Hey, Everyone! Very excited to start this course with you all! I am a fourth-year history major and I am planning to apply to the education program at UBC this fall with hopes of becoming a high school teacher. \u00a0I grew up on a small hobby farm in southern Ontario and I love animals, especially my dogs. Looking forward to doing three other courses online this semester but I am especially excited to learn more about Canadian literature and history by taking this class.<\/p>\n
Looking through the course syllabus and the required readings for this semester I am excited as a History major that we will be delving into literature from different time periods and cultural backgrounds throughout the history of Canada. I have taken two Canadian history courses in the past two years and I have been fascinated by how our country was built and how it affects Canadians today. It has also been disappointing, as it is evident that there were many injustices against minority groups that occurred throughout Canada’s history. Unfortunately, many of these events are unknown or not talked about among \u00a0Canadians, for example how the Japanese Canadians were treated during\u00a0World War Two.<\/a> One of the most eye-opening Canadian books I have ever read is called\u00a0Obasan<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>by Joy Kogawa, this novel delves into the realities of the Japanese Internment. Literature is a powerful way for us to learn more about the past and also a way for us to look forward. I am hopeful that in reading the books throughout this term and by interacting with other students that this course will inform and help me better understand minority groups that have often not had a voice in Canadian history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n anyways again really excited to learn online with you all this semester and I am looking forward to reading all the blog posts!<\/p>\n Have a wonderful week<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Works Cited<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, Everyone! Very excited to start this course with you all! I am a fourth-year history major and I am planning to apply to the education program at UBC this fall with hopes of becoming a high school teacher. \u00a0I grew up on a small hobby farm in southern Ontario and I love animals, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fraser36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n