History assignments are the biggest perpetrators of drilling and copying rather than learning. In his book‚ Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong‚ James
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James Loewen wrote the book "Lies My Teacher Told ME" to help the students of the United States become aware of their true history. This book attempts to show how and why American history has been taught the way it has without regard for the truth. Mr. Loewen had compared twelve different history textbooks they are: The Great Republic‚ The American Way‚ Land of Promise‚ Rise of the American Nation‚ Challenge of Freedom‚ American Adventures‚ Discovering American History‚ The American Tradition‚ Life
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What my Parents Told Me For this assignment we are suppose to write about what out parents told us about the Bird’s and the Bee’s. Well this topic will be more difficult than what I thought it would be. My parents got divorced when I was ten and I lived with my daddy‚ and you know daddy’s don’t talk about puberty with their daughters little own the “SEX TALK” My dad married my step mom about three months after I moved in with him‚ and mom talked to me about my menstrual cycle‚ a just
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Lies my teacher told me At some point during the lengthy‚ drug-induced coma that I sometimes refer to as "my high school years‚" I briefly regained consciousness and found myself eye-to-eye with what appeared to be a three-headed‚ English teaching dwarf. Before I could fall back into my customary stupor I realized that this evil shrieking dwarf would say anything to trick me into wasting what was left of my mind with books and reading and other school related stuff. Although I managed to fend hem
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older‚ maybe younger. I’m a little tipsy now but that’s not what you want to hear. I was once told I drank like an eel‚ I’m not sure what that meant‚ but again that’s not what you want to hear. You want me to sit here and tell you the exact traumatic moment when I began drinking; It was the first time I ever had that nightmare. The next day I asked my dad why drank‚ he said ‘I drink to forget’. He never told me what he was trying to forget. I thought ‘I drinking makes you forget‚ maybe I’ll forget the
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My Teacher There are many good teachers in my life. Among those good teachers‚ the teacher whom I like the most is Miss Yap Shu Phei. Miss Yap is a Science teacher. The reason I like Miss Yap the most is she helped me to get A in the Science subject in UPSR. I was a naughty student and disliked Science in year six. She was our science teacher. Miss Yap paid great attention on our homework. She noted that my homework got worse day by day. She asked me the
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Lies‚ Lies‚ Lies The white lie is an age old embellishment that has different reasons for being told. When it is all said and done a white lie is still a lie. A lie told with perfectly good intentions. A lie told to spare someone’s feelings. A lie about something trivial‚ which will have few consequences if you’re caught. A minor‚ polite‚ or harmless lie‚ a white lie is considered harmless as opposed to a black lie which is evil. Anything that is not accurate is a lie. There are a million
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“I wanted to go to school but my parents told me‚ ’No they might take you away for good.’ And they ran away in the bush. Bonny Tucker‚ Punjima woman‚ Western Australia”. (She refers to the Native Welfare taking away Aboriginal children of mixed descent. www.creativespirits.info) These mini essays will discuss Aboriginal Australian history and it’s connections to official education policies both past and present. What is the connection between official education policies and key events
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DISCUSSION QUESTION:MY TEACHERS The teachers I admire most are those who remain intellectually curious and profesionally vital inside and outside the classroom.They avoid stagnation at all costs and maintain an enviable passion for children and the learning process.They remain vivid in the students’ memories forever because of their compassion and creativity.I had such a teacher in my school days .She was my science teacher who always took little more efforts to make sure we understood the
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A treat for lovers of illuminating the truths of our world‚ Race‚ Monogamy‚ and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature by an anthropologist by the name of Augustin Fuentes‚ outlines three major ideologies within the constructs of our species: humans can be sorted into biological groups or races‚ we are a violent species when culture is absent‚ and there are significant differences between men and women. The underlying principles of these notions change the way we view the world
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