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Stop being a pussy, step outside your echo chamber and learn something
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
I dare you
It pales in comparison to the systematic reduction and genocide practiced on Native Americans by the US Army and government.
I don't buy the 'noble savage' trope that is trotted out all the time but to compare internecine and tribal warfare with wholesale one-sided slaughter and theft that was perpetrated on Native Americans is a bit disingenuous.
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a good primer on what the Native Americans in the West faced. It made me both furious and sick to my stomach in turn.
My father gave it to me when I was a kid in the late 1970s and I didn't really pay attention to it. I reread it about two months ago and took it all in. It's fucking horrifying.
Reading comprehension is a lost art.
"Wow, I'm impressed...Yves' virulent hatred of all things Jewish has gotten to the point where he thinks even the Palestinian Authority is too soft on Jews."
I'm very clearly making a statement that 1) Yves has a virulent hatred of all things Jewish, and 2) This post he's made indicates that now he thinks even the PA is too soft on Jews. Here, this book has some really good activities I've found helpful.
You're so determined that everyone who criticizes Israel be protected from being called anti-semitic, but that's not how it works. I'm not going to refrain from calling a piece of shit who doesn't just resort to but WHOLEHEARTEDLY EMBRACES anti-semitic tropes and misinformation an anti-semite just because he also criticizes Israel.
Criticizing Israel isn't a shield to protect walking turds like Yves from being called out for their bullshit.
"BUT ISRAEL!" isn't a get-out-of-jail free card for people who are determined to attack Jewish Canadians and their hard-won institutions at every opportunity.
As humans, we are pattern-seekers. The internet has only made it easier to seek out confirmation bias of any pattern we can imagine.
I think you should check out Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos. He is a math professor who did a great job explaining how we can find patterns/coincidences anywhere we look, and how they aren't as "miraculous" as the church might lead you to believe. It's a good read and you can get it used for like 4 bucks.
I think you need this
Most of us can’t wrap our brain around huge numbers like this. This is a great book that dives into that:
Shuffle a deck of 52 cards and then draw 5. The odds of you drawing those 5 specific cards was approximately 1 in 2.5 million, and yet it happens every time.
You can keep fallaciously playing with numbers to make certain events seem impossible, or you can do yourself a huge favor by picking up a little book called Innumeracy and reading it
do you think the deaths in the trails of tears were the extent of the ethnic cleansing committed by the US govt?
maybe start here its an oldie but a goodie https://www.amazon.com/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=7f423571-7a5b-43b6-acc8-50c4cfd65d7d
Not a lot of them, small denominator, and of those who do, many drink.
It's a shame what happened to them. Look into their history, it's really fascinating and relevant to Asian Americans.
I'm reading this now:
https://www.amazon.com/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846
When the white man came, they were helpful to the white man, generous, said "it's ok, we'll share." But the white man kept claiming more and more of their territories, offering them treaties, then straight up breaking them.
The white man would take advantage of divisions in their communities, side with one to beat the other, and then defeat the tribe that remained.
Some of the white men would take Native wives. The dynamics are sort of the same with Asians. Some of the men who married native women were the second-rate, less-desirable, small white men. They were kind of the weebs, sympathetic to Natives. Other Native women married white men and were used as go-betweens as the whites tried to subjugate the Natives.
Some of the Natives had half-breed sons, who sided with the white man and were used to make inroads to destroying the red man. All along, the red man was pretty laidback, trusting the white man, not making a big deal about divisions until it was too late.
Some of the Natives accepted their second-class status and tried hard to prove themselves to the white man. Ely S. Parker, the first Native American to hold the post of U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, reminded me of the path of a lot of Asian Americans.
He gave up his name, converted to Christianity. Prevented from taking the Bar Exam because of his race, became an excellent civil engineer. Mocked for his lack of English as a boy, he learned to speak and wrote English so well that he was asked to draft some of the key documents at the end of the civil war.
If you can spare 10 dollars, I strongly suggest picking up the book Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos. He’s a math professor who very effectively explains how probability calculations get used incorrectly, with these Meyer calculations being a prime example.
I can't find your booklist in any recent posts but if it isn't already on there, I would suggest The Number Devil.
Define "KIDS". How and what students are taught should definitely expand as they get older. As a junior in high school, for example, my history teacher gave me Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to read for a book report. Most definitely NOT the "fairy tale" version of American history.
You're welcome! I just ordered Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and it's on my TBR list as well (as soon as I get done with some of the other books I'm reading now).
I was doing political activism for a while and started getting into research about DW-NOMINATE. Then I figured out how to run it in R, and I thought that was super cool. Eventually I decided I needed to learn more stats to support what I was experimenting with in R.
I also read Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos in high school, which is a fun book, and I think that primed me to like statistics.
I currently work as a data manager, and that overlaps some with statistics and data science. How much I enjoy the work varies by the specific project I'm working on-- I enjoy things more if I feel like I'm learning new things and having a visible impact. The actual category of the work itself doesn't seem to have a large effect, kind of surprisingly.
Previous post:
>They don't really have that great if a midfield and apart from pjanic and maybe Can none of them really fit Sarris playing style
Then in my reply:
>Khedira I doubt will get minutes. Matuidi def doesn't fit sarris system. Dybala doesn't play midfield. I forgot about Ramsey tho
So from my fucking post, pjanic, MAYBE Can and Ramsey are great midfielders that also fit Sarris style. At that moment they didnt sign Ramsey. The fucking Graphic is literally Ramsey, Rabiot and Pjanic. Two fucking mids i already mentioned were quality.
Then in my post that you replied to:
>Having quantity in midfielders don't mean they have quality. The current lineup of midfielders are quality. Apart from 1 other in the bench they aren't worth anything compared to other top 5 clubs
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Their current lineup, which i ALREADY said was good and fit sarris style, was never up for debate.
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Here is a link on Amazon for Reading comprehension. Its for 6th graders which i think is adequate for your level. Buy it, make use of it. Study the absolute shit out of it. https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Grade-Skill-Builders/dp/1936023342/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3V7MV5BD2QPPJ&keywords=reading+comprehension+grade+6&qid=1564096714&s=gateway&sprefix=reading+compr%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-3
A million times yes! It is considered the seminal work on the destruction of the Native Americans, even after 50 years. It's written in a very approachable read but still highly academic. It's not a dry read by nature of the material, but it does have spells here and there of explaining what is occurring within the tribes themselves. Be warned, it gets much more graphic than this excerpt at times.
The description of Wounded Knee is only a small part of one chapter: each chapter details the relations between the American government and a single Native American tribe, so as to describe the different experiences of each tribe with the government. It covers the time span between 1860s-1890s.
It's free on Amazon Prime if you have that, and most libraries carry it. I won't link the PDF because I'm guessing there would be copyright issues, but you can easily find it with a Google search.
I guess it boils down to ensure you can use all your advantages while survive the advantages of shooting armies for at least one turn.
As a Guard player, when it comes to close combat you actually don't have that much and your Daemon Prince will kill almost any unit. Don't know if in your meta people play those shooty armies AND still have some decent close combat troops, but I'm sure it's difficult to have sufficient of both, especially when you have a flying Daemon Prince. For results on rolling dice, maybe you take a look at this book: Innumeracy: <strong>Math</strong>ematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences ( Paulos, John Allen ). In fact it's possible to roll bad for a long time...
Not sure how old your kids are, but maybe you could look at this book with them. The language is super simple, and even though it’s aimed at school age kids, it helped me improve my writing skills as an adult.
I agree that No Red Ink is a great resource. I used the free version for several years with my students.
Here is an idea for vocab that may or may not work for you. My team picked 20 words from this series of books for each grade level. We used those words for the entire semester, and each week each student would get a different word. They would do mini projects for their word and present them. We would also use them as often as we could in class discussions and everyday writing, and I would get crazy like PeeWee Hermann did for his word of the day anytime someone would use one of our words in class.
Within just a few weeks, the kids were using the words correctly in their discussions and essays, and we were having great fun with it. Granted, it's not teaching them roots or necessarily helping with identification of new words, but it improved their writing and got them excited.
After you're done with that, Check out Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. It gives a really good "Before and after" affect in conjunction with the book you're reading to the real tragedy of the extermination and genocide of Native Americans/First Nations/etc and how many of them lost their lands, culture, and lives.
I have to recommend this wonderful book by David McCullough. Lots of great insights into Washington's thinking. https://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226720
The reality is though that with indigenous DNA it isn't a matter of what you percentage is it just matters that you have the blood flowing through you no matter what the percentage is. Just read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West it talks all about how even in Pre-Contact times it was the blood line that determined who was and wasn't native. There were even people who belonged to 3 tribes due to blood line.
The OP also never stated they were going to Amoeba. Seriously, the post was only three sentences, read it again.
Sorry if I could not find this resource on vinyl: https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Grade-Skill-Builders/dp/1936023342/
Before anyone decides where they stand in relation to gun control in America, I'd suggest that they at least read a bit into the history and founding of America.
This is a great book and easy read by a Pulitzer Prize winning author:
https://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226720
I've got my own opinions of course, but give that book a read and come to your own conclusions.
I remember really liking The Number Devil around the same age I read The Phantom Tollbooth. Haven't read it in adulthood so not sure how well it holds up, but I remember liking it for the same reasons.
I've been meaning to order this book: I've been playing around with the ideas from Steve Peha that I've been able to find online. I have a pdf of chapter 8 (punctuation) from his book--if you want to PM me, I'm happy to share! Haven't had a chance to implement much, but it's definitely gotten me thinking!
https://www.amazon.com/Be-Better-Writer-School-Anyone/dp/0997283106
I can also cherry-pick statistics to make them fit my paradigm.
Where do you think the saying...
"Lies, Lies, and Damn Statistics" comes from.
That is the problem with statistics, and why scientists sometimes arrive at bad conclusions.
It is very hard to be completely objective when trying to evaluate social phenomenon clear of preconceived notions.
I recommend this book, Innumerancy.
Even though we disagree, it is a good read.
Probably one of the Vocabulary Cartoons books! There are a whole bunch of these, they're full of cartoons with mnemonic devices.
I would recommend The Number Devil (Amazon). I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it when I was much younger. I wouldn't know how well the English translation was done, as it's a German book that I've read in Dutch. That translation was very good.
You should check out Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos. It was the book that helped me realized how much I actually enjoyed mathematics, and that I had just had had awful teachers. No joke.