1) a) I learned that Simon Wiesenthal was relentless in everything that he did. He searched for over 7 years trying to find Adolf Eichmann, and he finally did. Also after he was freed from the concentration camps, he worked furiously to try get a job as an enforcer of justice. And lastly he worked hard to build his agency, which locates Nazi war criminals, the strongest it could be.
b) I learned that thoroughly reading your sources just one time is not enough. One must read them several times to find all the needed information. I also had to learn to take things that I found and prove them through other sources.
2) In some ways it helped me because I became a better writer and it made me better at finding reliable sources and using MLA format. However, I did my research paper mostly on the life of Simon Wiesenthal, so I was not forced to do too much analysis, like we do in class.