Two HST201 Students

Alice: My HST201 professor is kind of strange.  Instead of learning about U.S. History, he talks about point of view, bias, denotation and connotation, and our textbook author's purpose.  He also seems to have a fixation on Wikipedia and whether the movie Apocalypto is good or bad, truth or fiction.

John: I know what you mean.  Apparently, to know anything about what we read, hear, or see, we need to know a person's background, where they got their degree, what their degree is in, where they live, what religion they are, what organizations they belong to, whether they are male or female,  and even their sexual orientation and what they look like.  How can we ever know or get to the historical truth?

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