A Distant Mirror: The “Calamitous” 14th Century Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror is about as entertaining as a history book can get or should be. Tuchman is a captivating storyteller and the quality of her history of France in the 14th century speaks for itself as the book has remained in print after 25 years. Famous for her engaging‚ narrative style that makes history flow like a thrilling novel‚ Tuchman presents a comprehensive review of 14th century Europe (via France‚ the dominant European
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A Different mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California‚ Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university‚ he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation’s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America
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Making Thinking Visible In order to make thinking visible teachers must come up with ideas on how to. After reading this article they showed me the think-puzzle-explore method. In this method students get to think‚ identify questions and target directions to explore. These certain types of thinking routines help that light bulb in the students head click. The routine of these thinking methods will help those certain struggles that were once invisible made visible again. Learning is the consequence
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: An Investment Itself? “Race is a cultural construct‚ but one with deadly social causes and consequences” (Lipsitz 2). In his book‚ The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics‚ George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to “invest in whiteness‚ to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources‚ power‚ and opportunity (Lipsitz vii).” Lipsitz’s book gives a substantial
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Mirror With A Memory Millions of other Americans were searching for a place in the new industrial society of the late nineteenth century. The Civil War led to people flooding into cities. Urban areas changed from homogenous with Irish and Germans to large groups of European immigrants. New York had the largest Jewish population. The quality of living changed as manufacturing and commerce crowed into cities. The top classes fled to the suburbs. Realtors changed mansions into tenements for
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throughout their lifetime. People with disabilities have taken on so much in the past‚ and they still face many barriers throughout their daily lives‚ but sometimes these disabilities can’t be seen by the onlooker because not all disabilities are visible. People with disabilities haven’t always been treated with respect and kindness‚ like they are today. The author from the passage Society’s Attitude Toward People with Disabilities states that throughout history ‚ the way people with disabilities
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more senior privileges in addition to leaving 5 minutes early at the end of the school day and being able to eat in the courtyard all-year round‚ except for the winter. Along with the two privileges already in place‚ I am proposing that seniors be able to leave campus during their lunch period for one semester and get lunch elsewhere. In order to do so‚ seniors would need to fill out a “Senior Off-Campus Pass” form and have it signed by their parents. However‚ if seniors abuse this privilege‚ I understand
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A MIRROR TO THE BLIND An autobiography of Abdul Sattar Edhi by Tehmina Durrani. A mirror to the blind was an insight in the life of the most dedicated social worker of Pakistan Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi. Ms Tehmina Durrani wrote this book with the help of over 40 hours of recordings and after two years of effort this book was finally published in 1998.Edhi belonged to a middle class bantva Memon family. His father was twice and his mother once widowed before they married each other. Edhi’s mother
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While doing the walk of privilege I thought I would learn a lot about myself‚ but I really didn’t. Instead of learning I prefer to see it as I came to a realization about my life. And that was‚ that I am so very privileged‚ more then I had ever thought of before. “The Walk of Privilege” that I took in my Anth 280 class made me see how very lucky I am. While we as a class all started in the same spot‚ on the same line‚ we all ended up very far away from each other. Some of us ahead of the line‚ and
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White privilege Having a benefit because of your skin color is not a good thing. Some people think that because they are white they should have privilege that others don’t. That seems pretty dumb to me being a white men. White privilege is defined as an advantage that white people enjoyed or have over others non-white persons. It could be a transparent preference for whiteness. In my opinion we should all be treated equally as human beings because God made each of us different so that the world
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