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For my historical event i chose to watch a documentary series on Netflix called “The Eighties” by CNN. The series covers a wide variety of important events and topics that are central to the decade’s history. As a history student i got to look at this documentary series from a different angle than i could have before. I really took note of the people they brought in for their perspective on the event or the topic, such a the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the AIDS epidemic. For the most part the documentary had stayed true to the events and displayed them as non biased. Where my history student experience came into play was when they started to give their own opinions into the subject and talk about how great or how terrible some events were. Between Tom Hanks, An Actor, and Tim Naftali, the former Nixon Library Director, there were countless other people who lived through the decade and tell their stories of what they remember. Being a history student I researched the people who had been on the show to see their political stand point or personal associasion with the event or person to see how and why they would respond he way they did. I let me understand why they would present it that way and show me how i could look at the event or person in a different way to fully understand it. Being a History student has really opened up my eyes on how to research and understand how people interperet things in history and in everyday life.