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    Dedicated to all American history teachers who teach against their textbooks Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Something Has Gone Very Wrong 1 • Handicapped by History; The Process of Hero-making 9 2 * 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Columbus 29 3 • The Truth about the First Thanksgiving 67 4 • Red Eyes 91 5 • "Gone with the Wind": The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks 131 6 • John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Anti-racism in American

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    German Loanwords The German language has provided English with a huge inventory of words‚ many of them pertaining to music‚ science‚ and politics‚ thanks to the influence of German-speaking people on those areas of human endeavor. Here are some of the more useful German terms borrowed into English. 1. Achtung (“attention”): an imperative announcement used to obtain someone’s attention 2. Angst (“anxiety”): a feeling of apprehension 3. Blitz (“lightning”): used only literally in German‚ but in

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    THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION Name: Oksana Doyling Class: 4a3 Subject: History Date: Friday 12 April‚2013 Topic: The Haitian Revolution Table Of Contents Topics Pages Overview of Haiti/ St. Domingue..............................................................................................2 Causes of the Haitian Revolution..............................................................................................3 Outcome of the Haitian Revolution................

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    I. Executive Summary Solid Group Incorporated has been in the retail industry for more than 50 years. Among Solid Group’s biggest projects to date is the introduction of My|Phone‚ the very first dual active SIM mobile phone. My|Phone is the first and leading Filipino mobile phone manufacturer in the Philippines and developing better phones at much affordable prices. A proposal for the Global Marketing plan for My|Phone has been made. In the most recent statistics available from the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT

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    to oppress indigenous peoples was explained when he arrived in the west indies‚ on the first island he had found and took the natives by force in order to learn and gather information of these new lands he had found. 8. The ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians was extinction because over the centuries‚ they were subject to hostile take-overs‚ diseases‚ enslavement‚ and damage to food supplies by the Europeans. Zinn Chapter 1: pp. 2-22 Columbus‚ The Indian‚ and Human Progress 1. The significance

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    ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY SUMMER 2013 READING ASSIGNMENT CHAPTER 1: "Columbus‚ the Indians‚ and Human Progress" (pp. 1-11) 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? To tell history from the viewpoint of the victims and not overlooking what the country has done to become what they are today. It includes the cruelty and hardships the people had to go through. 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? He will be as blunt as he

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    Conan Kmiecik Professor Carducci Eng 607 30 April 2007 English Imperialism and Representations of the New World and its Indigenous People in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest Prospero‚ an exiled Naples duke‚ and his daughter‚ Miranda‚ are marooned on a remote island with the lone indigenous[1] inhabitant‚ a beast man named Caliban. Through his sorcery Prospero is able to enslave Caliban‚ the indigene‚ who toils for the benefit of Prospero and Miranda‚ the

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    INTRODUCTION Cement is a binder‚ a substance that sets and hardens independently‚ and can bind other materials together. The word "cement" traces to the Romans‚ who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed rock with burnt lime as binder. The volcanic ash and pulverized brick additives that were added to the burnt lime to obtain a hydraulic binder were later referred to as cementum‚ cimentum‚ cäment‚ and cement. Cement is made by grinding

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    GEND 2004: SEXUAL POWER AND ILICIT DESIRE Name: Danielle Cox I.D. #: 620041842 Class: Monday 12 -1 Date: October 22‚ 2012 GEND 2004: SEXUAL POWER AND ILICIT DESIRE Name: Danielle Cox I.D.: 620041842 Class: MON 12-1 Date: October 20‚ 2012 Question 4: Critically evaluate patriarchal ideologies and practices that perpetuate gender based violence and the interventions that are necessary to eradicate it. “The man is the head of the

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    "No commodity on the face of the Earth has been wrested from the soil or the seas‚ from the skies or the bowels of the earth with such misery and human blood as sugar" ...(Anon) Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste‚ rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated a complex process of cultural change altering the lives of all those it has touched

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