What historical time do you wish you could visit?
Of course, the future is not historical yet, but think about particular times in the past. Maybe you’d like to visit ancient Egypt and live there for a while. Maybe you’d like to have been an Inca in South America, or a Roman soldier fighting Carthage, or a writer during the Italian Renaissance.
Maybe you’d only like to go back a short distance—say, to the 1960s, to visit the hippie days in San Francisco.
Write about the time you’d like to visit, why you’d like to visit that time, and what you would do while you are there.
I would really love to visit the time period of the early nineteen hundreds. Around this time, my grandmother was growing up. She always shows me pictures, and it truly fascinates me. I would love to visit here mainly to see what it was like growing up like that. A lot of people were in tough situations, considering the economy was horrible. But through all the lessons in history, the people seem genuinely happy and together. I would love it if the nation today seemed like we were ‘one,’ but I don’t think that is going to happen any time soon. I would also love to meet a boy in that time period. Then, chivalry was still well alive and it seemed as fun as ever. The movie Titanic was based on a true story from 1912, and it is one of the greatest love stories ever told. I would have loved to be on that ship (well, before it sank…) and see all the beautiful things that were in that movie, especially Leonardo DiCaprio. Another great love story is The Notebook. If I am not mistaken, the movie was portrayed to be in the early nineteen hundreds as well. I love the kinds of music they had, I love what they did for fun, I love that the people were so trusting of each other. If I could travel back to then, I would especially love to go to New York and see all the people interact. I would go to other states also, and see how things worked for all different people in different states. As much as I hate history classes, I am intrigued by stories that my grandparents tell me. I think that every older person has a few awesome stories up their sleeve. I would love to be in that time period and go to school. The curriculum probably hasn’t changed much… I would go to Times Square and see how different it is. I would go shopping (and probably spend a lot less money). I would talk to anyone I could and just listen to all the riveting stories and things they have to say. I might even meet a Noah Calhoun or a Jack Dawson, and go out on a date with a true gentleman. The specific things that I would do wouldn’t really even matter to me as long as I could be in that time period and witnessing and living through all of the things that they got to do. The time period is just interesting in general to me, and maybe seeing the way things were would knock a little sense into me and be a wakeup call. I wish that people now could act like they did in the old days, and dress like them, and speak with respect the way they did. I would have a blast from the past. :)
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