Just watched Grave of the Fireflies. I think all my fellow US History students who keep begging the teacher to let us watch Pearl Harbor every 3 seconds because they think it's an "awesome" movie ("awesome" meaning it has big FX and guns and things blowing up) should all be forced to watch Grave of the Fireflies in a double-feature with Pearl
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History is (as apparently my dad's old history teacher said,) chaps and chapesses. If one understands this, understands that history is about the decions people made, that people are inheriently the same now as they were then, that every side has an argument. Even the worst of butchers came from the same place as we did. History is vital, as it allows throught, introspection, and a wide view point.
History is one of my favorite subjects, we had a brilliant teacher in high school (though I didn't do well at A levels, I did great in GCSE, an A as I recall.) and he instaulled a great love of it in me. I'm dreadful at remembering facts of course, but the stories remain...
Ah, I love history...
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History is more about feeling than about fact, and every other subject stems from it. I think that's why I love it so much, because you can't study anything else without history getting involved. And it's probably why I dislike math -- because we only get taught the dry numbers, with none of the stories behind their discovery or explanations of why they work that you could get out of history.
Anyway, rambling again. ^_^. So comforting to know there's another kindred spirit out there. I'm sure there are others, but man are they hard to find in a town like this... *makes face*
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