What I Remember Most...

This year, many things have been going on, both inside and outside of the classroom.  We have read multiple books, watched many movies and had a lot of discussions.  Outside of the classroom, there have been many things going on like the election, failing finances of our country's businesses, and foreign policy issues.  The things that I remember most about this year have been the business bailout, the issues with North Korea and the issues with national health care.  The business bailout spurred many debates and many articles and vehicles to be read.  This important topic was all over the news and in our classroom.  This event was put into our minds for weeks and still is talked about today...many months later.  The issues with North Korea are also what I remember from this year.  We discussed them about two months ago and just recently they tested more weapons.  The country of North Korea is very debatable and has many issues.  This important topic is one that is very current in our news.  The last issue that I remember from the year is the debate on national health care.  We watched a movie about it, and I think we read a few articles about it.  This very important topic is a highly debatable topic and is still in our minds today.  All the topics that we learned about this year were very important, but out of those, bailouts, North Korea and health care are what I remember most.

My most favorite book this year was probably The Prince or Brave New World.  The Prince was a pretty straight-forward book, which I like.  The topic wasn't my favorite, but the fact that it was very straight-forward made me like it.  Brave New World was also a good one to read.  It was very interesting and really made me think what kinds of things are possible with science.  My least favorite book would have to be the Dialogues of Plato or Heart of Darkness.  Plato was just a very hard-to-read book with many words and sentences that went on and on.  Heart of Darkness...I just didn't really understand the book very much.  Even though it was a short book, I didn't really enjoy it at all.  If there was an area to improve in the class, it would be...well, actually, there really isn't one.  I really liked the class.  I guess the only thing that I would consider changing is the book choices.  I would've liked to have read the Fast Food Nation book, or the book dealing with restaurants.  That would be the only thing that I would change.