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College History Paper Quotes

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College History Paper Quotes

Post by boswellbaxter » Sat January 9th, 2010, 5:36 pm

This professor's quotes from freshmen's history papers (discovered courtesy of Jeri Westerson's blog) are priceless. Don't eat or drink while reading this.


http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?f ... _id=454174

One of my favorites:

In the 1400 hundreds most Englishmen were perpendicular. A class of yeowls arose. Finally, Europe caught the Black Death. The bubonic plague is a social disease in the sense that it can be transmitted by intercourse and other etceteras. It was spread from port to port by inflected rats. Victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. The plague also helped the emergance of the English language as the national language of England, France and Italy.
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Post by Misfit » Sat January 9th, 2010, 6:58 pm

Hitler remilitarized the Rineland over a squirmish between Germany and France.
Squirmish? :eek:
Moosealini rested his foundations on eight million bayonets and invaded Hi Lee Salasy.
Moosealini? :eek:
War screeched to an end when a nukuleer explosion was dropped on Heroshima.
nukuleer? :eek:

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Post by Tanzanite » Sat January 9th, 2010, 7:07 pm

Some of those are priceless!

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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Sat January 9th, 2010, 8:36 pm

It seems that the writers of this were very anti-semantic... :D

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Post by Divia » Sat January 9th, 2010, 9:46 pm

having been a history teacher I can attest that students do interpret events very differently.
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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun January 10th, 2010, 1:28 am

I still remember reading one student wrote that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. (you know Noah's Ark, it makes sense ;) ).

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Post by Margaret » Sun January 10th, 2010, 2:54 am

Priceless. I haven't even got to the link, I was laughing so hard at the excerpts you guys posted - and almost as hard at MLE's little contribution!
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Post by Nefret » Sun January 10th, 2010, 4:51 am

In Russia the 17th century was known as the time of the bounding of the serfs. Russian nobles wore clothes only to humour Peter the Great. Peter filled his government with accidental people and built a new capital near the European boarder.
Who are the accidental people? Their parents weren't planning on having them? And the only reason clothes were worn was to humor the Czar? (And Louis XIV became ruler of the Sun.)

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Post by boswellbaxter » Sun January 10th, 2010, 5:22 am

[quote=""Nefret""]Who are the accidental people? Their parents weren't planning on having them? And the only reason clothes were worn was to humor the Czar? (And Louis XIV became ruler of the Sun.)[/quote]

And did the European boarder, presumably not being a noble, wear clothes? Perhaps he had to bound around like the serfs in order to keep warm?
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Post by Nefret » Sun January 10th, 2010, 5:33 am

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]And did the European boarder, presumably not being a noble, wear clothes? Perhaps he had to bound around like the serfs in order to keep warm?[/quote]

Were the serfs bound in blankets? Maybe they could have gone to France. Borrow some sun from their king.

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