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    James E. Loewen’s book Lies My teacher Told Me is a book that should be read by everyone at some point in their lives. According to James W. Loewen‚ students hate history classes and when they have to take history‚ the students think it’s boring. They repress everythingthey were taught. James W. Loewen spent a lot of time studying 12 history textbooks; he observed high school history classes and interveiwed high school history teachers. Ths is how he knows that the textbook leave out conflict or

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    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

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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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    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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    Reading Journal Entry 1 The first two chapters of Everything I Never Told You felt like quick summaries of the time Lydia was missing‚ and the story of how her mother and father got together. It provides the reader a glimpse into life as an Asian-American‚ life as a teenager‚ as well as how people of races other than white were treated during the 20th century. Asian-Americans in the 20th century and even now‚ are treated like their fundamental understanding of how the English language works is deficient

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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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    Going to the doctor’s office is never a fun experience. Probing‚ poking‚ and trying to decipher what the doc writes on your prescription can be confusing‚ however‚ the most upsetting part is what goes on behind closed doors. Big Pharma‚ chapter 3 of Lies the Media Tells Us‚ explains the PR tactics of drug companies. James Winter explains these tactics used to persuade doctors to use their brand. In some cases these doctors can get free vacations‚ cars‚ front row seating for a basketball game‚ and

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    My Teacher

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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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