History
Believe it or not, my favorite class in school was History. In eighth grade, it was Ohio History and in college, it was American History. The one thing the college class did for me is that it taught me to think critically. The professor did a real good job and presented both sides, but in the back of my mind, I thought he had a political bias. One evening, I was watching the evening news and there he was on TV, a state senator!
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