Introduction

 My names Mike Klimavich; a 17 year old student at Westborough High school. I am I very considerate, caring, and kind person. I believe that all people are equal and deserve to have an equal opportunity at everything regardless of their race, gender, or religion. For the first semester of my senior year, I decided to take the Facing History and Ourselves course that our school offers. I wanted to take the class because I had heard only good things about it from other students that had taken it. Also, I was told that the course studied the holocaust, which was something that I had very little understanding of.   I wasn’t to sure what to expect from this class, only the things that one can gather from the name of the course. As I began attending the classes I learned that the course was all about standing up for what’s right. The class serves as such an eye-opener and I really think that everyone should take it. We started out by learning about what the holocaust was, who was involved and what happened. Then we watched multiple films which brought us inside of the Nazi concentration camps and helped us to really understand what went on inside of the camps along with what really happened to the Jews.  We also got to understand a little bit of why all of the Nazis felt the way they did. This course did a lot for me, it made me think twice about saying certain things, and really helped me to become a better person overall.