Thanksgiving

      Over this Thanksgiving, talk to the OLDEST person that you can get your hands on who attends your family's gathering (if you go to someone else's, talk to the oldest person there). Talk to them about what their life was like when they were your age. Talk to them about what the world was like when they were your age. Here is the hard part, you'll need to press them, do not allow them to drift into some wistful, nostalgic reminiscing of how much better they believe the world used to be. A good way to approach this would be to ask what kind of job they had and what they had to do at the job, or how people got together in groups and what kind of things they did. The closer you can ground the conversation, the better. THEN, write a two page paper describing their experiences and how they are either similar or different then yours, that is, how is their life similar to yours? OR how is their life different?