Introduction

Facing History and Ourselves, to me, was an important course to understand how society works. Mostly everyone wants to agree with the greater crowd despite their own opinions. However, this course will take on a journey to your inner self to see if you have got what it takes to speak out against everyone else and against to what is wrong. We learned about bystanders and bullies. And that we all fall into one of the categories. I was surprised to see how many people I see everyday in school that are bystanders.

This class has taught me to become a stronger and more self confident person. I find that I speak out more often than I usually do. I also learned to not care if I speak out against everyone else's opinion. However it still affects me that everyone can be so close minded and have the same thoughts. Hopefully society will change for the sake of the world. Many students listen to what the media says and judge themselves and each other by it. I feel that this is wrong and we should all have our own type of individuality.

This course is very hard to take emotionally. The further you are in the course the more intense it will be. You will learn that a lot of things has been brushed under the rug. And in today’s textbooks, only a page covers what happens in the holocaust. We are not being educated enough about it. The holocaust was the biggest mass murder of ignorance I have ever been educated about. And we barely know anything about it today. This is why this course is so crucial in high school.