On Repeat : The Reoccurrence of War - My Junior Research Paper
A little bit of background on this essay: Every year in whatever English you take in my school you have to write a research essay. Our topics are generally free range and all you have to do is run the thesis by your teacher. This year, when we were asked to pick our essays there had been a comparison of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Adolf Hitler. While I in no way agreed with the comparison I started to see the similarities between the wars themselves. On Repeat - The Recurrence of War High school students drag their feet to history class, wondering why they have to learn about things that happened decades before they were born. “To learn what humanity did in the past,” a teacher will reply. That response should not only apply to students, but to all people. Reviewing the past is meant to remind students what humanity has done so it can be avoided in the future. Even so, history repeats itself, no matter how horrifying. Recent history has made it particularly easy ...