Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Arranging Tha Textbook

If I were to arrange the WWII section of our textbook, it would certainly require a much more in depth focus upon each component of the war. First, I feel it is necessary to begin the chapter with a foreshadowing of the events that eventually transpired in the war. From there, I feel it is necessary to have multiple page sections breaking down how each country found its way onto the war path, starting from post WWI. After each section of analysis on the nations involved in the war, then a timeline spanning across the whole war is laid out in the middle of the chapter, focusing and expanding upon military strategies and battle, as well as the national effect back home. Here is where the Holocaust can be tied in a and solely excluded from the rest of the chapter. This event is so profound and essential to the study of human nature, that it deserves more than one boldened section in the text. Finally, once the war is completed following unconditional surrender, it is most important that the reader be drawn back in terms of perspective. This could be achieved with post war analysis and primary documents that include war stories, diaries, and letters- coming form soldiers, civilians, politicians, etc... Once this is complete, the chapter would be concluded with text regarding the rebuilding of the war, and a reflective period that allows the reader to take a look back and possibly see ways to avoid total and destructive war. WWII is so profound in itself that it can only be fully taken in with an extended chapter. It would be called "WWII and the Fate of Humanity".

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