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    ZINN CHAPTER 7: Study Questions “As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs” 1. The major theme (recurring idea) in this chapter was about the Native Americans and their survival due to the Americans taking their land‚ spreading diseases‚ and invades their towns. 2. The evidence that Zinn cites to illustrate the overall impact of Indian removal is by talking about the book “Fathers and Children”.   This book talks about how Native Americans were dismissed from their land and eventually there were

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    Zinn Essay Period 3 US History AP A nation founded on the slaughter of innocent people will never admit what they did was wrong. Most of them will not even acknowledge that such events ever took place. They will even go as far as to tell their children that the murderous tyrants of old were heroes and how they brought peace and prosperity. They will preach of how a nation of uneducated savages was given the gift of Christianity and how the divine light lead them to become people of culture. This

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    Chapter 4 In Howard Zinn’s book‚ Passionate Declaration: Essays on War and Justice‚ I read chapter four titled “The Use and Abuse of History.” Zinn in this chapter discusses how history is used and abused. Many in society today only tell “impartial history‚” meaning we leave parts of history out to make a certain group or event stick out. History in the United States of America is swayed always to make us look like the good ones. We are a biased country and the government will do anything to censor

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    always tend to leave out some of the more disturbing parts of history. In A People’s History of the United States‚ Howard Zinn tells history from the perspective of all the minorities affected in the building of the United States. He criticizes the versions of history that are told from the “viewpoint of the leaders…” without any regard of the mass murders or exploitation (9). Zinn describes the novel as being “skeptical of governments and their attempts…” (10). The view of Zinn’s novel as a “history

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    Name: Pham‚ Dzung Tuan Finance 425-Section 2. Instructor: Nathan Walcott. RATIOS TELL A STORY-2011 The case “Ratios tell a story-2011” represents the variation to the characteristics of the industries in which companies operate. The differences in financial results and conditions among companies are the result of management philosophy and policy. Some industries reduce their manufacturing capacity to match more closely their sales prospects right away‚ while others carry excess capacity to be

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    In the article How Democratic Is America?‚ Howard Zinn‚ an idealist and liberal‚ spars against Sidney Hook‚ a pragmatic conservative about the current system of democracy set up in the United States. From the first concept of standards for America’s democracy‚ Zinn and Hook hold conflicting viewpoints. While Zinn believes that we should “measure our democracy against an ideal (if admittedly unachievable) standard”‚ Hook believes that “the only sensible procedure in determining the absence or presence

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    Howard  Zinn         A  Peoples  History  of  the  United  States   Chapter  1:  Columbus‚  the  Indians  and  Human  Progress   Can  historians  avoid  emphasis  on  some  facts  and  not  others?     Historians  are  selective‚  they  simplify  and  they  emphasize  what  they  believe  is   important  and  gloss  over  other  things  they  view  as  less  important.    “This  distortion

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    Never Tell by Alafair Burke‚ consists of a natural rhythm as it takes you through a journey of both Julia Whitmire’s and Ellie Hatcher’s world. Julia Whitmire a sixteen year old girl who lived in luxurious town house in Manhattan and attended Casden prep school‚ a private school‚ she appeared to have everything anyone could ever wish for‚ but instead she lived a complicated life that no one knew about. The author conveys a suspenseful plot by adding their own experiences from their profession based

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    Total Assets – For this section I picked Safeway and Supervalu Inc. Both companies are in the food retail business. I found that there was minimal difference between their total current assets. Both had about the same cash percentage‚ Supervalu Inc. had 1.2% more in accounts receivable while also having 2.7% less in inventory than Safeway. The difference in total current assets was exactly 3% with Safeway having the advantage. There was a significant discrepancy however in the net PP&E. Safeway’s

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    Cortes‚ Pizarro‚ Powhatan‚ the Pequot‚ the Narragansett‚ Metacom‚ King Philip’s War‚ and the Iroquois. Chapter 2‚ "Drawing the Color Line" addresses early slavery of African Americans and servitude of poor British people in the Thirteen Colonies. Zinn writes of the methods by which racism was artificially created in order to enforce the economic system. He argues that racism is not natural because there are recorded instances of camaraderie and cooperation between black slaves and white servants

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