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U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Feb 18, 2015.

  1. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    Advanced Placement United States Revisionist History

    Why this country sucks and we should all move to Finland or Canada

    Written by, the people who teach your children and hate this country
     
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  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Rockefeller was a nice guy who handed out dimes to people. Carnegie built a bunch of libraries. That flood in Pennsylvania? It was just a swimming pool that overflowed. Those people killed in Colorado? They never existed.
     
  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    I took AP history when I was a sophomore. I don't remember much about it other than my teacher had a son who went on to play shortstop for the Angels. I didn't do well on the AP test, but overall I think I ended up getting a B+ in the class.
    One assignment was had was a book review. I reviewed Jack Kemp's book on trickle down economics. An American Renewal, I think it was called. I got an A on that paper.
    That's about all I remember. It was so long ago.
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    This is not personal against you at all, but the idea that someone who "didn't do well on the AP test" got a B+ in the class is indicative of the grade inflation problem in our schools.
     
  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    No offense taken. I was an underachieving, easily distracted, inconsistent student.
    I ended up with a 630 verbal, 510 math on my SATs, B-minus overall. Did well in English and social studies, not so hot in math and science. In my senior year, for some reason, I did better in math and science.
     
  6. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    This is a great idea.

    We have an entire generation that refuses to accept what their kids do wrong, so why should people accept anything negative anywhere ever about the country or anything else?
     
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  7. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    The Three-Fifths Compromise was really just the nation's first math curriculum.
     
  8. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Chapter One: The Founding Fathers - America's first Chuck Norris.
     
  9. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    It's a myth that current history books act like everything that has ever happened in this country were always the right things to do. Slavery, Vietnam, Women's right to vote, Civil Rights are all there...
     
  10. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Chapter Two: The Revolutionary War with Britian - America's first ever HATERZZZZZ.
     
  11. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Chapter Three: Manifest Destiny. Get 'R Done, AMIRITE?
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Right. But everything to do with the Founding Fathers (I feel silly even typing that moniker) was always considered a sacred cow. Some are very protective of them.
     
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