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Out of the chapter I ended up coming back to the first couple of pages. When I first read about how some were trying to deny the Holocaust it angered me. I felt like it was insulting and just plain stupid how someone can deny the Holocaust. The Holocaust that killed millions and millions of innocent people. The one sentence that really made me upset was on page 167 at the end of the first paragraph, “As one scholar has pointed out, what is unusual about the Nazi Holocaust is not that some people try to deny that it happened, but that so many acknowledge that it did take place.” So if they acknowledge it why deny it? By reading this first couple of pages I agree with joshuadw88, “It seems like a recurring theme in this course that a disaster can be manipulated in order to support an argument of one side.” That is exactly what ended up happening. The other parts of the chapter about how history is taking new forms such as through the internet and how video games with history background are coming out is pretty unique. I especially love watching films about history. Recently I went to see Deepwater Horizon and it taught me a lot. I wanted to change my final paper from the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the Deepwater Horizon disaster but I had already done so much research for my topic. I think by continuing to shine a light on history through media it will bring more attention to the subject.