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This movie details the Five Points neighborhood of ante-bellum New York, when the Irish immigration wave to the United States was at its apex, and the Know Nothings, America’s first important nativist movement, was on the rise. -
1voteThis is a short novella of about 100 pages that Voltaire wrote in 1759 from his estate in southern France. It is a good vignette of late French Enlightenment thinking, and always makes a good contrast to Rousseau’s early Romanticism.
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1vote“Doors to diplomacy” is a web-design contest run by the US State Department. Teams of students must conduct original research in one of eight categories related to world affairs, and then publish a web page that creatively teaches visitors about their findings.
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1voteIf you ask my candid opinion, I think that educational computer games and other little supplemental activities like these that suburban parents buy for their children are a major factor behind the achievement gap – so don’t hesitate for a second to introduce them to your urban children just because they don’t fit in with a scripted curriculum.
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