Thanksgiving Reflection Essay

In this class, the most significant lesson I have learned is that everything has two sides (positive and negative) including history. However, history is hard to know because it was the past period. Most people just could know from the textbook and school. Unfortunately, normally it just shows the right side for people or avoids telling the dark side to people, so it causes they got misunderstand the whole history. James W. Loewen states, “The authors of history textbooks have taken us on a trip of their own, away from the facts of history, into the realm of myth. They and we have been duped by an outrageous concoction of lies, half-truths, truths, and omissions; that is in large part traceable to the first half of the nineteenth century”(Lies

However, from discussion three, I have learned that Thanksgiving is from Indian. I feel so ashamed that American took not only the land but also the culture. Before the black slave came to America, the Indian used to work with the low payment and the terrible environment. During the slave trade, American begun to take black slaves from Africa. That is true slaves bring booming economic America; however, it also lowed people morally. American perused the social hierarchy. They passed the law that slaves’ children are slaves, and the owner could do whatever they want even though killed or raped the slaves (Discussion 5). “To accomplish this there was the discipline of hard labor, the breakup of the slave family, the lulling effects of religion (which sometimes led to "great mischief," as one slaveholder reported), the creation of disunity among slaves by separating them into field slaves and more privileged house slaves, and finally the power of law and the immediate power of the overseer to invoke whipping, burning, mutilation, and death”(Zinn, 31) .Through this way, slaves hurt not only for bodies but also for souls. I have learned that the violent side Americans had. Even though they gathered a lot of money, I wonder what the moral dimension is for

They gain the citizen and have their house through this period. Sadness, it was not true. A lot of immigrants came to America; they just got the low payment and hard work. A lot of people worked over twelve hours without resting. Most of them died for the work (Discussion 9).According to Howard Zinn, “ When it was over, 146 Triangle workers, mostly women, were burned or crushed to death”(A People’s History of the United States). It is just one case that people died by this accident. They could not escape because the company knocked the door to keep they working hard. In other words, they had the chance to survive, but the factory destroys this hope.
During the World War II, I have learned that American begun to join the war is because Japan attacked American Pearl Harbor. And most of the Jews was killed during this war. Through discussion thirteen, I knew that the Asians and Africans also had been attacked. I also found the violent Vietnam war was not the necessary war, even though it began by America. I feel so happy that America stopped this war at the end because Americans against this terrible