What I Have Learned

During my time at Defiance College I was not happy to find that writing was required. I dislike writing and I find it very boring. However AH120 was a lot different then what I thought it was going to be. It was not the normal writing class. I thought that we would only learn writing techniques or how to cite sources. While we did learn better ways to do both of those we also learned about history. We learned a lot about the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and lynching in our country. We watched such movies, as Ararat, Strange Fruit, and a documentary on Emmett Till. We also read Maus. It was different from other novels I had read because it was a graphic novel. It was fascinating learning about the Holocaust from that point of view. Before this class I thought I knew a lot about the Holocaust. Throughout the course of the class, however, I learned some things that I never knew. I also learned about the Armenian Genocide. Honestly before this class I did not even know there was an Armenian Genocide. Therefore, this part of the class was very enlightening for me. I found out that there was genocide of the Armenian people by the country of Turkey and that Turkey is trying very hard to sweep it under the rug like it never happened. Also I learned about lynching this semester. Like the Holocaust I already knew some things about lynching. I, however, thought that lynching was only hanging which it is not. I also did not realize how many people were killed. This in total was a very eye opening class for me.