The Stories So Far:As far as the Five Most Influential Pe...
The Stories So Far:
As far as the Five Most Influential People in History essays from World History are concerned, the score is:
Jesus - 11
Columbus - 9
Alexander the Great - 8
Muhammed and Hammurabi - 7 apiece
Martin Luther and Buddha - 6 apiece
Julius Caesar - 5
Confucius and Genjis Khan - 2 apiece
The one-shots always interest me. This semester they are: Ghandi (who wasn't even in the course material, which ended at 1500), Charlemagne, Constantine (although I suspect from the answer that the student thought Charlemagne was either Constantine or Charles Martel), St. Paul, Socrates, Ferdinand of Aragon (!), Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII (!), Michaelangelo, Galileo, and Hannibal.
On the US History front, it's always very clear who skipped reading the textbook and instead looked up the Term Identifications on Wikipedia and memorized the answers. The Wikipedia answers are, for one thing, identical, and for another, don't cover material from the text and the lectures: for instance, Wp describes "nullification" as being "an arguement concerning states' rights" without saying exactly what the arguement WAS, who propounded it, what state he was from, and how it all turned out... things I'm looking for on the answers.
Commencement this afternoon.
As far as the Five Most Influential People in History essays from World History are concerned, the score is:
Jesus - 11
Columbus - 9
Alexander the Great - 8
Muhammed and Hammurabi - 7 apiece
Martin Luther and Buddha - 6 apiece
Julius Caesar - 5
Confucius and Genjis Khan - 2 apiece
The one-shots always interest me. This semester they are: Ghandi (who wasn't even in the course material, which ended at 1500), Charlemagne, Constantine (although I suspect from the answer that the student thought Charlemagne was either Constantine or Charles Martel), St. Paul, Socrates, Ferdinand of Aragon (!), Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII (!), Michaelangelo, Galileo, and Hannibal.
On the US History front, it's always very clear who skipped reading the textbook and instead looked up the Term Identifications on Wikipedia and memorized the answers. The Wikipedia answers are, for one thing, identical, and for another, don't cover material from the text and the lectures: for instance, Wp describes "nullification" as being "an arguement concerning states' rights" without saying exactly what the arguement WAS, who propounded it, what state he was from, and how it all turned out... things I'm looking for on the answers.
Commencement this afternoon.
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