What I have learned in 5th hour.

What I have learned in 4th hour.
Austin Stevens 4th hour
The thing that I learned the most would be the Rwandan genocide, if we never have went over this I would have never learned about the Hutus and Tutsi’s. Before I have no idea that they even existed or that there was even a genocide. With talking about the genocide I learned how brutal the Interahamwe was to the Hutus and the Tutsi, I would have never guessed that they would literally chop them down in the streets with a machete. I also now relies the struggle that the people had to go through and that the UN and other parties were basically useless at times And how Paul had to organize a whole hotel just for Hutus and Tutsi’s just to give them a place to stay so they would not be killed. Also the sacrifice that the people had to make, Paul had to give thousands of dollars to save his family and neighbors in the beginning. Another thing that Paul did was that he had to bribe his Interahamwe friend to gather supplies and not to go in the hotel and take to people away.
Another really interesting thing I learned was the aborigines of Australia. To begin with I never really even know much about Australia, but I got to learn about the aborigines and their traditions. Alone with their of culture I know that the aborigine culture is fading away because less and less aborigines are leaving a urban area and going into cities and not practicing it.
One of the biggest things that I learned was about people’s culture and that many people practice and do things very differently. From South Africa to Australia their all different in different ways. The differences could be from food, religion, and even the way people greet each other can be different. Also it’s not that the way they do things is weird to them it’s just normal.
When we got the Weekly Articles that really helped me understand what was going on, but the margin notes we had to do really broke down the article to me and I’m sure I will definitely use margin notes later on when I’m stuck on an article. Writing the weekly blogs and essays I think really helped me extend my writing. Before I didn’t really know how to “address” an essay, but now when I write one I now think I’m getting better at them and I’m beginning to type it more clearly without clutter. When we had to search for our articles for the Rwandan genocide and other pieces, I can finally figure out the difference between a reliable source and a non reliable source.
When we started talking about the myths I knew some background knowledge from prior reading myths before, but when we had the chance of actually creating one was another story. I could never imagine doing that, it was really hard of thinking about the characters, the plot, and the lesson of the story.
The last thing that I thought I knew pretty well was capitalization and apostrophes. Well I was pretty much wrong. I know now that the apostrophes and capitalization needs to go in a lot of different spots that id imagine and I’m for sure that I will be using them in other pieces of writing.