This week a big topic in class was Qualitative vs. Quantitative observations and that bracketed off textbooks and how much they put in. With our upcoming essay about one very substantial moment that we remeber happening and also writing the 10 chapter titles of "Our Lives" and "An American History" its hard to be able to fit a whole country's history and condense that into a 250 page textbook. It's weird that we care so much about our lives and whats happening right now that how Jamie said that he would give each chapter eg 1800-1850, 1850-1900 e.t.c. but then wehn he got to 1950-present he said he would give that 100 pages and really whats happened since the 50's to now isn't alot of substantiating learning material for kids all over the world. I mean living in the present now we can think of important things to happen but 1900-1950 was such a meaningful decade or living in 1750-1800 and to have some stuffy know-it-all collegiate professor with a phD in history condense our lives to fifty pages is scary. Also it's very hard for teachers how Mr. Bolos was saying that junior high teachers say things like i was luckey to get to World War II and with me I have really no idea what went on during the Vietnam War. I mean i know it was the first war to be put on television and broadcasted but really i have no idea what our involvment with Vietnam we had. And to think how many peoples lives that changed and how many people died in that war and that was where alot of PTWS really started and i have no idea whats going on. It really makes you think about the bias's and secret messages and just the decisions that people have to make that goes into our education.