our class is the total opposite

Nelson made a really interesting comment on his blog. He wrote... "Today, during class we had a class discussion about All Quiet on the Western Front and war in general. We talked about different aspects of war, we talked about WWI, WWII, Desert Storm, and wars in general. After the discussion I came to the computer to write my reflection (about a subject that I already forgot) and Lucien told me that he was pretty annoyed about the fact that everytime we talk about war it goes back to past crimes and leaders. He told me that he was pretty annoyed about us not talking about wars NOW; it always goes back to Alexander, it always goes back to Hitler; WWI. Me, I believe he is right in the sense that war is NOT a thing of the past. War is currently waged in the Middle East, and in Africa, but for some reason we talk about Hitler and not Bush (or the US senate for that matter). We talk about the Holocaust and not Darfur, and even though the Holocaust was bigger, Darfur is present. And even though history is important; I believe that the present is more so."Do you agree or disagree???


In our class I think its way different. In our last seminar the topic was the Christmas truce and how it affected World War one, then in a blink of an eye we were discussing the war in Iraq. Then we talked about how bush is an illiterate person. I think its great but sometimes like Lucien I get really annoyed. Its basically the total opposite of what the period 2 goes through. They talk about the past and we don’t, we talk about the present. Even during all quiet on the western front we still managed some how to talk about Bush. Maybe we should have seminars together to balance it out.