Europe

In Samuel Gregg's opinion piece, "Becoming Europe," from the New York Post, the author argued that America is slowly deteriorating and becoming a copy of Europe's poor economic state. He believes that this spread of European style thinking will make economic security more important than economic liberty and that economy will lie in access to political power instead of other things such as work and creativity.

My topic for my research project is the history of the Basque people. I used the Literature Resource Center on the Salt Lake County Library's website and found a narrative written by Lisa Abenda, a student at a Basque immersion school. I find this to be a very interesting source because it showed a perspective that was not just a spewing of facts, but one person's experience with the Basque culture. Living in Spain, the only things she ever heard about the Basques were associated with violence due to the actions of ETA, a Basque terrorist group, who advocate independence of a Basque homeland.

So far I haven't read Night yet but I have heard and read excerpts and I am really interested in reading the book.  From what I know about it, it is based on the holocaust and its a memior of