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The Internet and the Holocaust

I think the quote implies that the killings of the Holocaust were of individuals—actual people—and not just statistical numbers, or a faceless, nameless population. As well as that the Holocaust was a culmination of the experiences and pain of each, on a more personal level than just a sum of unknown people. It may mean that the “big picture” of the Holocaust is made up of the smaller but equally important personal stories of every person who went through it, thus saying that each person suffered in their own way. Or perhaps Miller was expressing how the Hitler’s plans for Nazi Germany did not begin with mass genocide, but a gradual build-up of human-rights infractions that ultimately resulted in what we now call the Holocaust. However it is interpreted, this quote is very thought-provoking.
The internet, not traditional textbooks, is the future for high school education. Current events and knowledge are constantly changing, rendering printed texts obsolete within years. Spared the need to purchase replacements for outdated, lost or damaged textbooks, schools will save money, while providing students with current resources containing fewer inconsistencies and errors. One laptop or computer can replace nearly every other textbook a student uses, reducing the loads students need to keep track of, and school paper demands. With current engines and indexes, searching for online content . . . read more.