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.... People complain about America now, what would happen if we really used our power to seize what we wanted? 😛
Fear most likely, not in the biblical sense.
... I generally can't stand philosophy in any shape even though I recognize it's importance.
"Will Think for Food" --sign held at the entrance to the mall parking lot by an unemployed philosopher. 😀
Not so much but our 8th grade text mentioned him a couple of times and (amazingly) for all the right reasons.
Still look in the history books… the K's are just sidebars about the missle crisis and assassination. Adams still gets lots of press.
Wikipedia is great to get familiar with a topic, but ....
Also good to comfirm facts that you thought you had or force you to delete them; a first approximation for most things helping one find a direction for more serious research.
I will grant that the Union Army at the end of the war was first class, but it was also almost all veterans and the product of the crucible of four years of war.
+1.
What about the Boer Wars?
weren't these after the wars previously mentioned?
Nope. It was a running play of the time; imagine the whole line locking arms and the back falling in behind as the line moves upfield.
Ok, then we won't debate.
I'll stand with you on this Scout; the Prussians were the kick a$$ and take names army if not after the war with Austria then, for sure, after the Franco-Prussian War. Hope Donnie is considering the "winding-up" that the Federal Army req'd and the luck of Bobby Lee that the Feds were "slow on the up take".
The flap would not end until everyone that knew anything, what they knew, and when they knew it became plastered on every paper, mag, and news show, anywhere.
This does seem a bit fishy… they were too perfect to doubt; nothing swarthy or suspect about them… Ken and Barbie go to a State dinner, eh?
1- Keep head down.2- Do the work and try to avoid conflict.3- Get the grade.4- Squawk like hell to anyone that will listen (after getting out of the class and being sure this prof doesn't teach something else you need.[Really better if you can just drop the class early on]
It is annoying and should be avoided in any serious academic writing. It's editorializing more than anything, and wastes the reader's time with platitudes that the historical record can speak for itself.
Based on my experiences many people cannot read history (objective or not) and come away with any idea of the importance of people or events; they have no real foundation to appreciate the historical record and the information there. Schools are far too busy teaching kids to pass a high stakes test... the information they do get is influenced by the agenda of so many groups (all threatening lawsuits if their ox gets gored) that the kids are being filled with PC platitudes.NCLB is failing because it isn't about what the kids need to know to be productive citizens it is about what the gov't wants them to be able to do on those tests. Remember... we test all our kids, other nations only test a small percentage of college bound students. Apples to oranges! No one will ever admit we need to dump this program because they would be accused of wanting to leave some behind... hogwash! Better to get a kid a diploma in plumbing than to have him / her drop out.Jackie Mason was right (those many years ago on the Merv Griffin Show) when he asked, "I ask you; if everybody goes to college, who's gonna wrap da' fish?"
