What I got from this class

In global this year, we covered a more diverse set of topics than I have ever done in any other class, from civics to morals and ethics, and all the way to just thinking how we think. Although most topics don't seem like they relate to each other, I have realized that everything we have studied is a piece to the pie of understanding the world.  Everything from mass systematic murders to our everyday lives,  and how we act as well as interact with the world around us. Although we have gone very deep into understanding how people have acted, and how the horrible atrocities were able occur in history, we have not come up with a solid way to prevent things like the holocaust from happening again. We have gone over how to see it before its coming, and the signs that can show if something bad is developing. From this I realized that Global-Connections is the way to prevent future atrocities, and improve mankind. Classes like this one teach students, in detail how such bad things can happen, and they educate us on how normal people can be brought into horrible acts. By doing so, it is creating a generation which is more educated on how to identify when something bad, like a genocide, is starting, and we will know how to prevent them before people and communities are hurt. Unlike most classes in school, global teaches us about the real world, and what is appropriate as well as not. It has taught me to think of my actions and my morals deeper than I did before. Overall, the class has taught me to stand up for myself, my rights, and when/if the time comes, be an upstander instead of a bystander.