THE OTHER DAY I WAS SUBBING, AND UPON READING THE ASSIGNMENT I REALIZED THAT I HAD BEEN BRAIN WASHED BY THE RIGHT! THAT JOLLY OLD FELLOW HOCHIMIN WAS ONLY TRYING TO UNIFY VIETNAM. WELL THAT'S WHAT THE TEXT SAID AND ALL THESE YEARS I HAD THOUGHT HE WAS A COMMUNIST DICTATOR TRYING TO TAKE OVER HIS NEIGHBOR. SILLY ME! OH, THE TEXT DID NOT EVEN MENTION COMMUNISM, HMMM. THANK YOU RUSH FOR REMINDING US DAILY THAT CHINA IS A FULL BLOWN 
COMMUNIST STATE RUN BY A DICTATOR. I WAS IN A 5TH GRADE ROOM A WHILE BACK AND THE STORY WE READ WAS ABOUT SOME AWFUL REBELS THAT TERRORIZED THIS NICE LITTLE LOYALIST FAMILY. US DARN AMERICANS, WE SHOULD GIVE BACK THIS NATION TO KING GEORGE! I KNOW THAT MOST THINGS ARE WRITTEN WITH THE AUTHORS BIAS ,BUT TEXT BOOKS SHOULD BE AT LEAST FAIR AND BALANCED. GET WRITING KEIRA...... (OR IS IT 'KIERA' ) WE COULD CALL THE NEW HISTORY BOOKS: "SO HELP ME, HANNA".
COMMUNIST STATE RUN BY A DICTATOR. I WAS IN A 5TH GRADE ROOM A WHILE BACK AND THE STORY WE READ WAS ABOUT SOME AWFUL REBELS THAT TERRORIZED THIS NICE LITTLE LOYALIST FAMILY. US DARN AMERICANS, WE SHOULD GIVE BACK THIS NATION TO KING GEORGE! I KNOW THAT MOST THINGS ARE WRITTEN WITH THE AUTHORS BIAS ,BUT TEXT BOOKS SHOULD BE AT LEAST FAIR AND BALANCED. GET WRITING KEIRA...... (OR IS IT 'KIERA' ) WE COULD CALL THE NEW HISTORY BOOKS: "SO HELP ME, HANNA".WITH LOVE, FROM DAD
ps: dad wrote this himself, thus the 'screaming capitals'!
5 comments:
And Napolean was just "unifying" Europe...as was that nice little guy, Hitler.
So help me, Hanna.
"History is written by the victors!", wrote Winston Churchill. I love reading English history books by Alison Weir, she tells it like it is - good or bad.
Let's add Idi Amin & Benito Musselini to that 'unification' list!
So help me, Hanna.
History writers ( all writers?!) have such "leanings" that they tend to make the Tower of Pisa look perfectly perpendicular! I haven't found one yet that has "just the facts, ma'am".
Love it Dad, so help me Hanna...;0)
I have been pleasantly surprised at Daniel's World History textbook this year. It's the best middle school history book I've seen. The authors are very balanced in most of their portrayel of history. I've really enjoyed it. Too bad Danny doesn't like it as much as me.
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