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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Two-star reviews of Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is where I found this: Like, does the back of the book not explain the book well enough for someone to realize it's not a beach book? Also, who reads Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for the first time as an adult without knowing any of the context? It was assigned reading in middle school, and we watched the movie.
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Air Skwirl posted:Like, does the back of the book not explain the book well enough for someone to realize it's not a beach book? Also, who reads Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for the first time as an adult without knowing any of the context? It was assigned reading in middle school, and we watched the movie. I don't know if it's required reading outside of America, and even then, I can see a LOT of schools today maybe skipping that chapter of history entirely. The fact that they call it "holiday" instead of vacation makes me think it's a UK reader.
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Nothing to do with comics but everything to do with bad bad reviews https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/national-parks/worst-national-parks-reviews/
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CzarChasm posted:I don't know if it's required reading outside of America, and even then, I can see a LOT of schools today maybe skipping that chapter of history entirely. The fact that they call it "holiday" instead of vacation makes me think it's a UK reader. How the gently caress does the UK skip over World War 2 in their education system?
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Air Skwirl posted:How the gently caress does the UK skip over World War 2 in their education system? We run out of time in the semester
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Schindler's List was NOT a good choice to keep the kids entertained while we smoked weed in the bathroom.
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Mr. Astronomer's too fancy to put on a costume for the costume party, apparently.
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Air Skwirl posted:How the gently caress does the UK skip over World War 2 in their education system? The British history curriculum very much has the opposite problem.
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Rohan Kishibe posted:The British history curriculum very much has the opposite problem. "I'm sorry, colonial-what? There's no time for that we have to talk about how bad it was that the Germans bombed us."
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Bruceski posted:"I'm sorry, colonial-what? There's no time for that we have to talk about how bad it was that the Germans bombed us." I do sorta wonder what British history classes are like. In America we gloss over a lot of poo poo, but there's a lot of focus on the Civil War, which means we have to acknowledge slavery (though I think I knew about slavery and the civil war well before I learned Washington and Jefferson were slave owners, and no one told me about Sally Hemmings until college), and the Trail of Tears being horrific. Do they just skip straight from Battle of Hastings, Battle of Agincourt, then the Blitz?
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Air Skwirl posted:I do sorta wonder what British history classes are like. In America we gloss over a lot of poo poo, but there's a lot of focus on the Civil War, which means we have to acknowledge slavery (though I think I knew about slavery and the civil war well before I learned Washington and Jefferson were slave owners, and no one told me about Sally Hemmings until college), and the Trail of Tears being horrific. In my US high school history classes I remember the main issue being that everything was presented as resolved. "Slavery was bad, then Lincoln got shot, then it was all over. Civil Rights oppression was bad, and then MLK got shot, and then racism was over. The Holocaust was terrible, but it happened way over there and afterward nobody was antisemitic again." Trail of Tears was treated as a sad end to Native American oppression, and I grew up in the middle of a bunch of reservations. You could see that it wasn't over every day.
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Bruceski posted:In my US high school history classes I remember the main issue being that everything was presented as resolved. "Slavery was bad, then Lincoln got shot, then it was all over. Civil Rights oppression was bad, and then MLK got shot, and then racism was over. The Holocaust was terrible, but it happened way over there and afterward nobody was antisemitic again." Ah yes, I, too went to public school in the south
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Endless Mike posted:Ah yes, I, too went to public school in the south I was gonna say, depending on the state you live in, how much you acknowledge slavery can vary...
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In my honors US history course -- junior year, so just two years before college, and I want to reemphasize this was an honors course -- we learned the reason we had Iron Curtain-era Eastern Europe (which was a thing back in the dark ages when I was in high school) is because Roosevelt tried to drink Stalin under the table at the Yalta conference. This came complete with knowing winks and comments about "those Russians and their vodka." We also spent a lot of time on slavery and its evils, strange for a school in Texas, but it was a Catholic school so that explains it.
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my public school history education consisted of running through a hilariously inaccurate version of the revolutionary war every year and then just barely getting through a hilariously inaccurate version of the civil war. it never even got to ww1, much less the civil rights movement.
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Air Skwirl posted:I do sorta wonder what British history classes are like. In America we gloss over a lot of poo poo, but there's a lot of focus on the Civil War, which means we have to acknowledge slavery (though I think I knew about slavery and the civil war well before I learned Washington and Jefferson were slave owners, and no one told me about Sally Hemmings until college), and the Trail of Tears being horrific. from what I remember of history we did in no particular order: 1066 and William The Conqueror, Henry VIII and the Tudor/Stuart period, a bit on the Renaissance, the War Of The Roses, maybe The Peasants Revolt, a lot on the Industrial revolution, some on WW1 & the English Civil War. Bear in mind, I'm trying to recall history lessons I did 30+ years ago, but those were the ones I remember and there wasn't a lot on WW2
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:my public school history education consisted of running through a hilariously inaccurate version of the revolutionary war every year and then just barely getting through a hilariously inaccurate version of the civil war. it never even got to ww1, much less the civil rights movement. This was my experience except the revolutionary war was an exhaustive version that got slightly more accurate each year because we lived in New England. Everything else was hilariously inaccurate but at least we got to learn about the stamp tax and Shay's rebellion I guess.
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Darthemed posted:
Oh, nice. This got me to look up this series on Marvel Unlimited again and it looks like since last time I looked they've gotten around to uploading 51 of the 60 issues. For a long time, this big and important volume in MK history had only a handful of issues from late in the volume and that was only because they were part of crossovers.
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Why was Moon Knight anyway? e: Oh apparently they were just told "we need a cape guy for the "horror" papers" and that's what they came up with. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:from what I remember of history we did in no particular order: 1066 and William The Conqueror, Henry VIII and the Tudor/Stuart period, a bit on the Renaissance, the War Of The Roses, maybe The Peasants Revolt, a lot on the Industrial revolution, some on WW1 & the English Civil War. Bear in mind, I'm trying to recall history lessons I did 30+ years ago, but those were the ones I remember and there wasn't a lot on WW2 US expat, in UK-curriculum schools from 3rd grade (1970) to 9th (1977) Concur on the above, although we also had the various invasions by the Angles & Romans thrown in as well. Spent at least a week on the War Of The Roses. Read everything Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote (highly recommend her historical quasi-fiction) Had no US history until 10th grade. Knew nothing about the Civil War except that there was one; my US History teacher looked at me like I had lobsters growing out of my forehead. I in turn thought "Antietam" had to be a typo. I'll say this: after several years of UK history I had a complete understanding of why the Founding Fathers were determined to separate church & state. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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From what I remember of GCSE History ~20 years ago, it was all the bits between ww1 and 2, so lots of essays on how the treaty of versailles and great depression led to the rise of extremist views, but once bombs started being dropped not so much. So Hitler and the holocaust were covered, but not the aftermath. Also I didn't get to go to the holocaust museum in Germany, because the coach company only sent us one vehicle by mistake.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why was Moon Knight anyway? I thought he was originally a Werewolf by Night villain.
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Darthemed posted:
"For fucks sake Heather, I know you know how to talk like a normal person."
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Infinitum posted:
It exploded?!
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It exploded, Dave. The horse exploded.
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The horse? Exploded...
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Gordon Bennett. Yes, the horse. The horse exploded, Dave.
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