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Thinking up essay question and honestly I am kind of sick of reading the history textbook after editing it for almost a year. I am just not inspire by it, and it's just basically just work, that's all it is. I actually rely a lot of 'feel'. That's why I am not that persistent. I need to be motivated. I can't just do a work.

At one point, now, with the text read and edited over and over again so many times already, the interest in most of them topics is basically exhausted. My mind is seeking to find interests beneath the text and the off-shoots, the fun stuff about history, but I can't. I would like something that is interesting, fun, thought provoking and somewhat profound, but no, have to sick with the text.

I know that we can't really rely too much on middle school, high school history textbooks for they are basically just over-simplified and summarized history more like guidelines than anything. That's why lecture is suppose to be so important (like in college even though the textbooks are soo much more concise). Well, high school history and college history are probably taught in different ways. In college, you crunch through the hard readings and the lectures kind of give you an overall picture with the lecturuer's insight. The lectures piece the readings and data together, and give you the concept, perspective of history in the bigger picture. High school is more like read and answer question. The text is more general and the teacher's lecture goes more indept to make things more memorable.