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Read the following quotes and choose which quote is most closely aligned with your view of history. Post an explanation (below) why this quote aligns with your view of history in one paragraph and read the responses of other students.

Quotes:

Students should be encouraged to go into history in order to come out of it, and should be discouraged from going into history and getting lost in it. – Howard Zinn
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. – Chuck Palahniuk
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey café mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulpdown the entire history of the new world. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle’s Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism with whipped cream on top. – Sarah Vowell