughing when i have a cold, i wouldn't be able doing it until i die!
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