Learning from the past

This was also not written by me. This was written by Cutler, yet another member of my online class who wrote a speech.

Thank you Cutler, you did an amazing job.

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My passion is History. Reading about history, or learning about it, is like going back in time to the Romans, Aztecs, Greeks, and other ancient empires. History is learning about someone, or something, that shows all points of view of that object or person. It's like reading a thrilling novel, except that it's not fiction, or most of it isn't. It can also help you learn how to do things. For example, if you want to know how the first car was made, you could find a book about how they were made, and who made them. If you wanted to know how people like George Washington became famous, they're entire books about that.

Learning about history can also help you in everyday life. It can show you about people from the past, about the mistakes they made, and what happened because of those mistakes. For example, what started WWII was the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and that murder caused that war, in which thousands of people were killed. it shows you why murdering is bad. So history can show you the consequences of bad choices you could make. But it can also show you what happens if you make a good decision. Like how America fought for freedom. If we had not fought for our freedom, we would still be under the role of England, but because we fought for independence, we now can choose what we do.

And last of all, it's just for fun. For me learning about history is an opportunity to learn about your earlier family, about those people who you never knew. It opens up the past and reveals people that you never knew existed, and lets you learn about them. It lets you appreciate what those people did, so that those future people, us, could live in a better world and time.