Autobiography
Most of the people I have met tell me that History is very
monotonous to them.
They are surprised when I tell them that history is actually my
favorite subject.
People ask me why I like history and my response is always the
same. I like history
because it fascinates me to learn how and why the world and its
people came to be as
they are now. I also love philosophy and I hope this year I get a
chance to study it
more.
I recall starting to gain
interest for history when I was in 7th grade. I had an
interesting 7th grade social studies teacher, he
would make sure to make the class fun
and also intrigue history to us. That was the year when I began to
watch a lot of the
history channel, not surprisingly it became a hobby to watch the
history channel and
other history videos. The wonderful thing about history is that
when you study it you also
learn that you are learning other subjects, like for example; when
we learn about who
Isaac Newton was and what he did we also learn that he came up
with the theory of
gravity when that apple fell on his head. I see History as subject
of many subjects and I
guess that since that’s my perspective and way of looking at it,
that’s one of the reasons
why I like it.
Advance placement World
History was the first AP class I took in high school
and I can truly say I enjoyed it, it was a lot of hard work just
like any advance placement
class but I love how I learned a lot of things
I wouldn't of probably had learn if I would of
taken regular World History. Advance placement World History was
the class that
reaffirmed my passion for learning history. I am now taking AP US
History. History also
involves the study of politics and learning about them is what
made me grow a passion
for politics and law. Someone would think that because I really
like history that I might
want to pursue a career as a historian, but in fact I want to be
lawyer.
Last year I read “Guns,
Germs, and steel,” by Jared Diamond and now am
reading another one of his books called, “collapse.” The book
analyzes how history can
help us learn from our mistakes. By looking back into the history
of why societies failed
we can learn how to prevent them from falling again. This is
another reason why I enjoy
learning history. I am glad to be taking AP English because
I know I will benefit from it a
lot, language teaches us many different things and that’s one of
my favorite things, to
