LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME "The True Importance Of Christopher Columbus"
...ble.” The writer then goes into explaining how history book writes tend to move off topic and have a tendency to not mention previous explorers that have encountered the Americas before Christopher Columbus. I enjoyed this passage for various reasons. One, the writer is not afraid to speak his/her mind. They back up every fact they have with dates and examples. The writer attacks the history book writings without trepidation and continues on to states his/her figured out information. Not only does the writer attack the facts of the history books, he/she also shows aggression towards the text itself. He/she explains how “the level of scholarship is discouragingly low,” when talking about how the history writers provided no real causal explanations for the age of the European conquest. The way the writer eats the history book information alive is uproarious. His/Her prose is a great inspiration to me. He/She attacks the history book information with a passion and haste, nothing better to admire than a rebellious writer who knows what he/she is striving to elucidate. The writer has an excellent outlook on Christopher Columbus’s background and illustrates an exquisite display of specific details that satirize the information given in High School textbooks. The writer writes, “If textbooks allowed for controversy, they could show students which claims rest on strong evidence, which on soft...