Hello everyone, my name is Elizabeth Hartney and I am a senior English/French major. I knew I wanted to study French from the first course I took in middle school because I feel that it's a subject that comes easily to me. It challenges me and I always feel as if I'm learning something, but it never feels like a chore to work on my French. When I started TU, I decided to add an education major to my French in order to make it seem more pratical. Last semester, however, I studied abroad in Nantes, France and took part in a teaching internship which showed me that teaching is not a career that I'd enjoy. In addition, due to scheduling conflicts, my education major was going to keep me at TU for a semester longer than I planned. So I very recently dropped the education major and chose English because I've taken a few literature courses while at TU and I love reading and writing. So far, it feels like a good fit. I decided to take this course in particular because I have a courseload full of older English topics that date back a few centuries and I felt that a WWI class would balance out my schedule a little and give me something more recent to focus on. I am also interested in gaining an historical perspective because I know very little about the time period.