Today I am going to talk about the book that I read. I read for about 30 minutes but the book is called "The Century" For Young People". I have already read the other two versions of this book that my father brung from the library and I have to say they satisfied me greatly. I loved how much detail they put into the events going on during the timelines. You see, each book has their own time that they are mainly focusing on. The one that I just read is 1936 to 1961. The other two I read are from 1961 all the way to 1999. Another thing I love about the book is how they actually have people who have experienced these events come and talk about how life was like for them, this really contributes to the book's success.
Now I am going to be talking about what I read so far. So the book starts with the title (of course) and then an introduction. I read the introduction, even though they have the same one for every book because the author himself wrote it. He says that most young readers don't really care about events from this far past and think its boring. Apparently to him, they are fun and exciting and he wants to share what he's learned with other people (specifically young people so that they can learn history in a "funner" way). When I first read it I was kind of thinking, how could reading (especially the way he's talking about it) be fun? And even though I finished it I wasn't totally satisfied. Fortunately, once I finished the book I recalled all the interesting facts I learned.
Like for instance, I learned more about how mean and horrible Adolf Hitler was, treating the Jews like that (blaming them for all of Germany's problems). Even if the Jews did do something bad, its not like they killed as many Germans has Germans killed Jews. Some other information I learned was how during the "Great Depression", Roosevelt became the president and brung people's hopes up. In the end the Great Depression was nearly gone and America was just getting itself together again. Now for what i've read today, even after the Great Depression Roosevelt was tempted to help certain countries who he thought deserved it.
I am now going to skip to the news because that is something I am fairly interested in. The first story that really caught my eye was about the "Texas Shooting". I know the Texas Shooting is a subject that is getting kind of old but it was one of the top stories so I'm going to talk about it. Apparently, a chruch is mourning the losses of the victims in the Texas Shooting. Specificlaly, the ones that attended that very church. A man by the name of "Frank Pomery" is the pastor of the church. Among the victims his daughter was also shot and killed. A quote from him stating "The people who died lived for their lord and savior". I don't really believe the whole religion aspect of his view but I do agree that they will not be forgotten by the people at their church and loved ones.
The other news story that I saw had potential to be in this post, is about Donald Trump and North Korea. You know, I feel like Donald is almost always in every top news story because his name is always in the story or he's actually related in some way but I am not saying that is a bad thing. Anyway, back to the post. So Donald Trump has been throwing some comments at North Korea and North Korea is firing back as well. I really feel as though the tensions between those two is veyr bad and could eventually start into a World War III. However I know that if a war actually does happen (with nuclear weapons), America would do a lot more damage and almost completely destroy North Korea. Now i'm not getting cocky because I know they'll fire a "lot" of rockets and bombs at us. Anyway, thats it for the post.
Now I am going to be talking about what I read so far. So the book starts with the title (of course) and then an introduction. I read the introduction, even though they have the same one for every book because the author himself wrote it. He says that most young readers don't really care about events from this far past and think its boring. Apparently to him, they are fun and exciting and he wants to share what he's learned with other people (specifically young people so that they can learn history in a "funner" way). When I first read it I was kind of thinking, how could reading (especially the way he's talking about it) be fun? And even though I finished it I wasn't totally satisfied. Fortunately, once I finished the book I recalled all the interesting facts I learned.
Like for instance, I learned more about how mean and horrible Adolf Hitler was, treating the Jews like that (blaming them for all of Germany's problems). Even if the Jews did do something bad, its not like they killed as many Germans has Germans killed Jews. Some other information I learned was how during the "Great Depression", Roosevelt became the president and brung people's hopes up. In the end the Great Depression was nearly gone and America was just getting itself together again. Now for what i've read today, even after the Great Depression Roosevelt was tempted to help certain countries who he thought deserved it.
I am now going to skip to the news because that is something I am fairly interested in. The first story that really caught my eye was about the "Texas Shooting". I know the Texas Shooting is a subject that is getting kind of old but it was one of the top stories so I'm going to talk about it. Apparently, a chruch is mourning the losses of the victims in the Texas Shooting. Specificlaly, the ones that attended that very church. A man by the name of "Frank Pomery" is the pastor of the church. Among the victims his daughter was also shot and killed. A quote from him stating "The people who died lived for their lord and savior". I don't really believe the whole religion aspect of his view but I do agree that they will not be forgotten by the people at their church and loved ones.
The other news story that I saw had potential to be in this post, is about Donald Trump and North Korea. You know, I feel like Donald is almost always in every top news story because his name is always in the story or he's actually related in some way but I am not saying that is a bad thing. Anyway, back to the post. So Donald Trump has been throwing some comments at North Korea and North Korea is firing back as well. I really feel as though the tensions between those two is veyr bad and could eventually start into a World War III. However I know that if a war actually does happen (with nuclear weapons), America would do a lot more damage and almost completely destroy North Korea. Now i'm not getting cocky because I know they'll fire a "lot" of rockets and bombs at us. Anyway, thats it for the post.
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