Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong

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A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James w. Loewen's classic retelling of American history.

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.

What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should —and could —be taught to American students.

This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.

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Interesting reading.......2007-10-17

I am not sure that everything in this book is true, but it is interesting reading. I think on some items the teacher was telling the truth and the author had an opposing view.

Historical Essay, NOT an easy read!.......2007-10-14

I absolutely loved this book and read it in 2 days. But, I am also a history major, love history, and can read dry lectures. As a fair warning to anyone who is looking to buy this book: don't expect to find fun little quirks and trivia in this book, and don't expect it to be an easy read! It is a college professor's serious and well-researched book, geared toward other historians and scholars. IT IS DRY, IT HAS LOTS OF DATA, IT HAS LOTS OF FOOTNOTES.

If you ARE a history buff, you will probably already know all of the "lies" in the book, but it is still an excellent read. You will be outraged at the lack of ethics of publishers and historians paid to pretend to write textbooks. If you are a history teacher, you DEFINITELY need to read this book and question what your textbooks are (or are not) teaching.

Lastly, if you are an American who still believes the US is THE GREATEST NATION in the world, or THE US IS THE WORLD PROTECTOR, or THE US IS ALWAYS RIGHT, you need to pick up this book right away and re-educate yourself with the facts your old high school social studies book left out.

Book in good condition and delivered quickly.......2007-09-28

I enjoyed this book - all history people should read it! thank you for the quick delivery

Political Conversational tool.......2007-07-31

Although at times unsettling, the purpose of this book is to encourage the questioning of the indoctrinated a one-sided viewpoint of American History.

If you have a cultural diverse group of friends this book may help you understand their indifferences with American History.

A true American accepts both positive and negative parts of history. We don't have to make facts disappear. Acceptance doesn't mean liking, enjoying or condoning. In accepting the truth we can evolve as a nation, but by denying facts we will forever be stuck in cultural wars.

Not a page-turner, not to crazy with the writing style, but interesting.

Absolutely Fantastic! Unfortunately.......2007-07-25

Great book on how the history classes in elementary and high schools have been watered down to the point where they are meaningless. You've always heard people say "those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it". It wasn't until I got to college that I was truely able to see why that is so, when our history classes went beyond "dates and facts". In this book, he makes his points about the dumbing down of history by discussing people, events and facts that have been poorly covered, or ingnored. Sometimes what is taught is just plain wrong, and KNOWN to be wrong by the people writing the books!! This is generally done to avoid controversy and hide distasteful events, or avoid tough questions that have no easy answer. History that is inaccurate, without explaining the context of the times and it's effects today is useless for anything OTHER than propoganda. History is abused (and made into propoganda) by liberal and conservative alike. They ignore facts or context to paint either an overly harsh, or overly rosey picture of our past. This book gives some insight on the damage that causes, especially to minorities whose history is glossed over or just plain inaccurate. This leads to a sense of shame that they somehow haven't contributed to the greatness this country has acheived. A note to the people claiming this is revisonist history. The history you studied in school IS revisionist history! Most people who claim this is revisionist do not support their claims with facts, just claims that it's revisionist because the facts he presents make them uncomfortable. Seek the truth, and let it make you free.

My Name Is Yoon (Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, 2004)

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A Wonderful Addition the School Library
What's in a name? Letters, I s'pose.
Great illiustrations, great message
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Mischievous and fun

My Name Is Yoon (Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, 2004)
Helen Recorvits , and Gabi Swiatkowska
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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ASIN: 0374351147

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Getting to feel at home in a new country

Yoon’s name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States. Yoon isn’t sure that she wants to be YOON. At her new school, she tries out different names – maybe CAT or BIRD. Maybe CUPCAKE!

Helen Recorvits’s spare and inspiring story about a little girl finding her place in a new country is given luminous pictures filled with surprising vistas and dreamscapes by Gabi Swiatkowska.

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A Wonderful Addition the School Library.......2005-09-20

This book is a great ice breaker for those first few days of school. The story is well written, and beautifully illustrated.
Young students can relate to the character, Yoon, on many levels.

What's in a name? Letters, I s'pose. .......2005-08-02

In 2001 a book came out entitled, "The Name Jar" about a girl from Korea who had moved to America and wanted an Americanized name. Then, in 2003, "My Name Is Yoon" came out with practically the same plot. Normally, I have little sympathy for children's books that mimic their predecessors. In this case, however, there can be little doubt as to which book is the better of the two. "My Name Is Yoon", is a complex tale of imagination, flights of fancy, and gradual acceptance. By contrast, "The Name Jar" was simply okay. You can find ho-hum picture books lining the shelves of most libraries and bookstores around the globe. It is far rarer to find books quite as remarkable as the stunning, "Yoon".

Yoon isn't exactly thrilled to be in America. Wherever she looks, she sees that life is different in this strange new land. In Korea, where Yoon was born, her name meant Shining Wisdom. Despite her father's assurances that it means the same thing here, Yoon isn't so sure. And then there's the fact that when she writes her name using English characters, it's just a series of sticks and circles, whereas in Korean, "The symbols dance together". She's right. They do. Yoon carries her unhappiness to school where each day she learns a new word and makes that her name. One day it's cat. Another it's bird. Still another (and most amusingly) it's cupcake. In the end, Yoon learns to like her new country, supposing perhaps that maybe that being different can be good too. And in the end, she embraces her real name. "It still means Shining Wisdom".

I hate summarizing picture books where the plot, when written down, sounds so much hokier than it feels on the page. What I've just written sounds nice but bland. The book is anything but bland. Yoon's a distinct and remarkable character. With each new name she adopts, she becomes that object in her dreams. For example, when she becomes BIRD she wishes she could fly back to Korea once again. The book also skips what I've come to feel is the obligatory foreign-child-gets-teased sequence. The kind of thing you tend to find in books like, "Molly's Pilgrim". I was grateful for the oversight. "My Name Is Yoon" is tackling more important problems here. The acceptance of one's own self in a foreign environment, for example. Becoming your own name. Becoming your own self. What could be greater than this?

The pictures, for their part, don't hurt. Artist Gabi Swiatkowska is perhaps best known for this book and the title, "Silk Umbrellas" by Carolyn Marsden. "My Name Is Yoon" is good as a story, yes. But the Yoon we see here is a complex original human being. A one-of-a-kind gal. When her imagination soars it takes off like nothing else, aided by Swiatkowska's realistic images. I especially liked looking at the pictures of her in her home. Here, the black and white tiles of the floor bend and twist in strangely surreal patterns. I'll be honest with you, though. The book could've been awful and I still would have loved it just so long as it continued to contain the picture of Yoon floating through her classroom window as a delicious fluffy cupcake.

Realism is what grounds "My Name Is Yoon". Surrealism sets it apart from the rabble. If you're stocking your personal library with only the most essential picture books out there, you'd be doing yourself a disservice not to include this truly delightful title.

Great illiustrations, great message.......2005-05-01

This is a wonderful story about a young Korean girl who has moved to America with her family. At school when she write her name Yoon in English for the first time, she decides that she likes her Korean characters more than the English version because, "My name looks happy in Korean. The symbols dance together."

She decides that she would like to go back to Korea because everything is different in America. Every day at school, her nice teacher asks her to write her name on a paper, and Yoon instead writes a different word that she has recently learned. The beautiful illustrations go along with these words, showing Yoon as a bird, cat, and cupcake. In the end Yoon realizes that perhaps America will be a good home, and that, "maybe different is good."

A great story for children to read, to aid in understanding and acceptance.

Young Immigrants Featured Review.......2004-12-06

Immigrant kids recognize that hesitation during roll call when a new teacher gets to their name. I used to dread it, but the experience depended on how a grownup handled these encounters with the unfamiliar. If only all teachers (and immigrant parents) were as wise as the ones in this book! Recorvits' poetic, spare text and Swiatkowska's imaginative paintings explore one aspect of feeling "foreign" -- an immigrant child's name. In a new language and a new alphabet, Yoon's beautiful Korean name seems foreign even to herself. Are you still "Yoon" when people outside the family pronounce your name differently? When they don't know that it means "shining wisdom?" For a child to feel at home in a new country, she needs a loving circle of teachers, parents, and classmates, as well as a good measure of her own courage. Reading My Name is Yoon might compensate somewhat if any of those crucial ingredients are missing.

Mischievous and fun.......2004-04-13

Mischievous, Korean-born Yoon deals with starting school and learning English. She likes her name in Korean. It means shining wisdom. She is not so sure she likes YOON, her name written in English. The illustrations are stark, rich, and playful. Karen Woodworth Roman, East Asian Children's Books

My Teacher Sleeps in School (Picture Puffins)

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Homor
My Teacher Sleeps In School
The teacher
A Must Have
My Teacher Sleeps in School

My Teacher Sleeps in School (Picture Puffins)
Leatie Weiss
Manufacturer: Puffin
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Homor.......2003-03-13

A great book- I have always liked this one. A girl named Molly thinks her teacher lives at her school. Molly and her friends look for clues to see if she is right. This book has good plot elements and a nice ending. Four students suprise their teacher with a home made card and a snack. Soon, the whole class thinks their that their teacher, Mrs. Marsh, sleeps in school. Who ever thought that their teacher lived at school? This book is definitely worth reading. Does Mrs. Marsh really sleep in school? Read the book to find out!

My Teacher Sleeps In School.......2003-03-11

My Teacher Sleeps In School helps us to see the more human side of teachers. It brings out the wild imagination but makes sense at the same time. It makes the reader wonder about the real after school life of teachers. A very intersting book, never a dull moment.

The teacher.......2002-12-13

I think this book is great book. I like how the characters are like in this book, because it seems that they very enjoy school. And also i like it because it something different having elephants going to school, and this reminds me of my friends and I having fun at school.

A Must Have.......2002-02-23

As a kindergarten teacher, this book is a must have! Five-year olds are curious and excited about school, this book incorporates both. Watch the children in your class grow with excitement as you read this wonderful story to them.

My Teacher Sleeps in School.......2000-03-24

This is a wonderful story about kindergarten kids who think their teacher lives in the classroom. She plans a surprise field trip to show them she is a real person, not just a teacher. This is a great book to help kids understand that teachers are people too. As a teacher of 2nd graders, I highly recomment it.

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A Bit Dated
Who Will Tell My Brother?
A Book That Will Stay In Your Mind
The Mascot
Beautiful!

Who Will Tell My Brother?
Marlene Carvell
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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ASIN: 0786816570
Release Date: 2004-08-02

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International Reading Association Children's Book Award Winner Determined to sway high school officials to remove disparaging Indian mascots, Evan assumes a struggle that spirals him onto a soul-searching journey and exposes him to a barrage of bullying, taunts, and escalating violence.Marlene Carvell's striking first novel is a timely look at a true story of a mixed-race teen caught up in an exploration of his past, his culture, and his identity.

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A Bit Dated.......2007-06-11

Evan is a high school student descended from Native Americans. His father's relatives still live on a reservation and Evan and his mother and brother visit them there. But other than this heritage, Evan is a pretty typical high school student.

But then, one day at a school pep rally, Evan finds himself really bothered by what he sees. His school's mascot is an Indian, a horrible caricature of Indian traditions. The mascot does clumsy Indian dances, wears a headband with feathers and shrieks out war whoops. The cheerleaders have their faces streaked with color to imitate war paint. Evan grows more and more embarrassed and upset as the pep rally continues, until he thinks he can't stand it anymore. He decides to try to do something about the situation.

Like his older brother did years before Evan when he was in high school, Evan goes to the school board to ask them to consider changing the school's mascot to something less offensive. Although he approaches them time and time again, they state that the members of the school take pride in their mascot and it isn't hurting anyone. Evan continues the fight, although he is harassed at school. Can one student win a battle against an entire town?

I liked that the story was told in poems, but each poem was detailed enough to give me a clear idea of what was going on. I liked the ending of this story, too.

I think this story is already a bit out of date, though. In our current state of political correctness, I don't think a school board would dare to refuse a request such as Evan's anymore.

Who Will Tell My Brother?.......2006-12-03

I think that this book is only ok. It is good because it helps people learn how to stand up for their race, and gain courage. But I did not like the author's style of writing which was in poem form, which made it difficult for me to enjoy the book.

A Book That Will Stay In Your Mind.......2006-04-25

Who Will Tell My Brother, by Marlene Carvell, is a thought provoking novel written in the Karen Hesse (Out of the Dust) blank verse style. It tells the tale of Evan, a high school senior of Native American heritage, and his struggle with the powers that be in an attempt to remove the offensive Indian school mascot. Carvell's vivid description of the "painted face with empty eyes" picture of the mascot brings the point home clearly that Native Americans are living people as Evan struggles with his heritage and the hatred from his fellow students. The school board also does not understand why Evan is taking this matter so seriously and tell him "Racism is matter of opinion."

Evan's older brother, Jacob, was the first student to attempt to change the mascot, but now is away at college. The title of the story is the main plot point as Evan must tell his brother about a terrible and violent act done to scare Evan away from continuing his struggle. The violence changes the opinion of the majority of the student body from supporting the mascot to silently protesting the mascot's presence at graduation.

Carvell's use of verse was very moving in describing Evan's emotions as he stood up for what he believed in. The act of violence is devastating and will stay with the reader long after they've completed the story. Evan's courage and inner strength will also stay with readers who stand up for what is right.

The Mascot.......2005-11-22

This book is about a typical boy named Evan. He is a senior in High School. At the school the mascot is an Indian. Evan's ancestors are Indians and he feels that the mascot is very offensive and racial. He tries to go to the school board many times to persuade them to agree that the mascot is offensive. Because Evan is trying to get rid of the mascot many of the other students at school taunt and bully him. HE is constantly being taunted because of what he thinks. You have to read the book to find out what happens to Evan and see if they get rid of the mascot.
In the book I liked that Evan never gives up, and he keeps on trying even though he is being taunted so much. In the book I didn't like he was bullied all the time. I also didn't like that when he was taunted only half the time someone would step in and help him.
I think that people that like books that are in poem form would like this book. I think that if you like books that are about people never giving up and are fighting for what they believe in would like this book.

Beautiful!.......2004-05-31

This is one of the most beautifully created books I have ever read in my entire life. It's sort of wierd how it's written in poetry, but once you start reading it, you can't stop, and you'll start to understand it more. I encourage every sing soul to read this book. Male and female both young and old--you will truly be blessed.

"My Trouble is My English": Asian Students and the American Dream

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Excellent Reading
Broadens the conversation about teaching and learning

"My Trouble is My English": Asian Students and the American Dream
Danling Fu
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ASIN: 0867093552

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Can the whole language approach adequately prepare minority students, especially those with different backgrounds, for the literate world? With "My Trouble Is My English," Danling Fu joins the current debate over this issue, examining the learning experiences of four Laotian students at a mainstream secondary school. Her study not only describes and interprets the students' learning situations, it also helps us understand their perspectives, along with those of their teachers.

Fu introduces us to the Savang family, refugees who left Laos, spent time in a settlement camp in Thailand, and finally escaped to the United States. Her book is about their dreams of integration, and the ways their school often tracked them into classes where the focus was on isolated vocabulary and language skills.

Fu shows, in graphic detail, how difficult this "simplified" approach is for those new to a culture. And she shows how open journal writing assignments began to tap the rich stories this family had to tell.

Fu, a native Chinese teacher with her own unique learning history, brings her firsthand experience of second language acquisition to this book. Her treatment of the issues of inclusion, multiculturalism, and students "at risk" is especially personal and insightful.

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Excellent Reading.......2006-11-09

I read this book as a course requirement, and I must say, it's very impressive. This ethnography ought to be read by all educators. Not only is it very beautifully written, but it also sheds light on the unique experience of students with different cultural backgrounds and learning styles. What is truly groundbreaking about this book is that the author took the time to not only know the children's challenges as students, but she took the time to really know them as individuals with real hopes and dreams, who must find a balance between Asian and American values and culture. I feel fortunate to have been given such lucid insight into this rich culture from the account of these students' experiences. This is an enlightening book, and it will make you think about what is actually going on in our education system, and from within, how to truly help minority students succeed. For a fresh perspective and highly enjoyable, yet intellectually stimulating reading, I would recommend this book.

Broadens the conversation about teaching and learning.......1997-12-12

The first chapter of this book offers a dual lens of this Chinese
author struggling to comprehend how her American peers
read literature. For example, they want to discuss minor
themes or political issues instead of plot. Later, when the
author enrolls in a graduate school of education program,
her lens broadens more, as she observes another philosophy
of teaching which emphasizes students making their own meaning
based on experiences and feelings, rather than stressing the sexuality
of the characters in the book, or other seemingly irrelevant issues.

Fu's observations offer American readers much insight into some of the problems often found in schools. Her book should be read by teachers and advanced
students as a means to learn more about how American culture affects learners
who are not native, as well as ones who are.

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Actually 4 1/2 Stars ... .......2007-04-29

The chosen book of the month for our school this May (and June), I read this book to my class of special needs students and they enjoyed it. The pictures are engaging, and the rhymes structure is solid. (Almost rap worthy I'm told.) In fact, we are taking pictures of us re-enacting each picture ... with one small improvement.
After all, all teachers aren't women! :)

sweet teacher book.......2005-01-14

In this story we see a little boy who is writing a story about his teacher. He thinks that she is the best and can teach anyone! He starts off by saying that she can teach an astronaut to float in space. He goes through each letter of the alphabet naming a person that he teach could teach to do their job.

This was a simple picture book that can teach young children lots of things. They will see that teachers are important people.

This book is recommend for a story time read aloud. There are lots of fun things to look at on each page. Young children will learn the basic concepts of the alphabet and be introduced to lots of occupations through this simple picture book.

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Ellen's Voice
A Voice To Find
Korean American experience
Finding My Voice
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Finding My Voice
Marie G. Lee
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
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ASIN: 0064472450
Release Date: 2001-11-27

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Ellen Sung is taken unawares by Tamper Sandel, and when he kisses her, her whole world shifts. She doesn't have time for a boyfriend, especially one who's probably not going to college. She's completely absorbed in keeping her grades up to please her strict immigrant parents, who will freak out if she doesn't get into Harvard. Even an evening with her best friend, Jessie, feels like guilty time away from her studies. She can't tell her parents about Tomper, or about the racist slurs she receives in school. These days, Ellen's not sure whom to please. And what about what she wants: does that matter at all?

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Ellen's Voice.......2005-03-02

Myong-Ok (Ellen) is a senior in high school she has 2 amazing friends Jessie and Beth. Ellen is only one year away from college and her parents want her to follow her sister Michelle to Harvard to study to be a doctor or a lawyer, but Ellen has different plans. She also has a crush on a guy named Tomper but he is taken buy a snobby girl named Marsha who is also on Ellen's gymnastic team which is bad for Ellen. But then at the biggest party of the year Tomper surprises Ellen. During April every one who applied to college early should be getting there acceptance letter. Ellen finally gets hers she gets in to Harvard and Wesley but is on a waiting list for Brown. Theres more to come during the summer for Ellen, Jessie, Tomper and Mike. I liked this book a lot because it kept you going at a steady pace. It's a girl that every girl can relate to like boys, college, grades, and her parents.

A Voice To Find.......2004-03-11

A Voice to Find

Finding My Voice is about Myong- Ok (Ellen) who is the only Korean girl in the school. She goes through racism because she is a Korean girl. Ellen has the usual evil enemy, the cute crush and her best friends that help her through high school. Inside Arkin High Ellen gets Aýs and Býs and has the highest classes with a couple of her friends that she knows.
But at home she is different, more perfect. The only reason that Ellen is perfect is because her father. He puts pressure on her to be the best like her older sister, Michelle. Ellenýs father often says something like, ýWhy canýt you be more like your older sister Michelle?ý Or ýMichelle got straight A+ýs why canýt you get them too?ý
Ellenýs favorite subject is English because she can really express her self in it. But her real passion is Gymnastics. She tries so hard to achieve a star on her jacket which means that she can compete in the regional. Ellen has a hard time trying to do what she likes (Gymnastics) because her father comes in again and says ýIf you get lower than an A, you are going to quit the gymnastics team.ý
Then in the middle of the story her crush, Tomper, starts noticing her and asks her out. Ellen says, ýYesý. Since she agreed to go out with Tomper she has to lie to her parents. Will her parents find out about Tomper?
This book really made me think twice about how people might feel if they are made fun of because of their race or culture. I was never really bored but it kind of went slow in the beginning but it soon got fast paced. Like in the beginning it gave a little too much information so I was a little bored. The vocabulary of this book doesnýt have large words that you may need to look up in the dictionary. But in the end I would give it five stars! Another book that relates to this book is called Promised Land by Isabelle Holland. It too deals with racism but in the olden days like after the Civil War.

By: Harini

Korean American experience.......2003-08-04

Ellen/Myong-Ok lives a double life: the dutiful obediant daughter of a Korean doctor and immigrant who expects her to go to Harvard as a science major like her bright older sister, and the gynmastics athlete and humanties lover who sneaks out to drink with her friends. When a blonde blue eyed football hero starts to fall for her, it becomes something else to hide, along with the racism she experiences from students and teachers alike.
Lee successfully juxtaposes American and Korean values, and presents a heroine who defines an identity she can remain true to.

Finding My Voice.......2003-04-29

This book,¡± Finding My Voice¡± talks about a Korean girl who lives in the United States. Actually, it is a good story and a special experience about Ellen. I think she can¡¯t forget everything during her whole life. In my opinion, most of Asian people have this kind of experience when they lived in the United States. I think for people who are racist, it is really difficult for then to change their thinking about living with people who are not American. I don¡¯t know why some people must have a different attitude towards people who came from different countries. I can understand about Ellen¡¯s feeling when she felt all of the unfair things. It was not her fault. She studied hard just for her parents, she liked Tomper but she couldn¡¯t get everybody¡¯s blessing. She didn¡¯t have any confidence when she felt she was so different from other Americans. She thought Tomper wouldn¡¯t fall in love with her. For me, I think if I were Ellen, I must be strong and I must think I can do everything well. If I can¡¯t change other people¡¯s thinking, I only can do my best to prove myself. I think, I live in the world not only for myself, but also for a good life. I will try to find the best way to make me feel good. So I will care about each decision during my life. I think sometimes parents¡¯ opinions can be accepted, so I will follow my parents¡¯ suggestion to think about something.

: ).......2003-04-25

I'm an international student from Korea. The book itself was interesting and it made me think a lot about Korean people in America because Ellen, who is a main character of this book is from Korean immigrant familly. Through this book, I could see how she has matured in her thinking and I thought about how the Korean people went through their troubles. At the same time, I found the answer to how I can cope with my living situation in America. It was a precious experience for me to read this book.

Quick Children's Sermons: Will My Dog Be in Heaven? (Quick Children's Sermons)

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Good for those who just need ideas...
Dogs are Angels on Earth

Quick Children's Sermons: Will My Dog Be in Heaven? (Quick Children's Sermons)
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ASIN: 1559456124

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Good for those who just need ideas..........2007-04-18

This book is helpful, though it is rather cheesy in many of the lessons. This is perfect for those who are just looking for ideas, the sparks to get their minds going down the right track, because following their lessons to the letter leaves the ideas either over simplified or just unclear. If you are looking for a total lesson outline that is good and relevant, keep looking. If you are looking for something to give you ideas that you can then beef up on your own to make them the best they can be, then this may be for you.

Dogs are Angels on Earth.......2006-06-18

Of course dogs will be in Heaven as they have pure souls. As the owner of a pet assisted therapy dog who attends a church service weekly -- we have been assured that dogs are Angels on Earth and will meet us in Heaven -- this books is a lovely introduction for children to the thought process.

Ten Dollars in My Pocket: The American Education of a Holocaust Survivor: a Memoir in Documents

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Ten Dollars in My Pocket . . .

Ten Dollars in My Pocket: The American Education of a Holocaust Survivor: a Memoir in Documents
Elizabeth Welt Trahan
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Ten Dollars in My Pocket is both an American success story and a description of the painful maturation process of a belated teenager trying to discover who and where she is, and who is at least once on the verge of suicide. This account is unique because of the authenticity of its narrative voice: we read diary entries and letters written during those years, as well as several eyewitness accounts published by the author at that time. This kaleidoscope of factual information is complemented by the author's recollections and reflections.

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Ten Dollars in My Pocket . . ........2006-11-30

Elizabeth Welt Trahan's new book is in some ways a record of mid-20th century life in the United States - seen through the eyes of a young, naive European immigrant who only gradually and after many missteps finds her way. Arriving in New York from Vienna in 1947 with ten dollars in her pocket, she first works as a switchboard operator in a one-man outfit, moves on to office work, becomes a scholarship student at Sarah Lawrence while earning her keep as a nanny in a faculty home, is a teaching assistant at Cornell, finally a fellowship student at Yale. Each experience is different - from bewildered first assessments and then enthusiastic acceptance of America's "quaint" customs, to "feeling like Cinderella at the ball but without a prince" in Bronxville's rarified atmosphere, to succumbing to an at first exhilarating but then disastrous plunge into the pleasures of graduate life at Cornell, finally, at Yale, struggling through to an insight into and acceptance of herself, her shortcomings and achievements.

Like so many others Jewish Holocaust survivors, Trahan did not even have a high school education when she arrived in the States at age 22; moreover, she found it extremely difficult to shake off the scars of the nightmarish past which she had barely survived. The trauma of witnessing friends and relatives arrested and deported, the fear of denunciation and of expecting any minute the ominous knock on the door that would lead to her own deportation, made her both insecure and deeply mistrustful of others. Thus her references to political events of the fifties, including the budding civil right movement and the McCarthy witch hunts, are doubly interesting: they are seen through the objective eyes of a former European who is at times is struggling not to lose faith in the country that adopted her and that she has adopted.

But what makes her account unique is its extensive documentation. Unlike most memoirs, it does not have to rely on the approximations of memory; instead, it draws extensively on diary entries, letters and articles written by the author during those years of struggle and striving, with the quoted passages linked and supplemented by personal reflections and recollections. These include descriptions of encounters with fellow immigrants, the working world of New York City, and such distinguished teachers, scholars and writers as Rudolf Arnheim, Joseph Campbell, Vladimir Nabokov, Rene Wellek.

The vivid diary entries and detailed letters to and from friends, both here and in Europe, illustrate a story that joins the ranks of books such as "Lost in Translation" by former Polish, now-Canadian/British writer Eva Hoffman, books that deal with the struggles of Central European refugees as they recreate their native voice in a new language.

Trahan, in her life as well as in her career, has achieved what she was groping toward as a twenty-two-year-old DP, i.e., displaced person, who had just arrived on the shores of this county with ten dollars in her pockets - to become a woman, a teacher and a writer.

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong

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Don't believe everything you read - this book especially...
Should be a most read for all history students

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
Manufacturer: New Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1565840089

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The American Book Award winner's long out-of-print, myth-busting poster book, sure to be of interest to the million-plus buyers of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

In Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me offers a graphic corrective to the Columbus story told in so many American classrooms. First published over fifteen years ago and long out-of-print, the poster and accompanying paperback book sum up the mis-tellings—and reveal the real story—in a graphically appealing and accessible format.

In vintage Loewen fashion, the poster juxtaposes short quotes from a range of high school textbooks currently in use today, with excerpts from primary sources that clearly show how textbooks have "lied" by knowingly substituting crowd-pleasing myths for grim and gruesome historical evidence.

In fact, these textbooks intentionally omitted every important detail that we do know about Columbus's fateful voyage to the Americas. Among countless other facts, Loewen demonstrates that Columbus and his men were far from the first to set foot in the "New World," and that the peoples he encountered there did not submit to the "god-like" authority of him and his crewmen, but rather to the deadly forms of smallpox and bubonic plague they brought with them from Europe.

In concise, deeply engaging prose, Loewen expands on these little-discussed facts, putting them in the larger context of a discussion of "truth" and revisionist history. Originally published as The Truth About Columbus.

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Don't believe everything you read - this book especially..........2003-09-24

One reviewer claims this should be taught in schools - This is just another jewel for revisionist historians. We do not need this type of material to be taught in our public schools. Although the author claims to have used primary sources, his interpretation of these sources should be questioned. Our young children should learn to search for truth, but not be misled by one man's erroneous opinion. Undermining our History texts only teaches students to distrust teachers and schools.

Should be a most read for all history students.......2001-08-30

Everything by the author is well researched, thought provoking, and tells us things we don't want to hear but need to.

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