Looking Back

Looking back over the semester, I realized that
I learned a lot and had a lot of fun doing it.
This class was one of the most entertaining
classes that I have ever taken part in. The
people in the class with me and the teacher
made the experiences that I had in the class
highly enjoyable. However, the class was not
just fun and games. Over the course of the
semester my eyes were opened to a piece of
history that had before been unknown to me.
When I was a junior in high school, I went
on a ten day trip to the south, that took me
through the major events of the Civil Rights
Movement. So, before I took this class I was
not unaware of the racial injustices that are
part of this countries history. I knew about
the Trail of Tears and about the Japanese
Internment camps after Pearl Harbor was
bombed. So, I was not completely unaware of
those pieces of history, but I did not know
the extent or the whole story. And I still don't,
even if my eyes are opened a little wider then
they were before, because the denseness of the
material can never be completely and wholey
covered in one semester. So at the end of the
semester, I realized that though I have learned
a lot, there is still more that I need to learn.